It’s election season, and Texas Senator John Cornyn (R) wants voters to believe that he’s an America First candidate and a close ally of President Donald Trump — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales knows that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Actions speak louder than words,” Gonzales says on “Come and Take It.” “And so instead of just taking John at his word right now in 2025 when he is just trying to win an election, which, by the way, the polls show he’s probably not going to win. … Let’s look at actions.”

Conservative Review assigns federal officeholders a grade based on their “Liberty Score,” which is based on the top 50 votes that officeholder has taken in the duration of a rolling six-year window.

And Gonzales has Cornyn’s Liberty Score.

“Let’s give reasonable perspective. So, our other Texas senator, Ted Cruz, let’s look at his Liberty Score. He has a respectable 88%. Not perfect. I would expect an A from any senator from the state of Texas,” Gonzales explains.

“John Cornyn is coming in at [an] abysmal 54%,” she says, disturbed. “Now, I’m not great at math, but I believe that that’s an F. That is a failing Liberty grade. John Cornyn is failing in liberty, and this is coming from a Texas senator. That is embarrassing.”

Gonzales points to several things that could have contributed to Cornyn’s failing score.

“Did you know that John Cornyn was one of Joe Biden’s biggest cheerleaders on, well, many things, but one of which was his gun control legislation? Did you know that?” she explains. “Yeah, under Joe Biden, John Cornyn was pretty instrumental in the negotiation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.”

“It increased federal grant money to states who enacted red flag laws. So it’s giving an incentive,” she adds.

And President Trump agrees with Gonzales.

“The deal on ‘Gun Control’ currently being structured and pushed in the Senate by the Radical Left Democrats, with the help of Mitch McConnell, RINO Senator John Cornyn of Texas, and others, will go down in history as the first step in the movement to TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY. Republicans, be careful what you wish for!!!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“John Cornyn is the one that is being paired together, lumped in with Mitch McConnell, for good reason, because birds of a feather flock together, and the two of them were doing Joe Biden’s bidding with his gun control legislation,” Gonzales says.

“John Cornyn was as anti-MAGA as it gets,” she adds.

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After a week of online outrage over its rebranding, the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain announced that it was giving in on one key part of its revised image.

In a statement to Fox Business on Tuesday, the company said it would be reverting back to its original logo after having released a cleaner, text-only logo that excised the “old-timer” character.

‘We said we would listen, and we have.’

“We thank your guests for sharing your voices and love for Cracker Barrel,” the company said. “We said we would listen, and we have. Our new logo is going away, and our ‘Old-Timer’ will remain. At Cracker Barrel, it’s always been — and always will be — about serving up delicious food, warm welcomes, and the kind of country hospitality that feels like family.”

Some on social media tied the announcement to advice given by President Donald Trump earlier that day on Truth Social.

“Cracker Barrel should go back to the old logo, admit a mistake based on customer response (the ultimate Poll), and manage the company better than ever before. They got a Billion Dollars worth of free publicity if they play their cards right,” the president wrote.

“Very tricky to do, but a great opportunity. Have a major News Conference today. Make Cracker Barrel a WINNER again,” he added.

The rebranding also included a decluttering of the famous interiors to make them more sleek and modern.

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The day after the rebranding announcement, the stock price for the company plummeted initially by about 15%. It has since regained much of that loss.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck vehemently criticized the rebranding.

“Woke ideology has changed our country in countless ways, some of which we may never get back. But Cracker Barrel has always represented the one thing I think so many Americans currently crave: nostalgia,” Beck said.

“‘Rebrand’ all of that to something more modern, something more inclusive, and something that erases those feelings, and you’re ‘rebranding’ the sole reason why anyone goes there to begin with,” Beck added.

Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino had previously said the rebrand effort was an attempt to make the chain relevant again.

“As a proud American institution, our 70,000 hardworking employees look forward to welcoming you to our table soon,” the company concluded.

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Parents are outraged after a Massachusetts school district allegedly forced children to take a survey their parents had recused them from, and now the Trump administration is investigating some of the complaints.

Burlington Public Schools is under fire from the feds for allegedly forcing students to participate in surveys that were graphic and sexual in nature.

The Boston Herald reported that students as young as 11 years old were required to take the survey.

According to the Boston Herald, the school district required students to take the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which included questions concerning “sexual intercourse, sexual orientation, gender identity, sexting, experiences with sexual assault, alcohol use, and more.”

Even students whose parents had supposedly opted them out of participating in the survey allegedly took it, which, the Trump administration argues, may be a violation of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, given the nature of the questions.

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One of the survey questions reportedly read: “Sexual intercourse includes vaginal sex which is when a penis goes inside of a vagina, oral sex which is contact between the mouth and genitals, anal sex which is when the penis goes inside an anus (butt), and use of toys or props (vaginal or anal). Have you ever had sexual intercourse?”

A document on the Department of Education website explains that the PPRA protects the right of parents to consent to surveys and data collection of their students related to “eight protected areas,” including “sex behavior and attitudes.”

Parents also have the right to “receive notice and an opportunity to opt out of … any protected information survey administered or distributed to a student by [a] local educational agency that is a recipient of funds under an applicable program,” among a few other conditions.

Since the Department of Education states that parents must give “consent before students are required to submit” to such DOE-funded protected information surveys, the incident may have been a violation of the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, as is being alleged in the investigation.

“Entities which are found to be in violation of PPRA and fail to take corrective action may lose federal funding,” a source familiar with the investigation at the Department of Education told Blaze News.

Notably, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey is produced and collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System.

While the CDC’s website says that the YRBS is given only to students in grades 9-12, the Boston Herald reported that students as young as 11 years old were required to take the survey.

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Artificial general intelligence is coming sooner than many originally anticipated, as Elon Musk recently announced he believes his latest iteration of Grok could be the first real step in achieving AGI.

AGI refers to a machine capable of understanding or learning any intellectual task that a human being can — and aims to mimic the cognitive abilities of the human brain.

“Coding is now what AI does,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck explains. “Okay, that can develop any software. However, it still requires me to prompt. I think prompting is the new coding.”

“And now that AI remembers your conversations and it remembers your prompts, it will get a different answer for you than it will for me. And that’s where the uniqueness comes from,” he continues.

“You can essentially personalize it, right, to you,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere confirms. “It’s going to understand the way you think rather than just a general person would think.”

And this makes it even more dangerous.

“This is something that I said to Ray Kurzweil back in 2011. … I said, ‘So, Ray, we get all this. It can read our minds. It knows everything about us. Knows more about us than anything, than any of us know. How could I possibly ever create something unique?’” Glenn recalls.

“And he said, ‘What do you mean?’ And I said, ‘Well, let’s say I wanted to come up with a competitor for Google. If I’m doing research online and Google is able to watch my every keystroke and it has AI, it’s knowing what I’m looking for. It then thinks, “What is he trying to put together?” And if it figures it out, it will complete it faster than me and give it to the mother ship, which has the distribution and the money and everything else,’” he continues.

“And so you become a serf. The lord of the manor takes your idea and does it because they have control. That’s what the free market stopped. And unless we have control of our own thoughts and our own ideas and we have some safety to where it cannot intrude on those things … then it’s just a tool of oppression,” he adds.

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The controversial viral video that showed a Minnesota mother using a racial slur against a black child has led to criminal charges that may mean jail time and a fine.

The video from April shows Shiloh Hendrix defiantly insulting a man who was recording her at a local playground in the city of Rochester and accusing her of being racist against a child. At one point, Hendrix flips off the man and then repeats the N-word several times while clutching her own child.

‘This was a situation that deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community.’

“He took my son’s stuff!” she tells the man who follows her in the park, according to the video.

“You know that’s a hate speech?” the man recording says.

“I don’t give a s**t!” she responds.

On Tuesday, the Rochester city attorney filed three counts of disorderly conduct against Hendrix. If she’s convicted of the misdemeanors, she could face 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.

“This was a situation that deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community,” Rochester Mayor Kim Norton said. “We acknowledge the lasting impact this incident has had, not only on those directly involved and across our community, but also in the broader conversations happening at the state and national level.”

While many critics immediately assailed the woman for her behavior, others jumped to her defense after her side of the story was offered up in a post on GiveSendGo. She claimed that her address and personal details had been leaked online.

“We are taking the proper procedures in order to stay safe from these constant threats,” she wrote. “I’m still very frightened, and I don’t think I will feel safe until we can escape completely. I am so grateful to all of you who have donated to my family. I never would have imagined that we would be supported to such an extreme.”

The campaign raised over $700,000 before it was unpublished. The site said it disabled comments because some had used racist phrases. A separate donation page for the black child and his family raised over $340,000.

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In May, the Rochester branch of the NAACP called for charges against Hendrix and offered a list of possible violations that were applicable in the case.

“Even though the law may not change the heart of a heartless adult who traumatized a vulnerable child, it can and must send a strong message — a message that our children have rights to be protected from heartless adults who terrorize and traumatize them,” reads a statement from NAACP branch president Wale Elegbede.

“This child, family, and our community deserve justice for the unjustified harm that was brought upon them by this adult woman,” he added. “Accountability is the only way to ensure these dangerous habits of hate and abuse are curbed and have no place in Rochester, Minnesota.”

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The possibility of first lady Melania Trump appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair is apparently outraging many workers who may quit their jobs, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

Semafor reported that 37-year-old Mark Guiducci was considering the option after becoming the global editorial director for Vanity Fair.

‘We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we’re just not going to do it.’

That revelation was not acceptable to some at the magazine.

“I will walk out the motherf**king door, and half my staff will follow me,” one unidentified editor said to the Mail.

“We are not going to normalize this despot and his wife; we’re just not going to do it. We’re going to stand for what’s right,” the editor continued. “If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s, I’ll do it. If [Guiducci] puts Melania on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out, I guarantee it.”

The first lady had previously appeared on the cover of the Mexico edition of Vanity Fair in Jan. 2017.

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A different employee cast doubt on the editor’s claims.

“It’s all talk,” the employee said. “If they put her on the cover, people will protest and gripe about it, but I don’t see anyone quitting such a prestigious job over that.”

A New York Post report noted that former first lady Michelle Obama appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair three times, while Melania Trump didn’t appear once on the covers for Vanity Fair or Vogue, which is also owned by Condé Nast.

The current first lady has also been dismissive about the cover appearances.

“Look, I’ve been there on the covers … on the covers of many magazines before. … We have so many other important things to do than to be on the cover of any magazine,” she said to Fox News.

“I think that life would not change for anybody if I’m on the cover,” she added.

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