May 2, 2026

DNC Watch

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‘I have family who don’t look like you who are triggered … I will be very candid with you

The coordinator of student-government programs at Oklahoma State University allegedly reprimanded a student who gave a small tribute to Charlie Kirk at a meeting just hours after Kirk’s assassination.

According to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Josh Wilson, a member of the OSU student government and debate society, “took a few moments to speak to fellow students” at a Student Government Association meeting that had been scheduled the day of Kirk’s murder.

“Wilson’s Sept. 10 speech contained no references to Trump, nor did it advocate for the election of any political figure or call for support of any political party,” according to the report.

“Instead, Wilson called Kirk ‘a father, a husband, a devout Christian, and a shining light for so many,” and “recalled that during Kirk’s April visit to OSU, Kirk was able to ‘provoke discussion and dialogue among countless students on this campus.’”

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Trump held a White House event late on Friday afternoon, supposedly about drug prices, that, if it were covered by an objective media that was complicit and collaborating with the current administration, would sound alarm bells about whether any Democratic president ever sounded as incoherent as Donald Trump did.

The video can be easily glossed over, especially when someone has told as many lies and babbled as many words as Donald Trump has over the past decade, but transcripts of the words that the man actually puts together are more revealing.

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Time for another entry in the continuing saga of the U.S. government being reassigned to work on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In the most recent development, hundreds of Department of Homeland Security employees in jobs unrelated to immigration have been ordered to transfer to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Border Patrol, and the Federal Protective Service.

You might not be as familiar with the last one, which protects federal buildings. That might sound a bit sleepier than working for ICE or CBP, but not these days.

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After a judge ordered Virginia Democrat governor nominee Abigail Spanberger to give sworn answers in a defamation case against the Virginia Democratic Party, the Democrats hired a new lawyer in what the plaintiff says is a transparent effort to cocoon Spanberger from political peril ahead of the November election.

Thomas Speciale, a retired Army intelligence officer and former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, alleges that the party concocted a devious scheme enlisting the House of Delegates speaker to serve as its lawyer, thereby delaying the case and preventing Spanberger from being forced to deliver what could be politically catastrophic testimony as a witness.

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Former FBI Director James Comey’s defense team wants to kill the Trump administration’s case before it goes to trial, but legal experts say their chances of success are slim.

Comey’s attorney Patrick Fitzgerald indicated Wednesday that the defense intends to file motions alleging vindictive and selective prosecution “at the direction of President [Donald] Trump,” as well as challenging the appointment of the prosecutor who brought the indictment, Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

If Halligan had not indicted Comey on Sept. 25, the statute of limitations would have expired within days, making it crucial for the government to prevail on a motion to dismiss. However, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the two motions Comey hopes to file will be difficult to prove.

About UTC | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

The Dean of Student’s Offices of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga has effectively vetoed a ban on Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA voted on by the anti-American Student Government Association. This action did not immediately follow the SGA’s chilling decision, rather it happened after the university received massive backlash from its alumni.

The Dean declared, “While the Student Government Association may voice opinions, recognition of student organizations is determined by the UTC Dean of Students and Chancellor. Turning Point USA has been authorized in accordance with university policy and the law.”

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“The Dean of Student’s Office has determined that Turning Point USA is approved as a Registered Student Organization.”

After facing backlash when it denied an application to establish a Turning Point USA (TPUSA) chapter on its campus, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) approved the formation of the club on campus. The university’s student government on Tuesday had voted down the establishment of the chapter on campus.

TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet had posted on Wednesday to X, writing, “The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has denied Turning Point USA’s RSO (Registered Student Organization) request following a vote by the Student Government Association. This decision effectively blocks our students from gaining official recognition on campus.”

“As a result, the students will be forced to restart the process, reapplying and once again facing the same SGA that has already demonstrated clear bias against them. Tennessee, are these the values of your state? Your tax dollars are propping this garbage up,” he added.

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“If you see something happening in Wilmette, in our communities, make sure to give them a call, take out your phone and take video.”

A Democrat running for Illinois State Senate, Patrick Hanley, revealed that agents were staying at a local hotel and urged his followers to call the hotel in an effort to get them to “reconsider whether or not they let government agents stay there in the future.” He also urged his followers to call an ICE reporting hotline if they “see something happening.”

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Vice President J.D. Vance was nearly 13 minutes into a masterful media takedown of ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos on Sunday when he was muted and the show abruptly cut to a commercial break.

Stephanopoulos’ swift censorship of his guest came mere moments after Vance checked him for “going down some weird left-wing rabbit hole” by insinuating White House Border Czar Tom Homan engaged in criminal activity.

“George, you’ve covered this story ad nauseam. Tom Homan did not take a bribe. It’s a ridiculous smear. And the reason you guys are going after Tom Homan so aggressively is because he’s doing the job of enforcing the law,” Vance said earlier in the segment.

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CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour snidely guessed on Monday morning that Israeli hostages were “probably being treated better than the average Gazan” on Monday, hours after Hamas released the last 20 living hostages. PBS actually simulcasts this woman’s nasty takes.

Fifty years ago, an Amanpour type would have greeted American POWs coming out of Vietnam by suggesting our tortured POWs were “probably treated better than the average Vietnamese.”

In a CNN News Central special, anchor Kaitlan Collins asked about Western journalists being denied access to covering Gaza, which cued Amanpour to lecture:

AMANPOUR: Kaitlan, you can imagine that’s a question that I’m asking every day. And surely all of my colleagues, it is unconscionable that us, we have not been able to go in and help our Gaza colleagues tell the full story to the world  That is just something that I’ve never seen any democratic nation forbid, outside journalists, and I’ve asked every Israeli official who I’ve interacted with over the last two years, publicly and privately, to open the doors and let us in. And I pretty much can assure you that one, that once those I those doors are opened, it will be a scene of absolute, abject horror.

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Tensions flared outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland on Saturday as Antifa agitators squared off with federal law enforcement. Then an unexpected development occurred. A group of demonstrators arrived carrying a massive painting of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The group sang “God Bless the USA” and chanted “We are Charlie Kirk” as federal agents stood between them and the crowd of left-wing agitators gathered nearby.

Kirk, a conservative American icon, was assassinated on September 10, 2025. The suspect is a far-leftist who had Antifa messages on his bullet casings.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is claiming that Antifa, the decentralized far-left extremist group that was recently classified as a terrorist organization by President Donald Trump, does not exist. He has done so despite the existence of an infamous photo in which he openly supported the group.

Short for “antifascist,” the black-bloc group operates hundreds of chapters across the United States.

Antifa  is most infamous for their activities in the Pacific Northwest, where dozens members in cities like Portland and Seattle have been arrested for acts of political violence. Dozens of Antifa members were charged for setting fire to federal buildings in downtown Portland during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020, the murder of a Trump supporter by a self-identified Antifa member in August of that year, and numerous acts of arson during the peak of unrest in 2020 and 2021.

Antifa cells have also been linked to several riots, bombing and acts of violence in Europe, prompting President Trump to state during a press conference last week that he will move to designate the group as a foreign terrorist organization. This would give prosecutors enhanced tools to prosecute members, as well as anyone found to be financing their activities.

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A man who spent his presidency alienating Israel and coddling its enemies just proved he hasn’t learned a thing.

In a post published Thursday to the social media platform X, former President Barack Obama managed such a mealy-mouthed comment on news of a cease-fire in the Israeli-Hamas war that he managed to infuriate partisans on all sides.

But most of all, he proved just how petty a former president can really be.

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Disney’s late-night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel said he didn’t see what the “problem” was with his comments about slain conservative icon and free speech martyr Charlie Kirk, and blamed “right-wing media networks” for the backlash he received, claiming conservative reporters “intentionally” and “maliciously mischaracterized” his controversial remarks.

“I didn’t think there was a big problem, You know? I just saw it as distortion on the part of some of the right-wing media networks, and I aimed to correct it,” Kimmel said of his comments about Kirk’s assassination during a Wednesday interview with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw for Bloomberg Screentime.

“Sometimes you think, ‘Oh, this is not a problem,’ and then it turns into a big problem, and then sometimes it goes the other way, where you think, ‘Uh oh, this is going to be a problem,’ and then nobody really notices.”

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(The Center Square) – The Republican Party of a Tennessee county is calling for the resignation of General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer after a tirade against deputies caught on tape.

State Sen. Brent Taylor (R-Memphis) and others shared the video from Shelby County.

“After General Sessions Court Clerk Tami Sawyer allegedly attempted to facilitate getting a firearm into the Shelby County Courthouse for her ‘private security,’ the Shelby County Sheriffs rightfully stopped the individual with the gun,” Taylor said in a post on social media. “What followed was an absolute embarrassment: Sawyer erupted in a tirade, screaming racial epithets and degrading the officers who were simply enforcing the law and protecting the public by preventing an armed private citizen from entering the courthouse at 140 Adams Ave.”

In the video, Sawyer said she needed the private security because of threats. Her language included “white supremacist” and expletives.

“Talking about killing me dead in the street. You want to know why I have security? Because I’m the one getting threatened,” Sawyer said in the video shared by Taylor.

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When I arrived at the University of North Carolina-Asheville in 2024, I stood firm in my belief that I was a liberal. I was under the impression liberalism was about tolerance and acceptance for all.

Unfortunately, while on campus, I’ve frequently been a target for bullying and verbal harassment — and not by the party one might think would be responsible.

As a political science major, I had a strong desire to stay politically active on campus, but I wanted to study all sides of the spectrum. I made the choice to join both the College Democrats and Turning Point USA this past spring semester of 2025.

Turning Point USA welcomed my unique perspective with open arms. Their president was actually thrilled that I am a Democrat and introduced me as such. She introduced me to the other members and they seemed excited to see that I was willing to talk to them.

I would attend club meetings and debate other members. Not only were my ideas heard, but I was debated civilly and engaged post-meetings by many members, who treated me as a colleague and not an opponent. They were genuinely invested in my thoughts and ideas.

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… This means that what’s in Jay Jones’s heart is simple but shocking: Murder.

Equally shocking has been the response from other Virginia Democrats, including the top of the ticket for statewide office, gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.

Spanberger, who earlier this election cycle told her supporters to “let your rage fuel you,” has refused to step away from Jones or call for his removal from the ticket.

The same goes for just about every other major liberal politician and political group in Virginia. Sure, they’ve offered mealy-mouthed caveats about such language being “unacceptable,” but then they immediately pivot into pointing fingers at  Donald Trump and doubling down on their endorsement of Jones.

As Mollie Hemingway from The Federalist insightfully suggested, “perhaps the reason every single Democrat is standing behind Virginia Democrat AG candidate Jay Jones, who fantasized about Republicans getting assassinated and their children dying, is because they more or less agree with him.”

She’s not wrong. I said it’s “shocking” that the other leftists in Virginia would stand by their comrade, but let’s be honest, it really isn’t. This is who the left is.

For the left, who trace their ideological roots back to the bloody guillotines of the French Revolution and through the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge, the presence of violence in their political quest for eternal power isn’t a bug — it’s a feature.

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… as RedState reported on Sunday, as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas became a reality, the radical terrorist group faced violent clashes with rival Palestinian militias inside Gaza. Saleh al-Jafarawi, a pro-Hamas, antisemitic social media influencer with more than three million followers, was reportedly killed in one of those clashes.

And on Monday, Rama Duwaji publicly grieved al-Jafarawi’s death on Instagram, posting four broken-heart emojis, and mourning “Beloved Jafarawi,” as she called the radical antisemite.

How fitting for Mamdani, likely the next mayor of New York City, huh? You know — to have a no-doubt loving wife who is apparently at least as radical as he is.

The Palestinian Influencer who was known for his viral social media videos, was killed by an anti-Hamas militia in Gaza.

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Ever since a government shutdown first started to seem like a real possibility, President Donald Trump has been threatening to use an impasse on Capitol Hill as a pretext to go after the people and institutions he doesn’t like. His administration has moved to kill New York City’s biggest infrastructure project, announced his intent to cancel $8 billion in clean-energy funding for states he lost last November, and vowed to fire employees and gut programs at what he calls “Democrat agencies.” What are “Democrat agencies?” On Friday, we got an answer.

About 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices—including “nearly 100” Housing and Urban Development staffers tasked with investigating fair housing complaints, according to Bloomberg, and 466 employees at the Department of Education.

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Longtime CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour offered a lengthy apology for comments comparing the treatment of the Israeli hostages held by Hamas and the plight of the residents in the Gaza Strip.

Amanpour was reporting on the historic peace deal negotiated by President Donald Trump for Hamas to return hostages to Israel, both living and the remains of the dead. Even critics of the president have had to acknowledge his efforts to secure peace.

‘I regret also saying that they may have been treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages as pawns and bargaining chips.’

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Once again, the New York Times is coming to the defense of the ghouls who celebrated the assassination of conservative Turning Point USA leader Charlie Kirk.

Reporter-at-large Eli Saslow journeyed to Texas Hill Country for the latest epic, a 3,000-word sob story about a fired female firefighter, that got major, three-column play across the prime news real estate of Sunday’s front page: “She Hated Kirk. He Resolved to Make Such People Pay.”

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At California universities Monday, the ceasefire in Gaza — and the accompanying hostage and prisoner exchange — emerged as an inflection point for the future of a student-led protest movement that for two years has roiled campuses.

The activism, along with its contentious aftermath, continues to reverberate as pro-Palestinian organizers and Jewish community leaders reckon with the tumult touched off by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

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Diplomats and Middle East experts have stated for generations that there is only one path to bring lasting peace for both the Israeli and Palestinian people.

True lasting peace will only come with a two-state solution where a Palestinian state is established and the two sides recognize the rights of each other and agree to live in peace.

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has spent his entire political career opposed to a two-state solution.

Trump signs an order calling 'antifa' a domestic terrorist group : NPR

President Donald Trump said he intended on designating Antifa a foreign terrorist organization following a roundtable on the terrorist group by center-right-leaning “independent” journalists.” The declaration happened during an exchange with journalist Jack Posobiec.

Trump was asked by a reporter if he would designate Antifa as a foreign, not just domestic terror group. He answered, “Well, has that been done? Pretty close, right? Would you like to see it done?” Posobiec answered, “Yes, Mr. President. They have foreign links all across Western Europe, the Middle East.” Trump responded, “We’ll take care of it.”

Trump Says He Will Designate Antifa Foreign Terror Org During Meeting with Independent Journalists Posobiec, Sortor

from amgreatness.com

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would designate Antifa a foreign terrorist organization after a roundtable on the far-left extremist group with independent journalists,  Jack Posobiec, Nick Sortor, and others who have delivered tremendous on-the-ground reporting on Antifa.

While fielding questions from members of the press pool observing the roundtable, one reporter asked Trump if he would designate Antifa, which he has labeled a domestic terrorist group, as a foreign terrorist group.

“Well, has that been done? Pretty close, right? Would you like to see it done,” Trump asked, to which Posibeic immediately responded, “Yes, Mr. President.”

“They have foreign links all across Western Europe, the Middle East,” Posoibec added.

Trump added he would like to take such action, telling Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “We’ll take care of it.”

 

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Following the hiring of Bari Weiss as CBS’ Editor in Chief, Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison said, “We want CBS to speak to that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves as center-left to center-right.” The declaration has CBS “insiders” leaking complaints and warnings to both Ellison and Weiss not to touch CBS’ now-discredited sacred cows, 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning.

New Owners’ Centrist Edict at CBS News Roils Reportorial Ranks

from www.dailysignal.com

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The aerobic freakout has begun inside the liberal media over the new owners of CBS News appointing “anti-woke” Bari Weiss to the new post of editor-in-chief.

None of the CBS veterans want a new boss with a new ideology. They like pretending they don’t have an ideology. They call themselves courageously “independent.”

Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison wants to put CBS News firmly in the middle: “We want CBS to speak to that 70% of the audience that would really define themselves as center-left to center-right.”

In her initial memo to employees, Weiss stated several principles that are absolute anathema inside CBS: “Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny” and “Journalism that embraces a wide spectrum of views and voices so that the audience can contend with the best arguments on all sides of a debate.”

The anonymous leakers are already on fire. Jeremy Barr of The Guardian spread the early spurts: “CBS News veterans I’ve talked to are encouraging Bari Weiss to not mess with the Golden Goose(s) of ’60 Minutes’ and ‘CBS News Sunday Morning.’”

What makes them “golden”? They’re the opposite of the Weiss principles. They rely on a narrow spectrum of ideas and persistently favor one political party over another.

“60 Minutes” is notoriously pro-Democrat, from Steve Kroft trying to save Bill Clinton‘s 1992 campaign from the early adultery charges of his mistress, Gennifer Flowers, to Kroft performing a series of blatantly promotional interviews with Barack Obama, starting in 2008.

 

Zach Bryan Won't Be Your Jukebox Hero | GQ

Country singer Zach Bryan’s country song soon to be released contains lyrics that seem to be anti-ICE. He wrote, “ICE is gonna come bust down your door, try to build a house no one builds no more, but I got a telephone, kids are all scared and all alone.”

He has responded to the backlash in a lengthy almost-backtrack, writing

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… “I wrote this song months ago. I posted this song three months ago as a snippet,” Bryan wrote on his Instagram Story.

“This shows you how divisive a narrative can be when shoved down our throats through social media,” he said, before professing his love for America. This song is about how much I love this country and everyone in it more than anything. When you hear the rest of the song you will understand the full context that hits on both sides of the aisle.”

“Everyone using this now as a weapon is only proving how devastatingly divided we all are. We need to find our way back… I served this country, I love this country and the song itself is about all of us coming out of this divided space. I wasn’t speaking as a politician or some greater-than-thou asshole, just a 29 year old man who is just as confused a everyone else.”

Zach Bryan Issues Statement On Contentious Lyrics After Facing Scrutiny From White House, DHS 

from dailycaller.com