Matt Walsh is a man of many talents — a popular podcaster, a notable documentarian, a feared fisherman, and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyrDtgjAgII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surprisingly good</a> &#8220;Mortal Kombat&#8221; player. There is one persistent trait, however, that must be addressed: his passionate hatred of &#8220;Star Wars.&#8221;
I discovered Walsh’s animosity for &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; in May of 2023 while listening to his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1156-princeton-professor-tries-to-debunk-biology-fails-hilariously?elementPosition=155&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">show</a>. After hearing I played a recently released &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; game, he looked dead into the camera and said he was “repulsed by (me) completely.” And then continued to call me a “complete and utter disgrace.” Harsh. 
Last Thursday, theaters nationwide <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DIbYlxVpJnc/">launched</a> a week-long re-release of “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” to celebrate the film&#8217;s 20th anniversary. The film stands out not only for its stunning cinematography, one of a kind soundtrack, and compelling life-lessons, but also as the final “Star Wars” entry before progressive-infused Disney’s acquisition.
Walsh, apparently, did not recognize the exceptional film for what it is. After taking his children to see it in theaters, he <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1917266257956724823" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took</a> to X and attacked the movie.
I will now address his unfounded criticisms.
His first issue is with the film’s dialogue. Walsh claims “Revenge of the Sith” has “the worst dialogue he’s ever heard in a mainstream Hollywood film.” To support his claim, he quotes a romantic scene between Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala: 
<blockquote>Anakin: You’re so beautiful 
Padme: It’s only because I’m so in love
Anakin: No it’s because I’m so in love with you 
Walsh leaves out the second half of the scene, which reveals the lines are not poorly written, but instead an intentional foreshadowing of what is to come later in the film. The scene continues;
Padme: So love has blinded you?
Anakin: Well, that&#8217;s not exactly what I meant. 
Padme: But it’s probably true.</blockquote>
At this point in the film, Anakin believes his wife is going to die in childbirth because of a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLb_k4Pz3CM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vision </a>he has in his sleep. As the primary antagonist, Emperor Palpatine (not Ovaltine) tells him that committing to the Dark Side is the only way to save her. This, and his blinding love for Padme, leads him to commit the atrocities he does later in the film. Pure genius from George Lucas, who Walsh claims should be arrested.
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Walsh’s next criticism of the film is that it has “abysmal action choreography.” To me, this attack is the most absurd. 
The final <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3OtoO5zjjU&amp;t=358s">fight</a> between Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi, master versus apprentice, is one of the most iconic fight scenes in cinema history. Numerous outlets such as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpsG7JA-jc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WatchMojo</a>, <a href="https://screenrant.com/best-movie-sword-fights-ranked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ScreenRant</a>, and <a href="https://movieweb.com/best-one-on-one-sword-fights-in-movies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MovieWeb</a> all rank the battle as one of the greatest sword fights in movie history. The fight was choreographed by legendary stuntman Nick Gillard, and is not sped up at all. Both actors trained relentlessly to master each move shown on camera.
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Walsh specifically attacks the final move of the duel between Obi-Wan and Anakin, saying the following;
<blockquote>Anakin jumps and flips through the air like Spider-Man but then at the end he loses because the other guy is standing on a small hill and has the higher ground. This was for some reason an insurmountable strategic advantage, even though Anakin had just seconds earlier leaped like 20 feet in the air while doing flips like an Olympic gymnast. So then Anakin decides to jump directly over top the other guy, close enough that he can just casually reach up and cut his legs off. He could have jumped anywhere else on the hill, or just a little higher, and avoided this issue.</blockquote>
Like many things Walsh has criticized in the film, the seemingly risky move Anakin used was intentional. Young Anakin Skywalker was fascinated by his master Obi-Wan’s triumph over Darth Maul in “Episode I: The Phantom Menace.” To defeat Maul, Obi-Wan <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsAEdblcqU4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flipped over him</a> and cut him in half upon landing.
When Anakin fights Obi-Wan, his pride and ego is at an all time high. He wants to prove to his once-master that he is now his superior. This is why moments before the final move, Anakin tells Obi-Wan, “You underestimate my power!”
Obi-Wan can sense Anakin is going to try his own move against him, so he offers one final warning, “Don’t try it.” Anakin did not listen, and ended up getting his legs cut off.
Walsh also criticized where the battle takes place, on a lava planet “for some reason.” He clearly suffers from a lack of knowledge in &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; lore. It’s the same reason he doesn’t understand why Anakin jumped over Obi-Wan.
The planet they fought on, Mustafar, is <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Mustafar" target="_blank" rel="noopener">described</a> by Wookiepedia as “powerful in the Dark Side of The Force.” Palpatine sent Anakin there so he could tap into the Dark Side more intensely as he slaughtered the separatists who were awaiting him. In the 2017 comic Darth Vader 5, Palpatine <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth_Vader_(2017)_5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">instructs</a> Vader to return to Mustafar because it “is not like other planets. It is unique. Deep beneath its surface rests a locus for the Dark Side of The Force.&#8221;
Vader was so drawn to the planet’s Dark Side power that seven years after “Revenge of the Sith,” he built his <a href="https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Fortress_Vader" target="_blank" rel="noopener">castle</a>, Fortress Vader, there. 
Walsh’s final objection to the film was that it “took itself too seriously.” He expands on this by claiming “You can’t be campy and fun and also have mass child slaughter in the same film.”
Most of Walsh&#8217;s criticisms come from a lack of looking beneath the surface, taking everything at face value. “Revenge of the Sith” was always meant to be lighthearted in the beginning, and tragic in the end. After nearly three decades of fans left without a backstory, the purpose of the movie was to show how Hollywood’s most iconic villain, Darth Vader, transformed from a cunning warrior for good, to the embodiment of evil.
Following the classic hero&#8217;s journey literary archetype, we witness Anakin’s lighthearted upbringing in Episodes 1 and 2, his tragic fall in the second half of Episode 3, and his eventual redemption in Episode 6. A story that George Lucas brilliantly wrote and produced over 3 decades.
Walsh’s tweet thread ends on a lighter note, expressing that despite all of his concerns, his kids liked it. To me and countless other fans who believe “Revenge of the Sith” is one of the greatest films ever made, we can only hope Matt Walsh will read this piece and watch it again with an open mind.
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Jacob Falach is an associate producer at The Daily Wire. You can find him on Instagram at: @jacobfalach.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Correction: A previous version of this article stated Ray Park was the fight and stunt coordinator for the film. The actual fight and stunt coordinator for &#8220;Revenge of the Sith&#8221; was Nick Gillard.

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You knew it was coming. You woke up and the sun seemed a little brighter.
The birds are singing. Planes are flying — mostly full of gang members headed to their new, secure home in El Salvador. Yes, things are returning to normal.
It’s Norming in America.
So go ahead, touch some grass. As Ben Shapiro likes to say, “The era of weird is over and the era of the normie is back.”
And to celebrate Norming in America, we put together this neat video for you.
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Today, we’re actually arresting shoplifters and fewer businesses are being burned down. All over America, pronouns are being dropped from bios. Men are (still) not having babies. And fewer drag queens are flashing their genitals at children.
What is Norming in America, you ask? Easy.
It’s the return of the word &#8220;illegal.&#8221; It’s Tom Homan on CNN citing chapter and verse of America’s legal code.
It’s leaving &#8220;wokeness and weakness&#8221; behind at the Pentagon. And it’s the sound of federal employees scattering as “Big Balls” from DOGE enters the building.
It’s the return of the Easter Bunny to the White House lawn instead of the trans guy flashing his chest for the camera.
It’s a press secretary who makes sense when she speaks. And it’s trying to keep up with a president who only needs three hours of sleep to make it through the day compared to a president who needed three naps.
It’s the return of biological reality and the removal of men from women’s sports and female prisons.
It’s America feeling like America again.
So join us, and let’s never go back to those weird, angry, divisive times again.

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The State Department said on Wednesday it had shuttered the propaganda office that funded efforts to deem media outlets “misinformation” and pressured social media companies to censor content, a major victory for conservative critics who have long pinpointed the agency as key cog of the censorship industry.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that though the Global Engagement Center (GEC) was defunded by Congress last year following scandal, the Biden administration had moved its staff to a similar unit. 
The 2016 authorization of the office had an eight-year sunset, and the Republican-controlled House refused to re-fund the agency in 2024. But before it gave up power, the Biden administration appeared to essentially rebrand the entity, keeping the same staff under a new name: &#8220;the Counter-Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference hub,” or R/FIMI. The State Department said in a court filing that it planned to “realign the Center’s staff and funding to other Department offices.” 
Rubio said all remnants of the operation will be eradicated. All 30 full-time staff that were working for R/FIMI were put on leave, and Congress was notified on Wednesday morning that all full-time staff positions under R/FIMI had been eliminated.
“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,&#8221; Rubio said in a statement. &#8220;This is antithetical to the very principals we should be upholding and inconceivable it was taking place in America. That ends today.&#8221; 
“Individuals in America have been slandered, fired, charged, and even jailed for simply voicing their opinions. That is not an America our Founding Fathers would recognize. It is the responsibility of every government official to continuously work to preserve and protect the freedom for Americans to exercise their free speech,” he added
GEC was created in 2011 as the Center for Strategic Counter Terrorism Communications. In 2016 it was renamed and tasked to “coordinate U.S. government communications aimed at countering foreign terrorist propaganda, particularly from groups like ISIS and al-Qaeda.” 
But after the 2016 election, when Democrats began painting “misinformation” as a national security threat, the GEC turned its attention to American social media platforms, even setting up an office in Silicon Valley to pressure them to remove content, such as “conspiracy theories” like the idea that coronavirus came from a Chinese lab.
Like other State Department programs, GEC was forbidden from operating on Americans.
But it may have circumvented that ban by funding third-party groups to do it for them. GEC ran contests encouraging private companies to get into the business of classifying news as “misinformation,” and paid groups like the Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard. 
The Global Disinformation Index put American media outlets on a “Dynamic Exclusion List” that was distributed to advertisers and named mainstream publications like the New York Post, Reason Magazine, The Daily Wire, and the Federalist as “risky.”
NewsGuard’s business model is similar. In March 2023, its co-CEO, Gordon Crovitz, praised his company for “empowering governments… to support quality journalism and systemically defund sources of harmful misinformation.” NewsGuard has a deal with the teachers union promoting its media-rating browser extension in schools, and public libraries also use the software. The browser extension causes a “Proceed with Maximum Caution” flag to appear next to search results from flagged outlets.
GEC hosted a website called Disinfo Cloud that boosted products aimed at bankrupt conservative news outlets by convincing advertisers to boycott them on the basis that they are dangerous misinformation that should not be economically supported.
The State Department said the contests “were aimed at countering disinformation and propaganda overseas.” But “Defendants admit that Disinfo Cloud users included some members of academia, the private sector, and tech vendors, including some located within the United States,” it <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txed.226532/gov.uscourts.txed.226532.75.0.pdf">conceded</a> in lawsuit filings.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/five-takeaways-from-twitter-fbi-agents-deposition-in-censorship-lawsuit-brought-by-conservative-states">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.
In December 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> GEC, arguing that it was working to “render unprofitable, disfavored press outlets by funding the infrastructure, development, and marketing and promotion of censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press.”
“State Department disinformation tools were developed…as tools of warfare…in the context of national security” and “foreign relations,” then “misdirected to be used at home against domestic political opponents,” the suit said.
GEC “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. These tools and technologies include so-called fact-checking technologies, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-biden-administration-used-a-counter-terrorism-grant-to-fund-anti-conservative-propaganda">media literacy</a> tools, media intelligence platforms, social network mapping, and machine learning/artificial intelligence technology,” a legal filing alleged. 
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Texas. The State Department sought to have it moved to a Washington, D.C., judge, but the Texas judge refused. 
GEC operated with a secrecy that suggested a guilty conscience. The State Department admitted in the lawsuit to funding the Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard through a middleman, Park Capital Investment Group. It <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-department-subpoenaed-over-use-of-foreign-propaganda-weapon-against-domestic-media">refused</a> to provide information about the activities even to Congress, forcing the House Small Business Committee to subpoena it.

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Former University of Michigan defensive analyst Connor Stalions, one of the most controversial figures in college football in recent years, sat down with “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ccs-ep-732-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crain &amp; Company</a>” for an in-depth interview on the program’s sign-stealing scandal.
An NCAA investigation into Michigan and its former head coach, Jim Harbaugh, allegedly centers on claims that Stalions sent scouts to future opponents’ games to record their play-calling signals. The Big Ten Conference suspended Harbaugh for three games during the 2023 season over the scandal, and Stalions stepped down from his position after he was also suspended. The NCAA has not revealed any information about how Stalions allegedly violated NCAA rules.
During his interview with the hosts of “Crain &amp; Company” released on Tuesday, Stalions gave viewers a glimpse into how he cracked his opponents&#8217; signals on the field, including those of Michigan’s biggest rival, Ohio State. While on offense, teams usually task their backup quarterbacks and graduate assistants with calling in plays by hand motions from the sideline. For most teams, a “live” signaler is calling the actual plays while two or three “dummy” signalers bluff to prevent the opponents from easily deciphering the call.
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Stalions revealed that during the Michigan-Ohio State game in 2022, he quickly deciphered the Buckeyes’ live signaler.
“Ohio State didn&#8217;t change their live signaler in 2022 all season. The whole year,” he said.
“Including the game against Michigan?” asked a stunned David Cone, former Michigan quarterback and co-host of &#8220;Crain and Company.&#8221;
Stalions said that he and fellow staff member Denard Robinson quickly realized that Ohio State didn’t switch out their live signaler for the big game.
“You can call anyone from any Big Ten team when you trade signals during the week, and they all say the same thing: ‘Yeah, it&#8217;s the same guy,’” Stalions added. “Now, when you watch any game on TV, you can see &#8230; you can tell the whole time who&#8217;s live.”
Asked by host Jake Crain if Ohio State kept the same live signaler all season “out of arrogance or incompetence,” Stalions replied, “It might be a little bit of both. I don&#8217;t know.” The former Michigan staffer then said that he correctly predicted that Ohio State would swap out their live signaler for the second half.
“I said, ‘Hey, if there&#8217;s any time all year they&#8217;re going to change, it’s going to be this first drive or the second drive. And sure enough, I said, ‘If they’re going to change, it’s going to be that guy, the tall [graduate assistant] or whatever, and sure enough they switched,” he said.
Michigan went on to win that game 45–23, holding Ohio State to just three points in the second half.
“They changed their like route concepts going into that game,” Stalions said of Ohio State. “I don&#8217;t care what your route concepts are, right? If I can tell you&#8217;re going to run the ball or pass the ball … all I care about is the formation.”
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Michigan won the national championship in 2024, capping off a perfect season. Between 2021 and 2023, Michigan had one of its best stretches in program history. The team posted a 40-3 record, winning three straight Big Ten championships and making three straight College Football Playoff appearances. After Stalions left the Michigan staff in the middle of the 2023 season, he went on to coach Belleville High School in Michigan as an offensive coordinator, helping the team win a state championship in 2024. At Belleville, Stalions also coached the number-one recruit in the country, quarterback Bryce Underwood, who switched his commitment from LSU to Michigan last year.
Some argue that the sign-stealing scandal surrounding Michigan should result in the program&#8217;s wins from the past few seasons and its 2024 national championship being vacated. Stalions, who joined the Michigan staff as a volunteer assistant in 2018, has maintained that sign stealing isn&#8217;t unusual in college football programs and doesn&#8217;t violate NCAA rules.

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President Donald Trump schooled the Left on Friday when he was able to successfully provide an answer to that age old question, “What Is A Woman?”
During an impromptu <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljL5tX2xK_U">press conference</a> from the Oval Office, a reporter asked if Trump could explain “what is a woman” and why “it’s important that we understand the difference between a man and a woman?”
&#8220;Well, it&#8217;s sort of easy to answer for me, because a woman is somebody that can have a baby, under certain circumstances. A woman is a person who is much smarter than a man, I&#8217;ve always found,” Trump said, which drew laughter from those in the room.
“A woman is a person that doesn&#8217;t give a man even a chance of success,” he added. “And a woman is a person that, in many cases, has been treated very badly. Because I think what happens with this crazy issue, crazy issue, when it comes to men being able to play in women’s sports is just ridiculous.”
“And very unfair to women. And very demeaning to women,” the president continued.
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The comments came after Daily Wire host Matt Walsh first posed the question in his groundbreaking 2022 documentary “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is a Woman</a>?” that turned the Democrats&#8217; issue about trans-identifying males competing in women’s sports and being allowed in female spaces on its head.
Trump understood how insane the Left’s view about allowing men in women’s spaces was and successfully wrangled it from the Democrats during the 2024 election, helping to return him back to the White House, where he&#8217;s made it clear trans-identifying males can never be women, no matter what they do.
Earlier this week at the Women’s History Month event in the East Room of the White House, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-riley-gaines-celebrate-trumps-comments-about-women-and-trans-identifying-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump pointed</a> to the Executive Order he signed that the United States will only recognize two genders.
“For four long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology. … Under the Trump administration, we’re ending the Marxist war on women,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/GBNEWS/status/1904986924692959382">said</a>.
“No matter how many surgeries you have, or chemicals you inject, if you are born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman,” he added. “You’re not going to be a woman.”
“And that’s why last month, I proudly signed a historic executive order to ban [trans-identifying] men from competing in women’s sports,” the president continued, noting that he also banned “puberty blockers and the sexual mutilation of minors.”
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ESPN host Stephen A. Smith on Tuesday told Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro that there was “absolutely nothing” that could get him to change his mind about Derek Chauvin.
Shapiro <a href="https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1904610435820589375" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> “The Stephen A. Smith Show” to make his case for pardoning Chauvin, the police officer convicted for killing George Floyd. Earlier this month, Smith<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-a-smith-attacks-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> suggested</a> Shapiro&#8217;s motives were disingenuous, and that he would not have called for Chauvin to be pardoned if he were black, or if Floyd was Jewish.
But even after Shapiro outlined the evidence for why Chauvin should not have been charged with murder, Smith remained unmoved.
“What would it take for you to change your mind on the case?” Shapiro asked after noting that Floyd had requested to leave the police car and that Chauvin was following protocol in detaining him.
&#8220;There&#8217;s absolutely nothing that could convince me that Derek Chauvin deserved a different outcome,&#8221; Smith said.
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Facts don&#39;t care about your feelings.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@benshapiro</a>: What would it take for you to change your mind on the case?<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@stephenasmith</a>: There&#39;s absolutely nothing that could convince me that Derek Chauvin deserved a different outcome. <a href="https://t.co/kBwYo7uPco">pic.twitter.com/kBwYo7uPco</a>
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Smith also attempted to argue that Shapiro could not weigh in on the Floyd case because he did not have the “lived experience” of “black folks.”
“What about the argument that when we talk about black folks, you can talk about data all you want to … but the real experiences that we endure from time to time, is not something that you can necessarily calculate,” Smith said. “How seriously do you take those assertions coming from a community whether it’s your own, mine, or anybody else&#8217;s?”
.<a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@BenShapiro</a> calmly dismantles the “lived experience” argument:<a href="https://twitter.com/stephenasmith?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@StephenASmith</a> responds: “Yeah, you make a valid point.”<a href="https://t.co/k4WinhZELt" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> pic.twitter.com/k4WinhZELt</a>
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Shapiro admitted it’s true that we can “never fully get into one another&#8217;s shoes,” but said that “when it comes to making public policy then the only sort of gauge that you can have really is the data.”
“When it comes to trying to craft law, for example, making law based on the personal feelings of people’s quote unquote lived experiences, is a bad way to make law that is going to have to be generally applicable.”
Smith agreed and said “Yeah, you make a valid point about policy when you talk about policy. You can’t just go by personal experience. It’s got to be the numbers. It’s got to be the data.”
Shapiro earlier this month launched &#8220;The Case For Derek Chauvin,&#8221; a five-part series diving into the Floyd incident and making the case for Chauvin&#8217;s innocence.
&#8220;The evidence demonstrates that Derek Chauvin did not, in fact, commit the murder of George Floyd,” Shapiro said. “George Floyd was high on fentanyl; he had a significant pre-existing heart condition. George Floyd was saying he could not breathe before he was even out of the car. He was in the car saying he could not breathe.”
The first three episodes of that series are<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-chauvin-trials-dirty-secret-shapiro-exposes-d-c-influence-on-floyd-autopsy" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> now streaming</a> on DailyWire+.
Related:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-suck-right-now-stephen-a-smith-tells-dems-not-to-even-think-about-running-kamala-in-4-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> ‘They Suck Right Now’: Stephen A. Smith Tells Dems Not To Even Think About Running Kamala In 4 Years</a>

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Daughters of the American Revolution Chapters have reached out to President Donald Trump in their fight against the national organization’s decision to allow trans-identifying males into the historic female group.
Labeling themselves Daughters Advocating for Restoration, the Martha Laird Chapter in Texas along with five endorsing chapters in five different states wrote that the DAR has “fallen prey to trans ideology” <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1659132851538607/permalink/1816370339148190/?mibextid=wwXIfr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">i</a>n a letter to the president obtained by The Daily Wire.
The group called on Trump to “shine a light on what has happened within the ranks of the DAR” following the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/">executive order</a> he signed, which states that the United States will only recognize two genders.
“Being unable to join the Sons of America Revolution, the DAR was founded in 1890 for women, by women,” the letter read, noting the group’s mission to “promote historic preservation, education, and patriotism.” “However, National and State leadership have abandoned the moral obligations of this once stalwart and prestigious institution to embrace the transgender movement.”
The letter noted that its national organization has claimed that by “excluding trans-identifying men,” it would “strip the DAR of its 501(c)(3) nonprofit tax status without referencing any federal, civil, or municipal code.”
“They proclaim that a man is a woman if he lives and identifies as a woman and that we must allow men with a state-certified birth certificate, altered to show a female sex marker, in our women’s only society,” the letter added, pointing out how “two grassroots proposals to close this loophole” have been rejected and national leadership has “admonished members not to speak about it and threatened them with disciplinary action.”
The letter was signed by 150 plus members of the DAR, who oppose the message from their national organization that allows men with altered birth certificates to become members.
The DAR National Board of Management recently rejected a proposal from its Texas chapter to keep trans-identifying men out of the group.
In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122126401004407101&amp;set=gm.1792407311544493&amp;idorvanity=1659132851538607">letter</a> to the Martha Laird Chapter, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-board-to-vote-to-keep-trans-identifying-men-out">DAR National Board of Management</a> said it “found the proposed amendment” to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males, from the group “not to be suitable for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interest of the Society.”
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/michael-knowles-exposes-transgender-attempt-to-infiltrate-daughters-of-american-revolution">revealed</a> — in a viral thread on <a href="https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/1838267625962405922">X</a> — how a group of DAR members were “channeling the rebellious spirit of their forebears” by fighting back “this time building a larger, grassroots effort to affirm the original intent of the bylaws and prevent men from continuing to invade their genealogical society.”
Laura McDonald, member of the Martha Laird DAR Chapter, told The Daily Wire, “The spirit of the new proposal [voted on Feb. 22] to amend the National Bylaws is to impel applicants to act in good faith when submitting their documents for application. At the same time, it will send a clear message that the Daughters of the American Revolution is a society exclusively for women. Men need not apply &#8211; no matter what state-certified, altered documents he produces.&#8221;
The national organization has declined a request for comment from The Daily Wire about trans-identifying males joining the DAR.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daughters-of-the-american-revolution-board-rejects-proposal-to-keep-trans-identifying-men-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daughters Of The American Revolution Board Rejects Proposal To Keep Trans-Identifying Men Out</a>

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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro announced that he’ll be taking a fresh approach with a new ad partner in 2025. Instead of traditional ad reads, “The Ben Shapiro Show,” one of the most popular podcasts in the world, will integrate the AI search platform Perplexity as part of their first native ad integration.
Perplexity will be used mid-show to verify claims, explore cultural topics, and highlight Shapiro’s unapologetic pursuit of highlighting “facts over feelings,” per <a href="https://www.adweek.com/media/daily-wire-perplexity-ben-shapiro-show/">ADWEEK</a>.
A press release for the initiative called Perplexity &#8220;the conversational &#8216;answer engine&#8217; designed to revolutionize the way users discover information.&#8221;
&#8220;Perplexity provides instant, factual, and unbiased answers to any question with full sources and citations included, sparing users from having to compare answers or endlessly dig for information,&#8221; the press release adds.
The tech company’s chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko said of the partnership, “Ben very much prides himself on fearlessly pursuing the truth. This was just a good fit.”
&#8220;The world changes fast, and now Ben doesn&#8217;t have to search endless webpages of information because he can turn to Perplexity for real-time context and facts on the most important issues of the day,&#8221; Shevelenko added.
The pair met at President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. The partnership represents a shift in how tech companies treat conservatives, which previously had been extremely biased toward leftists. It was also telling that Google and Meta heads were present at the inauguration.
“Trump went on a bunch of podcasts, and it helped him win,” Shevelenko said. “If there’s a lesson from 2024 …  not choosing to engage with certain types of media is not good strategy. You need to be where a lot of people are.”
Perplexity, which has a valuation of $9 billion, also did a spot during a Sunday Night Football ad featuring Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh &#8212; but, the outlet noted, the deal with “The Ben Shapiro Show” is a little different, as it aims to integrate seamlessly with the content and not feel so much like a traditional ad.
The Daily Wire’s SVP of Ad Revenue Christine Hoffman called the new partnership “significant.” 
“This would put Perplexity in the range of our top ad partners who are currently spending with The Daily Wire,” Hoffmann said.
&#8220;Ben has famously quipped that ‘Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings,’ so we’re thrilled to partner with a company like Perplexity that aligns so well with Ben’s—and his audience’s—reverence for the truth.&#8221; added Hoffmann.
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THE TAKEDOWN: AOC losing to facts in today&#39;s Takedown segment powered by new search partner <a href="https://twitter.com/perplexity_ai?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@perplexity_ai</a> <a href="https://t.co/9JAdJYknGV">pic.twitter.com/9JAdJYknGV</a>
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Shapiro utilized the new partnership on his show which aired on Friday, March 7, during a segment of the podcast called The Takedown. While refuting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) claim that President Trump just pushed through tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, Shapiro asked Perplexity, “What percentage of total income taxes did the top 1% pay in 2016, and what percentage did the top 1% pay in income taxes in 2020?”
The search platform found that in 2016, the top 1% paid 37.3%, and in 2020, they paid nearly 42% of all income taxes. 
“So all that talk about how the richest in our society were sort of disproportionately benefited by the Trump tax cuts – if that’s so, then why did we pay a larger share of the taxes total than we did before the Trump tax cuts?” Shapiro asked.

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LAS VEGAS — UFC 313 is headed to the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas Saturday, and at the pre-fight press conference on Thursday all the six fighters headlining the main card pledged to put on a show.
All of Saturday’s fights are<a href="https://jeremysrazors.com/ufc-313" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> brought to you in part by Jeremy’s Razors, the Official Razor Partner of UFC</a>. And for the first time since this historic partnership began, The Daily Wire will be in Las Vegas for the fight.
UFC 313 is headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between Brazilian fighter Alex Pereira and Russian challenger Magomed Ankalaev, who embraced his role as the villain during a raucous Thursday press conference at the Michelob Ultra Arena.
Also at the press conference from the card were fighters from the rematch between American fighter Justin Gaethje and Rafael Fiziev of Azerbaijan, and another American, Jalin Turner, who will face off against Chilean challenger Ignacio Bahamondes.
Here&#8217;s what the fighters had to say ahead of their face-offs.
<h1>Alex Pereira v. Magomed Ankalaev </h1>
Pereira&#8217;s highly anticipated title defense against Ankalaev was the main attraction of the Thursday press conference. The first question of the night went to Pereira, who was asked whether Ankalaev is the toughest opponent he&#8217;s ever faced.
Pereira was all business: &#8220;I&#8217;m very, very prepared for this fight.&#8221;
Ankalaev faced heavy boos from the crowd, which showered the Russian with the Brazilian&#8217;s signature phrase &#8220;chama.&#8221; Ankalaev said the animosity motivated him.
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&#8220;It motivates me. It charges me. Everyone is against me,&#8221; Ankalaev said. &#8220;I&#8217;m here by myself.  Everyone&#8217;s saying, &#8216;chama, chama, chama.&#8217; But guess what? Chama time is over. After this Saturday night, after the fight, you will all love me.&#8221;
Pereira has won four straight title fights, and may be considering a jump up a weight-class to find new opponents if he handles Ankalaev on Saturday.
<h1>Justin Gaethje v. Rafael Fiziev</h1>
American Justin Gaethje is making his return to the Octagon after a brutal last fight, in which he was knocked out cold. He says the knockout forced him to reevaluate his mindset and decide that he needs to embrace the danger of the ring like he did when he was first coming up.
“You know, you have to be willing to take the risk,” Gaethje said. “This is a very risky game. This is a very dangerous game. That was my favorite part of the whole thing when I first started this thing thirteen years ago, how dangerous it is. I kinda forgot that a little bit.”
Gaethje is taking on Rafael Fiziev, a rematch of a fight from two years ago at UFC 286 in London. Gaethje won that fight by decision, but is entering this fight as the underdog. He called the lack of belief that he&#8217;ll win the fight &#8220;extra motivation&#8221; going into Saturday night.
&#8220;I’m 6-3 as an underdog, it’s a special place to be,” he said.
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Fiziev took this fight on short notice after Gaethje&#8217;s initial opponent suffered a hand injury. It will be Fiziev&#8217;s first fight since 2023 when he tore his ACL. He said returning to the main card for UFC 313 is a &#8220;miracle,&#8221; and that he expects fireworks.
&#8220;When people like me and Justin go into the cages, it&#8217;s always fireworks,&#8221; Fiziev said. &#8220;Always something interesting, something like blood everywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;I hope this time, it&#8217;s not only my blood going everywhere,&#8221; he said.
<h1>Jalin Turner v. Ignacio Bahamondes</h1>
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The lightweight fight of the night will be between American Jalin &#8220;Tarantula&#8221; Turner and Chilean Ignacio Bahamondes, who both beamed with confidence on Thursday night about putting on the fight of the night.
&#8220;I always bring the fight,&#8221; Turner said. &#8220;Every time my name is on the card, they know I&#8217;m gonna bring the fight. We got the most exciting lightweights in the division fighting on this card, and we&#8217;re nothing short of that. You can look at the track record, they know it&#8217;s gonna be exciting.&#8221;
Bahamondes said the crowd should expect a knockout.
&#8220;I&#8217;m coming for his head. He knows he&#8217;s a great opponent. He&#8217;s gonna be a great fight,&#8221; the Chilean said. &#8220;He&#8217;s very dangerous, but I think I&#8217;m more dangerous than him.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be a great night for Chile, Latin America and all the people who love knockouts and strikers.&#8221;
The Daily Wire will be at the live weigh-ins on Friday, and in attendance for the fights at T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night.
Early prelims begin on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. ET, and prelims kick off an hour later. The main event is scheduled to start at 10:00 p.m. ET, and all matches will be streaming live on ESPN+. Tune in.
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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum pulled back the curtain on the first cabinet meeting of the new Trump administration in a Sunday edition of Morning Wire.
Burgum, the former tech CEO and governor of North Dakota, told Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley that he felt the excitement in the room on Wednesday, praising Trump for hiring a &#8220;great team&#8221; and giving agency heads a &#8220;clear direction&#8221; to fulfill the administration&#8217;s promises to the American people.
&#8220;I look around that room and a number of those folks are friends of mine, people that I&#8217;ve known, people that have had great success in the private sector, people that are making big sacrifices to come and do public service working for the government to try to solve these problems that people think are intractable, like our $2 trillion deficit. He&#8217;s empowering everybody,&#8221; Burgum said.
&#8220;I felt the energy in the room was electric. People were excited to be there, to be in the cabinet room, to be part of this historic team,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I think the amount of talent in the room is really, really high. And I&#8217;m very excited about what everybody&#8217;s going to get done and get done working together for the American people.&#8221;
The secretary was also asked about the cabinet&#8217;s reaction to Trump&#8217;s senior adviser, Elon Musk, as critics continue to express concern over Musk&#8217;s influence on the administration. During the cabinet meeting, Trump asked if any agency leaders were &#8220;unhappy with Elon,&#8221; a question to which the cabinet members responded with laughter and then applause for Musk.
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Burgum told Morning Wire that he can&#8217;t speak for everyone in the room, but he&#8217;s excited about what Musk brings to the table as a tech executive.
&#8220;Being a tech CEO is different than other categories,&#8221; Burgum said. &#8220;In tech, there are no natural barriers. No one has a monopoly &#8230; you have to be better, faster, cheaper for your customers tomorrow than you were yesterday, or you go out of business. So competition drives innovation.&#8221;
He added that the actions taken by Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project to shake up the bureaucracy will bring a &#8220;major right-sizing of the federal government&#8221; that&#8217;s &#8220;long overdue.&#8221;
Discussing his specific priorities, Burgum said that he is focused on accomplishing the president&#8217;s goal of ramping up energy production.
&#8220;We have a chance to literally change the whole world when we change U.S. energy policy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that&#8217;s going to take the whole of government.&#8221;
The Department of Interior manages more than 500 million acres of public land as well as the Outer Continental Shelf, which holds roughly 68.79 billion barrels of oil and 229.03 trillion cubic feet of gas, according to federal government <a href="https://www.boem.gov/oil-and-gas-energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a>. Burgum said his department will also play a critical role in the Trump administration&#8217;s desire to once again tap into America&#8217;s mining and timber industries.
&#8220;Now, we&#8217;re completely dependent on our adversaries for the critical and rare earth minerals we need for technology and for defense,&#8221; he stated, adding that the United States has &#8220;a couple billion acres of offshore [resources] &#8230; that we can develop safely and securely and, and be great for our environment. So this is the balance sheet of America.&#8221;

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Any and every American can make a difference in the direction of the country just by living a moral and meaningful life, according to Daily Wire editor emeritus Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday evening. During his remarks, he gave advice to everyday Americans who aren’t involved in politics or lack a platform such as his and The Daily Wire.
His advice: “The thing that is most important is to live a reality-based life, to be a model to our children, to be a model to our community, to build the social fabric that actually makes this country work.”
For much of his speech, Shapiro touted the accomplishments that President Donald Trump has already accumulated just weeks into his second term in office. But, Shapiro said, the real foundation and direction of the United States will be decided by millions of Americans continuing to lead purposeful lives focused on community and family.
Americans need to continue “to create the businesses to make the country function, to engage in everyday common virtue, because the truth is the country is not just built by President Trump,” Shapiro said. “We love President Trump. He&#8217;s doing an amazing job. He should continue to be healthy and well and continue to succeed day in and day out. We&#8217;re all praying for him, okay, but the country also runs because of the people who are doing the everyday things, whose names we don&#8217;t know.”
“All the people out there who are just living with their families and bringing up their kids in the correct fashion in a country that is growing and thriving,” he continued.
“On the day-to-day level, President Trump is clearing the field for you. He&#8217;s clearing the field for me. The Republicans, I hope, are going to do that. But then it&#8217;s our job to actually build. And that&#8217;s what we should be focused on – not just on politics over the next 4 years or 8 years or 20 years. We should be focused on the building because that project, that&#8217;s the project that never ends,” Shapiro said.
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Daily Wire host Michael Knowles discussed the major implications of the broad coalition behind President Donald Trump&#8217;s election victory during a speech at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Knowles celebrated Trump&#8217;s electoral college and popular vote win, highlighting the &#8220;swaths&#8221; of support the president received at the ballot box in November. According to Knowles, the election results show that the American people are fed up with radical leftist ideology and are yearning for a return to &#8220;common sense.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the big difference this year is that we won, and we won the popular vote,&#8221; Knowles told the CPAC crowd. &#8220;Most voters in this country voted for Donald Trump — huge swaths of every demographic, including groups that Democrats have had a lockdown on for decades. We&#8217;re talking about a historic proportion of black male voters, almost half of Hispanic voters, something like 50 percent of women over 45, even — this one really shocked me — 40 percent of women under the age of 30.&#8221;
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The Daily Wire host said the Republicans&#8217; victories in the presidential, Senate, and House races show that the American people have given Trump and the GOP &#8220;a clear mandate.&#8221;
&#8220;And it was a mandate for common sense,&#8221; Knowles added. &#8220;That&#8217;s the only way to explain this broad coalition of people who usually argue with each other: Republicans, disaffected Democrats, conservatives, liberals, people across both sexes, and all ages, and all races.&#8221;
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Knowles argued that Republicans made big electoral gains across the country in 2024 because &#8220;the Democrats have lost the common sense.&#8221; Along with controlling the White House, Republicans also hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate and a 218-215 majority in the House. Knowles suggested that voters empowering the new Trump administration is a response to &#8220;uni-party elites [who] have limited political discourse to exclude the common sense policies that people actually want.&#8221;

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