Aftyn Behn, the Democrat hopeful for Congress in Tennessee, deleted a radical social media post calling on all white people to get behind abolishing prisons. “On this Juneteenth, we need less white folks posting Canva graphics and more adopting prison abolition as a political foundation,” Behn, a white woman, said in a deleted post just over a year ago, that is now archived on the Wayback Machine. The post also recommended four books that “enhanced” her “political education.” Behn is running against Republican Matt Van Epps in a deep red district to replace Mark Green, a congressman who resigned earlier this year. Democrats have spent a hefty amount of money and resources to try and drive turnout among Democrats, hoping to pull an upset in a low-turnout contest. It was not, however, her only time advocating for the radical policy, which has been embraced by many advocates of so-called “social justice.” In an August 2024 article in The Tennessean, Behn disclosed the same stance on prisons. “No, I do not agree with these ‘tough-on-crime’ policies,” she told the publication at the time. “As a legislator who believes in prison abolition, I am committed to addressing the root causes of crime rather than implementing punitive measures that often perpetuate a cycle of harm.” Behn’s campaign did not respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. The Democrat has taken other controversial stances on crime, including being one of the handful of lawmakers who voted against the death penalty for those convicted of raping a minor, according to WKRN. Behn raised concerns that if a child was aware that the consequence of the crime for the abuser was the death penalty, it might prevent the minor from reporting the crime. “You can read testimonies again and again across this state, but the state intervening to kill a human being does nothing to deter the crime,” Behn said on the state House floor in April 2024 while debating the legislation with Republican Rep. William Lamberth. The Democrat has also faced scrutiny over a 2020 post in which she praised people who support burning down police stations. “Good morning, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station is justified,” Behn posted. Behn declined to respond, saying instead, “I’m not gonna engage in cable news talking points.” The Daily Wire reported on her past comments on abortion as well, saying she would be willing to get arrested for her advocacy on the issue. “We’ll continue to figure out how to get abortion pills to people. So the organizing does not stop just because Roe is overturned,” Behn said in a May 2022 conversation with the Tennessee Holler. Another podcast clip from 2020 of her went viral, in which she said that she hates Nashville. “I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘it’ city to the rest of the country. But I hate it,” she said. Despite her radical positions, she has won the support of prominent Democrats, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. President Donald Trump has also waded into the race, endorsing Van Epps. “I am asking all America First Patriots in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, who haven’t voted yet, to please GET OUT AND VOTE for MAGA Warrior Matt Van Epps, tomorrow, November 26th, the last day to vote early in person. You can win this Election for Matt! PLEASE VOTE FOR MATT VAN EPPS, who has my Complete and Total Endorsement,” Trump posted on Tuesday night. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that an extension to Obamacare subsidies “may be necessary,” but he would prefer a plan that made direct payments to American citizens instead. The Affordable Care Act/Obamacare subsidies, set to expire at the end of the year, were the focus of Democrats’ demands during the government shutdown. Some Republicans have pushed to let them expire, while others have argued they should be extended. The Senate is expected to vote on the future of the subsidies sometime in December.  While en route to Florida on Tuesday night, Trump was asked if he would like to see the Obamacare subsidies extended.  “I’d rather not. Somebody said I want to extend them for two years. I don’t want to extend them for two years,” Trump told reporters on board Air Force One. “I’d rather not extend them at all. Some kind of an extension may be necessary to get something else done because the ‘Unaffordable Care Act’ has been a disaster.”  When asked what kind of health care policy he would like to see, Trump said it would involve the federal government giving people money to purchase their own plans.  Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. “I like my plan the best. Don’t give any money to the insurance companies; give it to the people directly. Let them buy their own health care plan,” Trump said. “And we’re looking at that. If that can work. We’re looking at that. That’s sort of taking off. That’s what I like. Don’t give the money to the insurance companies.” Trump said that skyrocketing health care premiums were “the Democrats’ fault,” but added that they were negotiating with him.  “It’s very interesting,” he said. ”I can’t tell you who, but we have a lot of Democrats who want this plan to happen. They would love to see the money go to the people and the people go out and get their own health care.” Trump’s comments came after POLITICO reported that he planned to introduce a plan that included a two-year extension of Obamacare subsidies. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that health care discussions were ongoing.  “The president is having ongoing conversations with members of his administration, members of Congress, and private sector experts,” she said. “He will make recommendations for healthcare policy improvements in the near future.” On November 18, Trump said on social media that the only plan he would support or approve would be one that sends “THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE, WITH NOTHING GOING TO THE BIG, FAT, RICH INSURANCE COMPANIES, WHO HAVE MADE $TRILLIONS, AND RIPPED OFF AMERICA LONG ENOUGH.”

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A young woman is fighting for her life in Chicago with severe burns because of a grave injustice intolerably common in cities across America. Bethany MaGee, a 26-year-old woman from Upland, Indiana, is fighting for her life with horrific burns she received while riding Chicago’s CTA Blue Line train on Nov. 17. Her story is incredibly similar to several other incidents as of late that have grabbed national headlines. Lawrence Reed, a 50-year-old man with an astoundingly long criminal record, allegedly doused MaGee with gasoline, chased her through the train, and lit her on fire. He reportedly yelled out, “Burn alive b—.” The incident was remarkably similar to one that took place on the New York subway a year ago. In that case the alleged assailant was an illegal alien. Just like in the recent case of the murder of Iryna Zarutska, a woman who was stabbed to death on a Charlotte train, the suspected Chicago arsonist has a rap sheet almost hard to believe. According to the New York Post, Reed had been arrested 72 times in just Cook County, Illinois. He’s been convicted in 15 of those cases. “One of those busts included an aggravated arson charge, in which he was accused of dousing the city’s Thompson Center government building with liquid and setting it on fire just as Gov. JB Pritzker was due to speak at a press conference,” police said, according to the Post. Remarkably, Reed didn’t serve any jail time and “was only given probation despite being convicted of the arson incident in April 2020.” Prosecutors wanted to keep Reed locked up, the report noted, but the judge in the case let him go. This only highlights the reality that the United States has less a crime problem and more a repeat offender problem. The problem is with a justice system, particularly in cities and counties governed by Democrats, that’s not at all just. Leftist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, he of the worst approval ratings in the whole country, tried to suggest that the train attack was an “isolated incident.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson is calling an attack on a CTA Blue Line an “isolated incident." https://t.co/hjaKXmANgo— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) November 21, 2025 Think about that for a moment. That a career criminal with over 70 arrests, including at least one for arson, committed another crime is the very definition of a pattern. Johnson is exactly the kind of reckless ideologue who just doesn’t get it when it comes to crime. And has no interest in getting it. “We cannot incarcerate our way out of violence,” he said back in August. “ … [Incarceration] is racist. It is immoral. It is unholy.” Yes, we certainly can arrest our way out of violence. As Manhattan Institute crime expert Rafael Mangual said at a recent House hearing, the critical issue the American justice system faces is the problem of repeat offenders. The reason so many career criminals roam the streets while occasionally making national headlines is because, he said, “somewhere down the line, policymakers made a choice. They made a choice to pursue decarceration for its own sake because they were convinced that doing so was the best way to serve justice.” This problem can in part be solved by hiring more police, letting them proactively target crime hotspots, or even by applying a force-multiplying increase in law enforcement by calling out the National Guard as President Donald Trump has done in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. But the problem won’t really be resolved until we get the justice side of law and order correct. Even as crime, or maybe just the local reporting on crime technically goes down years after the post-George Floyd riot explosion, many cities will still have intolerable incidents like the one on the Chicago train. When it comes to the public response to crime, we are getting a hard lesson once given by Adam Smith that an excess of mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. The post Chicago Train Burning Shows How Too Much Leniency to the Guilty Is Cruelty to the Innocent appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The global energy system is buckling under the weight of its own contradictions. Electricity demand keeps rising, yet policymakers insist that renewables alone can carry the load. Artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and a wave of reindustrialization are driving consumption far faster than today’s grid can support. Nowhere is that tension more visible than in the United States, where soaring demand collides with aging infrastructure and unrealistic clean-energy mandates.America stands at a crossroads. One path deepens dependence on foreign supply chains dominated by China. The other rebuilds domestic energy strength, restores industrial capacity, and creates high-wage jobs. The question isn’t whether a green transition will happen — it is who will own the minerals, the infrastructure, and the economic power behind it.Energy dominance is not a slogan. It is the practical foundation of American greatness.Electricity demand jumped nearly 4% in 2024, almost double the decade’s average. Data centers, electrified transport, and manufacturing growth are reshaping the energy landscape. The International Energy Agency projects global data-center power use will more than double by 2030, approaching 1,000 terawatt-hours. In the U.S., these facilities alone could soon account for 10% of national consumption.Without major investment in reliable, affordable energy, this surge will strain the grid and weaken American competitiveness.We have already seen the danger of relying on foreign suppliers. While Western governments debated climate rhetoric, China quietly secured control over the minerals the modern economy runs on — lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and rare-earths. Beijing now refines more than 70% of the global supply.These materials aren’t optional. They are the foundation of EV batteries, grid storage, wind turbines, solar panels, and the defense systems that protect U.S. interests. Allowing China to dominate them puts both the economy and national security in a vulnerable position.President Trump recognized that threat early. His energy-dominance agenda expanded domestic production, cut regulatory barriers, and revived investment in mining and industrial infrastructure. That legacy now forms the basis for a renewed push to bring extraction, processing, and refining back to U.S. soil.The economic impact is substantial. Every new lithium mine, copper refinery, or processing plant means high-wage jobs, stronger rural communities, and a revived manufacturing base.Private enterprise is already moving faster than any government program. BGN International — one of the world’s most dynamic energy and commodities firms — has expanded its American operations in liquefied natural gas and liquefied petroleum gas, the fuels that underpin grid reliability. BGN is also moving aggressively into critical minerals, supplying copper, aluminum, and rare-earth elements essential for the grid, clean-energy systems, and the emerging AI economy.By linking American producers to global demand, BGN strengthens domestic supply chains and ensures that the value stays in the United States.Meanwhile, Energy Transfer continues to expand its network of pipelines and terminals that move oil, natural gas, and the feedstocks needed for mineral processing and clean-tech manufacturing. Together, companies like Energy Transfer and BGN form the quiet engine of America’s comeback — building the infrastructure that powers the future, from LNG terminals to mineral-supply hubs in the Midwest.This is what a real energy transition looks like: not offshoring, not dependence, but American innovation paired with American resources and American workers. The shift to cleaner energy can either hollow out the country or rebuild it. The difference lies in where we source, refine, and transport the materials that make it possible.RELATED: ‘Reminiscent of the Manhattan Project’: Trump administration launches massive next-gen AI program Nelson Ching/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesEvery ton of copper or rare-earth minerals refined at home is another step toward energy security — and another paycheck for an American worker.America’s shale reserves, its underdeveloped mineral deposits, and its unmatched private-sector capacity give it every advantage in this new industrial age. What the country needs is leadership that understands the link between energy independence, manufacturing strength, and national power.By investing in the fuels, minerals, and infrastructure that keep the lights on and the factories running, the United States can secure both its prosperity and its freedom.Energy dominance is not a slogan. It is the practical foundation of American greatness. The world is entering an era in which whoever controls energy and critical-mineral supply chains controls the global economy. By unleashing its entrepreneurs and trusting its workers, America can lead that era on its own terms.The next American century will not be powered by dependence or bureaucratic mandates but by free enterprise, industrial competence, and the spirit of self-reliance. Critical minerals and energy independence are not merely economic issues. They are matters of national pride, national security, and American leadership.

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