REVEALED: FBI had CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES at the Capitol on Jan. 6



A bombshell report from the Office of Inspector General has revealed that 26 confidential human sources for the FBI were on the Capitol grounds on January 6, with at least 13 of these sources “storming the Capitol” that day.

“Why didn’t any of this come out in the J6 committee hearing that we saw?” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” asks Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“Why would it? So much of the J6 committee hearings have previously just been Democrat witch hunts,” Bedford answers. “I guess this has been something that Republicans have been trying to turn around, and they’ve been doing some good work on that in the last couple of months.”

And with Donald Trump heading into the White House in early 2025, their hard work is about to seriously pay off.

“The incoming Trump administration is very serious about unearthing exactly what happened, what’s been going on here,” Bedford explains.


“This riot, completely packed to the gills with different FBI informants, including those attacking the Capitol, got turned into a Democratic witch hunt that they used to go through Republican finances, to interrogate Republican staffers, to shut down Republican bank accounts, to dig through congressmen’s emails and private communications, to try and depose and put a president in prison,” he continues.

However, mainstream media outlets like CNN are now acting as if it’s not a big deal that it wasn’t FBI agents embedded in the protests but rather FBI informants.

“CNN is really awful on this,” Bedford says. “Just been taking the bait over and over again. You know, these folks, I think that most of them, if you went back to when they were in high school or college, and they wanted to be a reporter, they would say that they wanted to challenge people in the intelligence community, they wanted to challenged people in power, they wanted to shine a light on shadowy areas that powerful people don’t want actually exposed.”

“It’s been wild to see, especially in opposition to Donald Trump, how that urge has just become they want to be pied pipers and propagandists for the regime instead,” he adds.

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A black hole of nothing: Why Trump is running the show before 2025



When even Politico is admitting that Joe Biden couldn’t possibly be the man currently in charge of the United States, you know it’s gotten bad.

“Politico finally noticed this,” Blaze Media senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “And I think the reason for that is because Democrats are finally willing to talk about it. There’s been a complete absence of leadership in the White House for four years now.”

“It’s not just that Joe Biden is absent, it’s that the new president-elect, not his vice president, but former President Donald Trump, seems to be everywhere at the exact same time,” he continues.

And Trump isn’t just “everywhere,” but he’s receiving warm welcomes from leaders all around the world.


“I mean he’s going over to France; he’s going to the grand, beautiful, really moving reopening of Notre Dame. Royalty from England, people who used to snub their nose at him, Canadian Prime Ministers, or I guess governors as he would call them, French leaders, they are bustling to get into shaking his hand,” Bedford explains.

“When people wonder what American policy is, they’re much more interested, they’d be much better suited, talking to Donald Trump, the mean, old orange man, than they would be talking to the sitting president of the United States, if they’re even able to get him on the line,” he adds.

Peterson is in full agreement.

“Everyone’s seen it. They’ve seen him act as president since really a few weeks after he won. He’s already in the lead,” he says. “It speaks to something very deep that is lurking here, and that is: Where is the leadership in the Democratic Party, period?”

“There’s just a black hole right now of nothing,” he adds.

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‘Just the tip of the iceberg’: Study uncovers DISTURBING vaccine side effects



Americans who spoke out against the COVID-19 vaccines were painted as conspiracy theorists for the better part of the last four years, but they’re finally being vindicated.

Dr. Peter McCullough, cardiologist and chief scientific officer of the Wellness Company, has been one of those “conspiracy theorists,” but now he has the proof. In a shocking peer-reviewed study that mainstream media outlets won’t touch, a high likelihood of correlation between the COVID-19 vaccine and death was found.

“What we know the vaccines cause, in terms of, you know, their safety warnings and what was determined is that about 74% of all the deaths that have occurred after vaccination that have come to autopsy, in fact, the vaccines caused the death,” McCullough tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“The peer-reviewed literature has now about 4,000 papers on fatal and non-fatal vaccines, disabilities, and deaths. So no, it’s not a shock,” he adds.


“When we look at the mRNA vaccines, where do we go from here? Do they have a future? Do you think that they get shut down at this point?” Savage asks.

“There are multiple calls to shut it down, that the platform is not safe, that none of the COVID-19 vaccines are safe for human use. The World Council for Health in the U.K. was the first to call for that, now [from the] Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Doctors for COVID Ethics — there are now literally dozens of calls for the vaccines to be removed,” McCullough explains.

“I expect they will be taken off the market,” he continues. “Largely, the crisis is closed at this point in time. We can treat residual cases. The vaccines never were compelling.”

However, Peterson notes that studies like the one McCullough is citing are still being censored.

“The censorship in the medical literature is significant. It comes at the editorial reviewers and the publisher level. What’s unprecedented are papers being fully published, contracted, copyrighted, indexed in the National Library of Medicine, and then having them be retracted for no specific reason,” McCullough explains.

“I have been an editor of two major journals in the past, and I can tell you, it’s my estimate that only 1% of these papers are fully getting through and being published. Only 1%. So 4,000 papers describing all these concerning side effects, it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” he adds.

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Mental health and religion: Why men need God now more than ever



American men have been suffering in silence through an unprecedented mental health and suicide crisis — while women’s rights have taken center stage.

Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice, believes it’s high time this changes.

“Nationwide, we are experiencing the highest suicide rate, the highest depression rate, ever in recorded American history. And unfortunately, men are hit hardest when it comes to suicide,” Sheffield tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding that 80% of suicides are committed by men.

“More than 90% of occupational deaths on the job are men. We don’t talk about this. The life span on average of men is far shorter than for women, and so we don’t talk about men. All the left loves to do is to demonize men,” she explains.

However, Sheffield believes there’s an answer for the men suffering in silence.


“Coming to faith, being in faith practice, religious community, religion. This is extremely tied with strong mental health, lower suicide, low substance abuse, and so it was an encouragement to men because men are far more likely to be atheist and agnostic,” Sheffield explains.

“Why aren’t people talking about what men would need in terms of mental health?” Peterson asks.

“In general, I think our culture has become divorced from truth,” Sheffield says. “Postmodern society is truth is whatever the wind is telling us. Whatever is trendy, whatever is hot, whatever is buzzy, and when our society falls away from that, it’s no wonder that then you fall into this situation.”

“I’ve experienced it myself as a recovered agnostic, where if you don’t believe in an eternal truth or purpose, then your mental health suffers. And so, I think for a lot of men, as the quote-unquote ‘feminist movement’ demonized men and tried to sever them from their purpose, which is to serve God, to serve people,” she continues.

“Part of that is this idea that a man could be a provider or a protector or create a family,” she says. “The feminist movement was trying to undermine all of that.”

However, there’s some good news.

“I looked at a headline that came out, I think, last week, and Bible sales are actually up 22% in America,” Savage comments.

“The Bible sales, the 22% increase, which is phenomenal, that you mentioned, this is being driven by first-time Bible-buyers,” Sheffield says. “They’re discovering it by themselves, they’re being, in some ways, pioneers in their own family. And it’s being led by young men.”

“And so that’s a glimmer of hope,” she adds.

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The ULTIMATE conservative Christmas list



“We know that your red-pill family and friends can be difficult to buy for,” says Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight."

It’s not necessarily because they’re difficult people but rather because it’s incredibly challenging to find companies that don’t support woke values to buy from.

However, Hilary Kennedy, host of "4-Minute Buzz," has done the research for you and created the “Christmas list that won't give a dime to corporations that hate you.”

Before Hilary gets into her list, she presents an idea that would not only check items off your shopping list but would also help those who are in dire need.

“Consider buying things from people who have been affected by Hurricane Helene. There are so many of those businesses that are really hurting, and a lot of them are just trying to get back up and running,” she says. “So many of them have an online presence, so if we could highlight some of those, that would be great.”

As for Hilary’s official conservative Christmas list, she lists several awesome gift ideas for everyone on your shopping list.

1. UFC Fight Pass

Not only is UFC CEO and president Dana White a longtime friend of Donald Trump’s, but many of the fighters themselves are conservatives.

“For $99, you can get an annual pass or ... you can spend $14.99 and get a two-month pass,” says Hilary, adding that the pass allows you to “watch all the UFC fights going all the way back to the very first [one].”

2. American-made cryptocurrency

Hilary says she specifically recommends “Ripple, Solana, and Cardano."

3. Piper and Leaf Tea

This Alabama-based company makes “teas from their local gardens” and “their briar patches.”

“It's just a small Christian, family-owned business, and I have been drinking their tea for the last year, and it's delicious,” says Hilary.

4. American Giant apparel

While the clothing sold by American Giant can be pricey, the quality you get is unbeatable.

Hilary shows an American Giant shirt she’s had for years that she’s “washed a billion times,” and it still looks like new.

Further, the company keeps "the money here in America” by employing “seamsters, cutters, factory workers in towns and cities across the U.S.”

5.Green Toys

Green Toys makes all kinds of toys for children in the United States using recycled milk jugs.

From cars and rocket ships to tea sets and airplanes, Green Toys makes durable toys that stand the test of time (and the recklessness of toddlers).

“My son has destroyed every toy that he owns, but this sucker has remained strong and durable,” says Hilary, presenting her son’s well-loved Green Toys dump truck.

That’s just the beginning of Hilary’s epic 2024 conservative Christmas list. To hear more gift ideas, including ones that support North Carolinians who were victimized by Helene, watch the clip above.

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Gavin Newsom's INSANE electric vehicle policy could impact YOU



If your plan was to make cars more expensive for everyone, then you would do exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing with his extreme emissions regulations.

“No matter where you live,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments. “We’re talking about impossible quotas, massive fines for automakers, and even a new gas tax. It’s going to make drivers furious.”

Automotive expert and journalist Lauren Fix isn’t thrilled with the plan, either.

“There’s a lot going on,” she tells Savage and Matthew Peterson. “Right now, California currently has from the California Air Resources Board a mandate that by 2026, 35% of all vehicles sold in the state of California should be all electric.”

“By 2030, all electric,” she continues. “No vehicles will be allowed to be sold in the state that are gasoline powered. That’s going to be a problem, considering the cost of electricity there is the highest in the country.”


But it gets worse.

“Every car sold today, as we speak, has a $20,000 fine on top of it for not meeting the California air resources board,” Fix explains. “So every manufacturer is paying a loss of $20,000 on every car that’s sold.”

Starting the first of the year, California will also be adding a 68-cent tax on every car that’s sold.

“That’ll make it even more expensive. So the idea is to incentivize you to give up your gasoline-powered vehicle, but then you have a car payment, higher insurance rates, and no place to charge,” Fix says, noting that it will not only be California affected.

“It’s going to actually affect the whole country, because car manufacturers are not going to build a car just for the state of California. They’re going to build a car for the entire country,” she explains.

While 17 states, including New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, unsurprisingly side with California — Fix believes Trump can stop them.

“If I had his ear, I would tell him to go after the California Air Resources Board, get them to dissipate, because President Obama gave them even more power. So whatever California says, the entire country is forced to follow it,” Fix says.

“Car manufacturers can’t afford to have billions of dollars in fines. Instead, they’re taking millions of dollars in losses, and we’re all paying for it,” she adds.

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How MAGA is winning the culture war



While Kamala Harris stuck to interviews with the outdated mainstream media, Donald Trump ventured out to alternative media like podcasts and Twitch — which many Americans appreciated.

Gates Garcia, president and CEO of Pine Hill Capital management, is one of them.

“He spoke to me,” Garcia tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “By ‘me’ I don’t mean that fancy title that you just read, that’s not as fancy as it sounds. I mean ‘me,’ the regular guy sitting on the couch wanting to know who he is as a human.”

“In linear broadcast television, you’re sort of spoken to. And with podcasts and alternative platforms, networks like the Blaze, you’re able to sort of participate in the conversation,” he continues. “It feels like they’re talking to you on a personal level, that sort of is able to humanize the person.”


“If you look at every demographic that swung in Trump’s direction, I think it was a direct result of him actually speaking to those people directly,” he adds.

While the left has historically dominated the media and all cultural institutions, Garcia believes that’s about to completely change.

“I think we’re in the first inning of an absolute takeover of the media, and by that, I mean the right, the conservative movement, is taking over that institution. We’re probably in the first inning, but it’s been happening for a while, and I think that when over half the country elects Donald Trump, it means that they either don’t watch mainstream media, or they don’t believe it,” he explains.

And Garcia isn’t the only one who sees it. After Trump’s landslide victory, Elon Musk posted on X: “You are the media now.”

“We’ve been given control, we the people. And we can curate what we want to consume, and so, it’s now sort of owned in a way by the people,” Garcia explains, adding, “You can take an institution down, or you can build a linear one. The great part is, we’re building the linear one. They took themselves down.”

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Biden's case to BLOCK Tennessee's child sex-change ban EXPLAINED



The Supreme Court spent last week hearing arguments over a Tennessee law that bans doctors from providing transgender puberty blockers or hormone treatments to minors. It’s a logical law that protects against the mutilation of children, but of course, the left is upset that kids won’t be given what it euphemistically calls “gender affirming care.”

Despite being a state-level case, the Biden administration has intervened, apparently deciding that this will be the battle that concludes its disastrous term.

Josh Hammer, senior editor at large for Newsweek, joins Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight” to discuss the situation.

“Does the Biden administration actually have grounds right now to intervene in a state policy like this?” Jill asks.

Hammer explains that the Department of Justice filed what is called a writ of certiorari — a legal document that requires the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision, granted four SCOTUS judges agree to hear the case.

“This case is styled U.S. vs. Skrmetti, which means that the United States is the lead plaintiff here,” Hammer says. “That actually has a very concrete, practical application when it comes to Donald Trump and JD Vance and Pam Bondi, assuming that she's going to be the AG pick come January 20.”

“They can move to withdraw this case, and specifically, they should make a motion to ... dismiss it as ‘improvidently granted,’” meaning that SCOTUS should never have accepted the case for review in the first place, he adds. “There's no reason why the United States should be in the procedural posture of suing Tennessee for a common sensical, civilizationally sound law.”

However, even if the Trump administration moves to “dig this case” and motion is denied, Hammer predicts the outcome will still be favorable.

“I was pretty happy with the way this argument went,” he says.

Peterson, who also watched the hearing, says that “the discrepancy between the two sides” was “astounding.”

“On the one side, you have the ACLU lawyer claiming that less than 1% of minors who undergo this surgery have regrets, and then you have Tennessee and the attorney general saying, ‘No, no, actually 85% desists from transition,”’ he recounts. “You really do have two sides talking in completely different universes.”

Hammer agrees: “What you saw at SCOTUS on Wednesday, I think, are two diametrically opposed conceptions of the human person. You saw two diametrically opposed conceptions of anthropology — of what it means to be human in the first place.”

“On the one hand, you have the ACLU left-wing argument, which is that human life is basically a pick-your-own adventure. ... On the other hand, you have the old-fashioned view — the view of Genesis 1:27: ‘Male and female, God created them,”’ he adds.

Because of the radically opposed viewpoints, “Neutrality here is just not an option.”

“You actually have to put a thumb on the scale from both a political perspective and indeed from a judicial and a jurisprudential perspective here. At some point, you actually have to say that the moral heart of the issue in this particular case dictates that there is male and female and that we are not going to arbitrarily concoct some sort of pseudo classification based on alleged ‘transgender status,’” says Hammer. “I am hopeful that in the majority opinion, or at least in one of the concurrences there, that we will get some morally forthright language.”

To hear more on the case, including Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson likening transgender surgeries on minors to interracial marriage, watch the clip above.

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Whistleblower explains why Kash Patel is THE guy to fix the FBI



One of Donald Trump’s most exciting picks for his incoming administration is Kash Patel, who will lead the FBI.

And FBI whistleblower Steve Friend is thrilled by the pick.

“I’ve been on record for a long time now believing that the FBI has to be shattered into a thousand pieces and scattered to the wind,” Friend tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.”

“If there is one person, though, who can possibly make the demo into a reno, it is Kash Patel,” he continues.

“He brings a great perspective being someone who is not just a prosecutor who actually helped prosecute the war on terrorism over at JSOC and saw intelligence and rooted out the corruption when he was part of the Russiagate expose that went on, but he’s also a public defender, which is very unique because historically, the FBI director is a federal prosecutor,” he explains.


Because of his unique skill set, Friend believes that “he has a healthy respect for the amount of power that is at the fingertips of the FBI.”

“The fact that they’re able to take people’s freedom away, if they indeed make the process the punishment, that they’re able to do that,” he continues, adding, “So I’m really enthused by that.”

Friend has been in “back channel conversations with him” and knows that Patel is “willing to take up things like ‘let’s get rid of the intelligence apparatus that exists for the FBI.’”

“There’s no reason they need to be spying on the American people. They’re a police force, they shouldn’t be a secret police force,” Friend says, noting that Patel “needs to get rid of the quota system.”

“The fact that the FBI is rewarding and incentivizing agents, senior executives, to push on their underlings to go and arrest the right number of people or open the right number of cases so that they can get five-figure bonuses,” he comments, disturbed. “And let’s revamp the way we’re doing our hiring practices so that we’re merit-based.”

“And I just have to point to the last three position holders over at the FBI directorship,” he continues, noting James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Christopher Wray, who were all working against Trump and the American people for the last few years.

“It’s hardly a nonpartisan position at this point, and the fact that Kash Patel is wearing his politics on his sleeve, I think is actually just refreshing. Because it’s transparent,” he adds.

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Biden opened the door for AVALANCHE of Trump pardons



Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, which covers every federal crime that he’s committed in the past decade, is taking the news cycle by storm — and for good reason.

“It is absolutely unprecedented,” Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “We believe this is the most expansive, the most broad and wide-ranging pardon ever issued in American history.”

Even Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal was only for five years of crimes, while Hunter’s spanned a whopping eleven years.

“You can go back even further, if you want to look at pardons given to Confederate generals after the Civil War, people who literally waged war against the United States, theirs were not as expansive as this,” Davis explains, adding that “to see his son get the biggest, most widest-ranging pardon in American history, it’s shocking to me.”


While it’s shocking — and blatantly corrupt — Hunter’s pardon isn’t all negative.

“If they were worried about J6 protesters maybe being pardoned before this happened, they don’t need to worry about that any more, because that’s 100% going to happen. By doing a pardon of this nature for the president’s son, it basically makes it impossible for Democrats to complain or argue about any pardons going forward,” Davis says.

However, Democrats like Gerry Connolly seem to be catching on and are already insisting that there should not be sweeping pardons like Hunter’s in the future.

“It’s interesting that this is coming from the Democratic side, because they know at some point,” Savage says, “Republicans are going to be back in office.”

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