For years, the right has rented legal capacity by the hour. This week, the Oversight Project is changing that.

We are launching a new law firm led by Jeff Clark and backed by a multi-million-dollar investment from philanthropist Tom Klingenstein. Its job will be straightforward: provide rapid-response representation to people we believe are being hit with politically motivated subpoenas, investigations, lawsuits, and professional disciplinary actions — and pursue lawful remedies against those who abuse those processes.

The next time one of ours gets the subpoena, the bar complaint, the investigation, or the lawsuit, someone will be there to answer it.

In practical terms, we are building something the right has long lacked: a public-defender-style legal network for our side.

With Klingenstein’s help, the project aims to raise $10 million over two years and hire at least 15 lawyers. Clark already has a small legal team at the Oversight Project. The new firm will expand that capacity, pair it with our investigators, and build specialized expertise in constitutional, administrative, ethics, and First Amendment law.

That’s the news. The reason for it is simpler.

You are not going to get the politics and policy you want if your political allies are in jail, tied up in frivolous proceedings, fighting for their professional licenses, or going broke paying lawyers. You certainly will not get durable policy wins if people who might otherwise enter public life decide the personal price is too high.

Politics does not require everyone to become a political actor, and it should not. Most people should be able to focus on faith, family, work, and community. But some people choose to step into the public fight on everyone else’s behalf. They need a fair chance to survive it.

Lawfare threatens that. The left has learned to move political disputes from the ballot box and public square into criminal cases, civil litigation, bar proceedings, subpoenas, and investigations. It also has a much larger institutional legal ecosystem — major firms, nonprofit litigators, advocacy organizations, and in-house lawyers — capable of imposing costs and absorbing them.

The right is better positioned than it used to be. Conservative legal groups have built sophisticated litigation shops. Investigative organizations have become more aggressive. Procedural challenges, public-records suits, and constitutional litigation are no longer unusual.

But one hole remains: institutionalized capacity to represent individuals at little or no cost when the process itself becomes the punishment.

The right’s usual answer has been a legal-defense fund: raise money and pass it through to private firms billing hundreds or even thousands of dollars an hour. A few prominent figures get help. Plenty of staffers, lawyers, activists, and public servants do not.

I have seen that firsthand. A friend of mine, a young White House official, received a subpoena from the January 6 Committee and an unfriendly call from the FBI. The quotes he received merely to respond to the investigation were far beyond his means. I represented him pro bono.

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Most people in his position do not happen to have a friend who can do that. We are renting legal capacity we should own.

Jeff Clark understands the cost personally. He was arrested and indicted in Fulton County’s 2020 election case; those charges were later dismissed. He was swept into the federal investigation that became special counsel Jack Smith’s election case. He was subpoenaed by the January 6 Committee. And his D.C. Bar disciplinary case remains pending.

Clark knows what it costs to spend years inside criminal, congressional, and professional-disciplinary machinery. That’s one reason he is the right person to build this.

The new firm will defend clients when subpoenas, bar complaints, investigations, or lawsuits land. Salaried, mission-driven lawyers inside a nonprofit can represent far more people for far less money than a model that depends entirely on outside counsel.

Defense, however, is only half the plan.

Pairing the lawyers with Oversight Project investigators means we can also find the records behind abusive conduct and pursue damages, fees, sanctions, and other lawful consequences where the facts support them. A movement that only absorbs blows will eventually be outspent and worn down. The goal is to change the cost calculation for anyone who believes legal process can be weaponized without consequence.

That distinction is critical. This is not a license to manufacture cases against political opponents. If we become what we say we oppose, we have built nothing worth defending. The answer to abusive legal process is aggressive, lawful representation backed by evidence.

RELATED: The right needs a public defender network for lawfare

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The firm will also build the next generation. We want young, hungry lawyers to get real responsibility early, work beside experienced counsel, and learn how to run cases rather than spend years carrying bags for partners. Lawyers who choose public duty over careerism should have a path to leadership.

For too long, much of the conservative legal movement has focused on commercial and regulatory questions important to major institutions. Other organizations have done strong work on the First and Second Amendments, education, abortion, and religious liberty.

We need that work. We also need lawyers ready to represent people fighting over election law, immigration, executive power, administrative government, and the emerging legal fights around populist and nationalist policy.

The left built a legal machine because it understood that legal infrastructure is political infrastructure. The right cannot keep renting lawyers by the hour and hoping donor generosity arrives after the damage is done.

That era is ending.

Jeff Clark and the Oversight Project are building a permanent institution to defend our allies and make abusive legal tactics more expensive to use. Judge us by the work.

But the next time one of ours gets the subpoena, the bar complaint, the investigation, or the lawsuit, someone will be there to answer it.

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Would you let Google snoop around your closet? Your closet is a sacred domain for your most personal items, and now Google wants to peek inside. A new feature in Google Photos lets you virtually mix and match clothing items to create new outfits without physically trying them on. All it needs is an AI scan of you and your photo library to build your digital wardrobe.

That’s what the company hopes you’ll allow with the new Wardrobe feature in Google Photos. This was first announced back in April of this year, and after several long months and a multi-stage rollout, it is finally available to both Android and iOS users through the Google Photos app.

If your creep-o-meter is already leaning at full tilt, you’re not alone.

To find the new Wardrobe feature, open the Google Photos app, tap the “Create” tab at the bottom, and select “Outfit try-on” at the top. From here, you can start to build your digital wardrobe. All you have to do is let Google scan through your photo library in search of existing images of you that its AI can use to identify your face, body type, and clothing options from outfits you own.

If your creep-o-meter is already leaning at full tilt, you’re not alone. There’s something a bit skeevy about unleashing Google’s AI on your entire library so that it can build a digital model of you and every outfit you have worn throughout thousands of images.

And yet, for the sake of this article, I hit the button and let it root through my digital life to see what Wardrobe was all about. The process can take several hours, so feel free to run it in the background while you go about your day, if you’re so inclined.

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Alas, I didn’t meet the minimum requirement to put my wardrobe to use. You need at least 1,000 photos of yourself wearing easily identifiable clothing; otherwise the feature will come up blank.

For those who fit the bill, though, the feature lets you digitally “try on” up to six different items — including shirts, pants, and accessories — in your closet without going through the trouble of putting them on, similar to the clothing picker in the movie “Clueless.” This lets you easily see which items would go well together to better plan an outfit for the day.

The only thing you can’t do is add photos of clothes you find online to see how they look on you without buying them. Google’s Wardrobe is strictly meant for the things you already wear — at least for now.

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Naturally, Wardrobe in Google Photos raises plenty of concerns for potential misuse and abuse. For instance:

It’s available to anyone with “an eligible Google Account that meets the minimum age requirements for your country or region.” In the United States, that age limit is 13. Digging deeper into Google’s age restrictions, users as young as 13 are permitted to use Google AI via Gemini, though some generative AI photo features are reserved for users 18 years old and up. It’s unclear where Wardrobe fits into this structure and whether or not minors can be scanned and uploaded into the system.Google Photos lets you choose which person you want to stylize at the initial setup, aside from yourself. That means you can technically select a friend, family member, or a complete stranger to use as a digital doll to test outfits as you see fit.Some garments are more intimate than others. There is no documentation as to how Google’s Wardrobe handles more private apparel, should these appear in a photo scan.

Blaze News reached out to Google to clarify these misuse and abuse concerns, and a spokesperson provided the following response:

We take protecting kids seriously. We have strong safeguards for the Google Photos Wardrobe feature, including restrictions on allowed clothing types, modesty guardrails to prevent nudity, and age limits that prevent access by younger users.

Google added that revealing clothing, like swimwear and lingerie, are prohibited for all users. “Child account holders” under age 13 cannot use the Wardrobe in Google Photos at all, though based on Google’s age criteria, underage teenagers may still have access. Lastly, Wardrobe is governed by Google’s generative AI prohibited use policy that strictly prohibits the creation of intimate imagery, child exploitation, and abuse.

Since Wardrobe is closely tied to Google’s AI endeavors, it’s restricted to Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers for now. However, as with many of Google’s paid exclusives, Wardrobe could eventually trickle down to free customers as well. Luckily, Google’s Wardrobe feature can’t activate until you enable it manually.

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One year after the murder of Charlie Kirk, the VFW in Denver has allowed me to hang the art that I created in tribute to him.

I’d presented it four months ago, but it was suggested that the story was too hot, that not enough time has passed for people to be comfortable with the content. I could have pulled the old line, “I thought that was the whole point of art, to challenge people,” but even I could appreciate their trepidation, especially in a city as captured by liberal dogma as Denver.

I learned a while back that when a liberal says that art should never be censored, what they really mean is art that they agree with should never be censored.

A year has passed since the murder, and we’ve heard just about every conspiracy theory you could imagine: exploding mics, palm guns, a bullet fired from a drone, it was Israelis, it was the FBI, it was his wife.

Nonetheless, it was determined last month that the case against the official suspect will be going to trial. Without a doubt, it will be the most watched legal proceeding since OJ’s. This art will be on display in October on First Friday in Denver. I hope that you’re able to see it.

Over the target

As with the COVID art I revisited this summer, I dedicated a good amount of time to getting the pieces together, all the while with an increasing sense of dread that my time — the last thing I have to waste — would be in vain: There was no way in hell the VFW was going to allow me to hang the work.

Ever since I’ve been showing art in Denver, my website has been getting hacked, making it difficult for me to be able to support my family. As much as it sucks, these attacks remind me of the saying, “You take flak when you’re over the target.” In other words, I must be doing something right.

In light of what happened to Charlie for standing up for his beliefs, getting a site hacked and losing a couple of bucks pales in comparison. Don’t get me wrong — it’s not that these people don’t want the worst for me. If my wife and I ended up living under a bridge, they would laugh and throw things at us as they drove past. It’s sobering to realize how joyfully some people embrace hate. I may not be Charlie Kirk, but I am certainly closer to him than our self-proclaimed enemies.

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Violent reactions

I put these Charlie Kirk pieces on the streets not long after Charlie’s murder. The tattered, textured look is meant to represent the violent reactions that he inspired from those who disagreed with his views, as well as how often my street art is ripped down just as quickly as it’s put up. I put my posters up at night and never wait for better light to document them, aware that they may be torn down before the sun comes up.

I learned a while back that when a liberal says that art should never be censored, what they really mean is art that they agree with should never be censored. Everything else is fair game, and as Charlie learned, no tactic to silence someone is off limits.

I also decided to include my Iryna Zarutska pieces; perhaps these would make the cut even if the Charlie pieces proved too much. Who was I kidding? I thought, as my anxiety increased. This series is even more brutal.

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Screaming ‘stop!’

Taking over a stop sign is not as simple as it looks. I’ve seen many half-hearted attempts at repurposing one. My approach is to not add a single word to the piece. I want the art that I add to scream, “STOP!!!” The art should belong on that sign. I think I pulled it off with her murderer half a second from plunging that knife into her neck. I want everyone who views this piece to scream that one word in their head. Included are photos taken from the street hit in Hollywood. One piece boldly and purposefully includes the name IRYNA ZARUTSKA so there is no question as to who this person is. Everyone who views these pieces will say her name, even if just in their thoughts.

I CAN’T BREATHE! I’ll admit to the art being cluttered. The pieces should have more room to breathe. I was so surprised and blown away at being allowed to show these pieces, from both series, that I took the opportunity to throw as much of it up as I could, fearing I’d never get such an opportunity again. But if all goes well, next month I’ll curate the display to include only the Charlie Kirk pieces, some of which are absent. The month after that, I intend to reshow the Iryna pieces, also including those photos I didn’t have room for this time around.

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The small “ALL LIVES MATTER” piece is a deliberate reminder of this truth. I mean to provoke those who cheered the murder of Charlie because he did not agree with them and dismissed the murder of Iryna simply because she was white and her murderer was black. This is what I mean when I include the word “DOGMA” in the Charlie Kirk piece. What good is art if it only confirms what you already believe?

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America has been inundated with sob stories from female murderers over the past few months. First, it was Lindsay Clancy, otherwise known as the Exercise Band Executioner of Duxbury, Massachusetts. Prosecutors say Lindsay deliberately strangled her three children; she pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. Now after a mistrial, her lawyer insists there is a “total and complete lack of evidence” that smiling Lindsay killed them. A judge rejected that bid Thursday.

Maybe JonBenét Ramsey’s killer, who is still on the loose, climbed in the Clancy window and did what Mom is being unfairly blamed for?

Remember when drawing, quartering, and beheading were the only special treatments criminals got?

Recently, the soap opera moved farther south to Tennessee, a state that had not executed a woman since 1819. The convicted female death-row inmate in the news is 50-year-old Christa Pike, condemned for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer.

Pike’s lethal injection was scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m. CDT. Concerned about being traumatized, Christa demanded special treatment at her execution.

Christa took diversity, equity, and inclusion to new heights by requesting that women handle the execution because of her history of sexual abuse. Her attorney later said it appeared Tennessee honored the request.

Remember when drawing, quartering, and beheading were the only special treatments criminals got?

Pike also challenged Tennessee’s lethal-injection protocol because of her small veins and a blood disorder. Her lawyers proposed a central line or even hanging as alternatives. It’s a shame no one thought of Lindsay Clancy; she is both a nurse and a woman. If Pike had requested that wheelchair-bound Clancy be flown in from Massachusetts to tenderly place the IV line in the femme fatale’s arm — then if that had failed, who better than Lindsay to enforce the alternative?

Poor Christa said she had been living in constant fear, unable to sleep and hoping the IV would go in cleanly. She did not want to end up like Tony Von Carruthers, the Tennessee death-row prisoner whose execution was called off in May after officials spent more than an hour trying and failing to establish the required backup IV line.

After a day of appeals, a temporary Sixth Circuit stay, and the U.S. Supreme Court clearing the way for Tennessee to proceed, Christa finally found herself eight miles from Music Row in Nashville, in a sanitized execution chamber at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution, about to be ushered into Nirvana by the all-female team she had requested.

The curtain opened at about 7:27 p.m. Witnesses saw Christa strapped to a gurney and prepped for lethal injection. Pike received pentobarbital and remained conscious long enough to smile, move, and complain that her arm hurt.

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The curtain closed, reopened, then closed again. Witnesses could still hear Christa breathing and snoring behind it. Tennessee administered a second dose. That one didn’t kill her either.

Her attorney demanded that officials stop the execution and provide emergency medical care. At 8:53 p.m. — 86 minutes after the curtain first opened — Christa Pike was still alive, and witnesses were ordered out.

Instead of a hearse, an ambulance eventually shuttled Pike from Riverbend to a hospital. As of Thursday afternoon, her lawyers said she remained in critical condition receiving “life-saving care”. Gov. Bill Lee (R) halted Tennessee’s remaining executions for the year and ordered an independent review.

No one scooped Colleen Slemmer up on that freezing winter night in Knoxville and ferried her away. Slemmer’s unrecognizable body wasn’t found until the next morning.

Christa’s journey to Riverbend started on January 12, 1995, when she was 18 years old. The night before, she told friend Kim Iloilo that she intended to kill fellow Job Corps student Colleen Slemmer because she “had just felt mean that day”. Pike believed Colleen was interested in her boyfriend, Tadaryl Shipp.

The next night, Pike, Shipp, Slemmer, and Shadolla Peterson left the Job Corps center together. Only three came back.

Pike later told Iloilo that Colleen had begged them to stop. Instead of mercy, Christa cut the 19-year-old woman’s throat, beat her, and cracked her skull with a piece of asphalt. Pike said a meat cleaver was used to cut Slemmer’s back and a box cutter to cut her throat. A pentagram was carved into Slemmer’s forehead and chest.

Then Pike came back with a souvenir: a piece of Colleen’s skull.

The next morning, with the skull fragment still in her pocket, Pike bragged to classmate Stephanie Wilson about the killing. Pointing to brown spots on her shoes, she said, “That ain’t mud on my shoes, that’s blood.”

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On January 13, a University of Tennessee groundskeeper found Slemmer’s brutalized body and testified that it was “so badly beaten that he had first mistaken it for the corpse of an animal.”

Pike was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to death in 1996. Her prison résumé did not improve. In 2001, she choked inmate Patricia Jones unconscious with a shoelace and was later convicted of attempted first-degree murder.

With execution looming, Pike’s lawyers filed a 226-page clemency petition. They said she was sexually abused by her grandmother’s boyfriend between ages 2 and 5, raped by a neighbor at 11, and raped again by a stranger at 17. They also cited bipolar disorder, PTSD, suicide attempts, and other mental-health problems.

Granted, if Christa’s accounts are true, they are tragic. But even all that does not justify one woman brutally torturing and murdering another woman. And then, three decades later, she had the gall to ask for women around her execution gurney to lessen the “trauma.”

In the end, it is almost as if karma circumvented compassion. After all the argument over who would touch Christa, how the IV would be placed, and how much suffering the state could lawfully impose, Tennessee gave her two hefty doses of the death drug and still failed to kill her.

Now Pike remains hospitalized in critical condition with a dire prognosis — which is considerably more medical attention than Colleen Slemmer received after Christa bludgeoned her to death.

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Everything on the internet lasts forever.

This sage advice was everywhere at the turn of the millennium, but play-by-play broadcaster Braiden Bell may have been too young to hear it.

‘Girls these nights … Smh.’

On Thursday, Bell was introduced as the new announcer for the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, with the organization praising him for being “authentic” and a “great fit” for the team, local outlet KGW8 reported.

However, Bell’s tenure would last only mere hours as that same local outlet dug up some old X posts (then tweets) from Bell — when he was only 15 years old — and contacted the Trail Blazers for comment about them.

Bell was promptly fired for his old jokes, which were later described by the basketball team as “racist, sexist” and “harmful.”

Bell wrote in 2012, “I’m not racist at all.. But not gonna lie.. Asian people piss me off! Hahaha #Honest,” according to images shared by KGW8.

“Gotta give a shoutout to all the big girls out there and those closet whores. #BigUps,” read another post.

Other posts featured by the local outlet from 2013 included “We got a slut alert on aisle 10,” and “Girls these nights … Smh. #ThirstyForTheD.”

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The Trail Blazers did not take these past remarks lightly and wrote in a statement that the team has zero tolerance for comments that are “in clear violation of team and league policies, as well as our values and expectations.”

“Therefore, we will not be moving forward with this broadcaster.”

The team went on to boast about the standard it holds for its play-by-play role, before apologizing to the city and fans.

“Everyone … should feel welcome and safe,” the organization added.

Interestingly enough, Portland as a city and the NBA franchise were once known for embracing misfits on the court. So much so that the team was referred to as the “Jail Blazers” due to how many players on the squad had criminal records.

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Critics of Thursday’s firing pointed out that Oregon state law dictates that juveniles can have their records expunged for serious crimes, while Bell was losing his job over immature commentary.

Clay Travis, founder of OutKick, wrote on X, “We have to stop firing people for tweets sent when they were minors.”

Travis added, “If this guy had robbed a store as a minor, his juvenile record would be sealed forever. If we don’t hold people accountable for crimes as minors, holding people accountable for Tweets is beyond absurd.”

Blaze News reached out to Bell and his agency for comment. Neither provided an immediate response.

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On MS NOW, “Deadline” host Nicolle Wallace took viewers through a montage of Trump’s past tough-on-China remarks, before excitedly suggesting that Trump had asked Chinese President Xi Jinping whether or not China wanted to buy American weapons.

“So much for Mr. Tough Guy,” Wallace scoffed. “Over the last few days, we saw Donald Trump roll out an actual red carpet for China’s President Xi Jinping when he came to the White House, a visit which Reuters called, quote, ‘a stalemate summit that was a glitzy gift to China,’ end quote.”

“And then there was this moment on Fox News yesterday, courtesy of America’s ambassador to China, David Purdue,” she added.

In the clip, Purdue said, “President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world.’ He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point.”

“You heard that correctly. That was the ambassador to China saying that the United States president offered to sell arms to China,” Wallace said, laughing.

The State Department responded to the claim with a statement that read, “U.S. law prohibits arm sales to China, and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”

Wallace called the statement “backpedaling,” but BlazeTV host Pat Gray points out that she’s supposed to be reporting the news.

“This is a news person, supposedly. So the president and his team denied everything you just presented in the clip, and your response is a sarcastic, belittling, dismissive heh-heh,” he says, mimicking her laugh.

“That’s some good news broadcast right there. That’s some hardcore news and reporting and journalistic integrity right there,” he continues. “It’s unbelievable.”

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LGBT activists’ moment in the sun appears to be at an end.

Public opinion has, for instance, soured on permitting cross-dressing men in women’s sports and bathrooms; on the provision of sex-rejection mutilation surgeries and puberty blockers to minors; and on the promotion of gender ideology in schools. Public support is also slipping for homosexual “marriage.”

‘Groomers hardest hit.’

Major corporations have pumped the brakes on the rainbow flag and supporting LGBT indoctrination initiatives and events — or have at the very least felt the need to pretend they would.

It appears that LGBT activists are now also losing their grip on future generations. New data from the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System reveals a dramatic decline in non-straight identification among high school-age Americans.

According to an analysis of the CDC data by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean Twenge, the number of LGB-identifying students “plummeted” in 2025.

Whereas, for instance, CDC data showed that 17% of 9th-graders — Americans ages 14 and 15 — identified as non-straight in 2023, that number fell to 11% last year. There were also declines in non-straight identification in other grades, especially among 10th-graders.

There was also decline for 12th-graders, but only two percentage points, from 18% to 16%.

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The psychology professor highlighted that this “free fall” was driven almost entirely by teenage girls, which makes sense given that the LGBT social contagion that was dismissed and/or downplayed in recent years by so-called experts predominantly impacted girls.

“Identifying as LGB dropped from 27% in 2023 to 22% in 2025 among girls and from 9% to 7% among boys,” Twenge noted. “The previous increase in identifying as LGB was also larger among girls, with a 128% increase (more than doubling) from 2015 to 2021 among girls and a 99% increase (doubling) from 2015 to 2023 among boys.”

Twenge noted that the greatest decline was observed among 9th-grade girls. Whereas 30% of the cohort identified as non-straight in 2021, the number had fallen to 17% last year.

Part of this decline in LGB identification among teenage girls can be attributed to the collapse of the “bisexual” fad. Last year, only 13% of 9th-grade girls identified as “bisexual” — down from 26% in 2021.

“The sharp turn downward in identifying (and acting) as LGB among Gen Alpha teens could be a harbinger of a coming wave of change, or it could be a blip — it’s hard to say,” wrote Twenge.

Mary Rice Hasson, director of the Person and Identity Project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, tweeted: “Looks like people aren’t ‘born that way.'”

Todd Erzen, the co-host of BlazeTV’s “Steve Deace Show,” said in response to the decline in teenage LGB identification, “Groomers hardest hit.”

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A popular Christian influencer couple was arrested for allegedly abusing a 14-year-old girl, according to Texas police.

39-year-old Seth Michael Day is accused of sexually and physically assaulting the girl after a high school teacher noticed injuries to her face and head.

The girl said she had suffered numerous instances of abuse and reported some of them but that Heather Day had lied to officials in order to cover it up.

The teacher reported the injuries to the Keene police, who interviewed the girl. She claimed to have suffered ongoing abuse by Day and said he injured her with a cell phone.

After receiving treatment at the Cook Children’s Medical Center, she also said that Day had sexually assaulted her.

In the last incident of abuse on Sept. 22, the girl said Day assaulted her while his wife, Heather Marie Day, was in the home.

Police said they found evidence of the physical and sexual assaults at the Days’ home after obtaining a search warrant.

The girl said she had suffered numerous instances of abuse and reported some of them but that Heather Day had lied to officials in order to cover it up.

She allegedly told the victim that she had an autoimmune disease called hereditary angioedema, which causes swelling. Police noted that swelling would not explain the the injuries the victim had.

Records show the Days were both booked into the Johnson County jail but were released on bail of $100,000.

Heather Day hosts a Christian podcast, and the couple have authored several books, including one titled “I’ll See You Tomorrow.”

Seth Day is also a professor at Southwestern Adventist University, but he was placed on administrative leave after his arrest.

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“We are fully cooperating with law enforcement,” the university said in a statement that indicated the allegations did not involve its students, staff, or other members of the faculty.

“The safety of our University community remains our first priority. We will share additional details as appropriate,” the university added.

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