President Trump referred to Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) as a “moron” at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Trump said at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday that he needed to win a second term because he was still burning with resentment over not getting one in 2020 — bragging about his "big ego" while continuing to push conspiracy theories about his prior loss. www.rawstory.com/trump-267509...

Donald Trump said he will only accept the GOP losing control of Congress in this November’s midterms if he considers the elections to have been “honest.” www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

A Texas A&M University professor who was fired last year after a controversy over a classroom video that showed a student objecting to a children’s literature lesson about gender identity sued the school on Wednesday. apnews.com/article/texa...

President Donald Trump will attend the National Prayer Breakfast this morning. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn blasts slow power restoration from ice storm, calls for firing of Nashville Electric Service officials. youtu.be/n4LWL_7eWdg?... via @YouTube

More than three-quarters of donations to Blackburn for governor came from outside Tennessee. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

LETTER TO EDITOR: Governing in his [Stephen Miller’s] view should be in the hands of white citizens, preferably men, who are the only true Americans capable of making complex decisions…. That, folks, is white supremacy in a nutshell. Ginna Mashburn, Knoxville www.knoxnews.com/story/opinio...

Tennessee Republican leadership volunteers the state as testing ground for Stephen Miller’s immigration cleansing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Under Stephen Miller’s model immigration blueprint to be tested in Tennessee, public schools would be required to verify immigration status of students and report undocumented.

Trump is doubling down on his controversial suggestion that Republicans "nationalize" elections as he continued to make false claims of widespread voter fraud and refused to accept his 2020 defeat. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

MAGA commentator Steve Bannon voiced support for Donald Trump’s push to nationalize elections, calling on the president to deploy ICE officials and military troops to polling sites. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

John Cole’s Tennessee: Punxsutawney Bill. In his final State of the State address on Feb. 2, Gov. Bill Lee followed themes from past speeches, including his push to expand private school vouchers. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/04/j...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated his support Wednesday for the rights of parents to keep their children from taking vaccinations, even those required for enrollment in public schools, during a visit to TN State Capitol. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/04/u...

The Washington Post moved Wednesday at the behest of owner Jeff Bezos to cut a third of its entire workforce. The layoffs affect every corner of the newsroom. www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...

Republican state [MS] lawmakers on Tuesday killed a proposed school voucher bill that would have given private school families public education money to use on private school “scholarships” — similar to what Gov. Bill Lee has in place for Tennessee. www.fox13memphis.com/news/mississ...

Republican-led states collectively are investing billions of dollars in subsidies for nonpublic schooling. They [including TN] are investing increasingly large sums of money to subsidize private education students who were already attending private school. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Two Minnesota school districts and the state’s teachers’ union filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to stop immigration agents from carrying out enforcement activity at or near schools. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

A bill that would introduce vocal prayer and Bible reading into public schools is before the TN legislature. It would also require schools to include the Bible as literature and the moral and ethical teachings of the Old and New Testament in curriculum. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/fe...

U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles is calling for state lawmakers to take direct control of Nashville Electric Service. www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape.

VP JD Vance came to the defense of federal agents immediately after Alex Pretti’s killing, calling him a “an assassin with ill intent.” Two weeks later, Vance was asked if he would like to apologize to Pretti’s family. Response: “For what?” newrepublic.com/post/206133/...

The reason Trump is skipping the Super Bowl is because he knows he’d be drowned in a sea of 69,000 boos. newrepublic.com/post/206126/...

Moulton: This is state-sponsored terror. This is what you would expect to see in North Korea or Iran or the old Soviet Union. We’ve got to crack down on the government before they crack down on the American people.

The Washington Post laid off hundreds of employees on Wednesday, which its former executive editor said “ranks among the darkest days” in the newspaper’s history. Approximately one-third of employees were affected. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) tells Kristi Noem to keep ICE detention center out of his state. newrepublic.com/post/206161/...

Tom Homan? The guy who put kids in cages? That's who the White House picked to lead ICE operations in Minnesota? If they were looking for an “adult in the room,” they picked the wrong guy. youtu.be/i_oUUUOsyNo

Former Knox County School Psychologist Amanda Collins, a mother of three current and former Knox County students, is one of five taxpayers joining a lawsuit to prevent religious charter school Wilberforce Academy of Knoxville from receiving her money. www.wate.com/news/top-sto...

Florida lawmakers intended for voucher money to flow to religious schools — Christian, that is; not Islamic. www.tallahassee.com/story/news/s...

Trump is expected to speak at the National Prayer Breakfast tomorrow (Thursday) morning. Several religious groups will be boycotting. They say the event has become a Christian nationalist exercise. baptistnews.com/article/grou...

As part of an investigation into the Trump administration’s dangerous “Anti-Christian Bias” executive order, Americans United for Separation of Church and State today filed a federal Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the HHS department. www.au.org/the-latest/p...

Legislation to allow the display of the Christian Ten Commandments prominently in all Tennessee public schools passed the House Education Committee on Feb. 3 and now needs one procedural vote before reaching the House floor. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Is Cameron Sexton a “puppet” of Stephen Miller?

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and publisher Will Lewis “are embarking on the latest step of their plan to kill everything that makes the paper special,” Ashley Parker writes. theatln.tc/UIN69Qt0

America's Voice, an immigration reform advocacy group that favors a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, has issued a press release warning of Stephen Miller’s increased negative influence — citing his disturbing new ties with Tennessee. americasvoice.org/press_releas...

Marsha Blackburn claims voters favor full funding of ICE. www.foxbusiness.com/video/638873... #FoxBusiness

Marsha Blackburn claims voters favor full funding of ICE.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller uses graphic images and an encrypted messaging app to covertly exert influence over President Donald Trump without leaving a trail. www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-mill...

Mississippi will not expand its school voucher program to use public tax dollars for private school tuition after the Mississippi Senate Education Committee killed the House’s bill on Tuesday. www.mississippifreepress.org/voucher-plan...

The power to enforce immigration law rests with the federal government. But Trump adviser, Stephen Miller, has a vision to use Tennessee as a testing ground. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Cartoon by Steve Breen

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s expanded universal school voucher program opens up a new government entitlement to families previously opting for private schooling at their own expense.

An aide to Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) holds up a large photo of Stephen Miller, as Garcia declares: “There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here.”

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

Gov. Bill Lee's final state budget proposal includes nearly as much new funding for private school vouchers as new funding for public schools. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

In a race drawing national attention, three other candidates, both Democrat and Republican, have larger war chests than incumbent U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles. tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/04/c...

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn's campaign for governor raised $5.5 million since she entered the race five months ago. www.axios.com/local/nashvi...

Stephen Miller has been an architect of aggressive immigration sweeps in U.S. cities and deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...