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Rep. Buddy Carter isn't asking politely anymore. The Georgia Republican just fired off a letter to the Federal Communications Commission that should make every network executive squirm a little. His message? When you hold a broadcast license, you don't get to play gatekeeper with presidential addresses. Here's what happened. President Trump scheduled a primetime address for … [Read more...] about ABC and NBC Just Told Americans What They’re Not Allowed to Watch

Something strange happened last week at FBI field offices across the country. Agents received guidance that they'd no longer be handling investigations when immigration officers get assaulted or when those confrontations end with an ICE agent pulling the trigger. Instead, that job goes to Homeland Security Investigations, which is essentially ICE investigating ICE. Both the … [Read more...] about Something Changed at the FBI Last Week and the Denials Don’t Match the Emails

There's something darkly fascinating about watching someone win an American election and then immediately explain how America itself is the problem. Melat Kiros, the Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate who just knocked off longtime Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette in a primary, spent last weekend at a Denver event doing exactly that. She called for more immigrants from … [Read more...] about Colorado Socialist Wants More Immigrants in Power to Remake America’s Global Role

The Supreme Court just handed down its ruling on birthright citizenship, and before the ink dried, Republicans found the next battlefield. Turns out America's territories might be the weak link nobody was watching closely enough. Rep. Morgan Griffith from Virginia introduced the End Birthright Citizenship for Territories Act this week, and the timing tells you everything. The … [Read more...] about Republicans Target U.S. Territories as Next Front in Battle Against Birth Tourism

Senator Rand Paul just dropped a bombshell that should make every American's blood boil. Documents released Monday reveal that FBI agents ordered Customs and Border Protection to stand down from questioning a researcher with direct ties to the Wuhan lab. We're not talking about some random traveler here. This was Peter Daszak, a British zoologist who'd just returned from the … [Read more...] about Rand Paul Exposes FBI Stand Down Order That Protected Wuhan Lab Researcher at the Border