Trump eyes National Guard deployment in Chicago — but is it constitutional?



President Trump has been intervening in crime-ridden cities across the country — and now may be looking to deploy the National Guard to Chicago.

But does he have the authority to do so?

“We have kind of three different ways this is playing out so far. You have, initially, the Los Angeles situation where he was intervening with some National Guard. There’s been a legal ruling on that. They said he’s not allowed to do that anymore. I’m sure that will go to the Supreme Court,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere explains on “Stu Does America.”

“You have the D.C. situation, which, of course, there’s legal fights on that, I’m sure, as well, but it has a much more clear path to control over that. It’s a federal district,” he continues.


“And then, finally, you have a potential of this expanding to many more cities like Chicago, Memphis, who knows where else,” he adds.

The Democratic governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, is not pleased.

“The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn’t a strongman, he’s a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator,” Pritzker wrote in a post on X, in response to a screenshot of a Truth Social post from President Trump.

The Truth Social post reads, “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” with an image of Trump crouching in front of the city in flames. Text on the image reads “Chipocalypse Now.”

“I’m not a huge fan,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray admits. “I’m not a fan of it at all.”

Gray appreciated the president initially mentioning that he was going to ask the governor of Illinois to send the National Guard, which he says “would be the right way to do it.”

“But he proceeded to say, ‘But I’m going to do it either way. I’m going to do it anyway, whether he agrees to it or not,’” Gray adds. “That’s just not the right way to do it. So I’m not a huge, huge fan of doing things in an unconstitutional way.”

However, Gray sees D.C. slightly differently.

“D.C.’s a little bit different animal because it’s not a state, and so they can federalize there. So I didn’t initially have a huge problem with that,” he says. “I didn’t think it was going to be a national, every city kind of thing.”

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Do white lives matter? Leaders show compassion for black suspect in brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska



The murder of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska has sparked concerns about crime in the U.S. from conservatives around the country — but others, like the mayor of Charlotte, don’t seem as concerned.

“Charlotte’s Democratic mayor, Vi Lyles, thanks the media for not sharing the attack video,” BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey comments, disturbed.

“The video of the heartbreaking attack that took Iryna Zarutska’s life is now public. I want to thank our media partners and community members who have chosen not to repost or share the footage out of respect for Iryna’s family,” Lyles wrote in a post on X.

“In her statement, Mayor Lyles did not mention the victim by name or discuss any specific measures that the Charlotte area transit system or police are taking to address safety in public transit. She focused on the suspect and urged others not to demonize homeless people,” Stuckey says.


“She said the suspect appeared to have struggled with mental health and suffered a crisis,” she adds.

Lyles also stated, “We will never arrest our way out of issues such as homelessness or mental health.”

“Mental health disease is just that — a disease like any other that needs to be treated with the same compassion, diligence, and commitment as cancer or heart disease,” she added.

“So basically, this person shouldn’t be held responsible for his cold-blooded murder because he apparently was mentally unwell,” Stuckey comments, shocked — though his “mental health” and homelessness status are far from the only reason she believes the suspect is receiving special treatment.

“Stop being afraid to talk about crimes just because of the color of the person that committed them. The facts are the facts, and the fact is this: A white person is statistically far more likely to be killed by a black person than the reverse, despite the fact that white people make up about 60% of the population and black men make up about 7% of the population,” Stuckey explains.

“Now, we should never condemn any one race and glorify another race. People are individuals. That is absolutely true. ... But the facts do matter, which is why the opposite collective judgment is also wrong,” she continues.

“This is exactly what the media does — glorifies one race and condemns another, assumes that one race is guilty and that the other is completely abdicated of any responsibility. This is what progressives do,” she adds, connecting it to the death of George Floyd.

When George Floyd died, she explains, “all of your favorite apolitical pastors not only expressed outrage about that publicly, but they connected his death to the complicity of all white people, the racism of all police, and the racial injustice embedded in all of America.”

“But never, ever did or do we see the same people talk about a crime like this — one, because this kind of crime happens too often.”

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SAY HER NAME: Democrats ignore Charlotte stabbing



A 34-year-old homeless man with a long criminal history has been arrested on charges of murdering a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee — who fled the war in Ukraine for a better life here in America.

Decarlos Brown Jr. allegedly viciously stabbed Iryna Zarutksa on a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 22. CCTV footage revealed that the young woman was stabbed several times, including once in the neck.

She died on the spot.


“She was seeking the safety and the freedom and the promise that America still stood for something good. She never made it off that train alive because of the guy in the red hoodie. He’s a repeat offender, a man with a long rap sheet,” Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck says, disturbed.

“Her name should be everywhere. Her story, when you see it, is like watching a horror film. It is extraordinarily evil and disturbing. Yet, outside of local coverage, you’re not seeing this anywhere,” he continues.

“No, there’s no wall-to-wall coverage, no breathless reporting, no endless panels on this,” he adds.

Glenn believes the mainstream media is ignoring this story because it “does not fit the narrative.”

George Floyd’s death in 2020 “generated tens of thousands of articles, cities were burned, corporations bent the knee,” and “media made it the moral center of the universe.”

“Why is this one completely invisible to the legacy media?” Glenn asks. “A young woman, an immigrant, a refugee, brutally loses her life on American soil, career criminal. Silence.”

“It brings up and makes you ask all the wrong questions. It shines a spotlight on a justice system that keeps turning violent men loose on the streets, over and over again. It reveals the double standard that screams louder than words, that some lives are politically useful,” he says, adding, “others are disposable.”

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Jasmine Crockett repeats ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ lines — but even Democrats are sick of it



Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) is running out of anti-Trump material, as she can’t seem to stop regurgitating the old Democrat talking points. She told California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom on “This is Gavin Newsom” that D.C. is now “very dystopian.”

“It’s funny because I used to watch ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ and I can’t, right? I never finished, and I can’t watch it because it is too close to reality. And so, what we’re seeing is this militarization, and obviously it started in your state. That was kind of the testing grounds,” Crockett said.

“Going to your state, going to a black woman mayor’s city first, and now we are in yet another black woman-led city and taking over. And to me it goes, again, to the level of racism and hate that is constantly spewed out of this administration,” she added.

“What a stunning choice,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere tells Blaze media co-founder Glenn Beck on “The Glenn Beck Program.” “That’s like M. Night Shyamalan. I would never expect her to go to a racial claim,” he comments.


“Would you consider potentially putting together a fundraiser for the Democrats to come up with another literary reference than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’? Like, is it possible we could get them a different book just so they could say that title of it?” he asks.

“Now,” he continues, “I know Jasmine Crockett, of course, is so stupid, she couldn’t even act like she read the book. She only said she was watching the Hulu show. But still, can we get them some reference other than ‘The Handmaid’s Tale?’”

“They’re already doing it,” Glenn warns, noting that the Democrats have realized an error in their language.

“The DNC has now blacklisted terms that they don’t want any of their people using. Now, tell me what these terms have in common — blacklisted terms: privilege, violence (as in environmental violence), dialoguing, triggering, othering, microaggression, holding space, body-shaming, subverting norms, systems of oppression, cultural appropriation, the Overton Window, existential threat to the climate, existential threat to democracy, existential threat to the economy, radical transparency, stakeholders, the unhoused, food insecurity, housing insecurity, people who immigrated, birthing person, cisgender, deadnaming, heteronormative, patriarchy, LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, allyship, incarcerated people, and involuntary confinement,” Glenn reads.

“Those are the words that the Democrats are now telling their people, ‘Don’t use any of these words.’ Those are the words that they forced everybody to use. So they are reading from a new book,” he says, adding, “They’re just burning their own book.”

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'They're all hot garbage': Whitlock goes NUCLEAR on the WNBA



In a devastating blow to Indiana Fever fans everywhere, Caitlin Clark announced she won’t be returning to play for the rest of the season.

“I had hoped to share a better update, but I will not be returning to play this season. I spent hours in the gym every day with the singular goal of getting back out there, disappointed isn’t a big enough word to describe how I am feeling,” Clark wrote in a post on X.

“I want to thank everyone who had my back through the uncertainty. This has been incredibly frustrating, but even in the bad, there is good. The way the fans have continued to show up for me, and for the Fever, brought me so much joy and important perspective,” she continued.


“I am so proud of how this team has only gotten stronger through adversity this year. Now it’s time to close out the season and claim our spot in the Playoffs,” she added.

After hearing the news, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock is officially done with the WNBA.

“She got injured at some point in July. Hasn’t played for two months. Basically has disappeared. Hasn’t talked to the media at all. Did an interview with Sue Bird. This has been the strangest injury absence of a superstar player,” Whitlock says, adding, “This has been a joke, and the WNBA has in my view blown its opportunity.”

“What transpired this year in the WNBA and with Caitlin Clark is the biggest fumble in the history of sports. Women have been fighting for 60 years. ‘We want a place in sports. We want to be the biggest stars in sports.' And they finally get the biggest star in sports, and it’s Caitlin Clark,” he continues.

“They hate her. They beat her up and brutalize her. But here’s what's even worse. Caitlin Clark brings attention to the WNBA. She centers all these WNBA basketball players and shines a spotlight on them. And you know what? They’re all hot garbage,” he adds.

And because of this, Whitlock “won’t be back.”

“They’re going to have a woke stoppage probably this offseason as these entitled feminists keep complaining that they’re underpaid,” he says, adding, “I’m not coming back. I can’t stand these women.”

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Homeschooling: LGBTQ activists’ latest conquest



Homeschool has long been seen as a bubble of hardcore Christians who are opting out of the public school system to keep their children far away from state indoctrination — but according to CEO of Classical Conversations, Robert Bortins, that’s all changing.

“I think God’s design for all humanity is for you to educate your own children. So I’m very glad that secular non-Christians are homeschooling,” Bortins begins. “But as that’s taken place, a lot of the homeschool kind of pioneers who maybe created this curriculum don’t have people to pass it on to.”

“So they’re selling to like PE companies or larger organizations, and they’re secularizing the curriculum,” he explains.

While Bortins doesn’t believe it's necessarily a bad thing that non-Christians are opting to homeschool their children, it is changing the environment, and in some ways for the worse.


One curriculum in particular, Saxon Math, was written by a Christian.

“He gets older. He wants to retire. He sells it to Pearson, which is a billion-dollar publicly traded company. Well, they don’t want to have those same ideas. They want to have their curriculum lined with Common Core or No Child Left Behind, or whatever the latest government edicts are,” Bortins explains.

"And so they basically make a homeschool curriculum of the old version and then just use the branding for the new one. Meanwhile, they’re jacking up the prices for homeschooling curriculum because they don’t want to maintain it and really want to just drive that out,” he continues.

“And so you’ve just got to be very careful that as homeschooling expands, that these ideologies are going to start creeping in. And I think that’s going to have a possibility for just negative outcomes for the homeschooling space in general if we aren't wide-eyed on what’s going on,” he adds.

One friend of Bortins went on a homeschooling field trip with their kids, which they were expecting to have “a young earth creation worldview.”

“It was being put on by secular evolutionists, and so you know, they paid for it, and went to this event, and really got an education in why they needed to do more research before just blindly thinking everything in the homeschool space is Christian,” he explains.

Stuckey is horrified, noting that it was also reported in the National Review that wokeness is infiltrating homeschooling.

The article details a homeschooling “unConvention” in Virginia that featured sessions like “all history is queer history,” which was led by a transgender rights activist. Other sessions included talks on “forms of decoloniality” and “resolving unexamined experiences with bias and oppression.”

“Now, I don’t understand why someone who believes this wouldn’t just send their kids to public school,” Stuckey says, adding, “I mean, you can get that kind of thing for free, right? Unless they think it’s not radical enough.”

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Tim Walz pretends 'disgusting' Nazi Germany comparison isn't divisive



In a recent interview, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) urged Americans to tone down violent and divisive rhetoric — emphasizing unity and civil debate as core to the nation’s strength.

“The president has done this, knowingly divided. He uses words like, ‘the enemy,’ ‘the enemy within,’ and we’ve never used that language,” Walz said in the interview.

However, Walz has contributed to much of the inflammatory rhetoric himself, and BlazeTV host Pat Gray has the receipts.

“Think about how easy it would be to be a damn Republican,” Walz shouted on stage at a DNC summer meeting. “Oh, what should I wear today? This stupid, freaking, red hat. What should I say today? I don’t know, just make sure it’s cruel. Who do we listen to? That guy, oh, the felon in the White House.”


“That’s not divisive at all,” Gray says sarcastically on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“And neither is this,” he adds, before playing another damning clip of Walz.

“My record is so pro-choice, Nancy Pelosi asked me if I should tone it down. I stand with Planned Parenthood, and we won!” he yelled.

In yet another clip, Walz is confronted in a congressional hearing about calling ICE agents under the orders of Trump “a modern-day Gestapo.”

“Do you realize how disgusting that is considering the history of Nazi Germany? Would you like to recant that statement?” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) asked Walz.

“What I said congressman, and I have a long history of supporting law enforcement, I said President Trump was using them as his modern-day Gestapo,” Walz answered.

“Right,” Gray says in disbelief. “That’s the problem.”

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DOJ weighs firearm ban for transgenders after Minneapolis shooting



In the aftermath of the tragic Minneapolis shooting — where two young lives were lost to a violent gunman — Trump’s Department of Justice is considering taking action to stop guns from getting in the hands of transgenders.

The move is being celebrated by conservatives, as the shooter, Robin Westman, was a 23-year-old man who identified as a woman.

One potential avenue could see Trump formally declare that those who identify as transgender are mentally ill and no longer legally allowed to possess firearms.

“Under Attorney General Bondi’s leadership, this Department of Justice is actively considering a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools,” a spokesman for the DOJ said.


However, while many conservatives believe that transgenderism is a mental illness — they’re not sure that broadly banning guns for any group of people is the right move.

“I read that headline and my knee-jerk reaction is like, good, they shouldn’t have guns. And then I’m like, ah, I don’t know how you do that with the Second Amendment,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says on “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered.”

“I think everyone would agree you don’t want violent, mentally ill people to have firearms,” BlazeTV contributor Grant Stinchfield chimes in. “So we can all agree on that. The problem becomes ‘Who is the decider?’”

“So who decides who’s violently and mentally ill? Because I promise you, Nancy Pelosi is going to say, ‘Well, Stinchfield’s mentally ill because he loves freedom and God and all those things.’ So it’s all in the decider,” he continues.

“Now, transgender certainly ... it’s a violent, violent section, mentally ill people, and it is a mental illness. If you think you’re a boy and you don’t have nuts hanging down below you, you’re mentally ill,” he adds.

Gonzales notes that while not all shooters are transgender, transgenders make up such a small percentage of the population and have committed several of the devastating mass shootings in recent years.

“It’s pretty skewed when you look at that,” she says, adding, “And so it’s just hard because you want to prevent this from happening.”

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Gender ideology in schools: The dark stories they don’t want you to hear



President and general counsel at Child and Parental Rights Campaign Vernadette Broyles is a leader in the fight against school policies that help “trans” children without their parents' consent — and one case she tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey about is particularly chilling.

“What we’ve seen, and we have many parents we work with and we have lawsuits over, are children that are secretly transitioned,” Broyles tells Stuckey.

“One of them, I’m thinking of the Paris family. So their little girl, she was 12. This is a Catholic Christian family, had never had any gender dysphoria and really didn’t have any mental health problems to speak of. Just a normal kid,” she continues.

“But she was bullied a bit at school, and she thought, ‘You know, boys are stronger, so I just want to be a boy.’ That alone then catalyzed this process where privately, the school counselor started to meet with her. Parents had no idea,” she adds, noting it happened in Florida.


At the urging of her school counselor, the little girl essentially began living a double life.

“The double life became so untenable for her, unbearable, that she just decides it’d just be better if I ended my life. And she attempted suicide at school,” Broyles explains.

“So the parents, they’re called, they have no idea, they’re called to the principal's office to learn for the first time as their child is being taken to the hospital in the back of a police vehicle ... they learn she’s been trans-identifying,” she continues.

While the girl now is a “warrior” and has stopped trans-identifying, she’s not the only one who’s been failed by the school system.

“Our most tragic is Sage,” Broyles says.

“She had had trauma as a child ... so when she hits puberty ... begins to trans-identify. That causes her to become sexually harassed at school because they’re telling her, and she’s tiny, she’s 5’ tall, to use the boy’s bathroom,” she explains.

“None of this is told to the parents. So Sage, she runs away because she doesn’t feel safe. And when she runs away, she runs into the arms of an adult pedophile who raped her and trafficked her to other men and took her across state lines,” she continues.

“And when she’s found in Maryland, the woke judge doesn’t want to give her back ... because they discover that her parents might not be affirming of her male identity. This is a traumatized child. Her mom wasn’t able to be there when they did a rape kit on her. And so they put her into a facility for troubled boys because she’s identifying as a male.”

In the facility, Sage was then sexually assaulted and ran away again.

She then was trafficked again, and they find her in Texas — a state that had the common sense to return her to her parents.

And this horrifying process commonly begins with the schools.

“These school officials are endorsing this lie to susceptible children,” Broyles says, “who are in the process of development, who believe trusted adults when the trusted adult says, ‘Maybe your problem is that you were born in the wrong body,’ and, ‘You know what, we don’t have to tell your parents because you and I know better.’”

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Mother admits she prefers AI over her DAUGHTER



You've heard of young women getting engaged to their AI boyfriends, but have you heard of artificial intelligence replacing the bond between a mother and daughter?

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck recently read one of these stories — which was about a mother who admitted to liking her AI companion more than her daughter — and it set off some serious alarm bells.

“She says, ‘I spend five hours a day with my new companion, and we play games, we do trivia, we just talk, and I like her more than my daughter,’” Glenn recalls. “Wow. So my first thought was, ‘This has got to stop. We can’t do this.’”

“We’re going to lose our humanity,” he says.


However, Glenn then realized that “maybe we have already lost our humanity in a different way.”

“I want to say we have to stop this, but then what do you replace it with? Then we just have this old woman at home by herself rotting away, not talking to anybody. Have we lost our humanity? Because my thought was, ‘What have I done to exercise my humanity?’” he says.

This is where the question “What would Jesus do?” comes into play.

“He’d stop. He’d notice the old lady. He’d sit down. He’d eat with her. He would chat with her. He’d spend time. He touched the untouchable. He didn’t outsource compassion,” Glenn explains.

“Why are we embracing fake AI friends and talking to them and everything else? Why are our kids on social media? Because real face-to-face stuff, real kindness, is really risky. It’s really risky. If I step into your loneliness, it means I have to feel my own loneliness,” he says.

“We stop being human and we just play this little game because ‘I don’t want to have to rearrange my afternoon; I’m really busy,’” he continues. “So we keep that risk at arm's length. And now we’re eliminating it because AI is always ‘fine.’ Machines never cry. They never ask for a ride to the doctor or to the airport.”

“We bury this human part of us because of convenience,” he adds.

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