State attorneys general and lawmakers across the U.S. have responded to the disturbing revelations from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undercover investigation</a> into trans health providers. 
One attorney general said he stands “ready to ensure the law is followed,” while a representative who chairs the House Healthcare and Financial Services Committee called the findings “utterly disgusting.”
Walsh revealed Wednesday in a <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1666496308150951954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1666496308150951954%7Ctwgr%5Eb4f8d6745e2ca72979b7d0628983f55c54e4c004%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmatt-walsh-undercover-investigation-catches-trans-health-care-providers-falsifying-patient-info-to-fast-track-sex-change-surgeries">Twitter thread</a> that two of the largest transgender health care providers in the country, Plume and Folx, appear to be rubber-stamping approvals for life-altering sex-change operations so insurance companies will cover the medical expenses. Walsh’s producer Gregg Re was approved for an orchiectomy — a procedure to remove testicles — after just a 22-minute virtual appointment with Plume.
The two health care providers assist patients in nearly every state, with Plume operating in 41 states and Folx holding a presence in 47 states. Walsh asked if medical insurance companies were aware that the transgender medical providers were sending letters of recommendation “based on obviously false information.” The Daily Wire reached out to attorneys general and lawmakers across the country to inform them of the troubling practices uncovered by Walsh and his team and give them an opportunity to provide comments on how their offices will address the issue. 
“Medical insurance fraud in any form is a very serious crime. But even more troubling are reports of physicians committing such illegal acts in blatant disregard for the law and the long-term health of many vulnerable patients,” Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes told The Daily Wire. “In Utah, we prioritize investigating and prosecuting these types of unethical and fraudulent cases.”
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti responded to Walsh’s investigation, saying his office wants to know if “any health care providers are cutting corners.”
&#8220;There is no political exception to health care fraud. If any health care providers are cutting corners at the expense of patients and state funds, whether it&#8217;s in pursuit of profit or ideology, we want to know about it,&#8221; Skrmetti said in a statement. 
Tim Griffin, the attorney general of Arkansas said, “Telehealth providers operating in Arkansas must, of course, follow our laws, and I stand ready to ensure the law is followed.”
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Plume and Folx both operate in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Utah. 
State- and federal-level lawmakers also responded to Walsh’s investigation. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told The Daily Wire, “It is incomprehensible that some health care providers are potentially breaking the law to mislead vulnerable patients and fast-track irreversible procedures. This isn’t health care — it’s forcing an ideological agenda.”
House Healthcare and Financial Services Committee Chair Lisa McClain (R-MI) said, “Only in a country that’s lost its soul can major sex-change surgeries be expedited like buying a fast-pass at a theme park. This is utterly disgusting, and we cannot continue down this path of insanity. It’s time America wakes up to reality and casts away progressive ideology that is literally putting people’s lives at risk.”
Tennessee state Sen. Jack Johnson (R) and House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R), who both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-bill-to-ban-sex-change-procedures-on-minors-advances-to-governors-desk">led the charge</a> to pass a law banning sex-change procedures on minors in Tennessee, said they were disgusted by what Walsh found. 
“These tactics make a mockery of the health care profession at the expense of vulnerable patients who are in serious need of mental health treatment,” Lamberth said in a statement to The Daily Wire. “If any provider is making deceptive claims for the purpose of defrauding an insurance company, that should be investigated.”
“Another disgusting attempt to label the mutilation of children as ‘healthcare.’ I appreciate [Matt Walsh] for exposing this deranged behavior. This is a real battle, and it is a battle we will win,” Johnson tweeted. 
Oregon Republican state Rep. Ed Diehl, who sits on the Oregon House Behavioral Health and Health Care Committee, warned of what the implications of Walsh’s investigation mean for his state if it passes a radical abortion and transgender health care <a href="https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2023/05/22/heres-what-oregons-controversial-abortion-gender-affirming-care-bill-would-do/">bill</a>. 
“Under Oregon&#8217;s House Bill 2002B, doctors following these same practices, ignoring gatekeeping and quickly affirming life altering meds and surgeries, would be protected. The bill mandates that doctors can&#8217;t lose their malpractice insurance or medical license for performing ‘gender-affirming care.’ And, these surgeries are paid for by your tax dollars and insurance premiums,” Diehl <a href="https://twitter.com/Real_EdDiehl/status/1666621168034660353">tweeted</a>. “Our standards of care are not rigorous, and we are harming children and young adults.”

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bible" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bible</a> has been pulled from the shelves of libraries in a school district in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> after a parent claimed that it could be considered “pornographic.”
Elementary and middle school students in Utah’s Davis School District, located north of Salt Lake City, will no longer be able to find the Bible at school libraries after a district review committee <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/utah-parent-upset-book-bans-gets-bible-pulled-school-shelves-expose-ba-rcna87450" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> to make it only available at high school libraries. 
School district spokesman Christopher Williams told NBC News that the committee chose to &#8220;retain the book in school library circulation only at the high school level based on age appropriateness due to vulgarity or violence.&#8221; 
The decision came after a parent, upset by a recent state law designed to keep “pornographic or indecent” materials out of school, filed a complaint against the Bible. 
&#8220;I thank the Utah Legislature and Utah Parents United for making this bad faith process so much easier and way more efficient,&#8221; the complaint said. &#8220;Now we can all ban books and you don’t even need to read them or be accurate about it. Heck, you don’t even need to see the book!&#8221;
&#8220;Incest, onanism, bestiality, prostitution, genital mutilation, fellatio, dildos, rape, and even infanticide,&#8221; the complaint continued. &#8220;You’ll no doubt find that the Bible, under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.&#8221;
Another person has already <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> a complaint to put the Bible back into circulation at all school levels, not just high school. 
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The controversy in Utah followed a host of complaints around the country about sexually explicit books being available at school libraries. This has prompted drives from conservative lawmakers and parents to remove the content. 
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/library-group-frames-removal-of-graphic-sexual-content-from-school-libraries-as-record-number-of-book-bans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recently </a>pushed to remove volumes such as “Let’s Talk About It,” which shows graphic depictions of how children can masturbate, as well as “Gender Queer,” which includes cartoons of homosexual activity.
In Virginia, a mother named Stacy Langton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-mother-who-exposed-pornographic-reading-material-in-curriculum-barred-from-entering-high-school-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was barred</a> from entering the school’s library after she exposed pornographic reading material available to Fairfax High School students. She made national news when she read from several books available to students that included graphic depictions of sex and pedophilia.

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A legal advocacy group led by former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-sign-order-to-end-birthright-citizenship-if-re-elected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump administration</a> official Stephen Miller has set its sights on five taxpayer-funded hospitals in Republican-led states that appear to be involved with gender transitions, demanding that they provide statistics about their operations on children.
America First Legal Foundation (AFL), which has outraged liberals by winning court battles finding that discriminating against whites is illegal, fired off Freedom of Information Act requests to hospitals in Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Utah, and Virginia. The letters note that even European countries have moved away from providing gender surgeries on minors, raising the question of why conservative states were using taxpayer dollars to do so.
“For example, in 2021, Swedish hospitals halted the use of puberty blockers in five out of six clinics, with a single clinic only using them for clinical trials,&#8221; the letters state. &#8220;Sweden also now emphasizes psychotherapy for gender dysphoric minors instead of puberty blockers.&#8221;
Targets include the <a href="https://uihc.org/services/lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-queer-and-questioning-lgbtq-clinic" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Iowa’s LGBTQ and Questioning Clinic</a>, which says it provides “post-surgical care for those who have undergone gender affirming surgery” and “gender-affirming voice services”—something AFL calls “brazen” in a rural state like Iowa.
Another is the <a href="https://childrens.uvahealth.com/services/transgender-youth-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Virginia Health’s Youth Transgender Clinic</a>, whose website shockingly says “we offer transgender youth health services for ages 11 to 25” and adds that “Our services include… puberty blockers … cross-sex hormones [and] referrals for gender affirming surgeries.” Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin won office in part for his stand against gender ideology in schools.
In Georgia, the <a href="https://www.gradyhealth.org/care-treatment/primary-care-centers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grady Center in Atlanta</a> says it has a “Gender Center [that] supports gender transition for transgender and gender non-conforming people.” AFL asked the Georgia Department of Public Health how many minors have been transitioned at Grady, how many had complications to their surgeries, and how many “desisted,” or change their mind, afterwards.
AFL said that Utah has passed a law placing an “indefinite moratioum” on puberty blockers and hormones for minors, but that the University of Utah Health’s <a href="https://healthcare.utah.edu/transgender-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gender Management and Support Clinic</a> has used a “loophole” to continue to provide services. Indeed, the university’s web page features a section titled “Health Services for Transgender Teens &amp; Youth” that lists “puberty blockers” and “gender-affirming hormones.” Utah’s legislature is about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows">80% Republican</a>, though an analysis found that those Republicans often behave surprisingly liberal.
Then there is <a href="https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/gender-affirming-care" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ohio State University Wexner Medical Clinic</a>, which says it is an “academic health center” that offers “bottom gender-affirming surgery” as well as “facial feminizing surgery” and “prosthetics.”
Finally, in Cleveland, Ohio, Metro Health has a unit called <a href="https://www.metrohealth.org/lgbtqi-pride-network/kids-pride" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kids Pride Gender Care</a>. The unit says “the initial intake includes three appointments,” one with parents, one with the child, and the third with both, “to review what has been said and to discuss the next steps,” such as “their gender goals and interest in transitioning.”
The groups are likely to be sued if they do not turn over the records.
“While children and adults across the United States are being experimented on, the American public remains largely in the dark about these clinics and their insidious practices,&#8221; the foundation said in a statement. &#8220;America First Legal is determined to obtain documents related to the total number of minors treated by these clinics each year, data regarding puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones prescribed annually, and other critical data on these so-called &#8216;transitions.&#8217;”

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A mother who wrote a children’s book about grief after her husband died has now been charged with his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a>.
Kouri Darden Richins, a 33-year-old mom of three from Kamas, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a>, was arrested Monday for allegedly poisoning her husband, Eric, on March 4, 2022, KUTV <a href="https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-woman-who-wrote-childrens-book-on-grief-charged-with-murder-of-husband-fentanyl-kouri-richins-kamas-2022-are-you-with-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. She has been charged with aggravated murder and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute after allegedly purchasing $900 worth of fentanyl and spiking her husband’s drink.
Police responded to Kouri’s 911 call just after 3:20 a.m. on March 4, 2022, saying her husband wasn’t moving. When they arrived at the home, they found Eric on the floor at the foot of his bed and attempted to perform life-saving measures. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Kouri told police she and her husband had been celebrating closing on a home she wanted to flip for her business and that she made him a Moscow Mule and served it to him in bed. She told investigators she then went into one of her kids’ bedrooms and fell asleep there after the child had a nightmare.
“(Kouri) said she awoke around 3 a.m. and came back to her and Eric’s bedroom. She felt Eric, and he was cold to the touch. That is when the defendant called 911,” court documents say, <a href="https://ksltv.com/548093/utah-author-arrested-accused-of-murdering-husband/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to KSL-TV</a>.
Kouri also told police that she had left her cell phone in her bedroom with her husband, but phone records later showed the device had been used multiple times in the child’s bedroom, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/09/grief-book-author-kouri-richins-accused-of-murdering-husband/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“In addition, tolls on the defendant’s phone show that messages were sent and received during that time. These messages were deleted,” said court documents reviewed by KSL-TV.
An autopsy revealed Eric’s cause of death to be a fentanyl overdose. He had five times the lethal dosage of the drug in his system, the medical examiner found.
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Police began investigating Eric’s death immediately and obtained a search warrant for Kouri’s phone and computers. They quickly found messages between her and an “unnamed acquaintance,” from whom Kouri allegedly bought the drugs to poison her husband.
Investigators interviewed the acquaintance on May 2, who at the time was already facing multiple counts of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, as well as other drug-related offenses. Between December 2021 and February 2022, Kouri allegedly asked the acquaintance for “prescription pain medication for an investor.”
Kouri “told (the acquaintance) to leave the pills at a house defendant was flipping in Midway, Utah. (The acquaintance) left the pills at the house, and the defendant left cash for them,” the documents said, according to KSL-TV.
It appears Eric long suspected his wife of trying to kill him. Years earlier, during a vacation in Greece, Eric called one of his sisters to tell her Kouri had made him a drink that made him violently ill, KPCW <a href="https://www.kpcw.org/summit-county/2023-05-08/summit-county-mom-arrested-for-husbands-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The sister reportedly told investigators that she believed Kouri was trying to kill her brother at the time.
In January 2022, just two months before Eric died, Kouri attempted to make herself the sole beneficiary on a life insurance policy Eric held jointly with his business partner. The insurance company notified the two men about Kouri’s attempted change and was able to cancel it.
Eric then removed Kouri from his will and added his sister as a beneficiary to ensure the money he left behind when he died went to his children. His sisters reportedly told investigators that Eric believed Kouri would “kill him for the money.”
Yet Eric stayed. On Valentine’s Day in 2022, Eric again became very ill after having dinner with his wife, KUTV reported. Eric reportedly broke out in hives and couldn’t breathe after eating. He then passed out after taking a Benadryl and using his son’s EpiPen.
“Eric believed that he had been poisoned. Eric told a friend that he thought his wife was trying to poison him,” a probable cause statement said.
On February 26, 2022, the acquaintance allegedly sold Kouri 15-30 fentanyl pills for $900. Just over a week later, Eric died.
The day after Eric died, Kouri closed on a $2 million home she wanted to flip. Eric hadn’t wanted to purchase the home, reportedly saying it was too expensive. While celebrating the closing, Kouri allegedly assaulted one of Eric’s sisters who went to the home while Kouri was throwing a party for the closing.
A little over a year after Eric died, Kouri published a children’s book called “Are You With Me?” to help children cope with losing a loved one.

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Pornography giant PornHub has blocked all residents of Utah from accessing its content, a day before a state law goes into effect that will allow websites to be sued if they enable minors to view their videos.
A Utah <a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2023/bills/static/SB0287.html">bill</a> called “Online Pornography Viewing Age Requirements” was passed unanimously by both chambers and signed into law in March by Gov. Spencer Cox. It goes into effect Wednesday. The law says that sites “shall be held liable if the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of an individual attempting to access the material.”
But the bill also discusses a “digitized identification card” connected to a “state-approved application” — which the adult industry says doesn’t exist.
The bill says as an alternative to a state digital ID, sites can use any “reasonable method” that “relies on public or private transactional data” or data “available from a commercially available database” to verify someone’s age and identity.
On Tuesday, Alison Boden of the Free Speech Coalition, which represents the adult industry, wrote to the bill’s state Senate sponsor, Todd Weiler, that, “despite consulting over a dozen lawyers, I must admit I&#8217;m stumped. The law is so vague — and the requirements for compliance so contradictory — I cannot figure out how FSC members can follow this law.”
“Utah does not have a system for verifying a Mobile Driver&#8217;s License online,” she said. As for third-party, commercial databases, “his language seems to imply that age verification providers must contract with data brokers — an option with significant privacy issues for Utahns. This is especially so since the law does not require providers to meet any of the security standards used by reputable age verification services.”
“Without unambiguous guidance, we fear that even sites that make a good-faith effort to comply risk being sued, even if they are using more aggressive methods of age verification,” she wrote.
Louisiana passed a similar law last year and it was signed in June 2022 by the state’s Democrat governor. &#8220;They are complying with Louisiana&#8217;s law, which is essentially the same. So I expect they will eventually comply with Utah’s as well,&#8221; Weiler told local TV station <a href="https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/pornhub-blocks-utah-in-protest-of-new-age-verification-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FOX 13</a>.
But that state’s government provides a mobile app that holds a digital copy of a resident’s drivers license, and which can connect with a third-party service to demonstrate a user’s age, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/01/no-porn-without-id-louisiana-law-forces-porn-sites-to-verify-users-ages/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ARS Technica</a> previously reported.
PornHub provides a mechanism for Louisiana users to go through that process, telling them that the site &#8220;does not collect any data during this process. This process is carried out by reputable service providers who specialize in verifying the age of online users. Your proof of age does not allow anyone to trace your online activity,&#8221; according to ARS Technica.
In Utah, by contrast, the site simply blocks users from accessing videos.
Users can circumvent state bans on pornography relatively easily by using a VPN that routes their web traffic through another location.
In 2021, Cox signed a bill requiring phones and computers sold in the state to come <a href="https://le.utah.gov/~2021/bills/static/HB0072.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">equipped with a filter</a> that blocks porn. The filter could be deactivated but would be on by default. However, the bill does not go into effect unless five other states pass a similar law.
Utah’s legislature is about 80% Republican. It is dominated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and is particularly conservative on social issues such as pornography that are of importance to the church, while by other measures, the state’s Republican lawmakers are some of the most moderate in the country, a Daily Wire analysis of state legislative voting records found.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’</a>

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Imagine if Republicans had supermajorities in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. We could pass an endless list of conservative priorities without worry of a presidential veto.
But what if dozens of Republican lawmakers refused to enact these policies? What if they actually teamed up with the democratic leadership in the house to pass liberal bills that Biden would then sign into law? Sounds impossible, right?
This sort of horror show scenario is quite real at the state level. For example, Republicans have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supermajority control</a> of the Wyoming House, 57-5, against the Democrats. But when you look at the actual voting records, those with liberal voting records number 34, those with conservative records number 25, and only three members fall into the ‘moderate’ category. So conservative priorities like school choice, banning transgender surgeries for minors, and getting porn out of the classroom didn’t pass this year. Democrats are basically in charge of a state Trump won with 70% of the vote in 2020.
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is common in a lot of red states. A Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation found</a> that the most liberal Republicans holding office in the 50 state legislatures was Hawaii. Not a surprise, but the state with the second most liberal Republicans was deep-red South Carolina. Just a few weeks ago, the South Carolina legislature passed a progressive “hate crimes” bill as a gift to their woke corporate masters who want to pump up their ESG scores.
The RINOs in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals">South Carolina House are so liberal</a> that they kicked members of the SC Freedom Caucus out of their House GOP Caucus. What was the Freedom Caucus’s crime? They publicly exposed their duplicitous colleagues for having an “R” next to their name while voting like liberals.
So how is it possible that liberals and moderates are in control of deep red states? There are three reasons. First, most political media attention is focused on Washington. There is not a state-level version of Fox News. Local newspapers are dying and it’s difficult to find quality state capitol reporting. Second, most Republican voters don’t even know who their state rep or their state senator is. So if you don’t know who your state lawmakers are, and there’s no coverage of what they’re doing, it’s no surprise that the inmates are in charge of the prison.
The third reason is that the “inmates” form an Iron Triangle consisting of the executive branch, the woke bureaucracies, and the lobbyists.
Together, they constitute the Establishment, and with their lawyers, advisers, PR experts, and staffers, they operate 365 days out of the year to protect and expand their plunder against taxpayers.
And they use establishment state lawmakers to do their bidding.
Meanwhile, conservative state lawmakers are part-time. For most of the year, they are thinking about their full-time jobs and their families. But when they are working in the state capitol, they have little to no staff, are paid very little, and have few people to help them properly legislate.
Even an objective observer can clearly see that the system is intentionally rigged against conservatives. And since there’s no media attention, deception thrives in the dark.
This surreal situation is especially demoralizing given that all of the big issues of the day are at the state level. Yes, conservatives must keep their focus on Washington because of inflation, the war in Ukraine, and other pressing national issues. But election integrity, abortion, school choice, and rising crime are all state issues. Not to mention porn in schools, ESG mandates, and bloated state government spending.
Parents finally woke up and started fighting school boards when they saw what government-run education was doing to their kids. I strongly recommend that we seize that passion and direct it to our country’s state houses. It’s time for a revolution.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
Thankfully, we’re starting to see signs of that happening. County GOP committees are censuring or voting “no confidence” in their liberal Republican state legislatures in South Carolina, Idaho, and elsewhere. Republicans are also electing strong conservatives to be state GOP chairmen, like Matt Rinaldi in Texas, John Wahl in Alabama, Dave Williams in Colorado, and Dorothy Moon in Idaho.
And finally, conservative lawmakers are organizing state freedom caucuses so that our values are finally being pushed forward in state capitols. These freedom caucuses are also shining a spotlight on the differences between themselves and their liberal Republican colleagues. Exposing the RINOs’ hypocrisy is getting noticed by voters who are sick and tired of “go along to get along” Republicans.
You say you want a revolution? One is finally coming to a state capitol near you. Don&#8217;t let this opportunity go to waste.
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Andrew Roth is president of the <a href="https://statefreedomcaucus.org/">State Freedom Caucus Network</a>. Mr. Roth has appeared on ABC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, and the Fox Business Channel. His writings have appeared in The New York Times, POLITICO, U.S. News, National Review, The Washington Examiner, and The Daily Wire. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A state senator in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a> who sponsored legislation to ban <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> surgeries on minors said on Friday that his home was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-life-womens-group-says-leftist-vandalized-urinated-on-their-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vandalized</a>.
State Sen. Mike Kennedy said that his home had been recently vandalized and posted a photo showing the words &#8220;FASH&#8221; and &#8220;These trannies bash back&#8221; spray-painted in red on a house.
&#8220;To those who seek to use violence, vandalism, and intimidation to deter me from standing up for what is right, let me be clear: you will not succeed,&#8221; Kennedy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/KennedyForUtah/posts/pfbid0jyK8hMY1nWTpfPfob2Pywy5ka4FEADRsmZPzdG8yo14pe274XB3CWQ7UfxC9YGu5l">wrote</a> on Facebook. &#8220;I will not be deterred by your cowardly actions.&#8221;
&#8220;The recent vandalism to my family&#8217;s home was not just an attack on me, but on the very principles our state stands for,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We will not let fear and violence control our destiny.&#8221;
Kennedy wrote that Utahns &#8220;will always stand up and push back against radicals who seek to push their agenda in our state,&#8221; adding that he&#8217;s &#8220;more determined than ever to work with the good people of Utah to make our state a better place for all, especially our children.&#8221;
Closing the post, Kennedy said, &#8220;I won&#8217;t back down.&#8221;
Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox in January <a href="https://stateofreform.com/featured/2023/01/utah-governor-signs-sb-16-into-law-banning-gender-affirming-procedures-on-minors/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> Senate Bill 16, sponsored by Kennedy, into law, banning transgender surgeries on kids and placing a hold on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for children.
Kennedy&#8217;s Facebook post about the vandalism was met with more than a hundred comments, with most supportive of the state senator&#8217;s work to fight radical LGBT policies concerning minors.
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&#8220;Keep standing tall Mike! Thank you for protecting kids!,&#8221; one comment read, with another saying, &#8220;Thank you for standing up to these thugs. You do everyone proud with your work.&#8221;
&#8220;Thank you for all your efforts!&#8221; another said. &#8220;They try to bully us into inaction and silence but it will not work. I believe that anyone who engages in this kind of behavior is deeply troubled. I hope whoever did this gets the help they need.&#8221;
LGBT activist group Equality Utah condemned acts of vandalism in a lengthy statement and chided conservative &#8220;extremists&#8221; who &#8220;verbally harass our community and attack our liberties with harmful legislation.&#8221;
&#8220;We don’t know the ideology of those who vandalized Sen. Kennedy’s house,&#8221; part of the statement read, <a href="https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/social-conservatives-lgbtq-group-condemn-vandalism-of-state-senators-home" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to FOX 13. &#8220;But we have repeatedly asked conservatives to call out extremists on their side, who verbally harass our community and attack our liberties with harmful legislation. In return, we now call out and condemn extremists who may identify with our side, who deploy tactics to intimidate and frighten political opponents,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;The culture wars are now escalating into real-world violence, and we all have an obligation to take a stand and condemn extremism wherever it manifests — be it acts of vandalism, or political acts of violence.&#8221;
The Daily Wire has reached out to Sen. Kennedy for comment.

Mike Kennedy

‘These Trannies Bash Back’: Lawmaker Who Sponsored Child Trans Surgery Ban Says Home Was Vandalized

Utah State Senator Mike Kennedy, Supporter Of Child Trans Surgery Ban, Has Home Vandalized

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Republicans hold governorships and legislative majorities in 22 states, compared to 17 for Democrats and 11 states in which government is divided. Yet GOP-run states often do not implement policies aligned with their party. The following is the third in a four-part series on Republican-dominated state legislatures and how they lead.
Even as Democrats push far-Left policies whenever they have a bare majority, some of the most Republican-dominated states govern in a moderate way — with a Daily Wire analysis of voting records finding that the larger the Republican majority in a state legislature, the more moderate those Republicans behave on average.
Deep-red Utah and Wyoming, which sent Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney to Congress, also send moderate Republicans to their own statehouses. They&#8217;re not the only states in which Republicans, despite holding a near-monopoly on state policy making, often reject such basic conservative initiatives as school choice and restrictions on abortion. Critics wonder why states with GOP legislative supermajorities don&#8217;t wield their power the way their deep-blue counterparts like California do.
It&#8217;s not that people necessarily want red states to go to extremes, which can backfire. Rather, they object to examples that are far from that: Louisiana&#8217;s Republican House speaker was elected with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more Democrat votes</a> than Republican ones; the South Carolina legislature kicked its most conservative members out of the Republican caucus; and Wyoming’s speaker killed a school-choice proposal that is standard conservative fare, The Daily Wire reported earlier in this series exploring the importance of state-level policy.
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Why Republicans in deep-red states would be less Republican than their counterparts elsewhere is one of the most baffling mysteries in politics. How can it be that residents of deep-red states elect moderate members time and again? And what can they do to ensure that their state lawmakers accurately reflect their views?
“We&#8217;ve never been outvoted by Democrats, but we lose all the time,&#8221; Alan Seabaugh, a Louisiana state legislator, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re outvoted by RINOs. It&#8217;s because of people who want their constituents to think of them as conservative, they run as conservatives, and then they get to Baton Rouge and they hope no one notices how they vote.&#8221;
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<h1>“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans. “A lot of Dems know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”</h1>
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In that red state, one problem is so-called “jungle primaries.” Back when Louisiana was controlled overwhelmingly by Democrats, Democrats implemented the system so that instead of having to face a Republican in the general election, the top two in the primary would advance, giving general election voters a choice between two Democrats. Now, the state is overwhelmingly conservative, but the same system remains in place. The state is so Republican that the top two vote-getters in the primary will often be a conservative Republican and a moderate one. In the general election, Democrats will vote for the more moderate candidate, alongside some Republicans, pushing him or her to victory.
“The people of Louisiana are very red. Donald Trump carried Louisiana by a bigger margin than Texas. But the jungle primary pushes everything to the middle,” Seabaugh said.
Other Republican states have a problem with open primaries. Whereas Democrat strongholds like the District of Columbia exclude Republicans from any meaningful impact in their elections, allowing only registered Democrats to vote in the party primary that essentially decides the race, Republican states have not done the same. Wyoming law makes it relatively easy for Democrats to vote in Republican primaries, and they do — with Democrat officials sometimes explicitly <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democratic-lawmakers-encourage-wyoming-voters-change-parties-back/story?id=88109078">urging it</a>.
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Ten Republican states have fully-open primaries, while only four Democrat ones do. Six Democrat states have fully-closed primaries, while only three Republican ones do. The rest have more complicated rules falling somewhere in between, according to a Daily Wire analysis of <a href="https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/state-primary-election-types" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Council of State Legislatures</a> 2021 data.
Georgia has fully open primaries, as well as a runoff system that in multiple recent election cycles allowed a Democrat to head to the U.S. Senate even though a Republican got more votes in the general election.
Another factor is that in places where almost everyone identifies as Republican, people seeking power know that whatever their actual beliefs, they must put an R behind their name if they want to win. Given that few people pay attention to state races, many voters don’t notice the deception.
“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans, Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told The Daily Wire. “A lot of Dems know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”
A less nefarious version of that is the fact that where being Republican is simply the default, people who are essentially apolitical identify as it because it’s just how they were brought up. Some candidates are community leaders like Boy Scout leaders and football coaches who know a lot of people in town, and want to take their involvement to the next level.
“The closer you get to the local level, the less party matters. Louisiana has been voting for Republicans in federal elections for decades, we just don’t necessarily elect conservatives at the state level,” Seabaugh said.
Then there’s the fact that many elected Republicans are remnants of the era when conservatives promoted business interests–even though corporations often now function as arms of the Left. When Georgia enacted voting reforms, driving the pressure against it were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/5-woke-corporations-who-condemned-georgia-while-still-doing-business-with-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corporations</a> like Coca-Cola.
“When the stakeholders are small and there’s a limited media following it, the special interest groups are able to overpower it,” Thomas Bradbury, director of advocacy and policy at the American Conservative Union, told The Daily Wire. “Especially on some of the cultural issues, the Chamber of Commerce just has way too much power over some of these Republicans. That’s why you see people like [South Dakota Gov.] Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-blast-gop-gov-noem-for-refusing-to-sign-bill-protecting-girls-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">veto</a> the women’s sports bill.”
When Democrats wanted South Carolina to adopt a <a href="https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-regional-news/push-returns-for-south-carolina-to-add-hate-crime-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hate-crimes law</a> in February, it was corporations like Duke Energy who put the pressure on Republicans to acquiesce, arguing that &#8220;the lack of a hate crime law could hurt South Carolina’s recruitment and retention of businesses.&#8221; The debate came as state Republicans were courting an electric vehicle plant for which they earmarked $1.3 billion in government support last month.
Bradbury once served as an aide in the Missouri legislature. “We tried to take on special taxing districts where certain corporations would get full-on tax exemptions, which is very against free market principles and unfair,” he said. Republicans held a hearing where there were a few citizens and policy wonks speaking against the special treatment for corporations, “and then probably 55 paid lobbyists in the room opposing us. It’s amazing how much influence special interests have because these are part-time legislatures so the experts actually are the lobbyists.” 
Then there are those who go into the legislature as bona fide conservatives, but quickly give in to existing power structures, believing it’s just what they’re supposed to do, Louisiana lawmaker Danny McCormick told The Daily Wire.
“There’s a tremendous amount of pressure to give in to the establishment once you get down there. There’s a tremendous pressure to go along and get along, and they threaten you that you won’t get any bridges or money for roads if you don’t,” he said.
Part 1: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
Part 2: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ote Like Liberals’</a>
Part 4:<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/soros-gets-bang-for-buck-in-down-ballot-races-why-havent-conservatives-done-the-same"> Soros Gets Bang For Buck In Down-Ballot Races. Why Haven’t Conservatives Done The Same?</a>

Romney, Cheney

Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’

Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington 'Vote Like Liberals'

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Mitt Romney

A jury has decided that Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is not responsible for a retired optometrist’s injuries caused in a 2016 ski collision in Utah.
To the contrary, jurors decided that it was the optometrist, Terry Sanderson, who was at fault in collision, and accepted Paltrow&#8217;s countersuit demand of $1 in damages. The trial began on March 21, with jurors going into deliberations on March 30. It took just three hours for the jury to return their verdict.
Sanderson claimed that the actress was skiing behind him on the slope and had turned to watch her children before, as his attorney said in court Tuesday, “she turns her head back down, she screams, then skis into the back of Terry Sanderson.” Sanderson’s attorney, Lawrence Buhler, said that after the collision, his client was left “facedown in the snow, unconscious,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/21/gwyneth-paltrow-ski-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Post</a>. After the encounter, Paltrow allegedly fled, leaving Sanderson “stunned, lying in the snow, seriously injured,” according to his lawsuit. Paltrow didn’t call for help, he added.
Sanderson later went to an emergency room and was diagnosed with a concussion and four broken ribs. Sanderson’s ski companion, Craig Ramon, testified at the civil trial that he saw Paltrow crash into Sanderson and knock him over.
“I hear this scream and then I see this skier just slam into the back of Terry,” Ramon testified.
Sanderson’s lawsuit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwyneth-paltrow-reportedly-to-take-stand-accused-of-hit-and-run-ski-accident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims he suffered</a> a “permanent traumatic brain injury, four broken ribs, pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress and disfigurement.”
Paltrow’s attorneys have argued that, while a collision did occur between the actress and Sanderson seven years ago, it was the retired optometrist who crashed into her. One of her attorneys, Stephen Owens, said at the trial that because Paltrow was struck so suddenly, she at first thought she was being assaulted.
“She’s skiing, enjoying herself,” Owens said. “Suddenly she sees two skis appear between her skis. And a man comes up right behind her.”
Owens said that right after the crash, Sanderson asked, “Who ran into who?” and then apologized to Paltrow after she said that he ran into her. Paltrow’s defense team said members of her group checked on Sanderson after the accident and he said he was okay and said the same thing to a ski patrol member who came to check on them. The actress’ attorneys said Paltrow only skied away after Sanderson said he was okay and after ski patrol left and that the retired optometrist only sought help after he waved away ski patrol.
Owens said Ramon’s account of the incident was “a whole different, crazy story.” Owens argued that Sanderson didn’t know that Paltrow was involved at the time since she was wearing a helmet and goggles. But later, when he discovered who she was, he emailed his daughters, saying, “I’m famous.”

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow

Jury Finds Gwyneth Paltrow Not Responsible For Injuries Caused By 2016 Ski Crash

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Gwyneth Paltrow

Lawsuit

“Knocked Up” actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Katherine Heigl</a> said she moved away from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/los-angeles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Los Angeles</a> to benefit her children.
“I hustled in Hollywood for 20 years and it was really important to me to find a place of solitude and solace,” the 44-year-old celebrity told <a href="https://www.eonline.com/news/1369465/why-katherine-heigl-had-to-leave-hollywood-to-raise-her-kids">E! News</a> in an interview published Wednesday. She shares three children with husband Josh Kelley, who she wed in 2007 in Park City, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/utah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Utah</a>. The couple wound up moving to the state permanently.
“I didn&#8217;t know how to raise them in L.A., so I felt like I could do it here. I could be more on top of things that scare me and I could be more on top of the kinds of friends they have and places they&#8217;re going, the kind of activities they&#8217;re involved in — and what the hell they&#8217;re doing on their phones!” Heigl said.
She is the mom of Naleigh, 14, Adelaide, 10, and Joshua, 6. Heigl confirmed that she’s done having children.
“That&#8217;s a hard no. I thought for sure I wanted one more, and it was quarantine that I realized, no. Three is plenty,” the actress said of expanding her family. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think I can spread myself any thinner in this arena.&#8221;
Heigl also discussed the challenges of being a working mom, which in her case means sometimes being far away and not able to communicate all the time.
“It&#8217;s very much compartmentalizing,&#8221; she said. Recently she was shooting the Netflix series “Firefly Lane” in Vancouver while the kids were home in Utah. 
&#8220;I can&#8217;t easily anymore take them out of school systems and put them into whole new cities and environments,&#8221; Heigl explained. &#8220;I had to live with that aspect of what I do for work, I have to leave my family.&#8221;
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&#8220;I call the kids probably two, three nights a week,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I&#8217;m not FaceTiming every day — I&#8217;m at work, having crap cell service or terrible WiFi. You have to be able to let it go … I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be paying for their therapy, and mine.”
Heigl is not the only celebrity who left Los Angeles for wide open spaces and better opportunities for her children to thrive. Other celebrities who left California include Matthew McConaughey, James Van Der Beek, Katy Perry, Chris Hemsworth, Joe Rogan, and Mark Wahlberg, to name a few.

Kathering Heigl

Katherine Heigl Discusses Moving Her Kids To Utah: ‘Didn’t Know How To Raise Them In L.A.’

Katherine Heigl Discusses Moving Her Kids To Utah: 'Didn't Know How To Raise Them In L.A.'

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Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow is facing a lawsuit by a retired optometrist who claims she collided with him on a ski slope in 2016, causing permanent brain damage.
Paltrow’s attorneys were trying to open a link to documents containing messages between Terry Sanderson, the optometrist, and others involved in the trial, but apparently couldn’t figure out how to access the information earlier this week. But Michael Fletcher, who was watching the trial on Court TV, was able to view the link on TV and access the information contained within in “probably like two minutes,” sending it to Paltrow’s defense team, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/03/28/viewer-who-accessed-group-chat-in-paltrow-case-says-opening-link-was-just-common-sense/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“It’s comical how easy it was,” Fletcher <a href="https://www.courttv.com/title/viewer-who-uncovered-group-chat-in-gwyneth-paltrow-ski-crash-case-speaks-to-court-tv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Court TV when the outlet interviewed him. “They kept repeating that it’s the most important piece of evidence, and they couldn’t figure it out. They had no idea how to open the link.”
Paltrow’s attorneys reportedly asked Sanderson’s daughters about GoPro camera footage of the incident that occurred on February 26, 2016, on a beginner’s slope at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, a resort town known for hosting the Sundance Film Festival.
Fletcher was able to access the information sent to Paltrow’s attorneys, which included messages from a man named Craig Ramon, who says he was the only person who witnessed the collision between Paltrow and Sanderson.
Sanderson has claimed that neither he nor those close to him knew that Paltrow was the other skier involved in the accident until sometime later, but Ramon’s messages make clear that he immediately knew Paltrow was involved.
“You could not make this up. Gwyneth took out Terry last week,” Ramon wrote in the messages uncovered by Fletcher. “Last Saturday, her son broke his arm skiing at Park City. Gwyneth was staying at the Montage. She took her plane out of Millionaire Airport. What makes me mad is Gwyneth took out Terry and then took off.”
The messages also reportedly showed that Sanderson and his friends also knew early on that Paltrow was the woman on the slope.
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Fletcher said that all he needed to do to open the link that baffled attorneys was to log in to the website where it was hosted.
“Like, I can’t believe they didn’t do this already. It’s almost a joke,” he told Court TV. “All I did was create a login for the website. If it’s a website that requires a login, you can’t access anything on it without a login … then the link works. It’s simple.”
Sanderson claims that the actress was skiing behind him on the slope and had turned to watch her children before, as his attorney said in court Tuesday, “she turns her head back down, she screams, then skis into the back of Terry Sanderson.” Sanderson’s attorney, Lawrence Buhler, said that after the collision, his client was left “facedown in the snow, unconscious,” <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/21/gwyneth-paltrow-ski-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The Washington Post</a>. After the encounter, Paltrow allegedly fled, leaving Sanderson “stunned, lying in the snow, seriously injured,” according to his lawsuit. Paltrow didn’t call for help, he added.
Sanderson later went to an emergency room and was diagnosed with a concussion and four broken ribs. Sanderson’s ski companion, Craig Ramon, testified at the civil trial that he saw Paltrow crash into Sanderson and knock him over.
“I hear this scream and then I see this skier just slam into the back of Terry,” Ramon testified.
Sanderson’s lawsuit <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gwyneth-paltrow-reportedly-to-take-stand-accused-of-hit-and-run-ski-accident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claims he suffered</a> a “permanent traumatic brain injury, four broken ribs, pain, suffering, loss of enjoyment of life, emotional distress and disfigurement.”
Paltrow’s attorneys have argued that, while a collision did occur between the actress and Sanderson seven years ago, it was the retired optometrist who crashed into her. One of her attorneys, Stephen Owens, said at the trial that because Paltrow was struck so suddenly, she at first thought she was being assaulted.
“She’s skiing, enjoying herself,” Owens said. “Suddenly she sees two skis appear between her skis. And a man comes up right behind her.”
Owens said that right after the crash, Sanderson asked, “Who ran into who?” and then apologized to Paltrow after she said that he ran into her. Paltrow’s defense team said members of her group checked on Sanderson after the accident and he said he was okay and said the same thing to a ski patrol member who came to check on them. The actress’ attorneys said Paltrow only skied away after Sanderson said he was okay and after ski patrol left and that the retired optometrist only sought help after he waved away ski patrol.
Owens said Ramon’s account of the incident was “a whole different, crazy story.” Owens argued that Sanderson didn’t know that Paltrow was involved at the time since she was wearing a helmet and goggles. But later, when he discovered who she was, he emailed his daughters, saying, “I’m famous.”
Sanderson is suing Paltrow for $300,000.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow On Trial For Ski Accident

Attorneys In Gwyneth Paltrow Trial Couldn’t Access A Document. A Court TV Viewer Did It In ‘Like Two Minutes’

Attorneys In Gwyneth Paltrow Trial Couldn't Access A Document. A Court TV Viewer Did It In 'Like Two Minutes'

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This article is adapted from today’s Morning Wire Afternoon Update. To listen to the podcast version, click <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.
Nashville Shooting Update
A former middle school friend of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nashville-shooter-sent-chilling-messages-to-a-friend-moments-before-entering-christian-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Covenant school shooter</a> revealed chilling messages that she received via Instagram shortly before the attack on the Nashville Christian elementary school. Daily Wire reporter Zach Jewell has more:
<blockquote>The shooter’s former middle school basketball teammate Averianna Patton saw the disturbing messages, at 9:57 a.m., around 15 minutes before the shooter entered the school. 
The shooter wrote: “I’m planning to die today. THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!! You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.” The messages show that Patton pleaded with the shooter, telling her that she had so much to live for, but the shooter responded with more chilling texts, including stating that “something bad is about to happen.” </blockquote>
Police Officers Praised For Decisive Action
Metro Nashville Police Department has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/graphic-bodycam-footage-shows-heroic-police-response-to-nashville-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">now released</a> the names and bodycam footage of the officers who stopped the assailant.  Rex Engelbert, a 4-year veteran, and Michael Collazo, a 9-year veteran, were part of a team of first responders to the Covenant campus. The two men are being praised for their heroic and courageous quick action. Body camera footage shows they decisively entered the school upon arriving on the scene, ran toward the shooting, and successfully killed the shooter.
China And Utah Teaming Up?
A new investigative <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/china-influences-utah-lawmakers-by-appealing-to-mormonism-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published this week by the Associated Press alleges that China has been able to forge ties in Utah that have led to the communist nation scoring public relations and legislative victories in the state and from its lawmakers. Daily Wire reporter Tim Pearce reported on &#8220;Afternoon Update&#8221;:
<blockquote>The report found that Chinese officials “appealed” to lawmaker’s ties to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to win favor. The Chinese later used that good will to score wins in a variety of areas, such as delaying legislation against Chinese propaganda, canceling resolutions that condemned China, and promoting false positive images of the Chinese regime. The report also said the Mormon church has “long dreamed of expanding in China.”  Some have speculated that Utah lawmakers&#8217; delayed decision to close universities’ Confucius Institutes, which the U.S. government has called Chinese propaganda groups, could be evidence of the Mormon Church’s goals.</blockquote>
Deadly Migrant Fire
More than three dozen people are dead after a fire at a migrant detention center in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mexico">Mexico</a>, just across from the U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/southern-border">southern border</a>. 
According to officials, at least 39 people are dead and 29 others hospitalized after a fire broke out at a migration center in Ciudad, Juarez, run by the National Migration Institute. Those hospitalized are in “delicate to serious condition.” Mexico’s President alleged that the fire started after the migrants, mostly from Venezuela, found out they were going to be deported and started a protest in response. According to authorities, they put mattresses from the shelter at the facility’s entrance and then set them on fire. Details are still trickling in.
DHS Can&#8217;t Say How Reliable Mexico Is
Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the Senate today, yet he was unable to say whether or not Mexico was a reliable partner in cracking down on the flow of drugs and illicit border crossing over the southern border:
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DHS Secretary Mayorkas can&#39;t say whether or not Mexico is a &quot;reliable partner&quot; in the fight against fentanyl. <a href="https://t.co/2tz06xT8Fo">pic.twitter.com/2tz06xT8Fo</a>
&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1640725370423894017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Miracle Baby Heads Home
And, the <a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/winner-youngest-surviving-baby-born-maine-living-home-family-medical-center-22-weeks#:~:text=PORTLAND%20(WGME)%20%E2%80%93%20A%20Maine,Maine%20Medical%20Center%20in%20July.&amp;text=MaineHealth%20says%20she%20is%20reportedly,ever%20born%20in%20the%20state." target="_blank" rel="noopener">youngest surviving baby ever born in the state of Maine</a> at just 22 weeks old last July has returned home after spending roughly 8 months in the hospital. The child’s name, fittingly enough, is “Winner” and her family says she will have to have a series of follow-ups with specialists but are thrilled to have her home. 
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Tuesday Afternoon Update: More Nashville Shooting Information, Migrant Fatal Fire, Maine Miracle Baby Heads Home

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