A reported assault at Lucille Umbarger Middle School in Skagit County, Washington, is under police investigation after an eighth-grade girl was allegedly attacked by two classmates over her perceived support for President Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The incident, which was captured on cellphone video that has since circulated among students and on social media, allegedly stems from TikTok posts made by the victim’s boyfriend. &#8220;Plan A: marry a nice girl, have kids, get rich,&#8221; he stated. In another, he wrote &#8220;Plan B: become an ICE agent.&#8221;
According to the 13-year-old girl and her mother, the student was cornered in a school locker room by two classmates who demanded to know her political stances. Reporter Brandi Kruse of unDivided, who said she has been in contact with the family, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/9Dp04NreQAI?t=1849s">reported</a> that the students asked whether the girl supported President Trump and ICE. When she responded that it was none of their business, the family alleges she was &#8220;violently&#8221; assaulted.
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Video of the incident appears to show two students punching the girl, pulling her hair, and attempting to drag her to the floor while other students watched or recorded the altercation.
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GRAPHIC WARING: Two students BEAT a girl senseless at Lucille Umbarger Middle School in Burlington, WA, after demanding to know whether she supports Trump and ICE. She told them it was none of their business. Police are involved. More today on our live show at 12pm. <a href="https://t.co/GYWfxgPu8t">pic.twitter.com/GYWfxgPu8t</a>
&mdash; Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrandiKruse/status/2026004328704811108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2026</a></blockquote>
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The victim’s family has expressed outrage not only over the alleged assault but also over what they describe as a delayed response from the school district. Kruse reported that although the video had been shared among students and staff for days, it took the school’s principal five days to contact the alleged victim’s mother. The family alleges the school only reached out after media inquiries began.
Burlington Police Chief Kevin Turner confirmed that the department has opened an active investigation into the incident. &#8220;We are working through all the details,&#8221; Turner stated, adding that because the case involves juveniles, further information cannot be released at this time.
The school district is reportedly developing a &#8220;safety plan&#8221; to allow the student to return to campus. According to Kruse, local law enforcement has recommended extending the suspension of the two alleged attackers until the girl&#8217;s safety can be ensured.
As of press time, the Burlington-Edison School District has not issued a formal public statement. The girl’s mother, who authorized the release of the details to the public, remains critical of how the administration handled the immediate aftermath, describing the attack on her daughter as &#8220;savage.&#8221;

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The Trump administration appears to be gearing up for a substantial response to Iran, Washington state allegedly spends millions on gender surgeries for inmates, and whiplash hits Moderna as the Food and Drug Administration reverses its decision not to review the company’s new flu vaccine.
It’s Thursday, February 19, 2026, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">U.S. Surrounds Iran</h2>
Amid escalating tensions over Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the killings of thousands of protesters, the Trump administration appears to be gearing up for an armed response. 
Over the last 36 hours, the Middle East has seen the largest military buildup in decades. Hundreds of cargo flights have transported weapons systems to the region, as hundreds of fighter jets, dozens of warships, and multiple aircraft carrier groups have also made their way towards Iran. 
This may be a negotiating tactic by the United States to secure concessions from Tehran as diplomatic talks continue. But numerous advisers to President Donald Trump, <a href="https://x.com/rcpvideo/status/2024169941696459097?s=20">including</a> his former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said they don’t think it’s a bluff. Trump reportedly feels emboldened by the success of his bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities back in June and the operation to grab Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in January. 
As one former American diplomat put it to The Wall Street Journal, the president’s offer to Iran “is similar to Venezuela, surrender and we won’t attack you.”
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Blue State Spends Millions On Gender Surgeon</h2>
A new investigation found that Washington state has spent millions on the services of a gender surgeon who performs surgeries on prison inmates. 
The Washington State Healthcare Authority has paid more than $4.3 million since July 2019 for the services of Dr. Jeffrey Stiller. 
He is a prolific transgender surgeon, and according to his website, he&#8217;s performed more than 1,000 vaginoplasties, averaging five procedures per week, describing his services as extremely sought-after. 
Importantly, for this investigation, public records obtained by The Daily Wire show that Dr. Stiller&#8217;s clientele included a steady stream of inmates from Washington Department of Corrections facilities.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">FDA’s Moderna Reversal</h2>
There’s whiplash at Moderna as the Food and Drug Administration reverses its decision not to review the company’s new flu vaccine. 
The FDA decided it will allow Moderna to move forward with its new mRNA flu vaccine. The agency blocked it last week, but allowed it to move forward again after the pharma company agreed to additional testing. 
The vaccine is expected to be brought to market in two phases: the first for people 65 and older through a process of “accelerated approval,” which will allow it to move forward with limited evidence. The vaccine for that cohort can later receive full approval with more tests. After those are completed, the vaccine will also be released for adults ages 50-64, assuming the results of those tests come back positive.

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A new report details a serious allegation of sexual assault and a subsequent breakdown in institutional oversight within Washington&#8217;s Puyallup School District. The story centers on Kallie Keeler, a 16-year-old female sophomore wrestler at Rogers High School who has competed in the sport since early childhood.
During a wrestling match on December 6, Keeler competed in the 190-pound weight class against an opponent from Emerald Ridge High School. Video from the bout appears to show Keeler in visible distress. According to her testimony, the opponent, a transgender-identifying boy, forcefully inserted his fingers into her private area during a move, causing her to feel violated and disoriented. Keeler later said she allowed herself to be pinned in order to end the match and escape the situation.
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16-year-old Kallie Keeler didn&#8217;t even realize she was wrestling a boy. She didn&#8217;t find out until after she says he forcefully pushed his fingers into her vagina. The Puyallup (WA) School District is accused of burying her complaint – now there&#8217;s now a criminal investigation. <a href="https://t.co/4LRo0ft0wI">pic.twitter.com/4LRo0ft0wI</a>
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“I didn&#8217;t really know what to do or how to handle that situation. I just wanted the match to be over,” Keeler said.
Immediately after the match, Keeler told her mother what she said had occurred and attempted to locate her coach. It was only afterward, she said, that a coach from a different school informed her that her opponent had been permitted to compete in the girls&#8217; division despite being a biological male. Keeler expressed a sense of double violation: first by the alleged physical assault, and second by the realization that she had been tricked into competing against a male athlete in a high-contact sport without her knowledge or consent.
To assess whether the contact could have been accidental, reporter Brandi Kruse consulted wrestling experts with decades of experience. After reviewing the video, the experts concluded that the position executed did not require the type of contact alleged. They noted that in similar situations, a wrestler typically grips the opponent&#8217;s thigh or knee rather than making prolonged contact in a prohibited area.
The most significant administrative issue centers on the Puyallup School District’s response. Despite Keeler reporting the incident immediately and her parents emailing coaches, the district reportedly took no formal action for nearly two months. This delay came despite Washington state law requiring school officials to report suspected sexual assault to law enforcement within 48 hours.
The district did not report the incident to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office until January 30, one day after the media contacted the district for comment. The Sheriff’s Office has since confirmed that an active criminal investigation is underway. Critics have accused district officials of remaining silent in order to protect what they describe as &#8220;radical gender ideology&#8221; at the expense of student safety and state law. Keeler continues to advocate for policy changes, asserting that biological males should not compete in women&#8217;s strength-based sports.

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The Trump administration on Tuesday took action against six blue states that it says have failed to comply with requests to produce their voter rolls. 
The Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-six-additional-states-failure-provide-voter-registration-rolls">announced</a> suits against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington for not producing statewide registration lists. Without these lists, the Justice Department said that they cannot certify that the states are maintaining an accurate count of eligible voters. 
&#8220;Accurate voter rolls are the cornerstone of fair and free elections, and too many states have fallen into a pattern of noncompliance with basic voter roll maintenance,&#8221; said Attorney General Pam Bondi. &#8220;The Department of Justice will continue filing proactive election integrity litigation until states comply with basic election safeguards.&#8221;
The suits come amid a push from Republicans nationwide to crack down on non-citizen voting and maintain clean voter registration lists.
The lawsuits say that the states are not acting in accordance with the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act, which compel states to maintain accurate voter lists. The attorney general is empowered to enforce those laws and has a right to access the lists under the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the suits say.
&#8220;States that continue to defy federal voting laws interfere with our mission of ensuring that Americans have accurate voter lists as they go to the polls, that every vote counts equally, and that all voters have confidence in election results. At this Department of Justice, we will not stand for this open defiance of federal civil rights laws,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1419811/dl?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery">lawsuit</a> against Rhode Island says that on September 16 Rhode Island sent a letter to the Justice Department refusing a September 8 request for voter roll information. The letter said that the states “objects to providing” the requested information, according to the suit. This requested information includes driver license information and the last four digits of Social Security numbers used to register for voting. 
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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha claimed the suit was an example of Trump weaponizing the Justice Department. 
“We stand with and will defend the secretary, and win, because lawsuits concerning lawful conduct are largely unsuccessful,” he said. “But I’m not surprised that this administration is confused about what it means to behave lawfully.”
In September, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/justice-dept-sues-six-states-for-refusing-to-hand-over-key-voter-data">announced</a> suits against Michigan, California, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and New York over the same issue.

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday gave California, New Mexico, and Washington 30 days to comply with federal English proficiency rules for truckers or risk losing federal funding.
Duffy criticized the three states for failing to enforce new Trump administration rules requiring English proficiency for truck drivers. He announced the move after the Department of Transportation launched an investigation into a deadly August 12 crash on the Florida Turnpike, in which an illegal immigrant driver allegedly killed three people after making an illegal U-turn.
“We at DOT and Federal Motor Carriers, we are not going to tolerate states that don’t comply with the rules that come from this department,” Duffy said at a press conference. “We are going to give these states 30 days to come into compliance with truck drivers speaking proficiently the English language, or we’re going to look at the federal funding that they receive under the Motor Carriers Safety Assistance Program.”
Harjinder Singh, the accused driver in the Florida crash, was given a commercial driver&#8217;s license by both California and Washington. New Mexico law enforcement also failed to administer an English proficiency test to Singh when he was pulled over in July for speeding, the Transportation Department found.
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California could lose $30 million, Washington $10 million, and New Mexico $7 million if they don’t align with the English proficiency standards. The policy was first announced in May and then implemented at the end of June.
“When we did that, there was a lot of press that complained to us that we were being unfair to people, that we were being mean to people,” Duffy said. “And what we said was, ‘no, this is a safety issue.’ Making sure drivers of very heavy, 80,000-pound rigs can speak the language is truly a critical safety issue.”
Duffy said his department would take additional steps to ensure compliance if the states did not satisfy the requirements.
An investigation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found that from June 25 to August 21, California allowed at least 23 drivers with documented violations of English proficiency in other states to remain on the road.
During that same period, Washington allowed four drivers to stay on the road with proficiency violations from other states and two drivers who violated proficiency regulations in Washington.
New Mexico also allowed seven drivers to stay on the road who had documented failures in English proficiency.
The Trump administration has taken other steps to crack down on the number of truck drivers who are unable to understand English. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that he had paused the issuance of work visas for commercial truck drivers.

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Washington state violated federal safety rules when it granted a commercial driver’s licence to an illegal immigrant now accused of vehicular homicide in a deadly Florida car crash, and New Mexico State Police did not administer a required English Language Proficiency test during a traffic stop involving the same individual, a preliminary review from the Department of Transportation found.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday that he had launched an <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/briefing-room/trumps-transportation-secretary-announces-investigation-deadly-florida-truck-crash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">investigation</a> into an August 12 crash on the Florida Turnpike in St. Lucie County, where a semi-truck driver allegedly made an illegal U-turn that caused a fatal collision with a minivan, resulting in the deaths of three individuals. Authorities have identified the driver of the truck as 28-year-old Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India who crossed into the country in 2018. 
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A 37-year-old woman, a 54-year-old man, and a 30-year-old man died in the crash. Singh has been charged with three counts of vehicular homicide. Duffy said the investigation by the feds would support Florida’s criminal investigation. 
“If states had followed the rules, this driver would never have been behind the wheel and three precious lives would still be with us,” Duffy said. “This crash was a preventable tragedy directly caused by reckless decisions and compounded by despicable failures.”
Duffy said that the probe from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration would focus on Singh and White Hawk Carriers, the California-based company that owned the truck involved in the crash, which has a <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article311752619.html">history</a> of safety violations. 
Initial findings from the Department of Transportation indicate that Washington issued Singh a regular full-term Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) on July 15, 2023, even though illegal immigrants and asylum seekers are not eligible for such licenses. 
California also issued Singh a limited-term/non-domiciled CDL on July 23, 2024. Duffy said that the issuance of this license was still under investigation to determine if it was done in accordance with federal law. The Trump administration and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom have clashed in recent days over responsibility for the fatal crash. 
The investigation also found that Singh was pulled over by New Mexico State Police on July 3, and given a roadside inspection and speeding ticket. Investigators found that law enforcement did not administer an English Language Proficiency test despite being required to under Trump administration guidelines implemented on June 25. 
When the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interviewed Singh, officials found that he was not proficient in English and did not understand basic road signs. He could only provide correct responses on two out of twelve verbal questions and only identified one out of four highway traffic signs, investigators found. 
“Non-enforcement and radical immigration policies have turned the trucking industry into a lawless frontier, resulting in unqualified foreign drivers improperly acquiring licenses to operate 40-ton vehicles,” Duffy added. “We will use every tool at our disposal to hold these states and bad actors accountable. President Trump and I will restore safety to our roads. The families of the deceased deserve justice.”

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WASHINGTON—Building off President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order targeting crime and disorder on American streets, Senator Tom Cotton is introducing legislation aimed at cleaning up the nation&#8217;s capital.
The Daily Wire can first report that the Arkansas Republican will introduce the Prohibiting Encampments on Public Grounds Act on Tuesday. The bill would make it unlawful to set up, maintain, or establish camps or temporary abodes on public property in Washington, D.C.
“Our nation’s capital should be a point of pride, not littered with homeless encampments that endanger visitors like the thousands of Arkansans who visit each year,&#8221; Cotton told The Daily Wire. &#8220;This bill would clean up D.C.’s public property and allow law enforcement officials to maintain order in the streets of our nation’s capital.&#8221; 
Those who violate the terms of the bill would be fined $500, imprisoned for up to 30 days, or both.
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The president&#8217;s executive order, signed July 24, directs the Attorney General to reverse judicial precedents and end consent decrees that are block state and local governments from committing &#8220;individuals on the streets who are a risk to themselves or others.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s order was aimed at &#8220;making America safe again,&#8221; one of the president&#8217;s major campaign promises. It also requires Attorney General Pam Bondi to work with other administration officials to prioritize grants for both states and municipalities that enforce bans on &#8220;open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering, and urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders.&#8221;
The executive order focuses attention on providing both shelter and mental health resources to the homeless, and, in addition to allowing programs to exclusively house women and children — as opposed to men who identify as transgender women — it blocks sex offenders who are receiving homelessness assistance from being housed with children.
The Trump administration has argued that shifting the homeless into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment is the best way to restore public order, pointing to the highest number ever recorded of individuals living on American streets on a single night during the last year of the Biden administration: 274,224.
Most of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have mental health disorders, or both, according to a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/">fact sheet</a> from the White House, which argues that federal and state governments have spent billions seeking to address homelessness without addressing the root causes.
Asked last week about homeless individuals sleeping outside the gates of the White House, the president responded: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s terrible and we&#8217;ll have them removed immediately.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;ve gotta get the mayor to run this city properly,&#8221; he told reporters.

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An ex-Army Sergeant faces up to ten years in prison after he pleaded guilty to attempting to give American military secrets to China. 
Joseph Daniel Schmidt, 31, last stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, pled guilty on Wednesday to charges of attempting to deliver national defense information and retention of national defense information. He will be sentenced in September by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour. In addition to prison, Schmidt could be hit with a $250,000 fine.  
Schmidt was an active duty soldier from January 2015 to January 2020 and mainly worked with the 109th Military Intelligence Battalion at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. During his military service, he had access to information designated as secret and top secret, according to the Justice Department. 
After leaving the military in January 2020, Schmidt emailed the Chinese Consulate in Turkey and the Chinese security service, offering to provide them with national defense information. 
In March 2020, Schmidt flew to Hong Kong, where he attempted to give Chinese security officials intelligence he had kept from his time in the military. According to the Justice Department, he produced multiple documents detailing the “high level secrets” he had in his possession and offered to give a device that allows access to secure military computers to the Chinese. 
He flew back to the United States in October 2023 when he was arrested in San Francisco. 
“Joseph Daniel Schmidt was once a trusted guardian of our nation’s secrets and swore an oath to defend and protect U.S. national security,” Assistant Director Suzanne Turner of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division said in October 2023 when Schmidt was indicted. “As alleged by the government, Schmidt betrayed his promise and potentially placed our nation at risk in his attempts to pass national defense information to Chinese security services.”
In recent years, the FBI has made a number of arrests involving former American soldiers accused of attempting to give sensitive military information to China. 
Earlier this year, former Army intelligence officer Korbein Schultz was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-army-intel-officer-sentenced-after-selling-u-s-military-secrets-to-china" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> to seven years in prison for selling critical military documents to an individual believed to be tied to the Chinese government. Schultz was paid $42,000 for information on American military exercises and technical equipment manuals.
Just last month, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/active-duty-and-former-us-army-soldiers-arrested-theft-government-property-and-bribery">announced</a> that Jian Zhao and Li Tian, both active duty Army soldiers also stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and former soldier Ruoyu Duan had been charged with stealing U.S. military secrets. They were accused of taking top-secret hard drives, information on weapon systems, and documents on missile defenses to sell to individuals based in China.

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Macklemore, a rapper best known for the 2012 song “Thrift Shop,” was the victim of a home invasion at his Seattle residence over the weekend while his children and nanny were there. 
According to the police report, two men allegedly entered the residence just after midnight on Saturday morning. A woman later identified as the family nanny was able to escape and call 911 after she was hit with a blast of bear spray. 
“She escaped, but three children were still inside the house,” the report said, per <a href="https://people.com/macklemore-seattle-home-reportedly-robbed-3-children-inside-cops-11751678">People</a>. “[The caller] also added that the house belonged to a high-profile individual.”
The woman claims the intruders yelled at her, asking, “Where are the jewels, b*tch?” She then said she brought them to a bedroom and observed as the thieves “went through drawers, cabinets and raided the closet full of clothing, jewelry, and shoes.”
Social media users are pointing out the hypocrisy of police being dispatched to his home during a crisis after the rapper released the song “Hind’s Hall” last year, which was critical of law enforcement and referred to police officers as “actors with badges.”
The report also noted that the nanny believed the attack was “politically motivated for some reason.”
The 41-year-old recording artist, whose real name is Benjamin Haggerty, shares three children with his wife. The family lives in the Capitol Hill area of Seattle. 
Macklemore was in Ireland at the time of the alleged break-in, per <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2025/06/10/macklemore-seattle-home-burglary-nanny-bear-maced/">TMZ</a>.
Macklemore&#8217;s anti-police single is also explicitly anti-Israel.
“Block the barricade until Palestine is free/When I was seven, I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy-E,” the lyrics say. “What was it again? Oh yeah, f** the police/Actors in badges protecting property/And a system that was designed by white supremacy.”
The song was also critical of former President Joe Biden. &#8220;The blood is on your hands Biden, we can see it all,&#8221; the lyrics said. &#8220;And f*** no, I’m not voting for you in the fall.&#8221;
In 2023, at an anti-Israel rally in Washington, D.C., Macklemore took the stage and told the crowd, “I don’t know enough, but I know enough that this is a genocide,” as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rapper-slammed-after-encouraging-crowd-to-chant-fk-america">reported</a>.  Macklemore made headlines in 2024 for encouraging a crowd at a Seattle concert to chant, &#8220;F*** America.&#8221;

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The same trans-identifying male high schooler who dominated last year&#8217;s girls’ Washington state track high school championship did it again over the weekend.
Verónica Garcia, 17, snagged his second state title in two years when he won the girls&#8217; 2A 400-meter race on Saturday.
In video of the race, Garcia can be seen crossing the finish line with a healthy lead over the second place runner.
Garcia, who runs on the girls&#8217; team at East Valley High School, won the same race last year with a record-smashing time of 55.59, close to his time this year, 55.75.
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Update from Lauren Matthew, the real state champ!🏆
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Garcia was heckled and booed by the crowd both before and after the race.
One man wearing a shirt that read &#8220;Save women&#8217;s sports&#8221; <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/wa-transgender-athlete-veronica-garcia-repeats-as-state-track-champion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> shouted “Let’s go girls!” and “girls’ race!”
The crowd also reportedly cheered for every female runner during the medal ceremony, but booed when Garcia was announced as the winner.
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After the race, Garcia lashed out at his critics, saying said the heckling made him &#8220;angry&#8221; and want to win even more.
“I’ll be honest, I kind of expect it,” Garcia <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/high-school/wa-transgender-athlete-veronica-garcia-repeats-as-state-track-champion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Seattle Times. “But it maybe didn’t have their intended effect. It made me angry, but not angry as in, I wanted to give up, but angry as in, I’m going to push.&#8221;
“I’m going to put this in the most PG-13 way, I’m just going to say it’s a damn shame they don’t have anything else better to do. I hope they get a life. But oh well. It just shows who they are as people.”
He previously placed near the bottom when he ran for the boys&#8217; team several years ago. In October 2022, Garcia ran in the boys’ 5,000-meter junior varsity race and <a href="https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/meet/209254/results/874400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">placed</a> 164th out of 172.
Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer whose 2022 loss to trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas helped ignite the battle to keep men out of women’s sports, praised the girl who placed second behind Garcia on Saturday.
&#8220;Congratulations to Lauren Matthew, the real Washington State Champion in the girls&#8217; 400m,&#8221; Gaines posted on X.
In another post, Matthew appeared holding a sign that read “Washington State Track and Field Real Girls 2A 400m Champion.”
In 2007, Washington state became the first state to pass legislation allowing trans-identifying males to participate in women&#8217;s sports. However, state law now conflicts with President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order banning federal funds for schools that allow males in girls&#8217; sports.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, which governs high school sports in the state, still allows trans-identifying students to compete on the team of the opposite sex.
In December, a group of 14 school districts proposed changing the policy to keep males off female teams, but ultimately, no action was taken.

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After leftist radicals — some clothed in black and wearing masks — attacked a Christian rally in Seattle on Saturday, Mayor Bruce Harrell issued a statement in which he condemned the Christian organizers of the event.
The rally in Cal Anderson Park, described by Harrell as &#8220;Seattle&#8217;s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood,&#8221; prompted the arrest of at least 22 people, Fox 13 <a href="https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/mayor-harrell-far-right-rally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, which added, “Mayor Harrell is now directing the Parks Department to review the circumstances of the rally organizer&#8217;s application.” Mayday USA, the rally&#8217;s organizer, is <a href="https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/protests-bruce-harrell">reportedly</a> described as &#8220;a faith-based activist group that calls on Christians to speak out against abortion, child trafficking and the perceived moral decline of society.&#8221;
In the wake of Saturday&#8217;s altercation, Harrell released the following <a href="https://harrell.seattle.gov/2025/05/24/mayor-harrell-statement-on-extreme-right-wing-rally-at-cal-anderson-park/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, in which he called the service a “far-right rally” and declared there was an “extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities”:
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Seattle is proud of our reputation as a welcoming, inclusive city for LGBTQ+ communities, and we stand with our trans neighbors when they face bigotry and injustice. Today’s far-right rally was held here for this very reason – to provoke a reaction by promoting beliefs that are inherently opposed to our city’s values, in the heart of Seattle’s most prominent LGBTQ+ neighborhood.
When the humanity of trans people and those who have been historically marginalized is questioned, we triumph by demonstrating our values through our words and peaceful protest – we lose our voice when this is disrupted by violence, chaos, and confusion.
Anarchists infiltrated the counter-protestors group and inspired violence, prompting SPD to make arrests and ask organizers to shut down the event early, which they did.
While there are broad First Amendment requirements around permitting events under free speech protections, I am directing the Parks Department to review all of the circumstances of this application to understand whether there were legal location alternatives or other adjustments that could have been pursued. The Police Department will complete an after-action report of this event, including understanding preparation, crowd management tactics, and review of arrests and citations.
I am grateful for those who make their voices heard in support of our neighbors without resorting to violence. In the face of an extreme right-wing national effort to attack our trans and LGBTQ+ communities, Seattle will continue to stand unwavering in our embrace of diversity, love for our neighbors, and commitment to justice and fairness.
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One of the participants in the rally, Russell Johnson, the lead pastor at Pursuit NW, wrote on X that Harrell had claimed he was targeted because he was biracial, noting:
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The @MayorofSeattle tries to reach out to me via back channels. I told his folks… i’m happy to talk after he apologizes and retracts his bigoted statements about people of faith. **crickets** Now he releases a statement saying he is being “intimidated” because he is biracial. That’s how you know we are winning. That’s how you know his resignation is impending.  News Flash  @MayorofSeattle: you attacked us in public and you will be held to account in public.  If you want to talk, me and 1000 others will be on your doorstep Tuesday at 5PM.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofSeattle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorofSeattle</a> tries to reach out to me via back channels. I told his folks… i’m happy to talk after he apologizes and retracts his bigoted statements about people of faith.
**crickets**
Now he releases a statement saying he is being “intimidated” because he is biracial.… <a href="https://t.co/A9Vyqzun5y">pic.twitter.com/A9Vyqzun5y</a>
&mdash; Russell Johnson (@russellbjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/russellbjohnson/status/1927192481898115535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom is considering getting involved:
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Alliance Defending Freedom is evaluating legal action against <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorofSeattle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MayorofSeattle</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/CityofSeattle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CityofSeattle</a> officials following the violent disruption of the MayDay USA worship event. 
Federal and state laws protect free speech and religious freedom for all, regardless of their views.…
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Johnson also released an announcement of the planned Tuesday rally:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: <a href="https://t.co/K8ThKOCxMy">pic.twitter.com/K8ThKOCxMy</a>
&mdash; Russell Johnson (@russellbjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/russellbjohnson/status/1927101796561879550?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
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WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump made it clear last week that he wanted Ed Martin to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. And Martin believes he would have been confirmed to the position, despite Democratic opposition and media outrage, if Senator Thom Tillis had not intervened. 
“I was surprised, and I think the president was too, that Thom Tillis took the position he took,” Martin shared in a Monday interview with The Daily Wire. “I believe we had the votes if we could get to the floor, I really do…I was confident we could make an argument, but ultimately, Thom Tillis decided it was the stand he wanted to make, for reasons that defy good sense to me.”
Tillis, who&#8217;s up for re-election in North Carolina, a swing state, had reservations about Martin&#8217;s defense of people imprisoned for their role in the January 6 Capitol Riot. Tillis intimated that he represented a group of senators who also would not back Martin, and the White House decided there was nothing to do but move on. Up to the last minute, right-wing commentators and prominent Trump supporters, including Charlie Kirk and Vince Coglianese, held out hope that Martin would still be confirmed. 
But on May 8, Trump announced that he had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-taps-former-da-and-fox-news-host-for-acting-d-c-u-s-attorney-in-a-class-by-herself">chosen</a> Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro to serve as interim D.C. attorney general.
Still, White House officials were annoyed with Tillis and frustrated by the failure of the nomination. Martin had practiced law for the past two decades and held senior positions at the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund, as well as chaired the Missouri Republican Party and served as a member of the Republican National Committee.  
They also thought Martin was well-suited to tackle one of Trump&#8217;s top priorities: cleaning up Washington, D.C. After all, Martin had served as acting U.S. Attorney for D.C. since early spring, and under his watch, D.C. saw a 25% drop in violent crime, including significant decreases in robberies, assaults, and homicides.
Martin isn&#8217;t too beat up about the role change.
“President Trump always turns these kinds of moments into opportunities,” Martin said on Monday, eager and excited as he spoke with The Daily Wire, sharing that Pirro has repeatedly told him that Trump encouraged her to talk to Martin on various projects. &#8220;Talk to Ed, work with Ed on this, he’s got things lined up.” 
Martin has been given an arguably more prestigious placement: he’ll now serve as the director of the Justice Department&#8217;s &#8220;Weaponization Working Group,&#8221; as well as associate deputy attorney general and pardon attorney at the Justice Department. 
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“I never expected six months ago that Donald J. Trump would be talking about Ed Martin with such familiarity,” he added. “I had met him a few times, but now you know, ‘He’s a good guy, Ed’s a good guy.’ That&#8217;s kind of shake-your-head, surreal, but awfully kind of him.” 
Tillis hasn’t responded to a number of requests for comment from The Daily Wire. But the senator, who hails from the &#8220;the heart of the deep state,&#8221; as Martin supporter Mike Benz<a href="https://x.com/Bannons_WarRoom/status/1919876482601529714"> argued on Bannon&#8217;s War Room</a>, has drawn the wrath of top conservative podcasters and commentators like Kirk and Coglianese. 
During a fiery episode of the Charlie Kirk Show on Wednesday, Kirk tore into the senator, reminding him that he is up for re-election and castigating him for voting for former President Joe Biden’s nominations. 
&#8220;We saw this in the Hegseth fight, in the Tulsi fight, in the Bobby Kennedy fight,&#8221; said Kirk of the Republican defectors. &#8220;Did they learn nothing? And the answer is yes&#8230;There is no excuse where you go and vote for Biden&#8217;s D.C. U.S. attorney and Biden&#8217;s United States Attorney General, and you will not vote for Trump&#8217;s U.S. attorney.&#8221;
Kirk has<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlie-kirk-has-thoughts-on-which-republicans-need-a-primary-challenge"> repeatedly threatened</a> Republican senators with primary challenges if they buck Trump&#8217;s agenda, but specifically told The Daily Wire in December that he did not want to go after Tillis&#8217;s seat. On Wednesday, he reiterated his desire to protect Tillis&#8217;s seat, arguing: &#8220;I wanna hold on to the North Carolina Senate seat. I&#8217;ve been pulling for Thom Tillis to find his inner MAGA. But when someone violates this, you gotta call him out.&#8221;
&#8220;Man, Thom Tillis, I&#8217;m begging for you to give Trump voters an excuse to vote for you, but you are actively hostile against us,&#8221; Kirk warned. &#8220;You&#8217;ve declared war on us. And because of that, the chance of you getting elected in a general election is going down tremendously…You might think you&#8217;re being all sanctimonious and uppity and a good person, but you are now jeopardizing this hard won Senate seat in North Carolina for being principled.&#8221;
Meanwhile, Coglianese was eviscerating Tillis on his show &#8220;VINCE,&#8221; where he directed his formidable audience to flood Tillis&#8217;s office with demands to back Martin — &#8220;especially if you are from North Carolina.&#8221;
&#8220;Be honest about what you want here,&#8221; he urged his following. &#8220;You want Ed Martin confirmed.&#8221;
&#8220;As of this hour, Thom Tillis&#8217;s office is hiding from you,&#8221; Coglianese told his audience. &#8220;Senator Tillis has not agreed to an interview on this show or on our nationwide radio broadcast. They&#8217;re laying low. They&#8217;re trying to hide from that accountability.” 
Since Trump’s Thursday announcement that Pirro would replace Martin, Tillis has repeatedly posted praise of Trump on social media, touting the president’s border wins and arguing, “The Golden Age is just beginning.” 
“He’s definitely spent the last week sucking up to Trump all over X,” Coglianese said in a text message to The Daily Wire. “He’s trying to tweet his way through this.”
Why did Tillis object to Martin’s confirmation? According to Martin, and friends of the acting U.S. Attorney for D.C., Tillis is passionate about the January 6 Capitol Riot. Martin says he spent 90 minutes talking with the senator in preparation for the judiciary committee. During that meeting, Martin said, Tillis made it very clear that he was frustrated with Trump’s pardons of the January 6 prisoners, as well as frustrated with Martin and others who defended “J6 folks.” 
“I have no tolerance for anybody that entered the building on Jan. 6, and that’s probably where most of the friction was,&#8221; Tillis shared with reporters on Tuesday evening last week. 
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“He seemed to me to be someone who has completely accepted what I would call the mainstream hoax of J6,” Martin said, reflecting on his conversations with Tillis. “Obviously, when there&#8217;s a policeman hit by a protester, that&#8217;s not acceptable, ever. But most people agree that January 6 had a lot of things going on that really don&#8217;t make a lot of sense and especially the prosecution of hundreds of people with a fake charge, the 1512 charge that the bipartisan Supreme Court threw out.” 
According to Martin supporter Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, Tillis &#8220;mocked the shooting death of Ashli Babbitt&#8221; in discussions about Martin’s confirmation. Those present were surprised at how &#8220;heated and overwrought&#8221; Tillis became, Fitton shared with The Daily Wire. 
&#8220;If I were Senator Tillis I would apologize to Ashli family for mocking the circumstances of her death,&#8221; Fitton said, adding that, &#8220;the charitable interpretation is that he doesn’t have all the information about what happened.&#8221;
Martin was bothered by Tillis’s analysis of what happened at the United States Capitol that day, sharing that Tillis went “on and on and on” about how anyone who went into the Capitol at any time, for any reason that day, was “morally, legally, and ethically wrong,” and characterized Ashli Babbitt as wrong, “dramatically.” 
“This is a guy that isn&#8217;t really catching onto reality,” Martin said he thought at the time. “He&#8217;s locked in a hoax and once you meet somebody in that space it&#8217;s sometimes very difficult to get them to break out of it.” 
During that meeting, Tillis allegedly told Martin that he would support the next steps toward a vote, but not necessarily that he would vote for Martin.
“He had told me, and I think the president, and others, that he would give us a chance to get forward and then suddenly he decided not to,” Martin said, adding that he does not know “whether someone got to him,” or “whether he decided something that he didn&#8217;t tell us.” 
Tillis also told press that he would vote for Martin in any other district, a remark that particularly bothered the acting U.S. attorney for D.C.
“That means he doesn&#8217;t think I have a character problem to serve as U.S. attorney [and] doesn&#8217;t think I have a skill problem to serve as U.S. attorney,” Martin pointed out. “Remember, there&#8217;s a lot of people and a lot of interests that are overlapping in my office. Our office is the office that is investigating the massive transfers of wealth to organizations and entities, whether it&#8217;s USAID or others, that&#8217;s all in our jurisdiction.” 
“I&#8217;m excited to go over to lead the weaponization working group, but we’ve already been working on that in our office,” he noted. He’s had experience with pardons, since President Trump pardoned almost 1,600 J6-ers and over 30 pro-life activists targeted by the previous administration, as well as some police officers. 
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And he’s excited to follow through on the president’s promise to end the weaponization of government. Martin noted that the American people greatly distrust what’s going on in Washington, given many of the events of the last four years, and he argued that the first thing “we have to do is to let the sunshine in and let people see what went on.” 
“One of the ways is just to name them, name and shame them, but also to prosecute as much as we can,” he explained. “And the last thing we have to do is heal people.” 
He just finished hanging up the pictures in his D.C. office, he joked, so now he’ll have to take them all down. But he’s looking forward to being freed up to be in the fight against weaponization.
“I’ve been promoted to being a general instead of being kind of a commander of a unit in the battle, so I kind of feel freed in that way,” he joked.
&#8220;It’s all good. Life is good, God is good, and you just gotta keep going forward and try to do good things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This president has given us lots of opportunities.”

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