Hundreds of thousands of Canadians could face prison time if they do not turn in their newly prohibited guns under a supposedly “voluntary” gun buyback program that is testing the strength of Canada&#8217;s bureaucratic regime.
Since May 2020, the Canadian government has attempted to institute a massive “assault-style firearms compensation program” that will purportedly trade cash for prohibited guns. If Canadians do not turn in a prohibited gun by October 2026, they could face up to five years in prison. The program has faced massive pushback from provincial leaders and gun rights organizations who say it will only disarm law-abiding Canadians.
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“We&#8217;re finding that they&#8217;re running into a lot of compliance issues,” Blair Hagen, an executive at Canada’s National Firearms Association, told The Daily Wire. “They have no idea where [the guns are] or who has them. So it&#8217;s proving to be a very, very difficult situation for the government.”
Due to the scope of the program, the government has extended amnesty three times for ownership of one of the thousands of banned so-called “assault-style” guns, with the latest one set to expire in October 2026.
<h3>We Can Thank Justin Trudeau</h3>
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An <a href="https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2020/05/01/prime-minister-announces-ban-assault-style-firearms">order in council</a> rolled out by then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in May 2020 banned thousands of “assault weapons” and claimed to offer compensation to those who voluntarily turn in their weapons. According to Hagen, an order in council is a “non-democratic legal instrument” where the Canadian government can ban items like guns “without having to take legislation through parliament.”
Today, the government <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/campaigns/firearms-buyback.html">describes</a> participation in the gun buyback program as “voluntary” but that compliance with the gun ban is required.
“While participating in the program is voluntary, compliance with the law is not. Businesses and individual firearm owners must safely dispose of or permanently deactivate their assault-style firearms before the amnesty period ends on October 30, 2026, or risk criminal liability for the illegal possession of a prohibited firearm,” the government says on its website.
Justin Davis, the public affairs director of the National Rifle Association, said that it made no sense to call the program voluntary.
“I mean, they call these things voluntary, but if the option is either turn them in or you&#8217;re going to jail, I would not consider that voluntary,” he told The Daily Wire. 
The government also doesn’t guarantee compensation for turning in the designated weapons, only saying that gun owners “who choose to participate in the program may receive compensation subject to availability of program funds.”
<h3>Carney Calls It Compensation, Not Confiscation</h3>
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Prime Minister Mark Carney <a href="https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/forcing-people-to-hand-over-their-guns-isnt-a-voluntary-program">claims</a> that the program, which could penalize gun owners with jail time if they don’t comply, was not “confiscation.”
“This is not about confiscation. This is about voluntary return of firearms for compensation,” Carney said during a podcast in September 2025. “People aren’t going around confiscating guns. Anyone who says that, that is a mischaracterization, what it is is an opportunity for Canadians to return guns for compensation.”
In the same podcast, Carney claimed that the hunting rifles would not be impacted by the extensive gun ban.
“We are not talking about hunting rifles. We’re not talking sports shooting or anything like that. We’re talking about assault rifles,” Carney said.
However, this appears to ignore the fact that there is a specific carve-out for Native tribes that use prohibited rifles for hunting. The amnesty <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2024/12/government-of-canada-extends-list-of-prohibited-assault-style-firearms-and-moves-forward-on-regulatory-changes-to-strengthen-gun-control.html">includes</a> “a temporary exception for Indigenous peoples’ exercising a right” under the Constitution and “as well as those who use firearms for sustenance hunting, which enables them to continue to use their newly prohibited firearms to hunt (if previously non-restricted) until a suitable replacement can be found.”
<h3>Not In Alberta</h3>
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Many Canadian provinces, including Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, and Ontario, have indicated they will not assist the national government in enforcing the ban.
“We will have nothing to do with this program. We will not spend any Alberta taxpayer dollars on this program,&#8221; Teri Bryant, the chief firearms officer of Alberta, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-gun-buyback-program-9.7053027">told</a> CBC News last month. &#8220;We can&#8217;t block the federal government from setting something up, but they have to set it up and be appropriately licensed.&#8221;
Effectively, what this means is that the feds will be on their own for enforcing the gun ban throughout much of Canada without any assistance from local law enforcement.
“If the feds want to try and enforce it, they are going to have to do it themselves, and of course, the logistics get even more insurmountable and the price goes up,” Hagen said.
In the fall of 2025, the Canadian government ran a <a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/campaigns/firearms-buyback/pilot-lessons-learned.html">pilot program</a> of the buyback scheme that ran for six weeks and only yielded 25 guns. The government had <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-federal-gun-buyback-assault-weapons-program-9.7047872">reportedly</a> expected to confiscate some 200 weapons.
The government declared the program a success, saying that it showed that “factual, consistent information on how the program works, what individuals can expect if they choose to participate, and legal requirements to comply with the prohibition must be readily available and up-to-date.”
Hagen said that there was not much public appetite for the gun buyback program, but that it was pushed by leftists embedded in Canada’s federal bureaucracy. 
“That&#8217;s one of the biggest problems with firearms laws in Canada,” he said. “There is a civil disarmament agenda in that bureaucracy. It started many years ago. They&#8217;ve done everything they can to ensure that it continues.”
At the end of the day, Hagen sees the government&#8217;s efforts to stop crime and violence by taking law-abiding citizens&#8217; firearms as illogical.
“You can put all the laws and restrictions and prohibitions on the lawful acquisition and ownership of firearms that you want, but it&#8217;s not going to decrease or eliminate crime or tragedies because criminals and lunatics will always find a way,” he said.
<h3>American Leftists Want The Same Policy</h3>
That sentiment was echoed by Davis with the NRA, who warned that leftist politicians in the United States wanted to enact similar policies.
“The issue here is the idea that criminals would be turning in their firearms is just absolutely illogical,” he told The Daily Wire. “There&#8217;s no criminal in the world who&#8217;s going to turn in their firearm for a few dollars when instead they can use it for perpetuating crime.”
During her first run for president back in 2019, Kamala Harris <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/gun-safety-forum-live-updates-las-vegas-n1060911#ncrd1061751">said</a> she supported a “mandatory” gun buyback program for so-called “assault weapons.”
“We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” Harris said. “It’s got to be smart, we got to do it the right way.”
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Davis said that the Second Amendment gave a layer of protection to gun owners that those in Europe and Canada didn’t have.
“Places like Europe and Canada and Australia do not have those type of protections, and you see political figures continue to push more and more gun control laws that, again, just disarm law abiding citizens and create more soft targets for criminals, and evil individuals in this world who want to do harm to innocent lives,” he said.
A 2024 challenge to Canada&#8217;s buyback program lost, but advocates for gun rights in Canada believe that the program will become too expensive to institute and will face a host of practical problems.
Hagen sees some parallels between the current ban on “assault-style” weapons and the effort to have all long guns registered. That requirement was repealed in 2012 by a Conservative coalition and was seen as a major victory for Canadian gun rights advocates. The policies could also be overturned if Carney&#8217;s Liberal Party loses power in Canada.
“It&#8217;s one thing to ban a bunch of guns and declare that they&#8217;re prohibited and state your intention to confiscate them,&#8221; Hagen said. &#8220;But it&#8217;s quite another to actually make that happen.”

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As every mom knows, our greatest fear is something bad happening to our kids.
So, like much of the country, I was shocked when I learned that Jay Jones, a Democrat running to be the next Attorney General of my home state of Virginia, expressed his desire to see a political opponent’s children <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-them-virginia-dem-sent-shocking-texts-about-killing-gop-leader-pissing-on-graves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killed</a> because of their father’s views on gun control.
But reading those texts — in which Jones imagines his opponent being shot twice while his wife cradled her dying child — I had another thought.
He was talking about me.
I am a Republican. I am a mother and a wife. And Jay Jones and I probably do not agree on Second Amendment issues.
Jones, who could very possibly become the top law enforcement official of my state, is on the record saying he wants people like me to suffer unimaginable tragedy so that I will change my views and stop “breeding little fascists.”
“Only when people feel pain personally do they move on policy,” Jones <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dem-ag-nominee-jay-jones-fantasized-about-shooting-former-virginia-gop-speaker-he-receives-both-bullets/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
This was not a mistake. It wasn’t an accident. He meant those words, and he believes them in his heart still today, regardless of weak apologies.
How do I know this to be true? He’s still running.
And why not? Just look at all the Democrats rallying around him and continuing to support his campaign, including gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger.
“I stand with [Jay Jones]. Period. End of Statement,” <a href="https://x.com/melforhd48/status/1975206810455027859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Virginia House of Delegates candidate Melody Cartwright (who has “Human Rights Defender” in her bio on X).
The <a href="https://x.com/bluevirginia/status/1974616667499192690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia Beach Democratic Committee</a> &#8220;reaffirmed its full support for Jay Jones for Attorney General&#8221; and &#8220;[called] on all Virginians to line up behind Jay Jones.&#8221;
Again, Jay Jones believes that the way to enact his political agenda is for moms to hold our dying children in our own arms.
Jones’s Republican opponent, the sitting Attorney General of Virginia, Jason Miyares, launched an <a href="https://x.com/JasonMiyaresVA/status/1975234553867313211" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad</a> hitting the nail on the head: &#8220;Do you trust Jay Jones to protect your children?&#8221;
The answer is simple: of course not.
But the rot runs deeper. Jay Jones is not alone.
As I am unfortunately learning, it appears that Democrats on the whole believe that killing political opponents is an acceptable option to enact their political agenda.
In fact, a sobering poll taken in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination found that over 40% of liberals believe violence can be <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/16/liberals-younger-americans-likely-justify-political-violence-poll/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">justified</a> to achieve political goals.
Here’s the bottom line: any Democrat who refuses to call for Jones to step down is doing more than endorsing his candidacy. They’re endorsing mothers holding our dying children to make us change our minds on gun control.
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They’re endorsing the continued and seriously deranged normalization of political violence and the dehumanization of those who disagree with them on politics.
Mothers of Virginia, beware: this man could be our next Attorney General.
Mothers of America, beware: this is the Democratic Party.
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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a hostile Senate hearing, defending his vaccine policies against attacks from Democrats. The Department of Justice is reportedly considering new gun restrictions targeting individuals with gender dysphoria following the Minneapolis school shooting. CBS News is under fire for another deceptively edited interview as reports suggest a major shakeup is coming with the potential hiring of Bari Weiss.
It’s Friday, September 5, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day.
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<h2>RFK Jr. Defends Vaccine Policies in Fiery Senate Hearing</h2>
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Topline: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endured a hostile Senate hearing on Thursday, where he fiercely defended his vaccine policies and shakeup of the CDC against a barrage of attacks from Democrats.
During the fiery hearing, Democrats called Kennedy a &#8220;charlatan,&#8221; said he was perpetrating &#8220;hoaxes,&#8221; and demanded his resignation. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) accused him of sacrificing children&#8217;s lives, to which Kennedy retorted, &#8220;You&#8217;ve sat in that chair for &#8230; 25 years – while the chronic disease in our children went up to 76%. And you said nothing.&#8221; When Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) attacked him over recent changes to COVID vaccine access, Kennedy shot back, &#8220;I know you&#8217;ve taken $855,000 from pharmaceutical companies, senator.&#8221;
Kennedy defended his decision to fire CDC Director Susan Monarez, saying she had twice admitted to him that she was not &#8220;trustworthy.&#8221; He also stood by his overhaul of the CDC&#8217;s vaccine advisory panel (ACIP), stating the old panel was &#8220;plagued with conflicts of interest.&#8221;
When Democrats praised Operation Warp Speed in an apparent attempt to drive a wedge between him and the president, Kennedy said Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for it, but that the risk-benefit &#8220;calculus is different&#8221; now that the virus has mutated and adverse event reports have piled up. He also announced that the FDA is reviewing the safety data of the abortion pill mifepristone, alleging the previous administration &#8220;twisted the data&#8221; to &#8220;bury one of the safety signals.&#8221;
<h2>DOJ Weighs Gun Ban for Gender Dysphoria</h2>
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Topline: The Department of Justice is internally deliberating ways to bar individuals suffering from gender dysphoria from obtaining firearms, following a string of violent attacks by trans-identifying individuals, including last week&#8217;s deadly school shooting in Minneapolis.
The Daily Wire first reported that the DOJ is looking at the issue as one of mental health, not gun control. The move comes after a series of high-profile violent crimes committed by people who identify as transgender, including the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville and the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The administration&#8217;s focus on mental health stands in stark contrast to the Democratic response to the Minneapolis shooting. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called for a special legislative session to address gun laws, citing the strict gun control measures in Scotland and Australia as models for the U.S.
On Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance and his wife visited the Annunciation school in Minneapolis, where they laid flowers and met with the parents of the murdered children. &#8220;There is nothing that you can say that can take away the grief that these parents are dealing with,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;If you do have kids &#8230; make sure that they know that you love them &#8230; because there are families in Minneapolis who won&#8217;t be able to do that ever again.&#8221;
<h2>CBS Under Fire for Deceptive Edits as Shakeup Looms</h2>
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Topline: The White House is blasting CBS News for deceptively editing an interview with DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, the latest in a string of similar incidents, as reports indicate a major leadership shakeup is imminent at the network.
CBS News is under fire for editing out the serious criminal allegations against illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an interview with Secretary Noem, making it appear the Trump administration was targeting an ordinary person for deportation. According to Curtis Houck of NewsBusters, this is at least the fifth time in four years that CBS has been caught making questionable edits that go &#8220;in one direction&#8221; against conservatives. Previous targets include Governor Ron DeSantis, Speaker Mike Johnson, President Trump, and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
The repeated instances of apparent bias come as a major shakeup is reportedly coming to the network. Puck News reported Wednesday that CBS&#8217; new parent company is in the final stages of a deal to acquire The Free Press and install its founder, Bari Weiss, in a senior role at CBS News. The move is seen as a potential attempt to &#8220;de-politicize&#8221; the news division and return to the network&#8217;s more trusted roots, though it could face internal resistance from current staff.

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tore into her predecessor, former Press Secretary Jen Psaki, over an X post attacking those who responded to Wednesday&#8217;s tragic school shooting by offering prayers.
During Thursday&#8217;s briefing, Leavitt told members of the Press Corps that she had seen Psaki&#8217;s post and thought it was extremely disrespectful of her to dismiss the beliefs of many Americans who value prayer.
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With class and calm, Karoline Leavitt just absolutely wrecked Jen Psaki for mocking the power of prayer:
&#8220;I saw the comments of my predecessor, Jen Psaki, I think they&#8217;re incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country… <a href="https://t.co/Mk595Sq1Dn">https://t.co/Mk595Sq1Dn</a> <a href="https://t.co/cHLb31pWSR">pic.twitter.com/cHLb31pWSR</a>
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href="https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1961126369288708540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Yes, I saw the comments of my predecessor, Ms. Psaki, and frankly, I think they&#8217;re incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works, and who believe that on a morning like this, when beautiful young children were killed while praying in a church, it&#8217;s utterly disrespectful to deride the power of prayer in this country,&#8221; Leavitt said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s disrespectful to the millions of Americans of faith, and I would encourage Ms. Psaki to pray for these families themselves, who need it right now more than ever.&#8221;
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Psaki posted on Wednesday, shortly after news broke of the deadly shooting, saying, &#8220;Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.&#8221;
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Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.
— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki/status/1960730977472237739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, also a Democrat, made a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-trashes-people-for-offering-thoughts-and-prayers-after-shooting">similar comment</a> during a press conference on Wednesday in an effort to direct the conversation toward gun control: &#8220;Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now, these kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school, they were in a church.&#8221;

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Karoline Leavitt Destroys Jen Psaki For Mocking The Power Of Prayer

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Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta received blowback on Monday over an interview he conducted using an artificial intelligence-generated likeness of a teen killed in the 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
Acosta, who has been an independent journalist since leaving CNN earlier this year, interviewed an AI likeness of Joaquin Oliver created by the gun control group Change the Ref, founded by Oliver&#8217;s parents. The host teased the interview in a clip posted on social media.
“I’ll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence,” said Acosta in a post on X.
He included a snippet of the interview in which he asked the AI-generated Oliver, “What your solution would be for gun violence?”
“Great question. I believe in a mix of stronger gun control laws, mental health support, and community engagement,” the AI emitted in response. “We need to create safe spaces for conversations and connections, making sure everyone feels seen and heard. It&#8217;s about building a culture of kindness and understanding. What do you think about that?”
Acosta responded: “I think that&#8217;s a great idea, Joaquin.”
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A show you don’t want to miss at 4p ET / 1p PT. I’ll be having a one of a kind interview with Joaquin Oliver. He died in the Parkland school shooting in 2018. But his parents have created an AI version of their son to deliver a powerful message on gun violence. Plus Texas State… <a href="https://t.co/mbdM2WxwUR">pic.twitter.com/mbdM2WxwUR</a>
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Acosta’s use of an AI version of a school shooting victim to push a political agenda received stiff pushback online.
&#8220;Just The News&#8221; Chief Investigative Correspondent Jerry Dunleavy <a href="https://x.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1952491669162491994">called</a> the interview “deranged &amp; ghoulish.”
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross <a href="https://x.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1952475717209321948">pointed</a> out: “This is the kind of journalism that Jim Acosta is doing without the guardrails of CNN.”
“This is one of the most unhinged and grotesque things I’ve ever seen. It’s also completely in keeping with who Acosta is,” National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke <a href="https://x.com/charlescwcooke/status/1952506911535902953">said</a>.
The Dispatch Editor-In-Chief Jonah Goldberg <a href="https://x.com/JonahDispatch/status/1952500970346238299">called</a> the interview “Profoundly gross.”
The pushback against Acosta’s &#8220;interview&#8221; bled over onto BlueSky, as well. BlueSky is known as a social media hive for leftists who quit X in opposition to Elon Musk’s takeover. Replies on the site were rife with disgust.
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Jim Acosta Ripped For Bizarre Gun Control Inverview With AI Replica Of Parkland Victim

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David Hogg, freshly minted into leadership at the Democratic National Committee, is warning that he plans to push primaries against some members of his own party.
Hogg co-founded and is president of Leaders We Deserve, a group dedicated to electing young progressives, which is launching a push to primary House Democrats they view as &#8220;out-of-touch&#8221; and &#8220;ineffective.&#8221;
The $20 million effort will reportedly attempt to oust House Democrats in deep blue districts and elect younger leaders who will fight Trump more aggressively. The group will also spend money on races for state legislatures, Hogg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-leaders-we-deserve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Hogg, 25, was elected as vice chair of the DNC less than three months ago. The young progressive activist initially made a name for himself after he survived the deadly school shooting at Parkland High School back in 2018, often going on profane rants demanding gun control.
The move by a member of the party brass to oust current Democratic lawmakers is an unprecedented one and is sure to face pushback from other Democrats.
“This is going to anger a lot of people,” Hogg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/politics/david-hogg-dnc-leaders-we-deserve.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times, adding that he predicts a &#8220;smear campaign against me.&#8221;
“People say they want change in the Democratic Party, but really they want change so long as it doesn’t potentially endanger their position of power,” he told the paper. “That’s not actually wanting change. That’s selfishness.”
Hogg also reportedly refused to sign a “neutrality policy,” asking party leaders not to engage in any activity that would “call into question their impartiality and evenhandedness,” either in “their D.N.C. capacity and in their personal capacity.”
The Democratic Party has struggled to find its footing and a cohesive message that resonates with the public after the thrashing candidates up and down the ballot took in the November election.
Some of the internal strife involves the younger generation of progressives bucking older party leadership, urging policies further to the left and a more aggressive approach against the Trump administration.
“What we are not saying here is, ‘Oh, you’re old, you need to go,’” Hogg said of older elected Democrats. “What we’re saying is we need to make room for a new generation to step up and help make sure that we have the people that are most acutely impacted by a lot of the issues that we are legislating on — that are actually going to live to see the consequences of this.”
Hogg did not name any specific Democrats his group is looking to unseat yet.

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New DNC Leader David Hogg Says He’ll Push Primaries Against Some In His Own Party

New DNC Leader David Hogg Says He'll Push Primaries Against Some In His Own Party

David Hogg

Democratic National Committee

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin used his veto power to send a bill back to the Democrat-controlled legislature with a clever change.
The legislature last month passed a bill introduced by State Delegate Laura Jane Cohen (D-Fairfax), a far-left former school board member, requiring schools to text and email parents each school year, admonishing them to lock up any guns they own. Youngkin added a provision that would require schools to also communicate with parents before transitioning a child to a different gender.
Democrats previously voted down a similar bill, but now they will have to vote whether to accept or reject the edit, potentially putting them on the record in an election year that they oppose parental involvement in the most intimate aspect of their child’s life. Virginia holds elections in odd-numbered years, and Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the election to Youngkin in 2019 after saying he didn’t believe parents should play a role in what goes on in schools.
Youngkin sailed to victory after lashing out at Loudoun County Public Schools for covering up a rape by a “genderfluid” boy in order to pass a transgender bathroom policy. 
<a href="https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1046364.PDF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cohen’s bill</a> required school boards to “require the notification of the parent of each student enrolled in the local school division, to be sent by email and, if applicable, SMS text message within 30 calendar days succeeding the first day of each school year, of (i) the importance of securely storing any prescription drug, as defined in § 54.1-3401, present in the household and (ii) the parent&#8217;s responsibility, in accordance with § 18.2-56.2, to safely store any firearm present in the household.”
Instead of vetoing it, Youngkin continued with the theme of parental communication, <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1678/text/HB1678AG" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adding a requirement</a> that:
<blockquote>Local school boards shall develop protocols by which each public elementary or secondary school principal or his designee shall, as soon as practicable, (i) inform at least one parent of a minor student enrolled in such school if such minor requests that any school employee participate while at school in (a) social affirmation of the minor student&#8217;s gender incongruence or (b) the transition of such minor to a felt or stated gender different from the minor student&#8217;s biological sex and (ii) request and receive permission from at least one parent of a minor student enrolled at such school prior to the implementation at such school of any plan concerning any gender incongruence experienced by such minor, including any counseling of such minor at school that includes a provision for parental participation.</blockquote>
Cohen called the amendment “garbage,” telling <a href="https://www.wvtf.org/news/2025-03-28/youngkin-adds-controversial-amendment-to-parental-notification-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RadioIQ,</a> “For some people, teachers are the only ones they can talk to in their lives.&#8221;
As this reporter&#8217;s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Race to the Bottom</a> found, Cohen has a child who has severe cognitive disabilities and who believes she is transgender. She ran for the Fairfax County School Board in 2019 to displace a Republican who had tried to stop the board from rushing through a transgender policy in spite of public comment indicating widespread opposition. Cohen was elected with assistance from Moms Demand Action, a national anti-gun group funded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
On Wednesday, the legislature will hold a floor debate on the provision requiring parental permission for gender transition, and Democrats will have to vote on whether they think schools should transition a child’s gender while keeping it secret from their parents.
Democrats have only slim majorities in each chamber, so Youngkin&#8217;s proposal would become law if even a few Democrats support it. The Daily Wire asked three vulnerable House Democrats — Joshua Cole (Fredericksburg), Josh Thomas (Gainesville), and Michael Feggans (Virginia Beach) — their positions, and none replied.
In 2023, Republicans introduced a similar bill called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-republican-moves-to-ban-calling-misgendering-child-abuse-after-girl-is-kept-from-her-parents-for-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sage’s Law</a>, named after a girl from rural Virginia who was secretly gender-transitioned by her high school, setting in motion her being sex trafficked to Baltimore, where the FBI found her locked in the home of a convicted sex offender. A Baltimore court refused to return her to Virginia after a school counselor allegedly speculated that Sage&#8217;s mother might not accept her new gender. Instead, she was placed in a foster home for Baltimore’s most troubled boys, and was abused again.
Despite the heartbreaking story, Democrats voted down Sage’s Law last session. It was re-introduced this year, but denied a hearing, at which the story would have been told. (Read about Sage’s horror story <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-refused-to-give-back-a-virginia-runaway-because-her-parents-misgendered-her-then-she-was-sex-trafficked-mother-says">here</a>.)
Sage’s mother later filed a lawsuit against the Appomattox County Public Schools, alleging its counselors summoned Sage to discuss her gender eight times during the first 12 days of the 2021-22 school year. It also alleged that the counselors were providing major psychiatric care they were not qualified or authorized to perform.

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Youngkin Edits Far-Left Legislator’s Gun Bill, Making It Prohibit Secret Gender Transitions For Kids

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Police said &#8220;around 10 people&#8221; were killed — including the suspected gunman — in a shooting at a school in central <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sweden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sweden</a>, marking the worst mass shooting in the nation&#8217;s history.
Officers were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/europe/orebro-sweden-school-shooting-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> around 12:30 p.m. local time to a campus in Örebro, where a lone gunman allegedly opened fire on dozens of people and then shot himself before coming into contact with authorities, according to a report by CNN.
&#8220;We think he is a lone perpetrator,&#8221; local police chief Roberto Eid Forest added. &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible event, it&#8217;s exceptional – a nightmare.&#8221;
Forest was not able to provide an exact death toll due to the extensive damage at the crime scene, although he did note that six people were taken to the hospital, with two being in stable condition.
Sweden&#8217;s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson offered condolences to the victims&#8217; families, stating, &#8220;We&#8217;ve today seen brutal, deadly violence against completely innocent people – this is the worst mass shooting in Swedish history.&#8221;
Police said the suspect was not previously known to them and did not appear to have extremist ties or gang affiliation.
Campus Risbergska, the adult education center where the attack occurred, usually sees high pedestrian traffic during the day. However, a teacher at the school noted that on the day of the shooting, many students had finished a national exam and gone home, leaving the building significantly less crowded.
Sweden’s Expressen newspaper interviewed Andreas Sundling, 28, who sheltered in a classroom during the shooting. 
“We heard three bangs and loud screams … now we’re sitting here waiting to be evacuated from the school,” Sundling <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sweden-shooting-adult-education-center-6be99a59fa3404ae296589e60c881f6c?taid=67a25450f4a0e500015229dd&amp;utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&amp;utm_medium=AP&amp;utm_source=Twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recounted</a>, via The Associated Press. 
The witness, who was sheltering in a classroom, added that students were told to lock down until law enforcement arrived to secure the area. Police later began evacuating schools adjacent to Campus Risbergska, moving faculty and students to safer locations as officers searched the premises. 
Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf released a statement expressing that he and his family had received the news “with sadness and dismay,” extending condolences to the families of the victims and praying for a swift recovery of the hospitalized students. 
While details surrounding the shooter’s motives remain under investigation, authorities have said there is no current indication of a wider plot.
In 2023, official data showed Sweden experiencing one of the highest rates of gun violence per capita in Europe, and in 2024, at least 40 people were reportedly fatally shot.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democratic-national-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democratic National Committee</a> (DNC) has chosen leftist activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Hogg</a> to serve in one of its top roles.
Over the weekend, DNC members <a href="https://democrats.org/news/dnc-members-elect-new-slate-of-dnc-officers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked</a> Hogg to serve as vice chair alongside Artie Blanco and Malcolm Kenyatta. They also elected Ken Martin, a longtime leader of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, to become chairman.
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I’ve just been elected as a Vice Chair of the DNC. I’m deeply grateful to the members for their trust and belief in me and I don’t take it lightly. Now it’s time to get to work. 🧵 <a href="https://t.co/3ypkRc62hL">pic.twitter.com/3ypkRc62hL</a>
&mdash; David Hogg 🟧 (@davidhogg111) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1885934686075064347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hogg became a high-profile gun control proponent after surviving the 2018 Parkland high school shooting in Florida in which 17 people were killed.
In his bid for DNC vice chair, Hogg was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-walz-endorses-fellow-radical-david-hogg-for-dnc-vice-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic Party&#8217;s failed vice-presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/far-left-walz-endorses-fellow-radical-david-hogg-for-dnc-vice-chair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously reported</a> by The Daily Wire:
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Hogg has a history of outlandish statements and self-promotion; in June 2022, he accused Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio of avoiding him because Hogg “triggered” him, writing in a later-deleted tweet, “Rubio staff said I can&#8217;t meet with him or his staff because I &#8216;trigger&#8217; him. I just wanna have a conversation. Please meet with me @marcorubio I just want to figure out how we can stop these things from happening. We have to end the continuous debate and find what we can agree on.”
“No one said such a thing,&#8221; Rubio&#8217;s Chief of Staff Michael Needham responded to Hogg. “As for the meeting, you must be confused as we had a 2p meeting scheduled with you. However, since you are lying and clearly using this all for self-promotion, that meeting is now cancelled [sic]. &#8230; the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.”
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Also, the reporter doing a profile of you knows the meeting is real since she was emailing yesterday with our comms team about it. Don’t lie again — we have receipts.
&mdash; Michael Needham (@MikeNeedham) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeNeedham/status/1534934071427706882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In August 2018, Hogg claimed that the “NRA is pulling strings to increase gun sales in a record low year.” He was immediately fact-checked:
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There have been about 1 million more FBI background checks, the most reliable indicator of gun sales, this year than last year and this year is on pace to be the second-best in the history of NICS. So, no, gun sales are not experiencing a record low year. <a href="https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu">https://t.co/3TuvrVnvOu</a>
&mdash; Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenGutowski/status/1032794832903843840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2018</a></blockquote>
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In September 2020, Hogg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/david-hogg-apologizes-for-condemning-violence">stated</a>, “The use of violence to acquire political power is deeply rooted in imperialism, capitalism and white supremacy[.] I personally refuse to believe that the use of this same violence will ever create nonviolent systems of government that represent and support everyone.” He later apologized, but added, “Let me be clear what I am NOT trying to do is tell BIPOC people how they should react to violence directed at them by the state. It’s not my place or any white persons to direct or criticize the way BIPOC people choose to defend themselves against this violence from the state.”
Hogg was accepted to Harvard University despite getting only a 1270 on his SATs. “The bottom 25% of students admitted had an average score of 1460,” Business Insider <a href="applewebdata://0CB7A4F1-65E5-4553-8D3B-B711F7A2BEDA/v">noted</a>.
After Hogg was elected as DNC vice chair, Hogg&#8217;s critics took a moment to point out some of his prior comments.
&#8220;DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has some legitimately INSANE views that are wildly out of step with the American people,&#8221; said conservative communicator Steve Guest. &#8220;Good to see that the Democrat Party has learned absolutely nothing.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s some of what Guest and others highlighted:
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He also has 0 knowledge about how the Constitution works. <a href="https://t.co/nhX7HDouQz">pic.twitter.com/nhX7HDouQz</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1886087180830822503?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Throwback to when the new DNC Vice Chair David Hogg, got destroyed by a Chinese immigrant on gun control <a href="https://t.co/KCdeXXT0SF">pic.twitter.com/KCdeXXT0SF</a>
&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1885907309462790376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Dear America,
The democrats just elected rabid anti-gun activist David Hogg as Vice Chairman for the DNC.
In 2023, Hogg posted, “You have no right to a gun.”
To every hunter/gun owner in America, it’s time to vote
(30% of Pennsylvania hunters are NOT registered to vote). <a href="https://t.co/mW8lwi1omB">pic.twitter.com/mW8lwi1omB</a>
&mdash; ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottPresler/status/1886052396121326030?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The new Vice Chair of the DNC wants to Defund the Police. <a href="https://t.co/66JtnaVk8J">pic.twitter.com/66JtnaVk8J</a>
&mdash; Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1886117032703189161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2025</a></blockquote>
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DNC Elects David Hogg To Top Role. Here’s A Look At Some Of His ‘INSANE’ Statements.

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A clip of Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> went viral this week that showed remarks she made as San Francisco&#8217;s district attorney in which she said that police had the right to &#8220;walk into&#8221; people&#8217;s homes and inspect their legally-owned firearms.
The Democrat presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to reporters during a press conference in 2007 about a law that was being introduced that she helped write.
Harris said, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you&#8217;re being responsible and safe in the way you conduct your affairs.&#8221;
Fox News reported that the anti-gun bill was ultimately signed into law by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.
&#8220;It was bundled with other gun control provisions, including a new requirement for legal gun distributors to submit an inventory to the chief of police every six months, and a ban on possessing guns – even legally – in public housing,&#8221; the report said.
The NRA said in a post that included the video: &#8220;Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns.&#8221;
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🚨Kamala Harris wants mass gun confiscation, and she’s willing to weaponize the government to enter your home and seize your legally owned guns:
“Just because you LEGALLY possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home… <a href="https://t.co/4ET5m7ToSx">pic.twitter.com/4ET5m7ToSx</a>
— NRA (@NRA) <a href="https://twitter.com/NRA/status/1836422943644983481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
The Trump campaign called her an &#8220;anti-gun RADICAL.&#8221;
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Kamala: “Just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home doesn&#8217;t mean that we&#8217;re not going to walk into that home and check to see if you&#8217;re being responsible.”
She’s an anti-gun RADICAL. <a href="https://t.co/CTcyGgrJEf">pic.twitter.com/CTcyGgrJEf</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1836411228710662355?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Harris Says Authorities Can ‘Walk Into’ Homes And Inspect Guns In Resurfaced Clip

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Vice President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a> claimed during an interview that aired on Friday that she would not confiscate people&#8217;s firearms, but she would ban so-called &#8220;assault weapons,&#8221; which are nothing more than semi-automatic long guns.
Harris made the remarks during an interview with 6abc Action News when the interviewer brought up Harris&#8217; claim during the debate earlier this week that she owned a firearm.
&#8220;Where do you draw the line in America on gun ownership and gun use?&#8221; the interviewer asked.
&#8220;I am a gun owner,&#8221; she claimed. &#8220;And Tim Walz, my running mate, is also a gun owner. We&#8217;re not taking anybody&#8217;s guns away. I support the Second Amendment and I support reasonable gun safety laws. Part of my approach to this is, I was a career prosecutor for most of my career. I have personally prosecuted homicide cases. I have personally looked at autopsies. I have personally seen what assault weapons do to the human body.&#8221;
&#8220;And so I feel very strongly that it is consistent with the Second Amendment and your right to own a gun to also say we need an assault weapons ban,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They’re literally tools of war. They were literally designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; claim that so-called &#8220;assault weapons&#8221; are &#8220;literally tools of war&#8221; is false.
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The weapons that she is referring to are the civilian versions of weapons that militaries and law enforcement agencies use. They do not have the ability to burst fire, which is typically 3 rounds per each pull of the trigger, nor do they have the ability to fire full-auto, which allows the weapon to repeatedly fire until it runs out of ammunition with a single pull of the trigger as long as the operator does not release the trigger.
&#8220;I say we need universal background checks,&#8221; she claimed, even though people already have to undergo a background check to purchase a firearm from an FFL. &#8220;The majority of NRA members support that. Why? Because it&#8217;s just reasonable. You just might want to know before someone can buy a lethal weapon if they&#8217;ve been found by a court to be a danger to themselves or others. You just might want to know.&#8221;
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WATCH: Kamala Harris claims that she doesn’t want to take anyone’s guns, she just wants to ban them.
NARRATOR: Kamala Harris would try to take our guns too. 
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— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1835019073434140909?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2024</a></blockquote>

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Vice President Kamala Harris lied about her position on gun confiscation during Tuesday night&#8217;s debate, and despite knowing that it was a lie, ABC News moderator David Muir left her to persist, unchecked.
In a rebuttal to former President Donald Trump — who had accurately stated that Harris had voiced support for gun confiscation via mandatory buyback programs — the Vice President claimed that she was a gun owner and declared that she had no intention of taking anyone&#8217;s guns.
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In 2020, ABC&#8217;s David Muir &amp; Joe Biden called Kamala Harris out for wanting to issue an Executive Order to take away people&#8217;s guns.
Last night, Muir sat there and let Kamala lie and say that she wasn&#8217;t going to take anyone&#8217;s guns away. <a href="https://t.co/aDt2ZN3spu">pic.twitter.com/aDt2ZN3spu</a>
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&#8220;She is destroying our country. She has a plan to defund the police. She has a plan to confiscate everybody’s gun. She has a plan to not allow fracking in Pennsylvania or anywhere else,&#8221; Trump asserted.
&#8220;Tim Walz and I are both gun owners. We’re not taking anybody’s guns away,&#8221; Harris insisted in reply, adding, &#8220;Stop with the continuous lying about this stuff.&#8221;
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She had previously alluded to her personal firearm during her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2019, saying, &#8220;I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of people do — for personal safety. I was a career prosecutor.&#8221;
But Harris did say that she favored mandatory gun buybacks, a position challenged during one of the 2019 primary debates by then-candidate Joe Biden and moderator David Muir.
During that debate, Biden argued that gun buybacks could not be enacted via executive order. Muir pressed Harris for a response, asking, &#8220;Does the Vice President have a point there?&#8221;
&#8220;I would say hey, Joe, instead of saying no we can&#8217;t, let&#8217;s say yes we can,&#8221; she said, tossing her hair and laughing.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s be constitutional,&#8221; Biden shot back. &#8220;We got a constitution.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes we can,&#8221; Harris insisted, still laughing.

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