Josh Thifault, one of the earliest leaders at Turning Point USA and a close friend of its founder, Charlie Kirk, sat down for an exclusive interview with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and editor-in-chief, Michael Patrick Leahy, last week, where he described Kirk as a once-in-a-generation leader whose vision and intensity reshaped the conservative movement.
Kirk died after being shot at his American Comeback Tour event held at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.
Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis mother shot while interfering with a federal immigration enforcement operation on Wednesday after striking a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent with her SUV, reportedly became connected to an anti-ICE activist network through her child’s K-5 charter school.
Roger Simon, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and author of the Substack “American Refugees,” is confident U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik will win the 2026 New York gubernatorial race against incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now referring all questions regarding the 2022 Tennessee Highway Patrol traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, even though State News Foundation inquires had nothing to do with either DHS or ICE.
Tennessee had only four counties in March with an unemployment rate of less than 5 percent.
This means that 96 percent of Tennessee counties had an unemployment rate below this mark.
Federal authorities arrested a judge and a former judge this week for allegedly helping illegal immigrants.
In New Mexico, former Judge Joel Cano, along with his wife, Nancy Cano, were charged with allegedly tampering with evidence and harboring an alleged Tren de Aragua member, Cristhian Ortega Lopez.
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