Election Day is almost here, and there are three high-profile races involving Democratic candidates who have made shocking statements in their past, but if you get your news from ABC, CBS, NBC, or PBS, you have heard very little to nothing about them.  With early voting already underway, these are stories that could impact their races — if the elitist media didn’t tilt to one side.   In resurfaced texts from 2022 that were released on October 3, Jay Jones (who is running for Virginia attorney general) suggested he would shoot then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert over Adolf Hitler and declared that Gilbert’s wife should be forced to watch his “fascist” children be killed.  On October 16, it was reported that Democratic Senate candidate for Maine Graham Platner had made past comments where he called “all” cops bastards, said rural white people were “actually” racist and stupid, and described himself as a communist. He also wrote posts where he asked, “Why don’t black people tip?” It was also revealed that Platner had a tattoo that was linked to a Nazi symbol.  On October 28, a resurfaced video from a 2023 conference showed Democratic New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani making anti-semitic and anti-police statements: “We have to make clear that when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.”  How much time have the broadcast networks devoted to these controversial statements on their evening and morning news shows and Sunday roundtable programs? In the cases of Platner and Mamdani? Zero seconds!      Jones did garner some coverage, but not much. Since the story first broke on October 3, Jones’s heinous remarks have gotten a total of just 9 minutes and 8 seconds in 28 days. This is even after the remarks were highlighted in the Virginia gubernatorial debate and by President Donald Trump himself.  It should be noted that some of the coverage of the Jones’s texts came because either a Republican analyst like Marc Short brought it up, or it was intertwined with the Politico story about Republican non-candidates saying awful things in a group chat.  Just imagine if any of the above offensive statements were made by a Republican candidate running this year? It’s unlikely that stories would garner such little coverage. There’s no question whose side the elitist media are on during this campaign. I firmly on the pro-Democratic, leftist one.    For this study MRC analysts looked at the broadcast evening (ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News), morning news shows (ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, CBS Saturday Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, NBC Today, NBC Sunday Today), Sunday roundtable shows (ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, CBS’s Face the Nation), and PBS’s NewsHour from October 3 through the morning of October 31.

The integrity of sports is in trouble again, or so the headlines say. The FBI last week arrested more than 30 people in a wide-ranging gambling probe that ensnared Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier.A former Cleveland Cavaliers player, Damon Jones, was also charged in two separate cases — one involving sports betting improprieties, the other tied to Billups’ alleged participation in an illegal poker ring linked to the mafia.Cheating is illegal. Addiction is tragic. But gambling itself isn’t a sin against the republic.Given the timing — amid public debate over legalized sports wagering since 2018 — the FBI’s sweep might look like vindication for critics of betting. It isn’t.Millionaires behaving badlyWhen federal agents arrest millionaire athletes and coaches for gambling crimes, it raises an obvious question: Is legalized sports betting really to blame?Rozier’s salary cap for the 2025-26 season is $26.6 million. His career earnings total more than $160 million. Billups made $4.7 million during the 2024-25 NBA season. Disgraced Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter, 25, had earned $2.7 million before his ban for sharing medical information to steer bets.When people earn sums that most Americans can’t even imagine, they often invent new ways to ruin themselves. The average NBA salary in 1991 was $800,000; today it’s more than $8 million. As David Cone of Crain and Company observed, “Even if you’re just on a roster, you make more than doctors make. There’s no excuse.”There really isn’t. This scandal is less about gambling and more about human nature — about greed, self-destruction, and the moral rot that wealth alone can’t fix. The Supreme Court’s decision to legalize small wagers didn’t make multimillionaires betray their sport for a few illegal dollars. They did that on their own.The moral lesson that hasn’t changedWhen infielder Fred McMullin went down in the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, he earned $3,500 a year — roughly $67,000 in today’s money. Those players were underpaid and easily tempted. No one can say that about professional athletes or coaches today.Legalized betting didn’t create this corruption, and FBI Director Kash Patel said as much during an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News.Critics overplay their handA video clip from ESPN’s “Get Up” made the rounds this week after producers hastily removed an on-screen ad for ESPN Bet during coverage of the scandal. The network’s discomfort spurred an online feeding frenzy from the right’s new morality police, who pounced on the moment as proof of hypocrisy.Saagar Enjeti circled the ad and captioned it, “Spot the problem.” But the real problem isn’t the ad; it’s addiction and bad character. Billups apparently got hooked on poker. Rozier and Jones broke the law and got caught in an era when every transaction and text leaves a trail.Enjeti calls this “uncontrolled.” Tell that to the players facing federal indictments. Gambling today is more visible, traceable, and regulated than ever before. The temptation hasn’t changed — the surveillance has.RELATED: The myth of the online gambling ‘epidemic’ Hirurg via iStock/Getty ImagesAmericans were always bettingCritics say the explosion of legal sportsbooks has opened new avenues for corruption. Maybe. But it has also pulled a massive shadow economy into the light. Americans didn’t wait for the Supreme Court’s permission to wager; by 2015, they were already betting an estimated $150 billion a year on illegal offshore sites.Yes, the sector’s growth has been explosive. And yes, it’s unsettling to see leagues, networks, and sportsbooks growing so intertwined. But that doesn’t make moral crusaders the saviors of integrity.The real viceTake Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who reportedly won $1.4 million playing blackjack in Las Vegas last year — less than 1% of his net worth. Critics didn’t call that a moral crisis.The point is simple: People should be free to spend their discretionary income as they choose. Cheating is illegal. Addiction is tragic. But gambling itself isn’t a sin against the republic.The latest pro sports scandal offers a moral lesson, but not the one the prohibitionists want to hear. Legalized betting didn’t corrupt sports — people did. And no law can outlaw greed.

President Donald Trump is urging Senate leadership to initiate the "nuclear option" to finally bring the Democrat-induced government shutdown to an end. Trump called for the Senate to nuke the filibuster one month into the shutdown as Democrats show no signs of flipping. For the last 31 days, all but three Democrats have voted to keep the government closed, leaving the government five votes short of reopening. 'We should avoid that at all costs.'"It is now time for the Republicans to play their 'TRUMP CARD,' and go for what is called the Nuclear Option — Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW!" Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday night."Now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying 'SHUT DOWN,'" Trump added. Trump also claimed that if Republicans do not end the filibuster, the Democrats will someday."If the Democrats ever came back into power, which would be made easier for them if the Republicans are not using the Great Strength and Policies made available to us by ending the Filibuster, the Democrats will exercise their rights, and it will be done in the first day they take office, regardless of whether or not we do it," Trump warned.Trump noted that just two senators — Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — prevented Democrats from ending the filibuster during Biden's term in office.RELATED: Senate Republicans betray Trump, help Democrats try to block tariffs Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesAlthough Trump's demands often dictate the party's next move, nuking the filibuster has not been a popular play among Republicans.Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has been a strong institutionalist and vocal defender of the filibuster, which essentially gives the minority party veto power on legislation unless 60 senators agree to pass it. In the early days of the shutdown, Thune admitted that nuking the filibuster was a "possibility" but strongly advised against it.“Well, there’s always that possibility,” Thune told reporters. “We put up with it, obviously, in his first term as president. I could see at some point that being a potential conversation. But that’s not good for anybody. ... We should avoid that at all costs.”Thune's Republican colleague Sen. John Curtis of Utah similarly cautioned against eliminating the filibuster, saying it "forces us to find common ground in the Senate.""Power changes hands, but principles shouldn’t," Curtis said in a post on X. "I’m a firm no on eliminating it."RELATED: 'Unfit for the gavel': House GOPs sound off on Judge Boasberg, stand with senators in calling for impeachment Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesTrump, on the other hand, has a long-standing record criticizing the filibuster. In 2017, Trump called the filibuster a "joke," saying it was "killing" the Republican majority in the Senate at the time. With no end in sight, the government shutdown could very well surpass the record-breaking 35-day shutdown in Trump's first term. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Before she became a Christian, Jenn Nizza was a celebrated psychic and New Age guru. For two decades, she was neck-deep in the dark arts: reading tarot cards, interpreting numerology and astrology charts, performing angel card and rune divinations, channeling messages from what she thought were spirits of the dead, and practicing numerous dark rituals.Today, she lives out her devotion to Christ by warning secular people and believers alike about the spiritual dangers of New Age practices, divination, and even cultural phenomena like Halloween.To those who practice divination and necromancy — both attempts to contact the spirit realm — Nizza warns that they’re only reaching one side: the demonic one.Coming to this realization that she was contacting not dead people but demonic deceptions masquerading as loved ones, not benevolent spirits with insight but sinister demons who wanted to torment her, was a turning point in Nizza’s journey.“At the end of my 36th year, I actually came to a moment, Allie, of near destruction,” Nizza told BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on an episode of “Relatable.” “There's possession and there's oppression. I probably was very close to being possessed,” she said frankly.After years of practicing the dark arts, Nizza began feeling this internal “heaviness” and bone-chilling “fear.”“Imagine if you go under the water and you have somebody with their foot on your head trying to keep you down. ... That was the moment that I came to,” she said.One day in a moment of extreme terror, she called on the name of Jesus — something she said that shocked her because it was so far out of character.At the time, Nizza didn’t know the gospel message or really anything about Jesus. She just knew that the dark cloud suffocating her had been compromised by simply calling on his name. “I just knew that something had happened, and I knew that it was peaceful. And I also knew ... I didn't want to be a psychic anymore, and I did not know why,” she recounted.God was calling Nizza out of the darkness and into His kingdom, but the enemy wasn’t going to let her go easily.“I was deceived again by false teaching books that I started reading that were heretical and leading me once again down the wrong road away from Christ. I did stop doing the readings for a while, but then I did go back to them,” said Nizza, noting that she merely tweaked some of her practices.Thankfully, God in His miraculous patience didn’t give up on her.“I ended up having a dinner date with a friend that I met in the divination group. ... Little did I know she had become saved from the last time that I had seen her,” Nizza said.“She came over for dinner, and she started talking to me about Jesus, and she invited me to the church that she had started attending.”But Nizza, still holding tightly to her New Age beliefs, declined the invitation.But the internal wrestling that led her to temporarily cease psychic readings started back up. One day, about a month after having dinner with her friend, Nizza had a strong and unexplainable desire to go to her friend’s church.“And it was that day, Allie, that I heard the gospel,” she said.She sang along with the congregation during worship, and when she got to the lyric “Jesus saved me,” she had a flashback to the moment months prior when she first cried out His name.“And I knew it was Him, Allie. I knew that He was the one who showed up that day and set me free. I was a captive, and He set me free,” she declared.To hear more, watch the full interview above.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.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government. Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.Ancient evil, new clothesBut the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.RELATED: Evil unchecked always spreads — and Democrats are proof Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesA time for choosingSo what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.Will you join it, or will you stand against it?Want more from Glenn Beck? Get Glenn's FREE email newsletter with his latest insights, top stories, show prep, and more delivered to your inbox.

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