Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old identified as the gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, was raised by a left-leaning mother and previously held jobs where he installed solar panels and picked marijuana, a Daily Wire review found. Jahn allegedly opened fire on the ICE detention center Wednesday morning, killing one illegal immigrant detainee and injuring two others before turning the gun on himself. While an investigation into the incident is still ongoing, the shooter allegedly left bullet casings engraved with the phrase “ANTI-ICE” on them that revealed the “ideological motive” behind the attack, FBI Director Kash Patel revealed on X. ICE Facility Shooter Left Bullet Casings Reading ‘ANTI-ICE’ At Attack Scene This morning just before 7am local time, an individual fired multiple rounds at a Dallas, Texas ICE facility, killing one, wounding several others, before taking his own life. FBI, DHS, ATF are on the ground with Dallas PD and state authorities. While the investigation is… pic.twitter.com/SMOyxiKLqA — FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) September 24, 2025 The suspect’s brother, Noah Jahn, told NBC News that he didn’t think the alleged shooter “was politically interested” and described him as “unique.” “He didn’t have strong feelings about ICE as far as I knew,” Noah said. At Least One Dead, Two Wounded In Targeted Attack On Dallas ICE Facility “I didn’t think he was politically interested. He wasn’t interested in politics on either side as far as I knew,” he added. Noah said Joshua knew how to use the rifle their parents own, but is no “marksman, that’s for sure.” “He would not be able to make any shots like that,” Noah said. The alleged attacker was unemployed at the time of the shooting and had plans to move into his parents’ home in Oklahoma, Noah told NBC. His previous jobs included installing solar panels and picking marijuana, according to his LinkedIn. Joshua grew up in Allen, Texas, and was a Boy Scout when he was younger, Noah told NBC. Photo obtained by The Daily Wire shows bullet holes in windows at the ICE detention center in Dallas following Wednesday’s shooting. Photo obtained by The Daily Wire shows a bullet hole in the window of an ICE employee’s office at the detention facility in Dallas. Joshua’s mother, Sharon Jahn, previously ranted on social media against Republican lawmakers in Texas for supporting the Second Amendment. “Governor Abbott, Senator Cornyn and Senator Cruz how does it make you feel that your action to open up gun laws is responsible for the killing of 21 more people?” she wrote in a post on May 25, 2022. She added: “Do you secretly sit in front of a tv and smile a demented smile? You must be proud of all the money that sits in your bank accounts from the gun lobby support. Was it worth it, Governor Abbott? How about you senators?” ‘This Needs To Stop’: Ted Cruz Slams Leftists’ ‘Rhetoric’ After Texas ICE Facility Shooting “Here is my hope: May you be reminded of the deaths every time you spend that precious blood money you have received from the gun lobby. Hope you think of it 100% when you attend the NRA meeting in a few days.” “Senator Cornyn, I realize you suddenly had something in DC come up where you won’t be attending. It’s unfortunate you don’t even have the spine to stand up to the NRA and tell them the real reason you aren’t attending. You are a coward, a spineless coward.” She also posted song lyrics two days later that included the phrase “We can melt all the guns.” Wednesday’s attack comes amid a string of left-wing political violence that includes the assassination of Charlie Kirk. And just a day before the latest shooting, the man who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump was found guilty in a Florida court. In recent years, radical left groups such as the Socialist Rifle Association have been linked to numerous violent attacks, including a July 4 ambush against the ICE facility in Alvarado, located outside of Dallas.

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The assassination of Charlie Kirk and other recent shootings that appear motivated by transgender ideology raise questions about the potential radicalizing nature of heated rhetoric on the issue, particularly from influential groups like the Human Rights Campaign. While the Human Rights Campaign does not call for violence against conservatives, it publishes reports claiming there is an “Epidemic of Violence” against transgender people and branding opposition to the transgender agenda a “Culture of Violence.” The “Culture of Violence” report traces the violence back to “anti-trans stigma and discrimination,” suggesting that policies preventing males from competing in women’s sports or keeping boys out of girls’ restrooms are inspiring violent attacks. “Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and legislative attacks are translating to anti-LGBTQ+ violence,” the report insists. Yet this violence has arguably been exaggerated. You see, the Human Rights Campaign’s own data suggest that transgender people actually face a lower homicide risk than other groups, particularly men, women, black, white, and Hispanic people. Since 2013, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation has counted the deaths of “transgender and gender-expansive victims of fatal violence.” In the period between Nov. 21, 2023, and Nov. 20, 2024, the foundation counted 36 deaths. This represented an increase from the 33 victims in the previous year. For the 10 years since the foundation began counting, it identified 372 victims. Each death is tragic, but these figures do not back up the claim of an “epidemic” of violence. What Is the Rate of Transgender Homicide Victims? The Human Rights Campaign claims that “more than 2 million” people identify as transgender or gender-nonconforming. The Williams Institute, a pro-transgender think tank at the University of California, Los Angeles, law school, puts the number at 2.8 million. HRC has endorsed Williams Institute figures in other contexts, so it may agree with the 2.8 million figure. Using the exact figure of 2 million, which HRC suggests is an underestimate, there were 1.8 homicides per 100,000 people who identify as transgender in 2024. Using the Williams Institute’s figure, there were 1.29 homicides per 100,000. The Human Rights Campaign counted a record of 46 deaths in 2021. Even using the lowest possible HRC-endorsed figure for the transgender population (2 million), that equates to a rate of 2.3 homicides per 100,000. How Does This Homicide Rate Stack Up? The rate of 1.29 homicides per 100,000 transgender people pales in comparison to the homicide rates of men, women, whites, blacks, and Hispanics. For the period between November 2023 and November 2024, the FBI counted 3,812 female homicide victims, according to the Crime Data Explorer. According to the Census Bureau, there were 166.5 million women in the U.S. in 2021. That yields a rate of 2.29 homicide victims per 100,000 women. The FBI counted 12,822 male homicide victims in the same period, and the Census Bureau estimated 163.2 million men in the U.S. That yields a rate of 7.86 homicide victims per 100,000 men. The FBI counted 7,071 white homicide victims in the same period. The Census Bureau reported a white population figure of 260.2 million in 2021. That yields a rate of 2.72 homicides per 100,000 white people. The FBI counted 8,698 black homicide victims, and the Census Bureau estimated a black population of 49.6 million in 2021. That yields a rate of 17.5 homicides per 100,000 black people. The FBI counted 2,629 Hispanic or Latino homicide victims in 2024, and the Census Bureau estimated a Hispanic population of 62.1 million in 2021. That yields a rate of 4.2 homicides per 100,000 Hispanic people. Even the highest HRC figure of 2.3 homicides per 100,000 is substantially lower than almost every other figure—on par with the female homicide rate of 2024 and lower than the rates for men, whites, blacks, and Hispanics. When President Donald Trump highlighted the crime in Washington, D.C., to justify federal intervention, he noted the nation’s capital city experienced a homicide rate of 27.3 per 100,000 in 2024. That figure comes from a Rochester Institute of Technology study comparing 24 U.S. cities. The city at the bottom of the list, Boston, experienced 3.7 homicides per 100,000 in 2024. The overall U.S. rate for 2023 was 5.6 homicides per 100,000—still substantially higher than the highest Human Rights Campaign estimate. While the Human Rights Campaign claims its numbers of transgender victims are likely an undercount, the true number would have to be orders of magnitude higher in order to justify hyperbolic claims like an “epidemic of violence.” An ‘Epidemic?’ The Human Rights Campaign’s own data form an indictment against HRC’s claim that transgender people face an “epidemic of violence.” Here’s the good news: The threats to transgender people have been greatly exaggerated. People who identify as transgender do not need to fear random violent attacks. Yet HRC’s list of transgender homicide victims also reveals something else: These people aren’t the victims of roving “far-right extremists” who object to using “ze” and “zir” to refer to transgender unicorns. People like Matt Walsh aren’t targeting the real transgender homicide victims. For instance, HRC identifies Juchuan Hamilton, 25, a man who identified as a woman and went by “Quanesha Shantel,” as one of the victims. Jeremy Reynolds, Hamilton’s ex-boyfriend, shot and killed him after Hamilton broke off their relationship, the Greensboro News & Record reported. The list also includes Santonio Coleman, a 48-year-old man found bloodied and unresponsive on a trail in Athens, Georgia. While initial reports suggested a homicide, the coroner later said the injuries may be consistent with a possible accidental fall. The Daily Signal has reached out to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the police detective assigned to the case. In some cases, as of 36-year-old Latoya “Tee” Arnold, police have said the homicide was not likely motivated by the victim’s gender identity. As the Human Rights Campaign notes, “Many victims were killed by a friend, family, or romantic/sexual intimate partner.” Every murder is horrific, and Americans should mourn when lives are taken too soon. But a few isolated instances do not justify claiming an “epidemic of violence.” It’s time for the Human Rights Campaign to dial down the hyperbole. The Human Rights Campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment by publication time. The post Human Rights Campaign’s Own Data Undermine Claims About an ‘Epidemic’ of Violence Against Transgender People appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President JD Vance shamed Democrats on Wednesday for villainizing Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the aftermath of the shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas. The shooter opened fire into the facility around 7 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, killing two illegal immigrants and then himself with his own firearm. In the aftermath of the shooting, Vance said during a speech in Concord, North Carolina, that the repeated divisive rhetoric against ICE agents has encouraged this form of violence. “If your political rhetoric encourages violence against law enforcement, you can go straight to hell and you have no place in the political conversation of the United States of America,” Vance said. Authorities discovered bullet casings at the scene that had been engraved with the term “ANTI-ICE,” Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel said on X. WATCH: Vance called out Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom for stating on Tuesday that ICE is the “largest private domestic army” and that the agency’s actions are “alarming beyond words.” The governor further stated that ICE’s raids and arrests of criminal illegal immigrants is part of President Donald Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies.” Democrat Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz labeled ICE as a “modern-day Gestapo” during a commencement speech in May while Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett compared ICE agents to “slave patrols” during a Friday appearance on MSNBC. Democrat New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez referred to ICE as a “rogue agency that should not exist” in May. NBC News also falsely reported that ICE agents detained a 5-year-old autistic girl to intimidate her illegal immigrant father to turn himself in. The outlet later issued a correction, stating that it had “mischaracterized” the agents’ activities. Vance used NBC News’ debunked report as an example of being an incitement of political violence. He called on Democrats and the liberal media to tone down their rhetoric against their political opponents. “Political violence has gotten out of control in this country. We’ve got to stop it, we’ve got to condemn it, and that starts, unfortunately, at the very top of the Democratic Party. If you want to stop political violence, stop attacking our law enforcement as the Gestapo. If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with you is a Nazi. If you want to stop political violence, look in the mirror. That’s the way that we stop political violence in this country, and we have got to do it,” Vance said. The vice president said that protecting law enforcement must be a priority. ICE agents and facilities have faced a 1,000% increase in assaults since Trump reentered office in January, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Authorities have charged at least 11 individuals in connection with an ambush on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas, in July, which led to the injury of a police officer who was shot in the neck. An active shooter also targeted Border Patrol agents at a facility in McAllen, Texas, in July. Originally by the Daily Caller News Foundation The post ‘Go Straight to Hell’: After ICE Facility Shooting, JD Vance Condemns Democrats for Villainizing ICE Agents appeared first on The Daily Signal.

America just experienced another tragic and preventable act of violence. Joshua Jahn, a criminal radicalized by hateful anti-law enforcement rhetoric from the Democrats, committed an act of leftist terrorism against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas. He undoubtedly was targeting law enforcement agents. He killed two people and wounded one more before turning the gun on himself. The mainstream media can play dumb all they want, but we know what the motive is, and we do not need CNN or MSNBC to confirm it. This terrorist attack was just another deadly consequence of years of demonization by the Left against law enforcement officers who risk their lives to keep our country safe. Democrats built this climate of hate. For years, leftist activist allies have painted ICE and all law enforcement as evil villains. They smear ICE agents as racist, nazis, white-supremacists, and convinced a large segment of the public that these officers are enemies rather than protectors. When you use this type of rhetoric, you are not engaging in debate. You are encouraging violence. The blood spilled in Dallas rests on those who have fed this narrative: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Hakeem Jeffries, Gavin Newsom, just to name a few. This is not an isolated incident. Radical agitators across the country have escalated their attacks on ICE. I fear this will only become more common and more violent as the Left continues to deny their role in provoking it. The violence has escalated from tire slashing and brick throwing to this outright assassination attempt. This was the fourth instance of violence or a threat against a Department of Homeland Security facility this year alone. This is because there is a significant percentage of those on the Left that believe violence is justified. Fully 25% of those who identify as “very liberal” and 17% of those that identify as “liberal” believe that political violence can sometimes be justified. The statistic is, unfortunately, far less shocking when you consider the string of political attacks against the right. This goes further than just a poll on the internet. Last week, when the House of Representatives held a resolution to condemn Charlie Kirk’s assassination, 118 of 213 House Democrats did NOT vote to condemn it. The problem very obviously goes beyond street-level agitators, and we need to call it out. Leaders at the highest levels have fueled this atmosphere. Sanctuary city politicians and radical governors have encouraged citizens to resist ICE at every turn. Gov. Newsom of California just this week issued a foolish and outright dangerous proclamation requiring ICE agents to remove their face masks when conducting field operations. This order was given despite increased doxing, threats against families, and now an assassination attempt on agents. Newsom is all but asking for the millions of criminal aliens in America to target law enforcement with this order, and he should be ashamed of himself. That is why Republicans need to band together and stand with ICE agents and law enforcement officers every single day in Congress and at every level of government. That means standing against the pro-crime Democrats that, for inexplicable reasons, choose to sacrifice the safety of our law enforcement officers on the altar of self-righteousness. That is why I introduced the Initiating Criminal Enforcement (ICE) Act, which levies the same penalties on thugs that interfere with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations as those who aid and abet illegal immigrants. If you interfere with ICE, you should be in prison on the same row as criminal aliens and those that help them. ICE and Border Patrol agents are combating our number one national security issue in America. We rely on them to protect our borders. A nation that cannot protect its borders is not a nation, and a government that will not defend its law enforcement officers cannot defend its people. Our enemies abroad are watching. If they see that we cannot even safeguard those who protect us here at home, how can we expect them to take us seriously? I stand with ICE. I stand with our Border Patrol. I stand with the men and women who wear the badge and face down danger on our behalf, and I will not sit silently while the Left paints targets on their backs. And I will not stop until those who attack our officers face the justice they deserve. America must choose. We either stand with law enforcement, or we stand with leftist lawlessness. Where do you stand? I know where I do. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Rep. Fine on Dallas ICE Shooting: An Example of Leftist Violence That Threatens Law Enforcement Officers’ Safety appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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On Tuesday, MSNBC aired a pre-recorded interview between Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker with the latter having felt the need to downplay the prevalence of violence in Chicago and described President Trump’s use of National Guard as authoritarian. Brzezinski asked the Governor to respond to recent remarks made by Trump: BRZEZINSKI: At Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, President Trump said this, “We’re going to have Charlie very much in mind when we go into Chicago. We’ll get that straightened out. You have an incompetent Governor. He thinks it’s okay when 11 people get murdered over the weekend.” What is your response? PRITZKER: Well, let’s start with the idea that apparently Chicago is living rent free in the President’s head. He seems to mention Chicago at every turn. The reality is that Chicago isn’t even in the top 25 cities in terms of violent crime rates. Instead of admitting to the fact that the third largest American city has a murder problem, Pritzker practically ignored the statistic and reframed the city in a safer light. The Governor decided to psychoanalyze the President, “So, he’s attacking Chicago because he doesn’t like that people in Chicago don’t vote for Donald Trump.”     Or maybe it’s because rampant crime is still a problem. Urban environments, where violent crime tends to happen, also tend to lean left. And for those who think Trump is only going after blue states, he may also deploy National Guard in Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisana. He continued: And I’ve asked the President for help. FBI, ATF, DEA. We want to fight drugs and gangs and guns on the streets of Chicago, and we’ve done a good job of it over the last four years. We’ve cut the homicide rate in half. All of the violent crime rates for the city of Chicago have gone down by double digits. Regardless, that doesn’t fully address the problem. If liberal cities actually cared about cracking down on crime, then they would have already. The imposition of federal troops isn’t to conquer or “occupy,” but to tamp down the problem until local authorities actually do their job. Brzezinski continued to sit on the sidelines as Pritzker decried how the President wants to send National Guard instead of the resources Illinois wants: But we want more help. He’s not offering that. Instead, he’s offering troops, who are not trained to do law enforcement. They don’t know how to do arrests. They’re really not appropriate for an American city. And frankly, this is part of a broader effort on his part to impose his authoritarian rule on big cities across the United States. This alleged authoritarian regime has yet to materialize. If the Democrats’ approach was legitimately effective, then there would be no need for any federal assistance. Trump wants to use what works. Brzezinski invited Pritzker to double down instead of pointing out the interview with said rhetoric was taped a day after Charlie Kirk’s memorial service: BRZEZINSKI: How would you describe it as authoritarian rule? PRITZKER: Well, one after another—look at everything that he’s been about as President. Just recently, trying to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air by having his FCC Chair threaten stations with taking away their licenses. Donald Trump has very often talked about bringing troops not just into cities, but anywhere where he sees an opponent that he thinks he should come after. Somehow, the flash free speech scare over Kimmel’s now-reversed suspension was a part of Trump’s “authoritarian rule on big cities.” It was clear Pritzker didn’t think through his line of reasoning ahead of time and fell back on partisan finger pointing. The hodge-podged argument didn’t stop there: “Much of his rhetoric, as we’ve seen in his speeches, even last night during the Charlie Kirk memorial, he talked about the fact that although Charlie Kirk didn’t hate his opponents, that Donald Trump does. And that he harbors ill will toward them continually.” And yet we’re supposed to be told state-run media is only on the right? According to Pritzker, the President “is a person who thinks that his personal will should be imposed upon the United States.” Trump has iterated that his re-election was a mandate given to him by the American people. And considering during his first term there were those in the executive branch willing to subvert his authority, coupled with the fact that Congress is largely dependent on Presidential initiative, Trump’s perspective is not at all inconceivable: He wants his Justice Department to go after his opponents. We’ve seen that over and over again. And indeed, I believe yesterday, we saw news that he is planning to do that, accidentally publishing what would have been a private communication with Pam Bondi. And nothing from Brzezinski to present any semblance of push-back.

Leftist and legacy media leapt to cast blame on the right for political violence following the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, using absurd data from an anti-free speech researcher known for demonizing the right. A Sept. 12 article from The Economist, as well as the BBC, The Bulwark’s Molly Jong Fast, Truthout, The Scheer Post,  leftist actor George Takei and others, pushed a graph purporting to show that the right in America is responsible for far more cases of political violence than the left or Islamists. However, The Economist does not mention that Michael Loadenthal—the founder and executive director of The Prosecution Project (TPP), the organization that compiled the data—is a self-declared Antifa (domestic terrorist) member and has been exposed for his contempt of free speech and organizations on the right. [The story continues on MRCFreeSpeechAmerica.org]