The state is manufacturing a martyr. 👑
A private citizen’s tragic death is being given the full trappings of state: medals of freedom, proposed Capitol statues, and a personal escort from the Vice President himself aboard Air Force Two. This pomp is used to sanctify a political movement with a fallen saint. The coordinated campaigns of firings, doxxing, and official investigations are the first holy war waged in their new martyr’s name.
We cannot allow them to build a cult of personality around a man who so often spoke of others with derision, scorn, and hate.
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Florida police arrest former Rep. Madison Cawthorn for failure to appear in court as he explores a new congressional run.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed a U.S. response after Brazil’s Supreme Court sentenced ally Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years for plotting a coup.
With the governor’s backing, Florida’s education commissioner is investigating state teachers for social media posts celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
After Sen. Marsha Blackburn called for her removal, Middle Tennessee State University fired an assistant dean for stating she had ‘zero sympathy’ for Charlie Kirk.
Led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, 16 House Republicans are now pushing for a permanent statue of Charlie Kirk in the U.S. Capitol.
A top Senate Republican is investigating the SSA after its chief data officer resigned, alleging DOGE put every Social Security number on a vulnerable server.
A new doxxing website and far-right influencers are leading a harassment campaign against people accused of celebrating or mocking Charlie Kirk’s death.
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reopen TPS registration for Venezuelans after its online system went down on the final day of the sign-up period.
The Trump administration destroyed nearly $10 million in contraceptives for low-income countries based on the false claim they cause abortions.
The publisher of Florida Politics suspended a reporter after Rep. Randy Fine fueled a backlash over a question about campus carry minutes after the Kirk shooting.
MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd two days after he suggested Charlie Kirk’s divisive rhetoric led to his assassination.
Speaker Mike Johnson appointed a new GOP-led House panel to re-investigate the January 6 attack and issue a report rebuking the original committee’s findings.
Nearly 300 South Korean workers arrested in a raid at a Georgia battery plant rejected Trump’s offer to let them stay and train Americans.
Senate Republicans changed chamber rules to confirm Trump’s nominees in batches, bypassing Democratic opposition and immediately advancing 48 nominees.
A reopened Tennessee prison run by CoreCivic has begun housing ICE detainees after the Town of Mason approved a deal worth over $500,000 annually.
New Mexico becomes the first state to offer universal free childcare, expanding a program credited with reducing poverty.
A U.S. appeals court reversed a lower court’s order, allowing the Trump administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood.
Vice President JD Vance personally flew Charlie Kirk’s body from Utah to Arizona on Air Force Two one day after the conservative activist’s assassination.
One day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Trump used a 9/11 Pentagon ceremony to announce he will award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The military strike on a Venezuelan boat reportedly occurred after the vessel turned back to shore, fueling bipartisan congressional backlash over its legality.
Two federal judges blocked an Education and HHS Dept. policy issued in July that required immigration verification for families to access Head Start.
A federal judge in Arizona blocked the Trump administration from deporting 69 Guatemalan and Honduran children.
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