Steve Deace: Young men’s energy will go somewhere — the right must decide where



On a recent episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” the BlazeTV host framed a stark choice facing the American right when it comes to the nation’s young men: channel their energy into constructive leadership and real solutions, or watch it keep flowing toward pure grievance and nihilism.

He frames this dichotomy by holding up two very different figures. On one side you have Zach Lahn, the Iowa Republican nominee for governor — a sixth-generation farmer and businessman who shocked the establishment by defeating a Trump-endorsed congressman in the primary and has positioned himself as a paradigm-shifting “Iowa First” candidate focused on regenerative agriculture, cost-of-living pressures, and health freedom.

On the other side is James Fishback, who was a Florida Republican candidate for governor this election cycle. Fishback lost the Republican primary to Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), but Fishback is still important to analyze as someone who has built a following among younger men through aggressive online content, “anti-Israel” rhetoric, and a style Deace dismisses as pure grift.

What happens next, he warns, will shape an entire generation and the future of the nation.

The predicament America’s young men are facing today, Deace explains, is dire.

“Here's the current deal on the table for them, particularly if they're white: You're automatically a racist. You're automatically to blame for things that happened hundreds of years before you were ever born. There's an automatic aura of suspicion around you. Your life will be half over probably before you can afford a home,” he says.

“The likelihood you will find a wife that is not proud of the amount of men she bedded on the way to meeting you and hasn't had an abortion or three ... shrinks by the day, and you went to college to get a job that we're probably going to give to an Indian or a Muslim,” he continues.

This unfortunate set of circumstances, Deace argues, creates a restless “energy.”

“That energy is going to find conduits. It's going to go somewhere,” he says. “It'll be up to us to determine which direction we'll go.”

The “constructive channel,” Deace says, will lead to “action” that sparks positive change.

“That's what Zach Lahn represents. That's what I think frankly JD Vance represents. ... They represent younger men who understand we are in radical need of paradigm shifting,” he explains.

On the other hand, Fishback, according to Deace, has “no credentials at all,” “couldn't survive a background check of page one of Google search,” and has a campaign built on “obvious grift.”

“James Fishback will go away. ... What you don't know though is there'll be another one next year and then there'll be more — unless there's a constructive outlet for this energy,” Deace warns.

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Is it time to axe political polling? Firm collapses after admitting its numbers were a ‘social experiment’



Median Strategies, which presented itself as an independent polling and research firm, recently shut down after the Los Angeles Times exposed it for fabricating a survey showing a large lead for Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race. Its other fabricated results, including one showing Francesca Hong with a large lead in Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, were also revealed as part of the same operation.

After repeated inquiries from the Times, Median Strategies admitted the numbers were completely made up as a “short-term social experiment examining how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification.”

Once exposed, it withdrew all its prior polling releases, claimed no political funding or financial motives were involved, and shut down without revealing the identities of those involved.

Even more disturbing, Steve Deace’s producer and co-host Aaron McIntire points out, is that Median Strategies’ polling numbers for Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary “largely mirrored the results from established pollsters like Marquette and Public Policy Polling.”

The scandal begs the question: If fake numbers can so easily pass as legitimate and shape political reality, should public polling itself be banned?

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” Deace reacts to the Median Strategies scandal; the panel also proposes ideas to to curb the influence of unreliable polling.

“We've created this entire society now where stuff is determined by polling that most of us can't ever recall we've ever taken part in,” says Deace, likening political polling to a sports betting scenario where a gambler loses his money before the game is ever played because an obscure panel of analysts already determined the outcome.

“What have I been saying about we should prosecute these polling institutions for fraud? Exhibit 666 right here,” says co-host Todd Erzen.

Deace has a proposal to fix the issue: “The elections determine who wins and what policies we're going to do — like when people actually go and vote.”

Then “when you're in office and if you won the election, do what you got elected to do, and then let the people decide in the next election whether they like that or not rather than constantly reacting and responding to things we're not even sure are true,” he adds.

“I think this is a great idea, and here's how you prosecute it. ... If you ban public polling, the first defense is going to be, ‘Well, that's freedom of speech.’ No, you prosecute it as a violation of freedom of speech," says McIntire.

He argues that Median Strategies allegedly created its fake poll numbers to “deceive people” in order to “squash their vote.”

“That would seem to be a violation of the First Amendment to me,” he says.

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Lindsey Graham's sister ridiculed over embarrassing admission: 'Not my thing'



Skepticism over whether the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) is qualified to keep his seat was greatly compounded on Tuesday by a troubling admission she made during a debate with Ralph Norman, the Republican congressman who is also running to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Darline Graham, a former commissioner with the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, was appointed last month by Republican South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster to finish her brother's term. Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly on July 11.

'What are we doing here?'

Graham and Norman both advanced from the special GOP primary on Aug. 11 and are on the ballot in the primary runoff on Aug. 25.

Immediately after the candidates fielded some questions about the U.S.-Iran war and what to do about the apparent depletion of critical American munitions, debate moderator Greta Van Susteren asked Graham, "Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues for the United States?"

The Pentagon noted in its 2026 National Defense Strategy document that communist China's historic military buildup affects America's interests because "the Indo-Pacific will soon make up more than half of the global economy."

"The American people’s security, freedom, and prosperity are therefore directly linked to our ability to trade and engage from a position of strength in the Indo-Pacific," said the NSS document. "Were China — or anyone else, for that matter — to dominate this broad and crucial region, it would be able to effectively veto Americans’ access to the world’s economic center of gravity, with enduring implications for our nation’s economic prospects, including our ability to reindustrialize."

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As for Taiwan, the island nation sought by Beijing is a "semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse" that ranks among America's top-five merchandise trading partners.

After having Van Susteren repeat the question, Graham responded, "I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not, on national security — I'm not that informed on national security."

Graham paused for a moment, then added, "But I do support the military," then referenced her brother's and father's military service.

'This is not something you inherit.'

"I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise," continued South Carolina's first female senator, "but I do support the military."

Norman didn't immediately make hay of Graham's admission but instead answered the moderator's original question, stating, "Taiwan is a definite ally, and we have a trading relationship with them that is beneficial to the United States, chips being one of them and others."

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Norman further emphasized the need for America to deter China from taking over Taiwan, in part by sustaining Trump's "peace through strength" approach abroad.

While Norman didn't pounce on Graham's admission, others on the right did en masse.

Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, noted, "I’m sorry, but respectfully, even accounting for her being new to the job, this is embarrassing and inexcusable. China’s threat toward Taiwan is a bit of a big deal, especially — it would seem — for a member of the U.S. Senate."

BlazeTV host Steve Deace tweeted, "What are we doing here?"

"I did not think I had heard that right," wrote South Carolina state Sen. Matt Leber (R). "This admittance should be the end of this race."

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley tweeted, "Lindsey Graham was well informed on the United States’ national security. Darline Graham admits she’s not. This is not something you inherit. And it’s critical in the U.S. Senate."

Graham faced far less ridicule over her suggestion during the debate that there were "50 million people in South Carolina."

President Donald Trump has endorsed Graham and is scheduled to attend a rally with her in Myrtle Beach on Friday.

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First domino to fall? Fauci's 'consigliere' pleads GUILTY to role in COVID cover-up



David Morens, a longtime acolyte of Anthony Fauci, has pleaded guilty to his role in the attempted cover-up of federal records pertaining to the origin of the COVID-19 virus and to a clandestine initiative to restore U.S. funding to the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology via disgraced British zoologist Peter Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance, according to the Department of Justice.

"This is potentially the watershed moment in seeking long overdue and morally required accountability for perhaps the biggest travesty ever foisted upon the American people," stated BlazeTV host Steve Deace.

'The race now is on for Fauci's felons to rat each other out.'

Morens served as senior adviser to Fauci in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Office of the Director from 2006 through 2022. In April, he was indicted and charged with conspiracy, destruction of records in federal investigation, and concealment of records.

Under the deal he ultimately struck with federal prosecutors, Morens pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses and to defraud the United States. He now faces up to five years in prison.

"Morens obstructed the Oversight Project's investigation and pled guilty to it today," Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, told Blaze News. "I hope this serves as a lesson to other bureaucrats that it is our government and we pay them to work there and for us. It's our information, and they should never hide it from us."

Morens' attorney, Tim Belevetz, said in a statement to Blaze News, "By pleading guilty today, Dr. Morens has taken responsibility for what he did, and he will continue to do so."

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David Morens. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

While speculation abounds, it remains unclear whether Morens has agreed to testify against the unnamed co-conspirators in his case.

FBI Director Kash Patel noted, however, that "this FBI investigation remains ongoing."

Over concerns that COVID had leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where dangerous gain-of-function experiments were conducted on coronaviruses, the National Institutes of Health terminated in 2020 a grant to EcoHealth Alliance titled "Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence," which EcoHealth Alliance had subawarded to the WIV.

'There will be no "there" there.'

The Justice Department noted on the basis of Morens' guilty plea that after the grant was terminated, Morens and "Co-Conspirator 2" helped "Co-Conspirator 1" restore the grant "and counter the narrative that COVID-19 leaked from a lab."

Context appears to indicate that "Co-Conspirator 1" in this case is Daszak.

For starters, the DOJ noted that the NIH terminated "Co-Conspirator 1's" grant and named the grant, which documents show was received by Daszak's now-defunct company, EcoHealth Alliance. The DOJ noted further that Co-Conspirator 1 made the subaward to the WIV, which his company had done. Furthermore, Daszak's name repeatedly comes up in the Morens emails previously released by the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, which show them discussing ways to hide their communications from public view.

Politico identified "Co-Conspirator 2" as Gerald Keusch, a former director of NIH's Fogarty International Center who now works with the NIAD lab at Boston University.

Neither Daszak nor Keusch has been charged with a crime in this case, and neither responded to Blaze News' request for comment.

"In anticipation that their communications would be requested through FOIA Requests, Morens, Co-Conspirator 1, and Co-Conspirator 2 agreed in writing to intentionally hide their communications from public view by corresponding using Morens’s personal Gmail account, rather than his official NIH email account," said the DOJ.

Emails previously published by the subcommittee highlight the intentional nature of Morens' evasiveness.

In an April 21, 2021, email to Daszak, Morens wrote, for instance: "I forgot to say there is no worry about FOIAs. I can either send stuff to Tony [Fauci] on his private gmail, or hand it to him at work or at his house. He is too smart to let colleagues send him stuff that could cause trouble."

In a May 13, 2021, email to Keusch with Daszak CC-ed, Morens referred to "our 'secret' back channel."

In another email to Keusch dated Nov. 19, 2021, Morens wrote, "BOTH my gmail and phone calls are now safe. Text is NOT, as it can be FOIA'd, as can my govt email. So you and Peter and others should be able to email me on gmail only."

Morens allegedly even sought the help of the NIH FOIA office for instruction on how to delete federal records.

"I learned from our foia lady here how to make emails disappear after i am foia'd but before the search starts, so I think we are all safe," he wrote in a Feb. 24, 2021, email. "Plus i deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to gmail."

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Disgraced zoologist Peter Daszak. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

The Justice Department noted that "the co-conspirators used Morens’s personal Gmail account to exchange non-public NIH information; correspond about their efforts to influence NIH to fund Company 1; exchange edits to drafts of letters addressed to NIH leadership for Company 1 and Co-Conspirator 1; and 'back-channel' information to Senior NIAID Official 1."

In addition to admitting to his efforts to keep Americans in the dark about federal employees' damning discussions, Morens admitted to conspiring with "Co-Conspirator 1" to pay illegal gratuities.

"Co-Conspirator 1" is alleged to have said that he would treat Morens to meals at Michelin-starred restaurants around the world and gifted him wine for his "behind-the-scenes shenanigans" and even arranged for its delivery.

'Fauci and Morens were on a radical mission to remake America.'

Morens' guilty plea has inspired hope that Fauci might soon similarly be visited by consequence.

"Despite Anthony Fauci’s attempts to distance himself, David Morens was Fauci’s trusted consigliere and fixer for some 30 years," Matt Kibbe, the host of BlazeTV's docuseries "The Coverup," told Blaze News. "They had coauthored over 40 articles together, including this Orwellian nugget from November 2020 in the academic journal Cell: 'Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence.'"

"Fauci and Morens were on a radical mission to remake America, mad scientists who viewed the rest of us all as caged beagles in their laboratory," continued Kibbe. "But then they got caught, and Morens’ guilty plea gives me new hope that justice will find Fauci as well. Much more receipts on Morens and Fauci in my series 'The Coverup,' particularly Episode 2 featuring Rand Paul."

Dr. Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University told Blaze News, "Morens' guilty plea is an important first step in holding accountable the malfeasant U.S. officials who funded the reckless gain-of-function research in Wuhan that caused COVID and who then defrauded the global public about the origin of COVID."

"It seems possible, even likely, that Morens was 'flipped' and that Morens' guilty plea is the product of a plea bargain in which Morens has agreed to testify against Fauci, Daszak, Keusch, and others," continued Ebright.

Justin Goodman, the senior vice president of the White Coat Waste Project, told Blaze News that Morens' guilty plea, Fauci's recent contempt vote, and other recent steps toward accountability "are signs that knives are finally out for the conniving animal experimenters who caused and covered up a likely lab leak in Wuhan. Hopefully more heads will roll."

Fauci's legal representative and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland did not respond to Blaze News' requests for comment.

"The COVID cartel has one less member," wrote Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson (R). "Accountability has begun, and much more needs to follow."

Editor's note: Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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Steve Deace drops a TRUTH BOMB on Caitlin Clark and the WNBA's future



Caitlin Clark has become one of the biggest names in sports, but BlazeTV host Steve Deace argues she now faces a defining moment that could shape her entire legacy. He explains that she cannot afford to remain silent on the debate over the future of women’s sports, arguing that the issue is not only about personal conviction.

“She has an absolute obligation, not just morally, but financially, athletically, to address the issues that Sophie Cunningham is speaking on,” Deace says.

Clark has remained silent on the issue of men in women's sports, as she most recently refused to comment on fellow WNBA star Sophie Cunningham's stance that transgender "women" should not be allowed on the same court.

“This is not a matter of opinion, and I don’t even think it’s a matter of conscience. I think it’s a matter of fact that Caitlin Clark has an obligation to address this,” he continues, asking, “What league does Caitlin Clark play in?”


Deace points out that Clark’s league, the WNBA, is specifically called the “Women’s National Basketball Association.”

He also notes that despite her spot as a top women’s athlete, she still wouldn’t beat a much younger all-American male athlete.

“Freshmen going into college this year. How many of them do you think Caitlin Clark could beat one-on-one?” Deace asks co-host Todd Erzen.

“None. None of them,” Erzen replies.

“She couldn’t beat the average high school star athlete. And she’s the greatest, she’s maybe the greatest female athlete in the world alive today ... so then it would seem like protecting the integrity of what that word ‘W’ means, would be vitally important to her,” Deace says.

“What would that do to Caitlin Clark’s stock to just watch these guys come in and pretending to be women and just absolutely physically just roll her, just steamroll her on the way to the basket. She could not even get a shot off,” he continues.

“So it seems as if you are profiting off of being a woman, playing in a league whose first word of its branding is ‘women’s’ … then defining what is and is not a woman would be paramount,” he adds.

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When a nation rejects God, it gets Islam: Steve Deace reacts to Michigan’s primary earthquake



On August 4, Abdul El-Sayed, the radical progressive Muslim activist who has called for abolishing ICE, universal health care, codifying unrestricted access to abortion, and other far-left initiatives, narrowly beat Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.

His victory bodes ill not just for the state of Michigan but for the United States as a whole, says BlazeTV host Steve Deace, because it exposes a chilling reality about America and the direction the nation is headed.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” the former Michigan resident pulls back the curtain on what’s really fueling America’s downward spiral into radicalization, mental illness, and racial idolatry.

“Gretchen Whitmer is probably the most successful Democrat politician the state of Michigan has had in a generation. … A decade as governor, queen bee of the state,” says Deace, “and she just got rolled by an Islamist in a Senate primary who won despite her endorsement of his opponent.”

What does this say about the direction of the nation?

According to Deace, we’re witnessing an “Islam surge” in the United States because the people have forgotten or rejected America’s intentional design to function like biblical Israel under the Sinai covenant — where the people obey God and receive His protecting and blessing, and as a result, the nation shines as a “city on a hill” that attracts outsiders to the true God.

“We want to be, in a civic sense, a covenantal people of the one true God. We want His favor, which means that we need to be a nation of His instruments, and you've seen God bless that,” says Deace. “Otherwise, we wouldn't have lasted as long as we have.”

But as it was with ancient Israel, when the people stray, God’s discipline follows.

“One of the marks of a covenantal people receiving the discipline of the God you have covenanted with that you also see in the Old Testament is you're overrun with foreigners and foreign gods,” Deace points out.

He asks if America’s current predicament — being overrun with illegal immigrants and the rising influence of Islam — could be God’s judgment on a nation that has rebelled against the covenantal design its founders sought to emulate.

“The answer, of course, would be yes,” says Deace frankly.

“We disobey God to a point collectively that He then removes His restraining hand. This is Romans 1,” he adds.

Whether America “lost [its] zeal” for “the one true God” or deliberately embraced “foreigners and their ways,” the “outcome is the same,” says Deace: God gives us over to our sinful ways, allowing us to reap the consequences of our decisions.

That’s why Islam is growing in power and influence in the United States, he argues.

New York City’s socialist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani “is not an outlier but a herald,” Deace warns.

“After 9/11, we imported almost 4 million people from Islam-dominated countries,” and then we embarked on “a rebranding campaign that [Islam] is not a violent religion but one of peace,” he recounts.

“These seeds,” he says, “were planted many years ago” and are now being “[fertilized]” with “pagan indoctrination,” creating a spiritual "vacuum.”

“And nature abhors a vacuum, and the fake foreign demon gods will fill it for you. And if you won't let them, you're a racist, of course,” Deace observes.

“Normie voters,” he says, mistakenly believe that America’s biggest problems right now are “mental illness,” “racial idolatry," and “radicalization.” But those are merely “symptoms” of a far deeper and more terrifying root problem.

“The disease is you're up against a rival religion,” Deace warns.

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‘It is illegal to be white’: Auron MacIntyre calls out white woman’s guilty verdict for using a racial slur



On April 28, 2025, Shiloh Hendrix was at the park with her child when she got into a confrontation with a man after she allegedly called his child a racial slur.

The man began videotaping her, which he later posted to social media where it went viral.

Over a year later, Hendrix has been found guilty of disorderly conduct against the man operating the camera, and BlazeTV host Steve Deace — alongside millions of freedom-loving Americans — isn’t happy with the outcome.

“What does this case tell us about the current state of the culture we’re in?” Deace asks Auron MacIntyre on the “Steve Deace Show.”


“That it is illegal to be white,” he answers, pointing out that the man in the video “was accused of sexual assault against a 16-year-old.”

“So, we have a Somali criminal, sexual assaulter, doing this, creeping on this woman with a child in the park, but she says the same word he does,” he explains. “They both say exactly the same word, but one of them was convicted of a crime for doing that.”

“And the only explanation — there’s literally only one — is that she was convicted for being white. And, of course, we see this conviction alongside Anthony Fauci and his testimony this week. And as nice as it was to see Anthony Fauci embarrassed, we all know that pretty much no penalty is coming for Anthony Fauci,” he says.

“So, we now live in a country where Shiloh Hendrix can be convicted of a crime, but Anthony Fauci can kill millions of people, destroy the economy and the lives of millions of children, and receive no penalty,” he adds.

MacIntyre tells Deace that the justice system is “entirely eroding before our eyes.”

“What she’s being judged for, therefore, is her whiteness, because if two black people were saying this to one another in any context, we wouldn’t be here with any kind of a trial in Minnesota or anywhere else,” Deace comments.

“We would just call it a rap video,” MacIntyre adds. “And that’s obviously the case. This man was harassing a woman with a child in the park. He has a history of [alleged] sexual violence against minors, but she is the violator here.”

“And let’s be clear ... she was found innocent of directing the slur at the child. It was only the slur directed at the man who was harassing her, the [alleged] sexual offender ... who she was ultimately convicted of harassing,” he continues.

“Again, this is just a hate speech law,” he adds.

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Anthony Fauci LASHED OUT at Steve Deace in newly released diary entry — and Deace FIRES BACK



On Saturday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released a large batch of emails Anthony Fauci, the architect of the government's coronavirus response, sent to himself as a diary. In one of the entries, Fauci wrote about accusations made in a book co-written by BlazeTV host Steve Deace.

Fauci railed against the book and its authors, Deace and Todd Erzen, his "Steve Deace Show" co-host, in a diary entry from the height of the coronavirus pandemic period. His criticisms were without evidence, as Fauci admitted that he did not even deign to read it.

'Notice he never disputes anything we wrote. The bestselling book has more footnotes than pages, and it's all been proven true.'

"Two authors named Steve Deace and Todd Erzen wrote a book about me entitled 'Faucian Bargain' - The most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in American history," Fauci wrote in the entry released by Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rand Paul.

"It is a cheap paperback of 179 pages which I will not even read but it contains the same sort of nonsense that the other conspiracy theorists have been saying about me," Fauci wrote.

"It is really getting worse and worse in the number of crazy people who are buying into this conspiracy theory and so now we have the book by Robert F Kennedy junior and this book by these two guys as well as a number of right wing columnists," he added.

Deace noted the diary entry release and fired off a scorching response on social media.

"This is quite possibly the greatest compliment of my entire career I will ever receive, to have annoyed the demonic little elf himself," he posted.

"And notice he never disputes anything we wrote. The bestselling book has more footnotes than pages, and it's all been proven true," Deace added.

Deace reiterated his comment to Blaze News.

"Without question this is the single greatest honor of my career," he wrote.

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The other Fauci diary entries released show the former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director gleefully tracking all of the glowing praise he received from the fawning mainstream media.

The book was published in 2021, and the writers provided evidence they believe showed Fauci had become the "most powerful and dangerous bureaucrat in American history."

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‘One man’s mass is another man’s meh’: Steve Deace questions whether 1 million deportations is really enough



One of the biggest selling factors of President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was his promise to conduct mass deportations, sending millions of illegal aliens the Biden administration had imported back home.

According to recent figures provided by the administration, nearly 1 million people have been deported since January 2025.

BlazeTV host Steve Deace is pleased with this number.

“That’s excellent progress given where we were starting from and all the court challenges and everything else, right? Not to mention how squishy Republicans are,” he says.

However, many conservatives disagree.

“There are plenty of my friends and contacts who are like, ‘This dog ain’t going to hunt,’ ‘This ain’t going to cut it,’ and ‘Mass deportations is what we voted for, it’s what we expect, and these aren’t massive enough,’” he notes.

“One man’s mass is another man’s meh, right?” he quips.

Deace asks co-host Todd Erzen and producer Aaron McIntire to weigh in. “Which of these two camps in my friend group right now would you guys come down in?”

Erzen is less optimistic than Deace.

“I’m way more in ‘this dog ain’t gonna hunt’ ultimately,” he says, noting that he’s nonetheless “grateful for everything that’s being done.”

“Right now, Dearborn, Michigan, should be a ghost town. Pockets of Minneapolis, wherever all those Somalis live, ghost town. Take care of that. ... That should be a bat signal to everybody else: Here we come,” he adds.

Aaron, however, is more concerned with finding “the real story.”

“It’s really difficult, especially when we’ve had as many government shutdowns or partial shutdowns as we’ve had in the last 18 months ... to actually get a bead on what the real data is,” he says.

Regardless, no matter what the actual number is, he argues, deportations are “nowhere near the pace that [they need] to be.”

“So, what I hear you guys saying, therefore, is that in typical Republican fashion, what we are doing is stopping the left from doing any new bad things, but we’re not going back and really undoing the old system,” Deace summarizes.

“Trump will push and stretch that paradigm as much as any previous Republican of our lifetimes has or was probably willing to, right? But ... it still doesn’t inspire the level of paradigm shift that is really required here. Is that what I hear you saying?” he asks.

“Exactly,” Erzen says.

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Amy Coney Barrett traded Americans' trust for a bulletproof vest



Justice Amy Coney Barrett — who, in a slap in the face to American-born citizens, just ruled in favor of birthright citizenship — told the House Appropriations Committee that the mounting threats against her have taken a toll on her children.

"They have required my children to think about and see things that children should not have to see or think about," Barrett testified, sharing that her security detail gave her a bulletproof vest to wear.

When she brought it into her bedroom, her young son asked what it was.

However, BlazeTV host Steve Deace doesn’t have much sympathy for the Supreme Court justice.


Deace explains that he asked Grok how often Barrett has voted with the Democrat block of justices, to which the AI answered 50% to 75% of the time.

“So, my Grok account literally said to me, if, based on how you typically propose such questions, you need to consider that within that 75% she’s often voting on things that are obvious to the majority of the court, that are 7-2 decisions or greater,” he says.

“But, Grok said, if you’re factoring in the more contentious kinds of issues that, given what you typically ask me about, are really what you care about, it’s about 50-50,” he continues.

This means, Deace says, that “Amy Coney Barrett, on the most important things, is essentially a coin flip.”

“That’s essentially what she is on the most important things, the things that we think are fundamental, existential in determining what kind of people ought we to be and will ultimately become. She’s a flip of a coin,” he explains.

“What are you gaining by simping for this worldview about half of the time in your most important rulings? Whose favor are you incurring? What cocktail party are you now being invited to? What aura of respectability there in suburban D.C. are you now being granted?” he asks. “Because by your own admission, the answer is nothing.”

Deace corrects himself, noting that she didn’t actually receive nothing. She got a bulletproof vest.

“Forgive me. I don’t have much sympathy,” he says.

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