Dept. of Education’s dirty little secret: It DEFIES its own law



As promised, President Trump is gearing up to slash the Department of Education, and as usual, the left is in a full-blown panic. It thrives on bloated bureaucracy.

And when you see the original legislation that created the ED, you’ll understand just how bloated and corrupt the department has become.

Glenn Beck reads from the Department of Education Organization Act of 1979 — the document that set the ED in stone.

“It is the intention of the Congress in the establishment of the Department to protect the rights of state and local governments and public and private educational institutions in the areas of educational policies and administration of programs and to strengthen and improve the control of such governments and institutions over their own educational programs and policies,” Glenn reads from Sec. 103.

“That is not what the DOE is doing,” he says.

Both he and co-host Stu Burguiere agree that while the law itself is pretty sound, the bureaucrats running the department have been doing the opposite of what it says.

“The establishment of the Department of Education shall not increase the authority of the federal government over education or diminish the responsibility for education which is reserved to the states and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the states,” Glenn continues reading.

“This is not what the Department of Education is at all!” he exclaims, adding that he “wouldn’t necessarily have a problem” if the ED was run like the law says it should be run.

“No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law,” Glenn reads.

If the ED held to the law, “Do you know how many problems would go away?” he asks.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip above.

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JFK files: What do these NEW documents reveal?



On Tuesday, March 18, the National Archives released over 80,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

What does this avalanche of new information reveal?

Glenn Beck and his chief researcher and security expert, Jason Buttrill, dig into what’s been revealed so far.

1. CIA memo / Gary Underhill

A CIA memo marked secret that’s dated July 19, 1967 included an excerpt from a June 1967 Ramparts magazine article, in which the story of Gary Underhill, a military intelligence veteran and CIA contractor, was told through the lens of his friend and confidant, who said that Underhill arrived at her place of residence in New Jersey shortly after Kennedy’s assassination. He was clearly “agitated” and blamed the president’s death on a CIA cabal.

He also allegedly indicated that he feared for his life. Six months later, Underhill was found dead in his apartment from a gunshot wound to the head. His death was ruled a suicide.

Glenn notes that while the story about Underhill has long been known, the CIA’s explicit documentation of the Ramparts article is news.

2. Oswald was a “poor shot.”

“The KGB watched Oswald closely while he was in the USSR, but files indicated that Oswald was a poor shot when he tried target practice in the Soviet Union,” says Glenn.

3. Letter about Oswald’s alleged plotting

“Another detail released was a letter sent by a man in 1978. He was a Soviet, and he made this comment to the British embassy. He claimed that he was detained in London on July 18, 1963, and questioned by authorities. He said that he told them about Lee Harvey Oswald, saying he planned to kill the president. He added that he warned American Vice Consul Tom Blackshire of the plans of Oswald, who was trying to defect to Russia,” Glenn reads, adding that this points to government incompetence.

“Right now, there is no ‘who’; there is no ‘okay, this is the person who pulled the trigger,”’ says Buttrill. “There's no deflection from the official Warren Commission report so far.”

The information that has been sifted through thus far certainly “[provides] more context,” though.

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EXCLUSIVE: Why was Pelosi’s ‘fixer’ at Jan. 6?



Blaze News’ Steve Baker has done it again, this time exposing Aaron Black, whom he has dubbed "Pelosi’s precious," for allegedly lying about his role at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

“This will just piss you off,” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” says in response to Baker’s findings, adding, “It pissed me off for a couple of reasons. One, it is so evil.”

The second reason, Glenn says, is that “this guy never came up on our radar as connected to anything,” but Baker has discovered just how connected he really is.

“I started looking at him. The more I did, the more interesting he got. The more research I did, the more people I had to bring in, too, because this guy’s dark, and we had to go and actually scrape the dark, dark web for him,” Baker explains.


“There were some Project Veritas videos out there from 2016, where he was caught in one of their stings actually admitting to the fact that he and his guys were responsible for the violence at a Donald Trump rally in 2016,” he continues, noting that he was also an agitator at Occupy Wall Street. “So this is what this guy has been an expert at, creating these types of situations throughout his entire career.”

“Then all of a sudden, he re-emerges as quote-unquote ‘senior political adviser’ at Team Pelosi,” he says, noting that there’s even an image of Pelosi cradling Black’s face in her hands.

“What we believe, through our contacts, our sources, whistleblowers, both named and unnamed, is that he did in fact organize, and this is what we’ve been told, is that he had paid agitators, I didn’t say violent, people paid agitators, because his expertise is controlling the narrative,” Baker continues.

“And what did Nancy Pelosi most famously say when she set up the committee? She said that this was to ‘establish and preserve the narrative’ of that day,” he says, adding, “That’s an exact quote.”

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Can Trump actually VOID Biden’s autopen signatures?



It’s come to the nation’s attention many orders signed by Joe Biden during his presidency bear a mechanized signature produced by an autopen, calling into question the legitimacy of hundreds of signed documents. Was he even approving each digital signature? Or was someone signing documents behind his back?

Given Biden’s waning mental acuity before and during his term, the idea that someone or a group of someones was running the country in his stead is not far-fetched.

“Everyone involved with [the autopen scandal] should quite honestly be tried for treason,” says Glenn Beck. If found guilty, “you are a traitor to the Constitution of the United States.”

The question is: Who was using the autopen?

Glenn says he’s doubtful Kamala Harris was using the autopen, but Susan Rice, former U.N. ambassador, and Ron Klain, former White House chief of staff, certainly raise red flags.

Glenn’s head writer and researcher, Jason Buttrill, is also suspicious of Obama appointee Neera Tanden, who served as Biden’s senior adviser and White House staff secretary before becoming the director of the Domestic Policy Council.

There are several Obama appointees, he says, who got way too close to Joe Biden during his term.

Glenn says the first thing we need to find out is where the autopen was located, who had access to it, and what the “chain of command” looked like.

This is especially important in light of what the Heritage Foundation recently discovered: “[Joe Biden] was on vacation golfing while some of these pardons were being signed.”

Co-host Stu Burguiere says that while the DOJ first issued an “OK” to autopen back in 2005 during the Bush administration, it’s never been challenged in the Supreme Court.

Given President Trump’s recent declaration that Biden’s pre-emptive pardons that went to Hunter Biden, Dr. Fauci, and members of the January 6 Committee, among others, should be nullified due to the autopen signature, the Supreme Court may have to get involved because “there's nothing in the Constitution that even comes close to addressing this.”

To hear more of the panel’s conversation, watch the clip above.

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Is Andrew Tate a role model — or doing Satan's work disguised as one?



The controversial influencer Andrew Tate has taken the helm of a ship that’s steering young conservative men in a direction sold as greatness — but it’s a ship young men should be jumping instead.

“I think he is the overreaction, the pendulum is swinging so far the other way that young people are looking at him and going, ‘You know, it’s time for men to be men,’” Glenn Beck of “The Glenn Beck Program” tells BlazeTV hosts Stu Burguiere and Allie Beth Stuckey.

“But that’s not what men are. That’s not what a good man is,” he adds.

Stuckey is in full agreement.


“Of course, he says things that we would agree with about feminism, about the emasculation of men, and how men need to be providers, they need to be tough, they need to take care of women, but at the same time, he is a self-proclaimed pimp who has prostituted young girls on video,” Stuckey says.

“And yeah, he is on tape beating women with a belt and threatening them,” she continues. “He might say he’s different now, but I don’t know how anyone could say he’s redeemed, because he became a Muslim, which is basically just a religious justification for oppressing women.”

“I would say that no, no young man should follow him. Do we need strong male leadership examples for men? Yes. Andrew Tate is not that,” she adds.

“This is what Satan does. He’ll take a little bit of truth and then mix it in with a whole bunch of lies and pervert everything,” Glenn agrees. “And that’s what’s happening with these things. You’ll see the truth of, yeah, you know what, men should be strong.”

Rather than a leader, Glenn calls Tate a “bully” who is the “exact opposite of what a man is.”

Stu notes that it’s not just women Tate has targeted, but underage girls.

“That is the allegation we’re talking about, 14- and 15-year-old girls in some cases,” he tells Stuckey and Glenn.

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'Guam guy' Hank Johnson says blacks aren’t ‘intellectually suited’ for field work but Hispanics are



Hank Johnson, a Democratic congressman from Georgia’s 4th District, recently made a comment that was, stupidity-wise, on par with his 2010 statement about the island of Guam potentially capsizing if too many Marines were placed on one side.

During a virtual event hosted by the progressive group Our Future First on March 4, Johnson told Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), and others that President Trump’s education policies, specifically his plans to "defund" public schools and funnel money to private, "for-profit setups," would harm the black community — a ridiculous idea from the get-go when you consider how fundamentally flawed our current education system is.

However, Johnson then took his grievances to a very weird place.

“It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to black people. And where does that then leave us? It puts us back to when America was great, and we were picking cotton and all of it. … They're putting my Latino brothers and sisters who migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it any more, but they would have us back confined to doing that kind of work,” Johnson said.

“Did he just say that blacks were no longer intellectually suited for fieldwork … but Hispanics are?” Glenn Becks asks in disbelief.

“Would that be racism, would you say?” asks Stu Burguiere sarcastically.

“Invidious racism,” answers Pat Gray, mocking Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who blamed his censure for heckling President Trump during his recent address on “invidious racism” in the House of Representatives.

“[Johnson] also says that it's Trump's plan to close the Department of Education to keep people from being educated,” but the truth is, “since the Department of Education was put into place, our test scores have gone way down,” says Glenn, noting that the drop in scores has impacted not just black kids, but all kids.

“We're number one in spending, and we're 40th in education, so there's a problem,” says Pat.

A lot of older generations “still look at people like [President Lyndon B.] Johnson, one of the biggest racists of my lifetime, as a president” who did nothing but good when it comes to public education, says Glenn, but “whether he knew it or not, what he did completely destroyed black families.”

“For us to say let's just keep going down this path is an act of insanity,” he says.

To hear more of the panel’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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SCARY: President of European Central Bank admits 'digital Euro' is ready for launch



Remember when we were told the “digital Euro” was just a conspiracy theory?

Well, it turns out that not only is it real, but it’s been in the works for five years. And Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, just admitted it.

Now it’s ready for launch.

Glenn Beck explains why we must break our alliance with the EU if it adopts a central bank digital currency and why President Trump must ban our Federal Reserve from creating one of its own (which it’s certainly interested in doing).

“For years, Christine Lagarde and everybody else, both foreign and domestic, have said that any worry about a CBDC is just a conspiracy theory. They have silenced, they have discredited anyone who warned of the dangers of this, but now, all of a sudden, I guess we all forgot that, because now they're ready, and the stakes cannot be higher,” says Glenn.

In a recent speech, Legarde casually admitted that the ECB “started working on the digital Euro way back actually when [she] started [her] term five and a half years ago,” even though last year “she told the European Parliament that CBDC skepticism stems from conspiracy theories.”

If they launch this, says Glenn, in “18 to 48 months our whole world is going to be different.” “The stakes for privacy, free markets, and individual liberty” couldn’t be higher.

The adoption of digital currency is so egregious that it should “fracture our alliance” with the EU, he says.

The problem with digital currency is that “it can be turned off” by the government, which means it’s a weapon in their back pocket to wield against dissenters.

Glenn gives the example of going to the bank to pull out cash.

With CBDC, “there’s nothing to take out,” he says. “You don’t own it. … The central bank and the government — they own that, so you have no place to go but through them.”

“Make no mistake, that's not a tin-foil-hat conspiracy. That's what's happening in China,” he warns.

But what’s even scarier than that is the fact that strange changes in currency are in the Bible — “specifically the last part of the Bible,” where Revelation describes the end times.

Artificial superintelligence and CBDCs are the kinds of “tools that appear very much like the tools foretold that will be employed by the Antichrist,” says Glenn.

The United States is in the early stages of developing a digital currency.

“We have got to pass legislation right now — no central bank digital currency ever in America,” says Glenn.

To hear more of his commentary, watch the clip above.

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ATF whistleblower reveals where cartel weapons really come from



The Mexican government is suing U.S. gun manufacturers, claiming that they’re designing, marketing, and distributing firearms in ways that facilitate illegal trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico border, fueling cartel violence. Mexico is seeking $10 billion in damages, alleging that 70%-90% of guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes come from the U.S.

Could it be true?

Former ATF agent and author of “The Unarmed Truth” John Dodson tells Glenn Beck it’s all a bunch of lies.

“The only way you can successfully trace a firearm is if it has a U.S. nexus. It was either manufactured here or imported into the U.S. at some point. Either way, it's stamped manufactured in the U.S. or imported in the U.S. by the company that did so,” he explains.

“So to say that all the prime guns successfully traced in Mexico are U.S.-source firearms is kind of a rigged ball game, because the only ones we can successfully trace are U.S.-source firearms anyway. … So the numbers are skewed from the very beginning,” he adds.

Further, they “are not discounting those [guns] that were purchased directly by the Mexican government.”

Dodson, who worked on the border in firearms trafficking for 12 years, says that every year when he ran the data, “70%-75% of the crime guns recovered in Mexico” were “direct purchases by the Mexican government,” which “are considered U.S.-source.”

The ATF, he explains, “doesn't take those [purchases] out of the numbers when they speak to Congress or when they release the information. They count them all as U.S.-source firearms, and so the American civilian firearms market is left holding the bag and blamed for the cartel violence in Mexico.”

“So Mexico is buying [guns] from us, and I assume that those guns are supposed to go to the Mexican government to fight cartels. Are these guns going into the hands of the cartels?” Glenn asks.

“Yes, 100%,” says Dodson.

But it gets even more ironic.

Most of the money the Mexican government uses to purchase these U.S.-source guns comes from the U.S.

“The Mexican government says, ‘Well, we need help fighting the cartels,’ so we give them money to purchase equipment and weapons; they buy these weapons directly from manufacturers,” but then half of those purchased are “diverted into the black market,” where they end up in the hands of cartel members.

The Mexican government then recovers those weapons at crime scenes and turns around and blames U.S. gun manufacturers, even though the government made the original purchase with U.S. dollars.

“Do we have the serial numbers to prove that they were purchased by the Mexican federal government?” asks Glenn.

“100%,” says Dodson.

“Is this because the Mexican government is the drug cartel? The Mexican government is afraid of the drug cartel? Who's really in charge of pushing the government to sue our gun manufacturers?” Glenn asks.

To hear Dodson’s answer, watch the clip above.

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Is this the future of ‘AI agents’ in 2025?



Fairly soon, we will be witnessing the rise of “AI agents” — which high-tech expert Jeff Brown calls “the biggest trend of 2025.”

“This trend towards agentic AI, which is giving artificial intelligence programs agency, i.e. empowerment, to perform tasks that we would normally do ourselves,” Brown tells Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.” "That's the biggest trend of 2025."

“We’ll all feel like we have a very talented executive assistant that is helping us navigate our days and recapture an hour, two hours, three hours of our time that we would normally spend on really kind of menial things,” Brown explains.


“Imagine your own agentic AI for just a normal American household. Understands their food consumption and their eating habits. It is empowered to go out and order online a week’s worth of groceries to be delivered at a time when it knows that you’re at home, dropped off at your front door,” he continues.

“All of that friction that we spend hours a week literally disappears overnight,” he adds.

“And this is just the beginning,” Glenn chimes in.

“I mean, what do we have left? Eight months? This will become reality this year. It is moving at such a fast pace.”

“That is upon us. We’re at the event horizon, which means you’re about to be sucked into it and cannot turn around."

"There is no turning back at this stage,” Brown says.

And just recently, Elon Musk and his team at XAI, which is Musk’s artificial intelligence company, released their latest frontier AI model, called Grok 3.

“It’s just extraordinary,” Brown says.

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