New York Magazine has cut ties with Ross Barkan, the columnist who lifted the opening of a Washington Post story for his hit piece on the Daily Wire, after a three-month editorial review found 67 of his columns failed to properly credit other writers.
The <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/why-ben-shapiros-media-empire-is-collapsing.html">column</a> that started it all, &#8220;Why Ben Shapiro&#8217;s Media Empire Is Collapsing,&#8221; ran May 14. Within hours, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell posted a side-by-side comparison showing Barkan&#8217;s lede nearly matched the opening of Harwell&#8217;s own May 9 story on Shapiro and the Daily Wire.
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The lede of our Shapiro story on Saturday and the lede of the <a href="https://x.com/NYMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYMag</a> story today<a href="https://t.co/P20BkpGhqW">https://t.co/P20BkpGhqW</a><a href="https://t.co/Ha03RLE3qs">https://t.co/Ha03RLE3qs</a> <a href="https://t.co/64OzrvFcRS">pic.twitter.com/64OzrvFcRS</a>
— Drew Harwell (@drewharwell) <a href="https://x.com/drewharwell/status/2054927246788304931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2026</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;After an independent editorial review, New York found that Ross Barkan did not adhere to our editorial standards, and we have updated 67 columns that did not include proper attribution of language, information, and/or sourcing,&#8221; the magazine <a href="https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2088356584686583896">said</a> in a statement. It added that it would no longer publish his column and apologized &#8220;to the writers whose work was not properly attributed.&#8221;
Barkan <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/08/14/media/new-york-mag-fires-mamdani-loving-writer-ross-barkan-for-67-instances-of-ripping-off-other-authors/">told</a> the New York Post the split was mutual. &#8220;We&#8217;ve decided to end the column and I send all the best to New York Magazine,&#8221; he said. He acknowledged the citation errors without addressing the plagiarism allegations directly. &#8220;In the course of nearly 250 pieces, there were times I should have been more careful with my citation. I&#8217;m sorry about these errors and will work to do better, more careful work in the future.&#8221;
When the allegations first surfaced in May, Barkan called them &#8220;all quite ridiculous&#8221; in a <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan">statement</a> to NPR. The allegations widened days later when NPR correspondent Bobby Allyn ran Barkan&#8217;s archive through an AI model and found further passages closely matching work published in The Intercept and Compact Magazine.
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The pilfering of <a href="https://x.com/drewharwell?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@drewharwell</a>’s reporting by <a href="https://x.com/RossBarkan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RossBarkan</a> was so egregious, I decided to do another spot check. I ran a random piece of his through an LLM and asked if any verbatim phrases appear in any other publication, and it came back with a hit. He lifted several exact… <a href="https://t.co/mjOLIf8ZxB">pic.twitter.com/mjOLIf8ZxB</a>
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He argued that linking to the writers he drew from — and naming them — was credit enough. &#8220;I am allowed, as a columnist building on his reporting, to cite facts. Especially when he&#8217;s credited,&#8221; he wrote of the Compact Magazine piece. He added, &#8220;I have written hundreds upon hundreds of columns, essays, and pieces of journalism in my career. I stand by my record.&#8221;
His column regularly featured socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who managed Barkan&#8217;s failed 2018 Democratic primary bid for a South Brooklyn state Senate seat. &#8220;I met him at the end of 2017 when I was running for State Senate in New York City, in Brooklyn, where I grew up. I was strongly contemplating pivoting from journalism to running for office,&#8221; Barkan <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ross-barkan-on-zohran-mamdani-arresting-netanyahu-and-where-dsa-goes-from-here">told</a> Current Affairs, a left-wing magazine of politics and culture, in an interview published the day of Mamdani&#8217;s inauguration.
Barkan described the campaign as an ideological project. &#8220;It was a progressive campaign. It was one that was proudly pro-Palestine, certainly — and I was willing to campaign in mosques and court the neighborhood&#8217;s Arab community, which few politicians were willing to do. And so for all those reasons, he hopped on board, and the rest, in its own way, was history. We got to know each other quite well that summer,&#8221; he said. Barkan went on to write a book on Mamdani&#8217;s rise, The Revolutionary: Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics, had been scheduled by Random House for October 6.
As of Saturday, the book appears to have been pulled from Random House&#8217;s schedule. Its <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826679/the-revolutionary-by-ross-barkan/">page</a> on Penguin Random House&#8217;s website no longer resolves, and listings at Bookshop.org, BookPal and Target have reverted to the placeholder &#8220;Untitled 8221,&#8221; credited to &#8220;Random House Group.&#8221;
Random House did not immediately respond to the Daily Wire&#8217;s request for clarification on the book&#8217;s status.
Barkan is not leaving journalism. He said he is writing a new column for The Nation, which he said will launch in September.

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Radical Leftists and radical Muslims have clearly formed an alliance. That alliance is ready to infiltrate the U.S. Senate, and pretty much everybody is afraid to talk about it. 
 
But for us at the Daily Wire, fear will never be an obstacle to telling the truth. 
 
We’ve talked about the Red-Green alliance in our coverage of the news on our podcasts and on social media, but America needs to see the reality of the Red-Green alliance for themselves. 
And there’s no better way to tell that story than through film. 
 
For decades, Hollywood has not made a single major film where the bad guys were Islamists. Villains are always Russian anarchist groups, white supremacists, or North Koreans. 
 
So while Hollywood avoids the fact that radical Islamic terrorists have perpetrated attacks around the world, the Daily Wire is going to lean into it. 
 
The film is called &#8220;Run Hide Fight: Infidels.&#8221; 
 
Starring Jonathan Majors, it’s a 1990s-style action blockbuster — think &#8220;Toy Soldiers&#8221; meets &#8220;Red Dawn&#8221; — where ISIS takes over a liberal American university.
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It&#8217;s exciting. It&#8217;s intense. It&#8217;s funny. It&#8217;s the biggest movie we&#8217;ve ever done. The radical jihadists lose, the red-blooded Americans win, and nobody apologizes for any of it. More importantly, it also says the thing: radical Islam is a threat to America, and we are all morons if we let it take over our country. 
 
When we dropped the trailer, Mehdi Hasan said it would be “difficult to come up with a more bigoted, Islamophobic and cliched trailer than this one.” 
 
Mehdi, why is it Islamophobic to point out what ISIS actually does and says? Why is it bigoted to say that ISIS wants to murder Americans? 
How exactly does depicting ISIS implicate all of Islam? 
 
Hasan also took issue with the claim that Hollywood has refused to tell the story of radical Islam, but you could probably count on one hand the number of major movies where Muslims are the villains. 
 
In fact, Hollywood has routinely changed Muslims from being the villains of films. Tom Clancy’s &#8220;The Sum of All Fears&#8221; was written with Palestinian terrorists originally, but in the film adaptation with Ben Affleck, the villains were neo-Nazis. 
 
I&#8217;m also old enough to remember when &#8220;24&#8243; had to deploy Kiefer Sutherland to publicly apologize for Islamophobia because there was one season where the Muslims were the bad guys. 

Meanwhile, streamer Sneako put out a tweet saying, “The kuffar are getting so desperate they&#8217;re trying to do Bush-era propaganda in 2026. No one cares anymore. We all know the Israelis are the real terrorists.”
The root of “kuffar” is also kafir, which means “infidels.” This is the same guy who congratulated Abdulrahman El-Sayed on his primary victory in Michigan with, “Islam will save America. Inshallah.” Sneako doesn’t want you to worry about Islam while he <a href="https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2043323509565530153?s=20">chants</a> on the streets of New York about the army of Muhammad returning to kill Jews. 
 
As for the notion that ISIS is simply not a threat anymore: according to the Global Terrorism Index, 20% of all terrorist attacks on planet Earth are attributable to ISIS right now. ISIS remains the chief threat of terrorism worldwide today. 
 
It is good to be able to say that the American people know their enemies. We ought to know what our enemies think, what they say, and what they do. 
 
Director Kyle Rankin’s script definitely does that. 
 
And if the Left is this pissed off at the trailer, just wait until they see the film.

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The White House came to the defense of WNBA star Sophie Cunningham Thursday after the Indiana Fever guard faced criticism for saying that men should not compete in women’s sports or share women’s locker rooms.
When asked about the issue by Daily Wire White House Correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/mary-margaret-olohan">Mary Margaret Olohan</a>, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said President Donald Trump is aware of Cunningham’s comments and shares her concerns about protecting female athletes.
“I don’t believe he has reached out to her,” Leavitt said when asked whether Trump had contacted Cunningham. “I know he is following the story.”
Leavitt said the backlash against Cunningham demonstrated what she described as a disconnect between leftist activists and the broader American public. 
“This is something the president feels strongly about as well, and the American people do too,” Leavitt said. “That men should not be playing in women’s sports. It’s completely ludicrous that anyone could support that.”
“It’s even more ludicrous that you do have Sophie Cunningham, a female athlete herself, very accomplished in her own right, coming forth and speaking that truth that men shouldn’t play in women’s sports,” she continued.
Leavitt called the criticism Cunningham has received “astonishing” and argued that the administration’s position reflects widespread public opinion.
“They are clearly very out of touch with the American public on this issue, which again is an 80-20 issue,” Leavitt said. “It’s common sense. It’s rooted in basic biological fact that men should not be competing against women on playing fields across the country.”
Cunningham, who has become one of the WNBA’s most recognizable players since joining the Indiana Fever, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-star-breaks-with-league-on-explosive-issue">said</a> in an interview with ESPN earlier this week that she felt compelled to speak out about biological differences in sports despite backlash from critics who accused her of being anti-transgender. 
“I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham said. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest.”
Cunningham said her concern was protecting female athletes, particularly young girls. “I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men,” she said.
The comments drew criticism online, with some labeling the Missouri native as a conservative or “MAGA Barbie,” a characterization Cunningham rejected. “I really am right in the middle [politically],” Cunningham said, adding that she agrees and disagrees with positions on both sides of the political spectrum.
Cunningham’s comments come as the WNBA and its players’ union have taken a different position on transgender inclusion. The WNBA Players Association has previously voiced opposition to restrictions on transgender participation in sports and pledged support for transgender athletes.
The Fever guard has also drawn attention in recent weeks for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wnba-star-sophie-cunningham-wont-diss-trump-after-white-house-meme">refusing to join criticism</a> of President Trump after the White House used a viral clip of her pointing at an opponent during a game as a social media meme.
When asked about the White House using the clip, Cunningham said she viewed it as part of a broader internet trend. “Everyone around the world is posting it, every company has done it,” Cunningham said. “They’re just the ones also to get on board and I don’t really think twice about it.”

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Vice President JD Vance laid out his vision for the future of the Republican Party during a wide-ranging <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQTeDhe63xI">interview</a> with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles released Tuesday, touching on everything from his conversion to Catholicism to artificial intelligence, Iran, and the direction of the conservative movement after President Donald Trump&#8217;s second term.
While much of the conversation focused on Vance&#8217;s new book, Communion, and his journey back to Christianity, it also explored the political philosophy guiding one of the GOP&#8217;s leading figures.
One of the interview&#8217;s biggest takeaways came when Vance declared that today&#8217;s Republican Party has fundamentally moved beyond the economic consensus that defined conservatism for decades.
&#8220;American economic policy on the right is now much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman,&#8221; Vance said, arguing that President Trump&#8217;s political movement has already transformed the GOP&#8217;s approach to trade, tariffs, manufacturing, and industrial policy.
Rather than viewing economic growth as an end in itself, Vance argued that government should prioritize policies that strengthen families, communities, and workers.
&#8220;The economy is a tool to service the dignity of the human person,&#8221; he told Knowles.
Vance also took aim at modern meritocracy, arguing that elite institutions have encouraged Americans to pursue achievement for its own sake instead of focusing on what gives life meaning. He contrasted elite careerism with the importance of family, faith, and community, telling Knowles that &#8220;nobody is on their deathbed&#8221; wishing they had spent less time with their children in exchange for greater wealth.
Knowles also asked Vance about the intellectual influences behind his worldview, prompting discussions of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Girard, Pope Leo XIII, and Catholic social teaching. Vance credited those thinkers with helping shape both his religious conversion and his political outlook.
The vice president also reflected on his own conversion to Catholicism, describing his journey from an unchurched evangelical upbringing through atheism before ultimately finding stability in what he called the Catholic Church&#8217;s continuity across generations and its unchanging doctrine.
Beyond philosophy, Knowles pressed Vance on several major policy issues. Discussing the administration&#8217;s handling of Iran, Vance defended President Trump&#8217;s willingness to use military force while rejecting what he characterized as intervention for its own sake.
&#8220;The president is willing to drop bombs,&#8221; Vance said, &#8220;but only if it serves an objective.&#8221;
On artificial intelligence, Vance argued that America must remain competitive with China while also preventing AI from becoming a tool for social harm. He distinguished between AI used for breakthroughs like curing disease and applications that promote pornography, exploit children, or concentrate power among large technology companies.
Looking ahead to the 2028 election, Vance predicted Democrats would likely nominate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), arguing that universities, rather than labor unions, have become the Democratic Party&#8217;s true center of power.
Vance laid out the broader ideas informing his vision for the Republican Party: one centered on national development, family, faith, and what he repeatedly described as the dignity of the human person, arguing those principles should guide the GOP beyond Trump&#8217;s second term.
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Women’s greatest legacy is their children, Isabel Brown, host of “The Isabel Brown Show” on The Daily Wire, told attendees at Turning Point USA’s 2026 Women’s Leadership Summit on Saturday.
The three-day women’s conference, held June 5–7 in San Antonio, Texas, featured speakers from across the conservative movement, including Brown, Alex Clark, Riley Gaines, Erika Kirk, and Allie Beth Stuckey. Brown spoke on the Left’s attack on motherhood and encouraged young conservative women to have families.
“It is normal, healthy, and beautiful for you to want to bring new life into the world,” Brown said. “It’s a gift that is only available to women. It’s the only experience humanity has to participate in the creation of new life right alongside God.”
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Isabel Brown: “It is normal, healthy, and beautiful for you to want to bring new life into the world. It&#8217;s a gift that is only available to women.”<a href="https://x.com/theisabelb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@theisabelb</a> live at WLS 2026 <a href="https://t.co/9GNO5WqiaZ">pic.twitter.com/9GNO5WqiaZ</a>
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Brown argued that modern culture increasingly devalues motherhood and traditional family formation, while elevating individual fulfillment above sacrifice and service to others.
“Despite calling me out by name repeatedly, the women of The View weren’t really upset about me,” Brown said. “They were threatened by the fundamental truth that the women sitting in this room know and live out every day: that our greatest contributions are bigger than ourselves.”
Brown also encouraged attendees to reject fears surrounding marriage and raising children.
“Have the courage to fall in love, to get married, and to have children, more children than you think you’re ready for, and far more than you think you can afford,” Brown said.
The Daily Wire host also pointed to Mary, the Mother of God, as the ultimate example of feminine virtue and self-sacrifice.
“Her greatest legacy will always be how she raised God incarnate to become a man, in what she gave rather than what she received,” Brown said.
While acknowledging that many women pursue successful careers, Brown said motherhood remains the most important calling for many women and noted that many of the conference&#8217;s speakers balance professional success with raising families.
Brown also reflected on the sacrifices associated with motherhood, arguing that suffering and hardship can draw people closer to God.
“We do live in a world where we experience pain, discomfort and suffering, but the beauty of suffering is that it uniquely links our experience to that of God, who enduring the ultimate hardship and pain to the point of death for the redemption of all of us,” Brown said.
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The summit also featured remarks from TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk, who reflected on the mission of the organization founded by her late husband, Charlie Kirk.
“He saw a generation drifting away from faith, away from a sense of purpose, and he wanted to cultivate a space for community, a space that was so needed, especially on college campuses,” Erika Kirk said of her husband. 
At one point during her speech, a heckler attempted to interrupt Kirk, but was removed from the venue.
“It’s important to remember that happiness comes and goes, and I pray that you find it,” Kirk told the heckler as the woman was removed.
After the audience applauded, Kirk urged attendees to pray for their opponents rather than view them as enemies.
“You pray for your enemies. You pray for those that persecute you,” Kirk said. “That’s not the enemy. We know who the real enemy is.”
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Isabel Brown Urges Women To Embrace Motherhood At TPUSA Women’s Summit

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Ross Barkan, the reporter who wrote a hit piece on The Daily Wire and then came under investigation for plagiarism, hired Zohran Mamdani to manage his failed state Senate campaign in 2018.
The left-wing writer appears torn between journalism and political activism, drawing ideological inspiration from democratic socialist Mayor Mamdani.
“I met him at the end of 2017 when I was <a href="https://medium.com/@RossBarkan/why-im-running-for-office-f7593c2a1615">running for state Senate</a> in New York City, in Brooklyn, where I grew up. I was strongly contemplating pivoting from journalism to running for office,” <a href="https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/ross-barkan-on-zohran-mamdani-arresting-netanyahu-and-where-dsa-goes-from-here">Barkan told Current Events,</a> a magazine about politics and culture. 
Barkan, who unsuccessfully ran for a New York state office in 2018, highlighted the influence Mamdani had as his campaign manager.
“It was a progressive campaign. It was one that was proudly pro-Palestine, certainly — and I was willing to campaign in mosques and court the neighborhood’s Arab community, which few politicians were willing to do. And so for all those reasons, he hopped on board, and the rest, in its own way, was history,” Barkan said. 
“We got to know each other quite well that summer,” he said.   
Despite receiving the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Barkan <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ross_Barkan">lost the September 13th Democratic primary</a> by double digits. 
New York Magazine is investigating writer Barkan for plagiarism after he seemingly copied his lede paragraph from another publication, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ross-barkan-new-york-magazine-npr-plagiarism-investigation?author=The+Daily+Wire&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=161&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Reporter+Behind+Anti-Daily+Wire+Hit+Piece+Now+Facing+Plagiarism+Investigation">The Daily Wire previously reported.</a> 
Following publication of the story, Drew Harwell took to social media to complain that Barkan’s lede was strikingly similar to one he had written days earlier.
Following the backlash, New York Magazine updated Barkan’s story to credit Drew Harwell, a move that appeared to concede the overlap. NPR later reported at least two other cases in which Barkan allegedly stole paragraphs from The Intercept and Compact Magazine.
New York Magazine spokesperson Lauren Starke <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan">told NPR</a> that the magazine is “conducting a review of the writer’s prior work.”
Instead of disputing the plagiarism accusations, Barkan argued online that attribution justified his use of others’ material.
“I am allowed, as a columnist building on *his* reporting, to cite facts. Especially when he’s credited,” Barkan said of the Compact Magazine incident.
“I have written hundreds upon hundreds of columns, essays, and pieces of journalism in my career. I stand by my record,” he said in a statement to NPR, adding that this is “all quite ridiculous.”

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New York Magazine is investigating writer Ross Barkan for plagiarism after he seemingly ripped off his lede paragraph in a recent hit piece against The Daily Wire.
Barkan recently joined the new liberal media trend of writing rumor-laden attacks on The Daily Wire. After his story was published, Washington Post reporter Drew Harwell took to X to complain that Barkan&#8217;s lede was almost identical to the one he had published days earlier.
After Barkan was called out, New York Magazine updated his story to credit Harwell, seemingly acknowledging that it was a direct rip-off. NPR then identified at least two other instances where Barkan ripped off entire paragraphs, this time from The Intercept and Compact Magazine.
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New York Magazine spokesperson Lauren Starke <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/05/17/nx-s1-5824503/new-york-magazine-review-ross-barkan">told NPR</a> that the magazine is &#8220;conducting a review of the writer&#8217;s prior work.&#8221;
Rather than deny that he is a plagiarist, Barkan argued online that it&#8217;s okay because he credited the people he was stealing from.
&#8220;I am allowed, as a columnist building on *his* reporting, to cite facts. Especially when he&#8217;s credited,&#8221; Barkan said of the Compact Magazine incident.
He further attempted to brush the issue under the rug in a statement to NPR: &#8220;I have written hundreds upon hundreds of columns, essays, and pieces of journalism in my career. I stand by my record.&#8221;
He added that this is &#8220;all quite ridiculous.&#8221;
Barkan has been a prolific writer, and liberal, in the New York scene. In addition to New York Magazine, he has also written for The New York Times, and in 2018 ran for state senate (but lost) as a Democrat.

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After a long weekend of union agitator-fueled rumors about The Daily Wire&#8217;s new action film, production has wrapped after five weeks, as planned, and the union reps didn’t get their way.
It all started with Deadline <a href="https://deadline.com/2026/04/jonathan-majors-falls-through-window-crew-strike-daily-wire-1236773038/">publishing</a> an exclusive story about actor Jonathan Majors falling through a window while on set of the production in progress, which, according to their sources, led to a union strike and other allegations of safety concerns on set.
Faithful Daily Wire fans won&#8217;t be surprised to learn that there’s more to the story. Film producer Dallas Sonnier provided a short, yet direct, statement to Deadline, saying simply: “The entire industry is in freefall due to strikes, and now that their members are out of work, they’re trying to sabotage the few people who are still producing. We don’t negotiate with communists.”
So what really went down?
During the fourth week of filming, an executive from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, best known as IATSE, reached out to Sonnier claiming that she “represented the majority of the crew,” which consisted of both local hires in South Carolina and returning staff from previous projects. The IATSE rep “demanded” that they immediately be recognized and negotiate a collective bargaining agreement to cover staff wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions.
Before the deadline she proposed even arrived, a small handful of picketers were out creating a nuisance. It was that same day that Majors and actor JC Kiljoyne fell through a window filming a scene. Deadline posted video of the incident, and reported it was a six foot drop — though pictures posted show it was barely four feet off the ground.
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That stunt with the window was part of production&#8217;s plans for later that day, and Sonnier says it was far from an emergency.
&#8220;Everyone handled it quickly and successfully. We always have licensed medics on our sets, and this day, we had two,&#8221; Sonnier said. &#8220;The production was immediately halted to ensure safety sign-offs by both medics before moving forward.&#8221;
He also says the clip leaked to Deadline is definitely going to make it into the final cut.
The actors&#8217; comments are fully aligned. Kiljoyne’s rep told Deadline in the aftermath that he &#8220;did not feel unsafe on set and continues to have a positive experience working on the project.&#8221;
Majors made similar <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/04/jonathan-majors-says-hes-fine-after-falling-through-window-on-set/">comments</a> to TMZ. &#8220;I&#8217;m ok. I was happy to be on set and help tell the story. I am grateful for whoever is checking on me, the cast and crew for regarding our safety. It&#8217;s going to be a great movie and I am looking forward to fans seeing it!&#8221;
While IATSE came out of left field, there was a SAG rep on set many days who confirmed that the actors “should show up and finish the movie as planned” following the accident. It was noted that the SAG rep had “zero safety concerns” for the movie.
“We had a licensed armorer every single day,” Sonnier said. “We had a safety meeting at the top of each day, and prior to any special effect or stunt. The reason we don’t have a ‘RUST’ situation is because we take this stuff so seriously,” he added, referring to Alec Baldwin’s firearm discharging while filming and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021.
During the fourth week of filming, 15% of the crew decided to leave. Based on conversations Sonnier had with the whole crew, this was the result of IATSE pressure and not because of any safety concerns, he said. All the staff who left were replaced by the next morning.
Crucially, those who left did not appear to be part of the picketing. “The ‘strikers’ were just angry union rep protestors,” Sonnier said, noting that by day two, their numbers were reduced to about seven people total.
The picketers caused minor annoyances, such as yelling at actors, encouraging cars to honk to disrupt filming, pressuring vendors to pull gear, sending threatening letters, and yelling “CUT!” and “ACTION!” as a way of confusing the actors on set. But in the end, production rolled on.
The Deadline article was released after all these efforts failed, especially after Sonnier refused to engage with their demands.
Sonnier said IATSE reps never called him or contacted him beyond the first email &#8220;because they are total cowards and whiny busybodies.&#8221; The producer says this was an illegitimate strike. 
Does IATSE have any response to this? IATSE, of course, did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire.

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In a major legal victory for free speech, the State Department has settled a lawsuit brought by The Daily Wire and others in 2023, ensuring an end to its support for censorship of American media outlets and putting the burden on the government to prove compliance to outlets harmed by its actions.
A federal judge on Wednesday entered a consent decree placing The Daily Wire and The Federalist, a co-plaintiff, in charge of ensuring that future State Departments do not fund efforts to deem news outlets &#8220;disinformation,&#8221; concluding the years-long First Amendment battle. The settlement will prohibit the State Department from supporting any further censorship of Americans, and appoint the plaintiffs as compliance monitors until 2036.
&#8220;Today marks an important day for preserving free speech in the digital era,&#8221; said Daily Wire CEO Caleb Robinson. &#8220;The U.S. government has acknowledged its censorship structures under the Biden administration, and will now be subject to limitations on similar behavior in the future.&#8221;
<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/">The Daily Wire will not be silenced, and will always fight for freedom. Join us today to support the fight. </a>
In 2023, The Daily Wire and The Federalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-texas-ag-ask-court-to-block-state-departments-domestic-misinformation-efforts">sued</a> the State Department after President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration used its Global Engagement Center to fund and promote companies that worked to bankrupt conservative news outlets by deeming them &#8220;disinformation.&#8221; The Daily Wire, represented by the <a href="http://nclalegal.org/press_release/in-historic-settlement-ncla-strikes-fatal-blow-to-state-departments-censorship-industrial-complex/">New Civil Liberties Alliance</a> (NCLA), demonstrated in the case how the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) was used during the Biden administration to deliberately target disfavored news outlets.
Many of the more than 30 products showcased by GEC would assign reputability scores to news outlets, often due to their coverage of issues like COVID and election integrity. At the same time, advertisers were pressured not to do business with flagged outlets, based on the idea that it would be toxic to their brand.
One such company was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-to-probe-media-rating-firm-newsguard-for-possible-taxpayer-funded-censorship?author=Luke+Rosiak&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Congress+To+Probe+Media+Rating+Firm+NewsGuard+For+Possible+Taxpayer-Funded+Censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NewsGuard</a>, which sells its ranking list to advertisers and whose co-CEO said it was &#8220;empowering governments… to support quality journalism and systemically defund sources of harmful misinformation.&#8221;
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Another is the Global Disinformation Index, which claimed that liberal sites like ProPublica are among the “least risky,” while outlets like the New York Post, Reason Magazine, The Federalist, and The Daily Wire are among the “riskiest.” The group received a cash award from the State Department’s GEC and said it would “support market-wide deployment so that the ad-tech space can offer advertisers the chance to choose which sites their ads support.”
Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro said that GDI &#8220;fed basically a blacklist of sites to advertisers so that advertisers would want to pull their money&#8221; and that the effort &#8220;deprived groups and organizations like the Daily Wire of legitimately millions of dollars in advertising.”
Outlets were down-rated for their coverage of vaccines, the efficacy of masking, election integrity, abortion, transgenderism, and other topics.
Since it would be unconstitutional for the government to work to bankrupt news outlets that criticized the government&#8217;s official line, the Biden administration backed third parties who were doing it, the lawsuit argued. GEC seemingly attempted to avoid scrutiny by using a mysterious company called Park Capital Investment Group, helmed by a former State Department employee, as an additional middleman.
In a historic first, the State Department has publicly acknowledged through a binding legal agreement that the types of speech it previously sought to censor like the news and opinions published by The Daily Wire and The Federalist are protected by the First Amendment, and the State Department has agreed to dismantle its censorship apparatus by no longer using “technologies to knowingly or intentionally suppress, censor, demonetize, or downgrade the constitutionally protected speech of Americans or domestic media outlets,&#8221; or recommending that third parties do so.
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Congress defunded the Global Engagement Center in 2024 following the lawsuit, but the Biden administration moved its employees to a similar group doing similar work, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in April 2025, announcing that all those employees had been hit with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-shutters-misinformation-censorship-agency-salts-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">layoff notices</a>.
“Under the previous administration, this office, which cost taxpayers more than $50 million per year, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving,” Rubio said. “This is antithetical to the very principles we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America.”
The agreement is a binding contract that cannot be dissolved by future administrations, and requires the State Department — including under any future Democratic president — to report annually on its activities so The Daily Wire and The Federalist can monitor for compliance.
If violations are uncovered and the government does not rectify them, a federal judge in Texas would force the State Department to come into compliance with the agreement. The State Department settlement also requires the department to hold employee trainings in 2030 and 2035 on how the First Amendment precludes them from censoring Americans.
&#8220;The prohibitions, reporting, and training required by the Consent Decree will protect Free Speech for well more than the decade that the Decree is in force,&#8221; said Zhonette Brown, a top attorney for NCLA.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-texas-ag-ask-court-to-block-state-departments-domestic-misinformation-efforts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> said that GEC &#8220;researched, assessed, funded, investigated, evaluated, tested, marketed, and/or promoted over 365 so-called Countering Propaganda and Disinformation or ‘CPD’ tools and technologies, including tools and technologies that target American speech and the American press.&#8221; GEC created a platform called “Disinfo Cloud” to house them, and encouraged U.S. social media and tech companies to use the resources, even creating a Silicon Valley office.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-shutters-misinformation-censorship-agency-salts-the-earth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elvis Chan</a>, an FBI agent involved in asking Twitter to take down posts including those related to the Hunter Biden laptop, told Congress that he worked regularly with GEC, and that GEC did not seem to be concerned with the First Amendment since it was used to operating in foreign countries.
The State Department has always been forbidden from running propaganda on Americans, yet GEC sponsored a “COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation” tech challenge, and the three winners were all “American companies which offer technologies that target Americans’ speech broadcast to Americans,” the conservative outlets argued.
&#8220;Media literacy&#8221; is a term that has been used by the State Department to import left-wing censorship from countries like Germany and impose it on Americans. The U.S. Embassy in Berlin funded a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-paid-germans-to-bring-censorship-and-propaganda-to-u-s-schools" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seminar for United States teachers</a> who heard from an activist at a German group that lamented that on the internet, “it is not just progressive voices which are being spread,” but also “ideologies which are based on hatred.”
For that event, the State Department worked with Media Literacy Now, which calls media literacy a &#8220;tool to create the society we all deserve: one that nurtures racial equity, social justice, and true democracy. Media literacy equals cultural change.&#8221; It is a nonprofit linked to the for-profit Ad Fontes, which sells lists of &#8220;reputable&#8221; news outlets to advertisers.
The Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan called it a “major victory for The Daily Wire, for The Federalist,” and a “major step in preserving the most precious right we have, a right that came very close to being extinguished during the Biden administration.”
The media outlets were represented on a pro bono basis by Margaret Little, Margot Cleveland, Casey Norman, Zhonette Brown, and Margaret Harker of the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
&#8220;We&#8217;re grateful to NCLA for representing us, and I also appreciate our co-plaintiffs&#8217; efforts in this landmark case,&#8221; Robinson said. &#8220;We&#8217;re proud to join them in the fight for freedom.&#8221;
The Daily Wire stands for the American birthright of freedom —  freedom of speech, faith, open debate, and the pursuit of objective truth. These are not just ideals; they are the promise of America, and we refuse to surrender them. 
If you believe in this nation&#8217;s greatness, <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/">stand with us</a> in the fight to preserve it.

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The Daily Wire&#8217;s Isabel Brown fired back after the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; went into full meltdown mode on Monday over her passionate support for younger women embracing more traditional families.
&#8220;I’d like to thank the women of @TheView for showing their truest, darkest colors today: they’re literally shrieking like demons at the thought of encouraging young women to have children. PS &#8211; &#8216;stupidest&#8217; isn&#8217;t a real word,&#8221; Brown posted.
&#8220;They want you to hate happy, healthy, fulfilled young people with kids. Even more disturbingly, they want you to hate babies so much that you never want them in the first place. Their response to my encouragement for Gen Z women to get married and have kids? &#8216;You&#8217;re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I&#8217;m going to send you back into the past,'&#8221; Brown continued. &#8220;In other words, *wanting* a baby literally is not a choice as a so-called &#8217;empowered&#8217; woman in 2026.&#8221;
Brown doubled down, saying that she believed the family was the &#8220;strongest threat to evil&#8221; in the world, and adding, &#8220;Again, I reiterate: HAVE THE COURAGE to get married and have a beautiful family. Your life will be better because of it.&#8221;
After promising to further address the topic — and the comments from &#8220;The View&#8221; — on her next Daily Wire show, Brown shared the full segment from the ABC midday talk show: &#8220;If you just can&#8217;t help yourself in the meantime &amp; want to grab some popcorn — here&#8217;s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the &#8220;stupidest&#8221; person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first place. Misery sure loves projection, doesn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
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And if you just can&#8217;t help yourself in the meantime &amp; want to grab some popcorn &#8211; here&#8217;s the whole segment of 5 grown women screeching about how I am the &#8220;stupidest&#8221; person on the Internet, who should divorce my husband, and probably never should have become a mom in the first… <a href="https://t.co/ijm2z8MxfV">pic.twitter.com/ijm2z8MxfV</a>
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Whoopi Goldberg opened the segment with a clip of Brown, speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), encouraging young women to get married and have children — and she and her cohosts immediately claimed that Brown was promoting backward thinking.
Goldberg began by claiming that women of color had been criticized in the past for having too many children, saying they were the reason that government assistance programs were getting cut.
Cohost Sara Haines argued that by promoting traditional families, Brown was reducing women to only the value of their reproductive organs: &#8220;The whole women&#8217;s movement was not about bucking the trend of staying at home or loving tradition. It was giving women a choice to do what they wanted. And that&#8217;s what this is too. Marriage, children. It&#8217;s a choice.&#8221;
&#8220;The fact we keep putting this on women, that their only worth in society, politics, policy is if they produce a baby or have a husband is the stupidest, most old-fashioned thing!&#8221; Haines continued. &#8220;We have come too far! The world has over 8 billion people! We no longer need to force people to procreate and pump out babies! We have arrived here! Women now and girls now have a choice!&#8221;
Ana Navarro also weighed in, ignoring the fact that Brown had been clear about women getting married prior to starting families and complaining that no one was expecting men to step up and be responsible for all the babies.
&#8220;If you&#8217;re not paying my bills, you don&#8217;t get to tell me what I do with my uterus,&#8221; she declared.
Cohost Sunny Hostin went a different direction entirely, claiming that Brown&#8217;s position was untenable primarily because of President Donald Trump. Blaming him for the fact that child care was too expensive for most working families, Hostin argued that women should think twice before following her advice.
Goldberg followed right behind, arguing that red states were enacting laws that were not encouraging women to do anything other than &#8220;flee&#8221; from them: &#8220;You&#8217;re telling people to have as many babies as they want to? Again I&#8217;m going to send you back into the past.&#8221;

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It&#8217;s opening weekend for &#8220;I Can Only Imagine 2&#8221; — the sequel to the faith-based smash hit &#8220;I Can Only Imagine,&#8221; which raked in $83 million in 2018, paving the way for more Christian entertainment.
&#8220;I Can Only Imagine 2&#8221; highlights the real story of Tim Timmons, a Christian singer who joins the hit-making band MercyMe at the height of the group&#8217;s career.
Timmons&#8217; own challenges helped MercyMe lead singer, Bart Millard, to face problems of his own.
MercyMe&#8217;s &#8220;I Can Only Imagine&#8221; was the song behind the first film, while the second film&#8217;s foundation is the song &#8220;Even If,&#8221; written by Timmons about his terminal cancer diagnosis.
Diagnosed with stage four cancer 25 years ago and given five years to live, he still has tumors on his liver today &#8212; but his battle with the disease and how he leaned on his faith, all while inspiring his bandmates to get through their hardships, is on full display in &#8220;I Can Only Imagine 2.&#8221;
&#8220;My story isn&#8217;t cancer; my story is finding joy through it. I think cancer is the dumbest story I know, but how we get through it is the beautiful story,&#8221; Timmons told The Daily Wire at the Nashville premiere. &#8220;For me to have this shown to the whole world and to invite the world to be grateful in the midst of grief is really powerful.&#8221;
When Timmons joined MercyMe, the band was selling out arenas and inspiring a generation, but you will see in the sequel that much was going on behind the scenes.
Millard, who grew up with an abusive father, is threatened by his past demons in the second film, which affects his already fragile relationship with his son, Sam. It&#8217;s Timmons who brings a new perspective to Millard&#8217;s life as the leading man learns about his bandmate&#8217;s hardships and health battles, which help Millard repair the relationships in his own life.
&#8220;At the height of our career, when things seemed to be going great, is when we were struggling the most at home,&#8221; Millard told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I appreciate the fact that this movie tapped into that because it&#8217;s real. If people can walk away saying &#8230; I&#8217;m not in this alone, then it&#8217;s worth it.&#8221;
Timmons is portrayed by actor Milo Ventimiglia, who said &#8220;I Can Only Imagine 2&#8221; will help others find their inner strength.
&#8220;For me, it just reaffirms the way of being out in the world,&#8221; Ventimiglia told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We all go through those tough times in life; put your faith to work.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/LyndenBlake?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LyndenBlake</a> interviews the cast, crew, and special guests on the red carpet for I Can Only Imagine 2, out today! ✨
Watch the original film, I Can Only Imagine, now streaming on DailyWire+. <a href="https://t.co/XaQB1y1MwN">pic.twitter.com/XaQB1y1MwN</a>
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At the red carpet rollout for the movie in Nashville, The Daily Wire&#8217;s own Reagan Conrad joined other big names from the Music City, including Amy Grant, to celebrate the film&#8217;s release.
Conrad said the sequel is proof there is a desire in the culture for more Christian movies.
&#8220;It is really encouraging because I know it is going to reach so many people with the word of Jesus,&#8221; Conrad said.
&#8220;I Can Only Imagine 2&#8221; is now playing in theaters everywhere. The original film, &#8220;I Can Only Imagine,&#8221; is now playing on DailyWire+.

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President Donald Trump surprised the joint Daily Wire and Young America’s Foundation event in Nashville with an inspiring message on Friday.
“A very special hello to everyone gathered at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. I love Nashville,” the president said in a video message. “Thank you all for coming out to join the Young America&#8217;s Foundation and The Daily Wire, and celebrating one of the most important milestones in the history of our country, America 250.”
Trump told the audience of young people that they have a crucial role to play in carrying on the American spirit like those who came before them nearly 250 years ago.
“As we approach the 250th anniversary of the nation&#8217;s founding, young people like all of you have a crucial role to play in revitalizing and reasserting the unyielding American spirit that first inspired the cause of independence two and a half centuries ago. Sounds like a long time, but it does fly doesn’t it.”
Conservative leaders, lawmakers, and activists gathered in Nashville for the “Freedom at 250” tour kickoff. In addition to the president, speakers included Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee, Daily Wire hosts Reagan Conrad and Michael Knowles, and Daily Wire White House Correspondent Mary Margaret Olohan.
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The president reminded the audience that the nation’s founding fathers understood that rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness did not come from government officials but from God.
“Together we believe in the principle that the government exists to serve its citizens and that our rights are given to us not by bureaucrats, but by Almighty God.”
“These ideas, embodied in the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, have animated the conservative movement for generations,” Trump added. “This year, we celebrate and reassert those foundations of American freedom because together we make America great again, and that’s what we are doing. America is back stronger, bigger, and better than ever before.”
Trump then thanked the young audience for their support and patriotism and told them to never stop fighting or winning.
President Trump has maintained a close relationship with Young America’s Foundation, <a href="https://yaf.org/news/meet-the-yaf-activists-joining-president-trump-for-todays-free-speech-executive-order-signing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inviting</a> many of the group’s members to join him as he signed an executive order supporting the First Amendment rights of students nationwide.

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