FBI Director Kash Patel sat down with Sean Hannity this week and laid out a string of counterterrorism wins that received almost zero mainstream coverage: four terrorist plots stopped in four weeks during the holiday season, a 9/11-style attack still on the bureau’s radar, and an AI upgrade to the FBI’s tipline that he says already prevented a school massacre. The interview aired as the story was picking up traction on social media, where the lack of press attention became a story of its own. ICYMI: From national security to flying saucers, it was a big week on Hang Out With Hannity. Watch the full episodes featuring FBI Director Kash Patel and Luigi Vendittelli on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. pic.twitter.com/tXY6BJEsQ3 — Sean Hannity

White House border czar Tom Homan has a one-word answer for anyone asking how many more deportations it will take to fix what decades of open-border policy broke. Millions. Homan sat down with Fox News host Will Cain on Thursday and delivered the clearest statement yet that the Trump administration’s enforcement operation is not slowing down. It is speeding up, and sanctuary cities are the next major target. Homan tells Fox News ‘millions’ more deportations still needed, vows to surge ICE into sanctuary cities as border crossings drop pic.twitter.com/IBjs5zABaG — Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) May 9, 2026 Fox News laid out the scale of Homan’s answer after the interview: Homan pushed back directly on rumors suggesting the administration is ramping down its immigration enforcement surges. He told Cain the opposite is true: he expects the number of arrests and removals to keep rising even as illegal border crossings continue to fall. Resources will keep surging, and sanctuary cities are at the top of the priority list because they create the worst enforcement problems in the country. Homan also challenged the commonly repeated claim that there are 12 million illegal aliens in the United States, calling that figure at least 25 years old and saying he believes the real number is well over 20 million. When Cain pressed him on whether deportations at that scale are even logistically possible, Homan did not hedge. He said he would give it one hell of a shot and that the administration would not walk away from President Trump’s promise to the American people. The message was plain: falling border numbers do not mean the interior-enforcement fight is winding down, especially in the cities where local officials try hardest to block federal agents. The political class has spent months trying to suggest the deportation effort already peaked. Homan gave the opposite answer on national television. Fox News’ Will Cain: How many deportations do we need to set this country’s population back to where it’s actually a country of illegal aliens? Border Czar Tom Homan: “Millions!… I see it all the time there’s 12M illegal aliens in the country. We used 12M, 25 years ago. I… pic.twitter.com/fT042jTENx — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 7, 2026 The hiring push gives Homan’s warning teeth. Fox News also reported how the administration plans to put more people behind the policy: The administration is in the process of hiring 10,000 additional immigration enforcement agents. Roughly 7,000 are already on board and another 3,000 are working through training. Homan explained that the bulk of those new agents should be directed at sanctuary jurisdictions because cooperative states such as Florida and Texas already have sheriffs and police chiefs who work with ICE and honor federal detainers. The problem, Homan said, is in cities and states that lock federal agents out of their jails and refuse to cooperate, even as public-safety threats are released back into communities. Homan also recently delivered a pointed warning to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, telling her he was not asking for permission and that ICE would flood the zone because the state’s posture forced the administration into that position. That is a very different posture from the Biden years. Sanctuary officials are no longer dealing with a federal government looking for reasons to stand down, and the new manpower plan shows the pressure is meant to grow, not fade into another Washington talking point. That is the kind of language that sanctuary-city politicians are not used to hearing from the federal government. For four years under the Biden administration, they had room to stall. Homan is saying that room is gone. Fox News’ Will Cain: What do you say to people who say you can’t logistically deport millions of illegal aliens? Border Czar Tom Homan: “I’ll give it one h*ll of a shot!… We’re not going to give up on President Trump’s promise to the American people on mass deportations. We’re… pic.twitter.com/804vYPkmrc — RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) May 7, 2026 Homan’s interview was a reminder that President Trump did not make a campaign suggestion about mass deportation. He made a promise. And the man he put in charge of keeping that promise just told the country he has no intention of stopping until the job is done. Sanctuary cities can cooperate or they can get flooded. Either way, Homan is making clear the deportation push is moving forward.

Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee is not waiting for another close call. The Republican lawmaker announced on May 8 that she is calling on the United States Secret Service to conduct an immediate audit of every single employee on its payroll, citing a pattern of scandals, personnel problems, and security failures that she says the agency can no longer afford to ignore. Blackburn made the announcement on X, attaching a copy of a formal letter she sent to Secret Service Director Sean Curran. Her warning was direct: the agency needs to find and remove unfit personnel before the next failure comes with consequences nobody can undo. Following a string of scandals, personnel issues, and security failures, I am calling on the Secret Service to conduct an immediate audit of every single employee on its payroll. If this agency does not root out the rot, our nation will suffer the consequences. pic.twitter.com/mq9umw1dXb — Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) May 8, 2026 The demand comes in the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, an incident that shook Washington and raised immediate questions about the security apparatus surrounding the president, the vice president, cabinet officials, and the White House itself. Blackburn pointed to that event as a vivid example of why a comprehensive internal review is overdue. Just the News reported on her push for a full payroll audit, framing the demand around the accumulation of recent security concerns. Blackburn is calling for the Secret Service to audit every employee currently on its payroll, a sweeping demand that goes beyond reviewing any single incident or disciplining a few people after the fact. The White House Correspondents Dinner shooting was one of the catalysts for her letter, because the agency charged with protecting President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, cabinet members, and the White House grounds cannot allow unresolved personnel issues to remain buried inside the system. Blackburn also tied her demand to the public X post where she attached the letter and framed the issue around scandals, personnel problems, and security failures. The request is not simply a press-release complaint. She is asking for a review of every name drawing a Secret Service paycheck, from leadership down through the ranks, so the agency can prove that the people entrusted with presidential protection belong in those roles. Her position is that an agency with no margin for failure needs a direct personnel audit, not another internal memo that disappears into the bureaucracy. The scope of what Blackburn is asking for is significant. She is not targeting a single office or a handful of agents. She wants every name on the Secret Service payroll reviewed, from senior leadership to support staff, with the goal of identifying anyone whose conduct, background, or performance record could compromise the agency’s protective mission. Blackburn calls for full audit of ‘every single employee’ on Secret Service payroll https://t.co/dZllF7eGud — Just the News (@JustTheNews) May 9, 2026 The letter to Director Curran went further than a general request. The Gateway Pundit added more from Blackburn’s correspondence: Blackburn’s letter to Curran described recent events as exposing what she characterized as a pattern of incompetence within the agency. The correspondence was connected to both the armed White House Correspondents Dinner incident and the attempted assassination charges involving President Trump, with Blackburn crediting the agents who acted quickly during the WHCD episode and arguing the outcome could have been catastrophic without their response. She also pointed to troubling allegations involving Secret Service personnel and challenged the agency’s leadership over declining standards and employee vetting. The letter was not limited to one public failure. It treated the recent incidents as symptoms of a deeper problem inside an agency where embarrassing or disgraceful conduct cannot be brushed aside as ordinary workplace misconduct. Blackburn’s bottom-line demand was a full, thorough audit of every employee working for the Secret Service, with no exceptions and no quiet bureaucratic workarounds. For an agency responsible for presidential protection, that kind of review is not cosmetic. It is the test of whether leadership is willing to identify weak points before another security failure puts lives at risk. That last point deserves emphasis. Blackburn is not asking the agency to investigate a single bad actor or respond to one headline. She is asking for a wall-to-wall review because she believes the failures are systemic enough that anything short of a complete audit will miss the problem. SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN DEMANDS MASSIVE SECRET Service Audit After “Scandals, Personnel Issues, and Security Failures” — Warns Agency Must “Root Out the Rot” READ: https://t.co/OnIlSeHuUg pic.twitter.com/jwvd3cPpMZ — The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) May 8, 2026 The political backdrop here is hard to overstate. President Trump has already survived assassination attempts, and the Secret Service’s performance during those events drew intense scrutiny and bipartisan criticism. The WHCD shooting added fuel to concerns that the agency responsible for the physical safety of the commander in chief still has not fully addressed its internal vulnerabilities. Blackburn’s letter puts Director Curran on the record. Either the audit happens and the results are made available to congressional oversight, or the agency’s leadership will have to explain why it refused a senator’s formal request to verify that every person drawing a Secret Service paycheck belongs there. The men and women who protect the president and other senior officials perform one of the most demanding jobs in government. The vast majority of them do it with integrity and skill. But the whole point of Blackburn’s demand is that an agency with that kind of responsibility cannot tolerate even a small number of compromised or unfit employees. One failure in the wrong moment is all it takes. A full audit is the bare minimum for an organization that holds lives in its hands every single day.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah has no intention of letting Congress run out the clock. With the 2026 midterms approaching, Lee is making a full-court press for the SAVE America Act, a bill that would require voter ID for federal elections, proof of citizenship to register, and the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls. His argument is blunt: these are basic safeguards that Americans already expect in every other area of life where identity matters. The only people who seem to have a problem with any of it are the people on Capitol Hill. Sen. Mike Lee is HELLBENT on getting the SAVE America Act passed before the midterms "A SUPERMAJORITY of Republican voters and Democrat voters nationwide want this passed!" "The only place where this is even REMOTELY controversial is in the halls of congress!" ENFORCE THE… pic.twitter.com/DFvnGfuj3c — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 9, 2026 Lee says a supermajority of Republican and Democrat voters want these protections. The public is ready. Congress is the bottleneck, and Lee wants every member on the record before the midterms force the question anyway. You have to prove who you are whenever it really matters It matters when you vote Pass the SAVE America Act pic.twitter.com/bRdln1vERU — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 9, 2026 The legislation has been through an earlier version, and this round carries significantly more teeth. According to Senator Mike Lee’s official Senate release: Lee and Congressman Chip Roy of Texas introduced the SAVE America Act on January 30, 2026. The release describes the bill as an expanded version of their earlier SAVE Act, which centered on proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration. The new version adds a federal voter ID requirement, which Lee and Roy say reflects President Trump’s position that voter ID should be part of any serious election-security effort. The release lays out three core provisions: requiring eligible photo identification before casting a ballot in a federal election, requiring states to obtain proof of citizenship in person when registering someone to vote, and requiring states to remove noncitizens from existing voter rolls. The release also argues that Biden-Harris border policies brought millions of illegal aliens into the country, and that some states issue driver’s licenses or government benefits to illegal aliens. Those systems, the release contends, create pathways for improper registration in federal elections even though only United States citizens may legally vote in federal elections. The actual bill text spells out how those provisions would work in practice. According to Congress.gov: The SAVE America Act would amend the National Voter Registration Act. States would be required to inform residents that documentary proof of U.S. citizenship is needed to register for federal elections. For anyone applying to register by mail, registration would not go through for federal elections unless the applicant presents documentary proof of citizenship in person at the appropriate election office by the state’s deadline, or at the polling place in states that allow same-day or voting-period registration. Officials would be required to send notice and instructions to otherwise complete applicants, and states would have to provide reasonable accommodations for disabled applicants. The bill also creates a process for people who cannot initially produce documentation: they may sign an attestation under penalty of perjury and submit alternative evidence, and there is a separate process for resolving documentation discrepancies. States would be allowed to request citizenship information from federal agencies and use the DHS SAVE verification system, and agencies would be barred from charging states a fee for responding to those requests. Once documented or verified information shows a registrant is not a citizen, states would be required to remove that person from federal voter rolls. The bill also includes penalties for officials who register applicants who fail to present proof of citizenship. Lee has been clear about why the fight is urgent. He points to a growing body of evidence that illegal voting occurs and argues that Democrats who deny the problem keep getting contradicted by the facts. SEN. LEE on why he's still fighting for the SAVE America Act "Increasingly, Democrats deny that election fraud happens and yet, that thing they say never happens, it has a way of happening—A LOT, and we keep uncovering more and more evidence that it's occurring!" "Already… pic.twitter.com/YGuUmaREGM — Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 9, 2026 None of these requirements are radical. You need an ID to board a plane, buy cold medicine, or open a bank account. Asking voters to prove they are citizens before they help decide who runs the country should be the easiest vote in Congress. Lee is right to keep hammering this, and the resistance from certain members tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.

The Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty this week to an 11-count federal indictment alleging the civil rights nonprofit spent years secretly paying millions of dollars to people inside the white supremacist and neo-Nazi networks it publicly raised money to fight. Interim president and CEO Bryan Fair entered the not-guilty plea on behalf of the organization in federal court in Montgomery, Alabama. No individuals have been charged. Trial is set to begin in October. That plea does not erase a charge sheet that reads like a betrayal of every donor who ever wrote a check to the SPLC believing it would be used to fight racism.