(RFK Jr.'s new autism investigation causes a media meltdown



RFK Jr. has announced his desire to get to the root cause of the autism epidemic — and strangely enough, Americans left of center are up in arms, as they appear not to want the truth.

The health and human services secretary created a firestorm when he claimed that people with autism won’t be able to pay taxes or hold down a job, as well as calling it a “preventable disease” caused by a mysterious environmental toxin.

Of course, while there are many children with autism who grow up to be productive members of society, RFK Jr. was speaking about those whose lives are completely upended by their diagnosis.


“I think half of everyone I know is on the spectrum,” Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight.” “They’re intelligent and interesting and bring a lot of different skills to this, but that’s not the only kind of autism.”

“There are other people who I know who have to take their kids out of different schools they are in to try and find them the resources they need. Levels of autism so bad that children are non-verbal, that they don’t walk correctly, that they will never communicate correctly, that they will have extreme difficulty ever holding down any kind of a job,” he continues.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media are blaming RFK for trying to cure autism, as they believe it’s just something that makes those afflicted unique.

“That’s insane,” Bedford says. “Our environment over the last 50 years and 20 years in particular have made the rates of autism absolutely skyrocket in this country.”

“If you care about this, and you care about your kids, you’d want to investigate,” he adds.

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Grieving mom obliterates MS-13-supporting Democrats at White House press briefing



Rachel Morin was a mother of five, but left behind her children when she was raped and killed by an undocumented migrant from El Salvador.

She was found near the MA & PA Trail in Harford County on August 6, 2023. Victor Martinez-Hernandez was found guilty of her murder on April 14 and had fled to the United States illegally after an arrest warrant was issued in El Salvador.

Patty Morin, the victim’s mother, took the stage as a special guest at a White House press briefing where Karoline Leavitt began by highlighting crimes committed by another illegal immigrant, Kilmar Garcia.


Not just an illegal immigrant but an MS-13 gang associate accused of violent crimes against his own wife, Garcia was deported by the Trump administration — while the Democrats have been fighting for his return.

But Morin is well aware of the danger these illegal immigrants pose to American citizens, and she bravely recounted the story of her own daughter's death to drive her point home.

“He attacked her. He dragged her 150 feet, blood gushing from her head. It left a 150-foot trail of her blood,” Morin said at the press conference. “He picked her up, he threw her against the wall of the tunnel, and he raped her. But before he did that, he stopped on that trail, and rocks still stained with her blood, he used them to hammer her head against those rocks.”

“She was so stoic,” Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “It was incredibly brave, and she answered on the way out the door the question that I was intending to ask.”

“She felt betrayed by those people, those politicians, who just don’t seem to give a damn in Maryland and in Washington and all around the country,” Bedford says. “When she left, the press room was silent. There wasn’t the usual hubbub, there wasn’t the yelling of questions.”

“There was just silence, and that alone was witness to the testimony that she gave,” he adds.

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The border industrial complex: Charities are using YOUR MONEY to fund mass migration



The Red Cross — and many other charities like it — have long been touted as selfless entities created to help American citizens.

But a recent investigation by the Oversight Project has revealed the Red Cross' interest is not actually in helping Americans but in helping itself.

“The Red Cross, courtesy of your U.S. tax dollars, heading down to Colombia, right south of the most dangerous jungle in the world, the Darien Gap, where the Red Cross is supposed to be keeping people out of danger, is telling them how to go into the jungle,” Oversight Project executive director Mike Howell tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight.”

“There’s jungle cats, nomadic gangs, and all sorts of danger,” he continues, adding, “All so they can illegally immigrate to the United States. It’s still happening, and you’re still paying for it.”


Howell calls this the “border industrial complex.”

“It is an entire well-organized, decades-long-in-the-making complex, and it is what allowed the country to be invaded over the Biden administration. It could not have been accomplished without the coordinated effort,” he explains, “and this means things as simple as handing people water and shelter and plane tickets.”

But it’s not just as simple as water, shelter, and plane tickets.

“The Red Cross has a psychiatrist to mentally prepare illegal aliens from all around the world. Not just people from south of the border,” he says, “but people from all over every single continent in the world who have traversed through the Darien Gap, preparing them with the psychological fortitude I guess they need to know they’re about to enter one of the most dangerous jungles and potentially be kidnapped by tribes.”

Alongside food, water, and psychological preparation, the Red Cross also provides maps that explain how to navigate into the U.S. illegally.

“Everything in which one illegal could need to get to the U.S., the Red Cross is attempting to provide them,” Howell says.

“And they’re working side by side with another organization,” he continues, adding, “This is why we have to use the term ‘border industrial complex,’ because there’s so many of them.”

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Dan Bongino publicly responds to FBI appointment of J6-obsessed official



In a move no conservative saw coming, a key player in the January 6 witch hunts was recently named the assistant director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

That key player is Steven Jensen.

While conservatives had been counting on newly crowned FBI Director Kash Patel to root out people like Jensen, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino posted a few cryptic X posts that seemed to defend the FBI’s decision to give him the position.

“As I dive back into work, I want to reassure you that nothing that is happening here is happening by accident. Because of the sensitivity of what the FBI deals with, both the Director and I have to be circumspect in what we can make public. Bad guys read this stuff too. Neither one of us came here to play games,” Bongino wrote in a post on X.


“Measure us by results. You will see them. But just because you don’t see something happening right this second, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening,” he continued, noting that not every decision made will “please everyone,” and they won’t be “pandering” in order to do so.

“When you see something happen, and the entire story isn’t public, and the underlying facts aren’t all public, it may appear counterintuitive to our reform agenda,” he wrote in a follow-up post, adding, “I promise you, it’s not an accident.”

“We are assuming that Bongino was responding to this controversy,” Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight.” “If, in fact, he was responding to that, it still does not answer one of the hardest questions that I think and one of the most important questions that I have.”

That question, Baker reveals, is, “Why have we been a week and a half into this appointment and there’s been no announcement from the FBI, not even the lowest level public relations or spokesperson from the FBI?”

That includes FBI Director Kash Patel.

“There’s always an announcement about important positions when they are filled like this, and for him to take over the most important position in the Washington Field Office with no announcement, no press release,” Baker says, noting that the controversy surrounding the move would be incredibly hard for them to ignore.

“And still, the only thing that we have seen posted from Kash Patel on his X account so far is the intramural fundraising hockey game that they had in Chicago, and maybe a couple of other arrests, but nothing to do with this particular controversy whatsoever,” Baker continues.

“So they are obviously ignoring it for some reason,” he adds.

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MAGA betrayal? Kash Patel appoints J6 ‘terrorist’ hunter to key position



FBI Director Kash Patel has made it clear that he rejects the mainstream narrative that January 6 was a massive insurrection and has even suggested that the FBI played a role in inciting the event.

These sentiments stand in stark contrast to his recent appointment of Steven Jensen as the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. Jensen’s past role as Section Chief of the Domestic Terrorism Operations Section, in which he labeled January 6 protesters "terrorists," leading to aggressive efforts to arrest them, has sparked widespread controversy.

“This comes as a shock to conservatives who were counting on FBI director Kash Patel to clean up the bureau, because Jensen was a key figure in the domestic terror push against January 6 protesters,” says “Blaze News Tonight’s” Jill Savage.

To get the inside scoop on this strange appointment, Jill speaks with Blaze Media investigative journalist Steve Baker, who co-authored a recent article with Joe Hanneman on this subject.

“What should we make of this decision to have Steve Jensen out there in the Washington Field Office?” Jill asks.

“This is the most confounding thing to come out of the administration thus far, especially out of the new FBI, the new Department of Justice. As you know, we expected and we hoped that Kash and Dan Bongino collectively would be a wrecking ball in that agency,” says Baker. “That's what they alluded to and told us that they would do in so many interviews and in Kash Patel's own book.”

Jensen’s appointment is causing many conservatives to recant their former endorsements. Even leftist outlets are pointing out the hypocrisy. Baker says the New York Times admitted that Jensen’s appointment “seemed to be kind of contrary to what Kash Patel has promised the MAGA movement, the Trump supporters, and the J6 community.”

To make matters worse, the hiring was done covertly. It was an email leak that publicized the controversy.

“He was already an employee, but it was not announced in any way. This was done kind of surreptitiously under the cover of darkness. Nobody announced it; there was no press release; there was no announcement from Kash Patel or any other FBI spokesman,” says Baker.

“It wasn't until we caused a ruckus through our X thread … that [the Washington Field Office] finally responded and said, ‘just go check the website,’ and we did…and Steven Jensen's name has been added as assistant director in charge.”

Now that the news is out, conservatives across the country are raging.

Jensen’s role in the investigation and prosecution of January 6 protesters destroyed a lot of lives, says Baker, who knows a thing or two about being victimized by a weaponized DOJ for his January 6 attendance as an investigative journalist.

“We're talking about misdemeanor defendants, nonviolent defendants, families that were raided by FBI SWAT teams at 6:30 in the morning, guns up on their family, on their children, on their wives,” he reflects.

“People lost their homes; they lost their jobs, their careers; they were kicked out of their churches; they lost their marriages — all manner of family destruction and lives that were ruined as a result of this process, and this guy was at the actual forefront. He was the tip of the spear in the agency that was seeing this forward.”

On top of that, Jensen also was part of these “twice daily phone calls” that began two days after January 6, in which the FBI spoke with local and state police, governor's mansions, and mayoral residences and offices from every city in America to give them the official J6 “narrative, marching order, and agenda.”

“This was a national forum for which they were able to indoctrinate all of the law enforcement agencies across the country, the mayor's offices, the governors across the country, and teach them, tell them, and show them how to go out and prosecute these individuals,” says Baker.

Thus far, it’s been crickets from Kash Patel. Bongino has posted a cryptic “trust the plan” memo without ever addressing Jensen directly.

“They are obviously ignoring it for some reason,” Baker says.

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

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Senator Banks CLOWNS HHS employee cut by DOGE



President Donald Trump’s restructuring of the federal government has not been going well for some government employees — and they’re not doing a great job helping their own cases.

One recent viral video taken by a fired Health and Human Services employee shows the employee himself attempting to chase down Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.), only for his plan to completely backfire.

“Hi, I was a worker at HHS, I was fired illegally on February 14. There are many people who are not getting social service programs, especially people with disabilities. Are you going to do anything to stop what’s happening?” the disgruntled former employee said while chasing Banks into an elevator.


“You probably deserved it,” Banks replied.

“I deserved it? Yeah, that’s great to hear. Why did I deserve it?” the former employee continued.

As the elevator doors began to shut, Banks said, “Because you seem like a clown.”

“This is one of those serendipitous moments where the way this was shot, I mean, you couldn’t script this any better,” Matthew Peterson tells Jill Savage on “Blaze News Tonight.” “It’s becoming a meme, and it really is just brilliant cinematography, basically. It was a perfect sequence.”

“Right now, this is the DOGE order of the day, and you know, straight into our veins. We want to hear more of the complaints and the tears and drink them, because no one feels bad. This has been a long time coming. It’s very needed, and it’s our money being wasted,” he adds.

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Country star Morgan Wallen ironically made SNL funny again



On March 29, country music star Morgan Wallen was invited to perform as a musical guest on “Saturday Night Live.” The “Whiskey Glasses” singer sang two songs from his upcoming album “I’m the Problem,” but at the end-of-show gathering onstage where the host, cast, and guests typically wave goodbye to the audience, Wallen quickly shook hands with host Mikey Madison and then walked offstage abruptly before the credits finished rolling.

Shortly after this brow-raising departure, Wallen took to social media and posted a picture of his plane with the caption “Get me to God’s country.”

“Apparently he did not enjoy his time in the Big Apple,” says Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight.”

"SNL" certainly felt snubbed. The show roasted Wallen twice in the next episode for both his exit and his post. But the show really should be thanking him for bringing some much-needed humor back to the program.

Jill wonders what it would actually take to make SNL funny again. Last week, she posted the following on X:

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Here were some of the best responses:

“Imagine if you just lived in a free world; that's what this segment makes me realize,” says Blaze News editor in chief and “Blaze News Tonight” co-host Matthew Peterson.

“I mean of course they should just have people who are actually funny represent the entire spectrum on there. … They'd be more successful, but I don't think that 'Saturday Night Live' actually exists in order to do comedy,” he tells Jill.

But if "SNL" stays on its current course, there’s plenty of humor elsewhere. Take Yale professor Jason Stanley, who just stormed off to Canada to protect his family from fascist Donald Trump. His recent segment on MSNBC is funnier than anything SNL has produced in years.

To watch it, check out the clip above.

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The deep state cabal that LIED about Hunter Biden's laptop



House Republicans have uncovered documents revealing that the FBI knew the Hunter Biden laptop story wasn’t “disinformation” but rather used Big Tech to snuff out the story.

“The FBI wasn’t just quiet about the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, they actually told their own people not to talk about it,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” reports, noting that a top FBI lawyer even issued a gag order on an agent who accidentally confirmed the story’s validity.

Blaze Media D.C. correspondent Christopher Bedford isn’t surprised in the slightest.


“We always knew this is what was going on,” Bedford says. “We knew that this was crooked, we knew it was corrupt, we knew that top levels of the U.S. government and alumni of the intelligence community were involved.”

“So what we’re seeing now is actually unbelievably refreshing, because I covered this the whole time, and now we have the receipts,” he continues. “We’ll be able to look back in 50 years and say the entire thing was bogus, the corruption of the Biden family can begin to be exposed. How high the protection for them went can begin to be really exposed.”

Bedford believes that the Hunter Biden laptop story has always been “way bigger than Hunter Biden” and the “presidential family corruption” itself.

“Not only were they willing to suppress this in time for an election, but then in the months afterwards, Amazon web services was willing to rip out the actual internet servers beneath American companies that had done nothing wrong, because they were going along with this disinformation,” Bedford explains.

“This whole thing exposed just how corrupt the federal government was, the intelligence services were, the people who protect them were,” he continues, adding, “Never forget what they did.”

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How THIS Florida sheriff is taking on illegal immigrants



The Brevard County, Florida, Sheriff’s Department is taking illegal immigration into its own hands and working with federal law enforcement agencies to arrest illegal immigrants within its jurisdiction.

“This operation is actually under Operation Stonegarden. It’s been in place for a couple of years, and the reason why that is important is because this is just part of the ongoing efforts from the state and local level to help the Trump administration,” Blaze Media national correspondent Julio Rosas tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson on “Blaze News Tonight.”

Rosas has been embedded with the Brevard County Sheriff’s Department during its Border Patrol operation, and he’s pleased with the action Florida’s taking.


“Governor DeSantis has made it clear that he thinks in order for the Trump administration to really fulfill its campaign promises of mass deportations, states have to utilize every resource that they can put towards actually helping federal law enforcement, because the federal agencies, as vast as they are, they do have limitations,” Rosas explains.

And that’s the point of Operation Stonegarden, which is from the federal government and allows local law enforcement to engage in these kinds of joint task force missions.

“How it works,” Rosas says, “the sheriff’s deputies would be the ones to make a traffic stop, and it could be for any sort of violation.”

“In many of the cases, what actually ended up screwing these guys over that got arrested was not having a license plate properly affixed to a trailer that was bringing along something for landscaping,” he explains.

“Then once it is determined, yes, they’re not here legally for a number of reasons, or they might have a criminal history already that the federal government is aware of, they then get taken into custody, put in a van, and then at the end of the day they brought that van over to Orlando to the processing site over there so that they can kind of complete that process to get them out of the country,” he adds.

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Elon Musk EXPOSES massive Social Security fraud among noncitizens



At an America PAC town hall in Wisconsin this week, Elon Musk took the opportunity to reveal a serious truth bomb — which is that millions of noncitizens receive Social Security numbers.

Musk was joined on stage by fellow billionaire Antonio Gracias, who is the CEO and CIO of Valor Equity Partners.

“Once you’re in the country, and you’ve got asylum through one of these pathways, we’ve mapped the whole thing out; you can apply for a work document. You file a 765, it’s the work form. You get this form called the 766, that’s the authorization, and then the Social Security Administration automatically sends you in the mail your Social Security number,” Gracias told the audience.


“No interview, no ID,” Gracias added, before Musk chimed in.

“This is worth just reiterating,” Musk said. “People sometimes think that under the Biden administration that he was simply asleep at the switch. He wasn’t asleep at the switch. It was a massive large-scale program to import as many illegals as possible.”

“Ultimately, to change the entire voting map of the United States, disenfranchise the American people, and make it a permanent, deep-blue one-party state from which there would be no escape,” he added.

Some hecklers did manage to get into the town hall, and Musk then called them out accordingly.

“It was inevitable that at least a few Soros operatives would be in the audience,” Musk said to laughter. “Give my regards to George; say hi to George for me,” he added, before chanting “USA” along with the crowd.

Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” is impressed.

“He is the best form of communication that we have going on the right,” Savage says. “So good.”

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