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In 10 years, The Daily Wire has put up some incredible wins, and over the next few weeks, we’re looking back at 10 of our greatest victories — none of which could have happened without the support of our loyal members and fans. 
One of our biggest victories occurred over the summer as the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding a Tennessee law protecting children from surgical and chemical gender mutilation. The ruling allowed states across the country to keep in place laws protecting children from life-altering transgender procedures. 
The Tennessee law at the center of ruling was inspired by an investigation from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. In September 2022, Walsh released an investigation revealing that the pediatric transgender clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was removing the breasts of girls who identified as boys and prescribing cross-sex hormones to gender-confused children.
“My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors,” Walsh <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392">reported</a> at the time. “They now castrate, sterilize, and mutilate minors as well as adults, while apparently taking steps to hide this activity from the public view. This is what ‘health care’ has become in modern America.”
In the days following the investigation, Walsh met with top Tennessee lawmakers who vowed to introduce legislation to ban transgender procedures on kids and Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released">called</a> for an immediate end to the procedures. 
A month after the investigation broke, Walsh led a rally in Nashville attended by top Tennessee Republicans like Senator Marsha Blackburn and others like Tulsi Gabbard calling for an end to child mutilation. 
Walsh later testified before state lawmakers in favor of the Republican-backed bill to ban transgender procedures on kids in Tennessee. 
“We should be able to agree that it is never OK to chemically castrate, sterilize, butcher, or mutilate a child. And in fact, all decent people do agree on this point,” Walsh said during his testimony. “But many of the people who hold power in this country and who run our institutions — including our medical institutions — do not pass this basic test of decency.” 
After Tennessee’s law was passed in March 2023, over a dozen other states moved to enact similar legislation to protect kids. Tennessee’s law was challenged by leftist activists and the Biden administration, bouncing through the federal court system before the Supreme Court agreed to take it up. Walsh also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1498-on-demand">spoke</a> at a rally in front of the Supreme Court in December 2024, continuing to push for an end to transgender procedures on children. 
In June 2025, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in United States v. Skrmetti that states were allowed to protect kids from transgender procedures under the Constitution. 
Walsh said that the decision was a “fatal blow” to transgender ideology. 
“Three years ago, we launched our investigation into Vanderbilt’s child mutilation practices,” he <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1935345883769430153">said</a>. “We rallied in the state capital. Our lawmakers responded with a law banning child mutilation in the state. Today the Supreme Court upheld our law, which means child mutilation can be banned anywhere and everywhere in the country. And should be. This is a truly historic victory and I’m grateful to be a part of it, along with so many others who have fought relentlessly for years.”

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Isabel Brown, Gen Z firebrand and popular content creator, is bringing her unique blend of humor and cultural commentary to The Daily Wire.
This fall, <a href="https://www.theconservateur.com/features/isabel-brown-launches-new-show-with-the-daily-wire">Brown began hosting an original series</a> on DailyWire+. Broadcasting from Washington, D.C., Brown joins a growing Daily Wire team in our nation’s capital. A new mom and Colorado native, Brown rose to fame posting her unfiltered thoughts on Instagram, where she now has over a million followers.
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I am SO excited to finally announce that my podcast, The Isabel Brown Show, has a new home with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>!!
I have never been more passionate about fighting as hard as we can on offense to save the West. It’s time for us to not just *react* to the insanity of the upside… <a href="https://t.co/mUKxMHe8FJ">pic.twitter.com/mUKxMHe8FJ</a>
— Isabel Brown (@theisabelb) <a href="https://twitter.com/theisabelb/status/1942222116817862859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On her show, Brown tackles the same subjects she addresses on her social media pages — everything from pop culture to the pro-life movement — and bring viewers with her as she takes D.C. by storm with her family.
“Earlier this year, I transitioned into the most important role of my entire life: mom,” Brown said. “Seeing the world through my daughter&#8217;s eyes and a fresh perspective has only given me more passion for our generation to fight on offense as hard as we can for what is good and true and beautiful.”
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“Isabel Brown is sure to win over the hearts and minds of the Daily Wire audience with her common-sense takes, elegant humor, and intellectual prowess,” says Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “She brings brainpower, pop culture fluency, and the kind of fearless fun that causes liberal tears to flow like NPR tote bags at a Bernie rally.”
Daily Wire viewers will have plenty of time to get to know Isabel as they join her devoted community of “truth seekers” this fall.
Here’s everything you need to know about The Daily Wire’s newest host.
<h3>She’s Fearless</h3>
Whether it’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DEpsnWPO5Br/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free speech </a>in the digital era, women’s <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDaLn3yyqta/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biological identity</a>, or humanity’s most basic <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DCR_Iv8yDZu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">right to life</a>, Isabel proudly stands up for her views — even when they’re unpopular. She was among the first to stand up for <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DDXhxcxS6YO/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok’s</a> importance as a free speech platform, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DFOdldUug_4/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defends life </a>from the moment of conception, and even appeared <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C9Z5DDKuUEn/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on the cover</a> of Newsweek to champion conservative principles for Gen Z.
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<h3>She’s All About Faith and Family</h3>
Isabel grew up in a chaotic, loud, and very pink home, the oldest of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_qJa2fuBKC/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">three girls</a> who loved to steal each other’s clothes and fight over who got to play with which American Girl doll. As a wife and new mom, Isabel is cherishing every second of her home life with her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-VeLjEuI6J/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">husband</a>, Brock, their beautiful baby girl, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DKLDIgYNh8M/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Isla</a>, and, of course, her trusty sidekick, Liberty the Corgi. Guiding Brock as he converted to Catholicism inspired Isabel to take an even deeper interest in her faith, and she’s currently pursuing her master’s degree in theology at the University of Notre Dame. Go Irish!
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<h3>She’s Always On The Move</h3>
Despite all the time she spends online, Isabel’s favorite thing to do is spend time in the great outdoors. Isabel scaled her first 14,000+ foot peak in her home <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcjRRaAYQy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mountains of Colorado </a>at 10 years old. She’s on a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CfejxLUJdXl/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">quest</a> to visit all 63<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CxRmJ3EtHeY/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> National Parks</a> and has traveled to 24 countries, scaling peaks in <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C0o__FFSnGA/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Zealand</a>, road-tripping the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-7tJxgu5-6/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scottish Highlands</a>, and retracing the steps of Jesus in the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CiatG7FvjL8/?img_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Holy Land</a>.
She’s also a trained ram handler, thanks to her time caring for Colorado State University’s live mascot, CAM the Ram. Every weekend, she’d run with CAM on the football field in her boots to celebrate every touchdown, and spent many hours shearing sheep.
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<h3>She’s…Kind Of A Nerd</h3>
A self-described “certified theater kid,” Isabel has starred in “Hairspray” and “Les Misérables” and has seen nearly every Broadway production on stage. While she’s less likely to get dressed up for the theatre with a new baby at home, she loves singing &#8220;Wicked” and “The Sound of Music” at home with Isla.
She also loves sci-fi and fantasy, both books and movies — especially “Harry Potter,” “The Lord of the Rings,” and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C710k6SOXcK/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Star Wars</a>. She maintains to this day that “The Empire Strikes Back” is the greatest standalone film ever made, and actually cried driving through Glencoe, Scotland while listening to the “Harry Potter” film score. Don’t judge.

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As The Daily Wire approaches its 10th anniversary, it&#8217;s the perfect time to celebrate some of our great achievements. No win has defined the last decade of company success quite like Matt Walsh’s hit documentary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman?row=0&amp;elementPosition=8&amp;rowType=Square+Show+Carousel">What is a Woman?</a>” 
This cultural juggernaut proved that one provocative question has the power to shatter the mainstream narrative and literally change the nation forever.
When “What is a Woman?” premiered on June 1, 2022, the first day of Pride Month back when most companies still celebrated, it launched a revolution. The documentary film featuring a simple question broke Daily Wire streaming records and sparked a national debate. The title became a rallying cry for everyone fed up with the madness of radical left-wing gender theory. 
From the opening scenes, Matt Walsh set out to do exactly what our community knows best: ask a pointed question and refuse to accept a nonsensical answer. The Daily Wire podcast host confronted academics, activists, therapists, and everyday people who struggled to define the word &#8220;woman.&#8221; The result called into question all those previously taboo “truths” that radicals had been trying to mainstream for years.
The release wasn’t all sunshine and roses. The Daily Wire’s site was hit by a DDoS cyberattack as critics and trolls tried to shut us down before we could even get started. But that backfired. The documentary premiere became the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-a-cyberattack-tried-to-stop-you-from-watching-matt-walshs-what-is-a-woman">most trafficked live stream</a> in Daily Wire history.
The massive success of “What is a Woman?” was no flash in the pan. One year later, the film exploded again on X when The Daily Wire made it available for free. Viewership skyrocketed once more and even Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk himself jumped in, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/every-parent-should-watch-this-elon-musk-retweets-what-is-a-woman-to-his-140m-followers">tweeting</a> “Every parent should watch this.”
Leftists melted down over the impact of the film, but ultimately they were left with nothing but an empty defense of a harmful ideology built on lies and intimidation. Normal citizens who were too afraid to speak up before were suddenly emboldened, and they joined Walsh in a chorus that sounded a lot like standing up for what’s right and true.
And that’s where the real MVPs come in: you. Daily Wire members didn’t just watch “What is a Woman?” – though they did that too. They also shared it, praised it, defended it, and kept streaming it even while the site was struggling to keep up. Your support helped turn that simple question into a movement that eventually became a culture war victory.
Common sense and conservative principles got a major victory through “What is a Woman?” — but the fight against the Left hasn’t stopped. As much as ever before, The Daily Wire is continuing to push back against leftism&#8217;s crazy and dangerous ideas. 
Now we’re celebrating ten years of podcasts, news articles, merch, and more, and it’s all thanks to our loyal members. You’re the reason we keep raising the bar. You remind us that asking the tough questions, even when our enemies attack for it, is always worth it. Because the free market of ideas is still free thanks to people like you.
Here’s to a decade down. And a future where one question, one film, and one community at a time, we keep winning. 
We can’t wait to see what the next ten years bring.

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The following is an excerpt from Andrew Klavan&#8217;s &#8220;After That, the Dark,&#8221; which hits shelves on October 28 from Mysterious Press. Order Andrew Klavan&#8217;s new book on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-That-Cameron-Winter-Mysteries/dp/1613166869/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3UHUZV0KR5ZCL&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Y_NI0mDOKeowShheDQTVxyOpeKP3JVNzqVzQEoUqTDYetfnM5jJ-zSdBCnnqJca21IR-wiPqdoDcoeVUJqsuXZxhH1lL7-iHlZuiUP2QZ3bwN5aYdXnxKMqj0aw_faw7tMt89Rfj2P1c2PAycMnxt6PJOMVe5fGMaYWOwqHqQL0LPOjBOKNFWz2EnMhlg1sFpKiIxeqm7J1NnAvi7SYoF_wfqbLVOdIZbJNiWbvR-NVAbWyTcbFhfBUoGz104Y2UrLnNpOec4lCYEhjwuourZ1D8TAK1ZqOSMtgODWNieS8.NFgErijMwSBhec-8g6VDXe24uux7UsRqZtAI2iYHtEQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=andrew+klavan&amp;qid=1759257999&amp;sprefix=andrew+klavan%2Caps%2C146&amp;sr=8-1">Amazon</a> or pick up a signed copy at <a href="https://store.dailywire.com/products/after-that-the-dark-cameron-winter-mysteries-book-5">Daily Wire Shop</a>.
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<h3>Prologue</h3>
Tilda Bach folded the laundry and thought about the devil. The sunlight at the basement window was just beginning to lose its edge of mid-day brilliance. The sun, unseen beyond the left-hand border of the long, narrow pane, had dropped behind the screen of the summer leaves. The sparse grass of the small backyard was darkening.
Tilda gazed out through the dusty glass. Her hands, moving automatically, worked a bath towel into a tidy square. She set the square down on the pile of towels atop the dryer. She reached into the plastic basket for another. But her eyes remained on the window all the while; the long, narrow window set high on the wall in front of her, just above the level of her head.
Outside, just visible at the right edge of the glass, lay the dirt path along the border of the lawn. The path led to the doorway of her husband’s storage shed.
Tilda felt sick inside at the thought of what she was about to do. But what else could she do? The devil was in her house. Or a demon sent by the devil. She didn’t pretend to know the ins and outs of such things. She didn’t even know if she really believed in such things. But she did know this.  Something had gotten inside her husband. Something evil. Something alive. It was taking him 
over. It was eating his soul away. It was turning him into itself.
At night, in bed, asleep, in dreams, he said things, horrible things, murmured obscenities full of violence. She woke sometimes to find him sitting in her armchair, his laptop on his thighs, the white light from the monitor shining on his face, his face demonic, twisted into a grin. Sometimes he went out at night. For a drive, he said. Sometimes he went into the shed and locked the door and did not come out for hours. It was not like him. It was not him at all. It was something else.
Whatever it was, she had to stop it. For his sake. For her sake. For the sake of the baby growing inside her.
She lay another fresh-folded towel on the pile atop the dryer. Then she stopped moving altogether. She stood there, still, gazing out the basement window. Gazing at the shed.
She knew she needed help. She had to tell someone. Someone at the church, someone who might understand. But no one would believe her unless she brought them proof. Everyone at church knew Martin. Everyone loved Martin. If she went to Pastor Mike or her friend Gretchen, the junior warden on the vestry—if she went to them and started babbling about devils and demons and evil, they would think she had gone crazy. She herself was half-afraid she had gone crazy, thinking about these things. Sometimes she was sure she had. She needed proof, proof to show the pastor, proof to show herself.
She believed the proof was hidden in that shed.
For long moments end to end, she stood motionless in front of the dryer, her arms at her sides. She went on gazing out the basement window. Finally, she drew a long deep breath. When she let it out, it trembled. The fear in her chest was a cold fire, an icy flame that made her body feel hollow and weak. She feared that it would stop her heart. She feared that it would hurt her baby.
But she could not talk herself out of her suspicions anymore.
It was getting late. She wasn’t wearing her watch, but she knew it had to be four o’clock at least. Martin had left for work early this morning, before eight. He probably wouldn’t be home for another hour or so, but she couldn’t be sure.
She had to go out there. She had to go out there now.
Tilda was a small woman, twenty-eight, thin except for the baby bump beginning to show at her center. Her lank yellow hair framed a sharp face with sharp features. As she drifted across the basement floor toward the stairs, she felt her own frailty. She felt insubstantial, like a ghost, like a piece of paper blowing on a breeze. In her flowery blouse and her sandals and her pale blue shorts with the stretchy waist to fit her growing belly. She felt as if there were nothing to her except that icy fear.
She rose up the stairs as if she were floating, as if she could not stop herself even if she wanted to. Her mouth was open. Her throat was dry. The only sound she heard was her sneakers on the steps. She felt as if she must be whimpering, but she was only whimpering inside, silently.
She came into the kitchen. She moved a stride across the withering linoleum to the backyard door. She pushed out through the screen into the heat of the day. It was odd. The houses on Linden Street were close together. She could see the Mullers’ house through the leaves of the walnut tree, not far at all, a few yards away. If she turned her head to the left, she would see Bill and Mary Weber’s place across the street, and if she looked over her right shoulder, there would be the side of Jeff and Abbey’s house with nothing but a narrow slate pathway between the wall of her own house, hers and Martin’s. Why did she feel so isolated? The late afternoon was coming on, but it was still bright daylight. Why did she feel like she was swimming in shadows? Why did she feel so utterly alone in a darkness like the dead of night?
She reached the shed. It was a worn resin box only a couple of feet taller than herself, walls of mock clapboards, dull gray. Her hand went out to it, drifting away from her as if on its own. She wanted to stop herself, but she couldn’t. She gripped the handle, pressed the latch. She drew the door open.
There was the darkness, the darkness she had felt all around her. It was waiting for her inside the shed.
She stepped into it, drawing the door shut behind her.
The shed had no windows but there were vents beneath the eaves. Some light trailed in through these, enough to see by. She found the switch on the wall and flipped it. A bare bulb glared angrily down from the low ceiling.
She swallowed hard. How could she be so close to home and so afraid? Afraid of her own husband, her own Martin. She could still remember—she would never forget—the sweetness of his smile the first time she had seen him. She was serving drinks in the Bar and Grill, a place so low it had no other name, just Bar and Grill, that’s all. The music there was so loud it had no tune but noise. The walls shook with it. She was moving down the line of customers, looking for empties she could refill. She came upon his smile among the cunning faces and the angry faces and the faces, as she now understood, of men who did not even know they had despaired. There was Martin, his sweet smile, like sudden water mellow in the midst of baking sand.
“How about you and me go somewhere quiet, darling, and talk about Jesus Christ,” he said.
He had really said that. It had made her laugh out loud. It had got her talking with him, flirting back and forth, trading lines until she’d made a date with him for after work, good-looking boy that he was, big strong man that he was, muscles outlined in the fabric of his tee, a workingman’s hands, rough and sure. She knew how it would be, but that didn’t matter. It would be the same as it always was in the end, but if it was good for even an hour, that was something, wasn’t it? A little dream of something, floating like a bubble, pink and pretty, in the air. A feeling like someone cared for her or at least thought she was pretty enough to be worth having. So she went with him, same as she always went with all of them.
Martin drove her in his pickup to the overlook by the lake, the usual lover’s lane. And there, in a surprise as shocking as a scene in a movie, as a ghost-monster jumping out through the glass of a mirror or the killer lurking in the house after the heroine rushes inside and locks the door, he had sat with her in that place of forlorn surrender and talked with her till dawn about Jesus Christ. He really had. Talked and talked about religion and the sadness of worldly things until she heard herself talking back to him, not just the usual jaded cliches, but real talk, just as the stars were fading, about the misery she pretended was “doing okay,” and the pain she had figured was just the way things were. It all came pouring out of her into his gentle eyes and she knew with a kind of childlike wonder: She had found love.
She stood where she was in the shed. She breathed unsteadily, cold with fear. Her eyes traveled over the space beneath the glaring light from the naked bulb. The red tool chest she had bought him for his birthday. The power tools hung on the wall. The shelves of paint cans and buckets and weed killer. The workbench with its segmented trays of electronic bits and pieces: black boxes and wires and glassy elements. They looked to Tilda like the bodies of some alien robots gathered up for burial after their starship crashed to earth. Martin had a genius for electronics. He could fix things, make things. Toys for poor kids at church who didn’t have any toys. Computer add-ons that could pick up the videos from nearby drones or trace what a neighbor’s computer was doing on wireless. Some of these things—Tilda wasn’t even sure they’d been invented yet. She was always telling Martin he ought to turn this skill into a business somehow. He could make real money at it. But he’d just laugh and say it was only a hobby, nothing special. Then he’d go back to rooting through the pieces splayed out over the workbench, putting them together—at random, it seemed to her—like he was a sorcerer magically transforming junk into technology.
But all those doodads were stowed away now, each in its compartment, like mashed potatoes and peas in a frozen dinner tray. Fearful as she was, Tilda almost smiled at that. For a big, shambling, sloppy boy, Martin was neat as a prissy old maid. She had always found that kind of adorable. He liked things in their proper places, all just so.
That’s why she spotted the hiding place right away.
A cardboard box stuffed with wires, shoved under the workbench where it shouldn’t have been. That was the telltale sign.
She moved to it slowly. She wasn’t sure she was breathing at all anymore. The fear had gutted her. She felt dead and empty. She knelt down. She wrestled the box to one side. She saw the rectangular gray metal chest hidden behind it. She drew it toward her. It scraped against the floor.
The chest was locked, but she knew where the key would be. She reached up and pulled open the workbench drawer, right at her eye level. There it was in the front compartment, right in its proper place. She picked the key out and, kneeling there, unlocked the chest.
Everything came on her all at once: all the horror and all the fear together.
Tilda lifted the lid of the chest and in the harsh, pitiless glare from the bare bulb she caught a single glimpse of an image—a printed picture—of pornographic brutality. Martin’s nighttime murmurings come to life. The girl’s body. The girl’s face. Her wide-eyed terror. Her mouth strapped shut. There was also a stained T-shirt, bunched in a corner of the chest. Blood—the thought was like a siren going off inside her. That’s blood!
At the same time, at the very same second, there came the sound of tires on the driveway outside. Martin’s pickup. A sound she knew well: her husband had come home.
A noise escaped her. A single, strangled cry. She shut the chest with a clanking bang. Too loud! He’d hear her. She shoved it back in place. Was it back in place? The right place? Would he notice it had been moved? She put the cardboard box in front of it again and was already rising from her knees as she dropped the key back in the workbench drawer and shut the drawer as quietly as she could. She could hear the door of Martin’s pickup opening.
The driveway was on the near side of the house. She had seconds—three or four or five, no more than that—to get out of the shed before he stepped from the pickup’s cab and saw the light shining through the vents. He may have already spotted it as he was driving up. She had no way of knowing.
Another whimpering cry came out of her as she raced to the door and hit the switch. The shed went dark. The darkness seemed to tilt and spin around her. She opened the door the slightest crack. She slipped through the gap like liquid smoke. She shut the door and started walking quickly through the afternoon sunlight. She looked up toward the driveway. An instant—half an instant—later, Martin shut the truck door and turned to see her moving toward him across the lawn.
How much had he seen? The light in the shed? The door closing? Or maybe just this, just Tilda walking toward him. Maybe she could tell him she’d heard his truck in the drive and had come out the kitchen door to greet him. Maybe. She didn’t know what he knew.
Her mind was a panicked stampede of images. That girl in the printed picture. That T-shirt stained with blood. And had she put the chest away in the right place? And was her fear visible in her eyes? And was her horror visible on her red cheeks? No way of knowing.
Tilda smiled brightly, sick at heart. She waved as she walked toward her husband. He towered over her, broad shouldered and muscular in his workingman’s tee, the underarms dark with sweat. He had his toolbox in his right hand. He was smiling over her. His sweet smile. But was he masking something? Suspicion? She couldn’t tell.
“Hey,” he said. And with his big bear-paw of a hand behind her head, he drew her up on tiptoe into a kiss. Tilda felt as if a whole world inside her was collapsing into dust.
Martin set her down and grinned and touched her belly.
“Hey there, baby,” he said to the bump there. “Daddy’s home.”
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If you’ve followed The Daily Wire over the past year, you’ve probably noticed that we’re shifting how we approach the news.
We rang in 2025 by naming Mary Margaret Olohan our first-ever White House correspondent, and she’s quickly made a name for herself in the briefing room. She’s traveled on Air Force One and Air Force Two, and been on the front lines daily with questions for President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and the top members of their cabinet. She’s broken major stories, including earlier this month, when she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Attempted+Kavanaugh+Assassin+Identifies+As+Transgender+Woman%2C+Legal+Filings+Show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh now identifies as a woman.
We’ve also stepped up our investigative efforts, driving some of the biggest news stories in the country. In the waning days of the Biden administration, Leif Le Mahieu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-fema-official-ordered-relief-workers-to-skip-houses-with-trump-signs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exposed FEMA</a> for skipping houses with Trump signs in Florida during Hurricane Milton, and we <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-races-to-sell-off-border-wall-parts-before-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blew the whistle</a> when Joe Biden (or his autopen) tried to sell off parts of the border wall before Trump got the chance to put them up.
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In pursuit of that goal, we’re proud to announce two new additions to our growing team.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/jennie-taer">Jennie Taer</a> joins The Daily Wire from the New York Post, where she covered immigration and national security. Taer, who’s based in Texas, went viral in 2024 when she captured footage of 300 migrants trying to break their way into the United States. Her reporting on the front lines of the border crisis, which garnered over 19 million views, became a centerpiece of ads in the 2024 election.
Taer also exposed an Al-Shabaab bombmaker who had been living in Minneapolis for nearly a year after crossing the border illegally, and broke the news of a nationwide sting to arrest a group of migrant terrorists with ISIS ties planning an attack on an LGBTQ establishment in Philadelphia.
“I’ve always been a fan of Jennie’s reporting,” Daily Wire editor-in-chief Brent Scher said. “From the southern border to foreign wars and everything in between, she’s always chasing a story with the goal of giving readers a front-row seat to the most pressing fight of the day.”
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Cooper was on the ground when a would-be assassin targeted Trump at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida, and extensively chronicled the encroachment of radical race and gender ideology into Florida’s classrooms. She conducted an undercover investigation to expose drag shows where children were present and explicit content at “family friendly” pride festivals, and exposed the Colorado Secretary of State’s office for sending voter registration reminder postcards to dead people.
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro is a bestselling author yet again with his latest book, “Lions &amp; Scavengers: The True Story of America (And Her Critics).” 
Shapiro reached the coveted New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2025/09/21/hardcover-nonfiction/">bestsellers list</a> shortly after the release of “Lions &amp; Scavengers,” cementing his place as one of the conservative movement’s top writers. This comes after Shapiro moved up the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lions-Scavengers-Story-America-Critics/dp/1668097885/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0">Amazon bestseller list at launch</a>. “Lions &amp; Scavengers” marks Shapiro’s third-straight book to hit the Times bestsellers list after the “Right Side of History” and the “Authoritarian Moment” became bestsellers in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2019/04/14/">2019</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/2021/08/15/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/">2021</a>, respectively. 
The Daily Wire host called “Lions &amp; Scavengers” his “most important book.” The book was written following Hamas’ horrific attacks on innocent Israelis on October 7, 2023. The destructive “scavenger” mindset that Shapiro highlights in the book shows an issue even larger than recent gross antisemitism and attacks against Jews. 
“This is something different. It is a united, coalitional hatred of the West,” he says.
Lions, like America’s founding fathers, strive for the highest good, building systems that promote freedom, prosperity, and equality of opportunity. Meanwhile, Scavengers degrade these ideals, spreading resentment and entitlement that threaten to dismantle the foundations of Western civilization. The attacks on the West call for the lions to rise up and defend the traditions and values that we hold dear, Shapiro argues. Only if the lions triumph can America’s success continue to the next generation. 
“We need to be a civilization of Lions. We need to teach our children to be Lions, and to fight the Scavengers,” Shapiro writes. 
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The Daily Wire today unveiled its October lineup of film and television programming, featuring three mission-oriented documentaries and a popular faith-driven horror-thriller.
“This year, we’ve been quietly curating a powerful content library that goes far beyond our world-famous podcasts,” said Mike Richards, Chief Content Officer and President of Daily Wire Entertainment. “What unites our growing slate is a commitment to telling great stories that speak truth, reflect the values our audience cares about, and give voice to those long underserved by the mainstream.”
Here’s what’s coming to DailyWire+ in October:
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<h3>USS COLE: Al Qaeda&#8217;s Strike Before 9/11</h3>
This three-episode docuseries from BIG Media chronicles Al Qaeda’s suicide bomb attack on the USS Cole in October 2000. Based on the book “Front Burner” by retired Navy Commander Kirk Lippold, the series tells the untold story of a blast in Yemen that left 17 sailors dead and became the blueprint for 9/11. More than a tragedy, it was the warning America ignored.
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Episodes release weekly beginning October 10.
<h3>The 1916 Project</h3>
Over a century ago, Planned Parenthood was built on racist “population control” — targeting the poor, the weak, and the unwanted. This feature documentary, directed and produced by David Coonradt, shows how the organization grew into the behemoth it is today — and reveals how much it still has in common with the eugenic organization it was launched as.
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The 1916 Project Premieres October 16.
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<h3>Nefarious</h3>
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own. Starring Sean Patrick Flanery and Jordan Belfi, directed by Cary Solomon, and inspired by the novel “A Nefarious Plot” by Steve Deace, this popular Christian thriller is sure to delight DailyWire+ audiences.
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Streaming October 24 — just in time for Halloween.
<h3>Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Trafficking Epidemic </h3>
Your children&#8217;s phones could be their greatest danger. &#8220;Hiding in Plain Sight&#8221; takes you inside the shocking world of digital predators who use everyday apps to hunt, groom, and traffic children from their own bedrooms. Produced by Our Rescue, the renowned nonprofit organization dedicated to combating sex trafficking and child exploitation, “Hiding in Plain Sight” offers unprecedented access to undercover law enforcement stings and harrowing survivor accounts. This documentary exposes how traffickers have turned the internet, including social media and online gaming, into hunting grounds — and why no family is safe.
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Directed and executive produced by Nick Nanton and produced by Katie Tschopp, “Hiding in Plain Sight” is streaming free on DailyWire+ starting October 30.
<h3>Friendly Fire</h3>
Friendly Fire is the next decade of The Daily Wire — unleashed. Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Andrew Klavan go head-to-head in a biweekly clash of ideas, laughs, and cultural combat, joined by special guests like Isabel Brown, Jeremy Boreing, and more.
It’s unscripted, unfiltered, and the loudest way to launch the next chapter of the movement.
Episode 1 drops soon.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;How to Win a War in 37 Hours,&#8221; a behind-the-scenes look at the top-secret operation that dismantled the Iranian nuclear program.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II,&#8221; a 4-part series hosted by Michael Knowles exploring the Pope, Hitler, and the Holocaust from a perspective you’ve never seen before.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">&#8220;Journey to the UFC: Joe Pyfer,&#8221; a documentary that follows Joe Pyfer’s experiences with homelessness, a toxic family life, and numerous injuries as he made his way to UFC stardom.</li>
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