Thousands of people, most of them over the age of 60, hit the streets of Washington, D.C., on Saturday to protest our extremely authoritarian—and definitely not democratically elected—“king,” President Donald Trump. It was the “No Kings” rally, and The Daily Signal team took the opportunity to get some fresh air and, of course, interview a few of them.  We started by asking, “What has Trump done to seem like a king to you?”   “He just disregards all the laws. … It’s all part of the plan … Project 2025,” an older woman replied.  When I asked her to describe Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation-led effort to create a blueprint for the administration of significant reforms in government, she replied, “I can’t remember. I’m lucky I remember my name some days, but I can’t remember. But just Google it for God’s sake. It’s 2025. There is no excuse for being ignorant in this day and age.”  We couldn’t agree with you more, ma’am. There isn’t any excuse: If you’re going to protest it, you should at least know what it is.   One man explained that Trump was a king because the Democrats won the popular vote in the 2016 election. Perhaps when he realized that his reasoning wouldn’t work because Trump won the popular vote in 2024, he attempted to clarify: “This time, it was an exception.”  A young woman explained to The Daily Signal team why she decided to bring a sign with Malcolm X—someone who was known to justify political violence—holding a rifle: “I think it’s too hard to just say in one sentence, but … I live here, I’m not going to stand up and just let people take over my country and let it be a hateful place.”  The Nokings.org website states, “A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action.”  Unfortunately, it seems like this group of protesters didn’t get to read the website before the protest, because going back to the older woman, she said Democrats actually “need to be a little bit meaner.”  When I then asked her what she thought of the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, any semblance of her sweet grandma facade quickly faded: “Charlie Kirk is a piece of garbage. Of course, we were mean. I am so tired of people saying, oh, it’s a terrible thing. No, Hitler is dead. I’m glad Hitler’s dead. Evil people have no place in my world. He was a hateful human being. It was disgusting the things that he said and did.”  NO KINGS PROTESTER: Charlie Kirk Is a ‘Piece of Garbage,’ ‘I’m Glad Hitler Is Dead’“Everybody,” including illegal aliens, deserves health care. Democrats “need to be a little bit meaner,” and “evil people” like Charlie Kirk have “no place in my world” — those are just some of… pic.twitter.com/HIcGSoYS5J— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) October 18, 2025 This particular clip of her saying that, posted to The Daily Signal social media platforms, has since accrued more than 3.3 million views on X, was featured on Fox News, and was the subject of conversation for political commentators such as Brett Cooper, Matt Walsh, Steven Crowder, and others.   For years, we’ve heard phrases like “the tolerant Left” and “mostly peaceful” protests, with those on the Left at least trying to hide their true intentions from conservatives.  Now, with only a little pressure, and apparently feeling justified by the legacy media and Democrat politicians who seem to make excuses for them, they’re more than happy to reveal what they really think of you.   This is a wake-up call to all Americans; political violence is no longer supported by just a fringe group of leftist extremists.   It’s a lot of your everyday Democrats.   The post She Thinks Charlie Kirk Deserved to Die—What We Heard at the No Kings Rally in DC appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee is pushing back on Democrats’ plan to track the activity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Los Angeles.   “Oversight Committee Democrats are completely unhinged,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., told The Daily Signal on Wednesday.   Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are preparing to launch a platform that they say will track the activity of some ICE agents.  “Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website, a master ICE tracker, where we’re going to be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will be able to send us information on, and it’ll be all available in one central place,” said Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the ranking member of the committee.   Speaking alongside Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Karen Bass at a Tuesday press conference, Garcia said the committee is “going to record and create an investigative unit here to ensure that in Los Angeles, we look into every single brutal misconduct that ICE is committing.”   Garcia added that the aim of the platform is to “ensuring that every single moment of terror, of injustice that happens here in Los Angeles—and, really, across the country—is recorded and that we take note of every instance where people are being harmed.”  In response to the news, the Republican-controlled Oversight Committee called the move “weaponization.”   "Oversight" Democrats are UNHINGED.They SHUT DOWN the government, leaving federal workers UNPAID, to give FREE healthcare to ILLEGALS.Now they're making a "master" ICE tracker TARGETING enforcement actions.This puts agents and public safety AT RISK.This is weaponization. pic.twitter.com/r7iXpMqIFi— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) October 22, 2025 “Democrats shut down the government—leaving essential federal workers unpaid—just to push their extreme agenda of giving free health care to illegal immigrants. Now, they’re doubling down with a so-called ‘master’ ICE tracker designed to target and undermine lawful immigration enforcement,” Comer said. “Let’s be clear: This is a reckless assault on law enforcement that endangers ICE agents and compromises public safety.”  Garcia did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by the time of publication.   Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the plan to launch the ICE tracker “looks like obstruction of justice.”   In response to the announcement, Attorney General Pam Bondi castigated Garcia for “trying to put ICE agents at risk just for doing their jobs.”    The Justice Department “has ZERO tolerance for violence against law enforcement,” she said. “We will prosecute any person who physically assaults our agents,” Bondi said.   ICE has been carrying out targeted operation in Los Angeles since June as part of a wider campaign to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens across the country.   Since the start of the Trump administration in January, the DHS has arrested 480,000 criminal illegal aliens, according to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Among those arrested, 70% have “criminal charges against them or have been convicted of those criminal charges,” Noem said.   The increase in targeted immigration enforcement operations has also led to a 1,000% increase in violence against immigration enforcement officers, DHS reports.   On Tuesday, an illegal alien from Mexico living in Los Angeles was charged with assault on a federal officer after he rammed law enforcement vehicles with his own car in an effort to escape arrest.   Carlitos Ricardo Parias repeatedly moved his car forward and backward, hitting the law enformcent vehicles that boxed him in. When he continued to resist arrest and attempt to escape, law enforcement—fearing for their own safety, according to the Department of Justice—opened fire. Both Parias and a deputy agent, who was struck by a ricochet bullet, were injured, but are expected to recover. Federal authorities are investigating the situation. If found guilty, Parias could face up to eight years in prison.   The post Republicans Assail House Panel Dems’ Plan for ‘Master ICE Tracker’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Following is a preview of Daily Signal Politics Editor Bradley Devlin’s interview with State Department Deputy Spokesman Tommy Pigott on “The Signal Sitdown.” The full interview premieres on The Daily Signal’s YouTube page at 6:30 a.m. eastern on Oct. 23. While President Donald Trump did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize this year, he could be the odds on favorite to win the distinguished award in 2026 because of his work brokering peace deals or ceasefires in eight different conflicts this year.  Trump’s deal-making diplomacy comes as leftwing critics thought this level of success impossible because of Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s efforts to completely reform the State Department. The critics were wrong. State Department Deputy Spokesman Tommy Pigott joins “The Signal Sitdown” to provide an inside look at the department overhaul and how Trump has managed to find pathways to peace all over the world. What Trump, Rubio, and the political appointees at the State Department like Pigott inherited from the Biden administration, in terms of both the geopolitical conditions and the internal conditions at the agency, was nothing short of disastrous. ”From a geopolitical context, I mean, we saw what happened under the previous administration, actions that, as President Trump has said, are some of the most embarrassing in our country’s history. Really terrible days from the Afghanistan withdrawal to the wars that broke out,” Pigott told The Daily Signal.  The Biden administration “had not prioritized the right things,” Pigott continued. “We’ve seen conflicts breaking out all over the world. We see a United States that’s no longer respected. That’s what we inherited.” The Biden administration’s poor prioritization of America and its interests was painfully on display inside the agency that Trump and Rubio inherited. Before the reorganization, the State Department was a bureaucratic nightmare, so much so that many careers who provided advice on the department’s restructuring emphasized the need to streamline the department’s processes. “The State Department has so many different offices that one office could be doing something in a country that the embassy has no idea about,” Pigott said. “And both of those entities could potentially be doing something that is contrary to the policy of the duly elected president of the United States.” “For example, many of the aid programs that were in place could actually be doing things that are counter to the relationships we’re trying to build in many of these countries,” Pigott explained. “Sometimes the ambassador didn’t even know about the aid programs happening in the country where they were the ambassador.” Things were so bad at the State Department, in fact, that Trump’s political appointees had a difficult time simply tracking down how many people actually worked there. Meanwhile, policies that Pigott described as “woke” and “DEI” pervaded the its work. Between bureaucratic overhead and the woke policies, “in some of these programs, the previous administration was very happy to get this to 15 cents on the dollar in terms of reaching the end user,” Pigott claimed. The goal for the State Department reorganization was to end the bureaucratic grift and “empower people,” Pigott told The Daily Signal.  “Let’s empower the embassies. Let’s actually make a structure that can implement the president’s policies,” Pigott said. “Part of this reform was empowering the regional bureaus because the regional bureaus and the embassies were the experts in these regions.” “Of course we kept some of the functional bureaus that we needed,” Pigott added. “But the idea was empowering the regional bureaus because the people that are part of those regional bureaus know the countries the best.” “We shouldn’t have functional activities that are counter to what the regional experts think we should be doing in each country,” Pigott said. “That’s oftentimes actually counterproductive.” Meanwhile, the administration has racked up several major diplomatic wins in the form of peace agreements and ceasefires. One of these successes was a ceasefire between India and Pakistan in May, when the two countries were entering an escalatory spiral over the long-standing Kashmir border dispute. “You’ve heard leaders from across the world talk about the stakes that were involved, especially when you’re talking about two nuclear armed powers and the danger for miscommunication,” Pigott said about the India-Pakistan ceasefire.  “We saw members of this administration from the vice president, the president, the secretary across this administration, reaching out, having conversations at all times of the day to make sure that we’re communicating with the different countries here and really trying to find a way to keep this from escalating,” Pigott said of the administration’s efforts. The biggest deal the Trump administration has managed to strike thus far is a 20-point peace plan in the war between Israel and Hamas. While the ceasefire continues to hold, challenges from both sides in the conflict make the path to lasting peace a long and narrow one—a reality this administration knows full well. “No one is denying how hard this is or how complex this is,” Pigott said of implementing the peace deal. “As Jared Kushner said recently, [there are] 10 things we’re trying to do simultaneously in terms of implementing this peace plan.” “But there is a chance here for long-term peace and prosperity for the people of Gaza, Israel, the entire region, because the entire region, the entire world, is behind this peace plan,” Pigott claimed.  “Our focus now is making it livable, making Gaza livable,” Pigott said of the next steps for the peace agreement. “Let’s be practical. Let’s be realistic. Let’s focus on the progress we can make today on the ground. Let’s focus on that.” While many challenges remain, Pigott told The Daily Signal, “I think as Americans, we can be proud that we have a president who is a peacemaker.” The post Is Trump the Frontrunner for Nobel Peace Prize After Massive Diplomatic Successes? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Unions are suing the Trump administration to prevent the potential deportation of noncitizens who express support for Hamas terrorists or who celebrated the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, among other sentiments.  In response to two executive orders by President Donald Trump, the State Department and Department of Homeland Security are using an artificial intelligence-driven social media monitoring program to identify potentially dangerous rhetoric coming from some visa holders.  The plaintiffs—the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, or UAW; the Communications Workers of America; and the American Federation of Teachers—filed the federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York alleging viewpoint discrimination.  The plaintiffs want a declaratory judgment and injunction to prevent the government from continuing what the lawsuit characterizes as “surveillance.”  The lawsuit justifies the standing of the unions to bring the case by claiming, “Plaintiffs represent thousands of people whose speech is chilled by the threat of adverse immigration action if the government disapproves of anything they have expressed or will express,” the complaint says.  “Many of plaintiffs’ members no longer express views remotely related to the topics the government disfavors, especially online where the government is watching, because the government has promised and proven that saying the wrong thing can trigger life-altering immigration consequences, particularly for visa holders and lawful permanent residents,” the complaint continues.  In a public statement, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said Friday after the lawsuit was filed, “The United States is under no obligation to allow foreign aliens to come to our country; commit acts of anti-American, pro-terrorist, and antisemitic hate; or incite violence. We will continue to revoke the visas of those who put the safety of our citizens at risk.” The lawsuit says Trump administration officials stated that views that could be flagged by artificial intelligence under the program, including “hostile attitudes” toward the United States, calling for the “overthrow or replacement” of American culture, “putative antisemitism,” as well as “comments the government views as ‘rationalizing, or making light of’ Charlie Kirk’s murder.” The lawsuit also says the government would categorize as terrorism “support of Palestine, including through association with campus-affiliated protests.”  One of the Trump executive orders says: “The United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” A White House press release about the order says: “To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: Come 2025, we will find you and we will deport you. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” The post Immigration, AI, Social Media Intersect in Unions’ Battle With Trump Administration appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The Media Research Center is proud to recognize President Donald Trump and several members of his administration during the 21st annual Free Speech Week for their unwavering commitment to defending the First Amendment and confronting one of the greatest threats to our constitutional Republic: the Biden administration’s whole-of-society approach to censorship. This year’s MRC Free Speech Award was awarded exclusively to Charlie Kirk, the late founder of Turning Point USA. In addition to celebrating Kirk’s legacy, the MRC is also using Free Speech Week to recognize other leaders, including public and foreign advocates, legal officers and members of Congress. Trump is among those celebrated by MRC, who has assembled one of the most unapologetically pro-free speech administrations in modern American history, and this is not hyperbole. On his first day in office, Trump and his administration took bold and decisive action with an executive order to begin dismantling the Biden administration’s 57 censorship initiatives exposed by MRC Free Speech America. Also during the first week, Trump issued another executive order revoking Biden-era directives, forcing the left-wing ideology in AI. He expanded this order just months later, ensuring that the government would not partner with Big Tech companies that discriminate against individuals based on viewpoint. The administration further used the weight of the U.S. government to pressure world leaders to stand up for freedom of speech. Trump’s appointments of free speech warriors — including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem — signaled a clear shift toward protecting, rather than policing, speech.  This approach to free speech protection has ultimately defined the Trump administration. This stood in stark contrast to Biden’s weaponization of government to target his opponents. Under Biden’s tumultuous years, Americans endured an unprecedented assault on the First Amendment. This government was characterized by a reckless pattern of government overreach, speech suppression and blatant contempt for the First Amendment. As previously exposed by MRC, Biden's administration oversaw the establishment of one of the largest censorship operations in U.S. history, involving 57 initiatives across an astounding total of 93 federal agencies. The MRC is proud to recognize the following executive branch officials for their actions in defense of Americans’ free speech rights: President Donald J. TrumpPresident Trump is a man of action, and he has acted forcefully and fearlessly to protect Americans’ free speech rights. Before even taking office for his second term, President Trump had assembled a cabinet of First Amendment warriors; within a week of taking his oath, he issued two executive orders outlining steps to preserve the First Amendment. President Trump then set about dismantling Biden’s censorship agencies, firing hundreds of government censors and cutting off thousands of censorship grants. To this day, he remains a great warrior for the First Amendment and continues to prioritize Americans’ right to speak freely.  Vice President JD VanceThe vanguard of President Trump’s anti-censorship crusade, Vice President Vance has been relentless in his efforts to preserve Americans’ First Amendment rights. Perhaps the most significant moment of his already-historic vice presidency was his generation-defining speech in Munich confronting leftist European leaders and demanding that their big tech censorship not be exported to our shores.   Secretary of State Marco RubioSecretary Rubio was given one of the most difficult tasks in government: Stopping the sprawling censorship enterprise that infected the State Department and USAID. Secretary Rubio has removed this cancer with surgical precision. He shut down the FIMI Hub, dismantled the multinational framework for censorship, fired hundreds of corrupt government censors, and removed hundreds of grants that were silencing speech around the world.        Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.Secretary Kennedy took command of a Department that had been perverted to silence American critics and stifle scientific inquiry, Secretary Kennedy faced near insurmountable opposition from the censorship cartels operating in our government and media. With no hesitation, Secretary Kennedy rescinded the countless NIH grants and contracts that were paying for the silencing of American researchers, and has instead created a new Department that is dedicated not to playing politics, but instead to making America healthy again.  Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi NoemSecretary Noem has shown temerity and grit as she dismantles the censorship operations in the Department of Homeland Security that were jeopardizing Americans’ liberty and security. Secretary Noem eliminated the censorship agency CP3, eliminated the Quiet Skies censorship program, rescinded the TVTP censorship grants, and transformed CISA from a Stasi-style censorship bureau to an agency that protects Americans’ critical infrastructure from foreign cyberattacks. FCC Chair Brendan CarrFCC Chair Carr has tirelessly worked to refocus the agency on protecting, rather than impeding, Americans’ ability to communicate. He has fought to ensure that public spectrum is used responsibly, rather than by being monopolized by a few big media censorship advocates. He has also worked to ensure that merger approval is contingent on ending unlawful DEI programs.   FTC Chair Andrew FergusonFTC Chair Andrew Ferguson has tackled the advertising cartels being run by deceitful censorship outfits like Ad Fontes and Media Matters. He has also continued to battle Meta and Google for monopolizing American markets so they could control American speech. OMB Director Russ VoughtDirector Vought has been instrumental in defunding and dismantling the lawless government censorship agencies that were paying millions of taxpayer dollars to censor people both at home and abroad.  Director of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Jay BhattacharyaDirector Bhattacharya has shown tremendous courage in dismantling the censorship operations at NIAID and the NLM, instead creating a leaner, more inquisitive NIH that works to make America healthy.  White House AI and Crypto Czar David SacksDavid Sacks has been a fierce opponent of the push for AI exclusivity contracts, and has worked to ensure the Biden pandemic of debanking never occurs again. FCC Media Bureau Chief Erin BooneChief Boone worked tirelessly to reform the FCC to be an agency that protects Americans’ free speech, including by spearheading FCC Chairman Carr’s efforts to ensure public spectrum is not hijacked to become propaganda for big media. FCC General Counsel Adam CandeubThe nation’s premier authority on Section 230, Candeub has helped Chairman Carr reform the FCC to protect Americans’ liberties from government and Big Tech censorship. FCC Policy Advisor Katie McAuliffeMcCauliffe has worked tirelessly to protect free speech rights for all Americans, including through careful review of how public spectrum and public airwaves are used.   FTC Consumer Protection Bureau Director Chris MufarrigeMufarige has worked tirelessly to carry out Chairman Ferguson’s mission of stamping out unlawful censorship.  FTC Competition Bureau Director Daniel GuarneraGuarnera has worked tirelessly to carry out Chairman Ferguson’s mission of stamping out unlawful censorship. MRC presented 35 pro-free speech advocates with the prestigious MRC Free Speech Award last year, honoring the original vision for Free Speech Week with 2024 awards. 2024 award winners included: five U.S. senators, 10 congressmen, 10 officials ranging from attorneys general to governors and from state legislators to the FCC, as well as 10 thought leaders.

In a viral video, Democrat Whip Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) says that, while Democrats’ government shutdown will cause American families to suffer, it’s worth it because it gives her party leverage to pass its political agenda. “Utterly shameful! The Democrats OPENLY ADMIT they are causing the shutdown—and using hardworking American families as their LEVERAGE,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) wrote Wednesday, responding to a social media post of Clark’s statement. Clark made the admission on Thursday in an interview with Fox News Channel, in which she said Democrats take “responsibility” for the suffering: "Shutdowns are terrible and, of course, there will be, you know, families that are going to suffer. We take that responsibility very seriously. But it is one of the few leverage items we have. It is an inflection point in this budget process where we have tried to get the Republicans to meet with us and prioritize the American people." Getting the extra $1.5 trillion of spending for things like health care for illegal aliens that they’re demanding is more important than ending the suffering caused by the shutdown, Clark said. Utterly shameful! The Democrats OPENLY ADMIT they are causing the shutdown—and using hardworking American families as their LEVERAGE. https://t.co/boosLESCYP — Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 22, 2025

On October 11, 6,700 women gathered at the Credit Union of Texas in Allen for Allie Beth Stuckey’s second annual Share the Arrows conference, a day filled with joy, encouragement, and sisterhood.Worship was led by Grammy-winning Christian artist Francesca Battistelli, who performed a vibrant mix of contemporary worship songs and timeless hymns.Speakers included Christian apologist and author Alisa Childers, homeschooling mother of 10 Abbie Halberstadt, Mama Bear Apologetics founder Hillary Morgan Ferrer, children’s rights advocate Katy Faust, non-toxic living advocate Shawna Holman, functional medicine nurse practitioner Taylor Dukes, and New York Times bestselling author Jinger Vuolo. Their talks spanned motherhood, health, and confronting cultural challenges with biblical truth.And the best part is: We’re doing it again! In just under two hours, BlazeTV+ subscribers can join the Share the Arrows watch party. Whether you attended and want to relive the experience or missed it but want to see what the buzz is about, this virtual event is for you.Not a subscriber? Join the BlazeTV family today. Use code sharethearrows for $40 off your subscription. Once you’re in, you’ll also have access to a year of amazing programming. See you there!

Crime is bad. Violent crime is worse. That’s obvious. It’s not a partisan point. Most Democrats — I happen to be one of them — don’t cheer lawlessness. In fact, 68% of us say crime is a major problem in big cities. A few progressives have attacked police, but they sit far outside the mainstream. Most Democratic voters hold a higher opinion of law enforcement than of traditional liberal pillars like organized labor or public schools.So if everyone agrees crime is bad, the real argument isn’t over morality — it’s over solutions.We all agree crime is bad. The question is whether we fight it with empty theatrics or serious, sustained policing.That’s where President Trump’s anti-crime efforts collapse. Talking tough doesn’t make streets safer. His approach wastes money, strains resources, and distracts from the hard work of policing.The problem with militarizing citiesTrump’s main crime-fighting move has been deploying the National Guard to large cities like Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles. Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco are also on the president’s list. The images look dramatic, but they don’t reduce crime.The Posse Comitatus Act bars the president from using the military as a domestic police force, which makes it unclear whether Guardsmen can legally arrest suspects or patrol neighborhoods. Most Guardsmen don’t want to cross that line — and they aren’t trained to. In Washington, the Guard’s own report lists its activities: clearing trash, spreading mulch, and painting fences. Good work, yes — but not policing.These deployments also carry a hefty price tag. The Los Angeles mission, involving 4,000 guardsmen and 700 Marines for less than two months, cost about $118 million. Washington’s ongoing deployment could exceed that. Long-term operations in cities like Memphis, Portland, and Chicago would drive the bills even higher.And those aren’t the only costs. The Guard is already stretched thin. Disaster relief missions during brutal wildfire and hurricane seasons have drained manpower and equipment. Overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan reduced recruitment and retention. If the president keeps sending Guardsmen into American cities, they may not be ready when the country faces a real disaster — or, heaven forbid, a war.Ignoring what worksInstead of chasing headlines, Trump could invest in what actually reduces crime. His One Big Beautiful Bill Act offered funding only for local agencies that cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. It provided nothing to hire or retain more police or prosecutors — the people who actually solve crimes and clear backlogged cases.The solution is straightforward: Redirect the hundreds of millions spent on National Guard deployments into state and local law enforcement. Departments nationwide face critical shortages. Chicago alone needs about 1,300 more officers.RELATED: The city that chose crime and chaos over courage Stock Depot via iStock/Getty ImagesHistory proves this works. Between the late 1960s and early 1990s, violent crime surged 371%. By 1991, the U.S. murder rate hit a historic peak. Then came the bipartisan 1994 Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act. The law funded new prisons, domestic violence prevention programs, and — most importantly — about 84,000 additional police officers.The result? Crime fell sharply. Violent crime has dropped roughly 50% since then. The law had flaws — cutting inmate access to higher education was one — but safer streets remain its chief legacy.The way to fight crimeIf President Trump truly wants to make America safer, he should stop staging photo ops and start funding proven methods. Deploying the National Guard is costly, risky, and legally questionable. Hiring cops, prosecutors, and judges works — and has worked for decades.We all agree crime is bad. The question is whether we fight it with empty theatrics or serious, sustained policing. The answer should be as clear as the problem itself.

President Donald Trump has announced initiatives to expand access to in vitro fertilization and reduce associated costs — as each round of IVF can cost $12,000 to $25,000 — and one round is often not all it takes.“In the Trump administration, we want to make it easier for all couples to have babies, raise children,” Trump said at the White House on October 16.“That’s why today I’m pleased to announce that after extensive negotiations, EMD Serrano, the largest fertility drug manufacturer in the world, has agreed to provide massive discounts to all fertility drugs they sell in the United States, including the most popular drug of all, the IVF drug,” he continued.While many Republicans have cheered Trump’s announcement, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey is not on the same page.“Trump says that, you know, he’s unaware of conservative religious objections to IVF, but IVF is inherently pro-life. And I’ll just say it doesn’t surprise me at all that Trump has this position. IVF is extremely popular, even among Republicans, and he represents the position that a lot of people have,” Stuckey says.“But let me just explain something,” she continues. “The pro-life position is not just ‘more babies.’ We want more babies that are conceived in loving marriages between a man and a woman. Being pro-life doesn’t mean that we are pro every form of conception. Obviously, we can agree, right, that not every form of conception is moral and ethical.”“There is a cost to IVF. In fact, most babies, most embryos that are made via IVF, the vast majority of those embryos will never be transferred and will never make it to a live birth. In fact, the IVF industry kills more babies every year than the abortion industry does,” she explains.“If we really believe in our pro-life ethics, that a life is a life no matter how small, that human life starts at conception, then how we treat those embryos that are created in a lab that are frozen indefinitely, that are very often eugenically discarded because they’re the wrong gender or they have Down syndrome or they have some other kind of disability or they were just that unlucky extra guy that was created and their parents don’t want them anymore,” she says.“All of that really matters. It’s not only about not killing a baby inside the womb. It’s about not discarding and mistreating life that has been created,” she adds.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.