After reading an article titled 'E.T. Started Out As Dark Alien Attack Movie' I wanted to go back and look at the encounter to get an idea of how the original script may have read.On the night of August 21, 1955, two Kentucky families claimed to have fought unknown beings. In a rural area of Kentucky, near Hopkinsville and Kelly, two families contend they battled extraterrestrial creatures. The event happened around the Sutton farmhouse, where the Suttons and the Taylors gathered for dinner. At some point during the evening, Billy Ray Taylor went outside to draw water from the well.Taylor witnessed a huge, bright object land in the woods about a quarter of a mile from the house. He started towards the house with the water when he saw a strange creature approaching. Billy Ray dropped the bucket and ran into the house. Both he and Lucky Sutton picked up firearms and ran back outside. Taylor fired his .22 caliber rifle and Lucky fired his shotgun but neither weapon had any effect on the creature.Sutton and Taylor described the aliens as three feet tall, with pointed ears, thin limbs, long arms, and claw-like hands. They said the creatures looked like gremlins, hence they became known as the Hopkinsville Goblins. The beings were either silvery in color or were wearing something metallic. The strangest aspect of this creature was its movements.The alien's movements seemed to defy gravity as they floated above ground and walked with a swaying motion like they were walking through water.The two men returned to the house. However, another creature appeared at the window...the two families realized they were up against something extraordinary. They ran from the house, got in their cars, and headed to Hopkinsville. There they sought help from police who followed them to the farmhouse and searched the area.Although they found no evidence of the creatures, they did find that the farmhouse had been shot up by the humans during the battle. The police left shortly after, but the aliens returned and the battle resumed. The defenders' guns continued to have no effect. The Air Force investigated the event but could not find solid evidence.At first, the public reaction was that the incident was a hoax. However, the Suttons and the Taylors never profited from the encounter and there were dozens of eyewitnesses to the event. In addition to the families at the farmhouse, there were law enforcement officers who saw strange lights in the sky.In 1957, Air Force Major John E. Albert concluded that the case resulted from the witnesses observing a monkey painted with silver that had escaped from a circus. French UFO researcher Renaud Leclet opined that a pair of Great Horned Owls may have been misidentified as aliens. However, Dr. J. Allen Hynek believed the incident was real. UFO researcher Allan Hendry wrote, "...this case is distinguished by its duration and also by the number of witnesses involved." Jerome Clark writes that "...investigations by police, Air Force officers from nearby Fort Campbell, and civilian ufologists found no evidence of a hoax". Although they never formally investigated the case, Blue Book confessed to being stumped. So was Isabel Davis, one of the most skeptical of UFO investigators.Many of famed film director Steven Spielberg's projects, like Night Skies, E.T., and Gremlins, were directly inspired by the Kelly-Hopkinsville events.Illustrations by Pfc. Gary F. Hodson of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at nearby Fort Campbell, who was sent to interview the witnesses of the Hopkinsville incidents-----The Kelly-Hopkinsville Case: An OverviewAugust 21 - 22, 1955The scene was a small farm outside of the Kentucky town of Kelly. Inside the farmhouse were eight adults and three children. The night was dark, clear, and hot. At about 7 PM, Billy Ray Taylor (a friend of the Suttons and owner of the farmhouse) came in from the well with the "wild story's that he had seen a really bright "flying saucer," with an exhaust all the colors of the rainbow, fly across the sky and drop into a forty-foot gully near the edge of their property. However, the Suttons did not take him seriously and laughed the story off as an embellishment of his seeing a "falling star."Half an hour later the family dog began barking violently and eventually put its tail between its legs and hid under the house. The two men, Billy Ray Taylor and Lucky Sutton went to the back door to see what was bothering the dog and noticed a strange glow approaching the farmhouse from the fields. When the light came nearer, they resolved what caused it: a glowing three-and-a-half-foot tall creature with a round, oversized head. The eyes were large and glowed with a yellowish light; the arms were long, extended nearly to the ground, and ended in large hands with talons. The entire creature seemed made of silver metal. As the creature approached, its hands were raised over its head as if it were being held up.Understandably startled, the two men reacted by grabbing their guns: a 20-gauge shotgun and a .22 rifle. Withdrawing slightly into the house, the men waited until the creature was within twenty feet of the back door and then fired; the entity flipped over backward and then scurried off into the darkness. After a few minutes, when it did not reappear, they returned to the living room only to see another (or the same) creature at a side window. They fired through the window screen at it, and again the creature flipped and disappeared. Sure that they had hit and disabled the creature, the two men went outside to find the body. As they started out the front door Billy Ray, who was in the lead, paused for a moment underneath an overhanging roof. Just as he was about to step into the yard, those in the hallway behind him saw one of the creatures on the roof reach down a taloned hand and touch his hair from above. The people indoors screamed and pulled him back inside. Lucky Sutton rushed out into the yard, turned, and fired point-blank at the creature, knocking it off the roof. There was another creature in the maple tree close by. Both Lucky and Billy Ray fired at this one and knocked it off the limb; it floated to the ground and then ran off quickly into the darkness. Immediately, another entity (or perhaps the one that had been knocked off the roof) came around the side of the house almost directly in front of the group. Lucky fired his shotgun at point-blank range and the result was the same: no effect. A sound was heard as the bullets struck, as if a metal bucket had been hit, but the creature scurried off unhurt.Understandably concerned that their guns were apparently useless, the men returned to the house to join the frightened women and children.The creatures generally moved peculiarly. The legs appeared to be inflexible and when they ran, movement was accomplished almost totally by "hip motions." Usually totally erect, when they ran off they bent over and moved with long arms almost touching the ground. The entities' ability to float was particularly evident when one was knocked off the kitchen roof and floated a distance of about forty feet to a fence, where it was knocked off again by a shot. While they did not appear to have an aura of luminescence, their "skin" glowed in the dark with the glow becoming brighter when they were shot at or shouted at.Mrs. Lankford, the mother of the family, counseled an end to the hostilities. Even though they had been shot at several times, no aggressive action was ever proffered by the creatures. However, the children were becoming hysterical and the creatures kept returning to peer in the windows at intervals; by 11 PM the family's patience had worn thin and they all got into two automobiles and headed at top speed to the nearby Hopkinsville police departmentAfter a half hour's travel time, the police arrived back at the farmhouse with the still-frightened family. The Hopkinsville police, the state police, and a staff photographer arrived to investigate the situation. A thorough search was made of the house, the yard, and the outbuildings. Nothing was found, and the tension ran high: When someone accidentally stepped on a cat's tail and it yowled, "You never saw so many pistols unholstered so fast in your life!" The searchers checked out the woods area but found nothing. One unusual item that was found was a luminous patch where one of the creatures had been knocked off and fallen to the ground. However, when nothing really extraordinary appeared, the searchers began to leave and by 2:15 AM., the Sutton family was alone.The family had been reassured enough to go to bed and shut off the few lights. Mrs. Lankford was lying in bed watching the window when she noticed a weird glow; the glow was one of the creatures staring inward with its hands on the window screen. Calling quietly to the rest of the family, she remained perfectly calm. Lucky Sutton, however, grabbed his gun and again shot at the creature through the screen. No effect. The creatures continued to make their appearance throughout the rest of the night, never doing anything overtly hostile and only seeming to show curiosity. The last creature was seen at half an hour before sunrise, at about 5:15 AMThe next morning, investigators came back to search the farmlands during the daytime. Nothing was found even though some even climbed to the roof of the house to look for footprints. The press got hold of the story; besides the reporter who had accompanied the police out during the night, the local radio station and many reporters from other papers in Kentucky, Indiana, and Tennessee arrived at the Sutton house. As the news spread, the general public began to show up and cars were backed up for a considerable distance down the road from the Sutton farmhouse. Sightseers stopped their cars, walked through the property, in and out of the house, annoyed the family with requests for pictures, and, in general, created a carnival atmosphere the upshot of which was to generally ridicule the family for having seen "little green men from space."However, on that same morning, Andrew Ledwith, an engineer with the local radio station, decided to stop into the station for a talk with the chief engineer (it was Ledwith's day off). He learned of the happenings at the Sutton farm the night before and because of his interest in UFOs and his previous experience as an artist, he decided to go out and interview the family. Fortunately, he did. The publicity became so obnoxious to the Sutton family that they later simply avoided telling the story and refused to cooperate (one notable exception was with Isabel Davis, who prepared the Kelly report for CUFOS). The drawings that Mr. Ledwith created on the afternoon following the sighting are illustrated above.How can such a tale be accepted at face value? one asks. After all, the family itself was considered of "low social status" by the townspeople. Two of the men had worked for a carnival; it could be argued that they were familiar with the art of the trickster.The most telling criticism of the incident, however, is that there is absolutely no physical evidence whatsoever that the incident actually occurred. Skeptics point out that no footprints were found (the ground was extremely hard), no marks were on the roof (although the creatures seemed nearly weightless and may not have left marks), there was no blood on then, the bullets did no apparent damage), et cetera. One could thus conclude that the family "faked" the entire incident.However, investigators who interviewed the Suttons afterward painted a picture of them that is quite different from the sort of people who could fabricate an elaborate hoax: They were uneducated, simple farm folk with no apparent interest in exploiting the rather considerable publicity that they engendered.Did "creatures" really visit the farmhouse in Kentucky on that night of August 21, 1955? Or did the many witnesses, mostly adults, excite themselves to the point of exaggerating some lesser stimulus? The Kelly/Hopkinsville case still stands as one of the more provocative CE III events to date. - Allan Hendry, CUFOS-----INVESTIGATORS' QUOTESKevin D. Randle:Kevin D. Randle, ufologist, USAF retired, radio interview quote:"What specific example of an entity case would you cite as fairly credible and why?""Well, naturally, I would elect the Roswell case, but the aspect of it from the military end. Edwin Easley, Patrick Saunders, et. al. because of their credibility. If we go beyond that I kind of like the Kelly-Hopkinsville report from 1955, but only because of the number of witnesses and the physical evidence involved. That is the number of holes that Kelly (sic) and friends shot in the house in their attempt to repel the alien creatures. The Air Force's excuse that they didn't investigate the case, though Air Force officers did go to interview the witnesses is fairly weak. It is an interesting case."Dr. Gregory L. Little:"In UFO Abductions Through The Ages", by Dr. Gregory L. Little, 1994:"As my eyes fell on the demon drawings in Plancy's Dictionaire Infernal (1863), I was struck by their similarity to the famous 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO case. Imagine the demons as gray in color, and they would also fit the description of the ubiquitous grays in recent abductions.""There are many in the UFO field (as well as various religious leaders) who believe that the creatures associated with UFOs are demons. The similarity of some demons to the grays of UFO reports is probably no coincidence."Karal Ayn Barnett:In "The Kelly-Hopkinsville Incident - An Historical Review", 1998:"Based on my experience of the region, I would testify to the fact that no one in that area would consider making up anything remotely like what the Suttons and Taylor said they saw. The residents of southwestern Kentucky are people who even now are largely religious, and (I mean on disparagement) conformists. To make up a story like this, one would run the risk of being branded as insane or a congenital liar with a pox on their family to boot. The ridicule, the contempt, the ostracism, the media circus - no one would risk it. It just wouldn't happen. Unless it really happened.""Not to put too fine a point on it, but small-town Southerners are cloistered away, and in a sense, protected from other cultures, not just alien ones. Southerners don't venture far from their homes, usually, and the constant interaction among the townsfolk tends to reinforce certain ideas. One idea that is profoundly reinforced is that there are no such things as aliens and anyone who says that they are either bedeviled, bewitched, or terminally bewildered. We need not wonder why the Suttons and Billy Ray Taylor moved from the area soon after the incident."Martin S. Kottmeyer:Excerpts from "Pencil-Neck Aliens" by Martin S. Kottmeyer."Aliens with long, thin necks are currently "in." Reports and drawings of these pencil-neck Greys seem to be everywhere. They've turned up on T-shirts, made for TV films - Intruders (1992) - and in dozens of magazines and books. The proliferation of this trait among contemporary aliens may be a telling indication that our taste in aliens is as subject to fadism as our taste in clothing styles.One has to grant that pencil necks have more aesthetic logic than biological sense. The slenderness of these necks undeniably lends elegance to present-day aliens and enhances their overall anorexic appearance. Propping oversized craniums on top of such skinny supports, however, raises concerns this species is whiplash bait. What business has such aliens in vehicles which legend has it has a penchant for bone-bending right-angle turns and ultra-air-brake stops?The pencil-neck is a strikingly recent innovation. Early studies of ufonauts Coral and Jim Lorenzens's Flying Saucer Occupants (1967), Charles Bowen's The Humanoids (1969), and James McCampbell's Ufology (1973) - say nothing about aliens with long thin necks. They certainly weren't common. I'm doubtful there was a single unambiguous instance of a pencil-neck alien before the Eighties. I've rummaged through the drawings of all the major cases - the Flatwoods monster, Kelly-Hopkinsville, Barny and Betty Hill, Herb Schirmer, Pascagoula, Charles Moody, Travis Walton - and they are nowhere to be seen. (...) They seem to arrive en masse in 1987 with no less than five drawings of pencil- necks in Budd Hopkins' Intruders and the very prominent example staring out from the cover the Whitley Strieber's Communion. These works were popular and influential to the degree that it is now part of the stereotype of the Grey as noted by David Jacobs in his abductee study, Secret Life."-----August 22, 1955 article in the Kentucky New Era:Kelly Farmhouse Scene Of Alleged Raid By Strange Crew Last Night; Reports Say Bullets Failed To Affect VisitorsAll kinds of investigations were going on today in connection with the bizarre story of how a spaceship carrying 12 to 15 little men landed in the Kelly community early last night and battled occupants of a farmhouse.Most officials of the probes were reportedly being staged by the Air Force.More than a dozen state, county, and city officers from Christian and Hopkins counties went to the scene between 11 p.m. and midnight and remained until after 2 a.m. without seeing anything either to prove or disprove the story about the ship and its occupants.The farmhouse is located on Old Madisonville Road about eight miles north of Hopkinsville. The property is occupied by Cecil (Lucky) Sutton, one of those who reported experiencing last night's phenomena.There were some 10 or 12 persons at the house, including several children, but investigating officers were not able to determine exactly how many of those present actually claimed to have seen any of the little men from the spaceship. The only other person who officers quoted directly was identified as Billy Ray Taylor. One account said Taylor is a visitor from Pennsylvania, which recently had a similar report of a spaceship. Neither Sutton nor Taylor was at home when officers returned to the scene this morning.The story broke around 11 o'clock last night when two cars, one bearing a Pennsylvania license drove up to Hopkinsville's police headquarters. Officers then at the station said the two autos contained at least five adults and several children. All appeared highly excited.Spokesmen for the crowd told of how something resembling a spaceship or flying saucer had landed at the back of their house near Kelly and 12 or 15 men, who appeared to be about 4 feet tall, had got out of the ship and come up to the house and done battle with the occupants."We need help," one of the men said, "we've been fighting them for nearly four hours."Four city police, Chief Russell Greenwell, T.C. Gross, Dorris Francis, and Gray Salter, drove to the scene to see about the "little men". By radio, contact was made with State Troopers R.N. Ferguson Jr. and G.W. Riley and Deputy Sheriff George Batts, all of whom joined the motorcade to Kelly in their own vehicles. Four MPs also went.The radio discussions also brought two Hopkins County deputy sheriffs and at least three state troopers from the station at Madisonville.First arrivers found the scene deserted. The two cars that had brought the report to Hopkinsville did not return to the Kelly farm until after officers had arrived and looked the situation over.Officers reported they found no tracks of "little men," nor was there any mark indicating anything had landed at the described sport behind the house. There was a hole in the screen at the window through which occupants said a shot had been fired at one of the strange little men.Both Chief Greenwell and Deputy Sheriff Batts said they got approximately this story from the still-terrified and excited Sutton and Taylor families:About 7 p.m. one of the men went out of the house to get a bucket of water. He saw what looked like a flying saucer come over the trees and land in a field at a point about a city block behind the house. There was no explosion, only a semi-hissing sound, and the watcher returned to the house with the bucket of water.A short time later somebody reported some little men with big heads and long arms were approaching the house. The men were described as having huge eyes and hands out of proportion to their small bodies. The visitors were wearing what looked to be metal plates.The men got their guns, a shotgun for Sutton, and a .22 caliber target pistol for Taylor. By and by, one of the little men pressed his face against the window and the shotgun was fired through the window. The face disappeared.The men decided to go outside and see if the visitor had been hit. Taylor was in front and when he emerged from the front door, a huge hand reached down from the low roof above the door and grabbed him by the hair. He pulled away and the two men went on out of the house.One of the strange little men was in a nearby tree, another on top of the house. A blast from Sutton's shotgun knocked another one of the men down but he did not appear hurt. He disappeared in the darkness.Taylor reportedly opened fire on another member of the invading party, also with little effect. The battle went on for some time. When the occupants of the house saw their chance, they jumped into their cars and drove to Hopkinsville for help.Deputy Sheriff Batts said the men told him that in all they fired up about four boxes of .22 pistol shells. The officer quoted a neighbor saying he heard shooting at the Suttons but distinguished only about four shots and mistook them for fire-crackers. Most of the officers remained at the site for more than two hours. During that period, there were approximately 25 people at the scene.The only excitement during the period the officers were there came when an MP happened to step on a cat's tail while walking in the darkness near the house. The cat let out a squawl and for a few seconds, there was much activity and scurrying around on the part of those present.Two officers who returned to the Kelly area early this morning reported hearing that the "little men" had reappeared around the Sutton home about 3:30 a.m.Other investigators who went to Kelly later during the morning said they were told Sutton and Taylor had gone to Evansville today.Officers who visited the scene during last night's excitement were reluctant to express any opinion today regarding the reported invasion of Kelly. All officials appeared to agree that there was no drinking involved.The only outspoken comment came from Frank Dudas, city police desk sergeant, who was not on duty last night and has not visited the scene so far. He said, "I think the whole story is entirely possible."Sergeant Dudas was one of two city policemen who reported seeing three flying saucers early one-morning last summer. He said, "I know I saw them. If I saw them, the Kelly story certainly could be true."NOTE: One of the most intriguing UFO / extraterrestrial encounters ever reported. In fact, it is mostly likely one of the first UFO cases I read, possibly in comic book form in the early 60s. LonSources:Hendry, Allan (1980), "The Encyclopedia of UFOs"socyberty.comwww.ufoevidence.orgufos.about.comwww.nicap.orgufologie.netwww.kentuckynewera.comwww.ufocasebook.comwww.mysterious-america.ne**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. 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An eyewitness contacted me about an unknown 'winged' UAP with enormous eyes and a massive wing span that reflected light. It also hovered without flapping its wings. Creature or craft?“Hello, Mr. Strickler. I just watched the Unsolved Mysteries episode about the Chicago Mothman sightings. I decided to write about my personal incident.The encounter occurred on July 6, 2005, at about 11:30 pm. I had a long day in San Diego, CA, then afterward going to the beach at Del Mar for some surf fishing. I arrived at my home in San Marcos at about 11:00 pm. After cleaning my fish and showering, I was very tired. I went out to my carport for a smoke and a look at the night sky. I looked north, thinking about a recent UFO sighting and wondering what it was all about. In the distance, at a couple hundred feet, I saw a faintly visible moving object that flitted from side to side. Whatever it was, it reflected light from the streetlights. Its side-to-side movement was so fast, I couldn't tell if it was one object or two. The object then zipped directly over my neighbor’s house across the street.By this time, I was certain I'd never seen anything like it. It continued to move side to side, in a space of approximately 50 feet. It then stopped and I observed it more clearly.It had big "eyes" and wing-like appendages that were probably 15-20 feet in span. It remained still and I could see wavering reflections from its "wings" which were not beating like a bird’s but showed shimmering reflections from the streetlights. I felt the hair on my head rise all the way down my back to my ankles! It appeared to be looking at me, as I smoked my cigarette. I felt threatened, and said out loud, "I see you!" Then it went from stationary to out of sight, right over my head in an instant. I came out from under my covered carport and turned to follow its movement. Immediately, it zipped into view directly above my head, obviously studying me! I could see really weird large and intensely dark "eyes". It seemed surprised by my looking right at it. It didn't like being seen. My apprehension rose even higher. It turned away and disappeared like a shot.It had a birdlike shape but was thicker. My impression was of reflections of the streetlights on wing-like appendages, and big dark eyes!It wasn't a bird, bat, or any familiar nocturnal creature. Its movements did not seem explicable in comparison to any creature that flies by beating its wings. The hills and mountains are so rugged and inaccessible near my home, that anything could remain hidden and make nighttime forays at will. I read about "Thunderbirds" but I'm not sure if this was one of these.” W**********PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!WEIRDEST OF THE WEIRD 2 - EXPERIENCERS COME FORWARD! | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (REAL EYEWITNESS REPORTS!)LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonJOIN AMAZON PRIME - Unlimited Movie/TV Streaming& FREE 2-Day ShippingRegister a SNAP EBT CardTry Audible PlusBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I want to sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio member - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS

Everyone knows the first Asia album. It was such a huge hit and received tons of airplay on MTV when it was first released back in 1982. The group didn’t waste much time and released their second album a year later called Alpha in 1983, and most people know that one too. Then there was Astra that came out in 1985, which some people still probably recognize. However, that was the last album with John Wetton on lead vocals for a while. (he would return many years later) From that point on, the band released ten more albums from 1992 The post 10 Most Underrated Asia Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

Teachers unions are among the largest donors to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ vice presidential candidate, giving over $80,000 to his campaigns for governor and, before that, Congress. Walz, who once taught high school social studies, sides with teachers unions instead of everyday Minnesotans, some parents say. “When it comes to education, the policies of Tim Walz show that he has been beholden to the dictates of the teachers unions,” Minnesota mom of three Jeannine Buntrock told The Daily Signal. The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s two largest teachers unions, are joined in Walz’s state to form the Education Minnesota PAC. Their political action committee contributed the maximum allowable donation of $4,000 to his campaigns for governor in both the 2018 and 2022 election cycles, according to campaign finance reports. Teachers unions were among Walz’s highest contributors in his congressional campaigns from 2005 to 2018. He served six terms in the House representing Minnesota’s 1st Congressional District. During those years, the National Education Association’s own political action committee contributed a total of $60,000 to Walz’s campaigns. The amount rises to $67,450 when counting donations from individuals who identified themselves as belonging to the NEA. The American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teachers union, donated $60,000 to Walz’s congressional campaigns, according to an Open Secrets report. (The national branches of the NEA and AFT aren’t bound by Minnesota’s donation limits.) Walz, 60, sided with the American Federation of Teachers on more than 90% of its issues before Congress, AFT President Randi Weingarten has said. “There is no distinction between the policies and dictates that Walz has rubber-stamped during his time as governor and the demands of the teachers unions,” Cristine Trooien, a mother of three who is executive director of the Minnesota Parents Alliance, told The Daily Signal. Neither the NEA nor the AFT contributed to the 2022 campaign of Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who is former President Donald Trump’s running mate in the Nov. 5 election, pitting them against Harris and Walz. Teachers unions likely support Walz politically because his policy objectives and priorities are aligned with theirs, said Andrew Holman, a policy analyst for the Commonwealth Foundation whose report on union finances was published in December 2023. Walz, who was a member of both the NEA and AFT, taught and coached football at the high school level before running for office. Walz expanded collective bargaining rights, which teachers unions use to negotiate higher salaries and benefits; opposed right-to-work laws, which allow teachers to choose whether or not to join a union; and opposed popular school choice initiatives in Minnesota, which unions claim “rob our nation’s public schools” of “scarce funding and resources.” Walz agrees with teachers unions on abortion, transgenderism, and making sexually graphic books available in school libraries. As governor, he signed a bill enshrining abortion with no limitations in Minnesota law. The AFT and NEA both support abortion on demand. Walz also signed into law what opponents call a “Transgender Trafficking Bill” because it allows minors to travel to Minnesota and receive medical interventions to “transition” them to the opposite sex without their parents’ knowledge or consent. The NEA’s “Schools in Transition” guide says teachers should carefully hide a student’s gender identity from unsupportive parents. In light of parental efforts to remove pornographic books from school libraries, Walz signed into law a bill barring Minnesota schools from complying with book removal requests “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” The NEA recommended that teachers assign “Gender Queer” as summer reading even though the novel, told in comic-book style, depicts gay sex. The AFT lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools closed longer during the COVID-19 pandemic. As governor, Walz kept Minnesota schools closed intermittently throughout the 2020-2021 school year and into 2021-2022. Many students were subjected to intermittent online or “distance learning” for two full years.  Neither the AFT nor the NEA responded to The Daily Signal’s requests for comment before publication of this report. The heads of America’s two largest teachers unions cheered Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris‘ selection of Walz as her running mate. “Inspired Choice!!! Gov Walz represents America,” Weingarten, AFT’s president, wrote in a post on X. “A social studies teacher and veteran from rural Minn.” Congrats @Tim_Walz! As Governor his record has been exemplary including record funding for public education, protecting reproductive rights, expanding collective bargaining, access to affordable childcare & paid family and medical leave. @KamalaHarris made a great choice!! pic.twitter.com/EFEyo6XYcP— Randi Weingarten ?????????? (@rweingarten) August 6, 2024 NEA President Becky Pringle called Walz an ally of teachers unions. “Gov. Walz is known as the ‘Education Governor’ because he has been an unwavering champion for public school students and educators, and an ally for working families and unions,” Pringle said in a statement. “As a high school teacher and NEA member, Walz is committed to uplifting our public schools.” But Buntrock, whose children attend public schools in Minnesota, said Walz’s alignment with union dictates resulted in negative outcomes. “The results have been plummeting test scores following the COVID shutdowns, increasingly unsafe schools as teachers and administrators are prevented from reasonably disciplining students, and more and more division between students as they are treated differently according to their identity silos,” Buntrock told The Daily Signal. “More and more, the focus in schools is on social [and] emotional learning and social justice as a distraction from the loss of academic rigor.” Minnesota Parents Alliance’s Trooien, another mom, said Walz follows “the destructive hyperpartisan orders of union bosses.” “Walz has been presented time and again with opportunities to unite and lead Minnesota out of the chaos of 2020, but instead continues to follow a very narrow and divisive set of policy directives set by state and national teachers unions,” Trooien said. “As a result, K-12 test scores are at all-time lows; crime, violence, and taxes are at all-time highs; and families are fleeing Minnesota in record numbers.” Walz’s press secretary did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment before publication of this report. 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The Media Research Center (MRC) and members of its influential Free Speech Alliance (FSA) delivered a bold message to Big Tech giants ahead of the 2024 presidential election: We won’t tolerate any election-interfering censorship this time around. This was the tone of a 6-page letter addressed to the chief executive officers of 50 of the largest tech companies in the U.S. Among the recipients were Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Andy Jassy, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, X’s Linda Yaccarino and TikTok’s Shou Zi Chew.  The FSA letter, sent on Friday, calls on these Big Tech executives to affirm their commitment to not censor Americans based on their political views and not to thwart the free exchange of ideas and politicking on their platforms. The Big Tech giants came under fire for their vicious assault against free speech in 2020. “We know that governments across the world are pressuring tech firms to interfere in the 2024 elections just as so many of you did in 2020,” FSA members wrote. “Now is the time for you to affirm that you will not bow to this coercion and to reaffirm your commitment to providing fair and even-handed service to your customers.” The letter was signed by pro-free speech leaders, including MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling, former Gov. Scott Walker, McLaughlin & Associates CEO John McLaughlin, Article III Project President Mike Davis and New York Young Republican Club President Gavin Max. The Free Speech Alliance’s call to action comes as the nation inches closer to the 2024 election, with the Democratic and Republican parties vying for the White House and control of the U.S. House and Senate. The letter also coincides with the release of several MRC Free Speech America studies exposing tech giants Google and X censoring Republican politicians and right-leaning media outlets respectively. Emphasizing the importance of the election, the Free Speech Alliance stated in its letter,  “This year’s election is a critical moment in the history of democracy. As the largest tech firms in America, it is imperative that you stand against the powerful forces of censorship pushing you to pervert our democratic process.” Related: MRC-Led Free Speech Alliance Urges Appropriations Committee to Defund Biden Censorship Scheme  Also:  Mum! Google Fails to Respond to Bozell’s Challenge, Does Not Refute Election Interference   Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Carl, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author of The Unprotected Class, made clear that the legacy media is a willing partner of groups and governments pushing racially and discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. During an exclusive interview with the MRC Business, Carl blasted what he described as the “regime media” for collaborating with DEI proponents and shutting out any discussion of the discriminatory nature of such initiatives.  Carl made clear that he doesn’t distinguish between the media and their governmental and grant-making allies because the media is “fully part of the regime.” He also emphasized the connection between activist groups and the government: “If they're not directly funded by the government, they're funded by very wealthy beneficiaries of the regime.”  Carl explained that he does not expect the media to listen, but hopes to spread awareness of the reality and significance of anti-white racial discrimination among conservatives. He said that the media and the left will keep pushing DEI until “there's enough of a counter force that hits back at them and it becomes politically painful to–continue to push these types of lies.”  He stated that he wrote The Unprotected Class in hopes that “we could develop that type of a counterforce on the right if we educate our own side, at least about what the stakes are." The book, published earlier this year, explores anti-white racial discrimination across modern society, including law, business, Big Tech, media coverage and education. When asked whether the book led to any interviews or expert appearances on CNN, MSNBC or the Big Three networks, Carl laughed before explaining that the media has no interest in fair coverage.  “This is not really a conversation they want to have. I’ve gotten a few snipes of outrage from the regime media on the left. But for the most part, I think their strategy has been to ignore the book,” he said. The Claremont fellow also responded to the media pushing debunked studies by management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company promoting DEI as good for business. Carl said that the media would not stop pushing DEI “unless their incentives change.” Carl also answered questions about alleged racial discrimination at the Walt Disney Corporation and heinous admissions of racial and political discrimination by the CEO of IBM Arvind Krishna and Matt Hicks, who leads Red Hat, an IBM subsidiary. Krishna confessed to tying compensation to racial discrimination in hiring, while Hicks noted that DEI opponents no longer worked for Red Hat. At Disney, alleged internal documents mandated hiring based on race and gender. Also, a Disney executive would tell an undercover journalist that there was not only racial discrimination at Disney but that this discrimination had impacted his career.  The Unprotected Class author blasted the discrimination Disney is accused of as “facially illegal” and predicted court victories for many victims of DEI discrimination. However, Carl warned that racists might simply discriminate more subtly to avoid legal trouble.  After praising Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey (R) for leading the fight on discrimination by suing IBM, Carl explained that a few legal wins will make DEI a “political football” in the corporate world and provide non-ideological employees reasons and excuses to challenge it.  “And now the people who really don't kind of want to discriminate have an excuse. They can go and–they go to their board, the CEO, and say, ‘Hey, you know, we'd like to do this DEI thing, but my legal team is telling me that we're going to do this and look how Missouri successfully sued so-and-so or–whatever state sued so-and-so or whatever NGOs sued so and so.’”  Carl added,  “I think it will allow people who would like to be good actors here to feel the freedom to be good actors, because now we have pressure coming from our direction, not just the left. So I don't see it as a panacea, but I do see it as something where we can actually move the ball forward.” Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News at 818-460-7477, CBS News at 212-975-3247 and NBC News at 212-664-6192 and demand they cover corporations and activists group pushing racially discriminatory DEI.

On Friday, ABC, CBS, and NBC engaged in some farcical gaslighting during their Friday morning news shows by implying it’s been former President Donald Trump — instead of Vice President Kamala Harris, who has completely avoided questions (until a brief softball session Thursday) and zero interviews — that’s been guilty of ducking reporters and, when he has, peddled “false and misleading statements” plus “dire warnings” about the world. They also went full-court press on Trump for agreeing to allow the Democrats to switch out President Biden for Harris on the September 10 ABC debate. On Friday and in the days prior, they insisted it’s Trump who’s the scaredy cat and excused Harris from having to accept Trump’s calls for two more. ABC’s Good Morning America was, as usual, the worst. Senior White House correspondent Selina Wang gushed that “Trump [made] that announcement from his Mar-a-Lago home while Harris and her new running mate have been blitzing through battleground states.”   ABC's Selina Wang argues that it's Trump who's been "waffling on his commitment" to debates, excused Kamala Harris only wanting to do one debate, and merely passing along the fact that Harris has ignored reporters. State-run TV. pic.twitter.com/Mbb9WxnaCx — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 9, 2024   “The debate, one Trump agreed to when President Biden was still in the race, despite waffling on his commitment the last few weeks when Harris ascended to the top of the ticket,” she then added, ignoring the fact that he hadn’t originally agreed to debate Harris under ABC’s auspices. Wang further groveled: “During a more than one-hour-long press conference, Trump repeating false and misleading statements, include the Vice President’s intelligence, criticizing her press availability.” When it came to Trump daring Harris to two other debates, Wang defended Harris with her excuse that she “remains focused on the ABC News debate” She hit a sugar high towards the end with a boast that “[t]he Harris campaign still riding high on the jolt of enthusiasm”. Showing how much of a partisan she was, Wang refused to use the necessary bandwidth to point out Trump will head to Montana not because of it being a tight race at the top of the ticket, but to support Eric Sheehy in a competitive Senate race: “And Trump finally today getting back on the campaign trail, holding a rally tonight in Montana, which is a reliably red state.” NBC threw anti-Trump correspondent Garrett Haake out on Today, which kicked off with a both sides-ism on who’s been avoiding reporters: These two campaigns who have agreed on almost nothing have agreed to at least that one debate next month in New York City. That was one key development to come out of a lengthy Donald Trump press conference yesterday, in which he called out Kamala Harris for avoiding reporter questions while making plenty of news on how he answered and avoided the questions that he faced.  Oh, so we’re supposed to make a bigger deal out of how the candidate who talks to the media speaks to them versus the one who’s been in a campaign version of witness protection?   NBC's Garrett Haake went on 'Today' and put greater emphasis on Trump "making plenty of news on how he answered and avoid the questions" and "back[ing] off of online threats" to not debate Harris instead of how *SHE* completely avoided questions until yesterday and hasn't done a… pic.twitter.com/cwaRizTm8U — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 9, 2024   Haake continued to spin his wheels (click “expand”): HAAKE: This morning, after weeks of uncertainty, the stage is now set for a presidential debate showdown between Vice President Harris and former President Trump next month. The former President Trump announcing at a news conference he’s agreed to a debate against Harris in September 10, backing off online threats not to show and saying he’s also up for two additional showdowns. TRUMP: We’d like to do three debates. HAAKE: Harris noncommittal on additional debates. HARRIS: Well, I’m glad he’s finally agreed to a debate on September 10. I’m looking forward to it and hope he shows up. HAAKE: Mr. Trump’s own news conference packed with personal attacks and falsehoods[.] (....) HAAKE: This as polls show the race tightening nationwide. [TO TRUMP] To what do you attribute her rise in the polls? TRUMP: She’s a woman. She represents certain groups of people. But I will say this, when people find out about her I think she will be much less. HAAKE: Harris shrugging off Trump’s criticisms. HARRIS: I was too busy talking to voters. I didn’t hear ‘em. Haake made sure to defend Harris’s running mate, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), for lying about his military service, saying she “did stop to” talk to reporters” so she could “defend” Walz as “[t]he Trump campaign has seized on past comments”. Haake closed with what his handlers at the Harris campaign want him to focus on: abortion. CBS Mornings co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King made the contrast her friends probably wanted her to: Trump talked about [the September 10 debate] during a very lengthy news conference yesterday. It was filled with attacks against the Democrats, while Harris and her running mate, Tim Walz, courted union members in the battleground state of Michigan. Campaign and White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe put Harris and Trump going before reporters on an equal plane:   On 'CBS Mornings', Ed O'Keefe puts Kamala Harris and Donald Trump taking questions from reporters on an equal plane, arguing in Trump's case it had been "the first time in months". In Trump's case, O'Keefe said he "personally attack[ed]" Harris and leaned into "dire warnings" pic.twitter.com/9eySweGZ2c — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 9, 2024   O’Keefe then pivoted to public relations for Democrats (click “expand”): O’KEEFE: Harris and running mate Tim Walz campaigned Thursday in Michigan alongside members of the United Autoworkers. HARRIS: The true measure of the strength of a leader is not based on who you beat down. It's based on who you lift up. O’KEEFE: The UAW president, Shawn Fain, had signaled Sunday he preferred Harris pick a union-friendly running mate like Walz.  SHAWN FAIN [on CBS’s Face the Nation, 08/04/24]: He’s an awesome guy for labor. O’KEEFE: Thursday, the Minnesota governor warned union households about supporting Trump. GOVERNOR TIM WALZ (D-MN): If Trump returns, he's going to learn something, he didn't get the job done. This time, it will be far, far worse, and he will get the job done and make sure that we can't organize collectively to improve our lives. O’KEEFE: Now, Harris and Walz are waking up this morning in Arizona where they will rally with supporters tonight in the Phoenix area before heading to Las Vegas tomorrow. Former President Trump is headed to Bozeman, Montana, for a fundraiser and campaign rally in a reliably red state where Republicans hope to flip a Senate seat. To see the relevant transcripts from August 9, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

It’s been one year since wildfires ravaged the town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, killing 102 people and displacing thousands. You likely haven’t heard much about the state of Lahaina and its remaining residents in the mainstream media because the Biden administration has moved on from the tragedy. Of course it’s still funding illegal aliens using American taxpayer dollars, but it’s abandoned the U.S. citizens of Hawaii who are still homeless a year after fires claimed their homes, jobs, and loved ones. Mercury One Inc., a nonprofit organization providing humanitarian aid, education, and disaster relief founded by Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck, has not forgotten. Mercury One is still on the ground in Lahaina providing hope and resources to citizens who remain in the throes of homelessness, poverty, and grief. Mercury One executive director J.P. Decker joins Glenn on the show to give an update about the state of Lahaina and its people. - YouTube www.youtube.com For starters, Mercury One has “been providing mental health [support] because there's been a mental health crisis of multiple suicides,” says J.P., adding that “most people still feel uncertain,” especially when it comes to housing and jobs. “About 72% of all people in Maui were affected by these fires; 59% said they have moved over three times [since the disaster],” he tells Glenn. In addition to mental health support, Mercury One has also funded another nonprofit that provides “sports for kids” when the organization ran out of funds. “A lot of the kids can't even come into Lahaina without crying and screaming because of what they saw that day one year ago,” says J.P. “We have also worked with a nonprofit who has built a whole community for the survivors,” he reports. However, the facilities, despite being ready to use, are currently going to waste because “the governor and the mayor continue to fight with each other on who's going to get the credit … so they're not allowing these people to move to this nonprofit [community].” “So many of these people feel left by our government. They feel left alone. They feel as if no one is talking about them any more,” says J.P., adding that it’s clear that “our government has forgotten about them.” To make matters worse, yesterday the governor chose to bring up climate change. “The governor even said yesterday, ‘Well, I know that you like Front Street … but you have to remember that climate change is taking Front Street away,”’ J.P. recounts. “How do you say that on the one-year anniversary? What kind of a leader are you?” he asks, disgusted. “These people are trying to find hope. Out of the 11,000 that lived there and were displaced, there's only about 3,000 left because they've had to move to find jobs.” To hear more about the state of Lahaina and what Mercury One is doing to continue meeting the needs of the residents, watch the clip above and visit https://MercuryOne.org. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Boeing astronauts are still stranded at the International Space Station, and the timeline for their return is becoming more unclear as time passes. Blaze News previously reported on aerospace and defense corporation Boeing and its launch of the Starliner spacecraft in early June 2024. A mission to the ISS by crew members Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams was initially slated to return to Earth in as few as eight days after launch. The mission failed even within a generous grace period, and it has been over eight weeks since the vessel was launched into space. With a return date up in the air, speculation had begun about how the astronauts would return home after it was revealed that helium leaks and thruster failures were hindering the Starliner and preventing its re-entry. As TMZ reported, NASA says the astronauts may need to make their return on the Dragon Crew-9 mission operated by rival company SpaceX, headed by Elon Musk. Crew-9 was initially meant to launch for the ISS on August 18, 2024, but has since been pushed back to no earlier than September 24, 2024, per Spaceflight Now. With that in mind, most reports suggest SpaceX's six-month mission will not return until at least February 2025, but given the delayed start time, it could also be March 2025. This would potentially extend Boeing's mission from approximately two weeks to about nine or ten months. Despite previous uncertainty as to whether or not Starliner would be relying on SpaceX for a return mission, NASA has clarified that the SpaceX launch delay is directly related to the Boeing mission. "This adjustment allows more time for mission managers to finalize return planning for the agency's Boeing Crew Flight Test currently docked to the orbiting laboratory," NASA stated. However, Boeing's most recent mission update stated that the company's "confidence remains high" that the Starliner will make its return trip on its own. "We remain confident in Starliner and its ability to safely return to Earth with crew based on an abundance of testing conducted by our teams and NASA in space and on the ground," Boeing wrote on X. — (@) SpaceX has reportedly been testing scenarios in which it would accommodate two extra crew members on the return to Earth on Dragon Crew-9 and has already identified flight suits that would fit the two Boeing astronauts. The original Crew-9 mission was to launch with four astronauts from Kennedy Space Center. The astronauts identified for the mission are Zena Cardman, Nick Hague, Stephanie Wilson, and Russian cosmonaut Alexsandr Gorbunov. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!