Douglass Mackey was sentenced to seven months in prison by the Biden administration for posting a Hillary Clinton election meme — but thankfully, his conviction has now been overturned.The meme showed a picture of a black woman holding an “African Americans for President Hillary” sign, with copy over the image that read: “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”In smaller letters it read: “Vote for Hillary and be a part of history.”“I mean, you have to be a nincompoop to believe this, but you know, there’s a lot of nincompoops,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, noting that as soon as Biden was in office, “they decided to throw the book at him” anyway.“A federal judge overturned this, and he is now free from this, insane, dare I say it, Hitlerian attempt on freedom of speech,” he adds.“It’s a great day to be an American,” Mackey tells Glenn, happily.Mackey found out that he was free on the first day of vacation with his wife and son, when his trial attorney sent him a text that just said, “Congrats.”“It was a great day to be on vacation,” he says, adding, “Four and a half years since four FBI agents knocked on my door at 7 a.m., and that was seven days after Joe Biden was inaugurated.”“They had you in their sights long before they got into office,” Glenn says, shocked.“Oh, that’s right,” Mackey says. “They said, you know, ‘Are you Douglass Mackey? We have a warrant for your arrest.’ The first words out of my mouth were, ‘For what?’ And I really had no idea that this meme was going to be the basis for a prosecution, because at the time, I wasn’t even on Twitter.”“But back in the 2016 election cycle, I tweeted thousands of times, so I had no idea,” he continues, adding, “But I did know that once they make you an enemy that it’s like, ‘Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime.’”Mackey was charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act, which is a federal felony.“Sometimes people would rather just plea out rather than go through the expense of fighting it, but a federal felony, the KKK Act. Unbelievable,” Mackey tells Glenn. “And let me tell you this, they indicted Donald J. Trump on the same statute.”Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Democratic leaders aren’t inciting attacks on Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers out of pure hatred for Donald Trump and his administration. Their motives are strategic. Practical. By undermining immigration enforcement, they protect a pipeline of future Democratic voters — including violent criminals like the “family man from Maryland.”Once these illegal aliens receive driver’s licenses, they’ll land on voter rolls. They already count in the census, inflating congressional representation in blue states teeming with illegal immigrants. Democrats didn’t bring these “newcomers” here just to deport them.Republicans imagine that all or at least most Americans are on the same wavelength with them. But that may not be the case.If activists now ambush and shoot ICE agents, Democratic leaders seem to treat that as a price worth paying to preserve their long-term electoral advantage. And they can count on the corporate left-wing media to help them.The press operates as an extension of the Democratic Party, not just in the United States but across the Western world. CNN, NBC, and MSNBC broadcast the same spin you’ll hear on CBC, BBC, Deutsche Welle, and France 4. With this media backing, Democrats face little scrutiny — even when they tacitly abet violence against federal agents.Right now, public support for deportations hovers around 50%, and it might be higher if the media didn’t stage-manage the narrative. Watch a few minutes of network television or skim the New York Times, and you’ll come away thinking border czar Tom Homan’s raids target preschoolers and migrant field hands.Fox News insists the anti-Trump mobs are just fringe radicals. They’re not. A massive leftist electorate just nominated Zohran Mamdani to be the next mayor of New York City, and if the polls mean anything, he just might win in the fall. Other major cities are led by mayors only slightly less radical — Karen Bass in Los Angeles, Brandon Johnson in Chicago, Michelle Wu in Boston. When it comes to immigration, they’re just as hostile to ICE and just as gushingly sympathetic to illegal aliens as Mamdani.The “people” voted for these multicultural, America-be-damned leftists. The fantasy that Democratic voters are victims of a hijacked party is infantile nonsense. A growing share of the American electorate has radicalized — including black voters, government employees, and especially college-educated white women, who dominate the culturally leftist bloc in my own Pennsylvania borough.Despite years of street violence, riots, and inflammatory rhetoric, the Democrats haven’t collapsed. They still hold a slight edge in the generic congressional ballot. RealClearPolitics polling shows the GOP ahead by only seven points. The Democrats may have lost ground — but they’re far from finished.RELATED: ‘The Suicide Squad’: How Democrats keep blowing themselves up Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty ImagesLet’s not forget: In the last presidential election, Democrats lost the popular vote by just two million votes, running a hapless candidate against an incumbent with enormous political energy. That’s how effective the Democratic machine remains — even in a lopsided matchup.No one should mistake this for incompetence or insanity. Yes, the party boasts plenty of scatterbrained motor mouths such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.). But don’t confuse theatrics with disarray. Democratic leaders push grotesque policies — mutilating children with “gender-affirming” surgeries, putting men in women’s sports, promoting race-based discrimination — but voters haven’t punished them for it.Republican observers tend to judge the other side by their own standards. They also imagine that all or at least most Americans are on the same wavelength with them. But that may not be the case. Democrats don’t even pretend to feel regret when ICE officers take a bullet or when anarchists torch city blocks. They know their base relishes in the havoc.This is calculated politics. Democrats want to expand their base through mass migration and lawfare, not persuasion. That’s cold strategy, not insanity.If Republicans want to win, they need to stop imagining their opponents are self-destructing lunatics. They aren’t. Democrats play to win. The GOP must prepare for a real fight — not fantasyland.

If owning a farm was a dream of yours, there’s finally some good news. A new action plan announced by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins will prevent foreign countries from buying up U.S. farmland, as well as protect U.S. land from being used in ways that could harm America.“With this announcement today, we are taking this purpose and our American farmland back. American agriculture is not just about feeding our families but about protecting our nation and standing up to foreign adversaries who are buying our farmland, stealing our research, and creating dangerous vulnerabilities in the very systems that sustain us,” Rollins said.“Today we announced the USDA’s national farm security action plan. This plan includes seven key action items. The most important, the first of the seven, is securing and protecting American farmland ownership, actively engaging at every level of government to take swift legislative and executive action to ban the purchase of American farmland by Chinese nationals and other foreign adversaries,” she continued.BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales thinks it's crazy that foreign adversaries were ever allowed to buy any American land in the first place.“Farmland, houses, developments. I don’t care what it is. I think it’s kind of crazy that we allow that to begin with, but particularly with farmland,” Gonzales says, noting that in the state of Texas, the farmland Chinese nationals were buying were “peculiarly near military bases.”“And looking at this, the geography of it was very, very scary. Apparently, that’s not just in Texas, that is across the country,” she continues, adding, “Over 227,000 acres of farmland are owned by Chinese investors.”After several Chinese nationals were caught attempting to smuggle dangerous pathogens that could poison Americans via crops, Gonzales finds it all a little disturbing. "This is a no-brainer to me. Like, they are owning 227,000 acres of farmland, and they have every intention of bringing in pathogens and bacteria," she says, adding, "They are always 10 steps ahead of us, and we're asleep at the wheel. And thankfully, it looks like in this instance, that won't be happening anymore under the Trump administration."Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is getting ridiculed for arguing that the mainstream media exaggerated "a couple of incidents" of vandalism during anti-ICE protests into full city rioting.Bass made the comments at a media briefing Thursday, where she was confronted by a reporter who challenged her on the spread of anti-ICE violence. He cited the terror attack on an ICE facility in Texas allegedly planned and executed by heavily armed left-wing activists.'The way that it was portrayed nationally, was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate.'"Well, let me just say that the quote-unquote 'riots' that were reported never happened," Bass responded."We did have a couple of incidents of vandalism and looting," she continued. "But the way that it was portrayed nationally was like the whole city was up in flames, the comparison to 1992, which was completely and 100% inappropriate."She was also dismissive of the alleged terror attack on an ICE facility in Texas and said she didn't know anything about it."And I think the example that you use — I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with it — it was from some other state," she added."Yes, Texas," the reporter responded."I have no idea what happened in Texas. What I do know is what happened in Los Angeles," she added.At that point, Bass was whisked away by one of her aides.The Republican National Committee posted a shortened version of her comments, but the extended version of the video includes her argument that the rioting was exaggerated.RELATED: Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los Angeles Many critics online excoriated the mayor for downplaying the violence of the anti-ICE rioting."This is false. They rioted for nights on end. The rioters set Waymo vehicles on fire, torched police vehicles, held them captive under a bridge, and assaulted multiple officers," read one popular response."Seriously, that's just ignoring reality. Leaders should address violence, not act clueless. LA isn’t immune to these issues," read another response."So those weren’t cement block pieces crashing down on police cars from all angles above and keeping police trapped under a freeway overpass?" asked another detractor.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!