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As federal authorities continue to investigate concerning incidents against Vice President JD Vance, the latest being an alleged assassination threat, conservatives are speaking out against the increasingly violent rhetoric of the Left. Shannon Mathre, a 33-year-old man from Toledo, was recently indicted by a federal grand jury for his alleged crime, one which Zack Smith, a Senior Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal was “very specific,” and considered a true threat not protected by the First Amendment. Rhetoric to Blame? This incident again raises concerns about political rhetoric. Smith brought up “Democratic politicians using inflammatory rhetoric,” specifically, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., claiming that federal law enforcement officers were not real law enforcement officers; Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Fry telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers “to get out of his city using very rude, very vulgar language;” and comments from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, about “fighting Trump’s agenda in the streets.” “What do you expect the logical conclusion of those types of incendiary language, that type of heated rhetoric. Where do you expect that to lead? I think, unfortunately, if you look at it from an objective viewpoint, it’s going to lead to these types of threats and the types of political violence that we’ve seen,” Smith shared. Although he pointed out that those targeting political figures are “acting on their own volition,” Smith added that it’s “at a minimum problematic whenever you have this type of rhetoric.” Calls to tone down that rhetoric, he said, have not been heeded. Another senior legal fellow at Heritage, Cully Stimson, agreed with Smith. “I would echo his comments and say that the level of vitriol and threats of violence against political opponents, especially against those on the right, is unacceptable and must stop,” he told The Daily Signal. John R. Lott Jr., president of Crime Prevention Research Center pointed out to The Daily Signal how “rhetoric has consequences.” “If someone truly believes the rhetoric that the Trump administration is equivalent to Nazi Germany or that it is committing genocide against trans people, it is not surprising that some individuals come to see the situation as a war in which they must kill their perceived oppressors,” he shared. U.S. Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi also spoke out in the wake of Mathre’s arrest. “As a society, we must remain united in our zero tolerance for political violence. This individual will now answer for his actions to a federal court,” he told The Daily Signal. The Alleged Incident According to the Department of Justice, Mathre allegedly threatened to kill the vice president during his trip to Ohio last month. He was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service and appeared before a judge on Feb. 6. “I am going to find out where he (the vice president) is going to be and use my M14 automatic gun and kill him,” Mathre allegedly stated in the indictment, according to a DOJ press release. “Hostile and violent threats made against the Vice President, or any other public official, will not be tolerated in our District,” David M. Toepfer, U.S attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said. “Anyone threatening this kind of action will face swift justice and prosecution. We commend the actions of our local and state law enforcement who collaborated with U.S. Secret Service to take this individual into custody.” “I can say that the investigation included not only what the defendant said online and to people, but also his actions and behavior. We have been following this for several months with our partners at the FBI and in Ohio,” Guglielmi said. Attorney General Pam Bondi weighed in as well. “Our attorneys are vigorously prosecuting this disgusting threat against Vice President Vance,” she said. “You can hide behind a screen, but you cannot hide from this Department of Justice.” Mathre faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 if convicted of such a crime. He’s also facing charges of child sexual abuse materials. That charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000 if convicted. “Anyone that spends any time in a room with Mr. Mathre or has any knowledge of his condition—physical condition, mental condition—can see that it’s a farce,” Mathre’s attorney McElroy said, according to CBS News. He explained his client has “some mental disabilities and a variety of other conditions.” The Daily Signal also reached out to McElroy’s law office. A Concerning Pattern The alleged threat is not the only recent incident against the vice president or others in the Trump administration. A grand jury last month charged William DeFoor over an incident at Vance’s Cincinnati home. The 26-year-old was charged with damaging government property; engaging in physical violence against a person in a restricted building; and assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers. Last month, Marco Antonio Aguayo, 22, of Anaheim, California, was arrested for death threats on Instagram against the vice president when his family went to Disneyland last year. There have also been acts of violence against other political figures on the right. Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk was assassinated last September. In 2024, while running for president, Donald Trump was shot in July 2024 and targeted with another assassination attempt two months later. He continues to face threats. The post Ohio Man Indicted for Threatening to Kill JD Vance appeared first on The Daily Signal.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security slammed Democrats for “vile attacks” against U.S. law enforcement following a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday. “In yesterday’s hearing, Democrats doubled down on their vile attacks on our law enforcement, comparing them to Nazis and the secret police and calling them thugs,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement first provided to The Daily Signal. During the House Homeland Security hearing, which was focused on oversight of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations, multiple Democrats criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., referred to ICE agents as “thugs”; Rep. Daniel Goldman, D-N.Y., referred to ICE tactics as “outright fascist”; Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., accused acting ICE Director Todd Lyons of having “blood” on his hands and asked him if he believes he is “going to hell”; and Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., called DHS a “weapon,” arguing the entire department should be “dismantled.” “While they were demonizing our law enforcement, our officers were risking their lives arresting criminal illegal aliens, including multiple child rapists, kidnappers, and violent assailants,” McLaughlin said. On Tuesday, ICE arrested Gustavo Moronatti-Campos, an alleged registered sex offender from Mexico living in the U.S. illegally, according to DHS. ICE also arrested Mexican national Daniel Cardona-Soriano, who has a criminal record that includes a conviction for aggravated sexual assault of a child in Texas. Daniel Cardona-Soriano and Gustavo Moronatti-Campos. (DHS) Jairo Miguel Moran-Gonzalez, an illegal alien from El Salvador, was convicted of kidnapping in Los Angeles, and Alexis Hernandez-Cedillos, also from El Salvador, was convicted of robbery in New York City. Honduran national Rene Matamoro-Robles’s criminal record includes a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon in Los Angeles. ICE took all three men into custody on Tuesday. Alexis Hernandez-Cedillos, Rene Matamoro-Robles, and Jairo Miguel Moran-Gonzalez. (DHS) McLaughlin says the anti-ICE rhetoric from Democrats “is inciting violent attacks” against agents. “Our officers are experiencing a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats as they arrest murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists,” she said. In addition to Lyons, Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Rodney Scott, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, testified before the House committee Tuesday. On Thursday, the three immigration officials will testify before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. The post EXCLUSIVE: DHS Slams Democrats for ‘Vile Attacks’ on Law Enforcement   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The House of Representatives passed the SAVE America Act by a 218-213 margin on Wednesday, a bill which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo identification to vote in federal elections.  Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas was the only Democrat to join Republicans in voting for the bill. One Republican and one Democrat did not vote. A modified version of the previously passed “SAVE Act,” the bill includes new photo identification requirements. It is a priority of hardline conservatives in Congress. The original SAVE Act passed by a 220-208 vote in April 2025. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who introduced the bill in the House, said of the bill before its passage, “This is commonsense legislation. It will require citizenship to register to vote, and it will require voter ID at the polls. This is an issue that polls at something like 80%.” 85%+ of Americans – Black, White, Purple… – support Voter ID because it is COMMON SENSE.You only want to block SAVE if you want noncitizens or fraudsters voting. Thune should move it on the floor while Dems cry Jim Crow crocodile tears pic.twitter.com/pwk3P6IPUh— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) February 4, 2026 The bill has faced generalized Democrat resistance, especially in the Senate, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has said it would impose “Jim Crow style restrictions on voting.” House Republican leaders backed the bill, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., signing on as co-sponsors. The bill had zero Democrat co-sponsors. Multiple Democrats who backed the original SAVE Act did not support the SAVE America Act. Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, for example, explained his opposition to a Washington Examiner reporter, saying the two bills are “not even the same bill.” “I’ve never supported voter ID at the ballot box,” said Golden. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., a previous supporter of the SAVE Act, also opposed the SAVE America Act, writing on X, “if your legislation requires government to provide free photocopy services, you have not written a good piece of legislation,” in reference to one of the bill’s provisions. Rep. Ed Case, D-Hawaii, who also voted SAVE Act, voted against the bill Wednesday. Call me a perfectionist but if your legislation requires government to provide free photocopy services, you have not written a good piece of legislation. pic.twitter.com/QyRBSKR5dA— Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@RepMGP) February 11, 2026 House Republicans have in recent days launched a pressure campaign on Senate Republicans to force what is known as a “talking filibuster” to help pass the bill, in order to overcome the chamber’s typical 60-vote threshold for ending debate on bills.  This would, in theory, entail Senate Republicans refusing to adjourn and enforcing a two-speech limit on Senate Democrats. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., citing the time-consuming nature of this approach, has not come out in support of it, but has indicated Senate Republicans will discuss its merits. SAVE America Act (Proof of Citizenship +Voter ID) officially on the floor next week! Here’s the latest background: pic.twitter.com/84faFy3hLl— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) February 5, 2026 The post House Passes SAVE America Act appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Updates on the Nancy Guthrie Case

According to emails obtained by the great people at Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT), reporters from The New York Times and Politico worked alongside the Biden-Harris administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to try and concoct a record of climate leadership for then-Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed campaign. And, when it was all over, one fretted to their fellow liberals about the agency’s future under President Trump. On the latter example, reporter Kevin Bogardus — who works for Politico’s E&E News — fretted on January 6 that he was “reaching out to former EPA officials who served in Democratic and Republican administrations to hear what they think about what the agency accomplished during these past four years as well as what is under threat or will last during the incoming administration and beyond.” “Under threat”? The horror! Of course a D.C. journalist would frame the change of administrations that way. His questions even implied impending doom, wondering how much EPA had yet to spend from the bipartisan infrastructure act. Specifically, he expressed concern that about the EPA’s “Clean School Bus Program,” which “was appropriated $5 billion[.]” Bogardus did the same with the boondoogle known as the Inflation Reduction Act and EPA employees overall (given what Americans already knew would be mass layoffs). Going back to the campaign, Politico’s Zack Colman sought help in a July 25, 2024 e-mail to the EPA in confirming whether it’s “accurate to say VP Harris was instrumental in formulating the idea to send $20B in climate funding under the Inflation Reduction Act to community lenders.” An EPA officially replied to Colman and Bogardus with a comical word salad with political buzzwords looking to make fetch happen, alleging Harris was instrumental in what was called the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) as part of the Inflation Reduction Act: Vice President Kamala Harris is a leader who doesn’t do surface, she digs in and she was a driving force behind EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program from the Inflation Reduction Act. The Vice President was actively engaged during the development of the program and emphasized the importance of community lenders in the work to reach underserved communities. Her engagement resulted in a program that will help ensure that families, small businesses, and community lenders, especially in disadvantaged and underserved areas, have access to billions of dollars of new capital they need to make climate and clean energy projects a reality in their neighborhoods. Now, just how absurd is this GGRF? Check out this definition from a far-left group called Evergreen Action: [T]he Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is the largest grant program within the IRA. Not only does this provide a massive investment in pollution-reducing, clean energy technology, but it targets communities that have been historically overlooked and underserved and brings equity to the clean energy transition. And the program’s flexibility puts decision-making into states and communities’ hands—allowing local leadership to design and implement programing for maximum impact. This financing will have both immediate and long-lasting impact, by deploying clean energy projects in communities now, and supporting the creation of green banks that can finance clean energy projects well into the future.  With buzzwords like “equity,” “flexibility,”  “green banks,” and “undeserved,” theat sure seems like a slush fund to us! He was back for more on August 19, 2024 asking about Regan’s future if Harris were to win (or lose) the election. When there didn’t appear to be a response, he added another question hours later: “How would you characterize Administrator Regan’s working relationship with Vice President Harris? Have they worked closely together during the Biden-Harris administration? If so, on what issues?” They apparently called him the next day, leading Bogardus to give his fellow liberals a preview of how their comments to him would be characterized prior to publication (click “expand,” italics original to the e-mail): Many thanks for the phone call just now, Nick. I really appreciate it. As we discussed, regarding my questions about Administrator Regan’s future plans, you directed me to prior comments from Administrator Regan, including whether he is interested in being part of a potential Harris administration. I will use that in the following in italics in my story: EPA spokesperson Nick Conger directed E&E News to prior comments Administrator Michael Regan made about his future plans, including whether he was interested in being part of a potential Harris administration. “I’ve learned not to get out ahead of any conversations I’ve had with the president and the vice president,” Regan said at an event last month. Also, as we discussed as well, please pass on that on-the-record statement regarding Vice President Harris and Administrator Regan’s working relationship as soon as you can. Thanks so much again for your help and talk to you later! It must be nice to have the power to see how the elite press will characterize you beforehand. Rewind a week to August 12, 2024 and Times White House reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs emailed this to an EPA official asking for help in finding examples of how Harris “shaped” the administration’s climate agenda through “big decisions”: Hope you’re well. I was referred to you by the vice president’s office for a story we’re doing on Vice President Kamala Harris’s time as vice president. We’re curious about exploring what the VP did and did not do on policy. What were the big decisions she made? How did she help shape some of the policies in Biden’s agenda? I thought the Administrator would be able to provide his perspective? The thing we’re looking for here is examples of the VP’s work, rather than just analysis. Of course, EPA press aide Timothy Carroll replied just over half an hour later: “Administrator Regan would be happy to chat on this and I think he can speak to a few examples, especially on the VP’s engagement in the development of EPA’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.” A search of Kamala Harris and Michael Regan in The Times’s database showed quite the sad trombone as such a story never materialized under his byline.