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Infidels Producer: ‘We Used So Many Squibs We Ran Out’

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A viewer of the Daily Wire&#8217;s new film Run Hide Fight: Infidels says Letterboxd pulled his positive review and then locked him out of his account for two days, even as profane reviews of the movie remained visible on the site.
The viewer told The Daily Wire he began receiving hostile messages after posting the review. He said a moderator took it down. The fan reposted it with a disclaimer at the top, but shortly after, it was taken down yet again — this time with a suspension slapped on his account as well.
A notice he provided says Letterboxd&#8217;s community managers restricted his ability to sign in for two days. It cites a warning for &#8220;offensive and abusive language in one or more of your reviews&#8221; and says further violations could bring longer restrictions or termination. The notice does not say which review prompted the action. A screenshot of his review contains no profanity and praises the film&#8217;s action and willingness to portray Islamic terrorism directly.
The suspension could reflect a coordinated reporting effort rather than an individual moderator&#8217;s review. Letterboxd, like most platforms, relies heavily on user reports to flag content, and a review drawing a wave of hostile responses — as the viewer says his did — can trigger an automated or fast-tracked suspension without a human necessarily weighing the review&#8217;s actual content against the platform&#8217;s policy.
The Daily Wire contacted Letterboxd on Friday with questions about the removal and the suspension. The company had not responded at the time of publication.
Letterboxd&#8217;s community policy lets moderators remove content the platform considers offensive or objectionable, and its help pages <a href="https://letterboxd.com/legal/community-policy/">say</a> the site has zero tolerance for &#8220;hate&#8221; or communication meant to marginalize people over &#8220;protected attribute[s]&#8221; — though the policy does not specify whether reports alone can trigger an automatic suspension, or whether a moderator reviews flagged content before restrictions are applied.  Members who believe a removal was mistaken can appeal through the support team, <a href="https://letterboxd.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/15179289067151-My-review-was-removed-Do-I-have-any-recourse">according</a> to the site.
Several negative reviews were listed among the most popular on the film&#8217;s Letterboxd page at the time of reporting. Some contain profanity, <a href="https://letterboxd.com/dawsonejoyce/film/run-hide-fight-infidels/">including one</a> that insults &#8220;the soy boy beta cucks over at the Daily Wire&#8221; and <a href="https://letterboxd.com/kingnp414/film/run-hide-fight-infidels/">another</a> that uses an expletive to condemn anyone who enjoys the genre.
Written and directed by Kyle Rankin and starring Jonathan Majors, the film is a standalone sequel to the 2021 Daily Wire release Run Hide Fight. It follows a group of students, a security guard and a Delta Force veteran who fight back after Islamic terrorists take over a pro-Palestinian campus encampment. It debuted September 16 on DailyWire+, less than a week after the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-reviews-hidden-on-letterboxd-social-networking-platform">reported</a> in June 2022 that Letterboxd hid reviews of Matt Walsh&#8217;s documentary What Is A Woman? from non-subscribers. The platform attributed that decision to a high volume of moderation traffic.

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Daily Wire Fan Says Letterboxd Deleted His Praise For ‘Infidels,’ Then Suspended Him

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There are plenty of reasons the internet is abuzz about the Daily Wire&#8217;s new film, “Run Hide Fight: Infidels.&#8221; But one scene in particular dominating the conversation.
Leftwing outlets panned it. Social media reaction skewed positive. And almost everyone agrees that one of the craziest scenes involves two students: a gay man, Bruce, and a blue-haired activist named Farrah, who find out the consequences of siding with the terrorists when push comes to shove. Literally.
“We just … didn’t expect … so much death,” Bruce (Colton Kugler) says with a frown. “We have killed the right amount to instill fear,” the terrorist leader Ibrahim (Stephen Hailo) assures him. “Many we let run so they could tell others of our strength and the remaining ones are … piano keys.”
Ibrahim goes on to complain that “so many in your country cannot even be bothered to produce children” but suggests these two students will reverse that trend. Farrah rejects the assumption that they’re a couple. “We’re not…” she stutters, before declaring herself pansexual. “I like everyone,” she explains, as Bruce chimes in, “I’m gay.”
This prompts the terrorist to push Bruce off the roof, killing him. When the blue-haired pansexual attempts to run away, screaming and trying to reason that they “want the same thing,” she makes one last attempt, saying, “Please! God!” before the terrorist slits her throat while declaring, “There is no God but Allah.”
This scene has been circulating online, with viewers calling it “<a href="https://x.com/patrick2604/status/2100358113261932901?s=43">bonkers</a>” and saying it “<a href="https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/2100437959334035946">exposes [the] absurdity</a> of ‘Queers for Palestine.’”
“That&#8217;s the hard truth and unbiased reality of this ‘alliance’ the left has made with Jihadists. They will be put to the sword as soon as there are no other enemies left,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/SpaceJellySSA/status/2100596671596146955">agreed</a>. “They are the useful idiots with blue hair.”
“Love it!! All the brainwashed millennial morons should have that as required watching,” <a href="https://x.com/dapperdan68/status/2100554130519367819">echoed</a> another.
The scene also appeared in the most recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj8f_IPyeRA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">episode</a> of “Friendly Fire,” with Ben Shapiro, Michael Knowles, Matt Walsh, and Andrew Klavan weighing in. 
Klavan called the hypocrisy “imaginary life,” comparing the scene to how liberals in Martha’s Vineyard reacted when immigrants arrived on their doorsteps. “They can’t stand when you make fun of it, because it exposes it for what it is, which is vapor,” Klavan said.
Shapiro pointed out that the scene exposes a huge flaw of the Left: they believe so deeply in their own virtue. “The notion that radical leftists are just wonderful people who believe that others should be treated with decency, care, and respect is such a bunch of horsesh*t,” he said. 
“Some of the cruelest people, some of the most destructive people — people who would, for example, be trolling it up on TikTok over Charlie Kirk getting assassinated or something — those people are the people who just want others to be treated with decency and care and respect. And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re protesting in favor of Hamas in Gaza or why on 9/11 they&#8217;re reading Osama bin Laden&#8217;s letters &#8230; because they&#8217;re so empathetic. And how dare we make fun of those people.”
“If you really feel the empathy for the Islamic terrorist, then yeah, you&#8217;re kind of suicidal,” Shapiro concluded.
“Run Hide Fight: Infidels” is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels">currently available</a> exclusively on The Daily Wire.

Run Hide Fight Infidels

The ‘Run Hide Fight: Infidels’ Scene Everyone Is Talking About

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The legacy media is predictably horrified by the new Daily Wire movie “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels?utm_campaign=rhf2&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_content=editorial_na_creative00795_na" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Run Hide Fight: Infidels</a>,” calling it “deranged” and “Islamophobic drivel.”
These types of reviews are precisely what makes it worth seeing.
As usual, the creators are being criticized for telling the truth that’s obvious to everyone but Hollywood refuses to accept. While they fawn over narratives pushing white men as the villains, “Infidels” exposes the true threat to Western civilization: radical Islam.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels?contentProgram=Run%20Hide%20Fight%3A%20Infidels&amp;contentType=Video&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: RUN HIDE FIGHT: INFIDELS</a>
A reviewer from <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/run-hide-fight-infidels-review-1236864093/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Variety</a> insists that the film is “unworthy of its outrage,” dubbing it an “Islamophobic promotional campaign.”
“Rather than making a satirical point about liberal overreach, the movie argues that all this empathy for other people — including for the Indigenous tribes whose land was seized on behalf of the school, or Palestinians trying to hold onto theirs — is a purely oppressive force,” the review goes on. “Are you contemptuous of radical leftists who believe that others should be treated with decency, care and respect? If so, this is the film for you.”
Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/benshapiro/status/2100253723628847380" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> a portion of the review, prompting followers to express how the reaction to the film was making them more excited about the movie&#8217;s premiere on Wednesday.
“Stop, I’m already [planning] on watching it, you don’t have to convince me,” one person <a href="https://x.com/GrageDustin/status/2100265159268720793" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Far-Left outlet <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2026/09/run-hide-fight-infidels-jonathan-majors-daily-wire.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Slate</a> begrudgingly complimented the film by calling it “Die Hard-ish” in terms of action sequences. The reviewer also pointed out that no terrorist event like the one in “Infidels” has occurred on a college campus, implying that the plot is extreme for suggesting it could. Who could ever imagine a violent terrorist attack by a radical islamist in the United States, right?
“There’s a feeling of evil glee to the carnage wrought in &#8216;Infidels&#8217; that goes beyond anything you see in the first &#8216;Run Hide Fight,&#8217; and beyond anything that happens in, say, a Taylor Sheridan show,” the Slate reviewer observed, concluding that the movie was ultimately “deranged.”
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/17/jonathan-majors-action-thriller" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Guardian</a> blasted “Infidels” for its “brazen political incorrectness” and claimed the &#8220;film’s &#8216;bad Muslim&#8217; conceit&#8221; was a “dated” concept.
Shapiro responded to that review, posting on X, “What they find disturbing, by the way, is that we depict ISIS doing ISIS things. This is unacceptable. ISIS must never be portrayed doing ISIS things. They must instead be portrayed as victims of Western imperialism.”
A reviewer from <a href="https://rogersmovienation.com/2026/09/17/movie-review-120-minutes-of-badly-written-poorly-acted-poison-run-hide-fight-infidels/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Movie Nation</a> also complained about the film, calling it, “a whole lot of hate packed into its 120 or so minutes of clumsy, lurching running time.” YouTube reviewer “Rama’s Screen” said it was a “torture session” just like it’s predecessor and insisted Shapiro wants “everyone to hate” all Muslims.
“The right wing propaganda is so on the nose,” he complained. “It’s not enough for the film to demonize Muslims. It also needs to validate and rationalize open carry and toxic masculinity.”
Rama took issue with the portrayal of Muslims especially, saying, “They don’t care about the fact that wearing a hijab is a personal choice, and that there are millions of moderate female Muslims out there who don’t wear any head scarves at all. The whole film is a heavy-handed, cartoonish, tone deaf political commentary.&#8221;
Everything above is both the reason the Daily Wire made the film and why you should run to watch it.
Those not carrying water for the radical Left had very different reactions to the film. Reviewer Christian Toto gave it solid marks, writing, “‘Infidels’ has little interest in subtlety. It’s a bare-knuckled assault on a Hollywood ecosystem that ignores reality and the Modern Left. &#8216;Infidels&#8217; reminds us of all the stories that should be told but aren’t.”
“It’s like ‘Citizen Vigilante,’ but with far more skill, humor and self-awareness,” he added.
The review site <a href="https://filmthreat.com/reviews/run-hide-fight-infidels/">Film Threat</a> also had positive things to say about the film. &#8220;It was a visceral experience watching this film. Rankin’s screenplay weaves in satire, romance, and explosive action in a tight package. All these tonal elements easily flow together,&#8221; the reviewer said.
&#8220;It is the right amount of high-stakes melodrama and light comedy, which evokes classical Hollywood filmmaking,&#8221; the review continued. &#8220;The stunt work, pyrotechnics, practical effects, and marksmanship are beautifully done. Action scenes never feel redundant, and the brutality from our disgusting antagonists is appropriately shocking without going into exploitation territory.&#8221;
The reviewer also notes the timeliness of the topic, concluding that it&#8217;s on par with Daily Wire hits including Matt Walsh&#8217;s documentaries &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; and &#8220;Am I Racist?&#8221;
&#8220;&#8216;Infidels&#8217; is an exhilarating blockbuster that will bring out the fighting American spirit this fall,&#8221; the review concludes.
“Run Hide Fight: Infidels” is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/run-hide-fight-infidels?utm_campaign=rhf2&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=editorial&amp;utm_content=editorial_na_creative00795_na" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently streaming on The Daily Wire</a>.

Hollywood Hates ‘Infidels.’ That’s Exactly Why You Should Watch It.

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The internet is melting down. Politics is broken. Culture is spiraling. And Mat Nuclear is going live.
The Daily Wire’s newest show, “The Nuclear Reaction,” drops viewers into a post-apocalyptic shortwave broadcast where the only mission is helping those who are still Left … get Right in the head.
Part reaction show, part debate arena, part emergency transmission from the wreckage of modern discourse, “The Nuclear Reaction” puts Nuclear into the middle of the day’s dumbest, darkest, and most combustible arguments. Guests, callers, clips, chats, and assorted survivors wander through the broadcast as Nuclear tries to separate what’s real from what’s fake — and figure out who’s having the biggest public meltdown.
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“It’s politics, culture, internet drama, and apocalyptic nonsense all treated with the level of lols it deserves,” Nuclear said.
The show marks a new chapter for one of the Right’s fastest-rising young voices.
Nuclear built an audience as a teenage debater taking on opponents across social media. What started with arguments against vegans on Discord quickly evolved into viral clashes on TikTok, where he developed a reputation for relentlessly questioning progressive assumptions and refusing to let opponents escape uncomfortable questions.
His national breakout came through Jubilee’s viral “Surrounded” series, where he faced activist Amanda Seales in front of a live audience. Clips from the debate spread rapidly online and introduced millions of viewers to the then-18-year-old commentator.
Soon afterward, appearances with major conservative figures followed. Figures like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk praised Nuclear’s debating ability and composure.
Now, Nuclear is bringing that same energy to a nightly live format built around audience interaction, real-time reactions, and unpredictable debates.
Each episode of “The Nuclear Reaction” will feature a mix of breaking news, political commentary, livestream debates, audience call-ins, social media clips, and internet chaos. No topic is off limits, and no sacred cow is guaranteed protection.
For Nuclear, the appeal of debate has always been rooted in a simple idea: most political arguments become much less convincing when someone asks a straightforward follow-up question. Rather than relying on talking points or outrage, Nuclear built his audience by challenging claims directly and forcing conversations back to basic questions of truth, logic, and consistency.
That approach has resonated particularly with younger audiences, many of whom encountered him through short-form social media clips before following him into longer discussions and debates.
While the show embraces the absurdity of modern politics and internet culture, it also reflects Nuclear’s belief that persuasion matters — especially for a generation increasingly surrounded by ideological noise.
“The Nuclear Reaction” streams regularly across The Daily Wire’s platforms, delivering reactions, arguments, laughs, and chaos from the front lines of the culture war.
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A Democratic state senator said she almost cried after Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak discussed his Medicaid fraud findings during congressional testimony on Wednesday.
Ohio Democratic state Sen. Nickie Antonio, whom lawmakers also questioned Wednesday, claimed that the hearing was full of &#8220;hateful rhetoric.&#8221;
&#8220;I was almost brought to tears just now because the rate and level of hateful rhetoric &#8230; the lack of humanity &#8230; I am shocked,” she said.
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As part of his testimony before the House Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses led by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), Rosiak revealed that 100% of the companies he found suspected of Medicaid fraud were owned by foreigners. 
“You looked into hundreds of companies, and 100% you are telling me had names of a Somali, Bhutanese, or other sort of an African origin?” asked Gill. 
“Correct,” Rosiak answered. 
Earlier in the hearing, Rosiak explained that “Refugees are using [Medicaid] to bring money back to their home countries. So Congress created this program as medical aid and there are people turning it into foreign aid.” 
After Gill finished his line of questioning for Rosiak, he turned to Senator Antonio and asked her, “Has Somali immigration been good for your state?” 
&#8220;You know, that&#8217;s really outside of my purview of information,&#8221; she said.
Through his investigations, Rosiak found that Ohio spent roughly $1 billion on home healthcare services in 2024 alone, with most of the funds loosely monitored. The lack of oversight allowed relatives to receive taxpayer funding for providing in-home “personal services” such as cooking, cleaning, and companionship.
Rosiak found entire office buildings filled with Medicaid-billing home health companies, many run by individuals with little or no healthcare background, and in some cases, histories of fraud, unpaid debts, or criminal convictions.
At another point during the hearing, a Democratic lawmaker who did not have permission to attend the hearing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-dem-shouts-over-daily-wires-luke-rosiak-calls-his-medicaid-fraud-findings-ridiculous">interrupted</a> Rosiak and called his findings &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;
“I’m not waived in the committee, but this is ridiculous,” Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH) exclaimed as Rosiak was in the middle of his testimony.
Brown, who represents Ohio’s 11th district covering Cleveland, is not even a member of the bipartisan task force, which includes six Republicans and four Democrats.

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Democrat Witness ‘Almost Brought To Tears’ After Luke Rosiak’s Medicaid Fraud Testimony

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Ohio&#8217;s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Vivek Ramaswamy, addressed Medicaid fraud in the Buckeye State on Tuesday, following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">explosive reports</a> from Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak.
Rosiak&#8217;s findings have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-says-safeguards-exist-to-stop-medicaid-fraud-but-admits-massive-loophole?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ohio+Says+Safeguards+Exist+To+Stop+Medicaid+Fraud%2C+But+Admits+Massive+Loophole">exposed</a> billions of dollars of apparent Medicaid fraud in Ohio, by way of dubious “personal services” payments where people are paid to spend time with their own family. Most people who participate in the fraud appear to be foreigners.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s fair to say that, if you had not just reported the facts, as you did a few weeks ago, the people in this room, who are working hard to solve these problems, wouldn&#8217;t have the platform to actually make this a priority for our state,&#8221; Ramaswamy said of Rosiak.
The former presidential candidate won the Ohio Republican primary earlier this month. He&#8217;s facing Democrat nominee Amy Acton in Ohio&#8217;s November gubernatorial election.
&#8220;Healthcare costs are spiraling out of control, &#8230; the healthcare costs that Ohioans are bearing every day,&#8221; he said.
Medicaid is for Americans who temporarily &#8220;need a hand up,&#8221; the Republican said. &#8220;The problem is that, when you have criminals, fraudsters, thieves, claiming money for themselves, it diverts money away from those for whom these programs were intended.&#8221;
Ramaswamy said Medicaid fraud is creating higher healthcare costs for all Ohioans and Americans at large.
&#8220;The easiest solution that I will be able to deliver to you in the first six months of my leadership of this state, will be to crush Medicaid fraud by the billions,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;And to put money back in your pockets, where it belongs.&#8221;
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Crushing Medicaid fraud is one of the simplest ways to make healthcare more affordable. Most healthcare policies force a painful trade-off between cost, access and quality, but this one doesn’t: It takes money from criminals and returns it to the families who play by the rules. <a href="https://t.co/RQJq68lG80">pic.twitter.com/RQJq68lG80</a>
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/2056753013327630419?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Crushing Medicaid fraud is one of the simplest ways to make healthcare more affordable,&#8221; he <a href="https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/2056753013327630419">posted</a> to X. &#8220;Most healthcare policies force a painful trade-off between cost, access, and quality, but this one doesn’t: it takes money from criminals and returns it to the families who play by the rules.&#8221;
Rosiak attended the event personally and addressed the crowd, detailing the fraud he&#8217;s uncovered in Ohio. Notably, in the wake of the reporting, Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/vance-threatens-to-cut-funds-to-states-that-ignore-medicaid-fraud-after-daily-wire-investigation?author=Drew+Berkemeyer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Vance+Threatens+To+Cut+Funds+To+States+That+Ignore+Medicaid+Fraud+After+Daily+Wire+Investigation">warned</a> that the Trump administration will cut off certain federal anti-fraud funding to states that fail to aggressively investigate Medicaid abuse.
Rosiak is set to testify before a Senate panel this week about his findings.
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🔴 LIVE: Crushing Fraud. Lowering Healthcare Costs. <a href="https://t.co/3hT2Jwyy2a">https://t.co/3hT2Jwyy2a</a>
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href="https://twitter.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/2056744991477600390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2026</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ohio-says-safeguards-exist-to-stop-medicaid-fraud-but-admits-massive-loophole?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Ohio+Says+Safeguards+Exist+To+Stop+Medicaid+Fraud%2C+But+Admits+Massive+Loophole">Ohio Says Safeguards Exist To Stop Medicaid Fraud, But Admits Massive Loophole</a>

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Vivek Vows To Tackle Medicaid Fraud ‘By The Billions’ After Bombshell Daily Wire Investigation

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Wire&#8221; podcast received the coveted &#8220;Outstanding Podcast&#8221; award, and Daily Wire immigration reporter Jennie Taer won the title of &#8220;Outstanding Reporter,&#8221; the Media Research Center announced on Tuesday.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/morning-wire">Morning Wire</a> was praised for its &#8220;concise, professionally produced alternative to legacy media&#8221; as the daily podcast has remained consistent with its promise to deliver &#8220;15 minutes of what matters, nothing that doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;Featuring reporting from on-the-ground journalists and interviews with expert guests, hosts Georgia Howe and John Bickley guide listeners through the day’s most important stories without the ideological filter common in traditional outlets,&#8221; MRC said.
Since 2021, Morning Wire has covered the biggest stories around the world in a common-sense approach to news. Since then, Morning Wire has expanded into providing evening updates, weekend interviews, and deep dives.
Daily Wire reporter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/jennie-taer">Jennie Taer</a>, who has extensively covered illegal immigrant crime and President Donald Trump&#8217;s deportation operation, was recognized &#8220;as a leading voice in immigration reporting.&#8221; MRC awarded Taer for her coverage of the migrant gang crisis in Aurora, Colorado, which she also <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/us-news/inside-the-migrant-gang-warzone-of-aurora-colorado/">covered</a> for The New York Post before joining The Daily Wire. Taer was also recognized for her <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-day-in-the-life-of-minneapolis-ice-agents">reporting</a> at the frontlines of Trump&#8217;s deportation effort in Minneapolis, where she <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4PZjZYETyKI&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fa-day-in-the-life-of-minneapolis-ice-agents">spent a day</a> with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during the height of the administration&#8217;s operation in the Twin Cities.
“This year’s Media Research Center Bulldog Award winners stand in stark contrast to the elitist media’s herd mentality,” said MRC President David Bozell. “These courageous journalists refuse to follow the pack, choosing instead to deliver truth over narrative, facts over favoritism, and accountability over activism. They represent the best of American journalism — independent, fearless, and committed to informing the public rather than manipulating it.”
The Media Research Center presents awards to conservative journalists, columnists, and podcast hosts each year. The Daily Wire is the only organization that has won in each of the five years that MRC has handed out MRC Bulldog Awards, NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck <a href="https://x.com/curtishouck/status/2051671557307572530?s=46">pointed out</a>.
In 2025, former Daily Wire investigative reporter Spencer Lindquist won MRC&#8217;s &#8220;Outstanding Blogger&#8221; award for his reporting on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-investigative-reporter-spencer-lindquist-honored-for-colony-ridge-reporting">Colony Ridge</a> in Texas. In 2024, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro and journalist Kassy Akiva were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-daily-wires-ben-shapiro-and-kassy-akiva-win-conservative-media-awards">named</a> the winners of the &#8220;Outstanding Podcast&#8221; and &#8220;Outstanding Blogger&#8221; awards, respectively. Daily Wire host Matt Walsh was awarded &#8220;Outstanding Podcast&#8221; in 2023, and Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak won the &#8220;Outstanding Investigative Journalism&#8221; award in 2022.
Other winners for this year&#8217;s MRC Bulldog Awards include Dana Loesch for &#8220;Outstanding Radio Talk Show Host,&#8221; Douglas Murray for &#8220;Outstanding Columnist,&#8221; and Washington, D.C., local news reporter Nick Minock for &#8220;Outstanding Investigative Journalist.&#8221;

Daily Wire Snags Two Awards For ‘Outstanding’ Podcast And News Reporting

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Vice President JD Vance said Monday that he is directing the Fraud Task Force to investigate suspected Medicaid fraud uncovered in his home state, thanks to a Daily Wire investigation.
Vance addressed the unfolding story in an X post, first saying he wanted the task force to review the evidence and then, if warranted, take immediate action to put an end to the fraud.
&#8220;These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate,&#8221; he posted, sharing a thread from Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak detailing the uncovered fraud.
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These shocking allegations, if true, show why the Fraud Task Force’s work is so important. I’m directing the task force to look into it and take immediate action to prosecute any fraudsters involved and stop all further payments as appropriate. <a href="https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz">https://t.co/dg9prv9mYz</a>
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In the thread that followed, Rosiak explained how he had found one building that purported to house 94 &#8220;home health&#8221; companies — companies that were supposed to provide the kinds of home health services that keep people out of nursing homes, saving on costs. But the potential for fraud and abuse, he noted, is massive.
&#8220;This includes people getting paid to provide &#8216;companionship &amp; conversation&#8217; to their own relatives. Fraud [is] almost impossible to prove because service happens in private houses,&#8221; Rosiak noted, adding, &#8220;Home health was supposed to save money because it&#8217;s cheaper than being in a nursing home. Problem is, no one fakes their way into a nursing home. But lots of people will claim to be sick if they get to stay at home and get free checks for their family.&#8221;
In the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families">full report,</a> Rosiak wrote:
<blockquote>The business model is simple: a 40-year-old Somali immigrant gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mother. The middleman is one of thousands of “home health” firms that have the “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid.
The 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company, but has no clients other than his mother. There is no way to verify whether he actually even provided the “services” — unless his own mother is willing to testify against him.</blockquote>
Rosiak&#8217;s investigation, conducted over two months, uncovered additional examples of fraud and abuse, and more details are expected to be revealed in the days to come.
Two months. Millions of documents. A full investigative team. That’s what this story required. Most outlets can’t afford work like this, which is why it doesn’t happen. We’ve chosen to make it happen. <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/fight/?utm_campaign=missional&amp;utm_medium=editorial&amp;utm_source=article&amp;utm_content=medicaid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Support more of it by becoming a member of Daily Wire.</a>

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JD Vance Vows Crackdown After Daily Wire’s Ohio Medicaid Investigation

JD Vance Vows Fraud Probe Inspired By Daily Wire Investigation

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Fraud isn&#8217;t just happening in the blue cities where you might expect. It&#8217;s happening right under the noses of Republican governors. In Ohio, for example, one address was listed for 94 companies — no windows, totally empty — and billed to you, the American taxpayer, for $66 million.
Over the last several years, shell companies have been fake-billing, providing fake services, and covering their tracks until this very instant. Daily Wire has now uncovered, via Luke Rosiak and our investigative team, Medicaid millionaires. In the blockbuster piece, Rosiak points <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/medicaid-millionaires-how-the-feds-pay-immigrants-billions-to-hang-out-with-their-families?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=Investigation&amp;elementPosition=4&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=The+Medicaid+Money+Trail+Leads+Somewhere+You+Won%E2%80%99t+Like+%E2%80%94+And+The+Daily+Wire+Has+Receipts">out</a>:
<blockquote>Under the guise of health care, Ohio pays people to go to Medicaid beneficiaries’ homes to perform “homemaking” and “chores” like cooking and cleaning. The people performing these “personal services” tasks don’t even have to be health care workers.</blockquote>
In 2024, Ohio spent $1 billion on home health care. They literally pay people Medicaid money to go to other people&#8217;s houses to perform homemaking and chores. And, as Luke writes, the new welfare queens aren&#8217;t the recipients whose low incomes qualify them for poverty programs. They&#8217;re the companies getting rich off of them.
His overall impression is that 99% of the facilities visited had the hallmarks of waste, fraud, or abuse. We are talking about alleged criminality at a breathtaking scale.
An additional characteristic of these fraudulent facilities is that all the windows are covered. Why would you cover all the windows? Because there&#8217;s nothing there. According to Luke, what&#8217;s inside is 94 different companies signed up to bill Medicaid, each with a tiny office often marked with a sheet of paper proclaiming some generic company name ending in Home Health, LLC, and sometimes another piece of paper claiming the employees had just stepped out for a break.
This building, this address, has billed taxpayers over $66 million over the last several years. If you try to track down what exactly is happening at any one of these home health care companies, what you will find is an endless rabbit hole. You&#8217;ll find years of unpaid taxes and debts, sometimes criminal records, and an astonishing number of LLCs created in other industries, as if the millions they are making from Medicaid is just a side gig.<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-ep-2418?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=Recent+Episodes&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-981859 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif" alt="" width="1024" height="171" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner.avif 1024w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-300x50.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/10/ben-banner-768x128.jpg 768w" sizes=" (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>
The government is not, and cannot be, monitoring the people to whom they write million-dollar checks. They all share a combination of just a few names, like Ahmad Mohammed and Mohamed Ahmed. And Columbus, Ohio, has the second-largest Somali population outside Minnesota. They spell their own name multiple different ways within a single document. Many of them have their birthdays listed as January 1 because their birthdates are unknown.
Pretty much all of them, according to Rosiak’s reporting, are registered voters.
The business model is apparently simple. A 40-year-old Somali gets paid for spending time with, and maybe cooking for, his own 65-year-old mom. The middleman is one of these thousands of home health firms that have an “NPI” number necessary to bill Medicaid, and then the 40-year-old becomes an “employee” of that company.
But the only patient is Mom. There&#8217;s no way to verify whether he&#8217;s providing services unless his mom is willing to rat him out. Maybe he even gives her a portion of the pay as a kickback for allowing her Social Security number to be used. Apparently, all of these home health care companies are owned by foreigners. 
When Rosiak asked what home health care companies did, he was threatened. “Journalists? Who cares? Do you guys pay my bills? I’m going to tell everybody you guys are racist.”
This is the way the magic works: Defraud our Medicaid systems. Defraud federal taxpayer dollars. And then, when somebody comes knocking on the door, they claim that they are a racist.
This poverty program differs from others, such as food stamps, because it doesn&#8217;t have a monetary cap. Its extent is not decided by politicians, but by any doctor willing to sign a form saying you could use some help around the home. And one doctor willing to sign and turn out enough of these forms can bankrupt a state.
How do we get this information? For decades, Medicaid billing data was a black box. It&#8217;s one of the biggest government programs in human history. The public could not see a dime of it. 
That changed in February, when the DOJ quietly released data that many people missed. In one case, a landlord who owned buildings with 300 different Medicaid companies billed the federal government $250 million. 
For Democrats, this is a feature, not a bug. You&#8217;d imagine that there would be Democrats out there who are upset with this kind of fraud. After all, if you&#8217;re an advocate for a government program, you should want every dollar of that taxpayer money to go to someone who deserves it.
But that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s happening. Democrats are irritated by the fact that people are uncovering this stuff. The good news for Ohio is its leadership: Republican Governor Mike DeWine is the governor, and Vivek Ramaswamy is very likely to be the next governor. And President Donald Trump is on top of this, and Vice President JD Vance is heading up the waste, fraud, and abuse policing.
That is what Americans need. We need accountability. We need prosecutions. We need doors kicked down. We need investigations.
Republican governors and federal officials need to fix this, and this is a unique time to do it. The Trump administration has made policing waste, fraud, and abuse possible. This was not going to happen under Democrats.

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Medicaid Millions Flowed Through A Dead Office — And DW Uncovered The Paper Trail

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The Daily Wire dives into the incredible details of one of America’s most daring rescue missions in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mini documentary</a> that hit the platform on Thursday.
Just over a month after the United States launched its massive military operation against Iran, a U.S. F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down by Iranian forces on April 3, sending the fighter jet’s two crew members directly into enemy territory.
It marked the first time in more than 20 years that a U.S. warplane was lost to enemy fire, but President Donald Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth had a bigger problem: finding the missing Americans and bringing them home.
The jet’s pilot was rescued by U.S. forces within hours, but the weapons system officer, a colonel who ejected from the jet, vanished in some of the most remote and treacherous terrain on earth.
Back in Washington, U.S. officials quickly drew up a daring plan to rescue the colonel before Iranian forces could capture him. American officials knew the stakes. Either an American soldier would fall into the hands of a terrorist regime, die of dehydration, or the U.S. military would go into hostile territory and get him.
The next 48 hours would prove to be one of the greatest success stories in American military history, a rescue that President Donald Trump called an “Easter miracle.”
The Daily Wire’s “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Race To Rescue</a>” provides a detailed account of the incredible mission to find the missing U.S. colonel and bring him home. “The Race To Rescue” is now available exclusively for DailyWire+ members.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/daily-wire-explains-the-world-ep-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: THE RACE TO RESCUE</a>
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