A congressional candidate running as a “100% pro-life” conservative with a “titanium backbone” once said a Georgia law banning abortion after an unborn baby’s heartbeat could be detected was “counter” to the majority of society and passed to satisfy the far right.  Former Hollywood executive Ryan Millsap, who’s running for Congress in Georgia’s 10th Congressional district, says he is fully pro-life. But years ago he said that the state’s heartbeat law was bad for business and urged lawmakers to reconsider pro-life protections, according to multiple interviews unearthed by The Daily Wire.  Millsap said Georgia’s heartbeat law, signed by Governor Brian Kemp in May 2019, was out of step with the western world in an interview with Deadline. He was CEO of the production company Blackhall Studios at the time.  “It was a scary time for those of us in the entertainment industry because a law like that would certainly put Georgia in a very awkward position relative to the modern English-speaking world,” Millsap said in June 2020. “It is a huge disadvantage if you live in a state that has laws on its books that are counter to the majority of society.” In the same interview, Millsap said that the law was only passed because Kemp was bowing to the far right. “The governor’s farthest-right support base wanted it and the governor’s farthest right support base asked him for it and … played a key role in getting him elected,” he said. “That put him in a very complicated position. … I believe the political winds required a bill.” After the bill was first passed by the legislature, Millsap said that boycotts from film studios targeting the state were economically, not politically driven. He said Hollywood was not “trying to impose its values” on the state.  “The production companies don’t care, necessarily, about the moral consequences, one way or the other, of a law. They care about their supply chain and business. And when we pass laws that disrupt their supply chain, it makes us less competitive to London or Canada,” he said in October 2019. “I think that the biggest worry is just whether or not Georgian politicians understand the value of the entertainment industry, understand that it’s a non-political set.”  Millsap also suggested that an injunction blocking the law after it went into effect allowed “business as usual” to move forward, but that the state had “some ground to make up” politically.  The heartbeat law went into full effect in October 2024 when the state Supreme Court ruled in its favor. At least 12 Republican-led states have enacted heartbeat or total bans on abortion.  “Ryan Millsap is a husband and father who believes in the miracle of life, has always been 100% pro-life and supports the state’s law now that the issue has been settled,” his campaign told The Daily Wire. “He believes that the Dobbs decision was correctly decided and that states should address this issue and that no federal funds should be used for abortion.” Millsap, who launched his campaign last month, is running as a political outsider and is campaigning on deporting illegal immigrants, banning congressional stock trading, and supporting cryptocurrency.  “I’m running to smash the status quo and fight back against the radical Left and the RINOs. I bought into their lies, too. But COVID and Antifa made me realize they sold us out,” he said in his campaign launch ad. He told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he was running “because we need someone with a titanium backbone who doesn’t care about climbing the political ladder but is running to defeat the radical left once and for all and end the reign of radical lunatic liberals and impotent RINOs in Congress.” The other two candidates running for the district are plumber Jeff Baker and state Rep. Houston Gaines. The Daily Wire reached out to both to ask for their position on abortion.  Gaines voted for the heartbeat bill during his time in the legislature shortly after he flipped a state House seat back Republican.  “As a Christian and a conservative, I’m proud to be pro-life and will always stand up for what’s right. When Democrats tried to threaten me, I stood strong and passed Georgia’s Heartbeat Bill,” Gaines told The Daily Wire. “While my opponent joined Hollywood to fight Georgia’s Heartbeat Bill with everything he had, we got it done. Georgia stands for life.” Baker said he is “100% pro-life with exception to health of mother. Abortion in any other respect is murder and is against my Christian beliefs.” “I would support a Constitutional Amendment that states life begins at conception,” he added. Gaines has been endorsed by House GOP leaders like Reps. Jim Jordan, Steve Scalise, and Tom Emmer. A debate for the GOP candidates is set for April 12.

This article is part of Upstream, The Daily Wire’s new home for culture and lifestyle. Real human insight and human stories — from our featured writers to you. *** In midcentury television shows, married couples slept in separate beds across the room lest the story insinuate anything inappropriate for young viewers. Today, all bets are off. From highly sexualized movies to television shows to books, sex is everywhere. Beyond fiction, the torrid details of real-life moments are exposed in wildly popular podcasts such as “Call Her Daddy,” tell-all memoirs such as the Duke of Sussex’s “Spare,” and even casual social media posts. We’ve gone from unrealistically modest to destigmatizing everything, and though the case has been made against some erotic and pornographic media, here’s why it’s time to make all talk of sex taboo again. I recently was listening to a top-10 politics podcast when the conversation bizarrely transitioned into intimate details of the host’s sex life. The episode’s topic and the podcast itself had nothing to do with the bedroom or even relationships, but nevertheless, the host went on about private details of his relationship. Needless to say, I was disturbed and a little wary of any future episodes, lest I be further subjected to more unwanted information. I couldn’t help but wonder: What if I were a parent catching up on news with small children in the car? What if I had been listening in an office? What if I were a teenager trying to keep up with the political cycle? There are a million scenarios where sex is an inappropriate topic, the least of which is that I simply don’t want to hear the details of anyone’s private life. Certainly, there’s an irony to talking about sex in order to make a case for not talking about it. But there’s also a difference between talking abstractly about the topic and divulging graphic details. When watching news coverage of wars or crimes, for example, we expect horrible statistics and tragedy, but we also expect a level of discretion. We want a warning before seeing any images of casualties or hearing any gruesome details of an attack. The same is rarely true for sexual content. There’s a baseline assumption that, if you’re consuming modern media, you’ve accepted that nothing is contained to the bedroom anymore. After the sexual revolution, shows such as “Friends” and “Sex and the City” glamorized hookup culture. Whether or not the behavior of ordinary Americans reflected what happened on television, the bedroom door had been cracked open. What was once private became a spectacle. With the internet, we’ve taken off whatever guardrails remained. Unlike broadcast television, there is no regulating body determining what can hit streaming services (nor should there be). And for social media influencers, when the cost of production is a smartphone, there’s no big-name producer to sign off on every word and ensure that nothing goes too far. Sex sells, and every producer, marketer, and influencer knows this. The result is that we’ve commodified sex to the point that it’s no longer seen as an emotional betrayal to discuss personal examples of such an intimate act. If we told stories of emotional intimacy, betrayal, and romance the way we discussed sexual encounters, it would reach reality-TV levels of invasive. But sex has become advertised as a purely physical act, championed by hookup culture as such, separate from the emotional weight it once carried. As mere action and movement, it’s no longer an intimate act meant to be shared only between two people, the pinnacle of romantic love.  And yet, as much as we’ve tried to decouple sex from love and emotion, these things are still intertwined. Advertising and messaging cannot overcome fundamental realities, and because we’ve commercialized sex, we’ve also commercialized romance, relationships, and intimacy. No longer are some moments private and personal, kept special for those involved. Once, some conversations were reserved for a few people, both as a courtesy to those listening and a sign of respect to the interested parties. There were some topics we didn’t share with every passing stranger: relationship drama, family politics, our deepest dreams, and our most cherished moments. It was a matter of propriety and discretion, and also, in some cases, of keeping some memories close to the heart. There’s absolutely a time and a place for sexual education and advice: pre-marital counseling, a book dedicated to relationship growth, or a steamy sex column for married readers. It’s one thing to find such details in a book about relationships or among married confidants, but that’s a far cry from hearing about sex at every turn. And it’s far from the way real-life sexual encounters are recounted and shared today. Whether for clicks, for bragging rights, or to titillate an audience, our culture has turned sex into a commodity that is acceptable to blast to a worldwide audience. We’ve taken some of the most exciting, personal, and private moments of our lives and turned them into flippant conversation. We’ve stripped our relationships bare. And whether as disturbed audience members or the oversharing showman, we all pay the price. *** Jordan Jantz is the assistant editor at IW Features as well as a freelance writer, editor, and website designer.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on March 31 in Chiles v. Salazar that voluntary conversations between a counselor and her young clients are protected under the First Amendment’s free speech clause. This monumental decision condemned the state’s unlawful and, according to the court, “egregious” attempt to censor discussions about biological reality in the counseling room. In my role with Alliance Defending Freedom, I had the privilege of standing before the high court last fall and advocating on behalf of licensed Colorado counselor Kaley Chiles, who challenged the state’s counseling censorship law. Kaley wants to provide what so many children and families are desperate for: A listening ear and compassionate advice as kids talk through what it feels like to wrestle with their identity and body. As more and more young people across the country are becoming distressed about their gender or sexuality, they want a professional to talk to about their feelings and struggles. The young clients who seek out Kaley for advice do so because they want to grow comfortable with their bodies and avoid harmful drugs and procedures. Source: Alliance Defending Freedom Colorado’s law forbids Kaley from having those voluntary conversations with her clients under age 18. Indeed, the law violates her freedom of speech by prohibiting licensed counselors like her from engaging in voluntary counseling conversations with minor clients who want to change some expression, behavior, identity, or feeling associated with their “sexual orientation or gender identity.” On the issue of gender identity, the law only censors counseling conversations in one direction. It allows conversations that push young people toward a gender identity different from their sex but forbids conversations that help them grow comfortable with their body and realign their identity with their sex when they desire to do that. The law also threatens severe penalties, including thousands of dollars in fines, suspension from practice, and even revocation of the counselor’s license. This one-sided censorship comes amidst a growing national mental-health crisis and prevents many Colorado children from obtaining the counseling that they desire and that could help them. Roughly 90% of children who experience gender dysphoria before puberty will regain comfort with their sex if not pushed toward harmful drugs and procedures. In its opinion, the Supreme Court explained, “We do not doubt that the question ‘how best to help minors’ struggling with issues of gender identity or sexual orientation is presently a subject of ‘fierce public debate.’ But Colorado’s law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban physical interventions. In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint.” “Colorado may regard its policy as essential to public health and safety,” the court continued. “Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same. But the First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely, and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for discovering truth. However well-intentioned, any law that suppresses speech based on viewpoint represents an ‘egregious’ assault on both of those commitments.” Source: Alliance Defending Freedom This is a massive win for free speech, common sense, and families desperate to help their children. The decision will help end the authoritarian days of Colorado inserting itself into the counseling room and silencing good counselors from speaking body-affirming messages their clients want to hear. It also takes us a long way down the road to ensuring that kids in Colorado, and around the country, who desire to embrace and live consistent with their sex are free to seek help by talking to licensed counselors like Kaley. Significantly, the Supreme Court’s ruling will help protect counselors from similar laws in more than 20 states and over 100 localities across the country, giving them a path forward to help struggling youth seeking professional guidance. From professional groups to medical malpractice verdicts, the tide is turning on how we as a society help young people struggling with gender issues. Those kids need quality counseling, not a one-way path to dangerous body-altering drugs and surgeries. All children deserve real help affirming that their bodies are not a mistake and that they are wonderfully made. The Supreme Court affirms that the First Amendment protects those messages in the counseling room. * * * Jim Campbell is chief legal counsel with Alliance Defending Freedom (@ADFLegal) and argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Kaley Chiles in Chiles v. Salazar.

An apparently random occurrence aboard the Orion spacecraft quickly resulted in an “out of this world” ad campaign for the hazelnut cocoa spread Nutella. During a video clip posted by the crew of the Artemis II lunar mission — just moments before they broke the record, set by Apollo 13, for distance traveled from earth — a jar of Nutella floated across the cabin, tumbling end over end as it prominently displayed the label. “A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday,” CBS News captioned a short video of the moment. A jar of Nutella was seen floating through the Orion spacecraft approximately 4 minutes before the Artemis II crew made history as they passed the Apollo 13 distance record from 1970 of 248,655 miles from Earth on Monday. pic.twitter.com/wqt680thQL — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 6, 2026 Nutella quickly capitalized on what was being hailed across X as the best accidental product placement in history, sharing a video clip with the caption, “Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history. Taking spreading smiles to new heights.” Honored to have traveled further than any spread in history

After a long weekend of union agitator-fueled rumors about The Daily Wire’s new action film, production has wrapped after five weeks, as planned, and the union reps didn’t get their way. It all started with Deadline publishing an exclusive story about actor Jonathan Majors falling through a window while on set of the production in progress, which, according to their sources, led to a union strike and other allegations of safety concerns on set. Faithful Daily Wire fans won’t be surprised to learn that there’s more to the story. Film producer Dallas Sonnier provided a short, yet direct, statement to Deadline, saying simply: “The entire industry is in freefall due to strikes, and now that their members are out of work, they’re trying to sabotage the few people who are still producing. We don’t negotiate with communists.” So what really went down? During the fourth week of filming, an executive from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, best known as IATSE, reached out to Sonnier claiming that she “represented the majority of the crew,” which consisted of both local hires in South Carolina and returning staff from previous projects. The IATSE rep “demanded” that they immediately be recognized and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement to cover staff wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions. Before the deadline she proposed even arrived, a small handful of picketers were out creating a nuisance. It was that same day that Majors and actor JC Kiljoyne fell through a window filming a scene. Deadline posted video of the incident, and reported it was a six foot drop — though pictures posted show it was barely four feet off the ground. The height of the window btw https://t.co/Lr1KlckW9c pic.twitter.com/sAZF0UYiLb — Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 6, 2026 That stunt with the window was part of production’s plans for later that day, and Sonnier says it was far from an emergency. “Everyone handled it quickly and successfully. We always have licensed medics on our sets, and this day, we had two,” Sonnier said. “The production was immediately halted to ensure safety sign-offs by both medics before moving forward.” He also says the clip leaked to Deadline is definitely going to make it into the final cut. The actors’ comments are fully aligned. Kiljoyne’s rep told Deadline in the aftermath that he “did not feel unsafe on set and continues to have a positive experience working on the project.” Majors made similar comments to TMZ. “I’m ok. I was happy to be on set and help tell the story. I am grateful for whoever is checking on me, the cast and crew for regarding our safety. It’s going to be a great movie and I am looking forward to fans seeing it!” While IATSE came out of left field, there was a SAG rep on set many days who confirmed that the actors “should show up and finish the movie as planned” following the accident. It was noted that the SAG rep had “zero safety concerns” for the movie. “We had a licensed armorer every single day,” Sonnier said. “We had a safety meeting at the top of each day, and prior to any special effect or stunt. The reason we don’t have a ‘RUST’ situation is because we take this stuff so seriously,” he added, referring to Alec Baldwin’s firearm discharging while filming and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. During the fourth week of filming, 15% of the crew decided to leave. Based on conversations Sonnier had with the whole crew, this was the result of IATSE pressure and not because of any safety concerns, he said. All the staff who left were replaced by the next morning. Crucially, those who left did not appear to be part of the picketing. “The ‘strikers’ were just angry union rep protestors,” Sonnier said, noting that by day two, their numbers were reduced to about seven people total. The picketers caused minor annoyances, such as yelling at actors, encouraging cars to honk to disrupt filming, pressuring vendors to pull gear, sending threatening letters, and yelling “CUT!” and “ACTION!” as a way of confusing the actors on set. But in the end, production rolled on. The Deadline article was released after all these efforts failed, especially after Sonnier refused to engage with their demands. Sonnier said IATSE reps never called him or contacted him beyond the first email “because they are total cowards and whiny busybodies.” The producer says this was an illegitimate strike. Does IATSE have any response to this? IATSE, of course, did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire.