Freedom 250 woes pile up as Martina McBride, Bret Michaels latest singers to drop out of fair lineup

Singers Martina McBride and Bret Michaels, leader of the band Poison, have pulled out of the Great American State Fair, a celebration marking America’s 250th anniversary that is organized by Freedom 250, a group founded by President Trump. The Washington Times stories: White House

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How Will House Freedom Caucus Adapt to Several Members Departing Capitol Hill?

The House Freedom Caucus has for years been a major force on Capitol Hill, with its members picking frequent policy fights in their push for more fiscally and socially conservative legislation. But as almost a half dozen of its most prominent members seek office back home and away from Congress, those departures will alter the lineup of the caucus, which fought for additional spending cuts in the “big, beautiful bill” and has been the fiscal conservative vanguard for a decade in the House of Representatives. Here’s how the caucus will…

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‘It Is Freedom Over Communism,’ Trump Supporter Says at NC Rally 

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—“We’re running a campaign of solutions to save America, an America which they have virtually destroyed,” former President Donald Trump said of the Biden-Harris administration at a Wednesday afternoon rally here. To elect Vice President Kamala Harris as president “would be to gamble with the lives of millions and millions of people,” Trump said, adding that Harris “would get us into World War III because she is too grossly incompetent to do the job.”   The former president spoke at Rocky Mount Event Center, which holds about 4,000,…

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Artists Against Book Bans: 170+ Celebrities Sign Petition Defending the Freedom to Read

“A threat to one form of art is a threat to us all.” That’s what LeVar Burton, the former host of “Reading Rainbow” and executive producer of the 2023 documentary “The Right to Read,” believes, and it’s why he’s partnered with MoveOn to launch a campaign with creative leaders to bring heightened awareness to this dangerous form of censorship and exclusion. With a new school year just beginning, this letter is a timely response to Republicans banning a record number of books in the last school year, despite backlash and…

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