Blaze Media fans, mark your calendars! Tomorrow night, President Trump will deliver the 2026 State of the Union address. The speech starts at 9 p.m. ET, but we’ve got an entire evening planned just for you.

With pre- and post-speech shows featuring some of our top talent, including Allie Beth Stuckey, Stu Burguiere, Steve Deace, and more of your favorite BlazeTV hosts, this is an event you don’t want to miss.

The SOTU goes way deeper than mere policy updates. Virtue, sovereignty, and constitutional limits — these are the pillars that must stand if we’re to survive as a nation.

While many will be reacting to the speech, Blaze Media will be asking the questions that matter most: Are we still one nation under God? Are we strengthening families? Preserving liberty? Living with moral responsibility?

We’re diving into the full gamut of issues: the housing crisis and its impact on family formation, immigration and national sovereignty, the limits and proper role of government, and other critical topics.

Don’t miss out! Join us for the pre-show at 7:30 p.m. ET as our hosts set the stage for what’s sure to be a historic speech, and stick around for our 10 p.m. ET post-show, where the hosts will dissect Trump’s address and field personal questions from BlazeTV subscribers.

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A man who was being honored at an award show caused controversy by yelling “n*****” while two black actors were on stage.

A movie about a man with Tourette’s syndrome won multiple awards over the weekend at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, Britain’s Oscars equivalent.

‘Tourette’s makes you say that?’

John Davidson, the inspiration for the film, was in the audience to see “I Swear” take home three trophies, but the event was not without controversy related to his affliction.

Jarring outburst

As actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were presenting the award for best visual effects — the first award of the night — Davidson was heard yelling the N-word, causing an abrupt pause in the show until Lindo decided to carry on with the presentation.

According to the Mirror, Davidson was also heard shouting phrases like “shut the f**k up” and “boring” during the award show, and even said “f**k you” during the presentation for the best children’s and family film.

However, several Hollywood personalities took issue with Davidson’s racial slur, with one even saying it was not an accident.

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‘Infuriating’ reaction

After writer Jemele Hill asked if “Black people are just supposed to be ok with being disrespected and dehumanized so that other people don’t feel bad,” actor Wendell Pierce (“The Wire”) added that he felt the reason behind the cursing did not matter.

“It’s infuriating that the first reaction wasn’t complete and full throatted [sic] apologies to Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan,” he wrote on X. “The insult to them takes priority. It doesn’t matter the reasoning for the racist slur.”

Actor and singer Jamie Foxx took his statements one step further and claimed Davidson meant what he said.

“Nah he meant that s**t,” Foxx wrote in response to the video on Instagram, the Guardian reported.

Foxx made additional comments, including, “Out of all the words, you could’ve said Tourette’s makes you say that?” Foxx added, followed by, “Unacceptable.”

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Royal ruckus

Davidson has been a well-known activist for his syndrome in the U.K. for decades since he appeared in a BBC documentary in 1989 called “John’s Not Mad.”

He has previously admitted that he yelled, “F**k the Queen,” when he met the late monarch.

According to advocacy group Tourette Association of America, the phenomenon is known as coprolalia and affects a small percentage of those with Tourette’s.

The inability to control “obscene words or socially inappropriate and derogatory remarks” comes from the “overwhelming urge” to twitch, shout, or swear.

“The particular manifestation of such language may have to do with the individual’s stronger emotional content in certain parts of the brain” but is “not indicative of their personal convictions (such as in the context of racial slurs).”

The BBC apologized for the remarks heard on air, with a spokesperson saying, “Some viewers may have heard strong and offensive language during the BAFTA Film Awards 2026. This arose from involuntary verbal tics associated with Tourette’s syndrome, and was not intentional. We apologise for any offence caused by the language heard.”

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The race for the governor’s office in California has seen a shake-up, according to a new poll that has a Democratic candidate taking over the number two spot.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) is now leading the Democratic pack, while on the Republican side, Fox News contributor Steve Hilton has been able to pull ahead of Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco.

‘The Republican electorate in California is split. … Democratic voters have not yet clearly coalesced around one candidate.’

However, 21% of the California electorate continues to be undecided and could completely upend the contest after more voters pick a candidate.

California has an open primary system that has the two top candidates, regardless of party affiliation, proceed to go head-to-head in the general election.

Hilton garnered support from 17% of the respondents to the Emerson College/Inside California Politics survey, while Swalwell came in at 14%, which is tied with the 14% supporting Bianco.

Bianco has been hammered by Hilton for being photographed kneeling with protesters during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations and for skipping a gubernatorial debate.

Former Rep. Katie Porter (D) came in third place in the poll with 10% support, but that is a drop from the 11% she garnered in Dec. 2025. Porter’s campaign has been stymied by reports that she harassed her staff and also from damaging accusations from her ex-husband.

Billionaire leftist Tom Steyer saw a surge from his ad spending in California, but he still came in fourth place despite more than doubling his support from 4% two months ago to 9% in the current poll.

“The Republican electorate in California is split between Steve Hilton (38%) and Chad Bianco (37%), while Hilton also picks up a plurality of independent voter support at 22%,” said Emerson College Polling executive director Spencer Kimball.

“Democratic voters have not yet clearly coalesced around one candidate: 23% of Democrats support Eric Swalwell, 14% support Porter, 12% Steyer and 22% are undecided,” he added.

RELATED: California Democrats crushed by backlash against tax proposal to replace revenue lost by electric car mandate

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom got some bad news in the new poll as well.

His approval rating has dropped from 47% to 44%, while his disapproval rating has spiked from 39% to 45%, for a net approval rating crashing down 9 percentage points.

Californians were decidedly negative toward President Donald Trump according to the poll — 62% disapproved of the president, while 32% approved.

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President Donald Trump has been falsely accused of racism since before his first term in the White House, but one CBS reporter suggested that no one has ever falsely accused the president of being racist — and press secretary Karoline Leavitt quickly called him out.

“Yesterday in his statement about Jesse Jackson, the president said, ‘Despite the fact that I’m falsely and consistently called a racist by the scoundrels and lunatics on the radical left, Democrats all, it was always my pleasure to help Jesse along the way,’” CBS correspondent Ed O’Keefe recited from Trump’s Truth Social post — which was a tribute to the late Jesse Jackson — at a White House press briefing.

“Where or when does the president believe he’s been falsely called racist?” O’Keefe asked.

“You’re kidding, right?” Leavitt asked, stunned. “I will pull you a plethora of examples. I’m going to get my team in that room to start going through the internet of radical Democrats throughout the years, Ed, who have accused this president falsely of being a racist.”

“And I’m sure there’s many people in this room and on network television across the country who have accused him of the same. In fact, I know that because I’ve seen it with my own eyes,” she added.

“I realize what Ed O’Keefe is trying to do here,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments. “He’s trying to say, ‘Well, he’s never been falsely accused. We were always dead on the money with that.’ And to that point, Ed O’Keefe himself called President Trump a racist.”

O’Keefe once posted on X that President Trump received “backlash and support over his racist tweets.”

While O’Keefe and many others in the Democratic Party believe Trump to be a racist, Jesse Jackson did not, and Gonzales plays a decades-old video of Jackson thanking Trump for being “inclusive” and creating a “comfort zone.”

“I don’t think I’m going to be able to recover after all of those racist remarks. Hear that racist rhetoric? Oh my gosh. Helping the NAACP, helping Jesse Jackson. Boy, if President Trump is a racist, he’s doing it very wrong,” Gonzales says.

“He is the worst racist in history. … He was rapped about in rap songs before he ran for president as a Republican. He has a very long history of black people in America actually loving him, singing about him, talking about him,” she continues.

“They thought he was the coolest until there was an R in front of his name, and then everyone had to hate him, and then we all had to pretend like he’s definitely a racist,” she adds.

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A growing number of Republican lawmakers are calling for Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales (R) to resign after damning text messages he apparently exchanged with a now-deceased staffer have come to light.

Gonzales first came under scrutiny in September after one of his district staffers, Regina Santos-Aviles, set herself on fire outside her Uvalde home, passing away from her injuries the following day. The Daily Mail later published an expose alleging an affair between Gonzales and Santos-Aviles, which he repeatedly brushed off as “personal smears.”

‘I am so sick of people not calling this crap out.’

The scandal recently resurfaced after news broke that back in April, several months before her death, Santos-Aviles apparently messaged a co-worker claiming to have had an “affair” with their “boss.”

Despite Gonzales’ attempts to shut down the story, another flurry of explicit texts that appear to be from the congressman to Santos-Aviles have only exacerbated the scandal.

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The newly released text messages appear to show Gonzales pressuring Santos-Aviles to “send [him] a sexy pic” and asking her to name her “favorite position.” Santos-Aviles seemed to push back on his advances, saying she didn’t “like taking pictures” of herself and that his line of questioning was “going too far boss.”

Attorney Robert Barrera — who is representing Santos-Aviles’ widower, Adrian Aviles — told Blaze News that these messages “appear valid.” Blaze News also reached out to Aviles to confirm the validity of the messages.

Gonzales’ office did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

RELATED: Texas Republican’s staffer fatally set herself on fire last year — text now seems to confirm their alleged affair

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As the scandal reaches a fever pitch, more and more Republicans are pressuring the Texas congressman to resign and bow out of his primary race against Brendon Herrera, a gun YouTuber who nearly unseated Gonzales in 2024.

“The entire Texas delegation, as well as every single other Member of Congress, should be condemning a sitting Member of Congress asking for explicit photos of their staff,” Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida said in a post on X. “As a woman, this is really disgusting to see. Not to mention, it brings dishonor on the House of Representatives.”

“I am so sick of people not calling this crap out,” Luna added. “Again, like I’ve said before, this is not the only case of this crap up here. [Tony Gonzales], shame on you.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) offered a succinct response to the apparent messages: “RESIGN!”

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) fell short of calling for Gonzales’ resignation but rather said he would need to address the allegations. Notably President Donald Trump endorsed Gonzales in December following the initial scandal and has not yet rescinded his endorsement.

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Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is still on the defensive after a humiliating performance at the Munich Security Conference.

The far-left firebrand was thoroughly ridiculed over a rambling non-response she made to an important question about current events and U.S. foreign policy.

‘I could give — whatever about that, to be honest.’

She offered a bizarre justification in a video on her Instagram account and tried to blame President Donald Trump in response to the criticism.

“If you think that I don’t understand foreign policy because out of hours of discourse about international affairs, I pause to think about one of the most sensitive geopolitical issues that currently exist on Earth,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “I’m afraid the issue’s not my understanding, but rather the problem is perhaps you’ve gotten adjusted to a president that never thinks before he speaks and doesn’t care about the implications of his words before he speaks on matters like these.”

Both the president and Vice President JD Vance have mocked Ocasio-Cortez over the gaffe.

“After the president said that I was so smart,” Vance said Thursday, “and that I didn’t want to repeat our congresswoman who froze for 20 seconds over in Munich — now I’m tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20 seconds and just stare at the cameras. And maybe they’ll say nice things about me like they do about Congresswoman Cortez!”

Ocasio-Cortez was asked at the global conference to explain what the U.S. should do if China invaded Taiwan, a contentious possibility that many believe could become reality soon.

“Um, you know, I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, um, this is of course a very long-standing policy of the United States,” she stammered while pausing numerous times. “And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point.”

RELATED: JD Vance mocks Ocasio-Cortez on her humiliating response to foreign policy query — and she lashes out at him

Many outlets noted that Ocasio-Cortez is widely considered to be trying to expand her name recognition in order to run for even higher office, including the presidency. She denied the suspicion after her embarrassing gaffe.

“Everyone’s got this story wrong, that this is about me running for president,” she said to the New York Times.

“I could give — whatever about that, to be honest,” she added.

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed last year that there were “multiple procedural anomalies” in the production of the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment — a document created at former President Barack Obama’s urging that served as the cornerstone of the Russia collusion hoax.

Ratcliffe emphasized that ex-CIA Director John Brennan sacrificed “analytical soundness” for “narrative consistency.”

The CIA evidently did not limit its prioritization of political agenda over fact to just the one document.

After the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board determined that dozens of analytical CIA assessments were similarly infected with political bias, Ratcliffe announced on Friday that he had ordered retractions or substantial revisions of 19 intelligence products.

“The intelligence products we released to the American people today — produced before my tenure as DCIA — fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned,” the CIA director said in a statement.

To provide some insight into the extent of the political perversion and suboptimal quality of past CIA products, Ratcliffe published three redacted versions of reports that the agency indicated “exhibit substantial deviations from the President’s expectations that CIA’s workforce remains independent from a particular audience, agenda, or policy viewpoint.”

‘We owe it to the American people to correct the record.’

One of the reports, published in October 2021, is titled “Women Advancing White Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist Radicalization and Recruitment.”

The report:

Concern-mongers about white women who “may not openly advocate violence but amplify white [racially and ethnically motivated violent extremist] narratives regarding their perceptions of racial and ethnic hierarchy, as well as perceived threats from those they see as advocating multiculturalism and globalization”;Complains that some white women “have produced blogs, videos, or other online content under the guise of cooking tutorials, which feature discussions about the importance of organic food alongside subtle narratives about racial purity and the defense of white European heritage”; Haphazardly blurs the lines between bona fide white supremacists and individuals who’ve amplified the so-called conspiracy theory that “the white population is decreasing because of increasing immigration and birthrates among non-white groups”;Notes that supposed radicals have dared to celebrate “motherhood and homemaking as women’s most important responsibility”;Leans heavily on left-wing media reports; andAdvocates modeling future messaging on the best practices from the Expert Center on Gender and Right-Wing Extremism, part of a leftist German NGO led by anti-white former Stasi collaborator Anetta Kahane.

One of the other redacted reports released last week, an assessment published in July 2020 titled “Worldwide: Pandemic-Related Contraceptive Shortfalls Threaten Economic Development,” similarly evinced an unmistakably leftist worldview.

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As its title suggests, the report concern-mongered about the impact of pandemic-era supply chain disruptions on the third world’s access to abortions and contraceptives.

It warned that an uptick in babies “in African and other developing countries would perpetuate poverty, strain household budgets, and limit disposable income for consumer goods, including U.S. exports.”

The document relied heavily on propaganda from the International Planned Parenthood Federation as well as the Guttmacher Institute, an NGO that advocates expanding abortion practices around the world.

“There is absolutely no room for bias in our work and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record,” Ratcliffe said. “These actions underscore our commitment to transparency, accountability, and objective intelligence analysis.”

CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis, whose internal review confirmed that the documents “did not meet the high standards the American people expect from the CIA’s elite analytic workforce,” tweeted, “When we fall short of our standards, we owe it to the American people to correct the record.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) commended Ratcliffe “for correcting the record and ensuring that the CIA’s analysis is free of any political bias,” adding, “I’ve been sending these kind of reports back to the CIA for years and observing that they contain no intelligence.”

“Our intelligence agencies have too often missed critical national-security developments to waste time on, for instance, how ‘pandemic-related contraceptive shortfalls threaten economic development,'” Cotton continued. “Honestly.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) noted that Ratcliffe “has done a tone [sic] of work behind the scenes. Well done director!”

Not all were pleased with the attempt to remedy the agency’s ideological capture.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) suggested that the retractions and revisions were “part of a broader and deeply troubling pattern in this administration: sidelining career experts, undermining inconvenient intelligence assessments, and allowing political considerations to override professional judgment.”

“When political appointees appear to dictate what analysis is valid, it threatens the credibility, reliability, and independence of the Intelligence Community itself,” Warner added.

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The online response to a Huffington Post article whining that Olympics patriotism feels “yucky” is decidedly negative.

While most Americans are swelling with pride over the victories racked up by U.S. Olympians in the Winter Games, some on the left are crippled by conflicting emotions.

‘Being a left-wing extremist sounds utterly exhausting, miserable, and empty.’

The article by Monica Torres proclaimed, “If waving the American flag or chanting ‘USA!’ turns you off right now, you’re not alone.”

Right out of the gate, Torres assailed the Trump administration for killing unarmed civilians and detaining 2-year-olds, then went on to cite therapists treating the “cognitive dissonance.” One expert said the angst could even manifest itself physically in the forms of “tightness in the neck, shoulder or jaw areas, as well as digestive issues and trouble sleeping.”

The progressive news outlet and Torres were pummeled online.

“Who is this self-loathing cringe actually for? Who is the intended consumer?” asked one user on the X platform.

“Imagine being so corrupted that you can’t even root for your nation’s exceptional young athletes. Pathetic!” read another reply.

“If you hate America because you lost a free and fair election, you’re not alone. You’re a moron, and at least a fair bit anti-American, but that’s HuffPo’s audience, and their schtick,” said another detractor.

“Just fire everyone and close. Activism is not journalism,” responded one critic.

“Patriotic Americans cheer while Liberals struggle with cognitive dissonance over 3 words — USA.
Grow up,” replied another user.

“Delete this account, fire all of your editors…and rebrand,” read another reply.

RELATED: HuffPo calls to cancel Thanksgiving over global warming, and the online ridicule is brutal

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“Being a left-wing extremist sounds utterly exhausting, miserable, and empty,” responded Mollie Hemingway.

The post of the article garnered more than 10 million views.

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