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Busted: Paxton Calls for “Reasonable” Spending Cuts and Tax Cuts in Newly Leaked Audio

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Texas Senate candidate Paxton delivers a speech at a campaign rally, surrounded by supporters holding signs for the 2026 election.

Texas Senate candidate Paxton delivers a speech at a campaign rally, surrounded by supporters holding signs for the 2026 election.
Ken Paxton gives victory speech after clinching the Texas Republican Senate nomination – May 26, 2026

In another nothingburger leaked audio from a September 24 event with donors and lobbyists, Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton called for… cuts to government spending. 

In the latest leak, obtained by the Texas Tribune, Paxton said, “We have to suck it up” and cut spending so that the country doesn’t go bankrupt. Somehow, he’s the bad guy, though.

“Making some reasonable cuts to mandatory spending – you’re gonna have to do it, or there is no solution,” Paxton says. “That’s just the reality; we have to suck it up. From Republican presidents to Democrats, we’ve been spending like crazy, and no one seems to care. It’s gonna bankrupt us. It’s just a matter of time.”

One lobbyist, identified as Jeanne Haggerty, said to Paxton, “I would really like to pay my fair share of taxes, which is less than I’m paying right now… Just something to keep in mind.”

“I’m with you on that,” Paxton responds. “I think tax cuts will actually generate more revenue.”

LISTEN:

“There’s no doubt we have to cut some of the mandatory spending,” Paxton also reportedly said in the recording. “The numbers don’t add up. And then on the other side, we’ve got to create tax policy that incentivizes more spend, more production in our economy.”

The tape, which is not damning at all for Paxton and aligns with the GOP’s messaging, is portrayed by the left and their media allies as an attack on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, which comprise the bulk of mandatory federal spending. However, Republicans contend that cutting the hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare abuse and fraud would lower spending on social programs.

“We have to solve the national debt while keeping the promises we made to everyone who paid into these programs,” Paxton told the Tribune in response to their story. “The fake news keeps spinning the same cherry-picked audio to mislead Texans and take my words out of context. I have never said I would take away entitlements from those who deserve or earned them.”

Paxton further slammed Talarico, saying, “Texans aren’t going to hand a Senate seat to a politician who treats their paychecks as a piggy bank for his radical agenda.”

This is the fourth such leak from last month’s meeting. First, the New York Times published audio from the anti-Paxton attendee at the meeting, where Paxton said that the RNC midterm convention might have hurt him in the polls.

“When we did that convention, it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now? Yeah, it’s not good. I wish there was something we could do to turn that around, but there’s obviously nothing,” Paxton said.

Then, this week, two more audio tapes emerged. In one, obtained by Politico, Paxton is heard telling donors that he has “little control” over his messaging and “it’s all coming from DC,” creating a challenge with getting his message out to regular Texas voters. The snippet appears to show Paxton expressing his frustrations with the national GOP and the current Senate Republican leadership trying to control him.

In another tape, obtained by Axios, Paxton simply admits that his biggest obstacles in the race are the war in Iran and high gas prices, and explains his plan to alleviate voters’ concerns on the campaign trail. “I’m just trying to figure out ways that I can help people,” including “proposing legislation,” he said, while acknowledging that he can’t stop the war.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump responded to the ongoing smears against Paxton on Wednesday as the audio tapes surfaced.

Trump doubled down on his endorsement, saying he has “no regrets.”

(VIDEO) Trump Doubles Down on Endorsement of Ken Paxton, Says He’s “The Best AG in the Country” and “Will be a Great Senator” as Leftwing Media Tries to Drive Rift

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Stinchfield: “Sen. Thom Tillis is a Total Whiney, Bitter Disgrace!” (VIDEO)

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Sen. Thom Tillis (R) has turned his back on President Trump. And in my opinion, what we’re witnessing is nothing short of a disgrace.

The retiring North Carolina senator is now making the media rounds, attacking Trump, calling him thin-skinned, warning about a “dictator king,” and trashing his Cabinet. Tillis even says confirming Pete Hegseth was the biggest regret of his career. This is the kind of rhetoric Democrats love to hear from Republicans.

 

But look at the timing. Tillis clashes with Trump. Trump threatens to back a primary challenger. Tillis decides to retire. And suddenly, the gloves come off. This is all about the D.C. Elite trying to settle scores, even if it hurts the entire party.

To me, Tillis represents everything wrong with establishment Republican politics. A party divided between those fighting to advance the America First agenda and those who seem more interested in protecting the old Washington power structure.

Today on Stinchfield, we’re exposing the record of Thom Tillis, his attacks on Trump, and what I believe is an outright betrayal of the America First movement.

Tillis calls it independence. I call it betrayal. This podcast should serve as a warning to any other Republican who tries to pull a similar stunt.

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WATCH: Feds Storm Skid Row with a 100-Vehicle Convoy to Take Down Drug Network Operating in Tents and Storefronts

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Federal agents and Los Angeles police raided Skid Row before dawn Thursday, serving dozens of warrants in a takedown of dealers supplying fentanyl, meth, cocaine, and PCP to the blocks of homeless encampments that plague downtown Los Angeles.

Authorities called the raid Operation Skid Row, and targeted more than two dozen suspected street dealers and suppliers after a three-month investigation.

The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the LAPD used phone taps, undercover officers, and drones to build the cases.

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By morning, agents had arrested 28 people.

A convoy of roughly 100 law enforcement vehicles cordoned off blocks and parks around Fifth and Crocker streets, trapping dealers who had been working the sidewalks.

Investigators said the dealers were not standing on corners in the open. Some sold from a Mercedes. Some posed as homeless men living in tents that were in fact drug dens. Others used storefronts or posed as social workers and homeless-services providers.

Drugs were also stashed in single-room-occupancy units and low-income housing.

Agents seized narcotics, guns, and luxury cars.

Officials said homeless people were not the target. The warrants were for dealers, and multiple gang members are among those facing charges.

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The New York Post reported that the morning began with raids on alleged distributors at their homes, then moved to a sweep of the street trade.

In Pasadena, an FBI convoy hit the Summit Avenue home of alleged cocaine dealer Manuel Vaughns. Agents used flash-bang grenades before demanding that the suspect come outside.

Other alleged dealers included Rodney Thomas, 55, known as “Jamaica”; Charles McIntyre, 65; Dwayne Richards, 62; Larry Pitre, 70, known as “Kat Daddy”; Malcolm Dehughes, 32; Lionel Nelson, 57, known as “Popeye”; Irigia Bowman, 58; and Kevin Fountain, 38.

Skid Row covers roughly 50 blocks of downtown Los Angeles, according to The Post. It includes a stretch of warehouses, cheap restaurants, and sidewalk encampments where as many as 6,000 homeless people live on the street or in shelters.

It has been the city’s open-air drug market for decades.

Thursday’s sweep followed a similar federal operation at MacArthur Park earlier this year, where officials said they arrested 24 people.

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Sophie Cunningham Getting Bolder, Sporting New Hat That Straight up Calls Out Trans Agenda Victimizing Girls

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On Saturday, basketball superstar Sophie Cunningham was spotted at her alma mater’s homecoming game sporting a hat that read, “No Cis, Just… Woman.”

The Mizzou Alumni Association Hall of Fame inductee was immediately met with scathing remarks and accusations of transphobia.

LGBT news publication them.us argued that “denying the use of the term ‘cisgender’ is a common trans-exclusionary radical feminist, or TERF, tactic often used to promote an exclusionary and strictly biologically based definition of womanhood.”

While the left made up silly acronyms like “TERF,” the right continued their reasoned support of the basketball icon.

Much of this support is relatively new. You can trace Cunningham’s comments on transgenderism back to January, but her July ESPN profile truly cemented her as a women’s sports advocate.

“I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men.”

Her message, however, resonates far beyond conservative or sports-based media circles. The data suggest she speaks for most Americans.

A recent Pew Research survey of more than 15,000 American adults found that 73 percent are uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on teams that do not match their biological sex. Some 66 percent support legally banning men from women’s sports.

Left, right, and center, Cunningham is preaching to the choir. It just so happens that the fringe left are very loud singers.

But here’s the deal: Cunningham’s statement is not confined to the basketball court. This hat isn’t just about women’s sports or politics — it’s essentially an attack on the entire transgender ideology.

The phrase “No Cis, Just… Woman,” implies that the extra identifying labels like “cis” or “trans” are unnecessary.

Why? Because you don’t need an identifying label to determine someone’s gender. Biology does it just fine.

For years, trans activists have been attempting to create categories of gender expression, such as cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, among many others. The idea of “No Cis, Just… Woman” launches these categories out the window.

Within this framework, there is no longer an infinite number of genders — only two.

Thank you, Sophie, for a very welcome return to reality. It’s a simpler way of life.

Simplicity, however, is not the only benefit to living in reality. Acknowledging the existence of two genders leads to a stronger social order.

A decade ago, Norm Macdonald hit the nail on the head when he said about the word cisgender, “It’s a way of marginalizing a normal person.”

Statistically speaking, 100 percent of the population is either a man or a woman. Virtually everyone believes they are either a man or a woman. Using the word “cisgender” tries to denigrate sanity to the fringe.

Furthermore, saying that the six-foot-five bearded male coated in makeup is “just another kind of woman” seriously perverts what it means to be a woman.

Sophie Cunningham’s message was simple because reality is simple. Human beings are either men or women, and blurring those lines doesn’t expand womanhood — it distorts it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Maduro and His Wife Hit with Superseding Indictment

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Former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were hit with additional charges over the torture of Americans, the Justice Department announced on Thursday.

More than a dozen Americans held in Venezuelan prisons have been tortured.

US Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the superseding on Thursday.

“A superseding indictment was just unsealed charging Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores with conspiracy to commit torture, including the alleged torture of United States citizens for over two decades, in addition to the narcotics trafficking and weapons offenses already charged,” Blanche said.

Full statement from Kash Patel:

Following an FBI investigation with our interagency partners, this morning ousted President of Venezuela Nicolás Maduro is now charged by superseding indictment with one count of Conspiracy to Commit Torture — also charging former First Lady of Venezuela Cilia Flores de Maduro with one count of Conspiracy to Commit Torture and one count of Narcoterrorism.

As alleged in the indictment, the Maduro regime subjected over a dozen American citizens to torture while held in custody of the Venezuelan government – including drugs, electrocution, sexual assault, and more. They will now answer for their crimes.

These charges follow the historic law enforcement operation proudly supported by this
@FBI
in January, which arrested Maduro and executed one of the most daring FTOCs in US history, returning him and his wife to the United States – an operation which required months of coordination, detailed planning, and seamless execution across multiple components of the federal government led by the Department of War.

Today’s charges reflect the commitment from this FBI and this Department of Justice to accountability, the rule of law, and the protection of U.S. national security.

Delta Force captured Maduro and dragged him out of his bedroom amid military strikes earlier this year.

Maduro was previously indicted on four counts by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York.

Read the indictment here.

The indicted Maduro, his wife, Cilia Flores and four others on four counts: Narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices.

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The Wicked Democratic Party’s Efforts to Win Hit a NEW LOW!

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The Democratic Party’s Efforts to Win Hit a NEW LOW!

“Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.”

(Psalm 34:13, KJV)

NOT GOD’S CHOSEN WORDS…

A friend sent me a photograph of a yard sign she reported seeing near Desert Ridge Shopping Mall. In large black letters, it read: “BIGGS SUPPORTS CHILD RAPE,” followed by “.ORG.”

I looked at those words and thought: What are we doing to one another?…

The photographed side offered no explanation for that accusation. No sponsor’s name was visible. There was a website address, but the message confronting a passerby was an accusation that Governor Candidate Andy Biggs supports one of the most horrific crimes imaginable!

I do not know who paid for that sign or who placed it. I will not assign responsibility without evidence. But I can speak about the words in front of me —and the standard I believe we should expect from anyone seeking to influence our votes.

 There is No reason for that nastiness from Any Side…

Would I feel differently if another candidate’s name appeared above those words? My answer must be NO. A principle worth defending must hold, even when it protects someone whose politics I oppose.

Public officials should face hard questions. Their votes, decisions, and conduct deserve scrutiny. When there is evidence of wrongdoing, we should bring it forward, explain it accurately, and let the Voters examine the record.  But an accusation this serious demands evidence proportionate to its gravity. A reader deserves enough information to judge whether the words fairly describe what actually happened.

And the people who have suffered sexual abuse deserve a public discussion that treats their experiences with care. Their pain should never become a casual instrument of political combat.

The words of Psalm 34 reach across the centuries: “Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.” Guile means deceit. That instruction asks something of every one of us — including me.

Before I repeat an accusation, have I checked it? Before I share a photograph, have I explained what it proves and what it does not? When I discover that something I believed was wrong, will I correct it with the same conviction I brought to spreading it?

These are uncomfortable questions. But they are also necessary ones. We have choices every time we speak, write, post, or pass a message along. We can ask for evidence. We can challenge an unfair characterization. We can hold firmly to our convictions while remembering that the person across from us is still a human being.

That is where this photograph leads me: To the Freedom We Cherish, and the Responsibility We Each Carry When We Use Our Voice.

WHAT WILL WE DO WITH OUR FREEDOM?

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and of the press, alongside religious liberty, peaceful assembly, and the right to petition government. These protections give us room to question authority, challenge prevailing opinion, and speak when those in power would rather, we remain silent.

I treasure those freedoms. My work depends on them…

But constitutional protection and moral judgment answer different questions. Speech can be hurtful and still be legally protected. Defending someone’s freedom to speak does not require me to endorse what that person says. And objecting to cruel words does not require me to ask the government to silence the speaker.

IT ASKS ME TO DECIDE HOW I WILL USE MY OWN VOICE.

Will I answer an accusation with another accusation? Will I excuse behavior from my own side that I condemn in someone else? Will I allow anger to choose words that my conscience would reject?  I cannot control every sign beside a road. I can only take responsibility for what I put beneath my own name.

The Constitution can protect my right to speech…

 It cannot give me the courage to speak, but it can protect my right to choose.

It cannot make my choices wise, but it can protect my right to pursue a life.

It cannot promise that I will build one worth living, but…

That is where liberty becomes responsibility.

There is courage in speaking an unpopular truth. There is also courage in refusing to repeat a popular falsehood — even when the people repeating it are our friends. Sometimes courage sounds like, “Where is the evidence?”

Sometimes it sounds like, “I disagree with that person, but this accusation is unfair.”

Sometimes the hardest words of all are simply, “I was wrong.”

Those choices are within our reach. We do not need an election victory, a powerful office, or permission from a political party to make them.

THE EXAMPLE WE LEAVE

Think about the young person riding past that sign. Think about what our children hear when adults discuss an election around the dinner table. They are learning how we treat people when the stakes are high and patience runs low.

What do we want them to carry into their own disagreements? I want them to question what they hear, including what they hear from me. I want them to expect evidence, recognize unfairness, and speak with conviction. I also want them to know that kindness does not require surrendering a principle.

We can teach those lessons through the example we set today…

A correction made honestly. A difficult conversation handled with restraint. A refusal to forward something we have not checked. A willingness to acknowledge that a political opponent made a valid point.

These choices may seem small besides the noise of an election. Yet each is an opportunity to practice the responsibility we ask of others.

FREEDOM IS ALSO A BEGINNING

We often picture freedom as an open road, a soaring bird, or a flag moving against a clear sky. Those images invite us to imagine possibility — to look beyond where we are and consider where we might go.

But an Open Road still leaves us with a direction to choose…

Freedom Is Not Merely the Absence of Chains. It Is the Responsibility That Begins When the Chains Are Removed.

What will we build with the opportunities before us? What will we teach? Whom will we encourage? When someone trusts us enough to listen, what will we give them to carry away?

Those questions matter to me as a writer. Every article is a chance to place something into another person’s day. I want that something to be useful: information they can examine, a question worth considering, or encouragement to take part in the decisions affecting their lives.

I will not always find the perfect words. None of us will. But we can keep learning, listen when someone challenges us, and care enough about the truth to correct our course.

That, too, is Freedom in Practice; the ability to grow beyond what we thought yesterday.

LET HOPE HAVE THE LAST WORD

I BEGAN with a photograph that disturbed me.  I WANT TO END with a possibility that encourages me.

Imagine a young person watching an adult say, “I checked, and that claim was wrong.”

Imagine a conversation in which two neighbors discover that their disagreement has not erased their respect for each other.  Imagine leaving someone better informed without leaving them humiliated.  We Can Make Those Moments Happen…

We Can Be Passionate about an election and thoughtful about our words.

We Can Demand Accountability and offer a fair hearing.

We Can Speak Firmly, Stand Our Ground, and leave room for another person to do the same.

The Psalm’s instruction belongs beside us when we are angry, when we are certain, and especially when we are tempted to believe that a worthy cause excuses any means of advancing it.

“Keep Thy Tongue from Evil, And Thy Lips from Speaking Guile.”

I cannot choose the words on every roadside sign. But I can choose the words I place before you. So, today:

I Choose to ask for truth,

I Choose to encourage courage, and

I Choose to believe that each of us can contribute something better to the next conversation.

We have the Freedom to Speak. So, let us give one another Words Worth Hearing.

By Linda S. Brickman

©2026 Linda S. Brickman. All Rights Reserved.

 

 

 

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President Trump Announces Baseball Great Roger Clemens to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Video screenshot via CSPAN/X

Roger Clemens’ Major League Baseball career is one for the record books.

Clemens received seven Cy Young Awards, the most of any pitcher. He was the 1986 American League MVP, had 11 All-Star selections, two World Series championships, two pitching Triple Crowns, and more over his 24-year career.

Despite the impact he made on baseball, he has still not been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The omission is tied to allegations of using performance-enhancing drugs, something Clemens has not only denied, but he was also acquitted in 2012 of federal charges that he lied to Congress about it.

Clemens introduced President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, during a rally in San Antonio, Texas.

“What a privilege it is for me to intro our great president,” Clemens stated.

“A man that loves our country, that puts all of us first, and puts America first. This is what I love. He’s made us better, he’s made us stronger, and more important, because of the border and everything here, he’s made us safer.

“And don’t forget, this is really important, this man put his life on the line for us. Don’t ever forget that.”

Once at the podium, President Trump announced that Clemens would receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. President Trump also argued that Clemens should be in the Hall of Fame.

After listing off Clemens impressive career achievements, the President stated, “We are giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Along with the Congressional Medal of Honor, it is the highest award bestowed upon anyone.”

He then invited a stunned Clemens back to the stage where he shared, “Well, I’m stunned, No. 1. Again, 24 years y’all – this supersedes obviously anything I’ve done in my playing career.”

“To get it from this man, this president. There wouldn’t be another president I’d want to get it from.”

“Announcing it here in my home state, and again, from this man. You talk about a winner – that’s a winner right there.”

“I can’t thank you enough. That is a huge honor, and again, thank y’all very much.”

Watch:

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“HELP PLEASE!” — Heartbreaking CDC V-Safe Records Reveal Desperate Cries From Americans Reporting Severe Illness, Suicidal Thoughts After COVID Shots — “No One Is Helping Me!”

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Brownstone Institute President Jeffrey A. Tucker reads heartbreaking submissions from individuals reporting severe health problems following COVID-19 vaccination.

“I feel like I’m going to die.” “My doctor has no advice.” “No one is helping.”

These are among the heartbreaking messages Americans submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after receiving COVID-19 vaccines, according to records highlighted in a newly published report.

A disturbing collection of previously withheld V-safe surveillance records is once again raising serious questions about how federal health officials responded to Americans who reported devastating medical problems following COVID-19 vaccination.

The records, featured in a new 1,048-page publication titled Cries for Help: Injury and Death Buried in V-Safe Data, document thousands of messages from individuals reporting severe symptoms, emotional distress, and, in some cases, suicidal thoughts.

The report was compiled by vaccine-injury advocacy organization React19 and published by Brownstone Institute on September 30, 2026.

Brownstone Institute founder and president Jeffrey A. Tucker recently read several of the messages aloud, exposing the anguish of individuals who said they had nowhere left to turn.

One individual described suffering persistent vertigo after receiving a second dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

“I have vertigo since March 18th after a second Pfizer dose. I’ve asked for help here and no one responds. My doctor has no advice. Pfizer does not respond. HELP PLEASE!”

Another individual reported becoming gravely ill after vaccination.

“I’ve been deathly ill since I received the COVID vaccine on 12/23. No one knows what happened to me and no one is helping me. I feel like I’m going to die.”

The testimony became even more alarming as Tucker continued reading.

Another respondent described worsening symptoms and said they could no longer endure their suffering.

“I can’t take much more of this,” the individual wrote, before expressing suicidal thoughts.

A separate entry described severe mental health struggles and an inability to obtain assistance.

These were not messages submitted to an obscure online forum.

They were reports entered into a federal vaccine safety monitoring program operated by the CDC.

And according to the individuals submitting the messages, the help they desperately sought was not coming.

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More Than 14,000 Entries Documented in New Report

The CDC launched V-safe in December 2020 to monitor people’s health after receiving COVID-19 vaccines.

The system allowed vaccine recipients to submit regular health updates, including written descriptions of symptoms and other concerns.

According to React19’s investigation, researchers examined more than 7.5 million responses from approximately 3.49 million participants in the released records.

The organization identified 3,329 individuals who submitted 14,430 entries involving pleas for assistance, reports of death or near-death experiences, or suicidal thoughts.

Some participants reportedly submitted repeated messages over weeks or months, questioning whether anyone at the federal agency was even reading their reports.

React19 acknowledged that the messages are self-reported, do not establish that vaccination caused the reported conditions, and cannot independently determine how CDC personnel handled individual submissions.

Nevertheless, the documents raise an urgent accountability question: What happened when Americans reported potentially serious medical problems to the federal government’s vaccine surveillance system?

Were their warnings investigated? Were serious cases referred for medical follow-up? And did officials adequately communicate what the system could and could not do for participants?

The CDC’s current guidance explicitly states that V-safe does not provide medical advice or directly notify a participant’s physician about reported symptoms. The agency also states that it does not call participants in response to their V-safe submissions.

Those limitations make the desperate expectations expressed in the released messages all the more troubling.

CDC Was Ordered to Release Millions of Records

The public did not receive these records through ordinary disclosure.

In January 2024, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk ordered the CDC to release approximately 7.8 million free-text entries following litigation seeking access to the agency’s vaccine monitoring data.

The ruling allowed independent researchers and members of the public to scrutinize information that had not previously been available in the agency’s released datasets.

The records were subsequently made available through the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), which maintains a publicly accessible V-safe data archive.

The final scheduled release was published on January 15, 2025, meaning the underlying records are not newly created; what is new is React19’s compilation and presentation of selected reports.

The Gateway Pundit Previously Reported on CDC’s V-Safe Data Battle

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, vaccine transparency advocates have been fighting for years to obtain access to the CDC’s COVID-19 vaccine monitoring records.

In October 2022, The Gateway Pundit reported that ICAN had secured access to V-safe data following litigation against the CDC.

The released data showed that approximately 7.7% of participating V-safe users reported seeking medical care after vaccination, while roughly one-quarter reported an impact on ordinary activities, work, or school.

Those figures describe reported events following vaccination, not confirmed vaccine-caused injuries.

The Gateway Pundit also reported in April 2024 on criticism of the CDC’s resistance to releasing detailed adverse-event reports and the broader controversy surrounding government censorship during the pandemic.

Now, the latest compilation provides something that summary statistics cannot: individual accounts of people who believed they were suffering and wanted someone to listen.

Whether federal officials responded adequately to those reports deserves serious scrutiny.

Americans were asked to participate in a government vaccine safety monitoring system. They deserve transparency about what happened to the warnings they submitted.

The question is no longer simply what the CDC collected.

It is what the agency did with the information, and whether people reporting potentially life-threatening problems received appropriate guidance.

The public deserves answers.

READ THE FULL REPORT: Cries for Help Buried in V-Safe Data — Brownstone Institute

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Trump: “TalaFREAKo is Missing in Action… Bad Rumors Are Coming Out” – Talarico Responds

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Ken Paxton releases “Where is James Talarico?” ad amid Democrat’s absence from Texas

President Trump on Wednesday called out far-left Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico’s disappearance from the campaign trail in Texas, describing him as “missing in action” and calling for a debate between him and Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported, Talarico has not been seen in Texas in nearly two weeks, and he’s been canceling events at home to instead raise money in New York.

WHERE’S THE CREAM PUFF? Wackadoodle Democrat James Talarico Has Not Been Seen in Texas for 11 Days!

Republican Ken Paxton released an ad exposing Talarico for slinking off to New York to attend Robert DeNiro’s fundraiser and raise money from the gay Human Rights Campaign.

Talarico’s campaign asserts he’s fallen ill, but while he was supposedly sick, he was actually attending New York City fundraisers, including one on September 30 at a gay bar.

Trump responded late on Wednesday night, writing, “Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION!”

“No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him?” Trump continued.

“Bad rumors are coming out. He should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able, one of the best Attorney Generals in the Country, and will soon be, hopefully, a United States Senator representing the Great People of Texas!”

Ladies and Gentlemen, upon information and belief, James TalaFREAKo, who is running for the United States Senate in Texas, is MISSING IN ACTION! No one has seen him for an extended period of time. Where is he? What is wrong with him? Bad rumors are coming out. He should immediately report to a Debate Stage against Ken Paxton, who is ready, willing, and able, one of the best Attorney Generals in the Country, and will soon be, hopefully, a United States Senator representing the Great People of Texas! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Talarico emerged from hiding to respond on X last night, writing, “President Trump just said Ken Paxton should debate. I agree. Ball’s in your court.”

Talarico has accused Paxton of debate dodging. Paxton senior adviser Nick Maddux has told the Texas Tribune, “Of course, we are going to debate James Talarico, and we look forward to engaging with potential debate hosts.”

“Talarico is a serial liar who has spent his entire campaign shamelessly deceiving Texas voters about his radical record with[out] answering the hard questions.”

“There will be a debate in this race, and it will be must-watch television because Texans are finally going to hear James Talarico answer for” his liberal agenda, Maddux added.

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Thousands of Theaters Purge Woke ‘Reacher’ Star Alan Ritchson’s New Movie as Bomb Becomes Official

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“Jack Reacher” star Alan Ritchson, who has been a harsh critic of President Donald Trump, just experienced his second box-office flop in a row as the action film “Runner” is heading to streaming after a short run in theaters.

“Runner,” co-starring Owen Wilson, opened in over 2,500 theaters on Sept. 11, but after three weeks, it was down to 340 theaters and ranked 24th in ticket sales last weekend, according to Box Office Mojo.

The performance came despite audiences giving the Angel Studios-distributed film a 90 percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie has taken in $17.7 million on a reported budget of between $35 million and $45 million.

Similarly, the gangster movie “Motor City,” in which Ritchson played the lead, tanked in theaters, garnering just over $3 million in sales with a budget of $30 million, Collider reported.

Ritchson has made headlines in recent months for his over-the-top and repeated expletive-laced criticism of Trump, such as suggesting in July that the president is implicated in the Epstein files.

Trump “has the keys to the nuclear codes …. Like, dude, what? Go to jail,” the actor said.

In another July podcast, he said, “I’m just supposed to let go of my resentment that this [expletive] guy is just raping the world that he lives in for whatever gain he personally can have? And I’m supposed to let that go.” 

“Look at the politics we deal with right now,” Ritchson said. “The White House is in ruins,” mentioning the UFC fight cage on the South Lawn and the ongoing ballroom construction.

“And no consequences. It wasn’t done legally. There’s no plan in place. Now you’re asking for money. It’s like, what are we doing?”

The White House ballroom plans have been approved by both the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and the 12-member National Capital Planning Commission.

Further, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in August that construction could continue, finding the group that sued Trump to stop it, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, lacked standing.

Speaking at the Fan Expo Canada in Toronto last month, Ritchson said he gets a lot of calls from studios asking him not to talk about politics, to just “shut up.”

“Sony told me not to. And I’m not going to say anything, not today,” he said, but he still threw in a mention of Epstein.

Collider noted Ritchson has had some successes outside the box office this year.

“He began the year with the sci-fi action film ‘War Machine,’ which remains the most-watched Netflix original of 2026,” the outlet said.

“Meanwhile, ‘Reacher’ has been renewed for fifth and sixth seasons following a record-breaking Season 4 run, which resulted in more than 1 billion weekly minutes watched, according to Nielsen.”

Further, both “Motor City” and “Runner” will generate additional revenue in video-on-demand sales, but whether it will be enough to make them profitable is yet to be seen.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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