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DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Turning Point USA (TPUSA) announced the lineup for their “All American Halftime Show” on Monday to rival Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny’s Sunday Super Bowl performance. Musicians Kid Rock, Brantley Lee, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett will perform during TPUSA’s halftime show which will air on Rumble, Real America’s Voice and other non-cable television platforms. The performances are an alternative to Bad Bunny, who cross-dresses and has repeatedly spewed anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) rhetoric. The National Football League (NFL) stood by its decision to have Bad Bunny perform, claiming that the rapper has a “massive global outreach,” according to ESPN. THE LINEUP FOR THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW IS HERE! ?Watch Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett THIS SUNDAY ?? pic.twitter.com/xwurEhdB13— Turning Point USA (@TPUSA) February 2, 2026 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem condemned the NFL’s decision in an interview on “The Benny Johnson Show” in January. She also said ICE will be present at the Super Bowl and only law-abiding citizens should attend the game. “They suck, we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night,” Noem said. “Because they don’t know what they believe and they’re so weak.” Bad Bunny continued to push anti-ICE messages onstage during the Grammy Awards on Sunday, where he said, “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say, ICE Out.” He previously stated that he would avoid tours on the U.S.’ mainland over fears of ICE raids at his concerts. In his song, “Nuevayol,” he imitated President Donald Trump’s voice apologizing to immigrants. In retaliation for Bad Bunny’s scheduled halftime performance, TPUSA announced in October that the organization would put on its own show to promote a pro-American message and appeal to people of faith. Trump said on Oct. 6 that the NFL’s upcoming lineup was “absolutely ridiculous.” Originally published by Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Turning Point USA Announces Lineup for Rival Super Bowl Halftime Show appeared first on The Daily Signal.

In the months before the April 12, 1861, firing on Fort Sumter, there were lots of sharp divisions in the North about the proper reaction to the first seven Confederate states that had already left the Union. Not all Unionists believed that war was inevitable. Some, in fact, were happy to be done with the departing South and thus see their stain of slavery gone from the Union. Similarly, others agreed that the emerging Confederacy was not worth the trouble and costs of war, and the secessionists could just form their own nation and stew in their own backward, servile juice. But after Fort Sumter, Lincoln–who was hated as much by the Confederates as President Donald Trump is by the woke and socialist left–gained a consensus that the Constitution had no clauses about any lawful departure from the union. But it did operate under a clear supremacy clause that made state obstruction of federal law and occupation of federal property veritable sedition. Lincoln and the preservationists felt that they easily had the moral high ground of abolition versus the continuance of slavery. Nor did they want a North America of fragmenting, warring nations in the manner of Europe. Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age. Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace. The reaction of the rest of the nation, especially its conservative half, to Minnesota resembles the 1861 disconnect in the North over the insurrectionary states. Some believe that if Minnesota wants to protect its approximately 1,300 jailed illegal alien murderers, rapists, and assorted felons, so be it, and ICE should leave such a dysfunctional and dystopian state to its own self-destructive path. In this way of “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya” thinking, Trump should stick to the red and purple states, clear them of criminal aliens with the help of local enforcement, but without the organized performance-art leftist resistance. Then he could contrast the nation with the difference between low crime, noncontroversial deportations, versus the blue-state model of protecting illegal alien criminals and their indifference to the mayhem they inflict on the innocent. If Minnesota further wants to be a state like 1861 South Carolina that openly defies the federal government, then also so be it. But it should accordingly not expect federal funding for its pick-and-choose approach to federal law and property. Has Minnesota forgotten that, like blue-state America, it cheered on Barack Obama’s DOJ when it successfully sued Arizona in 2010, insisting that it was Obama’s right as a federal custodian not to enforce federal immigration law at the border–and thus not legal for Governor Jan Brewer to use her state resources to enforce a federal law that derelict federal officers would not? But on the other hand, contemporary Unionists objected that such live and let suffer is defeatist. Moreover, there are millions of Americans inside insurrectionary Minnesota who do not support their neo-Confederate leaders. Millions in Minnesota properly see themselves as Americans first and Minnesotans second. In this line of argument, just as Lincoln refused to give up federal armories, property, and offices inside the South–most notably Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor–to insurrectionists, so too the Trump administration has an obligation to protect federal property and offices in Minnesota and to enforce federal law throughout the nation, at least if it is to continue as a nation. Very soon, Trump will have to decide which strategy is preferable and politically viable before the midterms. Meanwhile, Minnesota’s highest elected officials have ordered local and state police not to protect federal immigration officers from the very street violence that they fuel. Indeed. Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and Attorney General Ellison are actively encouraging Minnesotans to obstruct federal officers from enforcing federal laws–despite the mounting violence that follows their collective prompts. The three know that organized and well-funded groups organize the protests and incite the violence. And perhaps the trio even welcomes would-be martyrs to use their vehicles to ram ICE officers or to arrive at protests armed with military-grade, semi-automatic pistols with plenty of magazines and ammunition to spare. Walz and company further quietly accept that they could easily mitigate the violence by simply turning over roughly 1,300 criminal illegal aliens in various Minnesota jails to federal authorities. To do so would lessen the chances of violence, make Minnesota a safer place, and expedite the rotation of ICE out of Minnesota. But, of course, Walz, Frey, and Ellison have no such intentions, given their schemes are elsewhere. Given the failure of an increasingly socialist Democrat Party in 2024 to offer a more popular and convincing agenda than Trump’s, they believe their future lies in an increasingly redistributionist America, fueled by unlimited, unaudited immigration from the former Third World. They view as a political asset millions of arriving poor in dire need of massive federal health, food, housing, and education subsidies and entitlements, imbued with DEI victimhood, and nursed on America as toxic at its birth and ever more pathological ever since. So for the Minnesota state officials, screaming for ICE “to get the f— out of Minnesota” is more than mere braggadocio. It is a reminder that the Democrat Party wants a safe place for illegal immigration, the fuel of a future dependent constituency–as the architecture of the recent massive Somali frauds attests. They also believe that the more turmoil, the more violence, the more resistance, and the more a general sense of chaos and unrest swirl around the Trump administration, the more they can drive down its popularity before the midterms. They still cherish the months of riot, violence, and arson in the George Floyd “summer of love” in 2020 as critical in defeating Trump. Now as then, the left believes they can create a lose/lose dilemma for Trump: send in the National Guard to restore order, and he confirms that he is a “Nazi” and using the “Gestapo” to quell “peaceful” protests. Stand down, and the left owns the street, exasperating the MAGA base that mysteriously Trump has allowed the criminal left to nullify the enforcement of federal law in near-secessionist fashion. There are other Democrat agendas, both short- and long-term. The Minnesota Democrat apparatus either knowingly turned a blind eye to, protected, or silently partnered with the architects of likely the largest theft of federal welfare and entitlement monies in U.S. history–largely by the Somali community, both immigrants and their second-generation apparatchiks. The Democrat elite counted on the prophylactic cry of “racist!” to exempt the Somali community from any legal accountability. And so far, they seem right in that assumption. And the public? Polls reveal its trademark ambiguity. A majority voted for Trump to enforce immigration law, close the border, end illegal immigration, and deport those who broke federal law. But that hope and the reality of implementing it are two different things–especially when a state like Minnesota has not just institutionalized illegal immigration but nearly canonized foreign nationals illegally residing in the U.S. To sum up public opinion, the proverbial people want all criminal illegal aliens deported as soon as possible, and they may even support the deportations of all 10-12 million illegal aliens who came en masse, unaudited, and with the de facto blessing of the Biden administration. But that said, they want the act of deportation of the non-criminal to be out of sight, out of mind–as if magically they can simply disappear and thus either self-deport or assemble at ICE stations eager to be sent at no cost home. For now, Walz, Frey, and Ellison are upping the rhetoric, fanning the violence, and talking openly about how best to nullify federal law and impede federal enforcement. They are convinced that they have galvanized national opposition to the hated Trump, smothered the Somali fraud scandal, and stopped ICE deportations of their constituents. In all of those assumptions, they have little idea they are following the Confederate script to the letter. And like their spiritual forefathers of 1861, they grow ever more cocky, boastful, and defiant as they create martyrs, spread narratives of victimhood, and daily slouch toward another Fort Sumter. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.    The post Victor Davis Hanson: Slouching Toward Fort Sumter? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

WARNING: Images from this piece may disturb some readers. The fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have put major heat on ICE. Investigations will discover whether Good, Pretti, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, or Border Patrol officers acted appropriately, poorly, criminally, and how much for each of these individuals. Meanwhile, those who vent volcanic rage at ICE should save a little lava for the protesters who have terrorized Minneapolis. ICE agents might exhibit the gentility that their critics demand if they did not endure relentless pressure and violence from the Left. –ICE agents routinely receive death threats, including one that Fox News host Sean Hannity aired Jan. 26: “You’re a f—- fascist pig,” one provocateur voice mailed an ICE officer. “You should f—- kill yourself. I hope your wife dies. I hope your mom and dad die.” US.. Department of Homeland Security –Police arrested a woman for possessing and deploying metal-screw-filled devices onto local streets, to flatten ICE’s tires. –Anti-ICE anarchists threw themselves in front of moving ICE vehicles, hoping to trap them inside a local federal parking lot. Of course, those who got hurt blamed ICE for hitting them. –ICE’s enemies, including Renee Good, illegally used their cars to block streets and pin down ICE vehicles, as violent mobs closed in. –Agitators lobbed fireworks that exploded around and in front of ICE agents. As the saying goes: “This is cute, until someone loses an eye.” –Anti-ICE barbarians stormed Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18. They disrupted worship and screamed slogans. They violated 18 U.S. Code § 248, the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994 (FACE) Act, which shields religious sites from such evil. –Subversives have shouted, blown whistles, and banged drums outside visiting agents’ hotels, to keep them awake. On Jan. 25, anti-ICE criminals attacked two adjacent hotels that hosted ICE officers. They graffitied “ICE out” and “Kill yoself” on windows and then smashed them. Officers blocked an entrance with vending machines to exclude these invading maniacs. If detractors want ICE agents to perform exquisitely, let them sleep. Exhaustion never fuels sound snap judgments. –ICE foes, including Pretti, physically impeded ICE agents from performing their duties (violating 18 U.S. Code § 111), resisted arrest, and wrestled with them on the ground. As the Associated Press reported, video footage from 11 days before Pretti’s  shooting showed him screaming profanity at ICE agents. He also kicked in their SUV’s right taillight, which shattered as his boot smashed it. Pretti then wrestled in the road with officers. He broke free, ran away, and lived to die another day.   –Anarchists used long, strong straps to dislodge a gun vault from an ICE vehicle. They pounded its locks open and stole weapons, ammunition, and secret documents. These included the doxx-ready names and home addresses of ICE agents. –Anti-ICErs, including Good, have floored their gas peddles and rammed ICE agents.ICE man Jonathan Ross, who apparently shot Good in self-defense, suffered internal bleeding after her car hit him. –Three Venezuelan illegals attacked an ICE agent with a shovel and broom handle on Jan. 14, as he tried to arrest one of them. In self-defense, the agent shot the target non-fatally in the leg. A Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis holds his badly damaged hand. An anti-ICE protester allegedly bit and nearly severed his fingertip. Department of Homeland Security. Doctors could not save the Border Patrol agent’s fingertip. They surgically removed it and placed it in this container. Department of Homeland Security. –Federal prosecutors have charged ICE foe Emily Baierl, 37, of Minneapolis with biting into a Border Patrol officer’s middle finger on Jan. 24. That day, officials say, Claire Feng, 27, of St. Paul, totally bit off a Border Patrol officer’s right ring-fingertip. Too many media outlets that covered the latter incident blurred these gruesome images. The American people should bear witness to left-wing political violence (and its far-rarer right-wing equivalent). Obscuring such pictures is as unhelpful as telling 340 million people to watch the news with their eyes closed. Warn sensitive viewers and then show the ICE agent’s mutilated hand. Americans need to see this. –Anti-ICE violence exceeds Minneapolis. The first year of Trump 47 saw 275 assaults against ICE officers, versus 19 the previous year–up 1,347%. Vehicular attacks: 66 versus 2–up 3,200%. During this time, ICE officers have seen death threats climb 8,000%. Too much of Minneapolis’s anti-ICE activism looks nothing like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Selma, with civil-rights activists wielding nothing tougher than locked arms and the soothing sounds of Negro spirituals. Instead, Minneapolis mirrors the darkest days of bloodshed in Belfast. Anti-ICE violence makes life easier for convicted, illegal-alien thugs to stay in America and continue their violent-crime careers. These rotten monsters include drunk drivers, armed robbers, child rapists, sex-slavers, murderers, multiple murderers, and Islamic terrorists. Those who turned Minneapolis into a war zone are A-OK with keeping bloodthirsty evildoers as their neighbors.  Remember all of this as the anti-ICE fires roar. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Minneapolis ICE Haters Are Not so Into Peace, Love, and Understanding appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Thirty-four Oklahoma lawmakers have asked the state’s Supreme Court to halt a plan that would send every driver’s license and ID record into a privately operated national database. Their emergency petition seeks to stop Service Oklahoma, the state’s licensing agency, from connecting its records to a system run by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, known as the State-to-State (S2S) network. We obtained a copy of the emergency petition for you here. The contention is whether Oklahoma should upload personal data, including names, birth dates, partial Social Security numbers, and license details, to a database controlled by a private organization rather than a state or federal government. This is a growing issue in the United States and elsewhere, and not enough people are paying attention to how many of these digital ID agreements work. This is about who controls the personal information tied to a driver’s license and how that data can be used once it leaves the state’s own systems. The legislators, led by Sen. Kendal Sacchieri of Blanchard and represented by attorney Wyatt McGuire, are asking for a court order to stop an upload planned for Presidents’ Day weekend, February 14 to 16, 2026. Sixteen senators and eighteen representatives joined the petition. Service Oklahoma intends to join AAMVA’s S2S system, which connects all participating states through a shared hub. This would make Oklahoma part of the same data-sharing network already used by most states for REAL ID purposes. The network’s central database is called the SPEXS database, short for System for Electronic Exchange of Driver Data. The REAL-ID hub connects state and Federal agencies, private commercial third parties and national database files in a centralized format. Once the data is uploaded, it will be continuously synchronized, meaning updates in Oklahoma’s system, such as a name change or license renewal, would automatically flow into the shared national file. What is REAL ID and why does it matter? The REAL ID Act is a federal law passed after 9/11 that sets security standards for driver’s licenses used for federal purposes like boarding a domestic flight or entering certain government buildings. States can issue either: REAL ID-compliant licenses, which meet federal standards and can be used for travel and identification at federal facilities, or Non-compliant licenses, which are valid for driving and identification within the state, but are not accepted for federal use. Oklahoma law deliberately preserves both choices so residents who prefer not to share data beyond state systems can opt for the non-compliant version. The legislators say the S2S upload would eliminate that choice since AAMVA’s rules require states to submit all license data, including that from non-compliant cards, to the same database. Those rules do not come from Congress or Oklahoma law but from AAMVA’s own membership terms. Who is AAMVA, and what is SPEXS? AAMVA is a nonprofit trade association that began in 1933 as a coordination group for state motor vehicle departments. Over time, it became the operator of the core systems linking states together for license verification and REAL ID compliance. SPEXS is AAMVA’s national driver database. It stores limited identifying data from every participating state and lets each state check whether someone already holds a license elsewhere. AAMVA presents it as a way to prevent duplicate licenses, but it effectively creates a shared national index of driver identities. Although AAMVA performs functions that resemble those of a government agency, it is not one. It is a private corporation that contracts directly with state agencies, usually without public bidding. This means the public has no guaranteed way to see what data is stored, who can access it, or how it might be shared with other entities. Lawmakers’ main arguments No legal authority: The petition argues that Service Oklahoma has no legislative authorization to share the data. State law, 47 O.S. § 6-110.3a, explicitly forbids releasing license or ID data except as required by the federal REAL ID Act, and that Act does not require states to join AAMVA’s network. Timing and oversight: The upload is scheduled just after the next legislative session begins, leaving little opportunity for lawmakers to debate or block it through normal lawmaking. The petition questions whether the timing was chosen to avoid oversight, as has reportedly happened in other states. Loss of state control: Once the data is uploaded, Oklahoma cannot retrieve or delete it. Other states and potentially federal systems can continue querying those records. Since AAMVA is private, federal agencies could obtain the data through subpoenas without notifying the state. Privacy concerns: The legislators warn that giving a private association the ability to route and manage state identity data poses long-term risks. They point out that AAMVA’s own Verification of Lawful Status (VLS) system already sends data to the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements. While that may serve administrative goals, it also means personal information travels through multiple systems with limited public visibility. Why it matters The outcome of this case will determine whether Oklahoma residents keep the right to keep their driver’s data inside state-controlled systems or whether participation in a national identity network becomes automatic. For privacy-minded Oklahomans, the difference is critical. Once personal data is replicated into SPEXS, it effectively becomes part of a national index that operates beyond the state’s legal reach. The legislators’ filing calls this an irreversible shift, a permanent change in who holds control over identity data. Across the country, other states have joined AAMVA’s network quietly, often without a public vote or debate. The question before the Oklahoma Supreme Court now is simple but important. Can a state agency transfer every resident’s identifying information to a private network without the explicit approval of elected lawmakers? For many Oklahomans, the answer may define how much control they and their state retain over one of the most personal forms of data, the driver’s license record that proves who they are. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Oklahoma’s REAL ID Rebellion Over Who Controls Your Driver Data appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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Violent crime – especially, homicide – has plummeted in the Nation’s Capital since President Donald Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement into the city last Fall, a trend that has continued into the new year. On August 11 of last year, Pres. Trump declared a crime emergency in the District of Columbia and began taking steps to end the threat to public safety there, in a city that should be a beacon of hope for people across the globe. “Though violent crime in D.C. was already trending down before Trump declared a crime emergency in August, the number of homicides plummeted afterward,” The Washington Post reported on Sunday: “In September, the first full month after the federal law enforcement surge, five people were killed — the lowest September figure since 2011.” …. “Homicides and robberies dropped by more than half during the surge, and the extra agents augmented a police force struggling with half-century-low staffing.” In 2025, D.C. police recorded 127 homicides, the lowest count in eight years, marking a significant decline from both 2024’s 187 total 2023’s two-decade high of 274. What’s more, public safety has continued to improve in 2026. After going three weeks without a homicide in January, the month ended with only two on the books – one of which was committed in 2025, but was not categorized a homicide until this year. “Well, it’s quite simple: take the bad guys out, crime goes down,” Fox News Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett explained in an interview Monday, commenting on the improvement in public safety under the Trump Administration: “And you saw it in Washington, D.C., where it used to be Crime Central: staggering murder rate, more than 200 years. Suddenly, that plummeted when Trump poured in federal resources and sent in the National Guard. And, you saw violent crime drop 50% to a 30-year low. Homicides, robberies, dangerous assaults, carjackings – all of that dropped by 30-50%.” “The lesson is: when you take the career criminals out of action, of course the crime rate is going to drop. It’s common sense,” Jarrett said, regarding the increased number of prosecutions in the traditionally soft-on-crime city. “People were walking and living in fear in Washington, DC. Suddenly, that’s changed,” Jarrett said. Still, he cautioned, it’s unlikely that other crime-ravaged, Democrat-run cities will follow suit: “But, you can’t seem to tell that to blue cities, because their politicians care more about protecting criminals than innocent victims of crime.”

The unrest surrounding federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis did not arise by accident. It is the product of a combustible mix: deliberate obstruction by Democratic officials, wall-to-wall legacy media coverage and two tragic incidents that were mishandled by senior figures inside the Trump administration. Together, these forces have produced exactly the chaos critics warned about — and have now forced the administration into a public course correction. On Tuesday, the administration announced that Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol chief overseeing operations in Minnesota, has been removed from his post and is expected to return to El Centro, California. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is reportedly under intense scrutiny as well, following her department’s handling of two fatal encounters in which American citizens were shot by federal agents under disputed circumstances. Those failures have placed the administration on the defensive and handed political momentum to its opponents. But the story does not begin with those shootings. It begins with the systematic obstruction of federal law by Democratic leaders in blue states and cities. For months, Democratic officials have sought to block cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while publicly pressuring the administration to scale back deportations altogether. This has collided with the political reality of immigration enforcement. While “mass deportation” has long been a feature of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric, public support has always been far more specific. Americans overwhelmingly favor removing illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes — rape, assault, arson and murder — not indiscriminate sweeps. Early in the administration, enforcement largely reflected that reality. Criminal offenders were the priority. But as blue states increasingly refused to cooperate with ICE, that strategy became harder to sustain. In jurisdictions that work with federal authorities, local police can flag immigration status after an arrest and transfer dangerous offenders to ICE custody safely inside jails. In sanctuary cities, that option disappears. The result is predictable. Suspects may be released back into the community, and ICE agents are forced to pursue targets in public spaces — knocking on doors, making street arrests, and triggering confrontations. Those confrontations produce protests, viral videos and disturbing images that dominate television screens. This is the paradox of law enforcement: Americans say they want law and order, but they recoil from seeing it enforced in real time. The work is messy, tense and often ugly. That discomfort is not unique to immigration enforcement. Police officers face similar backlash every time videos circulate showing them intervening on what is often the worst day of someone’s life. When those images include disputed deaths — particularly of American citizens — the effect is magnified. Media narratives quickly broaden from individual incidents to sweeping indictments of law enforcement itself. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel offered a vivid example this week, portraying federal agents as “mask-wearing goons” committing “one atrocity after another” in Minneapolis. His monologue described families being terrorized, “babies being tear-gassed,” and Americans being targeted for little more than “having an accent or whatever.” It was a story designed to provoke outrage — and one that Democrats’ obstruction has helped make plausible. Kimmel went further, misrepresenting key facts surrounding the shooting of Renee Good, weaving partial truths into a broader fiction that framed the incident as emblematic of lawless tyranny. The Department of Homeland Security’s own missteps — prematurely labeling cases as acts of domestic terrorism — made that narrative easier to sell. But Kimmel’s conclusion was not limited to those failures. It amounted to a rejection of immigration enforcement itself. Equally misleading was his suggestion that this chaos is unfolding everywhere. It is not. The disturbances are concentrated in blue cities that refuse to cooperate with ICE. In red cities, where cooperation exists, enforcement occurs quietly and without spectacle. For voters trying to assess the situation honestly, the dynamic is deeply frustrating. State and local officials obstruct federal law, enforcement becomes riskier and more visible, and then federal agents are blamed when things go wrong. Public opinion, however, does not pause for nuance. As CNN analyst Harry Enten recently noted, ICE’s approval ratings have sharply declined. That political reality has now forced the administration to recalibrate. Border czar Tom Homan — long viewed as the most disciplined and clear-eyed voice on enforcement -- has been put front and center. From the beginning, Homan has emphasized investigations, lawful process, and de-escalation where possible. He has often appeared to be the adult in the room. Whether that recalibration succeeds will depend in large part on Minnesota’s leaders and Minneapolis officials. Democrats clearly sense momentum. They believe obstruction is paying dividends. That belief should give pause. History offers a warning. In 2020, police were vilified, departments were defunded, and law enforcement briefly became politically radioactive. Then crime surged, public opinion snapped back, and Democrats found themselves underwater on policing for years. Minneapolis may follow the same trajectory. Democrats may win the immediate battle — turning ICE into a temporary villain and shifting attention away from illegal immigration. But in doing so, they risk losing the war. When consequences arrive, voters tend to remember who dismantled enforcement, not who defended it. Ben Shapiro is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” and co-founder of Daily Wire+. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author. 

A recent article from Life News centers on Becca Rea-Tucker, radical feminist and author of the pro-abortion book “The Abortion Companion: An Affirming Handbook for Your Choice and Your Journey,” openly celebrating her abortion — and BlazeTV host Steve Deace warns this is becoming a trend.“And you can see she’s wearing a T-shirt there. ‘Thank God for abortion,’” he says, reading her shirt. “That’s blaspheming of the Holy Spirit, I would argue, right there, the unforgivable sin with a middle finger up in the air. She wants you to know. She can’t wait to brag about it. She wants to shout her abortion,” Deace says.“Now I don’t know how many of the women that are killing their babies these days feel the way that Becca Rea-Tucker does. I just know I’m seeing more of Becca Rea-Tuckers than I’ve ever seen before,” he continues.Which is why Deace believes pro-lifers desperately need to work on their argument.“Let me walk you through an exercise. Wait a minute. So you think this thing inside of me that I just got pregnant with seven weeks ago, you think that’s a life?” Deace asks.“Should fully and completely and totally have all the benefits and accouterments and rights of a fully aged man in his prime?” he continues, using his 33-year-old executive producer Aaron McIntire as an example.“A child at 7 weeks, a zygote, a fetus at 7 weeks of development ought to have the full rights therein of a 33-year-old man in his prime, married with a couple of kids and a mortgage, paying the bills. They’re the exact same being. That’s what you guys think,” he says.“So if I pull out a gun right now and shoot Aaron, I should be punished. Maybe even given the death penalty. ... All right, I go across the street to Planned Parenthood to kill my kid. Nothing,” he adds.“You’re using that retarded messaging, and Becca Rea-Tucker is just laughing at you right in your face. And by the way, thumbing her nose at God and shaking her fist at God and everything else, right?” he asks.Deace notes that Tucker is also quite literally “flipping the bird at Christ,” while conservatives argue over whether or not she’s a victim of circumstance.“And you’re like, ‘Listen lady, were you abused?’ ... That looks like a criminal to me. Doesn’t look like much of a victim to me. If she’s a victim, then every criminal is. Marinate on that one. If she’s a victim, every criminal is,” Deace says.While he doesn’t have a solution to this issue because the right is “completely and totally politically asinine,” he does ask that conservatives ask themselves a question in response to the “shout your abortion” trend.“Why Becca Rea-Tucker is not the very definition of a murderess by your own admission. What’s the theological case for that?” he asks, adding, “Does one exist?”Want more from Steve Deace?To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued a temporary restraining order requested by 12 Democratic lawmakers to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from blocking surprise oversight visits by members of Congress.Democrats have claimed the surprise visits are part of the oversight function granted to Congress, but the Trump administration has resisted the claims and tried to restrict their visits.'The decision is a victory for accountability, congressional oversight and for the American people.'The Department of Homeland Security issued policy guidelines that required seven days' notice before such a visit to detention facilities, but Cobb struck those down.Cobb previously ordered that specific funds could not be used to shut out the oversight visits, but DHS issued a new policy that depended on funds from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed by Congress. They argued that this allowed them to circumvent the original finding.The judge disagreed.Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado, who is one of the lawmakers who sued the government, praised the ruling on social media."The Court just granted a restraining order against the Trump administration in my lawsuit, Neguse et al. v. ICE et al.," he wrote. "The decision is a victory for accountability, congressional oversight and for the American people. I'll keep fighting to ensure the rule of law prevails."One such visit to the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey, in May led to the arrest of a Democratic mayor who was charged with trespassing. That charge was later dropped, and the mayor is now suing the interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey.However, federal interference charges against Democrat Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey in the same incident went forward after she was accused of shoving an ICE officer. She faces 17 years in prison if convicted of the charges. RELATED: 'State-of-the-art': GOP congressman pre-empts Crockett's 'grandstanding' with glimpse inside ICE facility in Texas President Donald Trump weighed in on the charges against McIver on social media and denied allegations that they were politically motivated."Give me a break. Did you see her?" Trump wrote. "She was out of control! She was shoving federal agents. The days of that crap are over! We’re going to have law and order!"Cobb was appointed to the court by former President Joe Biden.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!