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FOX URBAN BLaCK MIGRANT VIOLENT CRIME BS
ST LOUIS MIZZOU FEMA NOEM
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Trump jokes about Iran destroying Los Angeles and San Diego
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Although Missouri is a red state — Donald Trump carried Missouri by 18 percent in 2024 compared to roughly 14 percent in Texas — its largest city, St. Louis, is a Democratic stronghold. Tensions have long existed between St. Louis' Democrat-dominated city government and Missouri's GOP-controlled state government in Jefferson City, and those tensions escalated when Donald Trump became the Republican Party's most influential figure.
St. Louis-based journalist Devin Thomas O'Shea describes the growing tensions between that city and Missouri Republicans in an article published on March 20.
Those tensions, according to O'Shea, are underscored by Republican responses to a May 2025 tornado that killed five people in the St. Louis and inflicted considerable damage.
"In St. Louis, as The Wall Street Journal pointed out, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been antagonistic to recovery efforts," O'Shea explains. "Neither the president nor this last year's Homeland Security director, Kristi Noem, believe that FEMA should exist. Some Senate Democrats believe Noem's pausing and delaying FEMA payments violated federal law, but the effect is that Missouri has been added to a growing list — alongside North Carolina after Hurricane Helene — of states cut loose, left to rebuild on their own."
O'Shea continues, "Noem cut FEMA's workforce by thousands to achieve this result, and if St. Louis is a test case for contemporary climate disasters, the verdict is in: You're on your own."
St. Louis City Mayor Cara Spencer, according to O'Shea, "admits that things have moved too slowly" with tornado recovery efforts "and that money has not reached storm victims."
"While some Missouri Republicans claim they are upset about FEMA's dysfunction, they are also using the tornado recovery to lash St. Louis," O'Shea notes. "This year, the GOP plans to bankrupt the city. This is not an exaggeration — in January, the Missouri Legislature turned $100 million in relief into a weapon to compel St. Louis to enact the budget policy of eliminating the earnings tax, a prime source of city revenue. It's also not an exaggeration to say that the Missouri State Legislature spent last year moving forward with the re-invasion of the City of St. Louis."
O'Shea adds, "The Republican-controlled state spends much of its legislative time trying to overturn voter referendums. State-wide, Missourians approve abortion, vote in favor of increasing the minimum wage, and reject right-to-work legislation. Meanwhile, Missouri lawmakers go to work to criminalize abortion, lower the minimum wage, and get right-to-work back on the ballot. In March 2025, three months before the tornado, Gov. Mike Kehoe rejected a 2012 voter referendum that granted local control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (STLPD) to the City of St. Louis."
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After pledging to deescalate tensions in Minnesota, President Donald Trump kicked off Wednesday by taking aim at the mayor of Minneapolis, asserting — incorrectly — that declining to enforce federal immigration laws is unlawful.
Legal analysts and administration critics have warned that the moves the president made this week in the wake of the second deadly shooting of a U.S. citizen by federal agents were simply a change in tone — not in strategy or tactics, and not an actual pivot. Trump has recalled Greg Bovino, the head of Operation Metro Surge, from Minneapolis, and sent in border czar Tom Homan.
“Surprisingly,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Mayor Jacob Frey just stated that, ‘Minneapolis does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws.’ This is after having had a very good conversation with him.”
“Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!” the president declared.
The president declared Frey’s stance is unlawful but legal experts note that cities and states generally cannot be forced to carry out federal immigration enforcement.
Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance noted that “the feds can’t ‘commandeer’ state law enforcement resources to execute their policies.”
She also called the president’s statement, “More evidence Trump isn’t changing course on mass deportations.”
Politico senior legal affairs reporter Kyle Cheney offered some additional insight.
“Trump could not have designed a better statement to convince Judge Menendez that Operation Metro Surge is meant to coerce policy changes,” Cheney wrote.
He noted that courts have “ruled repeatedly” that the federal government “cannot coerce states to enforce federal law.”
“Nor is it illegal for states to decline to do so,” Cheney added.
“And the menacing ‘playing with fire’ is exactly the kind of statement (‘retribution is coming’) that worked against the administration in court earlier this week,” he added.
Indeed, ABC News interviewed the president on Tuesday and reported that Trump was suggesting federal agents would take a “more relaxed” approach in Minnesota after the two deadly shootings.
Trump said, “we can start doing maybe a little bit more relaxed,” and, “we’d like to finish the job and finish it well, and I think we can do it in a de-escalated form.”
ABC called it “a shift in tone.”
The New Republic’s Greg Sargent wrote on Wednesday, “The media narrative that Trump is ‘pivoting’ and ‘deescalating’ on his ICE raids … is wildly overstated. As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there’s no pivot. It’s that simple.”
“Trump wants to appear eager to minimize clashes between his govt militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want them to stop doing the things that are causing the clashes in the first place,” he continued. “There’s no Trump ‘pivot’ until we see real investigations into the government’s killings and real accountability for them.”
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Donald Trump and his administration have put a massive spotlight on welfare fraud in Minnesota in recent weeks, threatening to pull all federal welfare funds from the blue state, but according to a Thursday report from HuffPost, his administration "gave a red state a pass" after it had been caught up in "one of the biggest welfare fraud scandals of all time."
According to the report, in the waning days of Joe Biden's presidency, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families ordered Mississippi to pay a massive penalty fine after an investigation determined that it had allowed embezzlement from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. The fine and the estimated cost of the fraud were the same, $100 million. The case, at one point, drew national attention when reports found that football legend Brett Favre had been among the recipients of these fraudulent payments.
That punishment did not last, however, as when Trump returned to office, his HHS department claimed to have found new materials linked to the case that "could validate some of its allegedly improper spending." As a result, the original Biden-era penalty was revoked, and the department told the state that it would issue a new one at a later date once the new total cost of the fraud had been determined.
As of now, no such new penalty has been issued, leaving the impression that the Trump administration has let Mississippi, one of the most heavily conservative states in the US, off the hook.
This report comes as the administration plans to cut off all federal welfare funding to several blue states, stemming from a renewed focus by right-wing media figures on fraud cases in Minnesota. Many of these cases in the state have already been prosecuted and led to convictions, but the story was reignited after a right-wing YouTube creator posted a video with new, and largely unsubstantiated, allegations against Somali-American daycare centers.
"In response to the fraud scandal in Minnesota — which includes dozens of well-documented and prosecuted criminal cases in addition to unproven allegations by a right-wing YouTuber — HHS announced a wholesale cutoff of funding under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, as well as two other federal programs that help with child care," HuffPost's report explained. "And not just in Minnesota, but also in the blue states of California, Colorado, Illinois and New York."
“There’s certainly a disparate effect here, in terms of these five blue states and that one particular red state,” Nick Gwyn, an expert on federal-state welfare programs with the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, told the outlet.
In response to HuffPost's inquiry, HHS claimed that it was still “evaluating options to follow up with Mississippi.”
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The cities that President Donald Trump and his allies are targeting for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids — Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and now, Minneapolis — have something in common: They are run by Democrats. And the cities that Trump is singling out have Democratic governors such as California's Gavin Newsom, Illinois' JB Pritzker and Minnesota's Tim Walz.
In an article published on January 12, Politico reporters Blake Jones, Jeremy B. White and Nick Reisman cite fraud allegations as one of the tactics that Trump is using against blue states.
"Donald Trump has found a new way to bludgeon blue states: accuse them of fraud, then move to cut off their money," the journalists explain. "The attacks ramping up across the map — from Albany and Springfield to Denver and Sacramento — follow Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ending his reelection campaign amid allegations of welfare fraud in his state — a case Trump's MAGA allies seized to cast similar aspersions at other Democratic leaders. The Trump Administration cited unproven fraud allegations last week as it put a hold on $10 billion in child care funding to five Democratic-run states."
Jones, White and Reisman add, "The Department of Justice announced it's launching a new division of fraud enforcement, pointing to Minnesota's 'fraud epidemic.' And in California, Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said he's pursuing additional charges of fraud involving state homelessness programs after railing for months against Gov. Gavin Newsom's management of state spending…. The spending-focused line of attack from Trump marks an escalation in Trump’s already red-hot war on blue states."
Democratic New York State Sen. Liz Krueger argues that Trump's attacks on blue states were easy to predict during the 2024 presidential election.
Kreuger told Politico, "I'll say one thing about our president: He told us he was going to do this. He told us he was going to punish blue states. We have to brace for impact, we have to use our legal skills, our amazing attorney general, and endless lawsuits to at least hold them back."
According to U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Illinois), Trump is using a range of methods to attack blue states.
Schneider told Politico, "He's attacking blue states out of revenge. If that's in the form of sending in ICE, he sends in ICE. If it's denying food and education to their children, which to be clear are America's children, he's gonna do that. What he is doing is seeking revenge at the cost of America's most vulnerable people, putting those communities at risk."
*Read the full Politico article at this link.
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- David Peisner @ Rolling Stone: A Company Is Building Communities for Right-Wing Christians. Some Neighbors Aren’t Happy
“Are you fed up with crime, corruption, and wokeness in your big, blue city?” says RidgeRunner CEO Josh Abbotoy. “Move here”
- Liliana Segura @ The Intercept: The Absurd Prosecution of a Man Who Posted a Charlie Kirk Meme
Larry Bushart Jr. posted trolling memes on a Facebook thread about a vigil for Kirk. He’s been in a Tennessee jail ever since.
- Liza Featherstone @ The New Republic: Trump’s Crusade Against Critics Is So Much Worse Than “Cancel Culture”
The liberal cancel culture of yesteryear is indeed regrettable. But let’s not succumb to bothsidesism.
- Kate Riga @ Talking Points Memo: Trump Isn’t Waiting for the Insurrection Act To Turn the Military on American Citizens
President Trump teases his backup plan to use the military against Americans in blue cities on a near weekly basis.
- Catherine Bouris @ The Daily Beast: Steve Bannon Reveals ‘There’s a Plan’ for Third Trump Term
Bannon divulged that there are “many different alternatives” for securing a third term for Trump.
- Dan McClellan: Is biblical slavery more compassionate?
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'Wannabe dictator': Governor dares 'unhinged' Trump to carry out threat to jail him
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From the October 7, 2025, edition of Real America's Voice's War Room
STEVE BANNON (HOST): I talked to Madeline about the Insurrection Act and what President Trump's doing in cities like Portland, and cities like Chicago, and what will happen in Memphis and Los Angeles. And she writes, they don't think they're actually part of the United States, because they're not part of the United States right now.
They're sanctuary cities run by these - overseen by these radical governors, Pritzker and Newsom, and radical mayors.
And that's why President Trump is, for the sake of the country, in defense of the country, and for the mass deportations, having to do this. Nobody else would do that.
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Barbara F. Walter, author of “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them, warned Sunday that democracy in the United States is in decline and President Donald Trump could create "fake emergencies" to intensify his campaign against his opponents.
Speaking ata podcast on*The Bulwark*posted Sunday morning, Walter said, "I think American democracy is in a really sad place, actually. It's in a place of democratic decline. It's probably likely in the near future to be in a place of economic decline. And these are things that are not going to turn around anytime soon. If you look at the underlying conditions for political violence, the United States, unfortunately, has all of them right now."
She continued: "Political violence tends to happen in countries with weak and declining democracy, especially democracies that are changing rapidly and moving more and more towards autocracy. We call those anocracies, and that's actually the most dangerous place to be. Full, healthy democracies almost never experience political violence."
She added that hardcore autocracies rarely experience political violence, and most of the violence happens in the middle.
"And since January 2025 of this year, America's democracy has declined faster than it ever has in its history. And it's declined faster than democracy in any other advanced industrialized democracy in the world," she added.
Likening Trump to a "wannabe dictator," Walter said the president could use "fake emergencies" to "clamp down on citizens."
"These types of sort of fake emergencies allow these wannabe dictators to declare a state of emergency, declare martial law, and basically just clamp down on citizens so that citizens aren't allowed to leave their homes," she said.
She added: "There's curfews. Soldiers are now patrolling the streets. There's roadblocks. And this effectively ends democracy. So people were saying, okay, is theCharlie Kirk murder, and in particular, the Republican Party's reaction to it, that this is almost a declaration of war by the left. People were worried that that would be that type of situation."
Walter also warned that Trump does not see the American constitution as an impediment.
"I don't think Trump sees the Constitution as an impediment in any way. [Viktor] Orban did not see Hungary's Constitution as an impediment. He simply changed it. Netanyahu doesn't see Israel's Constitution as an impediment. You know, these guys are bullies and strongmen, and they just push their way through and see if anybody stops them," she said.
The analyst noted that following conservative activist Charlie Kirk's murder, many expected a war on the left by the Trump administration, but it didn't play out that way. The administration, she argued, is now looking for a bigger reason to ramp up its efforts to go after its opponents.
"The Trump administration isn't ready to declare a state of emergency and to basically take control of the potential hotspots for opposition. Those hotspots for opposition are going to be America's big cities," she said.
Walter added: "It's hard for most Americans to feel deeply threatened because an outspoken activist on the right was killed. They might be horrified by it. They might desperately wish it never happens again, but they don't feel personally threatened by it. And for people to be willing to give up their rights and freedoms to say, 'okay, martial law is okay with me.' They have to be, they have to truly believe that their and their family safety is threatened. And Charlie Kirk's murder didn't do that. So it's going to have to be something bigger than that," she said, noting that Trump is still trying to "create a situation" where he can "suddenly grab all power."
"That's where you have most of the people who disagree with Trump, feel threatened by Trump. And he doesn't have his soldiers in place there. He started to do that in Washington, D.C., in Los Angeles, and he tried to do that in Chicago. But he's not ready for the moment to sort of pull the trigger," she said.
Asked if this democratic backsliding could lead to a civil war in the U.S., Walter said, "So the main point I want to make is that citizens are much more powerful than they think they are. There's over 330 million of us. You know, think back to your time at school in the schoolyard. You know, everybody's seen bullies operate and and they see what happens when the you know, the kids in the schoolyard, dozens of them, just stand up."
She continued: "Bullies tend to wither. We have 300 and, you know, over 330 million Americans. And if we just in our own separate individual ways, simply just started silently and peacefully resisting, not voluntarily complying when we're told that to do something that's illegal .So there's a whole series of things. And then protest is the greatest tool," she added.
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Extortion — plain and simple': Trump admin ripped for $18B NYC funds freeze
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'Why we mounted a revolution': Backlash as Johnson tells Dems to 'yield' to Trump
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September 3, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): Now when you hear politicians like Brandon Johnson claim that they have solutions, remember videos like this one. They've gone out of their way to make violent crime much, much worse in Chicago. This is a deliberate effort that they've embarked on. Now it's true that in our federal system, states are not required to assist the federal government in carrying out certain policy objectives, but it's also true that states and local government cannot actively interfere with the federal government's decision to enforce the law. That is not states rights. That is treason.
Brandon Johnson is openly encouraging residents of Chicago to engage in treason against the United States. And for that reason, Brandon Johnson should be arrested, charged with treason, convicted, and then given the requisite punishment for a capital offense. Will that ever happen? Probably not. But then again, just a few days ago, Tren de Aragua, you know, they never thought that they'd be intercepted as they sped towards the United States on their drug boats. They certainly didn't imagine they'd get blown up without any warning.
All indications are that we are entering a new phase of federal governance, one where the U.S. military acts to defend the American people, where false narratives from NGOs are ignored, where criminals are actually punished when they violate the law in public. So who knows? Maybe Brandon Johnson shouldn't be so confident. Like Washington, D.C., which has experienced something like a 50% drop in violent crime since the National Guard moved in, Chicago is about to become a much safer place.
The more JB Pritzker lies about crime statistics, the more Brandon Johnson commits treason in public, the more obvious it becomes that this strategy needs to be applied to every major American city. Democrats have no response. They have no counterargument. The safer America becomes, the more they will complain. And in response, every American who's paying attention will recognize their party for what it is. They are the party of chaos, crime, and cartels, and they should be treated accordingly.
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August 22, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show,streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Here's what he can do lawfully. He can surge federal agents, expand ATF, FBI, and USMS task forces, go after carjacking, gang cases, and route them all up to federal cases where appropriate. Project safe neighborhoods and enforcement zones. Also, go down on this fugitive carjacking crackdowns. US Marshals -- flood the zone with US Marshals. An emergency backstop, if necessary, declare the Insurrection Act. Insurrection Act 10 U.S.C. (251–253) allows limited federal troop deployment as extreme last resort, but I don't think that should be off the table. Chicago has become more dangerous than third world cities.
And it's working in DC. Could you imagine if you're able to say in one week in Chicago, there's not a single murder? It's unheard of. Not a single murder in DC for a week. The DC template can now be scaled. Making America great again means making our Midwestern cities great again. Revive Chicago. Revive Detroit. Revive Minneapolis -- okay, that might be tough. That's a third world Somali slum. The city has a death wish.
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I want President Trump to do everything he possibly can. I'm going to talk to him. I'm going to say, "Man, Mr. President, I'm 100 percent behind you. Whatever you need to do a federal takeover of Chicago and make this a test case, I will do whatever I possibly can, Mr. President." I'm going to probably shoot him a message later on.
Black men have a cumulative incidence of being shot in Chicago of 11 percent by age 40. That means one out of ten Black men have been shot by the time they reach 40 in Chicago. In Chicago, one out of ten Black men have been shot by the age of 40. That's in Chicago.
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Declare a national emergency, flood the zone with ATF, FBI, take -- have an entire task force, make Chicago another test case.
One -- hold on. If anyone, like, thinks I'm wrong here, if one in ten Black men have been shot by the age of 40, how is that not an emergency? Seriously, what is your argument? If one in ten Black men are shot by the age of 40, how is that not an emergency? That means if you have a basketball team -- if you have a basketball team at Simeon High School where Derrick Rose went, and it's 20 people on the basketball team, that means two of the people on that basketball team will be shot by the age of 40. Email us as always freedom@charliekirk.com.
Sweet home Chicago, take it over. Seize it. Roll in the tanks just like we said in DC. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Pritzker, you are next, and you are woefully unprepared for what is coming. Law and order is coming, and we will liberate my favorite city, Chicago.
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'Out of control': Cities led by Black women are the first targets of Trump's power grab
Amanda Becker And Barbara Rodriguez, The 19th
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08/21/2025
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Richard Mack, a former Arizona county sheriff and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, is cheering on President Donald Trump's takeover of Washington, DC, and urging sheriffs all around the country to follow suit.
Mack, a former Oath Keepers board member who teaches sheriffs that they are the highest law enforcement authority in their counties and have a duty to resist state and federal “tyranny," appeared on Matt Shea's "Patriot Radio" program recently where he said that local sheriffs have to power to step in and completely take over "major cities that are run by Democrats."
"I have never wanted to politicize crime," Mack said. "But if you look at all the horrible statistics in all the major cities that are run by Democrats, it's irrefutable, it's inescapable. The conclusion is thus inescapable that Democrat Party and Democrat leadership have completely failed the American people."
"What is the main responsibility of the government?" he continued. "It is to protect life, liberty and property. And so if we keep the goal on those three [in mind], then when [Los Angels Mayor Karen] Bass and [California Gov. Gavin] Newsom fail and summarily ignore the problem and willingly help the criminal element within their state and the Greater Los Angeles area, the sheriff of Los Angeles County should be getting going and telling the mayor he's taking over."
"The sheriff of Los Angeles County, he has concurrent jurisdiction and he has jurisdiction citywide and county wide," Mack declared. "So, he should be going in there and showing them how you do this and he should tell Trump, 'Let me try first. If I need you, I'll call you.'"
Shea agreed, saying that "the real solution" is for country sheriffs to start taking over large, Democratic-run cities and then "request help from the federal government if he needs it."
"Cook County in Chicago, that sheriff should be taking over," Mack replied. "I think Baltimore, same thing; they do have a sheriff right there. They need to get in there and start taking care of this. What are the sheriffs waiting for?"
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During a White House press conference on Monday, August 11, President Donald Trump promoted his plans to federalize law enforcement in Washington, D.C. Trump, in addition to employing federalized National Guard troops in the U.S. capital, is putting the D.C. Metropolitan Police under federal control.
Trump's critics fear that he will do the same thing in other U.S. cities with Democratic mayors, from Chicago to Philadelphia and Baltimore. Another possibility is New York City, which presently has a centrist Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, but could have a decidedly left-of-center mayor next year if Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani wins the city's mayoral race in November.
Trump is calling Mamdani a "communist," which is inaccurate: Mamdani, a New York State lawmaker, identifies as a "democratic socialist" along the lines of his allies, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), but is not an full-fledged communist like Cuba's Fidel Castro or the Soviet Union's Nikita Khruschev.
READ MORE: 'Not plausible': Trump-appointed judge hands him major loss in court
In an article published on August 12, Gothamist reporter Ben Feuerherd examines the possibility of Trump federalizing law enforcement in New York City. And according to legal experts interviewed by Gothamist, putting the New York Police Department (NYPD) under federal control would be more difficulty and complicated than what Trump is doing in Washington, D.C.
"The legal experts said Trump could deploy the National Guard under specific circumstances, as he did during immigration protests in Los Angeles earlier this year," Feuerherd explains. "During his first term, Trump also deployed federal agents to guard federal property and buildings during protests in cities like Portland, Oregon. But there is no clear legal path for him to take over a police department like New York's, which is not subject to the same federal control as Washington."
Former federal prosecutor John Fishwick told Gothamist that for Trump, "there is not a clear legal pathway to take over the New York City government."
But Lenni Benson, a New York Law School professor, fears that Trump cannot be trusted to play by the rules.
READ MORE: Trump's worst crimes and destructions haven't even happened yet
Benson told Gothamist. "Mr. Trump’s administration seems to do first and ask questions later. So, yes, I think we can be alarmed."
Benson noted that New York State has some federal lands that Trump could send federal agents to.
The law professor told Gothamist, "It could be a national park. It could be a waterway that is navigable and covered by the Army Corp of Engineers for safety. It could be our harbors."
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*Read the full Gothamist article at this link.
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August 11, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): This is President Donald Trump saying once we liberate DC — and by the way, I guarantee the crime's gonna go whoop. It's gonna go way down.
And then the media will say, oh, it's only going down because he brought in the military. Exactly. We need full military occupation of these cities until the crime desists. Period.
We need a desisting of crime in our cities. We're not gooing to put up with it. I want to be able to walk Magnificent Mile in Chicago without having to look over my shoulder. Do you know crime is so bad in Chicago that if you get a fender bender — there's a new thing that the youths are doing. Remember, we have a big teenage problem of crime in our country, that teenagers will bang the back of your car as a fender bender. You come out to go trade insurance, and then they steal your car. In Chicago, the new guidance is that if you get a fender bender, drive to the nearest police station to trade insurance just in case they're there to steal your car. It's a real thing. It's happening all the time. By the way, get a burner. We advertise it all the time here on our program.
I don't want to live in that country. You shouldn't either. Simple fix. You steal a car, 25 years in prison. I don't care if you're a teenager. I don't care if — well, I was raised without a dad. Well, you're going to go meet a new dad in jail. We're done. We're not putting up with it. We need more prisons, and we need more prisoners.
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Stop coddling criminals because they happen to be a protected class. We don't believe in protected classes anymore, by the way. We're done with that. Game over. No more protected classes. We are all citizens made in the image of God. Oh, you're protected class because, you know, different skin color. Wrong. That regime was defeated back in November. That whole worldview was gone. Over. Done. Kaput. Sayonara. Instead, a new worldview has ascended, which is we're not going to make accommodations for criminals. We're going through mass deportations. If you're Black and commit a crime, you go to jail. If you're white and you commit a crime, you go to jail. Human equality, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter your background. We are all treated equal under the law, and that is a biblical principle.}:
So once we liberate Washington DC, and we will liberate it. Now, again, I want to say, President Donald Trump, he's gotta go play to win here. The one piece of caution we'd have to say is that if we just kind of do this symbolically, we will lose. The criminals will win. We got to go hard. We gotta go big league. We're talking national guard, tanks — every street, you need military.
And if people are afraid, oh, well, Donald Trump is a fascist because he's bringing the military. Well, you're an anarchist. We're not fascist. We're order. Call them a name right back. You're an anarchist. You want the criminals, the thugs, the gang members, and the worst of society to run the streets of DC. We're not going to put up with it.
By the way, spare me the lecture. You guys militarized Washington DC after January 6, but you wouldn't move them a couple blocks north to the criminals because you acted as if, oh, all the people in on January 6 are the greatest threat ever because they went in with a pocket Constitution to go say a prayer in the US Capitol. Once we liberate DC, you better believe it — Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco. We got a big military. We should be willing to use it.
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Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts urged right-wing state legislators this month to “de-charter” liberal capital cities and replace them with “state municipal districts.”
In a speech to a gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council in Indianapolis, Roberts asserted, “We are in the second American Revolution,” which he explained by saying “we are renewing sovereignty and self-governance and faith in fellow man.”
Roberts showed no apparent recognition of the glaring inconsistency between his declared support for “sovereignty and self-governance” and his demonstrated contempt for the democratic choices made by voters in cities who disagree with Heritage’s agenda.
"When we have cities like Austin, or Nashville, or other capital cities whose local government is not representative of the will of the people, de-charter them and establish them as state municipal districts in the name of common sense,” he urged.
Roberts called Austin, Texas his “adopted home town” and described it as “a once-great place that has been taken over by Marxists.”
Roberts’ justification for this brazen attack on democratic self-governance? He claimed that the biggest threat to the Trump-Vance agenda, which is essentially the Project 2025 agenda promoted by Roberts and Heritage, is “that there are government entities that illegitimately are imposing something other than the American dream on their people.”
Roberts promised the legislators that Heritage would provide “air cover” if they made this virtual declaration of war against their own capital cities.
Roberts’ recommendation was part of a ten-point policy agenda he urged the state legislators to adopt. Among his other recommendations:
- Roll back environmental regulations—“nonsense from the Green New Scam”—that he said are contributing to a crisis in affordable housing;
- End subsidies and preferential treatment for “fickle energy resources.” (He said nothing about the subsidies enjoyed by fossil-fuel industries);
- Force every local law enforcement agency to sign cooperation agreements with ICE’s 287 (g) program;
- Replace SAT and ACT tests with the Classic Learning Test, which is promoted by right-wing culture warriors like Christopher Rufo and favored by conservative Christian schools and homeschoolers; the test was approved for statewide use in Florida in 2023.
The Heritage Foundation is a deep-pocketed think tank that has spent 50+ years shifting the Republican Party to the right and making America less free, less fair, and less safe. It was the sponsor of Project 2025, which Trump falsely disavowed during his 2024 campaign before aggressively implementing its recommendations since taking power this year, putting the country on a fast road to fascism. The American Legislative Exchange Council functions as a sort of matchmaker between corporate lobbyists and right-wing interests and state legislators eager to do their destructive bidding.
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