Virginia shows Democrats ‘campaign as moderates but govern as Marxists’

The hard left turn of Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger since taking office after running on a moderate platform is being depicted as a warning for Michigan voters heading into the 2026 primaries in August and general election in November.

While highlighting major accomplishments from the state’s Republican House majority in 2025, former Republican National Committee Chair and CEO of Michigan Forward Ronna McDaniel offered a stark warning to Republicans Wednesday as the 2026 election cycle heats up.

Pointing to Virginia as an example of the potential consequences of the 2026 midterms, Michigan could follow the path of Virginia under Spanberger if Democrats regain full control of Lansing. Click here to read more.

 

Soros-Backed Prosecutor Allows Murder Suspects to Avoid Prison Time

Gret Glyer had ounded DonorSee, a charity platform that allowed donors to support specific people while giving video updates to show the donor’s concrete impact. Joshua Danehower, 37, who had gone on one date with Glyer’s wife Heather about 10 years previously, allegedly broke into the family’s house, snuck into the bedroom, and fired 10 shots into Gret Glyer, leaving his wife a widow and his two young children fatherless.

Due to the plea agreement, however, Danehower will move from a jail cell to a mental health facility. After a year, he will receive a psychological evaluation and may then gain his freedom.

Danehower is far from alone, however. Steve Descano, the commonwealth’s attorney for Fairfax County, Virginia, has overseen at least 10 murder pleas of not guilty by reason of insanity. Mental Health America notes that defendants charged with a felony use the insanity plea in less than 1% of cases, and it only succeeds 25% of the time. Click here to read more.

 

Man accused of trying to kidnap 13-year-old girl walking to school

The future was supposed to have arrived this year in a cluster of counties just east of Atlanta in the form of a state-of-the-art factory that would churn out 400,000 electric vehicles a year. But when JoEllen Artz looks about her lifetime neighborhood, all she sees are holes.

“Those shovel holes they made in the ground? That’s it,” she said of the planned site of a Rivian manufacturing plant. “It’s awful, awful.”

The problem is not a lack of funds. On the promise of thousands of jobs, elected officials in Washington, D.C., and Atlanta have pledged some $8 billion to the project, including a $6.5 billion loan the Biden administration green-lit in it’s final hours. Click here to read more.

 

Gun removed from home of man who wished to ‘shoot’ Trump; he claims misunderstanding

WARREN, Mich. - A man said he wanted to shoot the President during public comments at the Warren City Council meeting Tuesday night.

The backstory:

Now that man, Wesley Arnold, is being investigated by the Secret Service. He claims it is all a big misunderstanding.

“I just gave the Service Service my picture I took,” he said.

FOX 2: “You talked to the Secret Service?”

“They just left, they’re the ones that left before you got here,” said Arnold, 80.

The Secret Service did remove a handgun from the home.

FOX 2: “The Secret Service just left, they didn’t arrest you though.”

“That may or may not happen we’ll see,” he said, adding that he isn’t worried. “No, I’m a harmless old man and I believe in freedom of speech and I believe in informing my city council ... (unintelligible). Click here to read more.

 

Brevard Schools win arbitration over teacher’s use of male name for a female student without parental consent

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Brevard Public Schools prevailed in an arbitration dispute over its decision not to renew a Satellite High School teacher’s contract after determining she repeatedly referred to a female student by a male name without required parental consent.

The arbitration, filed by the Brevard Federation of Teachers, challenged the non-renewal of teacher Melissa Calhoun’s annual contract. In a decision issued Feb. 19, the arbitrator confirmed the district acted within its authority and had sufficient grounds for the non-renewal.

“This was not simply a nickname or a casual classroom interaction,” said Superintendent Dr. Mark Rendell. He explained further that deliberate use of male name for a female student constituted active participation in a student’s social gender transition and requires parental knowledge and consent. Click here to read more.

 

Jocelyn Benson’s husband Ryan Friedrichs is an advisor steering hundreds of millions in tax dollars for Rx Kids ‘free’ cash program

Ryan Friedrichs, husband to Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, is helping distribute hundreds of millions in tax dollars to expectant mothers in Michigan through a program proven to increase voter turnout.

Benson, who is overseeing her own election for governor as the Democratic frontrunner, could directly benefit from the program as it scrambles to expand to reliably Democratic areas of the state in the lead-up to the 2026 midterms.

Friedrichs is among 29 members serving on the Rx Kids Advisory Circle that’s helping to helm the nonprofit’s “leadership on fund development, program design, state and national policy, communications, and dissemination,” according to the program’s website.

Others in the circle of trust have strong ties to and close relationships with liberal activist groups promoting universal basic income, Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts, benefits for illegal immigrants, labor unions, pro-Palestinian protests, and other left-wing causes. Click here to read more.

 

Bill creating ‘Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday’ passed Alabama House

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A tax-free weekend for guns and ammunition passed on Alabama’s House floor Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly every state republican House member is sponsoring the bill.

House Bill 360 would make ammunition, firearms and hunting supply purchases exempt from state sales tax annually from the last Friday in August to the following Sunday.

The legislature estimates that this could take away around $386 thousand from the state’s Education Trust Fund every year, and if local governments opt in to the program, about $500 thousand from county and municipal funds. Click here to read more.

 

Citizen journalists, citizen sleuths helping to unravel the tangle of Epstein documents

When sifting through the seemingly endless collection of documents in the Epstein files gets to be too much and Ellie Leonard needs a break, she takes a walk outside. Then it’s back to the computer.

The New Jersey mother of four is among hundreds of citizen-journalists, or sleuths, absorbed by the material connected to the late Jeffrey Epstein. She’s determined to learn the stories behind his illicit sex ring and relationships with some of the world’s most powerful people, and publish what she finds on Substack.

“I like a good puzzle,” Leonard said. “I like an investigation. I like things that we have to solve and looking for clues.” Click here to read more.

 

AGs from AZ and CA sue feds over childhood vaccine overhaul

he attorneys general of California and Arizona on Tuesday announced Democrats’ multi-state lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule.

Democratic officials are calling the federal action unlawful.

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said the suit names the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as defendants.

The suit goes after “HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the CDC over their needless, confusing, scientifically unfound and unlawful revision of America’s immunization schedule,” said Mayes during a virtual press conference with California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Click here to read more.

 

Three Mexican Citizens charged with trafficking agricultural workers into servitude on farms in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Three Mexican citizens have been indicted on federal charges for allegedly running a human trafficking ring that lured agricultural workers from Mexico into forced labor on farms across Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida.

A 35-count indictment, unsealed Friday, alleges that Martha Zeferino Jose, 42; her son, Jeremy Zeferino Jose, 23; and her partner, Jose Rodriguez Munoz, used a farm labor contracting company to exploit the H-2A visa program for financial gain, according to the Department of Justice, or DOJ. Click here to read more.

 

 

MEA calls $34k-per-student district ‘woefully underfunded’

Benton Harbor Area Schools, which receives more money on a per-student basis than almost every other district in Michigan, is hiring virtual teachers to fill teaching vacancies — a move the Michigan Education Association cites as evidence of inadequate funding.

Bridge Michigan reported in December that the Benton Harbor district has turned to virtual teachers, paired with an adult in the classroom, to fill some vacancies. The state teachers union blames lack of spending. ”This is clearly an example of a district that is woefully underfunded,” said MEA spokesman Thomas Morgan.

Only a handful of districts in the state get more money per student than Benton Harbor. The district received $34,116 from all sources for each student in the 2023-24 academic year, according to the Michigan Department of Education’s annual 1014 Bulletin. Click here to read more.

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US Intel Funded Projects Riddled With Chinese Government linked Researchers

The U.S. Intelligence Community has awarded more than a dozen sensitive defense grants to researchers affiliated with institutions connected to the Chinese government and its military, according to a report exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — which is tasked by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) with investing in “high-risk, high-payoff research programs” — have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units and nuclear weapons development institutions, according to the report published by Parallaz Advanced Research, a nonprofit funded by U.S. federal, state and municipal governments. Click here to read more.

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Man accused of trying to kidnap 13-year-old girl walking to school

LAS VEGAS - Police arrested a 47-year-old man after he allegedly tried to lure a 13-year-old girl to his car as she walked to school Tuesday morning in Las Vegas.

Kendrick Weatherspoon was taken into custody on attempted kidnapping and luring charges following the incident near Nellis Boulevard and Stewart Avenue.

Just before 7 a.m. Tuesday, the 13-year-old girl was walking to school when she passed a bar where Weatherspoon was sitting in his car, according to police. He then allegedly tried to get the girl to come to his car and opened the door. Click here to read more

 

Missouri launches manhunt after deputy found slain, suspect’s vehicle spotted moving toward Arkansas

he Missouri State Highway Patrol launched a manhunt Monday after a Christian County deputy was shot and killed that afternoon.

No suspect has been identified so far, but authorities have described the suspect’s vehicle as a white 2001 Chevrolet Silverado extended cab pickup truck with Missouri license plate 9MGX36.

Authorities told Fox News that the truck was seen in the area of the shooting and was last reported traveling southbound on U.S. Route 160 from Route HH in Christian County, which eventually crosses south into north-central Arkansas.

“This is a devastating loss in Christian County,” Missouri Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt said on X. “As local law enforcement works to bring the suspect to justice, my prayers are with the deputy’s loved ones and those who served shoulder to shoulder with him to keep Missouri safe.”

The identity of the deceased deputy has not been revealed, but the incident occurred just before 4 p.m. local time. Click here to read more.

 

‘Educated, not indoctrinated’: Kamoutsas targets Florida Education Association over school protests

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Education Commissioner Anastasios Kamoutsas is escalating his criticism of the state’s largest teachers union, accusing the organization of using students as “political pawns” to fuel a wave of anti-law enforcement protests during school hours.

In a recent appearance on OAN, Kamoutsas targeted the Florida Education Association, or FEA, following a Feb. 5 press conference where a speaker reportedly described student-led disruptions as “rational,” “reasonable,” and “required.” Kamoutsas argued the union is prioritizing an ideological agenda over student achievement. Click here to read more.