The pro-life movement won Roe — so why is it losing the war?



The overturning of Roe v. Wade was supposed to be the pro-life movement’s greatest victory. Instead, abortion pills have become increasingly accessible, and abortions rates have skyrocketed.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace is well aware why that is.

“We’re having this big debate right now within our pro-life circles about how to proceed moving forward. And somehow we’ve been exceedingly stalled,” Deace says, pointing out that “nothing of significance” has happened in the pro-life movement since the overturning of Roe.

“Not only that, since we overturned Roe, basically every mailbox can have an abortion pill in America right now. Right? So something has clearly and systemically gone wrong,” he continues.


“We pulled off D-Day, but now we’re losing the war,” he adds.

One of the main reasons why the pro-life movement has stalled, Deace explains, is there is a “deep division over a particular tactic, and it’s the question of abolition as it’s called in some places.”

“My buddy Seth Gruber calls it equal protection, and it’s the idea that if you commit a murder, you should be held accountable as we hold people accountable for committing any other form of murder. And the mainstream pro-life movement is adamantly against this,” he explains.

“The biggest source of opposition to this in the mainstream pro-life side, frankly, is they just don’t think it’s politically viable, and it’ll get us nuked,” he adds.

However, Deace doesn’t think they truly believe in their mainstream pro-life beliefs.

“I don’t believe very many mainstream pro-life leaders truly believe in a second generation of third-wave feminism, there’s just a bunch of scared girls who don’t know what to do, like my mom 50 years ago before we saw what, you know, thermal imaging inside of the womb looked like,” he explains, noting that they’re making “political calculations.”

However, there has to be political calculations.

“We’re human beings in a fallen world,” he says, before giving his solution.

“We’re going to ban all the abortions except your so-called exceptions. Are you in? Not because we agree that there’s exceptions to murder, but we’re going to call forth a false objection. We’re going to call a bluff,” he explains.

“We’ll even let the doctor determine if it’s an exception or not. Think they’d still take the deal? No. And why won’t they take the deal?” he asks, adding, “Because they want to kill them all.”

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Tiny $750,000 thriller just hit $287 million because Gen Z can’t stop watching — here’s the sad reason why



On May 15, Gen Z director Curry Barker’s “Obsession” hit theaters. The psychological horror film follows a young man whose wish for his longtime crush to love him comes true in far more intense and unsettling ways than he had hoped.

The film was an instant box office phenomenon, grossing over $285 million worldwide despite its humble $750,000 budget. Its popularity is driven largely by Gen Z viewers; audience data shows roughly 75% of ticket buyers are ages 18-34.

Dubbed a “Gen Z Fatal Attraction,” the mainstream take is that the movie resonates because it warns against toxic “nice guy” dynamics. In Zoomer internet culture, “nice guys” are men who believe they deserve romantic interest simply because they’re polite and friendly. When rejected, they grow resentful and angry, convinced they’re entitled to a woman’s affection. Their niceness is viewed as a manipulative tactic rather than an offer of genuine friendship.

In the film, protagonist Bear is hopelessly in love with his longtime friend Nikki. Mainstream critics see him as the classic “nice guy” who turns to manipulation — snapping a "one wish willow" to force her affection, making the story catnip for a generation that loves to call out such behavior.

But BlazeTV host John Doyle argues this surface-level reading misses what is really drawing young people to “Obsession.” On this episode of “The John Doyle Show,” Doyle unpacks the film’s true cultural power.

In the film, Bear asks his friend Ian for advice on confessing his feelings to Nikki.

“He's immediately told by Ian that he's just, you know, too real, man. He's too authentic about all of it. And because he's so authentic about it, it's coming off cringey and weird,” says Doyle.

This is exactly what keeps so many young people single and lonely today, he argues.

“We literally will not do anything at all,” Doyle says. “We will just, you know, sit there in the corner with our cool cards until we die.”

Or they’ll resort to “epic [pickup artist] tactics” like “negging” — dishing out backhanded compliments or subtle insults in hopes of making the romantic target seek the negger’s approval. But never authenticity.

This outright refusal to be authentic is portrayed in the film when Nikki point-blank asks Bear if he likes her, to which he replies “as a friend.”

“He failed to be authentic. He was too afraid,” says Doyle, rejecting the mainstream narrative that “Obsession” is about “nice guys trying to exercise control over women.”

“['Obsession'] is, I think, just about that inauthenticity, and I think it ultimately is telling you the truth.”

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This migrant predator report is worse than you think



A shocking Rape Gang Inquiry Report on Britain’s grooming gang scandal has exposed widespread sexual abuse at the hands of immigrants that’s been allowed to continue for years with little to no mainstream reporting, and BlazeTV host John Doyle is among the few sounding the alarm.

“If you live in London, your backyard; if you live in the southwestern part of the United States, this stuff is actually happening. This is not just, like, some fun mythology you get to talk about where you’re connecting dots and patterns,” Doyle says.

According to the report, girls as young as 11 were targeted by perpetrators from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds who “operated under an honor- and shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use.”

“I’m sure it’s surprising to people who are actually finding out what we’ve known for literally over a thousand years, for 1,400 years, that you can’t actually co-exist with people. They’re not actually peaceful,” Doyle says.


“And yeah, we find out that this literally happened to the tune of 250,000. And local media is not even reporting on it. What should be maybe the biggest scandal of all time is not being reported on by mainstream news,” he says.

“Genuinely I struggle to think of a governing body more evil than what is going on right now in England,” he adds.

The report details the NHS’ recording of “genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts.”

“The rape statistics rising so spectacularly, it literally boggles the mind. Something from about, you know, 8,500 to 70,000 in the time this report is seeking to expose,” Doyle comments.

“This is easily proven, by the way, statistically, as England is now quite literally the rape capital of the world. Currently sits at the highest rate. It’s like 117 per 100,000. And it’s pretty much entirely because of what can be described as an invasion of Britain by foreign hordes,” he explains.

“And maybe that per capita number isn’t enough, because from the inquiry they found that over 250,000 women had been victimized, with 87% of them being victimized by Muslims. And it’s not like the other 13% were all just, like, white British guys,” he continues.

“No, actually that was also mostly just, like, the non-Muslim immigrant groups like Nigerians, Indians, what have you,” he says. “And it’s incredible, too, because the very same leftists who have already facilitated and planned exactly this outcome for decades, they exist in a Venn diagram that’s literally a bubble with feminists who would very much also want to portray the face of rape as being, like, some white frat dude.”

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'You’re going to have to kill me': Spencer Pratt declares 'war' after stolen election



Spencer Pratt may have lost his election, but he's making it clear that he's not going anywhere.

“Democrats were hoping once they stole the election from Spencer Pratt that he would just, you know, hang his head in shame and walk away. That would be the end of Spencer Pratt. They hoped that they could just essentially kill his budding political career,” BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler says on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“They did not kill his political career, and he is just getting started,” she adds, before playing Pratt’s latest video — which is somehow even more powerful than his campaign ads.

“The campaign portion of my mission to save Los Angeles is coming to a close, and I’m moving on to the next, more interesting phase,” Pratt began.

“I've spent a lot of time slaying everybody. I’ve ridiculed everyone on the roster. And I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, I’d like to take the chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. You think you can get rid of me that easily?” he asked.


“I know a lot of dim-witted jerks thought I was in this for a grift, that I was going to roll up and leave town if I didn’t get into City Hall,” he continued.

“Hey, morons, I didn’t get in this for political power. I got in this to expose this corrupt machine, and nothing has changed. You enjoy your worthless meetings in City Hall,” he added.

Pratt went on to declare “war,” explaining that he no longer has to “worry about offending CNN viewers.”

“I don’t have campaign laws hamstringing me now. It’s war. It’s zero hour for Los Angeles. Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems. And they have to choose between dumb and dumber,” he said.

“That’s not a choice,” he continued. “That’s the machine protecting the machine. And now every problem that plagues Los Angeles because of these two corrupt communists is going to accelerate, and the city will tumble headlong into the abyss.”

Pratt also explained that major developers, hotels, business owners, and entrepreneurs have been reaching out to say they’re leaving town.

“You have no idea how bad things are about to get for this city,” he said.

Pratt even floated that he has “some recordings” of one of the mayoral candidates “doing and saying something that would make her resign in shame.”

“I was saving it for the general election. Go ahead and pick your demon, certify your choice, and then you get to see it,” he said. “So Karen, Nithya, ask yourself: Is it possible that one of your employees may have a recording of you doing or saying something that would force you to resign in disgrace?”

“We’re flipping the script. I want all of you awake at night sweating and worried about 5:00 a.m., when the FBI blazers bust in the door, breaking open your office, because I assure you, they’re coming. You think your election was going to stop me?” he asked. “If you want to stop me, you’re going to have to ... kill me.”

Wheeler loved Pratt’s ad, commenting, “That is one of the best political ads that I have ever seen.”

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Liz Wheeler floats a Trump plan to force election reform in California



Conservatives need to stop treating California’s election system as untouchable — and BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler knows how, saying, “We don’t have to accept the rigged system, the rigged election system in California, just because it’s California.”

“The federal government has multiple things that can be done to ensure the integrity of California elections,” she adds.

“If we do not do something to secure the integrity of our elections, then we aren’t the constitutional republic that we have been,” she says, noting that despite this fear, she’s “not blackpilled.”

“The radical left has defeated us in many ways, but they have not totally defeated us. And we, the right, have finally recognized, we’ve finally acknowledged the reality of this political enemy that we face. And that is the fundamental thing necessary in order to construct our defense to defeat them,” she explains.


While Wheeler notes that the leftist majority isn’t going to change in California, there’s still hope for change.

“There are mechanisms that can be used by the federal government to entice, incentivize, or essentially coerce states into doing certain things if that state is also receiving federal money,” she continues.

Wheeler points to drinking age laws as an example.

“The federal government, the United States Congress, the House and the Senate, and then the president, the executive branch, also have authority under the General Welfare Clause,” she explains.

“The Reagan administration did not exceed their authority because they ruled that this specific provision, this 21-year-old drinking age, was related to highway safety,” she continues, noting that this law was pushed through “negative reinforcement.”

“There’s also a precedent of positive reinforcement regarding car seats, children’s car seats and booster seats. And you can think that car seat laws are too restrictive or not. That’s kind of the morality of the thing is not even the point that I’m making,” she says.

“There’s precedent on the books of the federal government being able to influence state laws simply by offering positive or negative reinforcement when it comes to the funding that states so readily accept and depend on from the federal government,” she continues.

“So what I would propose to you today,” she adds, “is why doesn’t President Trump do this?”

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Liz Wheeler: What the left won't tell you about Karmelo Anthony



While many on the left have framed the murder of Austin Metcalf and conviction of Karmelo Anthony through the lens of race, BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler argues that the real story is being deliberately ignored.

“There’s a reason the mainstream media doesn’t want you to know the truth, the reality, and the facts. Because if you know what actually happened, you are much less likely to fall for the lies that they’re telling you,” Wheeler says, explaining that what the left refuses to discuss is the element of “black culture” involved in the case.

“What I’m talking about is gang culture and rap culture that has infiltrated and broken black families — a culture that glorifies violence, that dehumanizes people. Young men, young black men specifically, who are raised in broken black families, who don’t have male role models, who instead look to these celebrities, whether it’s gang members for community or rap culture for their idols — they are not being molded from young men into actual men,” she says.


“And nobody wants to say this. It’s unpopular. It’s uncomfortable. You’ll be accused of saying racially charged things,” she explains, “But it’s true. The murder of Austin Metcalf by Karmelo Anthony is also an indictment on wokeness. An indictment of ‘The 1619 Project,’ which told us that America is racist. It’s an indictment on critical race theory.”

“Every politician, every corporation, every celebrity, every leftist influencer, every teacher, every liberal white woman who spews, ‘White privilege,’ and, ‘America is inherently racist,’” she continues, “seeds and feeds this anger and forms this lens through which Karmelo Anthony sees the world.”

And the lens through which he sees the world is one where he believed bringing a knife to a track meet was a good idea.

“It’s not a normal reaction to grab a knife and stab the other person to death,” Wheeler says. “That’s not normal human behavior. The behavior of Karmelo Anthony in the tent, even before he got the knife out of his backpack and stabbed Austin Metcalf to death, that behavior is deliberate.”

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Howard University professor’s wild take: Austin Metcalf’s dad is the real villain



In a delusional Substack post, a Howard University journalism professor blamed Austin Metcalf’s father for the teen athlete’s murder — conducting what she called her own “postmortem” on the horrific murder.

Dr. Stacey Patton criticized Austin Metcalf’s father, Jeff Metcalf, and broke down his courtroom address to killer Karmelo Anthony.

“Yesterday evening, Jeff Metcalf, the father of Austin Metcalf, used his victim-impact statement to address Karmelo Anthony directly, after he was sentenced to 35 years after the court treated his act of survival as murder,” Patton wrote.

“He insisted this case was ‘never about race.’ He said, ‘We all bleed the same color.’ And he described his grief not as sadness, but as ‘rage’ – ‘pure unfiltered rage.’ And then he turned that rage on the black 19-year-old sitting before him,” she continued.


“‘You failed your parents, you failed yourself, and you failed society. You don’t belong in this community.’ He also reportedly told him, ‘You’re going to prison, and, ‘You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f**king son in the heart.’ And right there, in his own words Jeff Metcalf told on himself,” she added.

“She decides that the best thing she can do with her time is attack the still-grieving father of a murdered child in the face of all this,” BlazeTV host John Doyle comments, disturbed.

“But what’s also telling here is that she does not actually care that Jeff Metcalf is deliberately and painstakingly trying to say specifically that the case is not about race ... Stacey Patton is absolutely making it about race,” he continues.

“But not only that, but that blacks are actually the real victims here in a case which again, is about the deliberate murder of a white man,” he adds.

Patton went on to criticize the way Metcalf taught his son “about the cultural socialization that helped his son meet his fate under that track meet tent in April 2025.”

“This is your method of attack, to attack fatherhood in white America,” Doyle comments.

“So yeah, she’s going to blame Jeff Metcalf here for the murder of his own son and literally just justify Karmelo Anthony’s killing of the son here,” he continues. “She’s going to go on and list a bunch of incidents which all of these people have memorized to just like throw out there, justify all their bad behavior.”

Patton went on to say, “Since this country loves to examine black parents when black children die, let us examine you. Since America loves to ask what black mothers and fathers failed to teach, let us ask what you failed to teach your son. Since dead black boys are never allowed to remain innocent, let us stop pretending dead white boys are beyond scrutiny. Let us refuse the sentimental immunity given to dead white boys and grieving white fathers.”

She adds, “Let’s go postmortem up in here.”

“This line in particular is like no different than the people who want to make AI edits of themselves pissing on his grave,” Doyle says, adding, “She is in essence doing the same thing.”

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Attorney's radical solution to rigged elections: ‘For the survival of our republic’



After ballots showed up overnight for Nithya Raman to secure her unlikely win over Spencer Pratt in the Los Angeles mayoral election, the integrity of the California voting system is once again being questioned.

And senior counsel for the Article III Project, Will Chamberlain, has a solution.

“If I were investigating, I’d start with the prediction markets where ... pretty early on election day, well before there was any sort of public indication that the votes were going to start going Nithya Raman’s way so dramatically with late mail-ins, there was a big boost,” Chamberlain tells BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler on “The Liz Wheeler Show.”

“She was getting way ahead in her prediction market odds even though she was still down massively in the count at the point. So I think that’s the first place you start,” he says.


Wheeler, disturbed by the results of the election, points out that conservatives have a “moral imperative” to fix this problem for the “survival of our republic.”

And Chamberlain has a solution — which begins with recognizing that “we don’t have the votes” to pass the SAVE America Act.

Instead, he has a better idea.

“My basic idea is Mike Johnson in the House when it comes time to actually seat the representatives from California, any representative who wasn’t ahead on Election Day, you don’t provisionally seat them,” he explains, telling Wheeler that you then refer them to a committee that “evaluates these things.”

“And then you do an individualized process, and they have to show up and prove that they won legitimately. And if they can’t do that, then they don’t get sat and California can go back and do a special election again."

Wheeler finds Chamberlain’s solution “interesting” because “Congress has the authority to do that.”

“It’s a way of auditing, you could say, the election integrity laws of states,” she says.

“That would be a very interesting way for Congress to say, well, maybe we don’t have authority, but we do have authority,” she adds.

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The trans agenda is losing ground — but it won’t be defeated unless these 2 things happen



While the transgender movement has lost significant ground culturally and politically in recent years, it’s still probing for vulnerabilities — especially during Pride Month.

In a recent interview with women’s sports advocate and founder of XX-XY Athletics Jennifer Sey, Steve Deace highlighted a recent example: In California high school track and field, biological male athlete AB Hernandez (who identifies as transgender) has dominated the girls’ high jump and triple jump at state championships, leading to a California Interscholastic Federation policy where displaced biological girls are forced to share the top podium spot and co-champion status with him.

“You're on the front lines of this battle. What do you think?” Deace asked Sey.

Sey believes that the transgender agenda has been “pushed back,” but it’s far from being defeated.

She explains that while 27 states currently have laws keeping women's sports for biological females only, a pending Supreme Court decision this June will determine if those protections are constitutional. She expects the court to uphold them, but emphasizes that this victory would only apply to those 27 states. The remaining 23 states, which prioritize gender identity over biological sex, would still allow biological males to compete in girls' sports.

In other words, even a favorable ruling from SCOTUS doesn't end the fight nationwide.

“So we still have a ton of work to do,” she says.

That work, she argues, needs to focus on “[changing] the culture.”

“Seventy to 80% of Americans agree ... that women's sports should be for women ... but I don't think we've made meaningful progress in getting that 80% to stand up and say what they believe,” says Sey.

“All right, so how do we do that?” Deace asks.

As for her, Sey plans to “keep producing content, keep encouraging people to stand up and say what they think, to stand up and say the most commonsense thing that there is, which is that men and women are different.”

With every person who speaks this truth, the stronger the “permission structure” becomes in the broader culture, she argues.

“Yes, we need legislation. We need state legislation; we need national legislation to reify Title IX. But I think when we win the cultural battle is when we actually win,” she tells Deace.

He agrees and reiterates the need for people to have enough courage to endure public shaming if necessary — especially “dads at school board meetings” and “young women [willing] to say, ‘I refuse to take part in this charade.’”

Sey agrees that men specifically need to join the movement. “We need way more men in this fight. ... We need moms to do it too, but dads have been particularly absent in this fight.”

While she agrees that young female athletes should take a stand for their own rights, she is unwilling to ask them to forgo competing in order to make a statement.

“How do I tell a 14-year-old girl that she needs to do it when a professional athlete with all the money in the world won't do it because she’s afraid of losing endorsements?” she asks.

“These [professional athletes] are women with enough power and enough influence, and they pull enough dollars in for these brands that I'd be willing to bet that the brands won't fire them,” Sey continues.

“I want to put the pressure on them more than these 14-year-old girls. They're the leaders.”

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Texas Tech quarterback cleared to play after $90K gambling scandal — Steve Deace slams ‘toxic empathy’



On Monday, June 8, Texas Tech’s highly anticipated quarterback Brendan Sorsby was granted a temporary injunction, allowing him to play in the 2026 season while his gambling case against the NCAA continues. The NCAA immediately appealed the judge’s decision the same day.

Sorsby redshirted as a freshman at Indiana in 2022. That season, he placed multiple bets (at least 40) on Indiana football games and players. His gambling addiction worsened over the following years at Indiana and then Cincinnati, where he placed thousands of bets totaling around $90,000.

In April 2026, shortly after transferring to Texas Tech, the NCAA began investigating him. Later that month, Texas Tech announced he was taking an indefinite leave to enter a 35-day residential rehab program in Arizona for gambling addiction, which he completed in late May. Upon return, he was declared ineligible by the NCAA for betting on his own team.

Texas Tech and Sorsby sued the NCAA the same day. A Texas judge granted the temporary injunction on June 8, with a full trial set for February 2027.

While speaking to the Touchdown Club of Houston, head coach Joey McGuire defended Sorsby, arguing, “As a society, we've been OK with other things that happens and allowing players to play. ... It's crazy because it's not murder; it's not beating somebody.”

BlazeTV host Steve Deace calls this mindset a product of modern culture’s “toxic empathy.”

“You can look at Brendan Sorsby and say, ‘You're playing in an industry that is sponsored by gambling. The entities that want to condemn you are taking huge gambling dollars and advertising,”’ Deace acknowledges.

He also sympathizes with the “temptation” Sorsby faces as a young man with an addiction and a cell phone designed to gratify it.

“We put these little devices in your phones, and you're an impulsive young man and ... the ‘vice-ocracy’ is right here at your fingertips. It's very enticing, hard not to succumb to,” he admits.

But consequences, Deace argues, are necessary regardless.

“In his right mind, would Brendan Sorsby risk a $6 million payday to get down for 25 bucks on a Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals parlay? No. Just like in your right mind, would you risk your entire family and your reputation to get down with your secretary? No,” he analogizes. “But see, because of sin, we're not in our right minds, and that's why we need consequences.”

Empathy, he argues, is a good thing as long as it doesn’t lead to the absolution of punishment.

“We can imagine having the world as your oyster as Brendan Sorsby did and the money you're making now and this device in your hands and the dopamine hits, and I can think, ‘Holy cow, what would I have done with that at 20 or 21?’ You can have empathy, but we still have to have accountability,” Deace explains.

“The difference between empathy and toxic empathy is toxic empathy demands no accountability and instead condemns you for trying to instill it. Empathy comes with accountability.”

Co-host Aaron McIntire agrees. “I think something that needs to be re-emphasized with this story is that Brendan Sorsby did not turn himself in. He was caught,” he points out.

“That in and of itself is problematic because you kind of wonder, hey, do you really think that you have a problem here? Whereas if he had turned himself in, I think the accountability should be the same thing, but on a human level, on a man-to-man level, there's some integrity that is still left.”

McIntire condemns Joey McGuire’s downplaying of Sorsby’s offense.

“What [Sorsby] is doing is not just undermining his own credibility and integrity. ... He is nuking the integrity of everyone else in this sport,” he argues, speculating that fans will now overanalyze every bad play as potential “point shaving.”

“It’s just disgusting."

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