A newly-elected Republican mayor in Idaho passed away after collapsing mid-speech during a town hall meeting. Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam, 47, suffered a “medical emergency” while speaking in Eagle, Idaho, on Wednesday. Eagle Mayor Brad Pike administered CPR after Hogaboam collapsed. Newly-elected Idaho mayor, 47, collapses and dies shortly after speaking at official meeting https://t.co/gVkn7OooOH — Daily Mail (@DailyMail) March 19, 2026 “It is with the deepest sadness that we must report Mayor Rick Hogaboam experienced a medical emergency tonight and has passed away. We ask the community to please keep his family and loved ones in your prayers during this incredibly difficult time,” the City of Nampa wrote on Facebook. “As we begin to mourn this unbelievable loss, please provide grace while we navigate the loss of not only our Mayor, but also our friend,” it continued. More from the New York Post: The Treasure Valley Partnership town hall meeting was adjourned as the politician was being treated by cops, fire crews and medics who rushed to the scene. Life-saving efforts were unsuccessful and Hogaboam died — just over two months after being sworn in as mayor of Nampa, located west of Boise. He prevailed in November’s election with 62.86 percent of the vote, defeating three rivals and becoming Nampa’s 31st mayor in the process. Hogaboam, known for his love of the Buffalo Bills, moved from western New York to Nampa in 2008. He later served as chief of staff to former Mayor Debbie Kling, his predecessor, for almost four years. He had previously served as a city councilman, a substitute Idaho state senator, and the Canyon County clerk, a job in which he was responsible for the county’s budget and elections. Hogaboam’s office has described his death as an “unbelievable loss” while the Idaho House Republicans described him as someone who was “more than a public servant.” “The need was to take care of Rick and he got immediate support,” Pike said, according to NBC News. “Good, bad or indifferent, I was the last person in his life that was touching him when he passed,” he added. CBS2 News provided video coverage: City of Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam has died from a medical emergency. Treasure Valley Partnership released a statement detailing the emergency as it took place during a Regional Town Hall at Eagle City Hall. pic.twitter.com/vet29xm5Oy — CBS2 News (@CBS2Boise) March 19, 2026 NBC News shared further: Hogaboam’s death was met with an outpouring of condolences by public officials and departments across the state, including Idaho Gov. Brad Little. “Heartbreaking to hear of the sudden loss of Nampa Mayor Rick Hogaboam,” Little wrote in a post on X. “Rick served with a real heart for public service and dedication to the community. His family, city staff, and the Nampa community are in my prayers.” Former Nampa Mayor Debbie Kling, who decided against running for re-election last year, said she was “extremely grieved” to hear of her successor’s death, according to KTVB. “He has an amazing wife and young family, who we need to keep in our prayers,” Kling said. “Rick was such a smart, talented leader, who will be greatly missed.” The Caldwell Police Department described Hogaboam as a “pillar of the community” who dedicated his life to service in a Facebook post on Wednesday night. “Rick was a servant leader and beyond his professional life, Rick was an amazing father and husband,” the statement said. “Rick’s legacy will live forever and his passion for public service and non-profit work will never be forgotten.” More from KTVB:

El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells says that officials make child welfare checks almost impossible because they don’t want anyone to come across an illegal alien and consider deporting them. In an op-ed for Fox News on Thursday, he detailed the terrible, awful, child-endangering insanity: Think about that. A child who may have been trafficked or abandoned. […] The post It’s Basically Illegal to Conduct Welfare Checks of Migrant Children in California appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

Taylor Frankie Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette” has been canceled by ABC following the release of videos of her allegedly engaging in domestic abuse with her partner, per TMZ. A Disney Entertainment spokesperson told the outlet, “In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family.” The decision was made shortly after TMZ published a video of Paul getting into a physical altercation with Dakota Mortensen, the father of her child, Ever.

We’re living in the middle of a gigantic online op. It is an op designed to suck young men dry and leave them broken and stupid. It makes their lives actively worse. That op is called the manosphere, and it’s time to wake up to their matrix of evil. Men without proper guideposts and durable moral institutions are being ushered into a world of stupidity and immorality by grifters and liars who traffic in lies, spiritual emptiness, and outright grift, who tell them they can be rich, famous, and have hot women hanging on their every word, lavishing their attention on you, demanding nothing from you in return. All you have to do to get all of this is give the manosphere your money, your brain, and your soul. All these folks are running the same scheme. Here’s how it works. First, they tell young men that they are failing at life. Second, they tell the young men the reason they are failing at life is not because of anything they’re doing, per se, but because of the matrix, a system of power that’s out to get them. That system is what is depriving them of women, of money, of social mobility. Third, these men act transgressively and provocatively. They violate all social stigmas and then magically seem to achieve all of the things the matrix has placed off limits to young men. Fourth, they inform these young men that they, too, can have all of these wonderful things: the hot women and the nice cars and the big houses — if only they join a fake university or some B.S. stock trading app, or donate money to the Kick stream. Finally, they tell young men that anyone who says differently is part of the matrix. If any of this sounds familiar, that’s because it’s basically cult recruitment tactics, just made viral online. Cults typically target people who are suffering from a life crisis. They target the vulnerable, and then they love bomb those people, saying, “You’re with us. We understand you.” They offer the most obvious critiques of the world: the unfairness of life, the impossibility of overcoming challenges. And then they say, “You know, the way out of that is the cult.” Cults encourage recruits to cut out all contrary information, and cults tell these people that people who oppose the cults are actually members of some nefarious outside force. They contend that if you join the cult, you are saved or enlightened or awake, and everyone else is a suppressive evildoer. This stuff is seductive — and dangerous, because it also tells young men things that are not true, such as “women are disgusting and perverse,” but also simultaneously that women are “shamelessly available and completely pliant” if you just crack the code. It says you can achieve wealth and fame, not over time by building a business, but instantaneously, this moment, simply by seeing through the matrix and eschewing the 9-to-5 hard job in favor of a get-rich-quick scam. And, if you fail, it’s because of the matrix. You just need to give them more money. That matrix, by the way, is just code for the Jews. Tapping into the antisemitism allows them to seem both transgressive and also illuminating. Which is why we have tons of clips of these “manosphere” influencers singing Ye’s “Heil Hitler” just a couple of months ago. None of this is new. You want to know what women want? I speak as a man who’s been married for nearly 20 years and has four children with a fifth on the way. Women want men who actually love and protect and cherish and defend them. It’s not all that difficult, by the way. That is the definition of manhood. The definition of true manhood is to love, protect, cherish, defend, and provide for your wife and for your family. That definition of what a man should be is also a great definition of how to be a happy human being. You know what women don’t want? Scumbags who tell them to clean up their rooms while maintaining a harem. That’s intellectual pornography for morons.

While the Iranian regime continues to attack the United States — either directly or through proxy terrorist organizations — some of the regime’s leaders have sent their own children to the United States, and a number have made themselves at home at American universities. The New York Post shared a list of several prominent Iranian leaders who have children teaching at universities in the United States — and although the report noted that none of those employed in the United States have been linked to any nefarious activity, allowing people with such close ties to regime leadership to teach American students could eventually present a risk. Janatan Sayeh, an Iran analyst at Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, explained: “I would think that there would be a security risk as Iranian academics have been critical in forming public opinion on the left in the US, essentially deceiving liberals into thinking that the regime is more progressive, when it’s still advancing the same hardline agenda.” Fatemeh Ardeshir-Larijani, for example, initially came to the United States for cancer treatment. A medical doctor who worked at Emory University in Atlanta until January, she is also the daughter of Ali Larijani — an Iranian leader who was killed in an airstrike on Tuesday. Lawdan Bazargan, with the Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists, noted the irony of Ardeshir-Larijani’s presence in the United States — especially given who her father was. “The daughter of Ali Larijani came to the United States for cancer treatment, the very country her family’s system condemns, while millions of Iranians are denied access to basic health care and opportunity.” Larijani’s employment at Emory University was terminated in January, amid protests calling for her to be fired, deported, or both. Her dismissal came just weeks after her father was sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department “for coordinating the response to the protests on behalf of the Supreme Leader of Iran” and because he “has publicly called for Iranian security forces to use force to repress peaceful protesters.” Leila Khatami, the daughter of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, teaches math at Schenectady’s Union College. Her ties to the regime run even deeper, as her aunt was the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who claimed the title of Supreme Leader from 1979 until he died in 1989. Khatami’s photo and bio were removed from Union’s faculty website after the United States and Israel began their joint campaign against the Iranian regime. The page listing her as a professor of mathematics shows only her name and title. According to the Post’s report, thousands of children of Iranian elites are currently living in the United States.