Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said officers responded to a shooting in the 3000 block of Travis Road around 1:50 a.m. Thursday.

Officers at the scene saw a male suffering from a gunshot wound, and police said the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

‘Get out of my house, b***h.’

Kendra Scott, 36, was arrested at the scene and later charged with first-degree murder and employing a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony, police said.

But the New York Post said Scott found the 20-year-old male in question hiding under her 13-year-old daughter’s bed.

The Post added that an arrest affidavit it obtained indicates Scott told police she came home and “saw a dude under” the bed — “and I did what I had to do.”

The affidavit also said the gunshot wound was in the back of the male’s head, the Post added, and that he was found outside the home.

More from the paper:

The deadly incident unfolded after Scott’s teen daughter told cops she invited the man, Rodderius Morton, to the family’s home at around 1 a.m., according to the court document and Scott’s lawyer.

An enraged Scott started pounding on the front door and bellowing, “Who’s at my house?!” when she arrived home around 30 minutes later, the affidavit states.

Her unidentified daughter grew terrified when she noticed her mom was allegedly holding a gun.

Scott had said that if she “sees a boy in my house I will put a hole in his ass,” the daughter later told cops, according to the affidavit.

The Post, citing the court document, reported that the teen soon let her mother inside, where Scott allegedly found Morton hiding under the bed. It isn’t clear why Scott had to be let inside her own house.

“Get out of my house, bitch,” Scott allegedly screamed, the paper said, adding that Scott followed Morton out the front door.

Then Scott’s daughter and a neighbor allegedly heard a gunshot, the Post said.

The paper, citing the affidavit, reported that the neighbor later told police he came outside and saw Scott still holding the gun and standing by the man’s body while admitting, “I shot him, I shot him.”

Officers recovered one spent shell casing on the front porch as well as a Smith & Wesson black handgun, the Post reported, citing the document.

“This incident started with the worst nightmare of any parent of a 13-year-old girl,” Scott’s lawyer, Blake Ballin, told the paper, adding that “predictably, it ended in tragedy. One of the key questions in this case will be whether anyone could act rationally in this circumstance.”

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Retired law enforcement officer and firearm self-defense trainer Buddy Smith told WMC-TV that what’s known so far about the shooting would not qualify under Tennessee’s Castle Doctrine.

“Which means you’re allowed to protect the people in your residence when someone breaks in to commit a violent felony against you or someone in your house,” Smith told the station, adding that “the affidavit does not allege that he threatened the mother or anyone else at that time, and those alleged facts will likely be important issues for the court, and ultimately a jury.”

Gloria Milon, an area resident, told WMC she sympathizes with Scott: “She seemed like a real nice lady. All I can say is, that hurts that someone was in there with one of her little girls.”

Another neighbor who asked not to be identified told the station that Scott should have called police instead: “If it would’ve been me in that situation, and I had seen her on that doorbell camera, I would’ve called the police and had them sitting at my house when I got there. Therefore, you take him out, take him on to jail.”

A judge on Monday set Scott’s bond at $100,000; her next court date is scheduled for Aug. 3, WMC reported in a separate story. Jail records indicate Scott remained behind bars Tuesday.

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A Pennsylvania man repeatedly found his possessions being strangely moved around his home for weeks, according to multiple reports. Then, he allegedly caught a woman, whom he had previously met on a dating site, stalking him at his house.

A Bucks County man met 30-year-old Lindsay Carole Harris through the Match dating website in January, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Levittown Patch.

‘We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.’

Police stated that the pair dated briefly before the man ended the relationship, but authorities allege that Harris refused to let go of the alleged romance, according to WCAU-TV.

According to Patch, Falls Township police said Harris continued to contact the man despite being asked to stop communicating with him.

Police said they responded to the man’s home on June 28.

“It’s nighttime. We get a call for a woman breaking into one of our residents’ homes in Fairless Hills,” Falls Township Police Chief Nelson Whitney said, according to WCAU. “We responded, and sure enough, officers see a 30-year-old female crawling through a window, and they take her into custody, and then we find out the whole story.”

Police identified the suspect as Harris.

“They had initially contacted each other about six months prior on a dating website,” Whitney explained.

Harris arrived at the house with a bottle of wine and Italian ice despite the victim not wanting a relationship with her, police said.

Whitney added, “The male decided not to continue the relationship, but I guess the female wanted to continue it and came to his home and not only broke into the home but had a bottle of wine and some water ice ready to enjoy an evening with this guy who was completely shocked to come home and find her standing outside of his house looking at him through the sliding glass door and immediately called 911.”

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Patch reported that police arrested Harris and charged her with burglary, criminal trespass, and stalking.

Harris was released from jail after posting 10% of a $50,000 bail, according to Patch. Harris is set to appear for a preliminary hearing on July 21.

The alleged victim told WCAU he was confused when he noticed that his belongings inside his home had been moved around.

PennLive reported, “The bizarre stalking incident led to a discovery that Harris had allegedly broken into his house multiple times, moving things around for weeks.”

The alleged victim also said he never gave Harris his home address.

Whitney warned, “People are pretty good at finding other people on the internet.”

The Falls Township Police Department did not immediately respond to Blaze News‘ request for comment.

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For the better part of two decades, confused children across the Anglosphere deceived into believing that they might be in the wrong bodies have been widely subjected to medications that adversely affect bone density, cognitive performance, emotional stability, and/or future fertility. This horrific experiment, briefly provided a patina of legitimacy by so-called experts and politicians, has not only been ruinous but is based on junk science.

To the chagrin of the profitable and predatory child sex-rejection industry, the Trump administration, like the British government, has taken action nationwide against the “chemical and surgical mutilation of children.” However, some blue states appear keen to continue waging war on America’s youth.

‘1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones.’

A new study in the Oxford University Press journal Research Connections provides some idea of the scale of this campaign and just how many victims it has already created in Oregon — a state whose health plan will cover virtually any sex-rejection drug or procedure, no matter how cosmetic, if deemed “medically necessary” by a doctor.

Researchers from Comagine Health, a nonprofit health care consulting firm, used the multi-payer claims database operated by their organization to identify so-called “transgender and gender-diverse” adolescents in the Beaver State, ages 8-17. The data researchers relied on was from 2016 to 2023.

After identifying 8,480 gender-confused adolescents among the 868,740 insured adolescents in the system, the researchers “assessed receipt of puberty blockers and gender-affirming hormone therapies using procedural codes.”

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They found in Oregon that:

the median age of first gender-dysphoria diagnosis was 14;1.51% of all covered female patients and 0.46% of all covered male patients ages 8-17 in the seven-year period received gender dysphoria diagnoses;75.8% of the patients with gender dysphoria diagnoses were female;the median time span from diagnosis to medical interference was 294 days;the median age for initial sex-rejection medical interventions was 15;23.35% of victims received medical “gender-affirming care”;19.72% of victims received cross-sex hormones;8.21% used puberty blockers, drugs that have long been used to chemically castrate sex offenders; andthe use of puberty blockers and hormone replacement procedures skyrocketed during the timeframe, especially between 2020 and 2023.

The researchers claimed that “despite growing attention, medical [gender-affirming care] is accessed by only a small proportion of adolescents in the United States.”

Leor Sapir, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted in a recent article for the Wall Street Journal that this supposedly “small proportion” is actually tragically high.

Citing the study, Sapir highlighted that “at age 17, roughly 1 in every 240 girls and 1 in every 630 boys in Oregon received cross-sex hormones for ‘gender dysphoria’ between 2016 and 2023. These figures are triple and double the national average for girls and boys, respectively.”

Sapir noted further that cross-sex hormone use among 14- and 15-year-olds in Oregon — the only American state to formally adopt the so-called standards of care issued by the scandal-plagued World Professional Association for Transgender Health — was four to five times the national rate.

In November, the Department of Health and Human Services published an exhaustive peer-reviewed report that stressed that “the harms from sex-rejecting procedures — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical operations — are significant, long term, and too often ignored or inadequately tracked.”

The previous year, just months prior to National Health Service England banning puberty blockers at so-called gender-identity clinics, the United Kingdom’s landmark Cass Review revealed that:

the “systematic review showed no clear evidence that social transition in childhood has any positive or negative mental health outcomes, and relatively weak evidence for any effect in adolescence”;puberty blockers “exert their intended effect in suppressing puberty,” but compromise bone density and have no apparent impact on “gender dysphoria or body satisfaction”;there is a dearth of consistent evidence about the “effect of puberty suppression on psychological or psychosocial well-being, cognitive development, cardio-metabolic risk or fertility”;there is a lack of high-quality research assessing the outcomes of hormone interventions in adolescents confused about their sex; andthe so-called science regarding “gender-affirming care” is “an area of remarkably weak evidence” built on “shaky foundations.”

Despite the mountain of evidence showing that so-called “gender-affirming care” is not only destructive but ineffective in terms of achieving the promoters’ own aims, the Democrats running Oregon show no signs of abandoning their war on young bodies.

For instance, Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek, a self-identified lesbian, ratified new legislation in May aimed at shielding providers of sex-rejection drugs and mutilations from civil lawsuits, professional discipline, and loss of malpractice insurance, as well as at ensuring uninterrupted coverage for Oregon Health Plan patients utilizing Planned Parenthood for “essential health services.”

Kotek did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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President Trump nominated acting Attorney General Todd Blanche last month to lead the Justice Department permanently. After more than a year as deputy attorney general, Blanche has shown that he is not merely capable of doing the job. He is the man the department needs now.

I had the privilege of serving alongside Blanche. He is smart, principled, and fearless. His record proves it.

Blanche left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

The Trump administration’s approach to law enforcement and immigration has already delivered historic results. Violent crime has reached record lows, cartel activity has declined, and property crime has fallen dramatically.

Blanche has also led the effort to reverse the Justice Department’s politicization under President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Their tenure included imprisoning grandmothers who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, arresting pro-life protesters, spying on eight Republican senators, surveilling Catholics who attended the traditional Latin Mass, and deploying the National Security Division against concerned parents at school board meetings.

That two-tiered justice system helped drive Americans to the polls for Trump. Ending the abuses is not enough. The department must also repair the damage by dismissing corrupt prosecutors, enforcing the law equally against powerful left-wing actors, and restoring people wronged by the government. Blanche has shown the courage to do exactly that.

Some Senate Republicans objected to the Justice Department’s now-abandoned plan to compensate victims of Biden-era abuses. Yet as the late Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted, the United States has a long tradition of compensating victims of government injustice.

Justice requires more than ending misconduct. Government must also make victims whole when it can. That is what giving them their due means.

National Review summarized its objection this way: “No matter whose name is on the DOJ letterhead, the president is running the Justice Department.”

That criticism ignores Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in Morrison v. Olson, which he described as one of his favorites. Scalia argued that the Constitution vests all executive power in the president — “this does not mean some of the executive power, but all of the executive power” — and trusts voters to choose a president who will exercise it for the common good. A Justice Department fully independent of the president would answer neither to the nation’s elected chief executive nor to the voters who chose him.

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National Review also argues that Blanche cannot stand up to Trump because he once served as Trump’s personal lawyer. The opposite is more plausible. Who is better positioned to deliver hard news: someone who put his career on the line to defend the president, or someone the president barely knows?

Presidents have often chosen attorneys general with whom they shared close professional ties. Ronald Reagan selected his personal attorney, William French Smith, and later Ed Meese, his former California chief of staff and legal affairs secretary. George W. Bush chose Alberto Gonzales, who had served as his general counsel in Texas.

National Review’s deeper objection seems to have less to do with Blanche and everything to do with Trump. But refusing to confront weaponized government allows wrongdoers to escape accountability and invites the next administration to repeat the abuse.

The left has no hesitation about using power to advance its goals. Some conservatives still treat passivity as principle even after voters put them in office to govern. Trump’s rise was a rejection of that bloodless approach to politics.

Blanche built an impressive prosecutorial record in one of the nation’s most prestigious U.S. attorney’s offices. He left a lucrative private practice to serve the country. He does not need this job. The country needs him in it.

Todd Blanche has met the moment and exceeded conservative expectations. The case against him reflects the old conservative preference for “yelling stop” rather than exercising legitimate power. Senate Republicans should reject that reflex and confirm him as attorney general.

​Donald trump, Joe biden, Justice department, Opinion & analysis, Todd blanche, Merrick garland, Weaponized government, Antonin scalia, Morrison v olson, Constitution, Confirmation, National review 

British politician and pro-life advocate Ann Widdecombe was assassinated in her home in Devon, England, earlier this month.

Joshua Kerry, the apparent leftist accused of slaying the 78-year-old Reform U.K. immigration spokeswoman, was formally charged with murder on Monday.

‘I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist.’

“We have decided to prosecute Joshua Kerry for murder following a police investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe in Haytor, Dartmoor,” Frank Ferguson, chief prosecutor of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division, said in a statement. “Police enquiries into the defendant’s motives are ongoing, including a potential political or terrorist connection.”

Ferguson noted further that prosecutors had “worked closely with the police to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court.”

The evidence presented in court on Tuesday — where Kerry was in attendance and told not to enter a plea — provided some horrific insights into the assassination.

Prosecutor Kashif Malik told the court that the savage attack was captured by a camera inside the kitchen where Widdecombe’s lifeless body was discovered by her gardener the next day, reported Reuters.

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Kerry is allegedly seen in the video entering Widdecombe’s home wearing black gloves and armed with a hammer while the Reform U.K. politician was eating lunch. He then allegedly asked her, “Don’t suppose you have bank cards and ID?”

According to Malik, the suspect proceeded to strike Widdecombe atop the head 21 times. After caving in the Christian politician’s skull, the assassin pushed his victim out of her chair and onto the floor, stole her wallet, then fled the scene, Malik alleged.

Kerry was arrested on July 10 on suspicion of murder in what was initially figured for a burglary gone wrong. He was cut loose the next day only to be rearrested hours later at his home in Rotherham, this time by Counter Terrorism Policing North East and South Yorkshire Police on suspicion of murder and the “commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism.”

Laurence Taylor, head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, subsequently acknowledged that the investigation had turned up “new information and evidence” pointing to the murder having been a “targeted attack.”

A source told the Sun (U.K.) that in their search of Kerry’s house, they found clippings of news articles about Reform U.K., its leader Nigel Farage, and the party’s immigration policies.

“It would appear he had a profound dislike of the party, its leader, and its policies,” said the source.

In addition to seizing Kerry’s electronic devices, police also seized a red Vauxhall Corsa linked to him. The court heard on Tuesday that the man who arrived at Widdecombe’s property on July 8 drove up in a red Vauxhall Corsa.

Kerry was reportedly caught on CCTV leaving his Rotherham residence, approximately 270 miles away from Widdecombe’s house, early on the day of the murder in the red car.

Nigel Farage noted in an article for the Sun on Saturday, “Surprise, surprise, he wasn’t some local opportunistic thief.”

“I have it on good authority that the murder suspect was a hard-left activist,” wrote Farage. “He attended various marches and hated anyone with an opposing view. He had expressed his hatred of me on more than one occasion. He was an intolerant individual obsessed with Soviet communism. He may also have been known to the authorities.”

Reform U.K. spokesman Zia Yusuf joined Farage on Tuesday in blasting the British media for its apparent disinterest in Kerry’s background and politics.

“Our beloved Ann was hit on the head 21 times with a hammer by her alleged killer. Why do we still know so little about him? Why do we still know so little about his politics?” wrote Yusuf. “We all know why.”

“The details of Ann Widdecombe’s murder revealed in court are horrific. Why will no one report on Joshua Kerry’s political views?” tweeted Farage.

Kerry’s alleged crimes were deemed “too serious” for the Westminster Magistrate’s Court, where he appeared Tuesday morning, so the matter has been sent to the Old Bailey, where he is due to appear later in the day.

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The House Freedom Caucus has successfully forced a border security bill forward after accusing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) of breaking his promise to bring border legislation to the floor by July 4.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) has advanced his Permanent Trump Secure Border Act to the House Judiciary Committee for markup. It is the first time this Congress that House Republicans are considering legislation codifying President Donald Trump’s executive border actions.

‘It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised.’

“Securing a markup for my Permanent Trump Secure Border Act is a critical first step toward permanently enshrining President Trump’s successful border policies into law,” Roy told Blaze News. “If Congress fails to act, nothing will prevent a future radical administration from undoing these policies and returning our nation to the border chaos of the past.”

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has scheduled the bill’s markup for 10:00 a.m. ET Tuesday. Markup is the congressional committee process where lawmakers debate and offer amendments to legislation.

“I commend Chairman Jordan for advancing this important legislation and helping move it one step closer to becoming law, and I hope we will soon also move two more priorities, including ending both sanctuary cities and falsely defined birthright citizenship,” Roy said.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6-3 in Trump v. Barbara on June 30.

The PTSBA limits release for illegal aliens into the U.S. interior pending final removal orders. It also allows the secretary of Homeland Security to “return to a foreign territory contiguous to the United States any alien arriving on land from that territory,” pending further proceedings.

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“Congress must do everything in its power to protect our nation for future generations, including codifying President Trump’s border security policies. Failure to do so simply greenlights a future Democrat administration to reopen the floodgates for another invasion of illegal aliens — putting American lives and livelihoods at risk,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said about the bill. “It’s time for Republicans to deliver the America First change we promised, starting with permanently securing our borders in law and ending the revolving door of illegal immigration.”

The bill text restricts the large-scale release authority used by previous administrations by sharply limiting the Homeland Security secretary’s discretion regarding parole. The legislation states that parole may be granted only “on a case-by-case basis, and not according to eligibility criteria describing an entire class of potential parole recipients, for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

It also generally bars paroled aliens from accepting employment while in the United States.

“Thanks to President Trump, our nation’s borders are secure, but our work is far from finished. Congressional Republicans must continue to pass commonsense legislation that reverses the damage created by Democrats and makes the administration’s actions permanent,” Rep. Ben Cline (R-Va.) told Blaze News. “This comprehensive immigration bill is the next step to keeping dangerous criminals out of our country and Americans safe for generations to come.”

Criminals are prohibited from claiming asylum according to the bill. This includes any alien convicted of a felony, driving under the influence, stalking, child abuse, domestic assault, or gang activity.

If the Permanent Trump Secure Border Act passes markup, its next stop is Speaker Johnson and the House Rules Committee.

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Texas Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico has been the target of ongoing conservative vitriol. His progressive stance on all major issues despite being a professing Christian inspired some, including GOP opponent Ken Paxton, to not so lovingly dub him “Talafreako.”

The abortion- and transgender-supporting progressive then tried to monetize the insult by selling T-shirts featuring the saying “I’m a *Talafreako*” for $36 a pop.

“I’m like, ‘Who would want something like that?’ And then my answer got handed directly to me,” says BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales.

She plays a recent clip of Talarico on “Morning Joe” with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

“By the way, Talafreako as a nickname, I’m all in,” Scarborough laughed.

Talarico followed the compliment by letting the two hosts know that T-shirts were available for purchase on his website.

“We’ll get you one,” Brzezinski prattled, gesturing to her husband.

Sara can’t help but laugh at Scarborough’s hypocrisy — claiming to be “unbiased” when he clearly loves chumming it up with some of the nation’s most hardcore progressives.

As for Talarico, the desperate T-shirts are evidence he’s in “damage-control” mode, she argues.

“All the crazy s**t that he has said, those words, you’re going to be shocked to hear, are coming back to bite him, and you can’t just excuse yourself by saying, ‘Oh, I, everyone knows some of the comments I’ve made in the past are a little bit cringey,’” says Sara.

But unfortunately for Talarico, the cringe continues to follow him.

Sara plays another recent clip of the Texas Democrat arguing against a border wall in Texas.

“We can make sure that our government is not spending billions of our tax dollars on a useless border wall through Big Bend, one of the most sacred parts of the state of Texas,” he declared.

“Just let them in. Come on. They’re just newcomers. They’re just here in search of a better life. Let’s just let them in,” Sara mocks. “Oh, wait, we tried that, and it was a disaster.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Yard signs for democratic socialist Francesca Hong have appeared across rural Wisconsin in recent months. Hong, a single mother and small-business restaurateur, has paired an appealing biography with a platform well to the left of the state’s political center. She has called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and establishing universal health care. Now she leads the Democrat field for governor.

Hong’s rise has also thrown Wisconsin Democrats into a panic. Party leaders must either accommodate a socialist insurgency or risk alienating the working-class voters they need in November. The result is a fractured coalition that could puncture Democrat hopes for a national blue wave.

Wisconsin’s primary may reveal the limit of the coming blue wave: Democrats cannot sweep the country while their own coalition is pulling itself apart.

Republicans avoided that problem. By late January, they had consolidated around Rep. Tom Tiffany, a former dam tender from Northwestern Wisconsin, and began pooling their resources for the general election. Democrats instead produced a seven-candidate field that included two lieutenant governors, the Milwaukee County executive, a businessman, a lawyer, a CEO, and a chef backed by the Democratic Socialists of America.

Kirk Bangstad, owner of Minocqua Brewing Company, briefly joined the race after his bar promised free beer on the day President Trump died. His campaign lasted only weeks before election officials disqualified him for failing to collect enough valid signatures.

The Democrat primary soon became a full-blown soap opera. For months, party insiders treated Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez as the preferred candidate of major donors. Rodriguez, who has worked in health care, built her campaign around her biography as a nurse, wife, mother, and experienced public official.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes also entered the race. He left Gov. Tony Evers’ administration in 2022 to challenge Republican Sen. Ron Johnson. Barnes spent $56 million, lost the election, and earned the lasting resentment of major Democrat donors.

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley began building momentum until his administration allowed the county employees’ health insurance contract to lapse. Thousands of workers temporarily lost coverage, and the debacle triggered firings, resignations, and questions about Crowley’s competence.

Crowley dropped out and endorsed Rodriguez. Then Rodriguez’s campaign disclosed nearly $600,000 in campaign-finance reporting errors and suspended its bid. Crowley promptly re-entered the race with Evers’ endorsement. Wisconsin Democrats had managed to replace one damaged establishment candidate with another.

While the establishment candidates stumbled, Hong surged. She has led surveys of likely primary voters and attracted the largest number of individual contributors in the race: 14,000 donors making more than 22,000 contributions. Her average donation is just under $50, evidence of genuine grassroots enthusiasm rather than dependence on a handful of wealthy patrons.

Hong signs and campaign literature now appear from Wisconsin’s rural towns to its deepest-blue cities. During a livestream with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, she expressed support for abolishing prisons, defunding police, and eliminating the U.S. Senate. These are not marginal disagreements over tax rates or spending priorities. Hong represents a direct challenge to the party’s remaining moderates.

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Wisconsin may seem like unlikely terrain for a far-left socialist breakthrough. Milwaukee elected three prominent socialist mayors between 1910 and 1960, but the state has spent the past six decades as a fiercely contested political battleground. A movement built around New York City-style democratic socialism should struggle in a state decided by working-class voters outside Madison and Milwaukee.

Yet neighboring states offer warnings. Minnesota has Omar Fateh, and Michigan has Denzel McCampbell. The Midwest may be less resistant to the socialist left than party leaders and Republican strategists assume.

Wisconsin’s gubernatorial primary exposes a widening fracture between traditional Democrats and radical socialists. Since Trump returned to office in 2025, the media has promoted a supposed conservative civil war, feeding podcast feuds and trying to cast Marco Rubio and JD Vance as rivals. Those largely manufactured disputes look minor beside the Democratic Party’s genuine struggle for control.

Many major donors hesitate to fund DSA candidates whose platforms repel independents. At the same time, young activists have built increasingly powerful grassroots organizations around socialist candidates. DSA membership is rising rapidly while Democratic Party membership remains comparatively flat. The party’s money and its energy are moving in opposite directions.

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That conflict could destroy Democrat hopes for a blue wave before November arrives. Party leaders want likeable, moderate-sounding candidates who can win swing voters. Their activist base wants candidates who would abolish immigration enforcement, defund police, eliminate prisons, and dismantle constitutional institutions. Wisconsin Democrats cannot satisfy both constituencies indefinitely.

The problem extends beyond Wisconsin. The collapse of candidates such as Graham Platner in Maine points to a broader struggle over the Democratic Party’s identity and direction.

Democrat leaders may believe voter anger at Trump will carry them through the midterms. But anger alone cannot hold together a coalition fighting over whether reform or revolution should define the party.

Wisconsin’s primary may reveal the limit of the coming blue wave: Democrats cannot sweep the country while their own coalition is pulling itself apart.

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The Powerball lottery is officially expanding into new territory this week.

For the first time in history, a winner of the gigantic Powerball pot could be from outside the United States.

‘More excitement and even greater impact.’

Odds and sods

Powerball announced earlier this month that it will welcome non-U.S. lottery contributions to its jackpot — something it has never done before — and has joined forces with a lottery organization in the United Kingdom.

Tickets for Wednesday’s draw are being sold both in the U.S. and the U.K., meaning the Powerball jackpot could have a winner from across the pond.

As it stands, overall odds for winning a prize are one in 24.9, while odds at winning the jackpot are a whopping one in 292.2 million.

Widening its consumer base will not alter the game’s $2 ticket price, the Multi-State Lottery Association said, nor will the jackpot odds decrease. The MUSL is partnering with Allwyn U.K., the national lottery operators in its jurisdiction.

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‘Dream bigger’

The addition of the U.K. customer base will not change the time of Powerball drawings either, which will still take place every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 p.m. from the Powerball draw studio in Florida.

The gaming commissions praised their new partnership as a “thrilling milestone” that means the sum of the jackpots will grow bigger and faster.

This brings “more excitement and even greater impact for the communities we serve,” said Rebecca Paul, CEO of the Tennessee Lottery and former president of the World Lottery Association.

Allwyn CEO Andria Vidler said her organization was excited to give U.K. players “the chance to dream bigger, while supporting thousands of Good Cause projects across the U.K. every week.”

Some of the listed projects from the U.K. lottery have included reopening a cinema and providing animals for trips to senior living homes.

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Charity at home

At the same time, however, Paul added that the expansion into the United Kingdom does not change where the money goes for American players, and “every Powerball ticket sold in the U.S. will continue to support programs and services right here at home.”

Powerball tickets are sold in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and now the United Kingdom. This includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

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It has apparently never been easier to order an abortion online.

The American Association of Pro-Life OBGYNs released findings from its undercover investigation in which Dr. Christina Francis posed as a 13-year-old pregnant girl with health complications and successfully ordered abortion pills online earlier this year.

‘It was like an Amazon shopping experience. You just pick which pill pack you want, put it in your cart, and check out.’

Investigation footage in a video dated Wednesday shows the drugs arriving by mail in pro-life Indiana without doctor or pharmacist contact information. The return address traced back to a nondescript California building.

“As a medical professional, if I see a 13-year-old in my office who’s pregnant, the first thing I have to suspect is that she has been abused, because that’s very common in young girls who show up pregnant,” AAPLOG CEO Dr. Francis told Blaze News. “We’re mandatory reporters of sexual abuse involving minors. But on this website, they didn’t even bat an eyelash at the fact that I was supposedly 13 years old.”

According to video evidence, Francis ordered the pills via Aid Access, an Austrian nonprofit organization shipping abortion pills to all 50 states. The OB-GYN found the seller via Plan C, another nonprofit that directs women and girls to online abortion pill providers.

Plan C envisions “a near future in which the ability to end an early pregnancy is directly in the hands of anyone who seeks it,” and aims to achieve this “by normalizing the self-directed option of abortion pills by mail.”

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Nearly 27% of U.S. abortions in 2025 were obtained from telehealth services, according to Plan C.

“This should not be called telehealth, because that’s not what’s occurring,” Francis told Blaze News. “It is truly medical malpractice that this is happening, and girls and women in vulnerable situations should not be receiving substandard care simply because they’re thinking about having an abortion.”

In the video, Francis input outlandish information on the Aid Access online form to test the organization’s screening process. In addition to listing her age as 13, the OB-GYN also claimed to be “on blood thinners, with an intrauterine device in place, and a history of three prior cesarean sections and ectopic pregnancy,” the AAPLOG investigative report said. These are standard contraindications, or circumstances where a medication may harm the patient, that doctors screen for when considering prescribing mifepristone and its companion drug misoprostol.

“If I’m really a 13-year-old girl with these health conditions sitting with a physician, the physician would say, ‘I’m not giving you these drugs. It’s too dangerous,’” Francis told Blaze News. “They had a back button built into the system so if you gave an answer that seemed like it was going to be a problem, it showed you very clearly to just go back and change your answer and keep proceeding.”

“My answers were so ridiculous that anybody — even a nonmedical person — would say, ‘How could a 13-year-old have three previous C-sections?’ But it obviously wasn’t reviewed by anybody,” Francis said. “It was like an Amazon shopping experience. You just pick which pill pack you want, put it in your cart, and check out.”

Plan C, Aid Access, and the Food and Drug Administration did not respond to requests for comment from Blaze News.

A fully automated prescription process remains illegal under federal law.

“As soon as I hit submit, literally a minute and a half later, I had an email in my inbox with a payment link confirming my mailing address,” Francis claimed. “So obviously, no human being could have been reviewing it. It was an automatically generated email.”

Aid Access founder Dr. Rebecca Gomperts also supports advance provision, prescribing abortion pills to non-pregnant patients for later use.

“You don’t have to wait until somebody’s pregnant. That way, the laws don’t apply any more,” she told Politico in 2023. Although Aid Access ships abortion pills across the U.S., Gomperts is a Dutch national based in Amsterdam.

Advance provision is easily abused by criminals and violent partners, according to AAPLOG.

“Men who want to serially abuse women can stockpile this. Human traffickers can stockpile this so they can keep their victims from being pregnant, because pregnant women don’t tend to produce money for them,” Francis told Blaze News. “We know that many trafficking victims report multiple forced abortions during the time they were trafficked. And now we’ve just taken that opportunity away from her to potentially be saved out of that situation by interacting with a medical professional.”

An in-person consultation was initially required to prescribe the abortion pill mifepristone. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, legal challenges succeeded in having the in-person consultation requirement temporarily waived.

Former President Joe Biden’s FDA permanently removed the requirement in 2023. The Trump administration has yet to overturn this rule.

“The easiest thing the Trump administration could do today is undo what the Biden administration did and go back to how it was under the first Trump administration, where the in-person dispensing requirement was still in place,” Francis said. “They could reinstate that immediately. The DOJ could decide to enforce the Comstock Act, which says it’s illegal to ship abortion-inducing drugs across state lines.”

“President Trump is the most pro-life president in history, and his track record speaks for itself,” the DOJ told Blaze News. “The Department of Justice represents FDA in these matters, and FDA is continuing to review the safety data for mifepristone.”

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