New economic data rolls in with good news for Americans’ wallets, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether states can bar males from competing in women’s sports, and how did Minnesota get here? We speak to former GOP governor Tim Pawlenty to learn more. It’s Tuesday, January 13, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below: Trump’s Wins Nearly one year after retaking the presidency, the White House says President Donald Trump’s economic and domestic agenda is starting to pay off. When Trump launched his trade war, the consensus among most economists and Democratic lawmakers was that it would tank the economy and stall GDP growth. But each month, the data continues to defy those expectations. At the beginning of 2025, the U.S. GDP shrank by half a percentage point. That set off alarm bells in Washington that a recession was looming. But in Quarter 2, GDP grew 3.8%; by Quarter 3, it was up to 4.3%, and based on the latest projections from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, GDP growth in the final quarter of 2025 was a stunning 5.1%. On Monday, gas prices fell for the seventh straight week. On housing, mortgage rates fell below 6% for the first time in nearly three years, while rents declined for the fifth straight month. Inflation has trended in the right direction for months. SCOTUS Weighs Women’s Sports The Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on Tuesday in two high-stakes cases that could have sweeping consequences for women’s sports and state authority. The paired cases come from Idaho and West Virginia and center on whether states can enforce laws banning biological males from competing in women’s sports. In Idaho’s Little v Hecox, Lindsay Hecox, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, is challenging Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. In the West Virginia case, a male middle school athlete known as BPJ is asking the court to invalidate a similar law. The Court consolidated the two cases because they raised nearly identical legal questions. Former Gov Tim Pawlenty Talks MN Fraud And ICE The protests gripping Minneapolis over the last few days have come amid federal investigations into widespread fraud, which President Trump is now sending even more agents to investigate. Former Minnesota Republican Governor Tim Pawlenty joined Morning Wire to discuss the issue rocking his state. The former governor blamed the tense standoff between local leaders and federal law enforcement on the state’s sanctuary policies. The extent of social service fraud in the state could be as high as $9 billion or more, which “could be the largest theft or fraud of public money in the history of our country,” Pawlenty said. On the chances that Democratic Governor Tim Walz could have known about the massive amount of fraud in his state prior to the recent media attention, Pawlenty said that the Minnesota state government has quashed fraud investigations before, simply by bureaucrats refusing to work with investigators.

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Keeping men out of women’s sports is smart policy and smart politics. Just look at what happened recently in Nevada.  Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo recently rolled out the Protect Girls’ Sports initiative. As the name implies, he wants to amend the Nevada Constitution to keep biological boys and men from participating in girls and women’s sports. While the exact language hasn’t been released, this is fantastic news.   In Fall 2024, the University of Nevada, Reno’s volleyball team was scheduled to play against San Jose State. The problem was that the San Jose State team included Blaire Fleming, a man pretending to be a woman. One of Fleming’s own teammates, Brooke Slusser, described Fleming’s hits as “scary.” Slusser believed “that Fleming’s spikes significantly increased the risk of her, teammates and opponents being concussed,” according to a lawsuit.   None of this is shocking because, as a group, men are stronger than women. Now, an individual female athlete may be stronger than an individual man. But she’s not stronger than top male athletes—or even middling ones.  This was the impetus behind the push to expand women’s sports. Women couldn’t compete with men, but allowing women to compete against other women created a level playing field.   This is all so obvious that it didn’t used to have to be explained. But the Left now wants society to believe that men who pretend to be women are women. Never mind the logical contradictions here, which produce absurdities like leftists refusing to define the word “woman.”   This larger debate is why the UNR volleyball team faced a choice they never should have had to make. In fall 2024, they courageously decided to forfeit their match to highlight the injustice of being forced to play against a male opponent.  Since then, Nevada has made some progress. Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, Sarah Johnson, who used to work for Anthony, and Marshi Smith, founder of ICONS, among many others, have done outstanding work on this issue. As a result, the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association moved in April to keep boys out of girls’ sports. But a constitutional amendment would make this protection more permanent.   You can tell this idea is popular by the response of Nevada Attorney General and Democrat gubernatorial candidate Aaron Ford.   “To all transgender Nevadans: we see you, we hear you, and we will fight by your side,” he wrote on X in 2018. He continued, “We stand with you.”  But when asked about this initiative, he said, “I personally do not support trans athletes competing in sports opposite their gender assigned at birth.”  Ford will stand with you right until doing so costs him electorally. Just look at his on-again, off-again support for making Nevada a sanctuary state.   Perhaps the reason Ford flip-flops so much is that he wants to make sure he has the right footwear for his next lobbyist-funded junket.  It’s doubtful that Ford is being direct with voters. In 2023, he signed Nevada on to an amicus brief that sought to help biological boys “participate on their school’s girls’ sports teams.” In 2022, Ford joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn an Arkansas law banning genital mutilation surgery.   It appears he wants voters to think he supports protecting girls’ sports while using his authority to do the opposite. Typical politician.  But Ford’s latest flip-flop is still revealing. It shows how deeply unpopular it is to force girls to compete against boys.   COPYRIGHT 2026 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.    The post Protecting Girls Remains a Political Winner  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

A Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, government agency is promoting an upcoming class by local leftist groups on “civil disobedience” from its social media accounts. The city’s Commission on Human Relations (CHR) reposted a joint announcement on Saturday advertising the event by the Pittsburgh chapters of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and the 50501 Movement on Instagram and X. The three-hour Tuesday evening talk will feature an unnamed “practitioner and trainer with extensive experience” and civil rights lawyer Mike Healey, according to the posts.  Tactical Training in the Art of Civil DisobedienceTuesday, January 13, 6-9pmCommunity Forge in Wilkinsburg pic.twitter.com/JlYvB7ux5Y— Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (@PghCHR) January 10, 2026 The session marks part two of a “Rebirthing Civil Disobedience” series hosted by the DSA and 50501 Pittsburgh, both taking place at the nonprofit Community Forge. Neither the organizations nor Healey responded to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment. “This session will offer tactical training in the art of civil disobedience, grounded in real-world experience and historical context,” the DSA wrote in its own announcement on Facebook. “Whether you are new to this work or looking to deepen your skills, this training is designed to help you grow more confident, effective, and prepared.” The CHR’s website calls the commission a “civil rights law enforcement agency focused on investigating instances of discrimination, providing outreach and education to communities about their rights, and recommending necessary protections in the City Code to provide all people in Pittsburgh with equal opportunities.” “Our goal is to decrease unfair treatment and discrimination by promoting justice and understanding among communities in the City of Pittsburgh,” the website reads. An announcement of Tuesday’s talk on 50501 Pittsburgh’s website says it will be livestreamed on YouTube, but assures in bold type that “no audience members will be shown on video.” “Build your civil disobedience muscle,” the post says. The 50501 Movement formed in 2025 to protest the second Trump administration and calls itself a “peaceful movement” on its website. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post City Agency Promotes ‘Art Of Civil Disobedience’ Class Hosted By Socialists, Anti-Trump Activists appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Unbelievable: Nora O'Donnell Suggests That Reza Pahlavi Is Responsible for Iranians Dying in Protests

Everyone can agree that Renee Good's shooting as she drove into an ICE agent was tragic. She could have simply obeyed the order to get out of the car, instead of putting it in Drive. But the media and Democrats mangled the facts into Good was just a peaceful mom who was driving away from the villains in an exhibit of "classic de-escalation behavior."  Senior research analyst Bill D'Agostino and MRC Business associate editor Joseph Vazquez joined me to analyze the media's pretty bad Good analysis.  On CBS's Face the Nation, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) claimed Good was “sitting in her car peacefully,” and then it became the ICE agent “shouldn't be trying to get in front of a moving car." Which is it? Was she sitting or moving? Host Margaret Brennan didn't push for an answer. Omar said Team Trump shouldn’t defend the ICE agent, because “we can see in the videos that have been produced so far that what they are describing is really not what is taking place.” Despite the ICE agent's video making it clear he was hit by Good's car, CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper pretended it was unknown, then suggested to Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla): “It does seem that he stepped to the side and was able to avoid getting hit in a horrible way, and he was seen walking fine afterwards.” Mullin scolded Tapper for cherry-picking still images and not showing the video evidence. MS NOW’s Ali Velshi and radical historian Heather Cox Richardson joined forces on Saturday to claim Good did nothing provocative at all. Velshi wanted to present this segment as one that was dedicated to facts, while Richardson smeared the ICE agent for “classic authoritarian behavior,” while Good displayed “classic de-escalation behavior.” This brings to mind Velshi standing in front of a raging fire during the George Floyd riots in Minneapolis in 2020 insisting the scene was "not generally unruly."  On Friday's Inside Politics, CNN host Dana Bash was unintentionally funny when she claimed that "historically," the leftist late-night comedians "condense and capture the feeling in society at any given moment." Bash pretended that “society” supported Stephen Colbert in summarizing the Trump reaction to the ICE shooting as “Only they determine the truth, and when their forces come to your city, obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey.” Plus: Hollywood leftists at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards on CBS ranted about American "dictatorship" and "mediocre white guys." The show’s host, comedian Nikki Glazer, mocked CBS News under Bari Weiss as “See B.S. News.” And the media keep insisting that Trump-o-nomics is not working, after they insisted Bidenomics was underappreciated.  Enjoy the show below on video. The audio is here. 

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