Student who was kicked out of UCLA class in 2016 for voting Trump finds the courage to speak out



As leftist Trump hysteria continues, Mark Levin recalls when the mania all started — back in 2016 when Donald Trump took on and defeated Hillary Clinton.

The day following his victory, certain liberal universities canceled classes and created “safe spaces” for students who were apparently traumatized by Trump’s election. One of those universities was the University of California, Los Angeles.

Levin plays a TikTok video of a Trump-supporting student who just recently started opening up about her experience as a UCLA student back in 2016.

“All of my professors gave all of the students, you know, a safe space and time off from school if they wanted to heal and quote-unquote ‘mourn the loss of our country,”’ Avery recalls. “This lasted from week 5 to week 7.”

When one of her teaching assistant's discussion-led groups finally resumed, all the students and TAs wanted to do was continue wallowing in their misery.

“I didn't say anything. I just sat there; I listened; I was respectful; I was quiet, and then the TA said, ‘Avery, we haven't heard from you. How are you coping with this?’ And I said, ‘Well, I'm doing well. I voted for Trump, and I think this is going to be a great four years, and I'm here to learn; I'm not here to talk about politics. This isn’t a poli sci class,'” she recounts in the video.

These words got Avery “kicked out of the class,” and she was told “to leave the class and not return for the remainder of the quarter.”

“I was quote-unquote ‘a threat to my fellow students' safety’ because I voted for Donald Trump,” she says. “I didn't say anything, I didn't do anything, I literally just shared that I voted for him because I was asked.”

“These people need to be stopped. We cannot be silent anymore, and I only started posting on TikTok three weeks ago, so if you have the fire in your belly, go for it because they're going to hate you anyway,” she adds.

“What should happen here, number one, a good lawyer should step up who has a California license — that's a clear violation of her First Amendment rights — and sue the university and sue whoever was in charge of that class,” says Levin.

To hear more of Avery’s story and Levin’s commentary, watch the clip above.

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The DEFINITIVE top 10 stories of 2024



As 2024 comes to a close, Steve Deace, Todd Erzen, and Aaron McIntire are doing some reflecting on all that’s occurred over the past 366 days of this wild and unprecedented leap year.

“What a strange trip it has been,” says Deace.

The team takes on the challenging task of narrowing down the craziest events and happenings of 2024 into the top 10 stories of the year.

10. Adventures in 'Scamdemia'

On January 2, 2024, Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned after journalist Christopher Rufo exposed her as a plagiarist. His investigation revealed that Gay used a number of uncited sources in her doctoral thesis.

“That was the beginning of a year on college and university campuses that was marked with intimidation and, in some cases, violence against Jewish students from pro-Hamas orcs as Israel continued its war against Hamas,” says McIntire, noting that it was “always unclear what, if anything, the protesters were demanding.”

9. America still likes baby-killing, but …

While 2023 saw some “extremely disappointing developments … for the cause of life,” 2024 was “more of a mixed bag,” says McIntire.

“Florida's 'kill them all' amendment was defeated along with similar amendments in Nebraska and South Dakota,” but unfortunately, “pro-baby-killing amendments in places like Arizona, Montana, and Missouri all passed.”

On top of that, “the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine that physicians and medical associations lack the legal right to challenge the FDA’s approval of the abortifacient mifepristone” and “preserved access” to this drug, even in states where abortion is restricted.

8. Real America: Forgotten, abused, and gaslit

2024 was a year of lying and gaslighting. McIntire gives two prime examples of this.

One: Every time an economic report was released this year, it was “not exactly good but maybe passable with the correct spin,” he explains. However, in a month’s time, “the revised numbers [were] published, showing the economy was not nearly as rosy as previous numbers indicated.”

Two: When Hurricane Helene hit Florida and ravaged its way up the coast through six states, FEMA and other federal emergency organizations “were — and are — seemingly nowhere to be found,” especially in the deep-red area of Western North Carolina.

However, when speculation that the absence of aid was politically motivated ignited, we were told repeatedly that the notion was “hogwash,” says McIntire. That is, until a report from the Daily Wire revealed that a FEMA official ordered workers to skip houses with Trump signs. Then the truth became apparent.

This cycle of lying and gaslighting “was on wash, rinse, and repeat all year with various figures within the Biden administration,” he says.

7. Trans ain’t going away

Although Caitlin Clark “[set] new heights for female athletics and [became] an icon,” the realm of women’s sports was still tainted by the fact that several biological men posing as women were permitted to compete in women’s athletic leagues this year.

One of those individuals is San Jose State volleyball player Blaire Fleming, who “played all season for the Spartans, prompting several of their opponents to forfeit their matches in protest,” says McIntire.

He is one of several examples.

6. 'I’m putting together a team'

Unlike his Cabinet picks from 2016, which included “John Backstabbing Kelly” and “James Tranny-loving Mattis,” this time around, an older and wiser Trump has tapped a number of excellent people to fill his Cabinet. From Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel to Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., among others, Trump’s second term is bound to look different.

5. So long, Joe

A month after special counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s alleged improper retention of classified records concluded with no recommendation of criminal charges, as Biden was “a sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory,” Biden dropped out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate against President-elect Donald Trump.

“Two days before that debate — June 25 — CNN runs a headline saying it's a right-wing conspiracy with fake videos that Biden's mentally unfit,” Deace recalls.

Then when Biden’s debate performance proved this “conspiracy” correct, then “the media that covered for him all the time suddenly does a pivot and now retcons themselves as the gatekeepers of democracy with great concern about the president's faculty.”

4. Illegal immigration and the murder of Laken Riley

“The most conservative estimates from our government's own data put the number of illegals who have come into this country during the Biden administration at over 7.2 million,” says McIntire. “The real number? Significantly higher, probably.”

Among those millions were many violent criminals, drug lords, and gang members — perhaps the most notable being Jose Ibarra, who murdered Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. Riley then became a kind of face for the movement of people who support mass deportations.

3. Lawfare

In 2024, “Donald Trump faced an extensive array of unfair legal challenges,” says McIntire.

Those include the New York hush-money case, during which he was convicted on 34 felony accounts for falsifying business records; the classified documents case, during which he was indicted on 37 counts; the election interference case, during which he faced numerous federal charges for actions related to the 2020 election; and the Fulton County, Georgia, case, in which Trump and others were charged under the RICO Act for allegedly conspiring to overthrow the state's 2020 election results.

On top of that, “he faced a bevy of civil lawsuits, including a significant fraud case by New York Attorney General Letitia James, where he was fined a substantial amount,” adds McIntire.

Further, “there were various efforts to disqualify him from the ballot — like in Colorado, which removed him from the ballot before they were smacked down by the Supreme Court — and there were other sundry efforts to label him as an insurrectionist.”

“These cases collectively — all of them ranging in validity from specious to malicious — added up for a year of lawfare, but there's a reason why he's called Teflon Don, as many of those suits fell apart,” adds McIntire.

2. They tried to kill him

“In a shocking but not surprising turn of events, at a Donald Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, an assassination attempt rocked the nation on July 13 of this year. Just minutes into his speech at the Butler Farm Show grounds, gunshots rang out, grazing Trump's ear and leading to immediate chaos,” McIntire recalls.

But “Trump in this iconic moment rose to his feet after being shot in the head and yelled to his supporters, ‘Fight, fight, fight!'" which resulted in one of the most iconic photographs of all time.

The attempt on Trump’s life, McIntire points out, was largely the result of the legacy media that perpetuated the narrative that Trump is Hilter.

1. Trump wins, again

Not only did he win the Electoral College, he also won the popular vote.

“That’s really all that needs to be said,” says McIntire.

To hear more on each event, as well as the crew's list of honorable mentions, watch the episode above.

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Charlie Kirk and Glenn STUN crowd at AmFest: Trump’s ‘Golden Era’ is our second chance



The past four years have been full of challenges — to say the least — but Glenn Beck and Charlie Kirk don’t believe it was all for naught.

And in a recent speech at AmFest, they drove that point home beautifully.

“Is it possible that we are entering a golden era? That an American renaissance is on the way?” Kirk asked Glenn.

“Absolutely possible,” Glenn responded. “Charlie, you’ve listened to me since you were a little kid. For 14 years. So I’m never positive about things. I’m always like, ‘OK, here’s how it’s going to go wrong. The Titanic is going to sink, and we’re all aboard.’ I haven’t been optimistic like this since probably 2001, before the World Trade Center came down.”


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“We’ve been given another chance, and let’s stop forcing our will and our way on things. If Donald Trump would have won in 2020, we wouldn’t know all of the things that we know now. We wouldn’t know how deep this thing went,” he continued.

As the audience broke out in applause, Kirk noted that “everyone here is applauding the fact that we didn’t take power in 2020.”

“That is the sign of a very mature movement here. Not a bitter one, not a scorned movement, but a movement that looks back and says, in Romans 12:2, ‘God will use all things for good, for those who love him.’”

“And at the time in 2020, we were like, ‘This country is over, it’s terrible,’ but God knew what he was doing to strengthen our movement to make this term,” he added.

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Step aside, Never-Trumpers — the president has his mandate



Never-Trumpers on both sides of the political aisle are raging over Trump’s plan to use recess appointments to expedite filling his Cabinet and bypass lengthy confirmation processes. Since Cabinet confirmations took an average of 30.9 days during his first term, Mark Levin of “LevinTV” doesn’t see a problem with his approach.

“A president needs to be able to push back. Now, some of them will do it in the wrong way, some of them will do it in a way that damages the Constitution. Trump hasn’t done anything yet, other than announce that he plans to do it,” Levin says.

“I’ve taken this position: There are a couple nominees that I’m not hot on, but who cares? I’m not president,” he continues, adding, “I think he should be able to have his team. He believes this is the team he needs to get things done, to accomplish what he said he was going to accomplish.”


Trump didn’t get a chance to accomplish what he planned during his first four years as president, as Democrats immediately jumped down his throat with investigations and impeachment hearings.

“He’s lived through that, and he said, ‘Not this time. I get four years; that’s all I’ve got,’” Levin says.

“My eyes are wide open about this. I don’t think there’s any liberty issue or constitutional crisis issue,” he adds, noting that other presidents have done the same thing — like former President George W. Bush and his recess appointment of John Bolton as the acting ambassador to the United Nations.

“Of all people, Barack Obama was abusing the process,” Levin explains. “The courts said, ‘No, no, that’s not right.’ But they didn’t eliminate it, they didn’t torpedo it, it’s still there.”

“Donald Trump isn’t creating the practice of a recess appointment for a Cabinet officer or any other officer. The issue isn’t whether it’s a Cabinet officer or any other officer; the issue is whether the Constitution provides him with the ability to do it,” he continues. “And as has been the practice, the answer is ‘yes.’”

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Democrats' losing strategy could push a political realignment



President-elect Donald Trump officially flipped Lake County, California, one month after the November 5 election. Trump's electoral win in Lake County is the latest indication of the landslide victory he enjoyed in the 2024 cycle.

Trump became the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote in two decades, even sweeping all seven swing states. The last candidate to win all battlegrounds was former President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

'It could actually be the beginnings of a Reagan-style political realignment if the Democrats don't make adjustments and do so in a hurry.'

Trump also flipped over 50 counties this cycle while Vice President Kamala Harris failed to flip any in her favor. Of those counties that flipped in Trump's favor, roughly half of them had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate this century. Trump also managed to shift every single state toward Republicans. Roughly 300 counties shifted more Democratic, without any actually flipping blue, while over 2,600 shifted more Republican.

"The data suggests that this was more than simply a decisive victory for Donald Trump," Len Foxwell, a Democratic strategist based in Maryland, told Blaze News. "It could actually be the beginnings of a Reagan-style political realignment if the Democrats don't make adjustments and do so in a hurry."

One of Trump's most notable flips was South Texas' Starr County, a predominantly Hispanic border county. This ended one of the longest Democratic voting streaks in history, with the county voting for a Democrat in every presidential election since 1896. Trump also made inroads with Latinos in Florida, enjoying a double-digit swing in Miami-Dade County compared to his results in 2020.

Democratic support slipped across every demographic the party has historically held onto. Even with a black female candidate and a white working-class running mate, voters turned to Trump.

"We are losing, in front of our very eyes, some of the core elements of the Democratic coalition that we have held onto, to varying degrees, since the age of Roosevelt," Foxwell told Blaze News. "We have become a party of inner suburban wine clubs and book clubs. A relatively small, culturally homogeneous group of inner suburban, highly educated, relatively affluent liberals and progressives."

"That, to be sure, is a part of a strong Democratic coalition, but it cannot be the only part," Foxwell continued. "It cannot and it must not be the centerpiece around which we base our national political strategy, and I'm afraid that's what we're at risk of becoming."

Foxwell points out that the downfall of the Democratic Party is largely because it demands a highly stringent form of political and social orthodoxy from its voters that has become incompatible with many moderates. Although Democrats have championed diversity of identity, the party has remained intellectually homogeneous, which is exclusionary by nature.

"Democrats used to be the party of disruption, debate, and change, and now we have become a more intellectually homogeneous party in which we are not necessarily supposed to look alike, but we are certainly expected to think alike," Foxwell said. "When that happens, you become intellectually stagnant, and I honestly believe that this is one of the major reasons why the Democratic Party is losing its natural advantages."

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Trump can’t stop WINNING: Judge indefinitely postpones sentencing for guilty verdict



After a treacherous four years, it’s about time that Donald Trump sees some wins.

After Trump won the 2024 election in a landslide victory, Judge Juan Merchan, who was presiding over Trump’s “hush money” case, has indefinitely postponed Trump’s sentencing for his guilty verdict.

Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” believes “this was all strategic.”

“He had to show up in court every day. They mandated that he show up. It wasn’t enough that his attorney showed up. He personally had to show up in court every day this case was going on, because they thought it would hurt his campaign. It didn’t,” Gonzales comments.

“The entire point was of course to weaponize this judicial system against him. And after that, all of the woke Karens were like, ‘But he’s a convicted felon, you can’t vote for a convicted felon,’” she continues, adding, “You guys can take that talking point and shove it up your behind.”


Stephen Cheung, Trump’s spokesman and incoming White House communications director, also had something to say about this development.

“In a decisive win for President Trump, the hoax Manhattan case is now fully stayed and sentencing is adjourned,” Cheung said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “President Trump won a landslide victory as the American people have issued a mandate to return him to office and dispose of all remnants of the Witch Hunt cases.”

“All of the sham lawfare attacks against President Trump are now destroyed, and we are focused on Making America Great Again,” he added.

Gonzales is thrilled that yet another attack on Trump has only helped him rather than destroy him, as the left had originally planned.

“I mean, think about the ramifications if this had been successful right? According to the left’s playbook of destruction, he’s already passed,” she says.

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Campus Crusade for Christ’s ‘Diversity Team’ sent a ridiculous post-election note — to BIPOC only



Campus Crusade for Christ, also known as Cru, is a college organization whose mission is reportedly to connect people to Jesus Christ. However, as of late, it seems that it's been more interested in connecting students with the woke agenda.

“They were basically presenting theological liberalism, political liberalism, as a viable option for their ministry leaders, things like pronoun politeness, they even presented affirmation of transgenderism, not as Cru’s own position, but as a position that some Christians might hold, and, of course, they have been very supportive of the social racial justice movement over the past few years,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” comments.

After Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, things got even stranger — specifically with Cru’s “Oneness and Diversity” national team.

“After the election, they kind of played this mushy middle role that they’ve been playing for a while, pretending that voting for Kamala Harris is like a viable option for Christians and that we should refer to the sadness of Christians and feel for the sadness of Christians who are disappointed that Kamala Harris — who rabidly and enthusiastically supported abortion through all nine months of pregnancy — lost,” Stuckey says.


This “Oneness and Diversity” team also reportedly sent out a post-election letter, reportedly addressed only to its list of minority and BIPOC staff members. The letter was titled “Oneness is a truth and a journey.”

“The letter sought to help them with the spectrum of feelings following Trump’s victory but mostly focused on feelings of anger and grief. So the problem is first that they sent it out to racial minorities only, and this is just something that we see in the legacy of 2020,” Stuckey explains.

“A lot of Christian leaders doing this, pretending that black and brown Christians have to get one message, and it’s a message of comfort and I would say coddling, and then the white members have to get another message and that is a message of ‘You bear all of the sins and the responsibilities of everyone who has roughly the same skin color as you,’” she continues.

“Which, of course, is just not the gospel. The truth is that both sides need to hear, ‘You are responsible for your actions, you are not responsible for the sins of your ancestors, you’re not responsible even for the victories and successes of your ancestors, you are not judged by these things, but you are judged by your own heart,’” she adds.

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Lara Trump REVEALS the RNC’s crazy brilliant plan used to prevent election cheating



Donald Trump made history when he won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide. But he didn’t do it alone, and his son’s wife, Lara Trump, played a big part in making that happen.

Now she’s telling Liz Wheeler of “The Liz Wheeler Show” exactly how they did it.

“There were people who had kind of been identified by us prior to our first days in the office, so to speak, at the RNC, who probably didn’t necessarily need to have a job there any more,” Trump tells Wheeler.

“This election, the RNC was kind of trying to be too many things, I think to too many people, and when you do that, you really can’t adequately do anything, right? You’re spreading yourself too thin,” she continues, noting that they instead decided to focus on three things.


“We said we want to have a world-class convention, we want to get out the vote, and we want to protect the ballot, and we’re going to focus on just those three things, and anyone who has ideas otherwise, quite frankly, maybe this isn’t the right place for you,” Trump explains.

In order to make sure this was a “free, fair, and transparent election,” Trump tells Wheeler that they made sure “that people understand someone is watching and that there will be eyes every time a vote is cast and counted.”

“We had to go to every single battleground state, and we had to get local media to cover the fact that we were going to have this huge election integrity push. So we opened offices all over the country, these election integrity offices, where we actually train people in terms of what you need to look for, how to be a poll watcher or a poll worker,” she explains.

Trump’s team set out a “lofty” goal to recruit 100,000 people to work in polling locations — and they ended up with 230,000 people. They also got 6,500 lawyers to identify potential problems and deal with those problems if they occurred.

“Most of these people, by the way, were volunteer attorneys,” she explains, adding, “We’re obviously very pleased with our outcome.”

Wheeler is impressed.

“I know some of the lawyers that worked for you; almost every smart, conservative attorney that works in media and politics was part of this, which is to say a lot of very impressive people were part of this,” she says.

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Three audits in a row: Why Trump must DESTROY the Department of Education



If Donald Trump really wants to change America for the better, he should set his sights on the Department of Education — which has just failed its third audit in a row.

“Instead of focusing energy and time on improving operations and student outcomes at every level, the education department in the Biden-Harris era has poured its resources into the student loan schemes and fulfilling every whim of the teachers unions,” Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx said in a recent statement.

Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” is disturbed.

“Three audits in a row that the Department of Education has failed,” Savage says, adding, “Are we even surprised at this point in time?”


Oklahoma State Education Superintendent Ryan Walters is not surprised, but he is excited.

“President Trump is going to do away with this agency, number one,” Walters tells Savage and Matthew Peterson. “Number two, we went as a country over 200 years without a federal department of education.”

“We just so happened during that time to create the greatest country in the history of the world without a department of education. We’ve had one for 40 years, every educational statistic has gotten worse,” Walters explains.

“You’ve watched schools go from teaching patriotism, focusing on the basics, preparing kids for a workforce and a high quality of life to schools that turn kids to hate their countries, reject traditional values, and can’t even do the most basic skills,” he continues.

“Long answer to the question: I’m not surprised at all that they failed their audit,” he adds.

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Why Glenn is SKEPTICAL about the ‘HACKED’ Matt Gaetz investigation testimony



Matt Gaetz has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as attorney general, and those on thee left have made it clear they’re unhappy with the decision.

Which is why Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere of “The Glenn Beck Program” are skeptical of the recent “hacker” who reportedly gained access to testimony from the congressional investigation into Gaetz.

The unidentified hacker has reportedly obtained the sworn testimony of Gaetz’s accusers from the House ethics probe through a law firm involved in a civil suit against Joel Greenberg. Greenburg is supposedly an acquaintance of Gaetz who is serving an 11-year prison term for sex trafficking.

The file features testimony under oath by a woman who claims that she engaged in sex with Gaetz when she was only 17 and from another woman who claims to have witnessed it.


“Really amazing how we have all of this technology that could track and listen and find anything, every keystroke recorded, but we can’t find this hacker,” Glenn comments.

“It’s funny because someone will come in and hack some cell phone provider's information. Millions, billions of records go out of millions of people, and we won’t know about it for six months. The next day, we have learned all about this hack. It’s almost like someone who knew about the hack was able to immediately give that information to the New York Times,” Stu says.

“In this case, there’s definitely no interest — people who don’t like Matt Gaetz: Democrats, and some Republicans — no chance that this was a setup and leaked to the New York Times, specifically within, gosh, 24 hours,” he adds.

And Stu’s not wrong, as Gaetz definitely has ruffled some important feathers.

“He was effective. He was probably the biggest voice against the corruption at the DOJ,” Glenn says, adding, “the report comes years after the DOJ dropped its investigation into the same claims on the grounds that two central witnesses had serious credibility issues.”

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