The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, highlighted a viral TikTok video from a middle school teacher to underscore what he calls a deepening national education crisis.
On Monday’s edition of his talk radio show, The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, Leahy discussed what he describes as a foundational crisis in America: the “failure” of the U.S. education system from kindergarten through college.
The Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County has joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) over the agency’s overhaul of the Continuum of Care (CoC) Program, its primary federal program for funding homelessness services.
Turning Point Action (TPA), an affiliate group of Turning Point USA, endorsed U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in the 2026 Tennessee gubernatorial race last week.
In 2019, the late Charlie Kirk founded TPA. The organization’s mission is to “embolden the conservative base through grassroots activism and provide voters with the necessary resources to elect true conservative leaders.”