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Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger’s campaign is boosting an ad attempting to defuse one of her Republican opponent’s attacks: that Spanberger supports allowing men in women’s intimate spaces, such as bathrooms and locker rooms, if they claim a transgender identity. “I’m Abigail Spanberger, mom to three girls in public school,” the ad begins. “Nothing matters more to me than the safety of all our kids, and as a law enforcement officer, I went after child predators, so it really angers me to hear these lies about who I am.” “I believe we need to get politics out of our schools, and trust parents and local communities,” Spanberger, a former member of Congress, adds in the ad. “As a mom and as your governor, I will be focused on making our schools the best in the nation.” Does Spanberger’s record support her rhetoric here? What Is the ‘Lie’? Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, Spanberger’s Republican opponent, has repeatedly attacked the Democrat for supporting transgender policies. In September, Earle-Sears’ campaign released an ad claiming Spanberger voted “to allow men in girls’ sports, bathrooms, and locker rooms.” The ad highlights Richard Cox, a convicted sex offender. Arlington County Public Schools reportedly allowed Cox to use girls’ locker rooms at two high schools late last year, because he identified himself as a transgender female. Spanberger appears to object to the notion that she prioritizes transgender policies over the safety of women and girls. Spanberger’s Record The Earle-Sears ad cites Spanberger’s votes for H.R. 5, “The Equality Act” on May 17, 2019 and on Feb. 25, 2021. Spanberger did not just support this legislation, she co-sponsored it in 2019, 2021, and 2023. She voted for the legislation each time the House considered it. The Equality Act would amend federal civil rights legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, inserting new language into the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which desegregated public schools. Not only did Spanberger for the Equality Act, but she also criticized Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., over his model policies bringing parental rights into discussions of transgender identity in schools. “Governor Youngkin released a plan to target LGBTQ children in Virginia schools,” Spanberger wrote in 2021. “His mandate will out kids, require their identities not be respected, and hurt them in the very places where they are supposed to learn and thrive.” As for “outing” kids, the policy states that “schools shall defer to parents to make the best decisions with respect to their children,” regarding health care, names, pronouns, counseling, and social transition at school. It seems Spanberger’s major concern is that schools would disclose a child’s stated transgender identity to his or her parents, as that is the only “outing” the guidelines suggest. Does Spanberger oppose schools notifying parents if their kids identify as transgender at school? While Spanberger did not specifically address the Youngkin policies’ suggestion that schools segregate sports based on biological sex, rather than gender identity, she reiterated her voting record on transgender issues. “In Congress, I have been a stalwart supporter of LGBTQ rights, the Equality Act, and marriage equality,” she added. The Governor’s actions will hurt children, especially LGBTQ children who already suffer higher rates of depression and are at greater risk of suicide. (2/3)— Archive: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (@RepSpanberger) September 18, 2022 Transgender activist groups such as the Human Rights Campaign have endorsed Spanberger in the gubernatorial race, in part due to these stances. Insistence on Local Control Despite her record, Spanberger has repeatedly suggested that she supports parents and schools deciding on a local level whether bathrooms and locker rooms should be open to members of the opposite sex who identify as transgender. “On issues related to what’s happening in our schools and each individual community, I think it’s important that we have parents and teachers and administrators making decisions about their individual schools, not politicians,” she said when pressed on the issue during the debate with Earle-Sears last week. Spanberger said that “there should never be nude men in locker rooms,” but she did not clarify whether she would rescind Gov. Youngkin’s policy preventing men from accessing girls’ facilities. ?SPANBERGER DODGESTom Schaad directly asks Abigail Spanberger if she would reverse Glenn Youngkin's policy keeping boys out of girls' restrooms. She refuses to answer, when asked repeatedly.? pic.twitter.com/rAPzGa4hYO— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) October 9, 2025 Her campaign website does not clarify her position, either. “As governor, she will work to safeguard the rights of all Virginians and make sure that no member of the LGBTQ community is denied government services, discriminated against, or loses a job because of who they are,” the website states. The Spanberger campaign did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about whether she now prioritizes safety over the Equality Act. The campaign did not respond when asked if Spanberger would unequivocally state that she opposes opening girls’ intimate spaces to men. The post FACT CHECK: Is It a ‘Lie’ That Spanberger Supports Allowing Men in Girls’ Bathrooms? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Republicans must keep their focus on “Democrats’ gender extremism” to beat the odds in the upcoming off-year and midterm elections, according to the conservative nonprofit which influenced the Trump campaign on pro-family issues. American Principles Project penned a memo, obtained by The Daily Signal, laying out the conservative playbook for leveraging Democrats’ biggest weakness: “gender radicalism.” The memo says that Republicans have a chance at winning elections in blue states New Jersey and Virginia in November because Democrats won’t back down in their support for unpopular transgender ideology. The same strategy will serve Republicans wins in 2026 midterms, according to APP. “Looking beyond this November, Democrats also face a similar conundrum in 2026,” the memo says. “While in theory they should be significantly favored to win back one or both chambers of Congress, their stubborn adherence to far-left positions on gender issues has made them politically vulnerable. If Republicans hope to overcome past trends, they cannot afford to abandon the Trump campaign’s winning strategy.” APP’s president, Terry Schilling, played a role in influencing President Donald Trump to make opposition to radical gender ideology a tenet of his 2024 campaign. Schilling showed Trump polling proving that pro-family policy is popular with voters. “He’s more aware of what Dems are doing to our kids than most politicians I’ve met,” Schilling reflected. I had the opportunity to show President Trump how important family issues are to voters.He’s more aware of what Dems are doing to our kids than most politicians I’ve met.I told him, “Mr. President, you’ve had our backs and we’ve got yours. Let’s win!” pic.twitter.com/LMXIW5aq0z— Terry Schilling ?? (@Schilling1776) July 24, 2024 Emphasizing common sense stances on family issues helped Trump win the election, and Republican candidates must continue to take advantage of opportunities to hold Democrats’ feet to the fire on transgenderism, APP urges. The nonprofit highlighted opportunities to slam Democrat gubernatorial candidates Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Mikie Sherill of New Jersey for their pro-transgender records “including allowing men in women’s sports, males in female private spaces, and taxpayer funding of sex changes.” “When pressed on the campaign trail, both have refused to back down from these positions,” the memo says. That strategy is working. APP commissioned polling of 2,600 Virginia voters which found that messages about Democrats’ support for mandatory insurance coverage of sex changes and males in femaleprivate spaces boosted Republicans’ vote share by 6.9 points and 5.7 points, respectively. In a panel of 2,800 New Jersey voters, messages about Democrats’ support for sexchanges for minors and banning talk therapy to alleviate gender dysphoria moved voters toRepublicans by 8.2 and 5.6 points, respectively. “Given how close the polling is in both races, these issues have the very real potential to deliver victory for the GOP—in an election history says Republicans ought to have no chance of winning,” the memo says. American Principles Project plans to play a role in applying this strategy to upcoming elections. “This year, we will once again be working to elect pro-family champions through a plannedsuper PAC spend of $1.4 million in Virginia and $1 million in New Jersey,” the memo says. The think tank also plans to invest even more in next year’s midterms to help pro-family leaders in close Senate, gubernatorial, and House races. “In many of these races, Democrats will likely be running candidates with far-left records on gender issues—including Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia, former Governor Roy Cooper in North Carolina, and Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan, to name just a few,” the memo says. “By ensuring swing voters are aware of these candidates’ radical positions, we also aim to tip the balance in what are expected to be tight races.” The post EXCLUSIVE: Nonprofit Which Advised Trump on Gender Ideology Reveals Key to Beating Democrats appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Democrats are demanding $1.5 trillion in new partisan spending – including $5 billion for wasteful international projects – before they’ll vote to reopen the government, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday. “I want you to know what that (Democrat) counterproposal includes, because we’ve not yet gone into all the details of it. It’s large and very absurd,” Johnson said. In addition to a half-billion dollars of taxpayer funding for leftist media outlets via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Democrats are also demanding $200 billion for health care for illegal aliens, Johnson said. “It would also restore up to $5 billion of American taxpayer funds for wasteful spending for international projects,” Speaker Johnson said, providing examples of items in the Democrats’ counterproposal to the House-passed continuing resolution that would fund and reopen the federal government: $3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the western Balkans. $2 million for organizing for feminist democratic principles in Africa. $2.9 million for desert locust risk reduction in the Horn of Africa. $24.6 million for climate resilience in Honduras. $13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe. “We are not doing that,” House Speaker Johnson said. The Democrat Government Shutdown is doing real harm to the American people. While Democrats continue to celebrate suffering, they demand $1.5 TRILLION in new partisan spending to end it. Here’s what they want? • $200B for FREE health care for ILLEGAL ALIENS • ENDING work… pic.twitter.com/ikNgdPl31R — Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) October 14, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is sharing the wealth with U.S. allies in Europe and NATO.Since late 2024, Zuckerberg's tech giant has made Llama — its own large language model — available to foreign countries within the Five Eyes security partnership between the U.S., Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Now, Meta is expanding the access to other countries while partnering with advanced-AI military contractors.'We're building for completely on-device deployment of AI.'Wearable products, AI programs, and other tools are being shared with allies in France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and South Korea, in order to enhance "decision-making, mission-specific capabilities, and operational efficiency," Meta wrote.The technology includes a partnership with Anduril, Palmer Luckey's industry-leading augmented reality defense company.Calling the effort the "largest of its kind," Meta's partnership is meant to equip soldiers with enhanced decision-making capabilities. This is apparent with Anduril's recently released EagleEye, an AI/AR warfighter helmet.RELATED: 'Swarms of killer robots': Former Biden official says US military is afraid of using AI EdgeRunner AI is used on a military laptop. Image provided to Blaze News courtesy of EdgeRunner EagleEye represents the best of what the video game world has to offer, brought to life. Not only does the helmet display directional mapping as if belonging to a gamer dropped into a first-person shooting game, but it also provides a form of X-ray vision that allows users to see allies and enemies on the map through coordinated data.The AR tech also utilizes spatial audio and frequency detection to alert operators of hidden threats. Rear and flank sensors also ensure that the allied soldier is not ambushed.Anduril's Lattice AI is also making waves, and it too looks like something gamers will recognize. Using data from drones, sensors, and satellites, it creates a real-time 3D battlefield map. The program boasts a wide range of deployable formats, including detecting battlefield threats or intrusions on border security.In November 2024, Meta opened-sourced its Llama model for the U.S. military and its contractors to build upon. That move is now paying off, as Meta will now share what the company EdgeRunner has built, a closed-ended chatbot for soldiers.RELATED: 'Insane radical leftists' are gone: Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey reunite for US military project Anduril Lattice battlefield software. Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images EdgeRunner AI is essentially a search function for soldiers; it can be run as a local program on almost any consumer-grade device, and according to Meta, it can be used to identify safe locations for aircraft or even accurately translate languages."This is all part of our joint effort to ensure the warfighter has access to advanced AI technology at the tactical edge," an EdgeRunner spokesperson told Return. "What's especially unique about our work with Meta is that we're building for completely on-device deployment of AI, meaning it's running locally on your laptop, workstation, or smartphone, disconnected from the cloud."This method avoids the necessity for uninterrupted cloud connectivity, which helps keep the data out of the enemy's hands, too.The AI program has an all-encompassing goal and is specifically designed to be adaptable to different job titles. This means it will be coupled with logistics, maintenance, and combat roles.Meta is spreading its footprint worldwide and said because of this, it hopes allies will deploy the AI ethically, responsibly, and in accordance with "relevant international law and fundamental principles."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Left-wing activists have expressed their outrage at what they say is an act of erasure against the queer community by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on political murals.Abbott had given cities 30 days to remove political murals from public spaces, and the Texas Department of Transportation reiterated the order to the city of Austin.'An absolute breach on freedom of speech and a breach on our queer history.'The city agreed to remove the Pride rainbow crosswalk on Fourth Street as well as a Black Lives Matter mural on Eleventh Street. They were at risk of losing state and federal funding if they didn't comply with the order.But local activists are incensed."It feels like a slap in the face to the community," Austin Pride president Micah Andress said to KTBC-TV. "I don't understand why this is political. It's a rainbow crosswalk. It's certainly not a safety hazard."Andress wants the city to resist the order and keep the crosswalk."If we're as progressive as we say we are, and we have all the protections that the city says we do, we should be protecting this," Andress said. "We shouldn't be erasing it. We're not going anywhere. We've always been here. We'll always be here.""It is an absolute breach on freedom of speech and a breach on our queer history," said Veronica Jones, a resident of Austin."It's just important for every community, no matter what you believe, to have a space where you can be your authentic self and be celebrated," said Chris Collier, another resident. "I would hate to see this block become any less colorful."RELATED: Drag queens outraged after rainbow crosswalk is obliterated by Gov. DeSantis: 'Our pride is being erased' Others are upset at the removal of the Black Lives Matter street mural."Just because they want to erase something from the street, it doesn't erase the sentiment, it doesn't erase the message," said Austin Justice Coalition founder Chas Moore. "The message remains the same, that Black lives matter, Black artists matter."A similar order in Florida garnered the same responses from drag queens in Miami Beach."Our pride is getting erased just like that," said a drag queen named CC Glitzer. "It's very painful."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The United States has been cracking down on drug trafficking and other illegal activities in the Western Hemisphere, specifically targeting Venezuela in recent months. Trump has consistently announced airstrikes against "narcoterrorist" boats, and Tuesday saw the most recent tactical strike. Trump announced on Tuesday on Truth Social that the Department of War carried out an airstrike against a vessel off the coast of Venezuela, killing those aboard. 'The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold.'"Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela," he said in the post.Trump explained the reason for the strike and its aftermath: "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed."RELATED: Liberals pounce to defend drug cartels after Trump reveals strike on drug-running gang members near Venezuela Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesTrump's post about the airstrike comes days after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the creation of a "new counter-narcotics Joint Task Force" in USSOUTHCOM's area of responsibility. The mission of the task force, according to Hegseth, is "to crush the cartels, stop the poison, and keep America safe."USSOUTHCOM, or U.S. Southern Command, is one of 11 combatant commands under the Department of War. USSOUTHCOM's area of responsibility includes the land mass of Latin America south of Mexico, the waters adjacent to Central and South America, and the Caribbean Sea. It is also responsible for securing the Panama Canal, according to its website. "The message is clear: if you traffic drugs toward our shores, we will stop you cold," Hegseth added. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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