A conservative influencer on Monday addressed backlash she's received from MAGA fans after she made claims that they considered to be "feminist."
Over the weekend, Allie Beth Stuckey, host of the "Relatable" podcast on the conservative Blaze Network, shared a clip from a recent speaking engagement on social media where she argued that "porn has weakened men." She also applauded the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk for his efforts to dissuade young men from engaging in premarital sex.
Stuckey said during a new podcast episode on Monday that she received a lot of pushback for those comments from men who identified as conservative Christians. She said the comments were a "gross representation" of her mission.
"They were calling me a feminist because apparently I was finger-wagging or whatever," Stuckey said. "I had people that I consider friends, people that I consider colleagues, repeating this kind of thing. All different kinds of just straight-up lies. Lies about me and my family. Just such gross misrepresentations of me and my mission."
Stuckey added that the pushback made her feel "disheartened."
"It can feel disheartening and that kind of thing when it comes from within your own camp, and it's just outright malicious and slanderous and deceitful and angry and bitter and covetous and resentful and all of those things," Stuckey said. "It weighs you down."
At least four more FBI officials with ties to investigations into President Donald Trump have been ousted since Friday, NBC News reported Monday.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace announced the report during her second hour of her show before a larger discussion about former special counsel Jack Smith.
"In just the last few minutes, we learned, according to NBC News reporting, at least four more FBI officials who were tied to investigations into Donald Trump have been fired since we were last on the air having this conversation with Carol Leonnig on Friday," said Wallace.
At least one of those is special agent Aaron Tapp, who ran the FBI's San Antonio office. CNN reported that he was forced out after he was found to have helped oversee public corruption cases, including investigations into Trump.
"Tapp will be retiring from the bureau later this month, a third person briefed on the matter told CNN," according to the report.
One fired FBI official was the person who handled the FBI's jet fleet. FBI Director Kash Patel was reportedly caught last week using a taxpayer-funded government jet to visit his girlfriend. He was a 27-year veteran of the FBI. He is also the third head of the unit to be shoved out since Patel took over.
MSNBC ran an excerpt of the new book by Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, which attacks Smith and former Attorney General Merrick Garland for not working fast enough to indict and try Trump.
“Knowingly taking classified documents outside of a secure government facility was a crime, plain and simple, she explained. Trying to conceal them after receiving a May subpoena to return all classified records, as Trump had, made the crime far worse, she argued. But Olsen’s team knew that with Trump, all bets were off. The Justice Department would invariably treat the former president more gingerly.”
At one point in the book, Wallace read off a quote from former Justice Department official Julie Edelstein, “If it were anybody else, we would arrest him tomorrow."
A California Democrat whose district and constituents have been targeted by ICE raids took a shot at first lady Melania Trump after President Donald Trump said that ICE should continue its aggressive policies, The Daily Beast reports Monday.
Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), who represents the Golden State's 34th District, wrote this on X:
"Haven't gone far enough?? Any further and ICE will be deporting Melania..."
Gomez was responding to Trump's comments about his cruel immigration policies — and how he thinks they could be harsher — in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday.
Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and moved to the United States in 1996. She became a citizen in 2006, just a year after marrying Donald Trump. The 55-year-old first lady cannot be deported; however, her husband has suggested that he could fly American citizens to prisons abroad, including ones in El Salvador.
"Americans have been watching videos of ICE tackling a young mother, tear gas being used in a Chicago residential neighborhood, and the smashing of car windows. Have some of these raids gone too far?” CBS host Norah O'Donnell asked Trump.
“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by [former presidents Joe] Biden and by [Barack] Obama," Trump responded.
“A lot of the people that your administration has arrested and deported aren’t violent criminals,” O'Donnell said. “[They are] landscapers, nannies, construction workers, the families of service members.”
The CBS host asked if he intended to deport people who do not have criminal records.
"We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be, you came into the country illegally, you’re going to go out. However, you’ve also seen—you’re going to go out. We’re going to work with you, and you’re going to come back into our country legally," Trump said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi took the unusual step of trying to retroactively appoint Lindsey Halligan as Special Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after former FBI Director James Comey claimed that her appointment was not legitimate.
Following his indictment in September, Comey filed a motion to dismiss based on the claim that Halligan's appointment as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had been invalid.
Halligan's appointment followed another interim U.S. attorney's refusal to indict Comey.
"The official who purported to secure and sign the indictment was invalidly appointed to her position as interim U.S. Attorney," Comey's motion said.
On Monday, Bondi suggested that Comey's indictment could not be dismissed because she retroactively appointed Halligan as "special attorney."
"On September 22, 2025, I exercised the authority vested in the Attorney General by 28 U.S.C. § 546 to designate and appoint Lindsey Halligan as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia," Bondi wrote in an order dated Oct. 31.
"For the avoidance of doubt as to the validity of that appointment, and by virtue of the authority vested in the Attorney General by law, including 28 U.S.C. § 509, 510, and 515, I hereby appoint Ms. Halligan to the additional position of Special Attorney, as of September 22, 2025, and thereby ratify her employment as an attorney of the Department of Justice from that date going forward," she added.
Bondi said she also ratified "Ms. Halligan's actions before the grand jury and her signature on the indictments returned by the grand jury in each case."
A journalist revealed on Monday that MAGA's attacks against a rising Democratic star are falling flat — and could backfire on the Republican Party.
Will Pavia, a correspondent for The Times, discussed MAGA's attacks against Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, who is favored to win the New York City mayoral race against Independent and former mayor Andrew Cuomo, during an interview on Times Radio. President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from New York if Mamdani wins, and other MAGA lawmakers have threatened to denaturalize Mamdani, who became a citizen in 2018.
"It does slightly remind you of Barack Obama and the birtherism stuff," Pavia argued, referring to the attacks suggesting Obama was not an American citizen because his family was from Kenya.
"It doesn't look great for the Republicans to be doing this," he added.
Pavia also argued that Mamdani raises a host of questions about the Democratic Party's leadership. For instance, he argued that the hesitation of leaders like Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to endorse Mamdani is rooted in a strategy of "trying not to lose" instead of supporting candidates who win.
"That's why the Democrat party lost the last presidential election, because they're always just about trying not to lose rather than offering anybody anything that might help them win," Pavia argued.
The Trump administration left an immigration expert floored after deporting a woman who had gone to the police to secure justice against her husband for leveling death threats — despite Congress having created a visa program explicitly to protect people in that precise situation.
The case, originally reported by the Los Angeles Times, concerns an undocumented woman known only as "Carmen."
"Carmen’s abusive husband came home drunk one night last summer. He pounded and kicked the door. He threatened to kill her as her young son watched in horror. She called police, eventually obtaining a restraining order. Months later he returned and beat her again. Police came again and he was eventually deported," reported Rachel Uranga. "Thinking she finally escaped his cruelty, Carmen applied for what is known as a U-Visa. The visa provides crime victims a way to stay in the United States legally."
However, according to the report, that application was left to gather dust — and then, "During a regular immigration check-in in June, Carmen was detained. Two months later, she was put on a plane with her 8-year-old son, who just completed second grade. She was headed to her home country, terrified her husband would find her."
Carmen, according to the report, is one of several deportees represented by a group of lawyers who in October "sued the Trump administration in the Central District of California for detaining and deporting survivors with pending visa applications, some of whom have been granted status to stay and sometimes work."
A number of deportation cases under the Trump administration have triggered public outrage, one of the most high-profile being Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was shipped off to the infamous Salvadoran CECOT megaprison despite a court order prohibiting his deportation to that country, then after months was repatriated only for the administration to slap dubious gang charges on him and shop around for a deal for any other country to accept him.
Among the details in the incident report was that Mace attacked TSA agents and police, calling them "f---ing incompetent" and alleging that she should be treated better as an elected official.
Hours after appearing on Fox Business and conducting a press conference, Mace was still posting on X about the incident.
"Did I drop an f-bomb? I hope I did. Did I call them incompetent? If I didn't, they absolutely earned it," Mace said in a meme with the official seal of the House of Representatives.
Due to the government shutdown, TSA isn't being paid, and it's unclear if airport police are being paid. Reports say hundreds of agents are calling out sick because they're forced to take on additional work to pay their bills.
She alleged, "We’ve had 1,300+ death threats this year. Two dozen security breaches at CHS."
However, the U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement in February that in 2024 there were a total of 9,474 "concerning statements and direct threats against members of Congress." This would mean more than one in 10 threats against all 535 members of the House and Senate are explicitly directed at Mace.
President Donald Trump on Monday dropped a series of Truth Social posts adding endorsements for a slew of Republican candidates just hours before election day, including comments about one GOP incumbent that unleashed serious MAGA backlash.
House Majority Whip Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), who is up for reelection in 2026, got a shoutout from the president.
"Congressman Tom Emmer is an America First Patriot who is a fantastic Champion for Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District! As the Majority Whip of the U.S. House of Representatives, Tom is doing a tremendous job advancing our America First Agenda. He is fighting tirelessly to Grow our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Keep our now very Secure Border, SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Strengthen our Military/Veterans, and Defend our always under siege Second Amendment. Tom Emmer has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!
Emmer has faced criticism by MAGA Republicans in the past for not being sufficiently conservative.
He responded to the president's endorsement:
"Thank you, Mr. President!!!" Emmer wrote on X Monday.
But some observers, including MAGA fans, didn't hold back and responded to Emmer's endorsement from Trump:
"He hit the copy and paste button to all congressmen. Feel special," Rhett McDonald, basketball coach in Duluth, Minnesota, wrote on X.
"It's pathetic," Tom Evenstad, who describes himself as a Christian and a 2026 candidate for Minnesota governor, wrote on X. He also wrote: "Translation: Tom Emmer says and does whatever I tell him! I've even got a @tomemmer LEASH BECAUSE HE'S SO F---ING WHIPPED!!!"
"Do you ever take off your Trump knee pads?" User Big Smitty wrote on X.
"Let me remind you- your government is shut down and you've been on vacation for months while 100k Minnesotans are about to see their health costs skyrocket after you have huge tax breaks to the wealthy. Get back to work and off your phone," user Maplehood United, who describe themselves as an "annexation movement as we finally blur the borders with Saint Paul," wrote on X.
"He has no clue that you are THE BIGGEST RINO OUT THERE AND AS A MN I WILL NOT VOTE FOR YOU. YOU ARE ISRAEL FIRST AND RINO TO THE CORE. THIS IS RIDICULOUS," user American mama, self-described as mom, wife and Christian, wrote on X.
A top member of the Democratic Party is expected to make an announcement about her future in Congress following the midterm election on Tuesday, according to a new report.
NBC News reported that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), the former Speaker of the House, will make a decision about her future as a congressional lawmaker after Tuesday's election. Pelosi, 85, has served in Congress since 1987.
Democratic sources told NBC News that Pelosi may not seek re-election next year, according to the report.
Her decision to reconsider her political future after the midterm comes at a time when the Democratic Party is seeking to appear to younger voters.
According to a recent survey from the PEW Research Center, about 67% of Democrats feel frustrated by their own party. Another 50% said the party makes them hopeful for the future, which is down from 69% recorded in 2021, the survey found.
CBS News is under fire after heavily editing Donald Trump's "60 Minutes" interview with Norah O'Donnell, but one detail that was edited out led to some chuckles from a tech reporter.
Last year, Trump sued CBS, claiming it made changes to make Harris sound better. In fact, networks often edit interviews when they go on too long. In Trump's case, however, he had specific demands about what he wanted CBS to withhold from the public.
According to a transcript, Trump told O'Donnell, "And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t wanna embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not– you have a great– I think you have a great new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great– from what I know. I don’t know her, but I hear she’s a great person. But '60 Minutes' was forced to pay me– a lot of money because they took her answer out that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of money for that. You can’t have fake news. You’ve gotta have legit news. And I think that it’s happening. I see..."
O'Donnell tried to interrupt, "Mr. President–"
"I see good things happening in the news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it’s the greatest thing that’s happened in a long time to a free and open and good press," Trump continued.
CBS/Paramount was purchased by Larry Ellison and his son, both of whom are big supporters of Trump.
"Again, I feel the need to repeat this because it is so incredibly stupid. Literally in the same sentence where he says CBS had to pay him 'a lotta money' because it edited a 60 Minutes interview, he tells them to edit the interview, not to air that section. Then he claims 'you can’t have fake news,'" wrote Masnick. "Even though what he’s claiming is literally fake news. They didn’t pay him because they changed the answer. They paid him to get their merger done. Everyone knows it."
He acknowledged that there are certainly more important pieces of the interview that matter to the country and American law, but he said the "narcissistic simpleton’s understanding of the world" was enough to inspire Masnick to call it out
A U.S. District Court judge appointed by President Donald Trump dismissed a lawsuit from two Republican lawmakers seeking to stop redistricting efforts in California.
In the lawsuit filed earlier this month, Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Ronny Jackson (R-TX) called for an injunction on using new California district maps in the 2026 midterm elections.
The lawsuit argued that California's redistricting was not legitimate because it was a response to President Donald Trump's desire for Texas to create more Republican seats by gerrymandering in that state.
"If the House of Representatives flips to a Democrat majority due to California's unlawful districting, Plaintiff will lose his subcommittee chairmanships. This loss of a position is a concrete personal interest, for not only will Plaintiff lose investigative authority, but the Republican staff on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Armed Services Committee will be reduced as the minority staff is smaller than the majority staff," the lawsuit stated. "If California illegitimately flips seats, Republican members from Texas like Plaintiff will lose committee chairmanships and legislative influence, diluting the representation and policy voice Texas's voters currently enjoy."
In his ruling on Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk concluded that neither congressman faced sufficient harm to bring the lawsuit.
Kacsmaryk noted that lawmakers "may not sue in their representative capacity when the asserted harm amounts only to 'a loss of political power, not loss of any private right.'"
The judge also found that "having one's district politically gerrymandered does not constitute a justiciable injury."
An analyst Monday gave a stark warning ahead of the elections Tuesday, saying that voters are signaling they have had enough and are ready to say "to hell with you all."
President Donald Trump's approval rating has hit a second-term low: dropping to 63% among Americans disapproving of him and 37% approving of him, according to a new CNN poll released Monday, just ahead of the off-year election day. Democrats are also showing an advantage when it comes to motivation ahead of the elections, with 67% of Democratic leaning voters saying they are highly motivated to vote vs. 46% of Republican leaning voters saying they are motivated to cast their ballots.
"Republicans are going to have a bad day tomorrow," Frank Luntz, pollster and communications strategist, told CNN anchors Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar.
Many of the elections are local or statewide, he added. A key race on the West Coast has his attention.
"But the one that matters the most for the country is the vote in California, whether or not they're going to change the laws for redistricting," Luntz said. "And that could mean as much as a five-seat Democratic gain, five-seat Republican loss if [Gov.] Gavin Newsom is successful in his ballot initiative. At this point, I think he will be. And that's going to send shockwaves across the country as people begin to look at what's going to happen a year from now. I do believe Democrats win the governorship in New Jersey and Virginia, a socialist is going to be elected mayor of New York [City]. But the one that I'm going to be watching most carefully is California."
As the government shutdown drags out into its second month, Americans are tired of it. And that could be reflected in the election outcome, he added.
"And this is the breaking point. When you don't pay our men and women in uniform and they have to go without their weekly paychecks. And you start to have people who cannot afford their food and fuel, then it starts to have an impact. And then people start to say, 'Why is this happening?'" Luntz said.
"I believe that the shutdown is politically motivated," he added. "I believe that if they wanted to, they could find common ground, but they choose not to. And that is hurting the Republican brand, the Republican reputation. Their numbers are down. As you point out in your own polling, with Donald Trump. But the numbers that have fallen the worst, to my surprise, are the Democrats. Everyone is being hurt by this. Everyone's credibility and respect and looking at the government and the public just looks at this and says, 'Why? Why can't you find some agreement? Why can't you give? Can you? Why can't you cooperate?' And that's going to be a very big question. Wednesday and Thursday when this election is over. It is hurting the Republicans, but it seems to be hurting the Democrats even more."
Although it's difficult to predict what might happen next, redistricting is expected to impact the future.
"I'm going to be direct with you. The idea of changing the rules midway is abhorrent that these districts, the lines are drawn and they're supposed to sit for 10 years. And the fact that Republicans have changed the rules in Texas to change them in Ohio, they changed them in North Carolina. Democrats are trying to do the same. They filed lawsuits in New York. They're trying to win in California. It's going to undermine the faith and trust that we have in democracy. And I think it's one of the worst things that could be happening right now," Luntz said.
It's worrying to see the shifting attitudes towards government, especially amid a government shutdown, inflation, affordability and redistricting.
"And I look at this objectively as someone who measures public opinion and it is frightening how low these institutions, their credibility, how much they have fallen, and how the lack of belief and faith and trust in our democracy seems to be hitting an all-time low," Luntz said. "And I am concerned, and I'm hoping that the people who engage in this process pay attention, because we're reaching a breaking point, and it's coming. And after that breaking point, who knows? Who can predict what happens when the public finally says, 'To hell with you all?' And that's where we're heading right now."
President Donald Trump spent much of his early afternoon rattling off a long list of congressional endorsements on his Truth Social account — but he took time to conspicuously call out one particular Republican he is not endorsing.
Specifically, Trump posted a rambling manifesto against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a libertarian-leaning Republican lawmaker who has gained a reputation as something of a rebel within the caucus, often defying Trump's more authoritarian impulses and bucking the party on various spending items.
"Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie, a Weak and Pathetic RINO from the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won big SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP!" wrote Trump. "The incredible people of Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District gave us a mandate to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and the person that will help us do that is Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Fifth Generation Kentucky Farmer, Captain Ed Gallrein, a true America First Patriot."
Trump then went into a lengthy laundry list of praise for Gallrein, saying that he "knows how to Create GREAT Jobs, Cut Taxes and Regulations, Promote MADE IN THE U.S.A., Support our Amazing Farmers and American Agriculture, Unleash American Energy Dominance, and Champion our Nation’s Golden Age."
"Captain Ed Gallrein has my Complete and Total Endorsement against Massie, who is now polling at about 9% because the Great People of Kentucky are wise to him — He only votes against the Republican Party, making life very easy for the Radical Left," wrote Trump. "Unlike 'lightweight' Massie, a totally ineffective LOSER who has failed us so badly, CAPTAIN ED GALLREIN IS A WINNER WHO WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!"
This is not the first time Trump has gone out of his way to target Massie. Last month, he proclaimed the congressman should be "thrown out of office" and once again told voters to back Gallrein over him.
