President Donald Trump gave the Iranian regime a deadline of 8 p.m. on Tuesday to reach a deal with the United States and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and a number of Democrats have spent the hours leading up to that deadline warning American service members to be wary of — or disregard — any potentially “illegal” orders. Responding to Trump’s deadline — and his warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight” — Democrats quickly lined up to claim that the president was either not in full possession of his mental faculties or about to issue illegal orders to the United States military, if not both. “This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared. “To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.” Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) addressed his warning to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, saying, “The UCMJ and federal law prohibit war crimes. Striking civilian infrastructure that causes disproportionate civilian harm constitutes war crimes. You will disobey those illegal orders. If you commit war crimes, the next Administration will prosecute you.” “These are not the words of a sane person,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) added. “Calling for the elimination of a civilization is a war crime. As I’ve repeatedly said, our military must only follow lawful orders. Every American of good conscience must repudiate this.” Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) ignored the possibility that a bridge or power plant might be considered a military target if it was part of the necessary infrastructure sustaining and suppling the Iranian forces, and instead suggested that any attack on such infrastructure would necessarily be an attack on civilian populations. “Threatening to target power plants and other non-military targets is not strength. If those words become orders to destroy civilian infrastructure with no valid military purpose, it’s hard to see how they would not violate the laws of armed conflict. America leads best with strength, discipline, and professionalism. Illegal orders to make civilians suffer would be a black mark on our military and our country,” Kelly said. Democrats began warning American troops that “illegal” orders were a possibility — and were perhaps even to be expected — from President Donald Trump’s administration months earlier, when “The Seditious Six” published a video in response to a number of precision strikes on narco-terrorists. Led by Senators Kelly and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), the group called on members of the military to refuse “illegal” or “unlawful” orders while heavily insinuating that if Trump or War Secretary Pete Hegseth had not already given such orders, they were likely to do so. Slotkin doubled down on Tuesday, posting, “I know that our service members up and down the chain of command know their duty and the law to refuse illegal orders. Even as the Commander-in-Chief tells the world otherwise. It’s moments like these that are why we made the video to service members last year. And I hope and believe our troops — especially those in command — will have the moral clarity to push back if they are given clearly illegal orders.”

A Pennsylvania couple has been charged with endangering the welfare of children after their 17-month-old child was injured near the wolf enclosure at ZooAmerica over the weekend. The zoo is a popular destination within the larger Hersheypark theme park. The incident report from the Derry Township Police Department states that the parents, who are from Lititz, Pennsylvania, are believed to have walked around 25 to 30 feet away from the child to sit on benches, and at that point, allegedly became distracted by their cellphones. The toddler slipped through a small opening in a wooden barrier perimeter fence and reached the metal fence surrounding the gray wolf enclosure. “From the injuries sustained, it appears as though one of the wolves in the enclosure instinctively and naturally grabbed onto the child’s hand with its mouth. Several bystanders intervened and helped pull the child away,” the police statement noted. Court records show that both Carrie B. Sortor, 43, and Stephen J.B. Wilson, 61, are awaiting a preliminary hearing on April 28. The zoo said in a statement that the wolf’s response “is consistent with natural animal behavior, and was not a sign of aggression.” “Our habitats are designed with multiple layers of protection, and clear signage and barriers are in place to help ensure safe viewing. Guests are expected to remain within designated areas and closely supervise children at all times,” the statement continued. “The child was never inside the wolf’s enclosure, and we are relieved the injuries were minor.” ZooAmerica currently houses three gray wolves, according to its website: a male wolf named Twister and two female sisters, Hazel and Freya. Hersheypark made headlines last year when video footage of a lost boy wandering along a non-operational monorail line went viral. The child was rescued by a heroic park visitor and sustained no injuries.

A one-million-square-foot warehouse in Southern California went up in flames early Tuesday morning in what authorities believe was an arson attack. The warehouse in Ontario, California, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles, belonged to personal care company Kimberly-Clark and was completely destroyed in the blaze. Around 20 people were inside when the fire first began around 12:30 a.m., but there have been no reported injuries. One person has been arrested on suspicion of arson, according to officials. Authorities released drone footage showing the scale of the fire. UPDATE: Ontario Police Department drone footage pic.twitter.com/lwVSYDjrN5 — San Bernardino County Fire (@SBCOUNTYFIRE) April 7, 2026 The first fire crew responded within eight minutes of the initial call and found “light smoke throughout the structure and what they believed was a small fire being contained by the operating fire protection system or sprinkler system,” according to Ontario Deputy Fire Chief Mike Wedell. As firefighters worked to douse the flames inside the warehouse, they were “quickly overrun by fire that rapidly spread throughout this enormous warehouse,” Wedell said. Fire crews entered the building after a warehouse worker was initially reported missing during the evacuation. The missing employee was eventually located, officials said. Ontario police identified the suspected arsonist as a male Kimberly-Clark employee, though it remains unclear whether he was the individual initially reported missing. Some people near the warehouse said they heard a loud boom shortly before the fire broke out, ABC 7 Los Angeles reported. “Very early on, we identified this fire as suspicious in nature,” Wedell told reporters, adding, “There was a person of interest identified from the very initial response of this incident.” Kimberly-Clark specializes in producing hygiene paper products, including toilet paper, facial tissues, baby wipes, and feminine hygiene products. “There’s a large fire load of paper products inside of this building,” the deputy fire chief added. Fire crews will remain on the scene throughout Tuesday as they continue to extinguish the blaze.

If you’re like a lot of Americans, you probably feel like your vote doesn’t matter much. No matter who you vote for, you seem to get the same outcomes. This has been a consistent complaint in politics for a long time, but lately it’s really been thrust in our faces. Republicans will claim to support historic immigration crackdowns, voter ID, reduced spending, and so on. And then they stab us in the back every time. Decades of repeated betrayals and amnesties led to Trump’s rise a decade ago. But now, as Trump enters his final years in office, the question remains: Why are so many Republicans still insistent on ignoring the will of their own voters? The straightforward and honest answer is that it happens because they don’t care about you at all. In many cases, they’re embarrassed by you. And they don’t actually represent you, either. Instead, they represent their donors, including a billionaire hedge fund manager named Ken Griffin, who you heard about on our show a few weeks ago. Watch:   Shortly after this segment aired, Griffin sicced his PR people on us like an angry pitbull. Someone named “Emma” from a communications firm began calling me (on my private number). She also bombarded The Daily Wire’s editors, demanding that they edit my monologue to clarify that Ken Griffin has actually donated to several Republicans, too. I’ve never had anything like this happen before. Never mind the fact that, as I stated, Ken Griffin has indeed donated to Democrats who destroyed major American cities. You’re not supposed to talk about that, apparently. The message from the PR firm was pretty clear: The people who are actually running the country, the people with actual influence — like Ken Griffin — don’t want you to know what they’re up to. This is a very, very sensitive subject for them. The truth is that Griffin is a Republican megadonor who’s completely untethered to anything you believe in ideologically. He donates because it serves his interests. He gets special carve-outs and tax breaks, and sponsors politicians who do his bidding. He also gives money to Democrats, including Rahm Emanuel and Joe Biden. (Rahm Emanuel, incidentally, is one of the Democrats who destroyed the city of Chicago — a city that Ken Griffin fled because it’s so violent. In fact, Griffin took his entire company with him, after his security detail had to fend off a carjacking attempt, and his employees kept getting assaulted.) But Ken Griffin is not simply a menace to the people of Chicago, or to my personal cellphone. What he’s doing has tremendous consequences for all of us, because currently he’s doing everything he can to get Republicans to open the borders. Rich guys like Ken Griffin are why Republicans constantly betray us. This is from Fortune the other day: Griffin believes that the current restrictions limit America’s access to the world’s best minds. He notes that immigrants or children of immigrants launched most of the successful Silicon Valley startups, including in AI. Griffin hammers the point by noting that his co-chief investment officer hails from Ecuador; the head of the trading unit from mainland China; the commodities chief from Australia; and Citadel’s most successful equity fund manager from the U.K. For Griffin, his hometown’s success is a tribute to the power of immigration: 54% of Miami-Dade County’s residents were born abroad. No American conservative — no one who truly represents conservative ideals — would celebrate the fact that more than half of the population in a major American city was born abroad. It really is that simple. But in Griffin’s circles, this is a success story. On this point, there is no daylight whatsoever between Ken Griffin, and most well-funded conservative politicians, and a Leftist like Gavin Newsom. Listen to him for five minutes, and Gavin Newsom will inevitably brag about how many foreigners live in his state. Watch: Gavin Newsom brags about how ‘diverse’ California is to Bill Clinton: “27% of my state is foreign born… it’s a point of pride.” pic.twitter.com/yVl4D3YyuI — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 25, 2025 Source: @bennyjohnson/X.com Behind closed doors, this is how most Republicans talk. It’s certainly how Ken Griffin talks. This is someone who really doesn’t care about the country at all. It’s easy to live in a multicultural hellscape when you have a hundred-million-dollar house and a private jet. Sure, no one can point to anything that Ken Griffin built. But he’s good at moving money around. And therefore, we have to pay attention to what he thinks. And it’s pretty clear what he thinks: Because white Americans aren’t reproducing at replacement levels, it’s necessary to bring in as many foreigners as possible. A bigger population means a bigger workforce, lower wages, and more potential customers. Naturally, the people running these companies don’t care if millions of Americans are unemployed or can’t find housing, as long as business is booming. And to drive that point home, Fortune also ran this puff video on Griffin. Watch:   So Emma and Ken Griffin’s team would obviously be thrilled with that video. There’s no mention of Ken Griffin’s decision to fund one of Chicago’s worst mayors, or his decision to flee the city after it became too dangerous. All we’re told is that Ken Griffin is going to do great things for Miami, just like he did so many great things for Chicago. But it’s OK, I guess, because he donates to Republicans, too. So really, when I said Ken Griffin was a Leftist, I was being too kind. I should’ve said he funds the most destructive Leftist policies imaginable, but hey, at least he’s “fiscally conservative.” What you need to understand, and why I’m beginning with Ken Griffin, is that wealthy donors — the ones who are wealthy enough to donate to both sides — control the trajectory of American politics. They operate, often behind the scenes, to stamp out any dissent. They’re extremely aggressive about it — to a degree I wasn’t aware of, until recently. It’s not an issue of Democrat versus Republican. It’s a business calculation that these donors have made. Obviously, these kinds of donors own the Democrat Party. That’s been true for decades. But increasingly, they own the Republicans, too. That’s why the SAVE Act isn’t going to get through the Senate. It’s also why Greg Abbott — the governor of Texas — declared that Texas belongs to Indians, back in November of 2024. This is from an event at the governor’s mansion marking “Diwali,” the Hindu holiday. Listen carefully to what he says: This is amazing. pic.twitter.com/7AoJi7cy5y — Ryan McCubbin (@RyanMcCubbinTX) April 6, 2026 Source: @RyanMcCubbinTX/X.com Greg Abbott has been spreading this message for a long time. A couple of years ago, he went to Mumbai on an “economic development trip” to convince more people to come to Texas. He met with some of the biggest companies that sponsor H-1 B visas in the United States. Watch:   This idea is never actually explained by anyone. No one can explain why, after building the world’s greatest superpower, Americans will suddenly be hopelessly lost unless we import a bunch of foreigners. But Western leaders have gone ahead and opened the floodgates anyway. You see the results in Canada, which has been totally colonized at this point. It’s also much poorer and less cohesive than it used to be, in every respect. But Greg Abbott isn’t concerned with any of that. His only concern is courting Indian business owners. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he thinks about India more than Texas. Take a look at some of his recent social media posts. If you’ve ever wondered why many parts of Texas resemble Little Mumbai, look no further than traitorous Greg Abbott. He has handed Texas over to India, flooding his feed with 47 India posts, proving his repeated betrayal. pic.twitter.com/WnQiv0XBnL — Info Battle Maiden (@info_maiden) October 22, 2025 Source: @info_maiden/X.com There are dozens and dozens of posts, all about India. It’s actually remarkable. What’s happening here is that Greg Abbott is telling large companies in India that, if they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on development in Texas, they can staff those companies with Indian workers on H-1 B visas. And while Greg Abbott has suspended H-1 B visa approvals for state agencies and public universities, private companies like this can continue to take advantage of the visa program. And indeed, plenty of private companies are doing just that. According to Blaze News, which analyzed Department of Labor data from the first quarter of fiscal year 2026, “Texas companies sponsored and certified over 11,200 H-1 B visa applications, second only to California, which brought in over 13,700 H-1 B visas, according to available data.” So that’s more than 10,000 H-1 B applications certified in just one quarter, in one state. And that’s a small fraction of the total H-1 B population in Texas, which is concentrated in Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston. So we’re not talking about American companies poaching a very small number of highly-qualified scientists or engineers from other countries. We’re talking about a much larger replacement of U.S. workers — and in many cases, the foreigners with H-1 B visas are directly replacing Americans. This is from the New York Post: As thousands of Oracle employees awoke on Tuesday to an email informing them they were being laid off, the workers likely didn’t know the tech company had been busy trying to hire foreign staff.  According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology. Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone. Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period. Relative to the total population of Texas, those are small numbers. But if you walk around Texas, as the journalist Tyler Oliveira just did in a viral video, then you’ll find that large communities in Texas have been totally transformed. And a significant number of these immigrants say they received H-1B’s. What Tyler found is that, in many cases, they don’t come to Texas on an H1-B visa. Instead, they either make up an asylum claim or arrive on an F-1 visa, which is intended for students. This is one of the easiest ways to get into the country — you claim you’re going to attend one of the ten million colleges and universities we have. Until the Trump administration shut this down, more than 100,000 Indians received these student visas in a year. And Tyler ran into several of them. Until the Trump administration took over, immigrants with a student visa had two options: They could graduate and get an H-1B, and stay in this country indefinitely. Or they could drop out of school and stay in this country indefinitely. Either way, they get to stay here indefinitely. We’re only now starting to crack down on this scam. All things considered, it’s a fairly new scam. As recently as 1980, less than 7% of Texas was foreign-born. Now, more than 20% of the population of Texas was born in another country. White Texans went from more than 70% of the population to less than 40%. The numbers are only getting worse, by design. So why is Greg Abbott — and many other Republicans — allowing this to happen? If you need an explanation, you don’t need to look any further than wealthy donors with the same ideology as Ken Griffin. Greg Abbott’s biggest donors are business interests that believe foreign migration will increase their profits. A couple of years ago, a billionaire named Jeff Yass made the single biggest donation in the history of Texas to Abbott’s campaign. This is from Bloomberg: Jeff Yass gave $4 million to Greg Abbott’s campaign, adding to a $6 million check from December that the Texas governor’s office said was the largest single political donation in the state’s history. … Yass, the billionaire co-founder of market-making firm Susquehanna International Group, made the contribution in April, according to a campaign finance report released this week. That makes up the majority of the more than $5 million Abbott collected in the first half of 2024. … Jim Walton, the son of Walmart Inc. founder Sam Walton, gave Abbott’s campaign $200,000, according to the report. Walmart’s desire for more foreign labor is self-evident. So let’s talk about Jeff Yass. What are his beliefs? It turns out that Yass is a registered Libertarian, and many years ago, he joined the Cato Institute as an adviser and board member. If you’ve been listening to this show over the past few months, you know that the Cato Institute is one of the biggest advocates for open borders in Washington. They’re very vocal about it. They believe that more immigration means more jobs, more economic transparency, less crime, and so on. And they’re constantly spreading false or misleading statistics to push their policy objectives, which we’ve discussed many times before. In the libertarian worldview, the more foreigners who come to Texas, the stronger Texas will become. And that’s why, as Savannah Hernandez with Turning Point USA just reported, there’s a new effort to transform the Texas countryside into a mega-city for Muslims. Watch: I went to go see the land where EPIC City, the 400-acre Muslim city, is potentially going to be built And apparently another Dubai-based developer is currently trying to buy land for another similar “Muslim city” So far they’ve been denied by 3 counties: pic.twitter.com/lWYsEyykrJ — Savanah Hernandez (@Savsays) April 6, 2026 Source: @Savsays/X.com There are plenty of other similar developments, besides the ones Savannah Hernandez just mentioned. Remember Colony Ridge, the illegal immigrant community of 100,000 migrants outside Houston? The developers behind Colony Ridge were major donors to Greg Abbott, who just let it happen. He actually helped them along by trying to designate the colony as a “federal opportunity zone.” Until we get money out of politics, this is never going to change. The GOP isn’t just randomly going to decide to serve the voters. That’s why this is happening all over the country. As the White Papers Policy Institute pointed out: Utah, a state that has not had a Democrat governor since 1985, is being very rapidly filled with immigrants. The foreign-born population of Utah jumped from 3.5% in 1980 to 10.6% in 2025. The immigrant population of the state has jumped 639%. You’ll find similar massive increases in many other states, from Arizona to Virginia to Colorado. You can see the numbers here on this chart: Source: Center for Immigration Studies Just look at that. The orange bars represent the foreign-born population in each state in 1980. And the blue bars are the foreign-born population in 2025. Georgia went from 1.7% to 14%. Virginia went from 3% to 14%. New Jersey, New York, and Florida more than doubled their foreign-born populations. Maryland went from 4.6% to more than 22%. No one voted for this kind of drastic demographic change. But as someone named Ryan McCubbin pointed out the other day, that’s not the point. You don’t get a say in the matter. Here’s what Ryan wrote. As far as posts on X go, it’s one of the most insightful that I’ve ever seen. There are a few things most intelligent people really don’t understand about modern politics. 1) There is almost NO relationship between what the common people actually want and what they get. 2) The agenda of the donor class always gets passed. 4) If the agenda of the donor… https://t.co/C7duLQcoNN — Ryan McCubbin (@RyanMcCubbinTX) April 6, 2026 Source: @RyanMcCubbinTX/X.com Yesterday, we went into some detail about the decline of Boston, which got its start in the Civil Rights era. That was the story of several major cities. What’s happening now is that, instead of reversing the mistakes of the 1960s, some of the richest donors in American politics — men who donate to both political parties — are going in for the killshot. They’re willing to sacrifice American civilization in the name of ideology, profit, or both. And many of these donors are planning to bankroll the next slate of presidential candidates ahead of the 2028 election. Pay very close attention to where those candidates are getting their money. Otherwise, whether you vote for a Democrat or a Republican, if you’re not careful, you’ll be voting for the exact same thing: An America without any Americans.

An illegal immigrant with a rap sheet is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl at a Kentucky church while serving as her pastor, The Daily Wire has learned. Mexican illegal immigrant Jose Lopez-Hernandez, 52, snuck across the border at an unknown time before he landed in Covington, Kentucky, where he became a pastor, using “his position” “to lure” the young girl, the Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday. Lopez-Hernandez was ordered last month to spend two years in prison for his crimes, but his attorney said his 862 days of time served credit covers his sentence, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Authorities first learned of Lopez-Hernandez in September 2023 after receiving a report of sexual abuse at the Ministerio Jesus Liberta Church on East Ninth Street, the local news outlet reported. Lopez-Hernandez asked the then-14-year-old and her cousin to come to his office when they were attending her church with family on a Sunday. The Mexican national eventually told the girl’s cousin to leave the office and asked the 14-year-old to stay with him, according to the report. The pastor then locked the door and began kissing and touching the girl. She eventually pushed his hands away, leaving the office to tell her dad. The girl had a bruise on her neck that was consistent with “aggressive kissing,” witnesses told police. The illegal immigrant then fled to the sanctuary state of California for a mission trip, skipping his return flight, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Covington Police learned that he didn’t plan to return and notified the FBI, the outlet reported. In October 2023, federal agents arrested Lopez-Hernandez in Salinas, California, according to the report. More than two years later, he pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual abuse. Lopez-Hernandez must now complete court-ordered treatment, register as a sex offender for 20 years, and stay away from the now-16-year-old victim, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has since lodged a detainer with local authorities, asking them “not release this sexual predator from jail to prey on more innocent children.” Before his latest arrest, Lopez-Hernandez was previously released by police in Kentucky after two arrests for theft, forgery, and reckless and careless driving, according to DHS. “ICE law enforcement lodged a detainer asking Kentucky to not release this sexual predator from jail to prey on more innocent children. This criminal was previously released despite multiple criminal arrests,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement. “These are the types of heinous criminals ICE is targeting every single day. Instead of demonizing our ICE officers and protecting criminals, Governor Beshear needs to work with our law enforcement to get these criminal illegal aliens out of our country,” she added.