A Nevada ballot measure that would enshrine in the state constitution the right of athletes who identify as transgender to compete on women’s sports teams is likely to be put before voters in November, drawing increased attention to the gubernatorial race. Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo announced the “Protect Girls’ Sports” initiative last week after teasing it throughout last year. The measure would “amend the Equal Rights Amendment to protect fairness and integrity in girls’ athletics,” particularly regarding public funding, according to a press release. “We are taking thoughtful steps to ensure girls’ sports are fair and athletes are safe,” Lombardo, who’s seeking re-election, said in a statement. “It’s important that female athletes have the opportunity to succeed in their athletic field. By bringing together a diverse coalition now, we can establish clear and fair standards that protect generations of female athletes to come.” If the measure gathers enough signatures to qualify for a statewide vote, it would first be on the 2026 ballot as a question, then return to the 2028 ballot for final approval before being added to the constitution. “Title IX was instituted for a reason – to create a level playing field so that girls and boys have an equal chance to succeed in our schools,” petition initiative director Adriana Guzmán Fralick said in a statement. “But there has been an attack on girls’ athletics that seeks to disrupt that equality. The people of Nevada do not support this, and I’m proud to help them make their voice heard on this issue at the ballot box.” The issue is already a hot topic on the campaign trail, as Attorney General Aaron Ford, who is seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, said he does not personally believe athletes who identify as transgender should compete in women’s sports, but nevertheless opposes the ballot initiative, according to the Nevada Independent. “My faith teaches me that every person is a child of God and deserves to be treated with humanity, dignity, and respect,” the Democrat stated, according to the outlet. “And as Attorney General, I will continue defending the constitutional rights of every Nevadan.” On December 23, Ford was listed on an amicus brief in a Minnesota case challenging a ban on transgender-identifying athletes. The brief states that “discrimination against transgender youth—including denying them the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities consistent with their gender identity—can have serious health consequences.” The Daily Wire reported that Ford signed onto a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals amicus brief in 2023 regarding two minors who identified as transgender, and whether or not they could play on a girls’ sports team in Arizona. “Plaintiffs simply want to participate on their school’s girl’s sports teams with their friends,” the brief said. “They have not experienced any of the physiological changes associated with male puberty and have no ascertainable competitive advantage over their cisgender peers,” it continued, saying that the plaintiffs identified as “girls in all aspects of their lives since an early age.” He also signed on to a 2022 amicus brief challenging an Arkansas law on “gender-affirming treatment” for minors. “We must protect our children from discriminatory laws that bar access to necessary, gender-affirming health care,” Ford stated in 2022. “Over and over again, evidence has shown that denying transgender youth access to gender-affirming care has a detrimental effect to their mental health and quality of life.” The Daily Wire reached out to the Ford campaign. At the national level, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on Tuesday in cases related to the issue.

A shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and an anti-ICE activist Renee Good left the former injured and the latter dead. Despite evidence to the contrary provided in multiple videos — from several different angles — media outlets were quick to assist Democrats in their claims that the ICE agents were nothing more than aggressors, carrying out the whims of President Donald Trump. For those who don’t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week’s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed. Even after videos emerged showing Good intentionally blocking federal agents with her car and taunting them — and then accelerating and striking the agent before he began firing his weapon — Democrats and the legacy media persisted in pushing several distinct narratives. While their coverage varied, the common thread was a simple one: the ICE agents had done something wrong. ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz brought in Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) to discuss the situation, and Smith complained that the Department of Homeland Security had referred to Good’s behavior as “domestic terrorism” before details had been released. Of course, by the time Smith joined the broadcast, it had become apparent that Good was part of an anti-ICE activist group and had been trained to obstruct federal agents as they worked to enforce immigration law. Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith criticizes the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renee Good by an ICE officer: “They were calling her a domestic terrorist before they even knew what her name was.” https://t.co/kfto0xsFHL pic.twitter.com/EFdfteguUD — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 11, 2026 Credit: @ThisWeekABC/X.com Smith claimed the ICE agents suddenly snapped after a friendly exchange with protesters, arguing that better training would have prevented the incident. “No professional law enforcement would exchange words or banter with somebody who is engaged in their legal right to protest and then lose control, which looks to me like what happened here,” she said. Sen. Smith reacts to the new video of the moments leading to the shooting of Renee Good: “No professional law enforcement would exchange words or banter with somebody who is engaged in their legal right to protest and then lose control, which looks to me like what happened here.” pic.twitter.com/Q9UTCVAASj — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 11, 2026 Credit: @ThisWeekABC/X.com Raddatz also spoke with former acting ICE Director John Sandweg about the shooting, asking how the landscape had changed in recent years. Marching straight through the door Raddatz had opened for him, Sandweg said that ICE had adopted new “tactics” — and that those tactics were the real reason agents were facing dramatic increases in assaults against them as well as confrontations that ended in violence. “This is a new environment for ICE and it’s not one that’s part of their core mission,” he said, suggesting with no pushback from Raddatz that the ICE agents stepping outside of their “core mission” was the root cause of the problem. Former acting ICE Director John Sandweg on how the shooting of Renee Good compares to what he has seen historically: “This is a new environment for ICE and it’s not one that’s part of their core mission.” https://t.co/zeciQhyQ95 pic.twitter.com/5SKI8qfw7Q — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) January 11, 2026 Credit: @ThisWeekABC/X.com On CBS News, “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan spoke with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) about the shooting — and she too made the claim that the ICE agent in question had not been properly trained. “Renee Nicole Good, as you hear her say, she’s not mad, she’s sitting in her car, peacefully waving cars to get by,” Omar said, leaving out the fact that Good had positioned her vehicle so that it created a choke point that would only let one car, moving slowly, to get around her. She then immediately identified the ICE officer as the aggressor, describing his actions as wholly unnecessary and suggesting that Good was attempting to flee the scene because he’d scared her. “And then you see the other officer, who can clearly see the car is moving, move toward the front of the car, which if they are saying that he has ten years on service and is trained, he should know that you shouldn’t be trying to get in front of a moving car,” Omar claimed, despite multiple video angles that show the officer standing in front of the vehicle prior to Good’s acceleration. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) tells @FaceTheNation it is “not acceptable” for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, President Trump and Vice President Vance to make judgements about the moments surrounding the shooting of Renee Macklin Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis “without there being a… pic.twitter.com/neMjx6SoET — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 11, 2026 Credit: @FaceTheNation/X.com Although Brennan offered no challenge to Omar’s narrative — despite the video evidence that contradicted it — she did push back slightly when she asked whether it was reasonable to have citizens effectively stalking federal agents while they were attempting to do their jobs. Omar insisted that it was “very important” for Americans to record ICE agents while they work “to create the level of accountability and transparency,” adding, “I think it is fair for citizens to document what law enforcement is doing in their communities.” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), speaking to @FaceTheNation, says “it is really important for Americans to record” ICE agents “to create the level of accountability and transparency.” Asked to clarify further, as the Trump administration claims its ICE officers are being stalked and… pic.twitter.com/ahi8gEa0Jy — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) January 11, 2026 Credit: @FaceTheNation/X.com On CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper spoke with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D), who claimed that the ICE presence in his city was not doing anything to help people. “ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making [Minneapolis] far less safe,” he said, despite the growing list of violent offenders who have been apprehended in his city since the surge began. “That was some wild and crazy stuff.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey responds to Jake Tapper’s interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying that, “ICE and Kristi Noem and everything they’re doing is making [Minneapolis] far less safe.” pic.twitter.com/4d8vLWxpZY — State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) January 11, 2026 Credit: @CNNSOTU/X.com Frey took things a bit further, also attempting to spin Renee Good’s clearly intentional blockage of traffic as her simply not being very good at turning around. “(Renee Good) was doing a three or a four or five-point turn… if doing a three point turn or a four point turn is a domestic terrorist and my wife is a criminal every single day,” he said. MAYOR JACOB FREY: “(Renee Good) was doing a three or a four or five-point turn… if doing a three point turn or a four point turn is a domestic terrorist and my wife is a criminal every single day,” Mayor Frey doesn’t know what a three-point turn is. ?? pic.twitter.com/OfIm19O0PU — Andrew @ Don’t Walk, RUN! (@DontWalkRUN) January 11, 2026 Credit: @Don’tWalkRUN/X.com

The Department of Agriculture is continuing to promote whole milk — this time using a milk-mustachioed President Donald Trump to relay the message. On the heels of the newly revised food guidelines from the USDA and Health and Human Services (HHS), which now promote healthy fats and protein, the Agriculture Department has brought back the milk mustache. “Drink up, America,” the USDA message reads, captioning a photo of Trump with a milk mustache. The photo says, “The milk mustache is back,” and “Drink whole milk.” Drink up, America.#DrinkWholeMilk ? pic.twitter.com/eemI31G1wx — Dept. of Agriculture (@USDA) January 12, 2026 The post was published on Sunday, National Milk Day, and has already racked up more than 2.2 million views. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also promoted whole milk, posting on X, “Today, we celebrate the goodness of milk, and this year is EXTRA special! The new, REAL FOOD Dietary Guidelines are putting WHOLE milk front and center, recommending full-fat dairy for better nutrition.” “Also, milk prices have plummeted over 41% from those SKY-HIGH peaks during Bidenflation – making it easier than ever to enjoy a glass (or three!),” she added. “Biden broke it, [President Donald Trump] is fixing it! Cheers to healthier, more affordable dairy!” Happy National Milk Day! ??? Today, we celebrate the goodness of milk, and this year is EXTRA special! The new, REAL FOOD Dietary Guidelines are putting WHOLE milk front and center, recommending full-fat dairy for better nutrition. Also, milk prices have plummeted over 41%… pic.twitter.com/38bvzpcuUh — Secretary Brooke Rollins (@SecRollins) January 11, 2026 The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which were released on Wednesday, flip the food pyramid upside down, advising Americans to eat whole foods, prioritizing healthy fats and protein, and limiting or avoiding ultra-processed foods. Whole milk is featured near the top of the new food pyramid, which is now the base of the pyramid. Both Rollins and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have stressed that the war on “healthy fats” and protein is over. Americans, they say, should prioritize high-quality, nutrient-dense protein foods in every meal, including a variety of animal sources, such as eggs, poultry, seafood, and red meat. Plant-sourced protein, such as beans, peas, lentils, legumes, nuts, seeds, and soy, is also recommended. Credit: HHS The National Milk Producers Federation, which represents about 18,000 dairy farmers, praised the Trump administration’s new guidance for “recognizing dairy’s critical role in a healthy diet.” “We are proud to benefit American health in fundamental ways, and we welcome the potential these guidelines hold for expanding upon dairy’s critical role in the diet,” the NMPF said in a statement released Wednesday. “As also shown in the scientific report that preceded today’s guidelines, reducing or eliminating dairy from the diet leads to undernourishment in key nutrients for millions of Americans,” the statement added. “These guidelines encourage consumption of dairy nutrients critical to human health. Meanwhile, not all fats are created equal, and because the guidelines acknowledge this, dairy’s benefits are better reflected in this iteration of the guidelines.” Related: RFK Flips The Food Pyramid And Announces Massive Changes To Dietary Guidelines

Golden Globes host Nikki Glaser used her time on stage to mock the network broadcasting the Hollywood awards show. “I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It’s insane,” Glaser said during her opening monologue. “There are so many A-listers, and by A-list, I do mean a list that has been heavily redacted. And the Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Justice Department. Yes. Congratulations.” The host was seemingly referencing the redacted 30,000 documents related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein released by the Justice Department just days before Christmas. “And the award for most editing goes to CBS News,” the comedian added as the audience laughed and applauded. “Yes, CBS News, America’s newest place to see BS news. We needed another.” This dig likely referenced CBS News, under the new leadership of Bari Weiss, yanking a “60 Minutes” segment on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of illegal immigrants. Critics said the move “reeks of political pressure.” Glaser’s comments come one week after anchor Tony Dokoupil began hosting “CBS Evening News” and months after the network welcomed Weiss, the new Editor-in-Chief, who formerly worked at The New York Times and founded The Free Press. Weiss was offered the job by David Ellison, the founder of Skydance and Paramount’s chairman, following a merger. Dokoupil delivered a New Year’s Day message promising changes in coverage at the legacy media network, as The Daily Wire previously reported. “On too many stories, the press has missed the story. Because we’ve taken into account the perspective of advocates and not the average American. Or we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you,” the anchor said in part. “And I know this because, at certain points, I have been you. I have felt this way, too. I have felt like what I was seeing and hearing on the news didn’t reflect what I was seeing and hearing in my own life — and that the most urgent questions simply weren’t being asked.” “So here’s my promise to you,” Dokoupil continued. “You come first. Not advertisers, not politicians, not corporate interests. And yes, that does include the corporate owners of CBS. I report for you — which means I tell you what I know, when I know it, and how I know it. And when I get it wrong, I’ll tell you that, too.” Many mainstream leftists have been critical of the changes at CBS and pushed back against their proposed new direction of responsible, factual journalism that’s free from bias. Stars at the Golden Globes used the red carpet to signal their leftist virtues and air their grievances against President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. Following the shooting death of anti-ICE activist Renee Good during a confrontation with ICE agents — an incident the administration maintains was self-defense — the red carpet on Sunday transformed into a sea of “Be Good” and “ICE OUT” pins. Several celebrities mentioned ICE and Trump during red carpet interviews at the event on Sunday night.

For nearly a decade, pro-life voters have been the Republican party’s most dependable force. We show up early, stay late and keep the faith. We are not fair-weather voters, and we are not driven by trends. We are driven by a conviction that protecting babies in the womb is a moral minimum, and that the Republican Party understands this. We’ve held tight to the knowledge that the protection of unborn life is part of the GOP’s DNA. But when our president tells GOP lawmakers to be “flexible” on taxpayer funding of abortion to kowtow to Democrats, concern becomes unavoidable. And when a Trump-aligned consultant dismisses pro-life voters as “a cheap date,” it confirms what many of us have heard: that parts of the Republican establishment, especially it’s consultant class, believe its most loyal voter base is disposable. Why else would the GOP’s top leader push to scrap one of the most fundamental pro-life policies, the Hyde Amendment? An amendment that has had bipartisan support until recently since 1973. Republicans are signaling that nothing is off the table. That’s not pragmatism. It is a betrayal and political malpractice. The Hyde Amendment is not some obscure legislative relic. Over its 50-year existence, Hyde has saved an estimated 2.6 million lives by ensuring that Americans are not forced to pay for abortions with their tax dollars. It has long functioned as the bedrock pro-life standard in federal policy — the clear line separating a government that tolerates abortion from one that actively funds it. For decades, Hyde has also been a minimum requirement for Republican credibility. You could debate strategy or messaging — but you did not cave on Hyde. Democrats understood Hyde’s power, which is why they worked so hard to undermine it. When Obamacare was drafted in 2010, it was deliberately designed to sidestep Hyde through an accounting gimmick that still forces taxpayers to subsidize elective abortions. Voters noticed. Fifteen House Democrats who supported that scheme lost their seats and Republicans made major gains in battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The lesson was clear: voters do not like being tricked into funding abortion. Now, astonishingly, some Republicans appear ready to repeat the Democrats’ mistake — this time against their own base. Trump’s suggestion that Republicans be “flexible” on Hyde represents a sharp departure from his prior commitments. He repeatedly pledged to make Hyde permanent law, including in health care coverage. One of his first actions upon taking office last year was prioritizing the reversal of President Biden’s Hyde violations. And he stated unequivocally, “it is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.” That clarity mattered. It reassured pro-life voters that their support was not being taken for granted. Republicans already struggle with turnout in midterms. Democrats show up. Republican voters often do not. And pro-life voters are value-driven, and when they feel demoralized or betrayed, they do not defect — they stay home. The GOP already has an intensity gap, why slap your most loyal base in the face? If just 1–2 percent of pro-life voters had stayed home in 2024, Donald Trump would not be president. That is not a theory. That is math. For the 2026 election cycle, we will contact 10.5 million voters across four key Senate battleground states and up to a dozen key House battlegrounds across the country, including 4.5 million visits to voters directly at their doorstep. Abandoning Hyde now will shatter the trust of these voters. And the electoral consequences could be immediate. Polling reinforces the danger. Data from PRRI shows that the voters who care most intensely about abortion are pro-life, not pro-choice. And the broader electorate is not clamoring for taxpayer-funded abortion. According to recent polling, six in ten Americans oppose forcing taxpayers to pay for it. The idea that defending Hyde alienates voters is a fiction sustained by consultants who confuse elite opinion with public reality. As a recent Newsweek article reminded, the Hyde Amendment “is polling better than anyone in Congressional leadership.” You cannot expect enthusiasm while undermining the issue that animates your base. You cannot insult pro-lifers as a “cheap date” and expect them to mobilize on command. And you cannot abandon the single most important pro-life policy in federal law without paying a price. The blowback would be far worse than what Democrats experienced in 2010. Then, voters punished a party that tried to evade Hyde. Now, they would punish a party that promised to defend it and then walk away. Republicans still have a choice. President Trump and congressional leaders can reaffirm Hyde as non-negotiable and follow through on the commitments they made. Or they can learn the hard way that even the most loyal voters will not turn out for a party that no longer turns out for them. Pro-lifers are not a “cheap date.” We are the backbone of the Republican coalition. We are the beating heart of this party. Ignore that reality and the GOP will surely lose the midterms — not because we moved Left but because we stayed home. * * * Kelsey Pritchard is Communications Director at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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