Florida congresswoman tells Joe Rogan that aliens are real, she’s seen the proof!



Yesterday, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told Joe Rogan on “The Joe Rogan Experience” that aliens are real and she’s seen the proof.

As chair of the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Luna claimed she’d seen classified photos of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, and heard testimonies from “credible people” who’ve personally encountered otherworldly beings.

When Rogan pressed her on the possibility that what she’d seen in the photos was actually “U.S. vehicles that are top secret,” Luna responded by saying, “This might sound crazy, but based on our investigations and stuff that we’ve seen, there is definitely something that I think would rival what we know currently with physics and a tech that potentially is out there that we don’t have the ability to reproduce.”

Luna expressed her belief in “interdimensional beings” that exist “outside of time and space” and operate aircraft “not created by mankind,” while acknowledging that she’s never seen portals, aliens, or UAPs in person.

The Florida representative’s remarks have sparked mixed feelings, with some amplifying her belief in the extraterrestrial and others expressing skepticism.

Pat Gray, BlazeTV host of “Pat Gray Unleashed,” along with co-hosts Keith Malinak and Jeff Fisher and producer Kris Cruz, all fall into the camp of people who believe there’s something true behind the notion of aliens.

Are they demonic entities? Are they human beings from the future traveling back in time to visit us? Are they fellow image-bearers of God?

“I think it’s impossible that there are not other people in the universe — probably in the galaxy,” Pat says, noting that scientists have estimated that there are “3 trillion galaxies” in the universe.

Join the “Unleashed” team as they dive into Luna’s controversial statements and explore the possibility of alien life.

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MIDTERMS 2028: Here's what Republicans must prioritize



It may feel like election season is over, but it’s just beginning, as the midterms are right around the corner.

And with President Donald Trump doing such a phenomenal job on issues like the border and immigration, BlazeTV host Steve Deace is curious as to how Republicans will be able to mobilize the same voters who came out in 2024.

“As hard as it was to assemble the coalition that it took to win the last election, I think it’s going to be harder to keep it together, because these are not groups of people that are used to necessarily being aligned on an issue-by-issue basis and the traditional Venn diagram of our politics,” Deace explains.

“And I have a little experience with this as one of the OG COVID scamdemic narrative dissenters. I found myself aligned with people like RFK Jr. and Naomi Wolf and Joe Rogan that I was not aligned with on a myriad of other issues, but we had one thing in common,” he continues.


“And that was we smelled a rat and we were seeking out truth,” he adds.

Which is why Deace believes that “the issues that are trending are going to be very important in telling the tale in what kind of voter comes out to vote in November of ‘26.”

“I’m actually writing a book on a topic very similar to this right now, and it goes to the base of what I believe actually drives all issue vote choice and others. Academic research backs this up. And that is voters' emotions,” pollster Brent Buchanan agrees.

“If you use the 2024 election as a case study, the turnout among men was the highest as a percentage that it’s been in at least my lifetime in being in politics. Why? Because a huge swath of men were absolutely ticked off, angered, upset, frustrated, you know, kind of all within that anger bucket of emotions,” Buchanan says.

“And that is the number-one driver of turnout in elections," he says. "Anxiety is the number-one driver of people digging into what they believe or looking up and trying to figure out where else can I go to make my anxiety go away."

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Zachary Levi on Hollywood’s hidden corruption — and ‘egregious’ vaccine mandates



Actor Zachary Levi made waves in Hollywood last year when he came out against vaccination and in support of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump — and now he’s taking it even further.

Levi, who is well aware which way Hollywood leans and how they treat you when you’re leaning the wrong way, is taking matters into his own hands and launching a $100 million Hollywood studio of his own.

The studio is called Wyldwood Studios, and it’s located in Austin near many other Hollywood escapees, like Woody Harrelson and Joe Rogan.

“I went into Hollywood, and it was very broken,” he tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.” “When I got my first look behind the curtain and I saw how all the sausage was made in Hollywood 25 years ago, I was like, ‘God, I don’t know how to do this. This is so broken.”


“The value structure is entirely upside down. They’re not valuing the product, and they’re not valuing the people making the product. They’re valuing the bottom line. So it’s profit over people and not the other way around. You’ve got to value people over profit,” he adds.

That’s when God called him to make a change.

“So, what God called me to do wasn’t, it’s not just go fix the broken Hollywood system,” Levi tells Stuckey.

“Part of this was inspired by all of the stuff that happened with vaccine mandates in Hollywood, too, right? And just, like, your desire for freedom and autonomy?” Stuckey asks.

“I guess on some level,” Levi responds. “I just think that what we need across the world is we need to be able to live actually truly free lives, to be able to have actual liberty and autonomy within your life. Like, I’m more libertarian than anything else in that regard.”

“I don’t think anybody should have been mandated to get the vaccine. Certainly, I can only speak for my industry, and there were lots and lots and lots of people that were mandated,” he continues. “Through fear, through coercion, that was forced on a lot of people. And I think that was egregious.”

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'Progressive Christian' turns Bible into a Planned Parenthood parable — but truth fires back



Who knew the Christmas story was really about bodily autonomy?

That's exactly what Democrat James Talarico, a Texas state representative and progressive Christian, wants you to believe. Armed with the confidence of a seminarian with just enough theology to be dangerous, Talarico recently appeared on "The Joe Rogan Experience," where he claimed there is "no historical, theological, biblical basis" requiring Christians to oppose abortion.

Talarico wants to paint Mary as a modern feminist icon. But scripture tells a different story, one far more radical.

What's worse, Talarico argued that the Bible supports the "right" of a mother to kill her unborn child.

His argument goes like this: Because Genesis 2:7 says that Adam became a "living being" after God breathed life into him, that means life doesn't begin until birth. Therefore, an unborn child can be killed before he takes his first breath because the unborn aren't fully human.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Bible. It's theological acrobatics dressed up as biblical scholarship — and it's a lie.

Adam wasn't conceived in a womb, according to Genesis. He was handcrafted by God from the dust of creation, then filled with God's life-giving spirit. The moment of breath is not about biology, as Talarico suggests, but theology. It declares that God alone is the giver of life. And to use this verse as a permission slip for abortion is not just a category error, it's a hermeneutical train wreck of the worst kind.

The implications of his logic are chilling.

Biblically, it means that King David's mother would have been morally justified to exercise "choice" and abort the future king — even while God weaved him together in his mother's womb (Psalm 139) — and that it would have been justified for Elizabeth and Mary to slaughter their unborn children, John the Baptist and Jesus, just as Herodian soldiers slaughtered the holy innocents who supposedly threatened King Herod's reign (Matthew 2:16-18).

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In fact, Talarico's logic does more than attack the unborn — it undermines the Incarnation.

His argument denies the hypostatic union, the historic Christian doctrine that Jesus is both fully God and fully human. If Jesus wasn't fully human until He took His first breath, then He was not the Incarnate Son during Mary's pregnancy. But Jesus didn't become the Son of God only when he took his first breath at birth. No, he was fully God and fully human from the moment of conception. To suggest otherwise is not a minor theological error. It's heresy.

In an effort to score progressive political points, Talarico doesn't just fumble elementary theology or misinterpret a Bible verse. He actually guts the gospel and rips out the beating heart of Christian orthodoxy.

But it gets worse.

Not content with butchering Genesis 2:7, Talarico also reinterprets the Annunciation — the moment when the angel Gabriel tells Mary she will bear the Son of God (Luke 1:26-38) — as proof that the Bible is pro-abortion.

"Before God comes over Mary and we have the Incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable," Talarico told Joe Rogan. "The angel comes down and asks Mary if this is something that she wants to do, and she says, 'If it is God's will, let it be done.'"

In Talarico's telling, the Annunciation is not about God taking on human flesh to dwell with us but a story that teaches that "creation has to be done with consent." Therefore, his argument goes, abortion is compatible with Christianity because creation itself depends on a woman exercising bodily autonomy.

This pro-Planned Parenthood parable, of course, is pure fiction.

The Christian consensus has been clear-eyed about this issue for two millennia: Abortion is a grave sin. Full stop.

Neither God nor Gabriel asks Mary for her "consent." Instead, Gabriel tells Mary what she will do. "You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus" (Luke 1:31). And Mary's response? She doesn't assert her bodily autonomy, but she accepts God's will with obedience, even though she does not understand God's plan (Luke 1:34).

Talarico wants to paint Mary as a modern feminist icon. But scripture tells a different story, one far more radical: She is a confused teenage girl who trusts God with her body, future, and reputation.

It's the ultimate act of surrender. And, more importantly, it's a complete rebuke of pro-abortion ideology, which elevates a woman to giver and taker of life.

The truth is, Christianity has never endorsed abortion. The earliest Christian writings outside the New Testament — from the Didache to the church fathers and Councils — explicitly condemn abortion and equate it with murder. The Christian consensus has been clear-eyed about this issue for two millennia: Abortion is a grave sin. Full stop.

Only under the pressure of secularism, an ideology that erases God, have some Christians equivocated and, in the case of Talarico, tried to revise history. But this revision attempt is not biblical scholarship.

This is why Talarico's attempt to force the concept of "consent" into the Bible is as bewildering as it is absurd. He's not doing exegesis. He's bending his knee to the spirit of the age, using the Bible as a prop to recast the word of God into the image of progressive politics.

It's dangerous, not only because of its destructive theology, but because Talarico is not a fringe activist. He's a rising star in the Democratic Party. Rogan, in fact, urged Talarico to run for president, and Politico even believes Talarico could "turn Texas blue." That means his gobbledygook theology isn't just rhetorical — it could have real consequences.

And the cost will be measured in dead unborn babies.

Christians must not be deceived by Talarico's affable tone, seminary vocabulary, or theological sleight of hand. The Bible is not pro-abortion, and Christian theology does not treat abortion as a third-tier issue we can "agree to disagree" about. Christianity is unabashedly pro-life. From Genesis to Revelation, God reveals a radical vision of human life: It is sacred because it is human made in His image.

Mary didn't say, "My body, my choice." She said, "I am the Lord's servant. May it happen to me as you have said." That's not feminist consent. It's a rebuke of it.

Are Democrats reclaiming the 'podcast bros'?



President Donald Trump notched a historic victory in 2024, becoming the first Republican to sweep all seven swing states and to secure the popular vote since 1984. His success has been attributed to many different aspects of his campaign, but one unorthodox strategy stuck out.

In between countless campaign rallies and many media appearances, Trump made his rounds on several platforms that have been casually dubbed as the "bro podcasts." The slate of comedians, sports enthusiasts, and cultural commentators is a far cry from the traditional presidential debates brokered by corporate news outlets, yet the reach is arguably greater.

'Like a lot of normal Americans, some of the country's top podcast hosts aren't ideologues, they're just people who detest the political establishment.'

Trump subsequently made significant gains across several demographics, including Gen Z men, a generation that is measurably more conservative compared to their Millennial and Gen X predecessors. At the same time, their support for Trump is beginning to slip, and Democrats can smell blood in the water.

Many of these podcast hosts were perceived as sympathetic toward Trump during his campaign simply for interviewing the Republican frontrunner. It's important to clarify, however, that many of those same podcasters were in talks with former Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign, which eventually turned down all their interview requests — but not before making a pit stop at Alex Cooper's notorious sex podcast, "Call Her Daddy," of course.

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The bottom line is that these podcasters are not the MAGA apologists the legacy media claims they are. Within the first six months of Trump's second term, the same hosts who sat down with the president leading up to November have also come out and criticized some policies implemented by the administration.

'Democrats shouldn’t approach these podcasts as a place to score points.'

Theo Von, the beloved comedian who hosts "This Past Weekend," has been especially critical of Trump's foreign policy and Israel's ongoing attacks in Gaza. Trump campaigned on ending foreign wars, yet the same conflicts rage on, leaving Von and many other Americans dissatisfied with the administration's trajectory.

“What’s the win for us? We’re just involved in some other thing while we have suffering here at home," Von said in June as tensions grew between Iran and Israel.

The Epstein saga, which dominated the political news cycle for over a week, also sowed division among podcast hosts and American voters alike.

"Sure feels like the dark arts are afoot!" Von said in response to the GOP's handling of Epstein-related votes. "Why no vote Speaker Johnson?"

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Comedian Andrew Schulz, who co-hosts the "Flagrant" podcast, has also criticized certain aspects of the Trump administration and its immigration policy. Schulz, who was a lifelong Democrat, told Saagar Enjeti of "Breaking Points" that elected officials ought to be held accountable, even if you supported them.

"If you're not willing to hold the person that you voted for to the standards that they expected, then you're not a real person that cares about what's happening in America," Schulz said.

Because podcasters like Schulz and Von refuse to cast themselves into ideological molds, there is room for a wide range of voices to share their thoughts and exchange ideas with the popular hosts. Many of these critiques are echoed by their audiences, and some Democrats are seizing the opportunity.

Since the inauguration, Trump's approval ratings among Gen Z and male voters have declined, in some cases in the double digits. One CBS poll shows that Gen Z approval of Trump has declined from 55% to 28% in just six months, while overall male approval has dipped from 60% to 47%. Notably, these are the same demographics that make up a large portion of the viewership for podcasts like "The Joe Rogan Experience" and "Flagrant."

'Democrats are desperate to get back their momentum with young voters, especially men, by looking like regular people.'

Emily Jashinsky, host of "After Party with Emily Jashinsky," told Blaze News that the real reason these podcasts have amassed great followings, particularly with young men, is not because of their party affiliation but because they are willing to go against the grain.

"Like a lot of normal Americans, some of the country's top podcast hosts aren't ideologues, they're just people who detest the political establishment," Jashinsky told Blaze News. "Hunter Biden actually framed himself and his father as victims of the political establishment in his conversation with Andrew Callaghan, and that's not an accident."

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When asked point-blank if the "podcast bro" audience was "up for grabs" for Democrats, Schulz answered bluntly.

"Absolutely," Schulz said. "I'm up for grabs."

Democrats have since been making their rounds on the podcast circuit. Everyone from former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna of California, and even Gov. Gavin Newsom have made appearances alongside the "podcast bros."

"We're allegedly these 'big MAGA podcasts,' and Pete Buttigieg comes on and has the biggest interview of his career," Schulz said. "Not our biggest interview of our career, his biggest interview."

"It's very simple. Whoever has the ideas that meet the needs of the people and can actively convince us that they can execute those ideas is gonna win our vote."

"Democrats shouldn’t approach these podcasts as a place to score points," Khanna, who has previously appeared on "The Glenn Beck Podcast," told Blaze News. "I have always believed in talking with people who have different views — whether that’s on Fox News or podcasts. It’s about exchanging ideas and building authentic relationships."

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Although Democrats like Newsom and Buttigieg are broadly considered to be figures of the establishment, their willingness to participate in challenging, long-form interviews is unorthodox for their party.

However, their willingness to deviate from their party norms should not be taken as a newfound embrace for free speech and open dialogue. Rather, this shift among certain Democrats seems to be simply an opportunistic form of damage control in response to America's overwhelming rejection of their party platform.

"Pete Buttigieg and James Talarico have showed up on programs like 'Pardon My Take,' 'Flagrant,' and 'Rogan' now that cancel culture is over, and Democrats are desperate to get back their momentum with young voters, especially men, by looking like regular people," Jashinsky added.

"Ceding these spaces to the right for fear of offending progressive mobs gave the right way more power to define the left because the left would refuse to even enter the arenas, let alone by criticizing the Democratic establishment," Jashinsky said. "Now, they're trying to do both."

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Jesus was not ‘a feminist’: Debunking a ‘progressive’ Christian’s blasphemous sermon



Texas state Rep. James Talarico (D) has gone viral all over apps like TikTok for his "progressive Christian" views — and in one popular 2022 sermon, he makes the bold claim that Jesus was actually a feminist.

“The first way we can tell that Jesus was a feminist is through his actions. And throughout the Gospels, Jesus is constantly subverting first-century gender norms by talking with women, learning from women, healing women, trusting women. In fact, the only person to ever beat Jesus in a debate in the Bible was the Syrophoenician woman,” Talarico said in his sermon.

“Think about that. The only person to teach Jesus something was a woman. Even the Son of God had something to learn from one of God’s daughters. The church should start to listen to them again,” he added.


“Okay, so much blasphemy there,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments. “First of all, Jesus is God. Okay, so that’s pretty basic. Jesus is God. That means he’s all-knowing. That means he’s all-powerful. That means he is not limited by time and space.”

“And so it is not possible for Jesus to have learned something that he did not already know. It is not possible for him to have made an error. It is not possible for Jesus to have lost a debate because he is all-knowing,” she continues.

Rather, in the conversation with the Syrophoenician woman, Stuckey explains that he used the moment “as a learning opportunity” in order to “teach her and the people around him something about faith.”

“Progressives are always getting it wrong because they are reading their politics into the text, and they miss the true meaning and beauty of the text. They miss the gospel in the text because they are looking to justify their politics,” she says.

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‘Progressive Christian’ claims abortion is biblical on Joe Rogan



Texas Democrat Rep. James Talarico recently claimed on "The Joe Rogan Experience" that the Bible supports abortion — and BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey couldn’t find his reasoning more wrong, or more ridiculous.

During his viral appearance, he asked that pro-choice Christians “who respect the bodily autonomy of women” be “given the space to make our theological argument” because he believes that “there is a lot of biblical evidence to support that opinion.”

“What do you think is the biblical evidence to support the opinion of being pro-abortion?” Rogan asked.

“In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath. And that is actually the mainline position in Judaism, is that that’s when life starts,” Talarico explained.


“Something interesting that Jesus does throughout his ministry is he is breaking first-century norms about women, talking with women, learning from women,” he continued.

Talarico went on to reference Mary, the mother of Jesus, to support his pro-abortion views “because before God comes over Mary and we have the incarnation, God asks for Mary’s consent.”

“Okay, so his three defenses basically boil down to ‘God breathed life into Adam, so therefore life doesn’t start until first breath.’ And then, I’m sorry, I’m not trying to laugh because it’s a serious thing, but it’s so ridiculous,” Stuckey says. “‘Jesus talked to a woman at the well for a long time, and therefore he’s pro-abortion.’”

“And then number three, ‘God asked Mary’s consent before impregnating her,’” she continues. “All three of these passages, according to James Talarico, are secretly about abortion, but ‘thou shalt not murder’ is not.”

“There’s so much wrong with this, even beyond that. Number one, Adam was made from the dust. God created Adam from the dust, so he was literally not alive when God breathed life into him. Babies in the womb are alive,” she adds.

And while some on the side of pro-choice might dispute that babies in the womb are living, Stuckey explains that “if they’re not alive, you don’t need to have an abortion.”

“But poison is used to kill that child. Forceps are used to kill that child. That child is stripped of its amniotic fluid in abortions to die. They’re not just removed,” she says. “They are killed via pill, via poison, via dismemberment to ensure fetal demise.”

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No Matter How Hard Democrats Try, There Is No Such Thing As ‘Biblical Evidence’ For Abortion

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