FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL — Heritage Action, a conservative grassroots 501(c)(4) organization, will key vote the SAVE America Act on its legislative scorecard. The SAVE America Act, recently introduced by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, would institute national requirements of proof of citizenship to register to vote, as well as photo identification to vote in federal elections. “This action would hold members accountable to the conservative base that is counting on Congress to advance the President’s agenda,” Heritage Action told The Daily Signal. The designation comes as the House lines up a vote on the bill later this week. The SAVE America Act is an updated version of the SAVE Act. It adds a provision requiring individuals to present an eligible photo identification document to vote to the original voter integrity bill passed by the House in June. Roy, who first introduced the bill under President Joe Biden’s administration, told The Daily Signal that he is “encouraged to see” that Heritage Action “stands behind” the updated bill, which already included requirements for voters to provide proof of citizenship and for non-citizens to be removed from existing voter rolls. “This updated legislation reflects common sense: we must require basic proof to ensure only American citizens vote in American elections,” Roy added. Heritage Action’s decision to key vote the bill for its legislative scorecard comes after President Donald Trump urged Congress for more election integrity legislation. “America’s elections are rigged, stolen, and a laughingstock all over the world,” the president wrote on Truth Social last week. “We are either going to fix them, or we won’t have a country any longer. I am asking all Republicans to fight.” Though Pew Research recently found that 83% of Americans support voter ID measures, Senate Democrats have stated they will try to prevent the legislation from reaching the president’s desk. In a press release last week, Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claimed that the SAVE Act would “disenfranchise millions of Americans,” and “is reminiscent of Jim Crow era laws.” Schumer added that the bill will be “dead on arrival” if it makes its way to the Senate and also threatened “another prolonged Trump government shutdown” if the legislation were attached to an appropriations package. President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he supports using the standing or talking filibuster to pass election integrity measures. “I’d love to use the [standing] filibuster,” the president said. “Voter ID is very important.” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., recently told reporters that “some of our colleagues in the Senate are interested in” using the standing filibuster. “We will have a conversation about it,” the majority leader added. “Nothing decided.” Despite the ambiguity over a potential vote on the SAVE America Act in the Senate, Roy remains optimistic about the growing support behind his bill. “While a small number of Democrats supported the SAVE Act last year, and I am encouraged by comments from Senator Fetterman, Democrat leadership continues to support voting by non-citizens,” Roy said. The post EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Action Makes SAVE America Act ‘Key Vote’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Despite overwhelming support from the American electorate, over the past month Democrats have ratcheted up attacks on Republican-led nationwide voter ID legislation. On Sunday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) slammed the attacks from his party in an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”During the wide-ranging interview, the conversation turned toward the SAVE Act, a bill that would require voters to show government-issued identification to register to vote in federal elections. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 36 states currently have voter identification laws. ‘As a Democrat, I do not believe it’s radical or extreme to just produce ID to vote.’Host Maria Bartiromo asked Fetterman, “Why it is so difficult to get the SAVE Act into the portfolio and onto the floor? What’s wrong with having an ID to vote?”The senator responded, “As a Democrat, I do not believe that it’s unreasonable to show ID just to vote. And I remind everybody that less than a year ago in Wisconsin, they added that to the constitution by a 63%, you know, passing to put that in the constitution, that you have to show ID to vote.”Fetterman’s statement stands in stark contrast to his fellow Democratic senators, such as Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who went on ABC News’ “This Week” to fearmonger about voter ID laws by saying people "don't have the proper Real ID, driver's license, don't have the ID necessary to vote, even though they are citizens. This is another way to simply try to suppress the vote.”RELATED: 'Vast majority' of Americans of all races agree with Nicki Minaj about voter ID, says CNN analyst Fetterman responded to those sorts of attacks from members of his party by highlighting the results of a recent Wisconsin election. He said, “They also elected a very, very liberal justice into their supreme court. So it’s not a radical idea for regular Americans to show your ID to vote.”On February 2, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) labeled the SAVE Act “Jim Crow 2.0” in a Senate floor speech. The minority leader said, “Now as for the SAVE Act itself: It has nothing to do with protecting our elections and everything to do with federalizing voter suppression. The SAVE Act is nothing more than Jim Crow 2.0.”Fetterman is not buying that characterization: “Those things are not Jim Crow or anything.” The senator from Pennsylvania’s position is in line with a large majority of American voters. CNN polling analyst Harry Enten recently told his audience, “A photo ID to vote is not controversial in this country. It is not controversial by party — and it is not controversial by race. The vast majority of Americans agree with Nicki Minaj.”Minaj has also expressed support for voter ID laws.Enten’s data showed that over 75% of Americans favor a photo ID to vote, including the highest support on record in 2025 at 83%. In closing, Fetterman said, “As a Democrat, I do not believe it’s radical or extreme to just produce ID to vote.”Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Department of Justice's publication last month of over 3 million additional pages, 2,000 videos, and 180,000 images from the Jeffrey Epstein files provided the public with new insights into the child sex offender, his degeneracy, his business dealings, and his international network of affluent friends.The files, which are replete with odd and in many cases damning communications — already triggering at least one criminal investigation in the United Kingdom — have prompted renewed interest in a number of theories about Epstein.While many sleuths poring over the files have zeroed in on references to cannibalism and accusations of Epstein and his inner circle allegedly engaging in "ritualistic sacrifice," others appear more focused on what the files have to say about the sex offender's reported death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.Citing discrepancies in the official narrative, admissions about falsified records, and viral claims on social media, skeptics have long theorized that Epstein did not kill himself but was murdered or possibly even secreted away in August 2019.Despite the newly available autopsy photos and details, these theories are enjoying a second life due in part to certain details in the new files, a viral image of a bearded look-alike, and signs of activity on a video game account name associated with the sex offender.Epstein in Tel AvivAn image went viral earlier this month purportedly showing a bearded Jeffrey Epstein alive and well in Israel. On closer examination, however, the image — which was popularized in part by a self-described "unapologetic Muslim Palestinian" and by a Middle Eastern-based news account — showed signs of AI manipulation and/or generation.For starters, the wording on the street signs is reportedly "gibberish," providing not only incorrect Hebrew and Arabic lettering but in one case referencing a road that doesn't appear to exist.RELATED: Bill Clinton accuses GOP of setting up 'kangaroo court' over Epstein testimony — and demands public hearing The Metropolitan Correctional Center. Photo by Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images.The supposed photograph of Epstein in Tel Aviv also appears to be a cropped version of an image that appeared days earlier bearing a Gemini AI watermark on the subreddit r/hardaiimages — a destination for AI-generated images designed to give viewers pause.The pre-emptive death noticeIn line with the official narrative, the newly released FBI New York Field Office report regarding Epstein's death — which includes images of paramedics apparently attempting to revive the sex offender, an image of his corpse without his arm tattoo visible, images of his broken hyoid bone and breaks in his thyroid cartilage, and images of his apparent scene of death — asserts that Epstein was found unresponsive and died as the result of an apparent suicide on the morning of Aug. 10, 2019.However, one of the other newly released files suggested that Epstein died a day earlier.In the document, which is dated Aug. 9, 2019, then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman stated, "Earlier this morning, the Manhattan Correctional Center confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein, who faced charges brought by this Office of engaging in the sex trafficking of minors, had been found unresponsive in his cell and pronounced dead shortly thereafter."'Someone's been having fun renaming their Fortnite account.'"Today's events are disturbing, and we are deeply aware of their potential to present yet another hurdle to giving Epstein's many victims their day in Court," Berman added.The date on the release as it appears now with an "updated" note on the Justice Department website is Aug. 10, 2019.The DOJ did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.While the incorrect date might simply be a typo in a draft release, many online have speculated it is an indication of foreknowledge of Epstein's real or faked death.Gaming from beyond the graveSome sleuths who dug into the new trove of Epstein files found mention of the child sex offender's YouTube username, "littlestjeff1." They also found possible evidence that Epstein was active in the video gaming ecosystem after his permanent ban from Xbox live in the form of a May 7, 2019, email highlighting a $25.95 charge for the virtual currency in the game Fortnite. Justice Department.In a massively viral and widely shared tweet, the X user @Truthpole noted that some individuals "matched this exact username to a Fortnite profile on Fortnite Tracker ... which showed stats like Silver 1 rank in Chapter 5 Season 1 (post-2019), wins into 2025, and past activity flagged in Israel."The suggestion that Epstein may have been active on Fortnite after his supposed death was not only advanced in viral posts by other accounts on X but on other social media platforms, including Instagram.The claim was all the more provocative after littlestjeff1's stats were set to private earlier this month, according to archived page captures highlighted by Snopes.Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Fornite's developer and publisher Epic Games, weighed in on Feb. 6 to pour cold water on this particular theory, writing, "Someone's been having fun renaming their Fortnite account, but it's recent and not connected to the email addresses in the archive."The official Fortnite Status account similarly piped up, stating, "This was a ruse by a Fortnite player.""A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube," the official Fortnite account said. "These Fortnite trackers only display your current name, not any prior changes to it."The Fortnite Status account noted further, "We have no record of the subject's email addresses referenced in the public document existing in the Epic account system. Since the public document releases, people have created Fortnite accounts with similar-looking email addresses and user names."When challenged on this explanation and prompted to account for why the apparent Epstein handle appeared to be associated with the game user in a third-party, year-end recap detailing player results in 2025, Fornite Status noted, "Fortnite gg Wrapped shows the account's current name with stats from 2025."Skepticism still abounds about the explanation from Epic Games, given the mention of the digital Fortnite currency purchase in the Epstein emails; however, in that email, both the sender and the recipient's addresses were redacted. Snopes suggested that other correspondences in the files indicate the game currency purchase pertained to a mother and her child.Besides eyebrow-raising video game activity, fake sightings, and a questionable DOJ memo, skeptics have also raised questions about other findings in the files, including the mention in an FBI memorandum of a "flash of orange" spotted on surveillance footage heading toward the isolated prison tier where Epstein was housed the night before his body was reportedly found.A 2023 report on Epstein's death released by the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General identified the "orange shape" as a corrections officer carrying linen or inmate clothing.Video forensic experts expressed to CBS News in August that they were "skeptical about that interpretation and suggested that the shape could be a person dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit climbing the stairs."Like Blaze News? 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While many are debating the meaning of the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, at least one left-wing influencer was caught trying to peddle misinformation to rile up both sides.Ed Krassenstein posted that a little boy included in the show was Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old who was abandoned by his father during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation and became a left-wing cause célèbre.'Holy racism you dumb f**k. ... Nice self-own.'"Many of you may have missed this, but the little boy who Bad Bunny handed his Grammy to at the Super Bowl was Liam Ramos! Amazing!" Krassenstein wrote.The claim was immediately contradicted online, and Krassenstein was mocked and ridiculed for what many saw as a racist suggestion."It's not Liam Ramos. This is a child actor named Lincoln Fox," read a community note attached to the post on the X platform. The note linked to an Instagram account for the child actor confirming his presence at the game."Leftist thinks all Hispanic kids look the same," podcaster Brittany Hughes joked."Pretty racist ... to assume that all brown people are the same and that one kid is the same as another without even checking," one critic said."Not only is this wrong, but it's racist. And instead of deleting and posting an update, you're keeping it up because you're desperate for a few bucks," another user said."Pretty racist of you to see a little Hispanic boy and assume it's the one little Hispanic boy whose name you know," another popular response reads."Holy racism you dumb f**k. All Hispanic kids look the same to you? They're not even the same age or complexion you dips**t. Nice self-own. ... Don't ever preach from your pulpit again, d**khead," another detractor responded."It's not the same kid you absolute buffoon. Kid is about 4 inches taller than you though," one user joked.Krassenstein added a second message saying there were conflicting reports about the child. He eventually admitted the child was an actor but did not delete the first post, which got over 11 million impressions.RELATED: 'State-of-the-art': GOP congressman pre-empts Crockett's 'grandstanding' with glimpse inside ICE facility in Texas A publicist for Bad Bunny rejected the claim to NPR Music and confirmed the boy was an actor.The halftime show was also criticized by many who were angered that the music artist rapped almost entirely in Spanish, and one brief shot showed two men dancing suggestively with each other.Turning Point USA's alternative halftime show starring Kid Rock had more than 6.1 million viewers tune in on its YouTube livestream, according to the New York Times.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When Chris Pérez first met Selena Quintanilla, she was already a rising star in the Latin music industry. Her popular songs and stylish flair would eventually earn her the title “Queen of Tejano.” In 1990, Pérez was hired as a new guitarist for Selena’s band. Before long, the two bandmates bonded and fell in love. Despite objections from Selena’s father, who was also her manager, the couple eloped. In 1992, Chris Pérez became Selena’s husband. Chris Pérez/InstagramBefore Chris Pérez became Selena’s husband, he was a guitarist in her band. Sadly, their marital bliss lasted for only about three years before Selena was murdered by the former president of her own fan club. After Selena’s death, Pérez largely disappeared from the public eye, choosing to grieve in private. Years later, Chris Pérez opened up about his struggle in a candid memoir. Although his book was positively received, his relationship with Selena’s family has reportedly soured over the years. This is the full story of Chris Pérez, his life as Selena’s husband, and where he is now. How Chris Pérez Became Selena’s Husband selenaandchris/InstagramSelena with Chris Pérez and the rest of the band members of Selena Y Los Dinos. Born on August 14, 1969, in San Antonio, Texas, Chris Pérez showed a clear talent for music growing up. His role in the high school music band eventually evolved into a passion for playing the guitar. By the late 1980s, Chris Pérez met his future wife, Selena Quintanilla. Shortly thereafter, he was hired as a new member of her Tejano band Selena y Los Dinos. At the time, Selena had already been crowned Female Entertainer of the Year at the Tejano Music Awards. Romance began to blossom between the two young bandmates during a group trip to Acapulco, Mexico. Soon afterward, they started seeing each other in secret. When the truth came out, most of Selena’s family was reportedly supportive of the young couple — except for Selena’s father and manager, Abraham Quintanilla. Her father’s disapproval — likely due to Pérez’s juvenile run-ins with the law and “bad boy” image — caused significant drama amongst the group. According to Pérez, Selena’s father even compared him to a “cancer to his family.” “I think the main reason for that was it kind of hurt his pride and his ego to find out that he was the last to know and when things got tense and things were said by him,” Selena’s husband said years later. “It hurt me that he was saying it but I didn’t let it get to me because I knew deep down he knew the kind of person I was.” Flickr“If she’d lived, she would have been a complete superstar,” said producer Keith Thomas. In 1992, Selena and Chris decided to elope. At the time, he was 22 and she was 20. And as the couple made it official, Selena’s stardom began to skyrocket. Her album Entre a Mi Mundo was named the second best-selling regional Mexican album of all time by Billboard magazine, and the best-selling female Tejano record in history. In 1994, her concert album Selena Live! won a Grammy for best Mexican-American album at the 36th Grammy Awards, making Selena the first Tejano artist to win the award. Selena’s husband was with her all along the way — and he couldn’t have been prouder. “The fans saw Selena’s sincerity and generosity, and felt her love for them,” Pérez wrote in his 2012 memoir To Selena, With Love. “Selena appealed to everyone from excitable preteen girls who wanted to dress and dance like her, to abuelas who loved those heart-wrenching ballads like ‘Como La Flor.'” Nobody expected her life would end so soon. The Tragic Murder Of Selena selenaandchris/InstagramChris Pérez was married to Selena for three years before her unexpected death. On March 31, 1995, Selena was shot to death by her fan-turned-business partner, Yolanda Saldívar. The former president of Selena’s fan club and the manager of Selena’s boutique business, Saldívar had been fired by the singer’s family due to discrepancies in the company’s finances. When Selena went alone to meet Saldívar at a motel to retrieve the remaining business documents, Saldívar shot her. Selena suffered a gunshot wound to the back of her shoulder, which doctors later said had shredded her right shoulder, lung, veins, and a major artery. By the time she was taken to the hospital, she was already clinically brain dead. Selena died just a few weeks before her 24th birthday. Selena famously used her last words to identify her killer to the motel’s staff members. Yolanda Saldívar was later found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison, with the possibility of parole in 2025. Chris Pérez first heard that his wife had been shot from Selena’s aunt. He’d been asleep when she’d left to meet Saldívar — and he initially thought she was spending time with his dad. By the time Chris Pérez got to the hospital, his wife had already died. Barbara Laing/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty ImagesChris Pérez with Selena’s mother and sister laying roses atop Selena’s casket at her funeral. News of the Latina star’s death — after she was shot by one of her trusted confidantes — shook the music industry in the United States and across Latin America, where she had built a strong fanbase. In the aftermath of Selena’s death, Pérez was noticeably absent in the media, choosing to grieve in private. “As corny as it sounds, things are just not the same after that,” Chris Pérez said of the death of his wife in an interview with a Selena fan. “The colors aren’t as colorful as you thought they were. The food doesn’t taste the same as you thought it did. Things don’t feel the way they did before.” He added: “Looking back on it now, I lived a lot of my life after her passing with blinders on.” Abraham Quintanilla’s disapproval of her daughter’s relationship with Chris Pérez was portrayed in the 1997 film Selena. As for Yolanda Saldívar, the woman who killed his wife, Chris Pérez said he always felt uneasy about her. He’d accompanied Selena at least twice before when she’d met with Saldívar on previous occasions. On the day she was killed, Selena had gotten up early to see Saldívar alone, apparently without telling her husband. She had also borrowed her husband’s cell phone. Chris Pérez turned to music to help with his grief over the loss of his wife. He released new songs with the Chris Pérez Band, which he formed with singer John Garza and former Selena keyboardist Joe Ojeda. In 2000, their rock album Resurrection won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album. The album’s song “Best I Can” was specifically written by Pérez to his late wife. Pérez eventually married again in 2001 and had two children, though that marriage ended in divorce in 2008. How Chris Pérez Fell Out With Selena’s Family And Where He Is Now Barbara Laing/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty ImagesChris Pérez’s relationship with Selena’s family has reportedly soured in recent years. Since her death, Selena has been immortalized in pop culture and is still remembered as one of the most influential talents in Latin music today. In 1997, the biopic Selena was released, starring Jennifer Lopez. The film chronicled the singer’s rise to fame up until her tragic murder. It also portrayed her relationship with Chris Pérez (played by Jon Seda) and her father’s disapproval of their union. The film’s box office success, fueled by the late artist’s devoted fanbase, helped launch Lopez into superstardom. “What she’s become, especially for… Latin culture and women, and just the positivity that she spoke about and displayed not only onstage but offstage… I believe it’s her fans that have put her in the position that she’s in these days,” Pérez said of his late wife’s star power. “Out of everybody that I’ve known in my life, I don’t know anybody more deserving than her.” Although Chris Pérez mostly kept to himself after his wife’s death, his 2012 memoir offered fans an intimate look inside his life with Selena — and the overall response was positive. According to Pérez, he even received the blessing of his combative father-in-law. “I didn’t say anything to anyone while writing it,” Pérez said. “When I was done and talked to Abraham about it, he said, ‘Son, if it’s something you feel you need to do, you have every right to do it.'” But this moment of peace didn’t last forever. Selena’s husband was allegedly left out of the production process for the Netflix biopic series Selena: The Series. In 2016, Selena’s father sued Chris Pérez, his production company Blue Mariachi, and Endemol Shine Latino, over their plan to turn his To Selena memoir into a TV series. The suit argued that a TV show would violate an estate properties agreement that Pérez and relatives of Selena had signed shortly after her death. The agreement stipulated that her father owned entertainment properties of Selena’s brand, which includes her name, voice, signature, and likeness. While the lawsuit was eventually dismissed, that wasn’t the end of the feud. L. Cohen/WireImageChris Pérez Band at the 2001 ALMA Awards. Pérez has spoken out in recent years against alleged efforts to exclude him from projects related to Selena. Most recently, Chris Pérez claimed that he had been kept in the dark about Selena: The Series, the Netflix biopic series released in December 2020. Along with the Netflix drama, Pérez also recently got involved in an online dispute with Selena’s sister, Suzette, over rumors that the family had taken down photographs of Pérez at the Selena Museum. Selena’s father responded, “We have not taken any photos down of Chris in our museum. Why would we do that? He is a part of Selena’s legacy.” While his relationship with Selena’s family has sadly become rocky, Chris Pérez’s love for the late star seems to remain as strong as ever, and he continues to receive support from Selena’s fans as he speaks out about her legacy. “If she gave any message to the younger generation, it would be: Stay in school, and anything is possible as long as you work for it,” he said. “If people remembered her in that way, I’d be happy and I’m sure she would be happy, too.” Now that you’ve become familiar with Selena’s husband, Chris Pérez, read the full story behind the tragedy of Marilyn Monroe’s death. Next, learn everything there is to know about the death of Bruce Lee. The post Chris Pérez And The Story Of His Marriage To Selena appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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