Interest in the extraterrestrial continues to mount in the wake of President Trump’s recent order to declassify government documents on UFOs/UAPs. Theories about what aliens and flying saucers really are dominate social media every day.

On a recent episode of “Unashamed,” Jase and Al Robertson along with Zach Dasher welcomed Marine veteran, Mighty Oaks founder, and author Chad Robichaux to the show to share his wild biblical theory on UFOs, giants, and demons.

Whether or not what’s in the government files — historical sightings, military encounters, astronaut reports, etc. — is real or fake, Robichaux believes the church is obligated to address the subject so it doesn’t “throw people off their faith.”

The majority of Christendom, he explains, holds an “anthropocentric view,” meaning it interprets humanity as the epicenter of the created cosmos.

Robichaux fears that if something related to the extraterrestrial proves true, it would shatter this widely held worldview and throw Christians into a state of confusion and doubt.

He highlights the biblical passages about the “secret places and secret things” of God’s universe and the numerous mentions of various celestial beings.

“I think [humans] are special,” he caveats. “God sent His only son on earth to die for us. We’re special and made in His image, but that doesn’t mean necessarily we’re the only one.”

Robichaux believes that “The Book of the Watchers,” the first section of the Book of Enoch — an ancient Jewish text that expands on the origins of Genesis 6’s mysterious half-human/half-god Nephilim — provides reliable information as it “doesn’t contradict the gospel in any way.”

According to the text, a group of 200 “Watchers” (angels assigned to watch over humans on the earth) rebelled by mating with human women, producing the Nephilim and necessitating the Noachian flood.

But being neither fully human nor fully god, the Nephilims’ fate was unique, says Robichaux.

“They can’t go to eternal death or life like us, and so their spirits … roam the earth, and this is what the Book of Enoch says: The demonic world that we’re facing, the spiritual demons that we see in our world, are the disembodied spirits of these giants,” he explains.

Perhaps modern UFO sightings and “alien” encounters are these same Nephilim spirits manifesting in physical or interdimensional forms to deceive humanity.

If Christians want to stay rooted in truth, Robichaux argues that their anthropocentric perspective must be replaced with a Christocentric view that sees Jesus Christ as the hub of the cosmos’ wheel and humans — as well as every other created being — as spokes.

If this becomes the Christian worldview, “little green men [coming] off a spaceship” won’t shake believers’ faith, he says.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Christian affiliation in America has been in steep decline for decades, with church attendance falling and nearly 30% of adults religiously unaffiliated.

Pew Research Center has argued that there is “no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults,” but sports fans might reach a different conclusion when tuning in to post-game interviews and press conferences, where they frequently hear athletes boldly professing their faith and giving glory to Jesus Christ.

‘You’re not alone in seeing it, and you’re not alone in recognizing that it is a revival.’

While Pew’s latest polling shows that the long decline has only plateaued, New York Times bestselling author and sports journalist Steve Eubanks believes there are undeniable and meaningful signs of revival, particularly among athletes.

Teed up

In his forthcoming book, “Godball: How Athletes Are Saving Christianity,” which releases June 9, Eubanks takes a deeper look at the faith resurgence sweeping America and how these outspoken athletes have become Christianity’s most powerful evangelists.

“I don’t think I would have noticed it if it hadn’t been for the event that you and I talked about three years ago,” Eubanks told Blaze News, referring to a 2023 incident in which the leading golf publication he then worked for attempted to censor his interview with professional golfer Amy Olson. When Global Golf Post refused to run the piece unless Eubanks removed Olson’s references to her Christian faith and pro-life views, he “resigned on the spot.”

At the time, Eubanks told Blaze News that widespread leftist bias had created a “sad state of affairs” for journalism.

But now Eubanks says the experience had a silver lining: showing him that outspoken Christian athletes like Olson were more common than he realized.

“I thought, ‘Wow, for an athlete to say something like this is extraordinary,’” Eubanks told Blaze News.

“Well, then I started paying attention, and I thought, ‘Maybe it’s not that extraordinary; maybe it’s something that’s happening every day, and I just hadn’t noticed.’”

Jesus first

Combing through press conferences and pre- and post-game interviews proved his hunch correct. More and more athletes seemed to be using the spotlight to profess their faith, sidestepping questions about athletic performance to give thanks to Jesus and share the gospel.

“It’s a huge movement now,” Eubanks declared. “Really, it’s a revival.”

RELATED: Exclusive: Golf writer says staff ‘went ballistic’ over story on pregnant golfer’s pro-life, Christian views — and outlet’s higher-ups refused to run it

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When asked why athletes tend to be more outspoken than other public figures, Eubanks pointed to the confidence that comes from succeeding in “one of the few meritocracies left.”

Leaderboard

Sports also instill a willingness to resist the herd, Eubanks said.

“From the time they were 7 or 8 years old, they were the leaders of the teams,” Eubanks said. “They had been told by the coaching staff, ‘Look, you’re the person who has to step up.’ And it’s a natural extension of that.”

Eubanks asserts one of the main reasons these athletes are speaking out now is tied to the COVID lockdowns. He highlighted that an athlete’s career is significantly shorter than most other professions and that, during the lockdowns, everything they had dedicated their lives to was put on hold for an uncertain, lengthy period.

“I just think COVID radicalized these kids,” he stated. “Those people realized that their entire lives could be taken away from them in an instant and that it was important for them to stand up for the things that were really important and to go ahead and make these proclamations of faith.”

He argued that athletes have become the “cultural drivers” of American society, more so than artists and musicians.

Bad bets

Eubanks hopes that church attendance, particularly among young men, continues to grow, but expressed concern about one emerging threat within the sports community that could impact the current Christian revival.

Image source: Steve Eubanks

“If there’s anything that could derail it, it is the sports gambling,” Eubanks told Blaze News. “It can compromise the integrity of the sports themselves.”

He detailed how throwing a game used to mean deliberately manipulating the entire outcome, but recently, some athletes have been indicted for allegedly engaging in spot-fixes, rigging small moments, such as a specific baseball pitch, for prop bets.

Eubanks also noted that the barrier to gambling has been substantially lowered, from having to seek out a local bookie to using your phone to place numerous bets in seconds.

“It’s almost the slot machine effect. There’s just enough bells and whistles to keep you engaged and to keep you throwing money down the rathole,” he said. “There’s a huge, huge addiction problem out there with this that we haven’t recognized yet, but that could really derail this revival movement in my eyes.”

RELATED: When Archie Comics found Jesus: Strange artifacts from a once-Christian culture

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Walking the walk

To sustain and grow the revival, Eubanks believes athletes must become more vocal about their faith and take a stand against immoral practices in the sports industry, including opposing sports betting and the playing of songs with obscene lyrics at stadiums and arenas.

“In order to walk the walk, you’re eventually going to have to stand up and say, ‘This is not right; we shouldn’t be doing this,’” he said.

Eubanks hopes that readers of “Godball” understand this revival movement is significant and expanding. He also aims to inspire young athletes to express their faith publicly, which could spark a domino effect of fans being drawn to Jesus Christ.

“There’s an entire legion of people out here who are seeing exactly the same thing. You’re not alone in seeing it, and you’re not alone in recognizing that it is a revival,” he stated.

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A Florida sheriff’s deputy a few months back pulled over a driver and proceeded to tell her that she was “holding a phone” with her “right hand,” which would be a violation of the state’s wireless communications while driving law.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy told the woman during the Feb. 11 stop in Lake Worth Beach that “we’re doing an operation for distracted driving, and you drove past me holding a phone with your right hand,” according to bodycam video of the traffic stop.

‘Hand to God — you did not have a phone in your hand?’

But there was a big problem with that accusation.

The driver quickly lifted up her right arm and showed the deputy that she has no right hand. In fact, it appears most of her right forearm is missing too.

The motorist laughed and told the deputy, “So, obviously not!”

RELATED: Video: Florida motorist decides to drive in reverse for a while — and then comes face-to-face with deputies

The woman then asked the deputy, “So, you wanna just call this a day, or …?”

But the deputy persisted: “I don’t want to call it day — you had a hand up manipulating a phone.”

The woman argued back, “You just said my right hand.”

The deputy replied that he “thought” he saw her “right hand.”

She then insisted, “You didn’t” — and then held up her arm with no right hand and moved it closer to the open driver-side window.

“You didn’t see me with my right hand,” she added.

The deputy persisted and asked the woman if she had a phone in her hand, not specifying right hand or left hand.

“I did not,” she replied.

Almost comically, the deputy came back with, “Hand to God — you did not have a phone in your hand?”

The woman then raised her right arm that lacked a hand and replied, “Hand to God.”

The deputy then asked, “Your other hand to God — you didn’t have a phone in your hand?”

The woman then raised her left arm — which has a hand attached — and repeated, “Hand to God.”

With that, the deputy issued her a citation anyway for “wireless communication handheld while driving” — and the pair began sparring again before the deputy acknowledged to her that he did, in fact, say that he saw her holding a phone in her right hand and that she can take the citation to court.

The woman posted video of the traffic stop on TikTok, WPEC-TV reported, and as you can imagine, the station said the case drew widespread attention.

What’s more, the station said the civil penalty amounted to $116.

Naturally, the woman said she requested a hearing date and planned to fight the citation in court, WPEC said.

But it turns out that it wouldn’t be necessary.

RELATED: Police stop bicycle-riding male for traffic violation; turns out he has a gun and then runs from cop. It doesn’t end well.

WPEC said a hearing had been scheduled for Tuesday of this week — May 26 — but the hearing was canceled after the case was dropped.

In fact, court records show the citation was dismissed at the request of the deputy who issued it, the station said.

WPEC added in a video short published Friday that the incident is now “under agency review.”

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The new movie “I Love Boosters” asks us to root for thieves who steal designer clothes sans regret. Next month’s “Carolina Caroline” follows a pair of adorable, lovestruck thugs who swindle strangers for cash.

Whatever happened to actual “good guys”?

‘When he looked into the eyes of the 101st division, he took the time to ask their names, to shoot the breeze about fly fishing and their girlfriends.’

Look no further than “Pressure,” a new World War II saga based on incredible true events.

Extraordinary heroes

Honor. Loyalty. Courage. Heroism. The ability to make a tough decision and stand by it, no matter what. No victim complexes or complaints about rough childhoods. Just extraordinary heroes taking history into their hands.

It’s one reason we still can’t get enough of World War II films. Those qualities are front and center in this well-told tale. And it helps that the premise behind “Pressure” will strike audiences as unfamiliar, even shocking.

Rain day

The most consequential battle of World War II almost got rained out, a story that proves a snug fit for America’s 250th birthday.

Brendan Fraser stars as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander ready to storm the beaches of Normandy and liberate northwest Europe. That risky plan required an assist from Mother Nature.

Would the forecast allow for a massive amphibious assault? Or should the Allied powers wait a few days, even weeks, jeopardizing the element of surprise in the process?

Andrew Scott of “Fleabag” fame plays James Stagg, the meteorologist brought in to advise Gen. Eisenhower on the best path forward. He predicts that conditions will turn D-Day into a disaster. Is he right, or does the existing weather expert (Chris Messina) have the right forecast?

Earned respect

Fraser, the “Whale” alum who once again changed his physique to play “Ike,” told Align why he admires the man who not only helped win the war but later became a two-term U.S. president.

“He was an excellent communicator; he was a diplomat of sorts,” Fraser said. “He conducted military operations over dinner tables. Apparently he was very funny and charming at them. … That’s a form of communication too.”

There was a method to his unorthodox ways, the Oscar winner said.

“He did all this because he cared intensely about the troops’ well-being,” Fraser said. That extended to bonding with the men facing daunting odds of survival, especially in the D-Day invasion.

“When he looked into the eyes of the 101st division, he took the time to ask their names, to shoot the breeze about fly fishing and their girlfriends. He was respected because he earned it. … It was almost like a secret weapon in the operation,” the actor noted. “They wanted to please him, and they knew what they were up against.”

RELATED: ‘Call Sign Courage’: One soldier’s fight against creeping Marxism in the military

Root/Cause

Historic battle

Director Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” captured the early stages of the Normandy invasion without flinching. It’s one of the goriest war sequences ever shot, showing how soldiers ran toward a wall of bullets that took hundreds of lives in a flash.

“Pressure” doesn’t attempt to out-do Spielberg’s version, but the film shows how the beaches were quickly stained a deep red color.

“It was no secret that they were going into a bare-knuckle fight with a chainsaw,” Fraser said of that historic battle.

The project gave Fraser, now gearing up to shoot another “Mummy” film with co-star Rachel Weisz, an appreciation for Ike’s role in history.

“He was the type of leader who did not want to punish his foe, his enemy. … He didn’t let him off the hook, either. … He partnered with them, neutered them that way, and made them accountable,” he said.

Little-known perspective

Fraser’s co-star, Irish actress Kerry Condon, gets a less splashy but still consequential role in the war drama. She plays Captain Kay Summersby, Gen. Eisenhower’s loyal aide.

“She brought the emotional intelligence when the men were struggling,” the actress said of her role, including a critical subplot involving Stagg’s pregnant wife. Summersby would later move to the U.S. and become captain in the Women’s Army Corps.

Many moviegoers may not have realized the role weather played in the D-Day invasion. Count Condon among that group.

“It was shocking to think it was one person who changed the course of history. … That’s why I wanted to do [the film]. It’s a very interesting perspective on World War II.”

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The June 27, 2024, debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden will go down in history as one of the most disastrous performances ever delivered by a presidential candidate. Many say that Biden’s shaky delivery, verbal stumbles, and moments of confusion sunk his campaign right then and there, as it confirmed everyone’s fears that he was experiencing serious cognitive decline.

Almost two years after the fact, former first lady Jill Biden is now suggesting that Joe might have been having a stroke during that debate — starkly contradicting her initial public praise of his performance.

In a recent “CBS News Sunday Morning” interview, she said, “I was frightened because I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. Never. … I don’t know what happened. As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”

BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales believes Jill Biden, whom she dubs “the former elder abuser in chief,” is “trying to rewrite history.”

Sara points out that if Jill was actually concerned that her husband was having a stroke, then surely she would have sought immediate medical attention.

But instead, she let him flounder until the debate was over and then gushed praise over his performance.

Sara plays the infamous clip of Jill congratulating Joe, exclaiming: “Joe, you did such a great job! You answered every question; you knew all the facts!”

“She was so concerned that he was having a stroke that she paraded him on stage to look like a toddler … to tell him, ‘You answered all the questions, Joe. You did so good’?” Sara sarcastically asks.

She then recounts how after the debate, Jill and Joe made a spectacle of going to Waffle House to celebrate.

“If you really think your husband’s had a stroke, it doesn’t seem like that would be the best place to go for medical care,” she says.

But conservatives aren’t the only ones who refuse to buy Jill’s new narrative.

“Even CNN, I’ll point out, isn’t buying her bulls**t,” Sara says.

She plays a clip of CNN’s Abby Phillip calling out the deceptiveness of Jill Biden’s updated story.

“What kind of political system covers that up and makes it OK to lie to people about what everybody knows is true?” she asked on a segment of “NewsNight.”

“You tell me, Abby!” Sara exclaims. “You guys were the ones who were doing it every day.”

As for Jill’s claim that Joe’s debate performance was some kind of one-off incident, Sara says that we all have “receipts upon receipts upon receipts of Joe Biden declining.”

She plays a compilation of the various blunders he made throughout his presidential career and after.

“It was just an isolated incident, other than the entirety of his life now,” Sara mocks.

“Jill Biden, I am calling you out. That is a lie. You did not think he was having a stroke.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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It has been a dismal year for ranked-choice voting.

RCV allows voters to rank candidates instead of choosing one. It then runs multiple rounds of counting, adjusts rankings, and discards “exhausted” ballots to determine a winner.

Lawmakers, courts, cities, and voters are increasingly rejecting a system that makes elections harder to understand and easier to distrust.

Two states have already banned it. One state’s pilot program was phased out. A statewide ballot proposal failed to qualify. Several city councils rejected it. A state supreme court struck down an expansion bill. And the year still has months to go.

The states that banned RCV this year were Indiana and Ohio. The Ohio legislature first introduced a ban in 2023. It passed the Senate but not the House. This year, lawmakers passed it through both chambers on the second attempt, with Sens. Theresa Gavarone (R) and Bill DeMora (D) leading the effort. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine signed the bipartisan bill into law in February.

Indiana acted even faster. Lawmakers introduced a similar ban and enacted it two months later. The legislation reflected growing concern that RCV makes elections less transparent and harder for voters to trust.

“It is important to ensure Indiana’s voting system is secure and accurate for Hoosier voters. Having to rank each candidate could end up being a vote against the voter’s intended candidate, creating confusion and frustration, which is why we need this law in place,” said state Sen. Blake Doriot (R), the bill’s sponsor.

RCV supporters also suffered a setback in Utah, where the pilot program ended this year. Before the program closed, more than 20 cities tried it, but supporters never moved the state toward broader adoption. Multiple cities dropped out before the program ended.

In Michigan, Rank MI Vote’s RCV ballot proposal fell 200,000 signatures short of qualifying. RCV donors can find one consolation: At least they will not have to spend millions on another failed ballot measure, as they did in six states in 2024.

RELATED: Trump’s endorsement power keeps saving the wrong Republicans

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, also rejected RCV. The city council voted it down 6-3. The bill’s sponsor claimed switching from the current runoff system would save money, but the proposal failed because of concerns over system upgrades, staff training, and a long public education campaign. Similar proposals also failed in Vista, California, and Appleton, Wisconsin.

The District of Columbia offers another warning. Voters approved RCV, but the city has struggled to prepare for implementation. District residents will use the system for the first time in June, and a recent Opportunity D.C. survey found that 43% of voters remain unaware of the change. To address the confusion, the Board of Elections is spending $50,000 to educate voters.

D.C. Councilmember Wendell Felder introduced emergency legislation to delay implementation until 2027. The bill failed, so voters and election workers will have little time to prepare.

Finally, an effort to expand RCV in Maine was struck down in March when the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled the bill unconstitutional. Because the Maine Constitution requires a plurality for state elections, RCV remains limited to federal elections.

Every year, ranked-choice voting’s backers promise simplicity, fairness, and reform. This year showed the opposite. Lawmakers, courts, cities, and voters are increasingly rejecting a system that makes elections harder to understand and easier to distrust.

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Digital ads are a commonality across the internet. You see them in Google Search, social media feeds, and even on your favorite websites. If you spend enough time online, you might’ve grown accustomed to ignoring them.

Unfortunately, a new study reveals that what has become a necessary annoyance to the modern web might also have the power to reveal personal and private information about your interests, beliefs, and more. Even worse, these personal details about you can be gathered without clicking on a single ad, thanks to AI.

Websites can’t stop any company from collecting and using this data.

The study

In a study published by UNSW Sydney in early May, researchers revealed an alarming new trend about online ads: These seemingly innocuous bits of marketing materials on sites all around the web can be used to reveal and track a person’s most privately held values and beliefs – including political affiliation, degree of education, and employment status – simply by monitoring the advertisements users see online.

To be clear, it’s not the ads themselves that can gather specific data about you, but it’s the collective presence of the ads displayed that reveal personal traits. Here’s how it works:

Using Facebook as the catalyst for the study, researchers reviewed 435,000 ads distributed to a relatively small subset of 891 users. After monitoring which ads were served to each user, they ran the correlated data through a large language model and discovered four main points about the results:

Researchers could infer users’ personal traits without accessing their browsing history or personal data on their devices. All they needed was a log of their ad history.User profiles could be created after a short browsing session (though they didn’t outline how long a session needed to be to make it work).AI-based personal trait matching rivaled and even exceeded human capabilities.The AI-powered process was both 200 times more affordable and 50 times quicker than relying on human analysis alone.

The thing that makes this study so startling is that users don’t have to actively share any information about themselves, no cybersecurity loopholes or zero-day exploits are required, and platform holders behind today’s operating systems, web browsers, and websites can’t stop any company from collecting and using this data.

RELATED: A secret bot army is phishing, scamming, and sabotaging our lives

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This isn’t the first time LLMs have been used to reveal extremely private information about online users. Earlier this year, we reported how AI can reveal the real identities of anonymous accounts simply by comparing writing styles.

Should you be worried?

At this point in the story, you might be wondering if you have anything to worry about. The answer is “maybe,” depending on how your smart devices are configured.

The bright spot of the study is that your personal interests can’t be measured if the data is never recorded. UNSW Sydney noted that extensions, like those you’ll find in the Chrome Web Store, Safari Extensions, and Microsoft Edge Add-Ons are the likely avenue for data collection. The more extensions you have installed on your devices, the higher your chances are that your ad history could be abused. If you don’t have any extensions installed, your chances of ad data collection drop precipitously.

That’s not to say that all extensions are bad. However, even the innocent ones have the power to view which webpages you visit and even the content on those pages.

Ironically, another possible method for ad data collection are ad blockers. While blockers can effectively prevent websites from showing you ads, some may still access served ad data and gather it for user profiling. You especially want to watch out for ad blockers that claim to be free. Remember, if you’re not paying for the product, you likely are the product.

Even without extensions in the mix, data brokers can still collect plenty of information about you, and you still don’t have to click on an ad to hand it over. The sites you browse on the internet are filled with cookies — little crumbs of data — that track where you go and which pages you click from site to site. Even if you don’t click on an ad, simply visiting a product page or website is enough to leave a cookie in your browser that tells brokers the things you like and the things you don’t. These can then be used to build profiles on your browsing habits to target you with other ads you might actually click, which you should never do, as evidenced by the stark rise in social media scams.

Ways to protect yourself from ad data collection

Staying safe and anonymous online is an increasingly difficult task. However, if you want to give yourself the best shot at nullifying this ad data collection “exploit,” try out these tips:

Remove all extensions from your preferred web browser. This is probably the top way to block bad actors from recording your ad data.Install a VPN. Many VPNs come with built-in ad-blocking technology. If you choose to add a VPN to your device, make sure it’s a RAM-based option with a no-log system that actively prevents the VPN provider from recording or saving user data. Some popular RAM-based VPNs include ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and CyberGhost VPN.Block cookies entirely. Some browsers will let you block all third-party cookies. Unfortunately, this may break some websites, so your mileage may vary.Clear out your cookies often. Set a reminder to delete your browser history and cached data every week or month. This can make it harder for sites to monitor your activity over time.Browse in private mode. While “private” or “incognito” mode won’t obscure your web traffic from your ISP, many browsers come with extra tools to reduce or block cookies and other tracking methods that brokers use.

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Imagine you founded a company with a stop-smoking product that actually works — no nicotine, better than anything on the market. You are the largest investor. You take no salary. You build it into something real, serving 756,000 customers. You are doing exactly what America is supposed to reward.

Then one night, without warning, without a trial, without any finding of wrongdoing, the federal government comes. The government freezes every account you own or are even associated with — personal and business accounts, life insurance, and retirement savings. A court-appointed receiver sells your office furniture. They tell you that you no longer have Fourth Amendment rights. They come for the wedding ring on your wife’s finger.

This attack sounds like some hypothetical scenario. It is my story.

I am writing this so that every American understands just what weaponization by the government really means.

The Federal Trade Commission came for me in 2018 using Section 13(b) of the FTC Act — a provision Congress created for injunctions only, not for seizing assets or freezing accounts. The receiver the agency installed consumed nearly $4 million of my money in fees before anyone proved the FTC did not have legal rights to my assets.

When I went to court and asked for access to my own frozen money just to pay lawyers and keep my home, the government’s response was: You can go live under the freeway for all we care.

While this was happening, inspired by President Trump’s Made in America initiative, I built VPL Medical — the world’s first made-in-USA three-ply surgical face mask manufacturing operation, based in California, where I was born and raised.

This was before COVID. When the pandemic hit, VPL Medical was ready. The Department of Health and Human Services awarded us a $14,500,000 contract to deliver 20,000,000 American-made masks to the Strategic National Stockpile. The factory was going to employ 400 Americans. The country didn’t want masks from China, and we were ready to deliver.

Then the FTC came for VPL Medical, too. The factory went dark for three months while Americans died and hospitals begged for PPE. The FTC’s offer to reopen: Pay the receiver $25,000 per week to run my own company under a law that didn’t authorize the demand. I refused. The receiver’s first act was to cancel the HHS contract. Twenty million American-made masks and 400 American jobs gone.

In April 2021, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in AMG Capital Management v. FTC that the commission had no authority to seek monetary relief. Nine justices. Zero dissents. My civil FTC case collapsed. The district court returned my company to me. Zero dollars — after four years of destruction, a factory closed during a pandemic, a $14.5 million federal contract canceled, and nearly $4 million consumed by a fraudulent receiver.

There is no mechanism to get that back. You win. And you are still destroyed.

My family and I moved to Ireland to take a break. We were through the nightmare and wanted to recover. Or so we thought.

RELATED: Trump’s anti-weaponization fund puts GOP cowards on trial

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When I flew home to see my dying father, I was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. The Biden DOJ had indicted me for the same conduct the FTC had litigated for four years and won nothing from — conduct the prior Trump administration’s DOJ had already reviewed and declined to charge.

The Trump administration’s own 2018 “No Piling On” directive explicitly prohibits this practice. The alleged consumer harm: approximately $154, across 756,000 customers who all received their product or a refund. My criminal defense costs: in the millions and climbing.

What is happening in my case now has no precedent in American federal prosecution. The supervising AUSA withdrew in April 2025. No replacement has appeared in 14 months. There is no confirmed U.S. attorney supervising the case. The DOJ unit employing the trial attorney was abolished in September 2025. Thirty-one demands for that authorization have gone unanswered. The prosecution continues anyway.

Six fully briefed motions to dismiss — covering fraud on the court, due process, double jeopardy, evidence suppression, and the “No Piling On” violation — have all been denied by District Court Judge Jesus Bernal, an Obama appointee.

Every player in this case, with the exception of myself, is a Biden or Obama appointee. This is what Biden-Obama weaponization looks like — a rogue agency, an unauthorized prosecution, and politically appointed judges, all targeting an American entrepreneur who built American manufacturing and supported President Trump.

I have filed a restitution claim with the DOJ Anti-Weaponization Fund. I am not asking for sympathy. I am asking for what the rule of law promises: that the government must prove its case before it destroys you. Right now, for me, that promise has not been kept. I am writing this so that every American understands just what weaponization by the government really means.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolicy and made available via RealClearWire.

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Immigration is a key issue affecting Americans, but not just in terms of border security.

While border crossings have been going down, one glaring issue with American immigration is whether or not these immigrants are assimilating into American civic life — which in many cases, they are not.

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey that the president needs to “really double down on the importance of assimilation, the importance of wanting to be an American beyond getting the certificate that you’re an American citizen.”

“The best way to be a pro-immigration country is to have laws that require immigrants to assimilate,” he says.

“Americans want their country back. And I can think of no president, certainly in modern history, who better embodies the desire to do that than Donald Trump,” he adds.

And as a “suburban mom,” Stuckey wholeheartedly agrees.

“Those are the things I really see affecting my community. And it’s not only illegal immigration. And this is where I think the conversation has shifted on the right in a good way. I just don’t know the solution for it,” she says.

“People are saying yes, illegal immigration number one, but also it doesn’t seem like our legal immigration is really prioritizing American interests,” she continues.

“And when people see their communities, the neighborhoods that they grew up in completely shift, and when people see churches turning into mosques, I think most Americans are uncomfortable saying it, but there’s something unsettling about it,” she adds.

“I’m not uncomfortable saying it,” Roberts responds.

“We have to understand that this country was based on principles that came from Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia,” he explains. “We are both Judeo and Christian in our founding. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t room for other people, but it does mean that it’s possible in a country that is so generous toward immigrants that we might have too many people from the wrong places.”

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