Sixteen-year-old Washington state basketball player Frances Staudt has emerged as one of the most forceful young voices challenging the state’s Democratic leadership over policies she argues endanger girls’ sports and punish dissent. After refusing to compete against a transgender player she described as a “quite obvious” male, Frances found herself under investigation by the Tumwater School District and the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association for “misgendering”—an action that prompted a federal civil-rights complaint on her behalf earlier this year. The district, citing state law, insisted it would not “discriminate based on sexual identity” while acknowledging that families hold divergent views. But according to Frances, the message from school officials was far harsher: her concerns “did not matter,” and acknowledging biological sex was off-limits. At a recent event supporting two “Let’s Go Washington” initiatives aimed at restoring protections for female athletes, Frances delivered a blistering speech accusing Washington’s highest Democratic officials of abandoning girls to ideological pressures. She described escalating social retaliation—public condemnation from staff, online harassment, threats against her family—and said adults privately expressed support but were too afraid to speak. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. Her criticism reached its apex in the passage below: Let me end by saying this: Governor Ferguson, (state superintendent) Chris Reykdal, and (state attorney general) Nick Brown, we see right through you. And what we see is gutless men trying to stifle the voices of young women. I may be 16 years old, but I have way more guts than you’ll ever have.  We’re not going to stand for it anymore. I’m calling your bluff, and I’m exposing the lies that you tell over and over, and I refuse to share my locker room with the boys and men or be kicked out or punished for doing so. I will not be stopped, and what you’ve done to me is wrong. Staudt called on voters and President Donald Trump to intervene, saying, “We need you, President Trump, to please put these out-of-touch politicians in their place and stop this nonsense. I won’t stop.  Thank you. I won’t stop, and I’m asking everyone listening to fight with me. Fight, fight, fight. We will not stand down.” NEW: Tumwater High School girls basketball player Frances Staudt joined Let’s Go WA’25 signature gatherers in Issaquah, WA over the weekend. Staudt is part of a growing movement in the state to ban biological boys from girls sports. Here is her speech in full. ?? https://t.co/49ygUZk4zE pic.twitter.com/w2X5S8Jkya — Jonathan Choe (@choeshow) November 24, 2025

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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump announced late Thursday his administration will “permanently pause” migration from all “Third World Countries,” after two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House by an Afghan national, killing one of them. West Virginia Army National Guard Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died Thursday from wounds sustained in Wednesday’s attack. She and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe were shot in the brutal attack allegedly carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who entered the country in September 2021 after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Wolfe remains in critical condition. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country,” Trump wrote in a late Thursday Truth Social post. A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World,…— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2025 Trump added that he would end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens who “undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.” Lakanwal — who had worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA — arrived in the U.S. in 2021 as part of the Biden administration’s “Operation Allies Welcome,” which resettled Afghans who had assisted American forces. He applied for asylum in 2024, and the Trump administration granted it in April 2025, according to Reuters. The suspect shouted “Allahu akbar!” before opening fire with a revolver, independent journalist Julio Rojas reported. As of December 2024, over 180,000 Afghans had been resettled in the country since the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021, according to the State Department. “Hundreds of thousands of people poured into our Country totally unvetted and unchecked,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “We will fix it, but will never forget what Crooked Joe Biden and his Thugs did to our Country!” Following the shooting, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals” would be paused “indefinitely.” USCIS also said Thursday it would conduct a full-scale reexamination of all green cards issued to people from 19 countries “of concern” at the president’s direction. The agency added in a subsequent statement that when vetting migrants from those countries, it will consider “negative, country specific factors,” including whether the country is able to “issue secure identity documents.” At the direction of @POTUS, I have directed a full scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern.— USCIS Director Joseph B. Edlow (@USCISJoe) November 27, 2025 The White House referred Daily Caller News Foundation to Trump’s Truth Social posts. Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Trump Vows to End Third World Migration After Fatal National Guard Shooting appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Axios perhaps just inadvertently committed one of the most based forms of narrative-wrecking journalism ever to hit the leftist media ecosphere by admitting the Trump economy is a lot better than what the propaganda suggests. Axios economics reporter Courtenay Brown and Chief Economics Correspondent Neil Irwin — the latter of which forecasted economic doom since President Donald Trump first took office — released a shocking Thanksgiving Eve story declaring that “the biggest-picture indicators point to this being one of the better economies of modern times.” Talk about a seismic concession for an outlet that had been routinely denigrating Trump’s agenda from the get-go.  As Brown and Irwin wrote, “There have been plenty of ominous warnings this year about the job market, trade war-fueled inflation, asset bubbles, and more. The mighty U.S. economy has chugged ahead in 2025 despite them all.” In fact, “through 11 months of 2025, the overall trajectory is pretty darn solid.” Well, dang!  But of course, the authors tried to throw President Joe Biden a line by tracing some of the markers as far back as his administration, which makes sense given that Irwin was a notorious Bidenomics simp. Brown and Irwin pointed to a bevy of economic indicators such as unemployment remaining under 4.5 percent for 47 consecutive months, glossing over the fact that during Biden’s term, millions were still missing from the labor force. But now, as EJ Antoni pointed out based on the recent September jobs numbers, “Net job growth in Sep was from full-time hiring and replacing part-time work w/ those full-time jobs; this is a welcomed improvement after the weakness earlier in the year.”  Another core factor Brown and Irwin highlighted was America spending more “than any other nation”on artificial intelligence, “betting on technology that could have transformative effects for the economy and worker productivity.” The stock market, in effect, is near an all-time high, the Axios reporters continued, having spiked 16 percent this year alone.  The media writ large have been chasing their tails trying to rationalize why the Trump economy, regardless of one’s perspective on his tariff agenda, continued to defy the apocalyptic prophecies they churned out like clockwork over the past year.  CNN was probably the main villain behind much of the doom and gloom propaganda circulating around the Trump economy. The network’s response to the September jobs report blowing past expectations with a nonfarm payroll increase of 119,000 against a 50,000 estimate encapsulates how the leftist media is currently scrambling to salvage their narrative that Trump was driving the economy over a cliff: “Wait, I thought the economy was terrible. What happened?”  “What happened” was that reality flushed the media economic scareporn down the toilet vortex. Thanks for coming to our Ted Talk.