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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is planning to put boots on the ground in a nascent effort to shore up support for Vice President JD Vance nearly three years before voters hit the ballot boxes in the 2028 presidential election. TPUSA plans to develop campaign infrastructure in Iowa, which hosts important early caucuses for any presidential […]

When family medical troubles seemed to have struck down a top student’s hopes for university, the administrators took action to lift them back up again. Now the holder of a doctorate and a successful entrepreneur, she has given back to the school that did so much for her by covering the cost of the entire […] The post A High School Supported its Star Student When She Needed it Most, 20 Years Later She Pays it Back appeared first on Good News Network.

When Chloe Cole’s brother shared the Gospel with her while she identified as a transgender male, she thought he hated her. Now, six years later, Cole has re-embraced her God given female identity and calls herself a Christian. “As I’ve matured in the world and in my faith, I have realized that he pushed back out of love,” Cole told The Daily Signal. “He was fighting for me and not against me, and he wanted me to be saved just as he had. He wanted to extend the grace that God had given him in his life to me because he was my older brother and he loved me, and he wanted good things for me.”  From the ages of 12-16, Cole tried to change her identity from female to male. She even had a double mastectomy at 15 to remove both of her breasts.   “Over the course of my transition, I realized that it was not actually making me happy, that it was actually tearing down my life in almost every single way, from my physical health to my emotional and spiritual health,” Cole told The Daily Signal.   Before and during her “transition,” Cole did not understand the Gospel, she said. She grew up in an agonistic family that had stopped attending church when she was in kindergarten.  “Children are being raised with a massive God-shaped hole in their lives,” she said. Cole said that Gen Z’s breakdown of morals, family, and faith is eroding the culture.   “As I grew up and I was trying to find something to believe in every day, I was trying to find a purpose. I was trying to find something to live for and something greater to aspire to. I was looking for role models and something to believe in. And, eventually, it was transgenderism and the transgender community that fulfilled all that for me. It swooped in and took me in its clutches. It basically made me my own God. It gave me a false idol to look to,” Cole said.   “Transgenderism is spiritual sickness,” she continued. “It’s an endless ladder of climbing the next rung, of searching for the next high, which is why I liken it to addiction very often.”  The only cure to this sickness is turning to God and restoring the name of Christ in the country, Cole said she believes.   “We cannot choose the way that we are born, whether we are sick or healthy, disabled or abled, male or female,” Cole said.   After her detransition, Cole felt abandoned by the transgender community, she said. To heal, she started her faith journey.  “It was one of the roughest parts of my life,” she recalled.  When Cole started speaking out about her story, many Christian men and women entered her life, such as the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.  “[They] were good influences, who held me accountable, who were actively working my life to make me a better person and let me know that I was loved. And I think in many ways God spoke through those people to me,” Cole said.  “But obviously, it was not the people who saved me, it was Christ,” she continued.  For Cole, her faith in Jesus Christ is more fulfilling than anything else in her life. It healed her, she said.   “One of the most important lessons that my faith has taught me is that God doesn’t leave anything untouched. You can lose everything, and you can still be whole, because our identity is not in what we think ourselves to be, it’s in who God has created us to be, and we have to trust in that,” Cole said.   Cole said she believes that a person can never find true contentment in adopting a transgender identity.   “God has a plan for every single one of us, but it doesn’t come through chasing our own desires, especially if they go against God’s design and will for us,” Cole said. “Happiness is not going to come from living a dishonest life. It’s not going to come from rejecting the way that you’re made in your mother’s womb.”  Nonetheless, Cole thinks that every transgender identifying individual should be viewed as a potential detransitioner that there is hope for.   “I think it [transgenderism] is a complete lie. I think it’s a scam, and I think it is backed only by ideology rooted in falsehood, because we are not designed to change from one sex to another. Sex is a constant thing in our lives, and this is backed up not just by biblical teachings, but by science. No matter how many drugs one person takes, no matter what surgeries they get, no matter how surgeons will mutilate their bodies, it will not achieve that goal of changing sex,” Cole said.  Cole said that one of her favorite scripture passages is 1 Corinthians 7:18-20: Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man uncircumcised when he was called? He should not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts. Each person should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.  “It says circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts,” Cole said.  When she first read the verse, Cole said she grappled with the loss of her breasts and contemplated whether to undergo reconstruction surgery.  “It just hurts that a part of me has been taken for me, especially something though so integral to my identity as an adult young woman. I think that there was something about this passage that really stood out to me, and I think it made me think about the fact that it doesn’t matter what has happened to my body, what parts have been taken, or what is still there. It doesn’t matter because I am never going to be whole, breasts or not, without God and without my faith,” Cole said. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Detransitioner Chloe Cole Embraces God and the Wholeness He Brings appeared first on The Daily Signal.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, one of Washington’s top-ranking Republicans, says he is open to legal action against Minnesota’s Democrat leaders following the viral release of a video alleging fraud in state-funded daycare centers. Appearing on Fox News’ “Fox Report Weekend” on Sunday, Emmer praised YouTube content creator Nick Shirley’s recent report which alleges that several state-funded daycare and learning centers, largely operated by immigrants from Somalia, do not provide legitimate services. “It’s amazing to me that a 23-year-old journalist, a YouTuber who’s now got over 80 million views on this thing, found more in a matter of hours than Tim Walz and Keith Ellison, our attorney general, found in seven years,” Emmer, R-Minn., said on Fox. “Whistleblowers are coming forward,” said Emmer, who added that he would support the prosecution of Walz and Ellison if there was documented evidence of their retaliation against whistleblowers.“What they’re saying is they told Tim Walz, they told Keith Ellison about the fraud when it was happening. And they not only didn’t do anything, they retaliated against them,” Emmer said. “If that’s true, if that can be documented, these guys need to be prosecuted—held accountable and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, has already announced he intends to subpoena Minnesota state officials and whistleblowers in a wider probe of the daycare fraud issue. A spokesperson for Walz has called the oversight probe “a coordinated political attack to try to silence one of the President’s most effective critics” in a statement appearing in The Minnesota Star Tribune. A Walz spokesperson also defended his conduct in a statement to The Daily Signal, saying, “The Governor has worked for years to crack down on fraud and asked the state legislature for more authority to take aggressive action.” The spokesperson added, “He has strengthened oversight – including launching investigations into these specific facilities, one of which was already closed. He has hired an outside firm to audit payments to high-risk programs, shut down the Housing Stabilization Services program entirely, announced a new statewide program integrity director, and supported criminal prosecutions.” ? Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountableWe ALL… pic.twitter.com/E3Penx2o7a— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) December 26, 2025 Ellison’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Signal. FBI Director Kash Patel on Sunday revealed the bureau had expanded its investigation of alleged fraud schemes involving federal programs in the state. CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes…— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 28, 2025 The amount of fraudulent billing in Minnesota’s Medicaid programs could be as high as $9 billion and involved “industrial-scale fraud,” Assistant United States Attorney Joe Thompson has said. The post Tim Walz Faces Pressure From Hill Republicans in Fraud Probe appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Ireland’s next term leading the European Union will be used to promote a new agenda: an effort to end online anonymity and make verified identity the standard across social media platforms. Tánaiste Simon Harris said the government plans to use Ireland’s presidency to push for EU-wide rules that would require users to confirm their identities before posting or interacting online. Speaking to Extra.ie, Harris described the plan as part of a broader attempt to defend what he called “democracy” from anonymous abuse and digital manipulation. More: The Digital ID and Online Age Verification Agenda He said the initiative will coincide with another policy being developed by Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan, aimed at preventing children from accessing social media. O’Donovan’s proposal, modeled on Australian restrictions, is expected to be introduced while Ireland holds the EU presidency next year. Both ideas would involve rewriting parts of the EU’s Digital Services Act, which already governs how online platforms operate within the bloc. Expanding it to require verified identities would mark a major shift toward government involvement in online identity systems, a move that many privacy advocates believe could expose citizens to new forms of monitoring and limit open speech. Harris said his motivation comes from concerns about the health of public life, not personal grievance. Harris said he believes Ireland will find allies across Europe for the initiative. He pointed to recent statements from French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who he said have shown interest in following Australia’s lead. “If you look at the comments of Emmanuel Macron…of Keir Starmer…recently, in terms of being open to considering what Australia have done…You know this is a global conversation Ireland will and should be a part of,” he said. Technology companies based in Ireland, many of which already face scrutiny under existing EU rules, are likely to resist further regulation. The United States government has also expressed growing hostility toward European efforts to regulate speech on its major tech firms, recently imposing visa bans on several EU officials connected to such laws. Despite this, Harris said Ireland does not want confrontation. “This is a conversation we want to have now. We don’t want to have it in an adversarial way. Companies require certainty too, right?” he said, emphasizing that Ireland remains committed to being a reliable home for international tech firms. He also spoke in support of O’Donovan’s age-verification proposal, comparing it to other legal age limits already enforced in Ireland. “We have a digital age of consent in Ireland, which is 16, but it’s simply not being enforced,” he said. From a civil liberties standpoint, mandatory identity checks could fundamentally alter the online world. Requiring proof of identity to speak publicly risks silencing individuals who rely on anonymity for safety, including whistleblowers, activists, and those living under political pressure. Once created, systems of digital identity are rarely dismantled and can easily be adapted to track or restrict speech. Harris said that voluntary cooperation by technology companies could make legislation unnecessary. “These companies are technology companies. They have the ability to do more, without the need for laws,” he said, suggesting platforms could use their own tools to manage bots, algorithms, and age verification. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Ireland’s Simon Harris to Push EU-Wide Ban on Social Media Anonymity appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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