BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales’ war on H-1B abuse is bearing fruit: Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito just clamped down on two major visa sponsors.

D’Esposito suspended Cognizant and Cloudera’s Program Electronic Review Management pipelines and H-1B applications on Tuesday. He sat down with Gonzales to break down the Trump administration’s progress on the foreign labor issue.

‘Handcuffs await.’

PERM is a regulatory hurdle employers must clear before they are allowed to sponsor employees’ green cards.

“It’s a bad time to be a fraudster right now, in the Trump 2.0 America,” Gonzales said at the top of the show. “It’s actually a bad time to be any sort of abuser of our immigration system right now, because the Trump administration is doing so many things to crack down on all kinds of fraud, from H-1B fraud to discriminating against American workers.”

Tuesday’s action didn’t come together overnight, D’Esposito told Gonzales.

D’Esposito spearheaded a nationwide probe in July alongside acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling and the White House Fraud Task Force. Investigators manned tip lines, executed search warrants, and interviewed both victims and suspects to secure Tuesday’s DOL action against Cognizant and Cloudera.

“Threats to American workers will NOT be tolerated,” Gonzales said, reading D’Esposito’s X post that announced the action. “Alongside @WHFraudTF, we’re following facts, fraud and finances. Handcuffs await.”

Cognizant is a massive U.S.-Indian information technology firm. It’s one of the U.S.’ largest H-1B sponsors, with 3,510 applications approved in fiscal year 2026 and over 11,000 labor condition applications filed in fiscal year 2025. LCAs are part of the U.S. work visa approval process.

Cognizant recently announced it would hire just 1,500 U.S. college graduates in 2026, compared with its thousands of H-1B and LCA filings over the same period.

A 2024 federal jury found that Cognizant discriminated against non-Indians in hiring, and a Manhattan jury later awarded $8.4 million to a former executive who claimed he was fired after complaining about “race and national origin discrimination.”

In response to the 2024 verdict, a Cognizant spokesperson told Bloomberg: “We provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and have built a diverse and inclusive workplace that promotes a culture of belonging in which all employees feel valued, are engaged, and have the opportunity to develop and succeed.”

The Manhattan jury did not find that Cognizant discriminated on the basis of race or national origin, only that the company retaliated against the employee for complaining.

Cognizant and Cloudera did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Blaze News.

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Gonzales dove into Cognizant’s troubles in Texas.

“For viewers who are not familiar, Cognizant has a huge track record — massive importer of foreign workers here in Texas,” Gonzales said. “And just in Texas in 2025, there were 41,571 beneficiaries approved for H-1B visas. That was across 6,137 companies. One state. That’s what I’m saying. Just in Texas.”

She noted that Cognizant received the most H-1B approvals in Texas and highlighted the 2024 discrimination verdict against the company.

“They’ve … been up to no good for a very long time now. From 2024: They were found liable for intentional discrimination against a class of terminated non-Indian and non-South Asian Americans,” Gonzales claimed.

“They’ve got a long track record of discriminating against American workers.”

D’Esposito responded that the freeze was just the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s campaign against anti-American labor discrimination.

“It’s just the beginning. For everyone listening at home, this isn’t the end,” D’Esposito said. “I’ve already seen probably a thousand tweets today on my X post saying: ‘Who else?’ ‘Why not this one?’ Give us a minute, all right? It’s two of the biggest companies in the world that were suspended today, and we’re gonna keep at it.”

Gonzales is no stranger to H-1B investigations. She previously tracked down alleged ghost offices and suspected fraudulently registered companies with Texas Senate candidate and Attorney General Ken Paxton (R).

Paxton later issued civil investigative demands to nearly 30 North Texas businesses as a result of her reporting. Paxton thanked Gonzales by name.

Gonzales and D’Esposito teamed up to track down another alleged fraudster in August, tracing green-card-scam accusations to apparently empty offices in Dallas.

“The fact is that these foreign labor visas, especially when they’re abused and extorted, are taking good-paying, fair wages away from the American people,” D’Esposito told Gonzales. “That’s why acting Secretary Sonderling and I, under President Trump’s leadership, have made this a priority.”

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The Pentagon is spending $11 million to turn red blood cells into cellular endurance runners. UC San Diego researchers are using CRISPR to redesign blood at the sub-microscopic level, ensuring DARPA’s future infantrymen can sprint up a mountain in 100-degree heat without running out of breath. We understandably worry about AI replacing human labor, yet the immediate biological future involves stuffing the human chassis with synthetic upgrades to keep soldiers primed and ready for action.

America is upgrading its biological hardware for a simple reason. The alternative is watching the enemy do it first. Chinese military researchers at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences have openly experimented with CRISPR technology to enhance high-altitude endurance in combat troops stationed along the Himalayan border. Kremlin-backed laboratories have continuously pursued metabolic bio-interventions and neurological stimulants to keep tank crews awake and operational for three straight days without crashing, both literally and mentally. The global arms race has moved beyond hypersonic missiles, silent drones, and stealth bombers. It is now coming for actual human arms — along with our legs, lungs, and brains.

The alternative is letting rival powers develop these technologies first.

Now, I understand the impulse to draw a line between military necessity and human biology. But that line gets a lot harder to defend when an unenhanced Marine is carrying an 80-pound pack into combat against an opponent whose biology has been engineered for utter domination. One soldier runs out of oxygen. He builds up lactic acid, then collapses from heatstroke. The other has synthetic hemoglobin that delivers extra oxygen to working muscles on demand. The tactical advantage is absolute. Special forces, fighter pilots, high-G flight crews, deep-sea combat divers, and long-orbit military astronauts will inevitably receive these genetic upgrades first because extreme operational environments demand maximum physical tolerance. Silicon Valley spent years pitching bio-hacking as a luxury life span optimization trick for oddballs like Bryan Johnson. The Department of Defense looked at the same technology and saw something considerably more practical: a powerful weapon.

But technological advances like these come with some obvious complications. Consider the domestic logistics of integrating these apex predators back into civilian life once their service contracts expire. A veteran with genetically altered red blood cells steps into a local YMCA for a pickup basketball game, effortlessly sprinting for six continuous hours without sweating, breaking every local cardio record, while his opponents hyperventilate on the sideline. Standard drug tests at a city marathon become entirely useless when an athlete’s blood was permanently reprogrammed by the federal government 10 years prior.

Those in charge will eventually need to decide whether ex-soldiers require biological down-throttling before re-entering society or if civilian life simply includes a new sub-species of retired infantrymen.

No turning back?

Many Christians view cellular re-engineering as crossing a moral line, encouraging us to play God with the human body. As a Christian, I understand the concern. But I also think the issue gets more complicated when the alternative is letting rival powers develop these technologies first. And make no mistake: China is already well on its way.

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Survival against a hostile power, one could argue, overrides classical theological hesitation every single time. Practical military necessity routinely displaces abstract morality on the battlefield. Survival is pragmatism, and pragmatism builds better red blood cells.

Keeping these military enhancements separate from ordinary civilians won’t be easy, but it is possible with strict federal regulation, military law, and genetic tracking. Military medical commands already control every vaccine, pill, and procedure a service member receives from enlistment to discharge. Treating military gene edits as proprietary defense assets keeps the technology strictly inside base perimeters. It prevents synthetic blood overhauls from leaking into commercial cosmetic clinics, private longevity spas, or your weekly game of hoops. Civilian populations will continue operating on baseline natural biology, while the armed forces maintain specialized cellular modifications built exclusively for national defense objectives.

Future wars will require human operators who can withstand unimaginable levels of physical demands while integrating directly with automated machine hardware and AI battle networks. AI-driven combat systems move too fast for a standard human central nervous system to direct effectively. Upgrading the soldier’s blood, reaction time, muscle recovery, cellular repair, and stress response bridges the biological gap between skin and bone and high-speed digital warfare. America simply can’t afford to send ordinary soldiers into battle while its most dangerous rivals treat human genetics as another frontier of military technology.

The case for pursuing biological enhancement is straightforward. A nation either builds the most capable fighting force possible or risks surrendering the technological high ground to adversaries who would love nothing more than to see America brought to its knees.

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The family of a man who was shot three times says he nearly died while bystanders looked on and refused to help him.

21-year-old Matthew Lanske had finished having dinner with friends and family on Sunday when he found himself at a street takeover at the Belltown neighborhood in Seattle, according to his family.

The family said onlookers recorded the bleeding man but did not try to help him.

Two women and a man tried to rob one of Lanske’s friends at gunpoint, and he intervened by trying to take the gun.

“My brother tried to take it from him and then ended up getting shot,” said Lanske’s sister Rebecca Garberding.

He was shot twice in the stomach, and another gunshot struck a major artery and shattered his pelvis, according to the family.

Shanda Barney, Lanske’s mother, said he was bleeding profusely.

“My son had been shot three times. He was bleeding to death, yet somehow, he walked two blocks trying to find somebody to help him,” Barney said.

Lanske later said that he had tried to get into a 7-Eleven store while bleeding but that they refused to let him inside.

“He looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, ‘Mom, they wouldn’t let me in. They locked the doors. I begged them to let me, and there was so much blood coming out of my stomach, I thought I was going to die,'” his mother said.

Lanske eventually sat down and texted his girlfriend for help. He was transported to the Harborview Medical Center for treatment.

He was placed on life support for two days and was unable to speak, according to his mother.

The family said onlookers recorded the bleeding man but did not try to help him.

“What breaks my heart almost as much as the shooting itself is knowing that while my son was fighting for his life, people were standing around filming him, taking pictures instead of helping him,” Barney continued.

“If you were running away from that area and you didn’t do anything, feel ashamed,” she added. “Please feel ashamed right now because you didn’t help to do anything when you could have.”

Lanske has undergone two surgeries and has many more in his future before he can return to his job in construction.

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The family is asking for help from the public to identify suspects in the attack.

“We are asking for accountability, answers, and justice,” said Garberding.

“Somehow, someone out there knows something. Maybe you saw something. Maybe you heard something. Just please come forward,” she added.

The family set up a GoFundMe account to help them pay for his medical bills.

“To my baby brother, I love you. We love you. Keep fighting. You’re not alone,” his sister added. “We’re right here and we’re never going to give up on you.”

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The Romans had a phrase for when wine starts talking: In vino veritas.

In wine, truth.

‘Good person’ is not a diagnosis, a legal defense, or a Christian understanding of the human heart.

The phrase is linked to Pliny the Elder, who wrote that drunkenness brings out “the secrets of the mind.”

His examples included lust, anger, reckless words, violence, and lost memory.

When restraint disappeared, wisdom did not show up.

Wine is not a truth serum. Alcohol clouds judgment and weakens self-control. We do not get drunk before driving, watching children, or making important decisions. Impaired judgment rarely produces better choices.

Still, nobody says, “He got drunk and spent the evening showing patience, wisdom, and self-control.”

Take away the guardrails, and something besides goodness often comes out.

What does this say about free will? We often talk as though the will sits above our desires. Christianity teaches something different.

The Fall did not make us puppets. We make choices, but sin has bent what we want.

We can do what we want. Our problem is what we want.

Fallen man cannot turn himself toward God. God must renew the will.

Pelagius was a fifth-century monk who taught that people could obey God without first being changed by His grace. Semi-Pelagianism offered a softer version. It admitted that sin damaged us and that we need God’s help. But it still claimed we could reach toward God first. God would then complete what we started.

The church rejected that teaching at the Second Council of Orange in 529 AD. Scripture teaches that even our desire to reach for God begins with Him. God does not merely help willing people save themselves. He makes unwilling sinners willing.

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Why does that ancient argument matter? Because our culture still assumes an untouched pocket of goodness remains inside us. Remove the wounds, diagnoses, and poor choices, and the good person underneath will finally come out.

Total depravity does not mean utter depravity. People can love, sacrifice, work hard, and show courage.

But much of what keeps us from becoming worse is restraint.

Conscience, families, laws, reputations, consequences, and God’s common grace restrain us.

Those things help keep a lid on the pot. They do not clean what is in it.

Restraint is not redemption.

That’s why the conversations following Lindsay Clancy’s mistrial trouble me.

I am not asking whether Clancy met the legal standard for criminal responsibility. That was the jury’s task. I am asking why so many people outside the courtroom seem determined to acquit human nature itself.

Clancy does not deny killing Cora, Dawson, and Callan. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis left her not legally responsible. Prosecutors disagreed. The jury divided.

Clancy’s attorney described her as strong, brave, wonderful, and loving. His admirers joined in. A lawyer should defend his client, but a legal defense cannot declare the human heart innocent.

Someone can show love while remaining capable of terrible evil.

Past good behavior does not erase present horror.

Scripture makes this clear in the life of David. He was called a man after God’s own heart. Then he committed adultery with Bathsheba and arranged the murder of her husband.

When confronting him, Nathan the prophet did not defend David by listing his courage, worship, or service to Israel. He looked at the king and said, “Thou art the man.” David did not point to all the good he had done. He said, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

David returned through repentance, not reputation. He was forgiven, but Uriah remained dead. Severe consequences followed David and his family from that moment on.

My father used to say, “God forgives instantly. Man takes a while. Nature never does.”

Sometimes what we do in a few minutes establishes a lifetime of consequences.

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“Good person” is not a diagnosis, a legal defense, or a Christian understanding of the human heart. Nor should three dead children become background characters in the tragedy of the adult who killed them.

Before a holy God, we stand fully exposed. No lawyer can reshape the record. No diagnosis can turn evil into good. No list of past virtues can erase present sin. God knows every illness, impairment, pressure, and intention, and He judges perfectly.

But if I use this case only to point at Lindsay Clancy, I have missed the doctrine entirely. Human depravity gives me no place to stand and announce that I am one of the good people.

I do not need to imagine what I might do without restraint. I see enough of my own sin with every guardrail God placed around me still standing.

The gospel is not God placing a better lid on a basically good heart. Christ gives us new hearts. He renews our minds. He changes what we love.

Alcohol and other mind-altering substances may expose some of what restraint keeps hidden. Stress and pain may do the same. The cross reveals the deepest truth about us. Our sin is worse than we think, but we are not beyond the reach of Christ.

Restraint can limit depravity. Only redemption through Christ can rescue us from it.

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Republicans seek office while Democrats seek power. That explains our politics in a nutshell. It also explains why nothing ever changes — at least not for the better.

The four years of Biden’s presidency were among the most miserable in recent American history in terms of culture, affordability, freedom, and America’s standing in the world. But any critically thinking person should ask: Why didn’t we enjoy the residual effects of Trump’s first term?

Republicans warn voters that Democrats will wield power aggressively if they win, while demonstrating that Republicans themselves are reluctant to wield it while they have it.

On the surface, that observation sounds sophomoric. Of course Biden countermanded policies from Trump’s first term. That was to be expected. But dig deeper and you realize that nearly every auspicious conservative policy was implemented through executive action rather than codified into law. It could therefore be reversed by a succeeding administration or challenged in court.

That is why every ounce of Trump’s political capital should have been focused on codifying his core campaign promises into must-pass legislation so we would not repeat the same history when the pendulum eventually swings back toward Democrats.

Instead, Republicans have blown through nearly the entirety of what is likely Trump’s second and final governing trifecta with almost none of their core immigration or economic promises codified into permanent law. Now they are canceling most of the remaining legislative days before the election under the guise of giving members more time to campaign for another term in a majority they are struggling to defend.

They are also staging a first-of-its-kind midterm convention to scare Republican voters about Democrats — all while ignoring, and in some cases relinquishing, the power they currently possess.

What is the point of campaigning to retain power while you hold it but refuse to use it? What changes after the election even if Republicans retain the House? And why, with the party facing serious political headwinds, would Trump and congressional Republicans not use every remaining legislative day to focus on popular issues that could inject some momentum into an otherwise listless campaign?

Last week, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced that the House would return for only a one-week session in mid-September and then adjourn until after the election. That leaves House lawmakers just four more legislative days before November 3.

I suppose one could argue that given how bad they have been, it is better to keep them out of Washington.

But if that is our attitude, why should anyone vote to send them back?

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It didn’t have to be this way. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on birthright citizenship, Republicans could have used the budget, the National Defense Authorization Act, or reconciliation to try to prohibit federal funding for citizenship documents issued under circumstances they oppose. They could have pursued legislation changing how noncitizens are treated in congressional apportionment. They could have attempted to defund sanctuary jurisdictions or restrict programs that allow foreign workers to compete with Americans for jobs.

In other words, they could at least have attempted to use their final legislative days before the election to fulfill their mandate. That itself would have been a stronger campaign message than the languid narrative they currently offer.

After all, what is the point of clearing the schedule for extra campaign days if you have nothing positive to campaign on?

Instead, Republicans returned last week and quickly passed a continuing resolution funding the government through December 11 with virtually none of the immigration or economic reforms conservatives spent the past two years demanding. The House passed it 370-48.

“Well, they don’t want to rock the boat close to the election, so they opted for a clean CR,” you might retort.

Except it was not really clean in the sense conservatives usually mean when they use that term.

The bill contained at least two significant policy provisions. One delays new restrictions on intoxicating hemp-derived THC products that Congress enacted last year. The restrictions were scheduled to take effect November 12 and would have barred many products containing more than 0.4 milligrams of THC or other intoxicating cannabinoids per container. The CR now pushes that deadline to December 11.

The hemp industry lobbied heavily for that reprieve, and the White House supported the delay. Republicans who objected argued that Congress was postponing restrictions aimed at increasingly potent and easily accessible products.

Unfortunately, Trump is well-connected to the hemp and marijuana industries, so naturally he is willing to fight for them more than any of his immigration or economic promises.

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The continuing resolution also temporarily blocks the Office of Management and Budget from finalizing a proposed rule that would significantly change federal grant-making by giving political appointees greater authority over grants and allowing agencies broader power to modify or cancel awards.

That reform cuts to the heart of one of the central complaints conservatives have made about the administrative state: Federal grant-making often finances organizations, universities, nonprofits, and programs that advance ideological priorities long after the voters who elected the current administration have changed course.

Yet Republicans allowed the stopgap bill to block one of the administration’s more consequential attempts to bring that grant-making under direct political control.

Why?

This is the recurring problem. Republicans routinely decline to codify their own executive actions, then permit temporary spending deals to constrain the executive authority they actually possess.

Meanwhile, they campaign for more power.

The larger record is difficult to ignore. Republicans have controlled the House for 24 of the past 32 years. Yet many of the policy victories conservatives celebrate remain vulnerable to the next president, the next court case, or the next appropriations fight because Congress never secured them in statute.

Holding office becomes the achievement.

The irony is almost perfect. Republicans warn voters that Democrats will wield power aggressively if they win, while demonstrating that Republicans themselves are reluctant to wield it while they have it.

Then they leave Washington to campaign for another chance.

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On September 3, Messianic rabbi and bestselling evangelical author Jonathan Cahn was flying home to New Jersey from Dallas on an American Airlines flight when, he says, a casual conversation with his seatmate — 67-year-old Arizona realtor Arthur Lundeen — turned into chaos.

According to Cahn’s account, conversation was flowing normally between them until Cahn mentioned his new book and the gospel, at which point Lundeen allegedly flipped in an instant and began cursing Jesus before allegedly hitting Cahn’s laptop and grabbing at him.

Other passengers described the outburst turning violent, with Lundeen allegedly shouting a slew of profanities, including racial and homophobic slurs, allegedly biting one of the passengers who stepped in to help restrain him, and bleeding from wounds passengers said he inflicted on himself from struggling.

After Lundeen was restrained with zip ties and duct tape, the flight was diverted to Baltimore, where police arrested him and charged him with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Cahn told the Blaze Media co-founder that news reports covering the incident are heavily focused on “side things” and are missing the much bigger story behind what he describes as “the flight from hell.”

“What happened was demonic. It was real spiritual warfare,” Cahn tells Glenn, noting that this wasn’t the first time he’s been caught up in the cosmic war between light and dark.

“Every time … I put out a book there’s crazy attacks,” he says, “and that makes sense … because the books reveal the spiritual realm.”

Cahn’s newest book, “The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World,” which his publisher billed as his most “explosive revelation” yet, released on September 1 — just two days before Lundeen allegedly attacked him.

“I get on the plane, and the guy is to my left — friendliest guy in the world. By the way, Glenn, I wasn’t supposed to be on that seat. Last minute, I’m switched to that seat,” Cahn recounts.

He says their conversation about family and life went on for “two hours” and was so amicable the flight attendants thought they “knew each other.” But the second Cahn turned the chitchat to spiritual matters, the warmth vanished.

“I wanted to get work done, but I figured, OK, maybe God wants me to talk to this guy … and then I said, ‘God, give me a chance to share Your love with him, Your salvation with him,’ and so it happens,” says Cahn.

Lundeen, according to Cahn’s account, explained that he had “rejected” Christianity “as a kid” because of things he didn’t like about “Christians.” When Cahn then tried to explain to him that Christianity isn’t about Christians but about “you and God,” “God’s love,” and being “born again,” Lundeen allegedly got defensive.

“He says, ‘How do you know God is real?’ and I said, ‘Well, I was an atheist. I saw biblical prophecy coming true, and I couldn’t argue with it,”’ he recounts.

“Everything’s great, and then it turns. That moment, I don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. It was like his face changes, his voice changes. … He’s cursing God. … He’s cursing Jesus. It’s blasphemy on the airplane. They didn’t put that in the articles,” Cahn recaps.

Lundeen’s vehement reaction to the gospel, Cahn says, then began to spiral out of control.

“He’s saying vulgar things. People all around are getting disturbed. … Then the flight attendants come over … and then he stands up, and he goes to the people in front and says, ‘Do you believe in Jesus?’ And then he starts talking about hell,” he says.

“Imagine a demonic manifestation … and then suddenly, he turns friendly again like he’s a different person.”

But the sudden shift back to amiability didn’t last long, says Cahn.

He explains that earlier that week before he went on his book tour, a small “black patch” had unexplainably appeared on his computer screen. According to Cahn, when Lundeen saw the black patch, he “[tapped]” it “three times,” and it immediately “[spread] across [his] screen.”

“Then he puts his hands around me … and he’s laughing like it’s a joke,” he tells Glenn.

But what triggered the “ultimate escalation,” he says, is when Lundeen saw an image of his book’s cover — which features a hooded, winged “dark angel” representing Satan — on the computer screen in the area the black patch hadn’t covered.

“Then he starts shouting … ‘What did you do? What did you do?’ like I did something wrong,” says Cahn.

“You will never see this in any newspaper, but … he says, ‘I’m going to punch your blanking Jewish face in.’ … Then he starts hitting me.”

At this point, it dawns on Cahn that dark spiritual forces are trying to destroy his computer, which stores his life’s work as a Christian author.

“I take my computer, I start closing it up. … At that moment, he lunges at me, and he lunges at my computer, and he grabs my computer with all his might, and he’s trying to wrest it from me and undoubtedly to destroy it,” he says, adding that this struggle turned into a “wrestling” match that he ultimately won but not without reinjuring his newly healed arm.

At this point, other passengers got involved, leading to Lundeen being restrained and the plane’s diversion to Baltimore. This is part of the story news outlets have honed in on, says Cahn, adding that some articles he’s seen even frame Lundeen as a “Christian who is racist.”

Glenn confirms that the articles he’s read frame the incident around Lundeen’s alleged racist, sexist, and homophobic comments. “None of what you said was in that story — none,” he tells Cahn.

That’s because the “real story” of the gospel triggering a “demonic manifestation,” says Cahn, is one the media would never dare touch.

To hear more wild details from Cahn’s “flight from hell,” watch the full interview above.

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President Donald Trump believes he can defy history and maintain control of Congress in the midterms — and he just announced the policy that could pull it off.

The president was in high spirits as he championed his first two years in office, especially his economic success, at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas on Wednesday night. In fact, Trump said the country is doing so well that he’d be returning the profits to the American people.

‘We’ll call it the Trump Dividend.’

“I will issue a dividend to every citizen in the United States of America for 5,000 dollars, very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders,” Trump said.

The $5,000 payout, however, is conditional on a certain result in November’s midterm elections.

“If Republicans win the United States House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult in the United States of America for $5,000,” the president said. “You gotta spend the money in the United States of America.”

The president claimed that Democrats couldn’t pull off such a payment because “they don’t do tariffs.”

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“Because we’ve done so well, because our country is making so much money, only I can make this promise to you,” Trump said before promising the post-election payment. “If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump dividend. We’ll call it the Trump dividend.”

The president also vowed to make all of his tax cuts permanent, putting even more cash back into voters’ pockets. Trump tied the proposed dividend to the “over $20 trillion in foreign investment” he’s recruited from allies, his tariffs, and Vice President JD Vance’s war on fraud.

“He’s doing a great job, by the way,” the president said.

With the midterm elections only 55 days away, Trump and the Republican Party are pulling out all the stops to make history.

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On Wednesday, Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) took the stage at the Republican Midterm Convention to represent hard-working Ohio families.

During his speech, he touted his conservative record while slamming his 2026 Democratic opponent, former Sen. Sherrod Brown, for allocating constituents’ money to illegal immigrants and other Democrat programs.

‘A job isn’t just a paycheck. It’s dignity.’

Husted reminisced about how times were tough growing up, and the Democrats of his youth didn’t make that experience any easier.

Brown, he said, was first elected to office when Husted was only 7 years old. Surprisingly, Brown is still running today, 50 years later, as a career politician who has failed to help the working-class families of Ohio.

“A job isn’t just a paycheck,” Husted proclaimed. “It’s dignity. It’s pride. It’s the ability to provide for your family. It gives you a sense of self-worth.”

That’s part of the reason why Husted worked with President Donald Trump to pass the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, a law that he said lets Ohio workers keep more of their money in their pockets instead of government programs. Husted went on:

[The Working Families Tax Cuts Act] prevented a huge tax increase, cut taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security and gave working families expanded child-care credits and helped with child care and Trump accounts to help our little ones get a good start in life. It was the biggest tax cut for working families in history, and every Democrat in the Senate voted against it.

Brown was one of those Democrats who attacked the bill, Husted claimed. Ohio residents, however, had a different perspective.

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Husted noted that, so far, the Working Families Tax Cuts Act has helped:

delivery drivers and waitresses keep more of their tips to pay off cars and student loans.factory workers put a down payment on their first house, thanks to more money kept through overtime.senior citizens stay in their homes longer with the money saved from no taxes on Social Security.

As the Biden administration gave Americans open borders and sanctuary cities – where tax dollars were allocated to illegal immigrants – Democrats voted to take more of Americans’ money to fund these programs, Husted said.

Husted emphasized the injustice of it all with a question: “Why do Democrats seem to fight harder for people who are in this country illegally than they do for American citizens and families?”

There is no good explanation, he said. Former President Joe Biden and Brown raised taxes on citizens while illegal aliens received benefits and jobs slipped away to China. Even worse, Husted claimed, Brown “put Shanghai over Steubenville and Beijing over Brunswick,” spurning Ohio citizens.

Brown also supported the usual Democrat policies of the age, like allowing men in women’s sports and renaming mothers to “pregnant people,” which he wanted to stamp into law, Husted added.

Husted closed with several questions aimed at the root of the issue:

Do you want to keep more of what you earn? Or do you want to see more of your hard-earned money go to Washington for failures and fraud?

Should we let working families keep more of what they earn? They earned the paycheck. It’s theirs, isn’t it?

Well, I won’t stop fighting for that principle. I will not stop fighting for you. May God bless Ohio, and God bless the working families of the United States of America.

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With 14 seasons in the NFL, former kicker Jay Feely knows a little something about how to come through in the clutch.

Now, he’s asking young Americans to do the same thing in order to save the country.

‘Prosperity cannot be created by government spending.’

Feely explained at the Republican Midterm Convention on Wednesday night that his bold turn to politics was a result of President Donald Trump’s courage on the day he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Feely, the Republican candidate for the 1st Congressional District of Arizona, referenced the president having blood on his hand and ear as he stood up and “told this nation to fight.”

Feely told audience members at the convention that Trump’s actions forced him and his wife to think about what they could do for their country, eventually leading him to leave his “dream job” in football broadcasting and make a congressional run.

From there, the University of Michigan grad spoke about what he believes the next generation is up against: a Democratic Party leaning further to the left, looking to socialize the healthcare system and eliminate property rights.

The 50-year-old offered only blunt honesty in his remarks, saying the simple way to keep America prosperous is through hard work.

“History has proven prosperity cannot be created by government spending or political promises or an expanding bureaucracy,” Feely stated. “We need to be equally clear about where we stand. The answer is to restore the conditions that allow Americans to create prosperity.”

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“We believe in freedom, opportunity, capitalism, and free markets,” the kicker went on. “Freedom doesn’t defend itself. Opportunity doesn’t defend itself.”

Feely is running against Democrat Amish Shah, born in Illinois to Indian immigrants.

The two candidates are sparring over the open Arizona seat left by Republican Rep. David Schweikert, who threw his hat in the ring for governor but lost the primary to Republican Rep. Andy Biggs in July.

Feely was joined on stage by Captain Mike Bouchard, the Republican candidate for the 10th Congressional District of Michigan.

Bouchard’s story is a wild one in that he was deployed in Iraq to fight ISIS in 2025 and has a decade of service in the military.

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Both candidates argued that the next generation needs common-sense solutions that eliminate regulations, lower taxes, and create conditions that allow young people to purchase a home.

“We cannot tax our way to prosperity,” Feely reiterated, telling Gen Z that the work is not yet done.

Feely emphasized that young adults are not inheriting a “finished America.” Rather they are inheriting an opportunity to build the next company or create an invention and push the country toward greatness in the decades to come.

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Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla blasted Democrats and praised freedom during a humorous speech at the Republican Midterm Convention on Wednesday.

Carolla, who is known for mocking and ridiculing left-wing policies, took his schtick to the convention in Dallas, Texas, and brought the house down.

‘I’m not an overly political person. I’m just a guy who lives in California and sees which way the wind is blowing.’

“All right. I would like to start tonight with a land acknowledgment,” Carolla began with laughter from the audience.

“This is the greatest land in the history of mankind!” he added. “And if that bothers you, you, your communist and hippie buddies should get the hell off it!”

He continued after much applause and cheering.

Carolla mocked the overregulation in the progressive haven of California.

“Could you imagine how long it would take to build the Golden Gate Bridge today in Gavin Newsom’s California?” he said a fan wrote him.

“I wrote back, ‘People who wanted to commit suicide would die of natural causes!'”

He later gave a rundown of the source of his political beliefs.

“Listen, I’m not an overly political person. I’m just a guy who lives in California and sees which way the wind is blowing,” Carolla said.

“And you don’t want California in your nation,” he added. “And that’s where the Democrats are trying to take this. All you do is pay taxes, and you get nothing in return. So, I’d like to shrink government a little bit, and let’s see if we can get a little more freedom going these days,” he added.

Carolla did get some boos from the audience when he addressed the presidential ambitions of Gavin Newsom at the end of his speech.

“There’s a part of me that almost wants Newsom to become president just so that he’ll get the hell out of California!” he said.

After allowing the audience to boo and jeer, Carolla continued.

“Just kidding. That fascist will never be president!” he joked.

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Carolla’s entire speech can be viewed here.

Blaze News is offering live coverage of the convention on BlazeTV, which can be viewed above.

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UFC lightweight champion Justin Gaethje kept it real with attendees at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night.

After a hype video about the UFC’s origins, Gaethje took to the stage to pump Americans full of national pride while providing some blunt honesty for those who need it.

‘I was fighting for America that night.’

It doesn’t get much more inspirational than a UFC champion hyping up the crowd, and when the lights shined down on the stage, Gaethje delivered as always.

The fighter likely frightened some audience members when he explained how he got his nickname, “The Highlight,” which he received after slamming an opponent unconscious in the first round of his first pro fight in 2011.

The Arizona native went on to tell the audience exactly what he believes makes him, the country, and President Donald Trump so successful: having the guts to chase a dream when everyone else “calls you crazy.”

From there, he called President Trump “the highlight in the world of politics” who “changed the hearts of millions” with the same grit and determination of a UFC fighter.

Noting that he believes “politics is a much nastier game than mixed martial arts,” Gaethje praised the president for treating every day like it’s fight day and winning that fight.

“In America, you never have to apologize for being a winner,” the champion declared.

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Gaethje was joined on stage by middleweight fighter Bo Nickal from Colorado. Both athletes won their fights at the iconic UFC Freedom 250 held on the White House grounds.

Nickal praised Trump for holding the event and said it felt like he had the president in his corner the whole time.

Gaethje said the country has been “too good” to his family and that he felt compelled to put on an epic performance that night in June, where he won by TKO as a 6:1 underdog.

“I was fighting for America that night, and I was representing you,” the champion recalled.

“Nobody else” would have hosted the event, Gaethje said about Trump, while noting the whole ordeal did phenomenal things for his sport.

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Nickal spoke about consistently challenging himself as an athlete before turning to God, which for him was a road less traveled. Since, Nickal said he has learned to “prioritize my faith, my family, [and] my character above successes and failures.”

This path, which has been carved out by God, has taught him the most important things in life are to be a good husband and father.

“This doesn’t make me soft. This doesn’t make me less competitive,” Nickal said, citing his White House performance.

Gaethje finished by telling Americans that the future is at stake and plainly put forth his hopes for the upcoming midterms.

“I want to live under a conservative government in a free and capitalist society,” the 37-year-old said.

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