Five years after Disney+ fired Gina Carano from “The Mandalorian” for expressing her opinion via social media posts, the actress and former MMA fighter is coming back into the spotlight, literally. Netflix announced on Monday that Carano will face off against MMA competitor Ronda Rousey in a live, professionally sanctioned fight on Saturday, May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles. The event marks Netflix’s first-ever mixed martial arts event and is being co-promoted by Most Valuable Promotions (MVP), the combat sports company co-founded by Jake Paul. The fight will take place at featherweight, 145 lbs, inside a hexagon cage instead of the traditional UFC octagon. The format will be up to five 5-minute rounds under the Unified Rules of MMA. Carano holds an MMA record of 7-1 with wins by submission, knockout, and decision, and her earlier Muay Thai record is 12-1-1. She has not competed since 2009. Rousey has a 12-2 record, but has not competed in the sport in a decade following a WWE career. “Been waiting so long to announce this: Me and Gina Carano are gonna throw down in the biggest super fight in women’s combat sport history!” Rousey said in a statement, per The Hollywood Reporter. “And we’re partnering with the fighter-first promotion MVP as well as the biggest and baddest streamer on the planet Netflix. This is for all MMA fans past, present and future. More to come… much more.” “Ronda came to me and said there is only one person she would make a comeback for and it has been her dream to make this fight happen between us,” Carano said. “She thanked me for opening up doors for her in her career and was respectful in asking for this fight to happen. This is an honor. I believe I will walk out of this fight with the win and I anticipate it will not come easy, which I welcome. This is as much for Ronda and me as it is for the fans and mixed martial arts community. What a time to be alive.” This un-cancellation comes just a few short years after Carano was abruptly fired from “The Mandalorian” in February 2021 after Lucasfilm objected to her social media posts. The firing was widely condemned by conservatives as a case of Hollywood cancel culture. Carano filed a lawsuit against Disney alleging she was wrongfully terminated for her political beliefs. Shortly after the high-profile termination, Carano partnered with The Daily Wire for a movie deal that resulted in the feature film “Terror on the Prairie,” which premiered in June 2022. The actress settled her case against Disney in August 2025. “I am humbled and grateful to God for His love and grace in this outcome,” she wrote on social media at the time. “I’d like to thank you all for your unrelenting support throughout my life and career; you’ve been the heartbeat that has kept my story alive. I hope to make you proud… yes, I’m smiling.”

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Vice President JD Vance took issue with a Fox News poll showing a majority of voters preferring Democrats to Republicans in the upcoming November 2026 midterms. “As much as we love Fox News, we always think Fox News has the worst polling, me and the president agree on that,” Vance told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum in an interview Tuesday afternoon.  “We’re still digging out of the hole the Democrats put us in,” Vance added. ? JUST IN: JD Vance SLAMS Fox News' polling for being too pro-Democrat while on the network"This number would not be good for the majority."VANCE: "As much as we love Fox, we ALWAYS think Fox has the worst polling. Me and the president agree on that. Sorry! IT'S TRUE." ? pic.twitter.com/umORVgXcMB— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 17, 2026 A recent Fox News poll released late January showed Democrats leading Republicans in the generic ballot by a margin of 52%-46%. The vice president noted that while he and President Donald Trump have accomplished much in their first year in office, more time is needed to undo the impacts of the Biden administration.   “If you go back to the Biden administration, the average American lost about $3,000 in take-home pay during the four years that Democrats were in charge. In the first year of the Trump administration, average Americans have gained about $1,200,” Vance told MacCallum.   “If you’re looking at it from the perspective of the last year, Americans have done better. If you’re looking at it from the perspective of the Biden administration, we’re still digging out of the hole the Democrats put us in,” Vance continued.   VP VANCE on negotiations with Iran: "One thing about the negotiation I will say this morning is, in some ways it went well. They agreed to meet afterwards, but in other ways it was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to… pic.twitter.com/AbgH9t3lY0— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 17, 2026 Vance says that Americans are going to receive “long-term dividends” from the work the administration has done.   The vice president suggested the winning messaging that Republicans need to focus on are the $18 trillion made towards new investments. “That’s factories being built, built, that’s wages going up,” he said.   He also mentioned a 20% reduction in murder rates, a secure border, and the deportations of criminal illegal aliens. “There’s still so much to do, and I think it’s up to us, it’s up to me, it’s up to the president, it’s up to the entire team to make the argument to the American people that we’ve made your life better, and if you give us another couple of years of Republican governance, we can keep on building upon that record,” Vance concluded.   The post Vance Rejects Midterm Poll; GOP ‘Still Digging Out of the Hole the Democrats Put Us In’ appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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In CBS Mornings’s latest example of officially partnering with a liberal partisan to sell books, Tuesday’s show embarrassingly fangirled over liberal historian Jon Meacham’s latest tome and voicing agreement to claim America is facing a “moral crisis” requiring the greatest level of citizenship since the 1850s because there is an “authoritarian” in Donald Trump “galloping at the highest level.” “Coming up in this 8:00 hour. Some perspective on these very divided times. Historian Jon Meacham says we are in a moral crisis as a nation, but it’s not the first time, he says. So, we’ll ask how, in his view, it does get better,” teased co-host and Democrat donor Gayle King. Featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers gave a glowing lead-in: It may feel like our country is more divided than ever, but according to our next guest, conflict is nothing new in our democracy. Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize winning historian and best-selling author. His latest book is called American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union. You can buy it right now by scanning that QR code that you see on your screen. Meacham chronicles the divisions and the debates that have defined our country from 1619 to the present. Jon Meacham is here. Good morning. I’m such a fan. After briefly having Meacham weigh in on the passing of the Reverend Jesse Jackson Jr., Duthiers said his book American Struggle and its stories from 1619 to today exhibit a “theme in sort of what Reverend Jackson talked about throughout his life and times, which is he didn’t want a society that did not include everybody.” Hysteria, NOT history: Tuesday's 'CBS Mornings' -- again, supposedly a MAGA network under Bari Weiss -- was fawning over liberal historian (and Joe Biden speechwriter) Jon Meacham saying America's in “moral crisis” b/c Donald Trump is an “authoritarian galloping at the highest… pic.twitter.com/VNJCNN2I8Y — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 “You say we’re in a moment of moral crisis. What do you mean by that,” he wondered. Meacham’s answer sounded nice in that “if we don’t recognize each other of equal dignity, if we don’t see each other as those who stand equally before God and the law” and our founding documents (which he dubbed “American scripture”), “then the covenant that is America falls apart.” But sounding nice is all one could say given the fact that Meacham has spent decades in the political arena hurling coarse rhetoric at his adversaries and even advising speechwriting for President Joe Biden. We compiled 16 different examples back in September, such as Meacham referring to Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) as dog feces, and viewing Republican voters as “lizard brain[ed]” “white guys” led by a man in Donald Trump who’s dumber than springer spaniels. Someone ask Duthiers about that double standard. But Meacham is treated as non-partisan, so the lovefest went on. King asked him to expound upon a James Madison quote fearing a time when “enlightened statesmen” won’t be at the helm of the country. This went right into Meacham’s claim about Donald Trump being “an authoritarian galloping at the highest level” (click “expand”): KING: [T]here’s a line in the book where you talk about James Madison, who says “... it’s vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust those classic interests to the public good” — it makes me think about Congress — “but these enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” What can we — ain’t that good, Vlad? DUTHIERS: Yes. KING: What can we learn from that? Because it seems very similar to what’s going on today. MEACHAM: Absolutely. The founders would have been surprised, I think that it took this long. DUTHIERS: Really? MEACHAM: I really — KING: For what? For what? MEACHAM: — for there to be an authoritarian galloping at the highest level. KING: Really? That it took this long? Wow! MEACHAM: Because really — because, think about it, the Constitution is incredibly unwieldy. It’s unwieldy because they assume that most of what we would want to do would be wrong. It’s a theological document in many ways. It’s based on the idea that we’re driven by appetite and ambition more often than we’re driven by grace and generosity. And guess what? I know you all are better people than I am, but I know that’s true in my life. King followed up: “But, Jon, many people believe that — many in power don’t believe that the Constitution matters these days.” Meacham replied with partisanship wrapped in flowery language that “[t]his is an hour of — this is arguably the most important hour for citizenship since the 1850s” and “the founders anticipated this” and that “the Constitution was built for moments...of stress and strain where people” — as in Republicans — “would put power above principle.” Using emotional blackmail, he added that “our” — as in “we, the People” — “task is to put the principles above power.” Since King is a Democrat, she twice blurted out “exactly.” Co-host Nate Burleson finally had a go, wondering if there’s “historical context for that younger generation that doesn’t dive into history books that can give them some parallels to what’s going on today.” Like he did with Duthiers, Meacham started with an undisputable fact that older Americans “all grew up more adjacent to great moments in American history” in which, for example, older generations had parents or grandparents who fought in World War II or even World War I. Bari Weiss’s ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host sit in awe as Jon Meacham suggests American government in the 21st century has failed because of crises that all conveniently happened on the watches of Republican presidents: 9/11, Iraq, Great Recession, Covid, Donald Trump being elected,… pic.twitter.com/rDoMe5C6TN — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 17, 2026 But once again, he veered into the partisan by asserting those born “in the 21st Century” have seen a government that’s “not covered itself in glory” and, sure enough, his examples only occurred under Republicans George W. Bush and Donald Trump (and the other in lack of mass gun confiscation, failed because of GOP pushback): September 11, weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, great recession, COVID, President Trump, January 6 and school shootings and school shooting drills, right? If you are that age, why would you trust grown-ups to protect you when we self-evidently say we can’t protect you in schools. We have to drill for this. Meacham’s solution? Teach younger Americans about the courage of those from yesteryear such as those maimed on Blood Sunday (March 7, 1965) in Selma, Alabama. Someone at CBS News needs to explain to us, on or off the record (my DMs on X are open!) how the ideological tilt to the hard left is going to be changing in the near future under new ownership. Because, with segments like this one with Meacham and others last week like this on the CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings cheering Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, it sure doesn’t seem like anything has changed outside the opening few weeks. To see the relevant CBS transcript from February 17, click here.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales warns that a long-standing boundary in American politics has collapsed — and that is leaving the kids out of it.“Looking at how the left manipulates children, like the depths of their evil and ghoulish behavior, just there’s no floor,” Gonzales comments.“There used to be this understanding that whatever your political differences, it was like, leave the kids out of it, right? If you’re an adult, you’re fair game. Leave the kids out of it. Don’t bring them into this nonsense. Don’t use them as political pawns,” she continues.The left stopped listening to that long ago, and it’s only getting worse. Specifically, the left is now trying to get children to protest ICE.“For some reason, children should be very upset that the Trump administration is trying to remove illegal criminals from our cities. Now, don’t waste your time or your brain power trying to make out why that is,” Gonzales says.And in a recent article from Fox News, it’s reported that an Antifa-linked organization was even passing out material to K-12 students.“It’s a 25-page document, and it focuses on mobilizing youth against what it describes as a regime. ‘It’s a regime and a system captured by billionaires,’” Gonzales mocks the group.“Now, far be it from me to point out the hypocrisy of this being funded by George Soros of all people, but, like, when it’s billionaires that we don’t agree with, it’s bad. And when it’s billionaires that we do agree with, it’s good. And when it’s billionaires we don’t agree with, it’s dark money. And when it’s billionaires we do agree with, it’s just a generous political donation,” she continues.Gonzales explains that the material “urges students to walk out of classrooms and boycott businesses to try to prove that the country cannot function without their cooperation.”And it’s not an isolated incident.In a video shared by Beth Bourne on X, a principal is seen chaperoning students as they chant, “Brown and proud,” and hold anti-ICE protest signs.“Now, first of all, as a parent, it’s like, OK, this doesn’t need to be school-sponsored. This doesn’t need to be on taxpayer time, right? The school principal is there. It’s clearly school-sponsored. That’s not a thing that you need to be doing,” Gonzales says.“Secondly, I just very much worry about that generation, that we’re still pretending like the color of your skin has anything to do with this. Like, ‘Brown and proud, brown and proud.’ ... These people are here illegally. That is the problem. The problem has nothing to do with the color of your skin,” she adds.Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

A 54-year-old man was arrested for child abuse after he allegedly got into a fight with high school students who walked out of school to protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.About 150 students walked out of the Grand Island Senior High School in Nebraska at about 1:30 on Monday and marched down College Street, where they encountered Michael Brown.Several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.Brown drove by the crowd shouting pro-ICE comments before one of the students allegedly threw a water bottle at him, striking him in the face, according to Grand Island Police Division Chief Dean Elliott.Elliott said Brown got out of his vehicle and chased after the female student he believed threw the water bottle. At that point, several other students attacked him by kicking him and punching him as he was on the ground.Videos on social media show some of the brawl, with Brown bloodied afterward. At least three male students trade blows with the man in the videos. Elliott said a teacher from West Lawn Elementary School intervened in the fight to help break it up.The school emphasized that the protest was not sponsored by administrators, teachers, or district officials and was completely student-led. The students who participated in the walkout were not allowed back to school and were marked absent for the day.Elliott indicated that Brown was charged with child abuse rather than assault because of the difference in ages between him and the juveniles. One of the juveniles was also cited for assault.RELATED: 'Little f**king c***s!' Democrat treasurer fired after video shows him spewing obscenities at women at anti-ICE protest A felony report on the Grand Island Police website indicates that Brown caused injury to one of the two victims, who were listed as a 16-year-old male and a 17-year-old male.One news video report from the Grand Island Independent described the protest as "peaceful" and did not include information about the brawl. The video did show two Mexican flags being waved at the protest.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

With Ken Paxton now gunning for the U.S. Senate seat held by John Cornyn, the race to replace him as Texas attorney general is heating up fast. Tonight, four Republican contenders — Joan Huffman, Mayes Middleton, Aaron Reitz, and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy — will square off in the sole debate featuring all candidates before the March 3, 2026, primary.Hosted by the Republican Attorneys General Association, this high-stakes face-off will be moderated by Blaze Media’s own Allie Beth Stuckey. The Texas native and host of the hit Christian podcast “Relatable” has built a powerhouse following with her bold, scripture-rooted commentary on culture and politics. Expect fireworks tonight as these four battle it out over the future of the Texas AG’s office: safeguarding freedoms, taking down rogue prosecutors, pushing back against federal overreach, locking down the border, carrying forward Paxton’s aggressive fight against leftist policies, and delivering Trump-era victories on immigration, election security, and the culture wars that will shape America’s direction.Allie’s signature straight-talk style will put them on the spot with tough, no-nonsense questions — testing who’s truly equipped to lead Texas conservatism forward in this pivotal race. This isn’t just a Texas matter. As a cornerstone of conservative power, the Lone Star State’s choices on border security, election integrity, immigration, and cultural battles send ripples nationwide. What plays out tonight could define the fight for the future.Clear your schedule: Tune in live tonight at 7:00 p.m. CT on BlazeTV or BlazeTV’s YouTube channel (linked above). Set those reminders, grab some popcorn, and join us as Allie puts these contenders through their paces. Who will step up to defend Texas — and America? We’ll find out together!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.

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