Trump may have won the presidency, but he’s only the president until 2028. After that, the Republican Party must figure out how to keep the MAGA momentum going.

Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight” believes that the ideologically different types of Americans who have banded together behind Trump are the key.

“What’s going to happen over the next few years is you’re going to see tensions arise, health tensions, between different parts of this new coalition on the right,” he says.

“I mean, just think about the voters. Some people are sort of Joe Rogan listeners, not very political per se, but they are against the wokeness. They don’t like what’s going on there. You have the tech bros, who are about excellence and merit and are very angry about Elon not being able to go to Mars if we keep DEI.”

“You see the classic on the right, the religious conservatives and the rise of young trads who are very pro-Trump. You see also the MAHA moms,” he continues, “people talking about all these chemicals.”

“This is a broad and varied coalition, and this is also what winning looks like,” he adds.

However, as Peterson said, this will create debates within the party.

“For instance, even now in the HHS, when it comes to health and administration, you have some people who are filling appointments who are more on the tech bro side,” Peterson explains.

“And you also have people who are full MAHA, very much about moving against big corporate and a lot of the poisons and questioning a lot of the scientific research in the past, which was funded by big corporations,” he continues.

“Now, those two sides won’t always agree. I like them both; they both have great qualities; and if they’re debating things internally, that’s good, that’s healthy, that’s what we want. And so it’s not going to be just one big, happy party moving forward.”

“In order to build a new coalition of the future, we’re going to have a lot of exciting debates amongst ourselves about where this should go, and again, that is a sign of winning,” he adds.

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Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts berated his own party and said other politicians agreed with him but were afraid of criticism from the far left of the party.

Moulton made the comments while being interviewed by Pamela Brown on CNN.

‘I think we need to stop preaching and start listening, start meeting Americans where they are.’

“We lost this election across the board, an election that should have been easy for us to win. I mean, when in our history have we ever run against a convicted felon sitting at the top of the ticket? So this past election should have been an easy one for Democrats,” Moulton explained.

“We lost across the board because so many Americans said, ‘You guys are just out of touch. You‘re just out of touch,'” he added. “I mean, this other guy might be crazy, but you guys are not in touch with the majority of Americans,’ which is kind of, by definition, what we showed by losing this election.”

He went on to say that the messaging from Democrats was far too negative.

“We‘ve become a party of people who preach down to others, you know, who scold them, who say, ‘If you don‘t agree with me, you‘re not only wrong, but you‘re a bad person,’” Moulton continued. “I mean, I think all of us have heard that attitude from many national Democrats in the past couple of years. So I think we need to stop preaching and start listening, start meeting Americans where they are.”

Moulton also said that many in the party agreed with his criticism but were afraid to go public with those sentiments because of the far-left fringe of the Democratic Party.

“I‘ve heard from so many colleagues behind the scenes, ‘You’re right, Seth, you’re right,’” he added. “But they all say it whispering because they’re so afraid to say it out in public, lest they be accosted by, you know, the liberal left in our party.”

Others in the party have blamed former President Joe Biden for staying in the race too long and forcing them to install Kamala Harris as their candidate without a proper primary election.

Moulton’s comments can be viewed on video posted to social media.

Editor’s note: This article has been corrected. It originally identified Seth Moulton as a U.S. senator rather than a representative. Blaze News regrets the error.

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A now-removed website, “Dogequest,” purportedly doxxed Tesla owners around the nation and mapped out possible targets for destructive protesters.

A report by 404 Media stated that the website featured a searchable map that claimed to display the locations of Tesla dealerships and charging stations, as well as the names, home addresses, phone numbers, and emails of Tesla owners. It also reportedly included the personal information of Department of Government Efficiency employees.

‘This extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we’re actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste.’

It is unclear how this information was collected.

While the site is no longer accessible, the New York Post captured a screenshot of the webpage before its removal.

“Our innovative platform allows users to explore an interactive map of DOGE landmarks,” it read.

A section of the website posed the question, “Is DOGEQUEST a protest platform?”

“If you’re on the hunt for a Tesla to unleash your artistic flair with a spray can, just step outside—no map needed! At DOGEQUEST, we believe in empowering creative expressions of protest that you can execute from the comfort of your own home.”

Dogequest also claimed that it does not endorse vandalism and referred users to another website, the “No Trace Project,” a source dedicated to helping “anarchists and other rebels understand the capabilities of their enemies, undermine surveillance efforts, and ultimately act without getting caught.”

“No trace, no case,” it notes.

For Tesla owners who want their information removed from the doxxing platform, the site demanded “proof that you’ve sold your Tesla.”

It also encouraged individuals to “mirror” the website over concerns that it may be taken down.

Since Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken a role as one of President Donald Trump’s senior advisers, assisting with trimming federal government waste and abuse alongside the DOGE, destructive protests targeting his car company have been on the rise.

Musk addressed the recent vandalism incidents in a Tuesday interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity.

“It’s really come as quite a shock to me that there’s this level really of hatred and violence from the left. I thought that the left — you know, Democrats — were supposed to be the party of empathy, the party of caring. And yet, they’re burning down cars, they’re firebombing dealerships, they’re firing bullets into dealerships, they’re smashing up Teslas,” Musk stated.

“I think we just have a deranged — there’s some kind of mental illness thing going on here because this doesn’t make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work, as well,” Musk continued. “Who’s funding it, and who’s coordinating it?”

“It turns out when you take away people’s — you know, the money they’re receiving fraudulently, they get very upset,” he said, referring to his and the DOGE’s work rooting out waste and fraud. “They basically want to kill me because I’m stopping their fraud. And they want to hurt Tesla because we’re stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government.”

“This extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we’re actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. If we were not succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste, they wouldn’t care,” Musk added.

Attorney General Pam Bondi called the vandalism “nothing short of domestic terrorism.”

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Failed vice presidential candidate Tim Walz said that he would look at Tesla’s stock price to get a little “boost” of happiness, but Elon Musk responded with a ruthless barb.

Many on the left have taken aim at Musk’s companies to protest his support of and participation in the Trump administration. Some Tesla vehicles and dealerships have been targeted with vandalism, including arson.

‘I don’t know whether to pity his ignorance or be disgusted by the joy he takes in the pain of others.’

Walz mocked Tesla’s stock price, which has lost more than 50% in value from its peak in December, during a speech on Tuesday in Wisconsin.

“They got that little stock app. I added Tesla to it to give me a little boost during the day,” said Walz to the audience. “$225 and dropping! And if you own one, we’re not blaming you. You can take dental floss and pull the Tesla thing off, you know.”

While the audience was receptive to his jab at Musk, the tech billionaire responded on the X platform, which he also owns.

“Sometimes when I need a little boost, I look at the @JDVance portrait in the @WhiteHouse and thank the Lord,” he replied.

Others pounced on Walz’s comments to make fun of the failed Democratic candidate.

“‘Tampon’ Tim Walz rooting against an American company like Tesla is both petty and gross. Maybe he should focus more on governing his poorly run state than attacking one of the world’s most innovative companies,” responded Steve Cortes, a former Trump aide.

“Says a lot about this small man that he wishes ill on a great American company. I don’t know whether to pity his ignorance or be disgusted by the joy he takes in the pain of others,” responded former sports broadcaster Michele TaFoya.

“Someone should tell Tim Walz that people can hate Elon — but that doesn’t mean they still don’t wanna see their stock accounts go down,” replied reporter Peter Hamby.

Walz’s post on social media garnered more than 24 million interactions.

Trump has said that he would seek to designate attacks on Tesla as “domestic terrorism.” In the most recent incident of violence, five Tesla vehicles were damaged in an arson attack, according to Las Vegas police. The suspect also fired a gun at least three times into the vehicles.

Here’s video of Walz’s comments:

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A satanic organization plans to hold a “Black Mass” at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka on March 28, mocking Christians — particularly Catholics, their faith, their central sacrament, and the stations of the cross.

Proponents of the anti-Christian hate group, which maintains that “only might is right and violence is the ultimate source of all authority,” apparently intend to break crosses, destroy Bibles, and dedicate the Capitol building to the devil.

The Satanic Grotto originally planned to hold its dark ritual inside the Capitol, but following backlash, the group was informed that organizers would have to take their mockery of Christians outside. The satanists bemoaned their pre-emptive ouster, threatening to break into the statehouse and suggesting that their First Amendment rights may have been infringed.

Dr. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and others told Blaze News that contrary to the satanists’ contention, lawmakers are within their rights not only to keep the planned “Black Mass” ritual out of the statehouse but to keep it off government property.

Apparently Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach (R) and Kansas lawmakers agreed.

The state Legislative Coordinating Council has amended Capitol grounds policy to prevent a “Black Mass” from taking place, and Kobach
noted that in this circumstance it would be appropriate “for the state not to facilitate this crime occurring either inside the Capitol or on the Capitol grounds.”

In the event that the Grotto flouts the prohibition and follows through on its threat, Kansas Catholic groups and other opponents of the demonic are planning to hold a counter-demonstration on site as well as to pray for the conversion of the satanists.

Satanic infestation

The Satanic Grotto is a leftist anti-Christian hate group that goes out of its way to provoke adherents of the Abrahamic religions both with demonic imagery and by denigrating their faith.

This unpolished, less organized knockoff of the Massachusetts-based Satanic Temple
identifies as a “non-denominational satanic church that utilizes philosophies from many walks of the left hand path.” Among the leftist outfit’s stated goals is support for satanic art and culture, the promotion of satanic education, and political advocacy for “pluralistic change.”

‘Kansas will be embrace by the black flame of Lucifer.’

The satanist knockoff group, like the better-known Satanic Temple, appears to be insincere about its claims of religiosity and religionhood — using these claims as an excuse for such anti-Christian demonstrations. Nevertheless, John Daniel Davidson, the author of “Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come,” told Blaze News that they “are indeed in service to demonic powers even if they personally don’t believe in the existence of them.”

“Such a thing is not only possible but quite common,” said Davidson. “When insincere satanists invoke the devil or other demons, they are calling on real created beings that have agency and will and power. If these beings are invited, they will come. It’s foolish — and indeed quite dangerous — for the Satanic Grotto to suppose that because it uses the term ‘satanist’ ironically or sarcastically, then its practitioners are safe from the machinations and malevolence of Satan. They’re not.”

The group recently shared an
event listing inviting people to join them at the Capitol building in Topeka to “dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan.”

“We will be performing rites to the Black Mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme [sic],” said the event listing. “God will fall and Kansas will be embraced by the black flame of Lucifer. Hail Satan.”

Michael Stewart, the leader of the anti-Christian hate group,
noted that he received a permit to hold the “Black Mass” at the state Capitol on March 27.

Responding to a 2014 Satanic Temple re-enactment of a satanic Mass on the Harvard campus, Monsignor Roger Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States,
struck a distinction between political stunts by “publicity-hounding satanic groups,” and the diabolic worship undertaken by “committed believers in the devil who don’t send out press releases and whose clandestine Black Masses always feature stolen consecrated Hosts.”

In the early days of Black Masses, rebellious clerics consecrated the Eucharist during the ceremony before defiling the Host with spit, blood, urine, excrement, sexual fluids, and blasphemies. Since renegade ex-priests willing to debase what they once adored are hard to find, however, Satan worshippers eventually began to resort to stealing consecrated Hosts by breaking into church tabernacles or taking them from Mass.

Chuck Weber, executive director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic Bishops of Kansas,
suggested the “Black Mass” that the Grotto has planned will be more of the “publicity-hounding” variety, calling it an “act of bigotry from a small minority who crave public attention by insulting Christians.”

Stewart
told KSNT-TV that he would lead the “Black Mass,” calling it an “act of defiance.” He further indicated that the Grotto would “heavily lean into the four blasphemies, kind of representing an alternate to the stations of the cross.”

Stewart subsequently
suggested to the Topeka Capital-Journal that the event was a “specific response to our legislatures continuing to pander to groups like the Kansas Catholic Conference and to Kansans for Life, where they keep trying to come back and attack abortion rights, much less other rights.”

‘It would [do so] in violation of the constitutional tenets established in
Lynch v. Donnelly.’

Weeping and gnashing of teeth

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly refrained from characterizing the Grotto as bigots but
indicated on March 12 that in order to “keep the statehouse open and accessible to the public while ensuring all necessary health and safety regulations are enforced,” the group’s anti-Christian demonstration would have to take place outside.

Kelly noted in her lukewarm statement that while there were “more constructive ways to protest and express disagreements without insulting or denigrating sacred religious symbols,” she had a duty “to protect protesters’ constitutional rights to freedom of speech and expression, regardless of how offensive or distasteful I might find the content to be.”

The group seeking Kansas’ “embrace by the black flame of Lucifer” still did not take the news well.

“We will not be swept aside to protect your career madam. We will not acquiesce the same rights you have afforded to other religious organizations. You do not get to decide what is appropriate for us,”
stated the satanic group. “Your only job is to protect your constituents constitutional rights. You have failed in this in the most cowardly way, like Pontius Pilate washing his hands.”

The satanists are planning to defy the governor and execute their dark ritual inside the state Capitol on March 28.

“The Satanic Grotto lead by its President Michael Stewart will enter the state capitol building and perform our ritual on March 28,” the Grotto noted in its statement. “You will have to have us arrested to stop us from practicing our free speech and religious rights.”

Whereas the violence championed by the Satanic Temple — which is basically a devil-branded Enlightenment cult that supports hyper-individualism and secularism — appears to be limited to the unborn babies it seeks to help mothers kill at an
average cost of $91 per head via its satanic abortion clinics, the Grotto appears to excuse all forms of violence if exercised by the maximally powerful.

According to the “Law of the Grotto,” “only might is right and violence is the ultimate source of all authority.”

Blaze News asked the Grotto a number of questions, including whether it would rule out the use of violence on March 28. The response was: “The Satanic Grotto says get f**ked blaze news.”

While the satanists are prevented from legally holding their dark ritual inside the state Capitol, lawmakers and the Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City figured it would be better to boot their dark ritual off state property altogether.

Legal action

Catholic League President Bill Donohue suggested that not only should Kansas refuse to permit the “Black Mass” outside the Capitol building, it has an obligation not to allow it on state property.

“If a private institution uses private space to perform a ‘Black Mass,’ it is protected by the First Amendment,” Donohue noted in a written statement to Blaze News. “But if the government were to authorize a ‘Black Mass,’ it would [do so] in violation of the constitutional tenets established in
Lynch v. Donnelly (1984): the Constitution forbids hostility to religion. And the Satanic Grotto has admitted that its purpose is to blaspheme Catholics.”

“The one planned in Kansas is being launched by a private group, the Satanic Grotto, so that part is constitutional,” continued Donohue. “However, it is being done on public grounds near the Kansas statehouse, and thus it could be argued that the government is giving tacit endorsement to it. That is why the event should be moved to a spot where no one would think the government is sanctioning the ‘Black Mass.'”

Donohue noted further that “state lawmakers have a right to object on constitutional grounds and should therefore seek to have the permit revoked.”

Donohue was hardly alone in his assessment of lawmakers’ duty and ability under the law.

John Horvat II, vice president of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property’s TFP Student Action, noted that “total cancellation is the only reasonable option.”

“Public officials are elected to foster the common good of society. Satanism, by definition, is evil and therefore harmful to the common good. That’s why the Kansas state Capitol and its grounds should not be misused as a platform for evil to defile what is sacred or mock what is most holy,” added Horvat.

‘This is to be expected, as he works for the prince of lies.’

John Davidson told Blaze News, “These kinds of stunts are explicitly anti-Christian and not be construed as ‘religious’ activities or services. They are public attacks against one religion, Christianity, and should be understood in that light.”

“As such, they shouldn’t be permitted or allowed to take place at all,” continued Davidson. “Religious freedom was never meant to sanction, let alone endorse, religions that are hostile to our American heritage and the Christian faith which is the substance of our heritage.”

State legislators apparently are using the allegation of theft to cancel the event.

Lawmakers belonging to the Kansas Legislative Coordinating Council met on Tuesday and unanimously passed new guidelines pertaining to the use of Capitol property, which include a prohibition on gatherings if the actions of the group or its members are unlawful.

Now, people cannot gather if a group or a member of a group “has stated explicitly that the meeting or gathering will involve a violation of law,”
reported the Kansas Reflector.

Grace Hoge, a spokeswoman for Gov. Kelly, indicated that the “governor’s office is reviewing actions from the Legislative Coordinating Council.”

A stolen consecrated host is required in order for an authentic “Black Mass” to proceed, hence the suggestion that the new guidelines preclude the satanic ritual from taking place on Capitol grounds.

The Kansas Republican Party previously
indicated that if the group intends to use a real consecrated Eucharist, “then it was obtained via theft or deception, meaning these people are in possession of stolen property.”

Attorney General Kobach
noted, “You cannot use the cloak of the First Amendment to commit crimes, and here there would be at least two crimes committed on state property,” referring to the alleged theft and intended destruction of a consecrated host.

Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann also
filed a lawsuit Friday against the Grotto seeking the immediate recovery and return of whatever consecrated hosts and wine are currently in the satanists’ possession.

“We are fully aware that the Satanic group and its leader have made conflicting and contradictory claims about their possession of the Sacred Eucharist,” Chuck Weber of the Kansas Catholic Conference
said in a statement Tuesday. “This is to be expected, as he works for the prince of lies. Sadly, there is enough evidence to believe that this group does in fact have the Eucharist. We cannot take chances, and we will continue to pursue, to the extent possible, every practical legal action to secure what rightfully belongs to the Catholic Church.”

“I find it very entertaining that he is convinced that I have Jesus trapped in a cracker and he would take it to court,” Stewart
said in a recent interview.

Condemnation

TFP Student Action was quick to condemn the Grotto’s event, noting that prayer and action proved decisive in May 2014 when satanists attempted to hold a “Black Mass” at Harvard University.

“Saint Michael won a great victory that day. And God can win again now,”
wrote TFP Student Action.

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The conservative group has a
petition form on its website, which quickly surpassed its initial goal of 7,000 signatures and at the time of publication was roughly 9,000 signatures short of its 50,000 signature goal.

‘Satanic worship is disturbing, spiritually harmful, and an affront to every Christian.’

“The only purpose of a black mass is to attack God, mock the Catholic Mass, and desecrate the Holy Eucharist,” John Horvat II, vice president of TFP Student Action
said in a statement. “Satanists typically desecrate a stolen consecrated Host in unspeakable ways. Nothing is more obscene, indecent, and hateful.”

TFP Student Action has invited counterprotesters to attend a rosary rally of reparation at the south side of the Kansas state Capitol building at 10:15 a.m. on March 28.

Davidson told Blaze News that praying the rosary outside the satanists’ event would be a great response on the part of Catholics, noting that by invoking “the intercession and protection of Our Lady, the satanist event would not happen at all. The satanists would be forced to abandon their event in defeat.”

The Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City
noted in a March 14 statement that Archbishop Naumann and the Kansas Catholic Conference are asking the faithful to pray for the conversion of those taking part in this “act of anti-Christian bigotry” and noted that “legal options are being explored.

“Satanic worship is disturbing, spiritually harmful, and an affront to every Christian,” said the archdiocese. “Participants may claim that the destructive and offensive acts during a ‘black mass’ are part of their religious freedom or free speech rights under the First Amendment. However, these rights have limits and do not allow individuals to act in ways that include or incite lawless behavior.”

“We are deeply disappointed that such blasphemous acts that are intended to mock Catholic worship, the beliefs of all Christians, and those who believe in the one true God are being allowed on the Kansas statehouse grounds,” continued the archdiocese. “We call upon Governor Kelly and the state legislature to disallow this act of blasphemy to take place, which is clearly designed to mock Christianity and be provocative.”

‘Politicians who align themselves with satanists have no political future.’

In addition to encouraging prayer, the Catholic archdiocese invited the faithful to attend a Mass on Mach 25 where Archbishop Naumann will reconsecrate the state to Jesus as well as to attend a Eucharistic Holy Hour at Assumption Church, just north of the statehouse, on March 28, which will be followed by Mass; to spread Christ’s love through acts of charity on March 28, whether through the
Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas or other organizations; and to implore Gov. Kelly, the Kansas Senate president, and the Kansas speaker of the state House to cancel the permit for the event.

Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, pledged prayers throughout the remainder of this month for the conversion of the hearts of those who participate in the satanic event.

Stephen Minnis, president of the college,
stated, “Pope Francis has reminded the Church that our greatest battle is a spiritual one against evil and said, ‘For this spiritual combat, we can count on the powerful weapons that the Lord has given us,’ especially the Eucharist and the rosary.”

Blaze News reached out to the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas and to the Kansas District of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, regarding whether they were similarly taking or recommending action. Neither responded by deadline.

Michael Cassidy, the Christian Navy veteran who
toppled a satanic statue at the Iowa Capitol just before Christmas 2023, told Blaze News, “Our ancestors would look in horror at explicitly anti-Christian activities being sanctioned by civil authorities. [The Colombian philosopher Nicolás Gómez] Dávila said, ‘The modern world demands that we approve what it should not even dare ask us to tolerate.’ Kansas should make it clear that politicians who align themselves with satanists have no political future.”

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Former track and field athlete Minna Svärd is asking the NCAA to award her a 2019 victory that she says was “stolen” by a male athlete participating in the women’s division.

Svärd raced for East Texas A&M University in 2019 in the women’s 400-meter hurdles and was the fastest female at any NCAA Division II school.

Svärd wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal and participated in subsequent interviews regarding a race at the NCAA championships where she posted a time of 59.21 seconds. Unfortunately, a male athlete named CeCe Telfer was also in that race, and with a time of 57.53, beat her by 1.68 seconds.

“It’s been five years since that honor was stolen from me,” Svärd wrote. “I want it back.”

The Swedish athlete also revealed in an interview with Megyn Kelly that Telfer was allegedly ranked 390th in men’s competitions before becoming the top female hurdler less than two years later. The male towered over his competition at events, dwarfing female athletes in side-by-side comparisons that made footage a travesty to watch.

‘My dreams were taken away from me once again.’

Telfer was heralded by progressive activists after his win and received an honor for his “pioneering actions” in the sport of track and field. He was soon paraded around on networks like CNN and CBS who celebrated him for his alleged struggle as a black woman.

In 2024, the athlete promised vengeance in response to criticisms and said he would return to women’s sports and take more records from female athletes.

“My dreams were taken away from me once again. So I plan on going back to New England, hitting up all the indoor competitions, and taking all the names, all the records, and everything,” he said in an interview.

Correcting the record

Svärd, applauding President Trump’s executive order aimed at preventing men from competing in women’s sports, still said the order does not go far enough. She added that official results of past competitions should be corrected to align with the reality that they were the result of male competitors.

However, the Department of Education made the very same declaration in February. The government agency sent a letter to the NCAA demanding any records or awards given to males in female categories be returned to the actual winners.

The letter defined such awards or records as being “wrongfully credited to male athletes.”

Svärd has echoed many sentiments shared by female athletes who had opportunities taken by men posing as women, such as the fact that every time a male athlete enters or participates in a women’s event, it displaces at least one female athlete that should have been there.

This rings true according to a United Nations study from 2024, which claimed more than 600 female athletes lost podium positions in 29 sporting categories to male athletes.

While Svärd is still waiting for her championship to be returned to her, she cited one unfortunate accolade that cannot be taken away:

“That made me the first collegiate woman to be told her victory was worth less than a man’s feelings.”

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Five years ago, Americans were locked down to stop the spread of COVID-19, but they weren’t allowed to ask questions. Specifically, questions regarding “the science.”

Which is why it’s shocking that a recent New York Times op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci, titled “We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives,” was even allowed to be published.

“Take the real story behind two very influential publications that quite early in the pandemic cast the lab leak theory as baseless. The first was a March 2020 paper in the journal Nature Medicine, which was written by five prominent scientists and declared that no ‘laboratory-based scenario’ for the pandemic virus was plausible,” Tufekci writes.

“We later learned through congressional subpoenas of their Slack conversations, that while the scientists publicly said the scenario was implausible, privately, many of its authors considered the scenario not just plausible, but likely,” the author continues.

The article reveals that evolutionary biologist Christian Anderson wrote in those Slack messages that “the lab escape version of the story is so freakin’ likely to have happened because they were already doing this type of work, and the molecular data is fully consistent with that scenario.”

“Now, that’s kind of a big thing, right? They’re admitting this. You might remember. You might not remember how far this cover-up went,” Stu Burguiere of “Stu Does America” comments.

The article goes on to claim that Jeremy Farrar, who is now the chief scientist at the World Health Organization, suggested that the scientists researching the origins of COVID-19 rule out the lab leak theory “even more directly.”

Stu, while disturbed by the findings, is surprised that the New York Times is publishing a story calling this out — when it was guilty of this itself.

“The New York Times wrote about this stuff all the time and shamed people all the time for this type of stuff,” he says, adding, “and they went even farther than that.”

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President Trump and Elon Musk are forcing federal employees to play by the same rules as everyday Americans. It’s been a long time coming.

Most private-sector workers understand the reality of unexpected job loss or being fired for cause. Likewise, small businesses and families don’t have an unlimited supply of cash or debt to keep them afloat. But for years, Washington’s bureaucracy has operated in a fantasy world that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Now, it’s being forced to confront the reality of a “normal” existence — and the reaction has been near hysteria.

Thanks to President Trump and the DOGE, accountability is back on the menu in Washington, and now the government must justify its spending — finally.

Nothing threatens Washington more than an outsider who keeps his word. Naturally, the radical left and the D.C. insiders are fighting back with the same old tired playbook.

The bureaucracy fights back

As of mid-March, more than 100 lawsuits or legal actions have been filed against the Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration. The New York Times even launched a tracker to keep up — because of course it did. If you can’t beat them, sue them.

Democrats have fired up their fundraising machine, using the specter of government accountability to fuel their hysteria. Even with the midterms more than 620 days away, they’ve begun targeting Musk. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has called him “shady,” a “MAGA elite,” and “the world’s richest extremist.”

Predictably, federal bureaucrats are fighting back against the Trump administration by refusing to work. Federal workers are slowing Trump’s reforms by throwing up roadblocks, denying access to systems, and resisting change in subtle ways. Government unions have seen a surge in interest, with one reportedly unable to process sign-ups fast enough. Other federal workers even walked off the job to join a protest in Washington. This is leftists’ standard procedure — because it’s all they know. They learned nothing from the last election, and they’re running the same failed playbook, hoping it will somehow work differently in 2026.

DOGE uncovers government waste

Why are they so scared of accountability? The DOGE’s initial findings make it clear:

• $10 million for circumcision in Mozambique.
• $1.5 million for “voter confidence” in Liberia.
• $47 million for “improving learning outcomes” in Asia.
• $2.1 million for border security in Paraguay.

Meanwhile, here in the U.S.:

• $373 million in DEI training grants from the Department of Education that promised to “engage in ongoing learning and self-reflection” to “develop asset-based anti-racist mindsets.”
• $1.9 billion in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that was simply “misplaced.”

My organization, the Foundation for Government Accountability, testified at the very first hearing of the DOGE subcommittee on Capitol Hill, and the findings were shocking:

• $2.7 trillion in improper payments since 2003.
• A 20% fraud rate in the public sector, compared to just 3% in the private sector.
• Hundreds of billions of dollars in wasteful and fraudulent projects.

My colleague Stewart Whitson identified the core issue during his testimony: “Imagine what else is buried under layers of red tape and government excuses.”

It’s time for accountability

Why are unelected bureaucrats scared of this long-overdue accountability to the taxpayers who pay their salaries?

Because the reality that most Americans live with every day terrifies them. We have to balance budgets, justify expenses, and make hard choices about groceries, bills, and vacations — all while paying the taxes that fund their waste.

Thanks to President Trump and the DOGE, accountability is back on the menu in Washington, and now the government must justify its spending — finally.

That’s what accountability looks like, and the American people are cheering it on.

Readers of Blaze News no doubt are familiar with the legendary adage from the late 1980s flick “The Untouchables” — in short, one never should bring a knife to a gunfight.

However, folks never seem to learn, as we’ve seen time and time again.

‘No other charges were filed at this time — just against the suspect [who] stabbed the victim.’

Well, yet another guy broke the late Sean Connery’s rule — this time in Reading, Pennsylvania. And he paid for his mistake in more ways than one.

Indeed, police accused a suspect of stabbing a man amid a parking dispute last Wednesday, but it turns out the stabbing victim had a gun.

“I heard the sirens and then went on Fire Alerts of Berks County, and I saw there was a stabbing, and then I read it, and there was a shooting,” Chad Borden, who bartends at Jack’s Pub, told WFMZ-TV. “And I thought, ‘Oh, OK, it’s a little close.'”

See, Jack’s Pub is located in the 1500 block of North 10th Street in Reading, which isn’t too far from where the argument took place, the station said.

“When we arrived there, we did in fact locate a … victim with one stab wound,” Reading Police Patrol Captain Aaron Demko told WFMZ. “Throughout the investigation, he indicated that he had shot the person [who] attacked him.”

Demko added to the station that officers found the other person involved in the altercation — at Reading Hospital.

That individual was identified as 32-year-old Jerry Santos, WFMZ reported, adding that police said Santos suffered a gunshot wound to the leg.

What’s more, Santos was charged in the wake of the altercation, the station said.

“The suspect [Santos] … has been charged currently,” Demko told WFMZ. “No other charges were filed at this time — just against the suspect [who] stabbed the victim.”

Authorities added to the station that Santos was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault and related offenses.

Anything else?

Borden told WFMZ that he grew up in — and still lives in — the area and that parking always has been a problem, particularly later in the day and at night.

“More people,” he acknowledged to the station. “Everybody has three cars to one house now. There’s nowhere to park, especially with the street cleaning. Everybody’s got to move their cars, and then there ain’t no parking for here.”

Demko noted to WFMZ that police have been “actively and constantly addressing the parking issues in the city 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year. The parking authority also is working around the clock to also address those issues. So we deal with them as they come.”

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A viral moment on a recent episode of
Jubilee Media’s “Surrounded” reignited one of the most contentious discussions in American history: What exactly is the “melting pot”? And has it ever even really existed?

Journalist Sarah Stock confronted progressive commentator Sam Seder on the topic, challenging his claim that America has always been a multicultural melting pot rather than a nation fundamentally built by white Europeans.

By the mid-20th century, the every-man-for-himself jungle of immigrant striving had more or less succeeded in turning white ethnics into generic ‘whites.’

The exchange set off a firestorm online, with even conservative commentators like Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles acknowledging Stock’s point that America’s foundational identity was, in fact, shaped by European settlers and their descendants.

And Stock is right.

Melting-pot myth

For over a century, Americans have been sold the myth that this country is a “melting pot,” a place where diverse peoples come together, mix, and magically form a singular national identity.

Stock has subsequently clarified her views via posts on
her X account. The U.S. used to be predominantly white and Christian, which meant that the dominant American culture worked within the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant framework, and the demographic displacement of its native population has caused this cultural framework to erode.

Which would naturally lead you to ask yourself:
What even is America at this point?

If you ask me, the America I knew from only 20 years ago doesn’t even exist any more.

But I think the conversation that Sarah Stock initially ignited has actually begun to stall.

We need to answer this question, and to do so, I think we need to go even deeper into the mechanisms that have dictated immigration in America since its inception. We need to know
why immigration is the way it is in America.

Huddled masses

Circa 1905: Immigrants waiting in line to pass through customs at Ellis Island, New York City. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

You see, yes, the country
was built by white Europeans, but that is only half the story. The other half (the dark, inconvenient truth) is that immigrant labor has always been a crucial, required component of America’s economic system.

Bleeding-heart liberals like Seder like to see the “melting pot” as a descriptor of America’s almost magical social fabric, that the melting pot stands as a symbol for liberty, cultural harmony, and economic opportunity.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses.”

But the reality that fully grown adults actually acknowledge is that immigration in America has been about a ruling class using waves of cheap, foreign labor to fuel economic growth while preventing working-class solidarity. Always has been. Always will be. This has been the American strategy for centuries, since the country’s founding.

A brief history of American immigration

Chinese railroad workers in California, late 1800s. George Rinhart/Getty Images

To understand what I’m talking about, we need to look at America’s long history of using immigration as an economic tool. Each major wave of immigration was not some organic, spontaneous movement. It was an intentional policy designed to fill labor shortages and prevent native-born workers from gaining too much power. And they’ve come in generational waves.

• Indentured servants and early labor (1600s-1700s): Before African slavery became dominant, colonial elites relied on indentured servants from Britain, Ireland, and Germany. These workers were bound by contracts but could eventually gain freedom.
• African slavery (1600s-1865): The Southern economy was entirely dependent on slavery, while Northern industry also profited indirectly.
• Chinese immigration (1840s-1882): During the California Gold Rush and the construction of the transcontinental railroad, Chinese laborers were brought in because they were cheaper and more expendable than white workers. But their presence led to backlash from white laborers, especially Irish immigrants, who saw them as unfair competition. This led to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the first explicit restriction on immigration.
• The Ellis Island Wave (1880s-1924): Italians, Poles, Irish, and other Catholic immigrants flooded America’s industrial centers, providing cheap labor for factories, shipyards, and mines. These were the people who actually built what we know as modern America.
• The Bracero Program and Latino immigration (1940s-present): During World War II, the U.S. needed agricultural labor, so it brought in millions of Mexican workers under the Bracero Program (1942-1964). Even after the program ended, Latino immigration continued, filling roles in construction, agriculture, and service industries.
• The Hart-Celler Act and mass immigration (1965-present): The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 removed national quotas, opening the floodgates to mass immigration from non-European countries. This was framed as a moral correction to past racial restrictions, but in practice, it served the same economic function as every previous wave: importing cheap labor to replace an increasingly expensive native workforce.

Why the Hart-Celler wave is different

The Hart-Cellar wave is the one affecting us today. But what makes this wave different from the past ones is that the cultural expectations have completely changed. The newest wave of immigrants are simply
populating, not assimilating.

But what does it mean to assimilate?

The Ellis Island wave of immigrants is the key factor here that provides us the crucial perspective on this issue. They were the white ethnics, or Europeans, who came to America in search of a better opportunity at the turn of the 20th century.

The rise of ‘unmeltable ethnics’

In his book
“Unmeltable Ethnics,” Michael Novak describes what he calls the “Nordic Jungle” to paint a picture of America from the perspective of the white ethnic immigrant.

When white ethnics (Italians, Irish, Poles, and Jews) came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were forced to assimilate into a rigid Anglo-Protestant system. Catholics were expected to adopt Protestant work habits. Eastern Europeans were discouraged from maintaining their languages and traditions, and over time, even within their own communities, their cultural markers faded.

The Catholic and Eastern European presence in America was heavily policed by WASP elites, who demanded cultural submission in exchange for social and economic advancement.

Beyond cultural assimilation, Anglo-American industrialists used another strategy: the intentional division of the working class.

Novak highlights how factory owners purposely staffed their workplaces with a mix of Italians, Irish, Poles, and Jews, ensuring that linguistic and cultural barriers would prevent them from organizing effective labor movements. An Italian worker and an Irish worker might both be exploited by the same employer, but if they could not communicate, they could not unionize.

Sound familiar?

Creating ‘whites’

This was not incidental. It was by design. The ruling class knew that a fractured labor force was a controllable labor force. By keeping workers divided along ethnic lines, employers maintained low wages and suppressed worker power, all while reaping enormous profits.

By the mid-20th century, the every-man-for-himself jungle of immigrant striving had more or less succeeded in turning white ethnics into generic “whites.” The price of admission into mainstream America was the erasure of their cultural distinctiveness. By the time their descendants reached the 21st century, they were left with a diluted identity: part of the undifferentiated category of “white,” yet stripped of the distinctiveness their ancestors once had.

But if it had remained this way, it
could have worked. The Ellis Island immigrants became American. They were ultimately able to find upward economic mobility with the sacrifices they made. They made the idea of “assimilation” legitimate and credible.

But here’s the rub. America’s economic system doesn’t stop churning. It needs more immigrants. It needs cheaper labor. It needs wider margins of profit. America’s reliance on imported labor will simply never change.

But tragically, one critical factor has: The dominant Anglo-Protestant culture that once forced assimilation is gone.

Breeding resentment

And so we find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. Immigrants (especially non-European ones) are still being brought in as cheap labor, but they are not being pressured to conform to a singular national identity. Instead, they are maintaining their distinct and often conflicting cultures, with encouragement from the ruling class, which now views “diversity” as both a moral good and an economic strategy.

This creates resentment among two groups:

• WASPs
• Descendants of white ethnics

For generations, immigrants were expected to “melt” into American society, but now there is no singular identity to assimilate into. Instead of the melting pot, we now have a multicultural patchwork, where new arrivals are encouraged to retain their distinct identities rather than blend into a larger national fabric.

This shift has created a unique tension. The descendants of white ethnics (Italians, Irish, Poles) who were forced to abandon their cultural roots in order to “become American” now see today’s immigrants maintaining their identities with no pressure to assimilate. Meanwhile, old-stock WASPs, who once dominated American culture, find themselves increasingly alienated. The two groups, once set against each other generations ago, now share a common grievance.

A Haitian man carries his daughter in a stroller during a caravan en route to the United States in Escuintla, Mexico, on January 17, 2025. Anadolu/Getty Images

However, if I were to look into my crystal ball, it won’t make any difference how aware white Americans become of the gradual loss of WASP culture (and the necessary social pressure it created), because this strand of awareness ultimately does not address America’s economic need for generational immigrant imports … even if there
are immigration restrictions set in place.

A larger cycle

You must remember that while America
requires mass immigration, there have also been periods where immigration was dramatically restricted. But these restrictions were never a rejection of the system itself. They were merely an ebb in the larger cycle, a temporary pullback before the inevitable next wave.

Take the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. For decades, Chinese laborers were brought in to build railroads and work in mining, but their presence led to backlash from white laborers, especially Irish immigrants, who saw them as unfair competition. Once their labor was no longer needed, they were scapegoated and banned.

Similarly, the Immigration Act of 1924 imposed strict quotas on those same Southern and Eastern European white ethnics we were talking about before, largely in response to fears that America was changing too quickly.

The Great Depression saw another contraction in immigration, as the country simply had too many unemployed workers. But as soon as the economic system required more labor, the floodgates opened once again. The Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which overturned restrictive quotas, wasn’t an accident. It was the system swinging back into expansion mode, just as it had before.

This is why purely restrictionist approaches to immigration never fully solve the problem. Even if the border were completely shut down today, the economic forces driving immigration would remain unchanged. Eventually, whether through legal or illegal means, labor would be imported again because the system
requires it.

The restrictionist periods are not victories against mass immigration. They are merely the system catching its breath before resuming its natural course.

So to bring it full-circle, yes, America was built by white Europeans.

Yes, immigration has dramatically changed the country.

But the real question is
why this process has unfolded the way it has.

The reality is that mass immigration was never about national identity. It was
always about labor.

Cheap labor over social cohesion

The engine of the American economic system always prioritized cheap labor over social cohesion, bringing in new waves of workers every generation, forcing them to assimilate just enough to be useful but keeping them divided enough to prevent real solidarity.

Understanding this history is crucial. The melting pot was never real. It was just a myth designed to justify an economic system that thrives on perpetual labor replacement. And until that system is addressed, the cycle will simply roll on in perpetuity.