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Parental Rights Advocate Challenges ‘Political Indoctrination’ at Rhode Island School District
Editor’s note: In this podcast episode, Nicole Solas said she submitted a public records request to the University of San Diego. She later clarified that she actually submitted the request to the University of Rhode Island. Rhode Island mom and parental rights advocate Nicole Solas was sued by teachers unions in 2021 after she requested… -
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Lack of Opt-Out Option Spurs Maryland Parents to File Suit Against K-5 Gender, Sexuality Indoctrination
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—A group of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish parents in Maryland petitioned the Supreme Court on Thursday to ask it to take up a case regarding school board policies that keep parents in the dark on books with themes about “gender” and “sexuality” being taught to children. The case originates from the Montgomery… -
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‘Maybe God Wants Me to Be President’: 4 Takeaways From Trump’s Remarks on Surviving Second Assassination Attempt
God may have allowed Donald Trump to survive two assassination attempts so that he could be president again, the former president said in an X Space interview on Monday night. “There’s something going on,” said Trump, the Republican nominee for president. “I mean, perhaps it’s God wanting me to be president, to save this country. Nobody… -
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Expert: Harris’ ‘Two-State Solution’ Would ‘Wipe Israel Off the Map’
It’s been almost a year since the Hamas terrorist organization attacked Israel on Oct. 7. The massacre left over 1,200 people dead and over 200 kidnapped—including women, men, and children. Since the attack, the Biden administration has made its support for a two-state solution clear. And now, with Vice President Kamala Harris running as the… -
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12 Influencers Who Called for Violence Against Trump, Called Him an ‘Existential Threat to Democracy’
Ahead of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, many influential actors, journalists, and influencers warned that Trump is an “existential threat” to democracy, compared him to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and suggested he or his supporters should face violent attacks. Some continued attacking Trump even after the first assassination attempt July 13…. -
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WATCH: Trump to Speak to Country After Second Attempt on His Life
On the latest episode of “The Tony Kinnett Cast,” we deliver the quick news and analysis on the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump before we cover his remarks to the nation on X Spaces live. The corporate media’s coverage of the attempt on the former president’s life is not only as misleading… -
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DeSantis Questions Propriety of Federal Agencies Probing Assassination Attempt on Trump While Prosecuting Him
Having the same federal agencies prosecuting former President Donald Trump investigating Sunday’s assassination attempt on him “may not be the best thing,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a Monday press conference. Trump is being prosecuted in federal court in Fort Pierce, Florida, a little more than an hour northwest of the Trump International Golf… -
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7 Takeaways From Hawley Report on Secret Service Failures in First Trump Assassination Attempt
The Secret Service missed several opportunities to stop the first attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in July, according to a Senate report released a day after the second such attempt on Trump’s life at his golf club in Florida. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., released a 22-page report Monday that says the Department of… -
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Lawmakers Scramble to Make Sense of Second Trump Assassination Attempt
Just over two months ago, former President Donald Trump narrowly survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. On Sunday, law enforcement thwarted yet another attempt on Trump’s life. Now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling for answers on what transpired at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf club and how to protect… -
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Victor Davis Hanson: The Deadly ‘Get Trump’ Climate Continues
Just two months after the failed Trump assassination attempt by one Thomas Matthew Crooks, we witnessed Sunday yet another foiled one, by Ryan Wesley Routh—a would-be assassin and anti-Trump/radical pro-Ukraine War social media addict. Somehow he, too, once again got within relatively easy shooting range of former President Donald Trump. Is there a continued pattern… -
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‘Was He Tipped Off?’: Bongino Explains How He Predicted Second Assassination Attempt
Dan Bongino, the conservative commentator and former Secret Service agent who correctly predicted another assassination attempt would be made against former President Donald Trump, says he thinks Sunday’s shooter was connected to a larger network. “It’s really weird that he would come in here and know exactly that spot and have a good vibe that… -
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Second Assassination Attempt Forces New Reckoning for Trump, Secret Service
The second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump while he was golfing at one of his Florida courses on Sunday is forcing the United States Secret Service to further tighten security around the Republican presidential nominee and to reevaluate just how much Trump should be venturing out—whether he should continue to golf and participate… -
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Is Biden-Harris ‘Rhetoric’ to Blame for Second Assassination Attempt on Trump?
When the liberal media compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, is it really a surprise that someone would want to get rid of him? After the second assassination attempt on Trump on Sunday in Florida, the former president said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the arrested suspect in the shooting, Ryan Wesley Routh, “believed… -
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MSNBC Anchor: Trump Should Tone Down Rhetoric After Apparent 2nd Assassination Attempt
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned whether former President Donald Trump should consider “toning down” his rhetoric Sunday after what might have been another assassination attempt on the former president. Secret Service agents evacuated the former president from the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, after Secret Service agents reportedly fired at a man carrying a… -
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BREAKING: Hawley Drops Whistleblower Report on Secret Service Failures in First Trump Assassination Attempt
A day after the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley released a whistleblower report on the Secret Service’s failures in the first assassination attempt on the 45th president, including failures that have not been reported on previously. For example, the Missouri Republican senator’s report found the Secret Service intelligence units… -
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News Flash: Bias in Media Isn’t New, Veteran Journalist Says
John Miller entered the field of journalism in Washington, D.C., in the early 1990s. There were only a handful of outlets with conservative commentary writers on their staffs at the time, and, even then, Miller says, he remembers being frustrated by the liberal bias in the media. “This notion that, you know, a generation ago… -
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‘The People Deserve the Truth’: DeSantis Says Florida Will Investigate Trump Assassination Attempt
Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Sunday the Sunshine state would conduct its own investigation into the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. “The State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation regarding the attempted assassination at Trump International Golf Club,” posted DeSantis, a Republican, on X. “The people deserve the truth about the… -
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‘TRULY HORRIFYING’: Questions Swirl After Second Trump Assassination Attempt
For the second time in just over two months, a gunman has attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump. “The FBI has responded to West Palm Beach, Florida, and is investigating what appears to be an attempted assassination of former President Trump,” the FBI announced in a statement Sunday afternoon. “Authorities just acknowledged if President Trump was president,… -
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Dan Bongino Predicts Another Security ‘Incident,’ Says Secret Service Is Worse Today Than Before Trump Assassination Attempt
Editor’s note: This article was originally published Aug. 26. Radio talk-show host and podcaster Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent, predicted another “incident” with the Secret Service, claiming that the agency is worse off today than it was before the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. After… -
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Knocking on Victory’s Door in Pennsylvania
LEVITTOWN, Pa.—Hours before Donald Trump and Kamala Harris squared off for their presidential debate Tuesday night, about 50 activists gathered at a Bucks County hotel to organize for a day of door-knocking in this closely divided Philadelphia. Americans for Prosperity Action recruited the grassroots team as part of its effort to visit 1 million homes by…