The sheriff of Laramie County, Wyoming, just sent a loud and clear warning to illegal immigrants in his county: &#8220;Truck around and find out.&#8221;
Sheriff Brian Kozak said his office conducted &#8220;a three-day operation called &#8216;Truck Around and Find Out'&#8221; that led to 177 vehicle stops, nabbing 32 illegal immigrants along major interstates in the Cowboy State. Those illegal immigrants have since been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
&#8220;I really want to thank the truck drivers who are out there doing it right. I especially want to thank the truck drivers that were honking at our deputies, waving at them, stopping, thanking our deputies for helping them keep their industry safe and our roadways safe in Laramie County,&#8221; Kozak said in a recent Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laramiecountysheriff/reel/DVOvAy7kcHN/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>.
&#8220;So hopefully now the word is out, this is not the county that you want to truck around and find out. And when I say truck around, I mean drive a truck undocumented, unlicensed, and unsafe,&#8221; he said.
The operation focused on commercial trucks and cars driving recklessly near them. Deputies also issued 51 citations overall.
“Our traffic unit, which I have three full-time deputies assigned to traffic enforcement, they are looking for these violations every day,” Kozak <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/02/27/32-illegal-drivers-turned-over-to-ice-during-3-day-laramie-county-truck-crackdown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Cowboy State Daily Friday. “And they seem to be bringing in either unlicensed or undocumented truck drivers every other day.&#8221;
“So, it’s a continuing thing for us,&#8221; he said.
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Similar operations have been done along major highways in Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas, and California, where hundreds of illegal immigrant truckers have been pulled off the roads.
The issue earned national attention after Harjinder Singh, an illegal immigrant from India, allegedly killed three people after making an illegal U-turn on a Florida interstate in August.
Singh had received a California commercial driver’s license after crossing the southern border illegally in 2018. He later failed his commercial driver&#8217;s license test ten times in two months before he received it, Fox News previously reported.
Singh&#8217;s fatal crash is part of a larger string of devastating collisions caused by illegal immigrant truckers.
The issue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congress-to-spotlight-illegal-immigrant-trucking-crashes-in-upcoming-hearing?author=Jennie+Taer&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Congress+Turns+Spotlight+on+Deadly+Crashes+Involving+Illegal+Immigrant+Truckers">will also be spotlighted</a> at a House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability hearing on Wednesday that will feature the sheriff from the county where Singh&#8217;s crash occurred, The Daily Wire first reported.
“We’re seeing in Wyoming and throughout the country, these big trucks are causing crashes and people are dying,&#8221; Kozak told the Cowboy State Daily.

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‘Truck Around And Find Out’: Wyoming Sheriff Nabs 32 Illegal Immigrant Truckers In Just Three Days

'Truck Around And Find Out': Wyoming Sheriff Nabs 32 Illegal Immigrant Truckers In Three Days

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Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) is running to succeed outgoing Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis in the United States Senate.
“We must keep up this fight, and that’s why today, I’m announcing my campaign for United States Senate,” the Republican said in a campaign video on Tuesday, which featured her 102-year-old mother, Marion Hageman.
“This fight is about making sure the next century sees the advancements of the last, while protecting our culture and our way of life,” she added.
Hageman gained nationwide attention in 2022 for defeating former Rep. Liz Cheney in the Republican primary after an endorsement from President Donald Trump. Hageman blew past Cheney with 66% of the vote to Cheney’s 29%. Cheney, formerly the chair of the House Republican Conference, became a staunch opponent of Trump and campaigned with Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Wyoming has a singular at-large House district, and Trump campaigned for Hageman in May 2022 in Casper.
“I spoke with Harriet yesterday— She will be one of the best US Senators in the country. No question. We need her in there!” Tyler Bowyer, COO of Turning Point Action, posted to X on Tuesday. It’s unclear if any other major candidates will enter the Republican field at this point.
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The seat is considered to be solidly Republican, according to the Cook Political Report. Lummis won in 2020 with nearly 73% of the vote, and Trump won the state in 2024 with nearly 72% of the vote. Wyoming has a population of under 600,000 people.
As for Lummis, she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-republican-senator-announces-retirement-ahead-of-2026-midterms">announced</a> that she would not be seeking a second term in the upper chamber on Friday. The senator was known as a leader on cryptocurrency policy as well as energy.
“Deciding not to run for reelection does represent a change of heart for me, but in the difficult, exhausting session weeks this fall I&#8217;ve come to accept that I do not have six more years in me. I am a devout legislator, but I feel like a sprinter in a marathon. The energy required doesn&#8217;t match up,” Lummis, 71, stated.
“I am honored to have earned the support of President Trump and to have the opportunity to work side by side with him to fight for the people of Wyoming. I look forward to continuing this partnership and throwing all my energy into bringing important legislation to his desk in 2026 and into retaining commonsense Republican control of the U.S. Senate. Thank you, Wyoming!” she continued.
If elected, Hageman would be serving alongside Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, who was re-elected in 2024.

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Congresswoman Who Defeated Liz Cheney Launches Senate Bid

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Wyoming Republicans are crying foul after a high school student said her school treats her Turning Point USA Club America chapter unfairly and blocks them from engaging in activities that similar clubs are allowed to do. 
Natrona County High School senior Kylie Wall told The Daily Wire that the Club America chapter she started has received a chilly reception from school administrators who have exercised a heavy hand over the group&#8217;s activities. This includes taking limited action after school staff ripped down posters for the club at the school, she said. 
State Senator Rachel Rodriguez Williams, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, told The Daily Wire that school officials appeared to be chilling the free speech of conservative students. 
&#8220;At best, NCHS administrators are chilling the protected speech of students, which is unacceptable,” she told The Daily Wire. “At worst, they’re systematically silencing the speech and activities of students on and off campus, which is indefensible.”
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus filed a public records request on Sunday, demanding all communications to or from Natrona County High School Principal Aaron Wilson containing the terms “Club America” or “Turning Point USA.” Natrona County High School is located in Casper, Wyoming’s second most populous city. 
Wall told The Daily Wire on Thursday that she had serious concerns about equal treatment, free speech, and student rights under district policy and the federal Equal Access Act, which requires schools receiving federal funds to have equal opportunities. 
&#8220;As students, we simply want to be treated fairly, to have our voices respected, and to participate in the same opportunities afforded to other clubs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We look forward to working toward a resolution that upholds district policy and students’ constitutional rights.&#8221;
Wall, who started a Club America chapter shortly after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, says that school officials have blocked them from participating in public meetings off campus and failed to take sufficient action after she saw school staff tearing down advertisements for the club. 
&#8220;Approved Club America flyers have been removed by staff, and some teachers have made disparaging remarks about our club and its members,&#8221; Wall told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Despite these reports, the administration has taken little action to address them, contributing to a hostile environment for students who hold different viewpoints.&#8221;
Natrona County School District noted that it recognized two Club America chapters, one at Natrona County High School and another at Kelly Walsh High School.
&#8220;These student-led clubs are open to high school students who are interested in learning about government, civic responsibility, and active citizenship. Like all student-led clubs, school-based meetings are student-driven and are not open to the public,&#8221; the county told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We continue to encourage students from all high schools to work together and collaborate in many different capacities.&#8221;
Rodriguez Williams said that the Wyoming Freedom Caucus “reminds all Wyoming school districts that students don’t shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse doors. We are disgusted that school staff would tear down posters advertising Club America, but are filled with hope for the future at the bravery and poise of these patriotic students.&#8221;
In addition to the posters being pulled down, school officials have reportedly blocked Wall’s chapter from meeting with another local Turning Point USA club, prohibited them from attending an off-campus banquet hosted by the Wyoming Family Alliance, and told Wall that she could not do an interview on the club without the principal’s presence. 
&#8220;Our club was prohibited from attending a community event hosted by the Wyoming Family Alliance, even though other student organizations — such as athletic teams and Key Club, and others — routinely attend similar off-campus events,&#8221; Wall said. &#8220;This restriction seems inconsistent with district practice and limits our club’s opportunities to participate equally in civic activities.&#8221;
Wyoming Family Alliance Executive Director Nathan Winters confirmed that Wilson told them to &#8220;exclusively&#8221; reach out to Club America through him and declined the invitation to the banquet. He added that they never received a response when they asked if there was a district policy blocking the students from engaging in community events.
“Wyoming Family Alliance will always stand with students who want to engage in civil public discourse and experience the true meaning of American citizenship,&#8221; Winters told The Daily Wire. &#8220;We are disappointed and deeply concerned when any school or administrator restricts those first steps toward civic participation. Students should be encouraged, not silenced, when they seek to learn, lead, and contribute to their communities.”
Wall added that she &#8220;was instructed not to speak to reporters about our chapter without direct administrative supervision, or even on my own time,&#8221; while students at other high schools were not restricted in the same way. 
Following the assassination of Kirk last month in Utah, Turning Point USA has reported a massive surge in requests to form new chapters on both high school and college campuses. The organization said last week that it has launched 1,500 new high school chapters nationwide, up from roughly 1,200 total before Kirk’s death.

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Wyoming High School Is ‘Chilling Speech’ Of Turning Point USA Chapter, Republicans Warn

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Wyoming Republicans are calling on Governor Mark Gordon to take action after a 27-year-old man used the women’s bathroom at the state capitol, in defiance of state laws.
The Wyoming Freedom Caucus said Tuesday that Gordon, a Republican, allowed Rihanna Kelver, a transgender identifying activist, to disregard House Bill 72, which requires government buildings to limit access to private spaces like bathrooms and locker rooms by sex. Kelver, a man who identifies as a woman, <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/07/01/trans-woman-breaks-wyomings-new-bathroom-ban-in-state-capitol-nothing-happens/">was filmed</a> leaving a woman’s bathroom outside of the governor’s office in Cheyenne on Tuesday, the same day House Bill 72 took effect.
Kelver had <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/s/rih-a-trans-woman-is-going-to-/1037945768205167/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broadcast</a> his intention to use the women’s bathroom in the weeks leading up to the Tuesday stunt. The Cowboy State Daily reported Tuesday that a Wyoming Highway Patrol officer said “OK” when the activist showed up outside the governor’s office and announced his intention to use the women’s bathroom. 
Republican State Rep. Rachel Rodriguez Williams, the chair of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus, said that the state has an obligation to uphold the law — which she says failed when Kelver was able to access the women&#8217;s bathroom with no consequences. 
“It&#8217;s unfortunate that the governor&#8217;s capitol law enforcement, which is the highway patrol, gave the guy permission to violate the law today,” she told The Daily Wire. “This obviously was a planned event, and it was posted to Facebook by the individual many months ago. So we believe that the governor did know about it and that he did know it was coming yet did nothing to stop it.”
“This is a victory of the radical trans agenda over the rights of women,” she added.
Kelver has been featured in glowing profiles by outlets like the New York Times.
“Direct action is the best course to address this bill potentially further and also to put some more public eyes on this issue and have conversations when I can,” Kelver told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday. &#8220;I hope to achieve a message to the people that it’s OK to be trans. It&#8217;s OK to be the people that me and my other trans people are.”
House Bill 72 allows for a cause of action for women or others harmed to hold the government liable for damages if the law is not upheld. 
“We need them to draw a line in the sand once and for all and stand up for women, real women,” ​​Rodriguez-Williams told The Daily Wire. “While there was no woman inside the bathroom, the lack of action, it sends a message to women all over our state that you&#8217;re on your own.”
In Florida, a 20-year-old transgender-identifying man was arrested after entering the women’s bathroom at a Florida House office building. 
Gordon has often clashed with conservative legislators in Wyoming. He previously vetoed a bill that would have said abortion is not health care, and a bill that required ultrasounds for medication abortions. He has also been critical of several transgender-related legislation passed by the Republican supermajority. 
He <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dzW2OZ5Avxh5iIgQ-mWHtV4skZ5cNHj8/view?_ga=2.188192239.617489709.1751409810-1386271207.1751409809">criticized</a> a bill known as the “What is a Woman Act” that defined male and female as motivated by a desire to “scratch a welcome national political itch” and he <a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/WYGOV/2023/03/17/file_attachments/2440949/SF%20133_Letter_3_17_23.pdf">called</a> a bill keeping males out female sports as “draconian” and “discriminatory.” He allowed both bills to become law without his signature. 
Gordon’s office did not respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.

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Wyoming Republicans Urge Governor To Defend ‘Real Women’ After Trans Bathroom Stunt

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WASHINGTON—The Education Department has launched two investigations into high-profile, Title IX-related cases that occurred during President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration, The Daily Wire can first report.
As part of its observance of the first &#8220;Title IX Month&#8221; — <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-education-department-celebrates-title-ix-month-ditches-pride-month">celebrated in place of Pride Month</a> — the Education Department will launch probes into the University of Wyoming and Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado. These investigations will be conducted by the Education Department&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights.
Each of these probes will deal with a case that garnered national outrage and attention for allowing males in intimate female spaces.
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NEW: The Education Department has declared June “Title IX Month” rather than Pride Month. It&#8217;s also launching probes into two high-profile cases that developed under President Biden&#8217;s watch: one in Colorado and the other in Wyoming.
Details first in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDailyWire</a>: <a href="https://t.co/SZDmjvWMoT">pic.twitter.com/SZDmjvWMoT</a>
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<h3>University of Wyoming</h3>
Members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming sued the university and Artemis Langford, a male who identifies as a woman, after Langford joined their sorority and lived in their sorority house. The girls accused Langford of watching them shower and change and making inappropriate comments — and having visible erections as he watched them.
“Langford states that he is transgender and that he self-identifies as a woman. His behavior, however, does not reflect a man living as a woman let alone a man attempting to ‘consistently live’ as a woman,” the girls said in their lawsuit, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Leif Le Mahieu <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-against-man-who-joined-wyoming-sorority-dismissed-by-federal-judge">previously reported</a>. “Other than occasionally wearing women’s clothing, Langford makes little effort to resemble a woman. He has not undergone treatments to create a more feminine appearance, such as female hormones, feminization surgery, or laser hair removal.”
In August 2023, the lawsuit was dismissed by a federal judge who declined to define what a woman was.
“The University of Wyoming chapter voted to admit — and, more broadly, a sorority of hundreds of thousands approved — Langford. With its inquiry beginning and ending there, the Court will not define ‘woman’ today,&#8221; wrote U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson, a Reagan appointee, in his decision. &#8220;The delegate of a private, voluntary organization interpreted ‘woman,’ otherwise undefined in the nonprofit’s bylaws, expansively; this Judge may not invade Kappa Kappa Gamma’s freedom of expressive association and inject the circumscribed definition Plaintiffs urge.&#8221;
The University of Wyoming did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
<h3>Jefferson County Public Schools</h3>
The second investigation deals with Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado, where an 11-year-old girl was assigned to share a bed with a male student who identifies as a transgender girl while on a cross-country school trip, as The Daily Signal first reported. This was not the only incident of its kind within the district, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-school-district-allowed-trans-identifying-female-to-supervise-little-boys-showering-lawsuit-alleges">The Daily Wire reported</a>.
Jefferson County School District’s “Transgender Students” policy requires that all students on overnight visits are to be roomed by their gender identity, rather than their actual sex, according to a September 2024 lawsuit first reported by The Daily Wire.
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NEW: This week we sat down with Joe + Serena Wailes, the parents of an 11-year-old girl shocked to discover on her school trip that she had been assigned to share a bed with a boy who identified as a trans girl.
Joe and Serena share their nightmare story with <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySignal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailySignal</a>: <a href="https://t.co/w847Oi7nnO">pic.twitter.com/w847Oi7nnO</a>
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href="https://twitter.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1737930649887990158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
Though the district shared this policy with trans-identifying students and chaperones, it did not share the policy with students or their parents, who were unaware of the policy until their children found themselves rooming with students and chaperones of the opposite gender on trips.
“I was really upset,” the child&#8217;s mother, Serena Wailes, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/04/exclusive-school-assigned-girl-sleep-boy-who-identifies-trans-parental-notification/">told The Daily Signal in December 2023</a>. “One, I was really upset that she was put in that situation at 11 years old—I don’t feel that is fair to put kids in that kind of situation—and two, that we were not even given the information that this was a possibility before the trip. The whole time they’re saying, ‘Girls on one floor, boys on another, they’re not going to be in each other’s rooms unless it is pre-approved.’ So we’re going through this whole process, not even recognizing that this is a possibility.”
The girl&#8217;s father, Joe Wailes, told The Daily Signal that his wife called him from the hotel and filled him in on what had occurred.
“I felt a bit helpless,” he said at the time. “I was 2,000 miles away. My daughter is scared in a bathroom trying to get herself out of a situation. It was a frustrating experience, and I just really felt like it was not a situation my daughter should be put in.”
In another instance, according to the 2024 lawsuit, the school district placed an 18-year-old female student— who identified as a man but only a week earlier had identified as female — in a cabin with 11 and 12-year-old boys, where she allegedly supervised their changing and showering.
Jefferson County Public Schools did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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EXCLUSIVE: Education Department Probes Two Schools That Let Men In Women’s Spaces

Colorado

Department of Education

A Wyoming doctor who wrote an email to the Wyoming State Legislature where he expressed support for “Chloe’s Law,” — a law which prohibits gender reassignment surgeries and hormone therapies for minors — who was then was forced to resign from the Wyoming Board of Medicine by Governor Mark Gordon, has filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Dr. Eric Cubin was appointed to the Wyoming Board of Medicine in 2023. The Board oversees medical regulation, compliance, and discipline in the state.
“On February 21, 2024, Dr. Cubin emailed Sheila Bush, the Executive Director of WMS, to express his concerns about WMS’s position on Chloe’s Law and to request that WMS present views of physicians on both sides of the issue,” the <a href="https://libertyjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Cubin-Appellants-Principal-Brief.pdf?utm_source=2023+Media+List&amp;utm_campaign=45034a9f82-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_03_26_03_21&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-45034a9f82-448659176" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brief</a> for the appeal states. “Dr. Cubin and WMS leadership exchanged emails over the next several days, but WMS failed to address Dr. Cubin’s concerns to his satisfaction. Then, on February 28, 2024, Dr. Cubin sent all members of the Wyoming House of Representatives an email expressing his personal support for Chloe’s Law and his criticism of WMS’s position against it.”
Gordon then “forced Dr. Cubin to resign from the Board, claiming that his letter created the ‘appearance of bias’ and could give the impression that he was speaking on the Board’s behalf, —even though his email was sent from his personal account, made clear that he was writing on his own behalf as a Wyoming physician, and did not even mention the Board or his position on it,” Liberty Justice Center, which is representing Cubin, stated.
Gordon’s letter stated that he believed &#8220;Dr. Cubin’s ‘personal comments’ in his email to legislators regarding Chloe’s Law ‘could give doctors, who are licensed by the Board of Medicine, a reason to be concerned that [Dr. Cubin] might use [his] position to advocate for a particular position when considering matters that should be considered absent an agenda,’ and that ‘medical professionals should be confident that their licensure, which is their livelihood, will be handled professionally and clinically examined on merits alone,’” the brief stated. “Governor Gordon’s letter further stated that he was terminating Dr. Cubin ‘as I have done before, when a member of a board chooses to express personal beliefs in a way that can be construed as speaking for the body.’”
Chloe’s Law was <a href="https://www.wyomingnews.com/laramieboomerang/news/chloe-s-law-becomes-law-july-1/article_4af7a64a-f136-11ee-9d1c-b39c89f88c92.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed into law</a> by Gordon in April 2024, although he had reservations, saying, “I signed SF99 because I support the protections this bill includes for children, however it is my belief that the government is straying into the personal affairs of families. Our legislature needs to sort out its intentions with regard to parental rights. While it inserts governmental prerogative in some places, it affirms parental rights in others.”

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Wyoming Doctor Appeals Forced Resignation After Supporting Law Banning Trans Surgery On Minors

Wyoming Dr Appeals His Forced Resignation After Supporting Law Banning Gender-Reassigning Surgery

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The Club for Growth is rolling out an extensive TV and print campaign in support of a school choice proposal making its way through the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/wyoming" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wyoming</a> legislature, the organization told The Daily Wire. 
A new TV ad from the organization urges lawmakers in the State Senate to pass the Wyoming Freedom Scholarship Act, a bill that would allow parents to receive a $7,000 scholarship to help pay for tuition at private schools. The ad, which began playing on statewide political shows on Sunday, will run Monday through Friday on news channels in Cheyenne, the state&#8217;s most populous city. 
“A child&#8217;s future should be shaped by dreams not districts. Their dreams start with choice,” the narrator in the TV spot says. “No red tape, no limits, just the best education for your child. It&#8217;s choice, it&#8217;s opportunity, it&#8217;s freedom. Because their future shouldn&#8217;t be decided by district, but by you. Tell the Senate, ‘pass House Bill 199.’”
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The <a href="https://www.wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2025/HB0199" target="_blank" rel="noopener">legislation</a> passed the Wyoming House at the end of last month in a 39-21 vote, and has been sitting in the Senate after it was received for introduction on January 30. 
The Wyoming Senate is dominated by Republicans, who have a 29-2 majority. Club for Growth is looking to target 15 senators with phone calls to urge them to support the legislation. 
There will also be print ads backing the proposal featured in the Saturday editions of the Casper Star-Tribune and the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
The current version of the legislation, introduced by Republican Rep. Ocean Andrew, would allow anyone of any income to apply for the $7,000 scholarship, and doesn’t require statewide testing for scholarship recipients. The scholarships would be available on a first come, first served basis depending on how much funding is made available by the legislature. The expected cost per year is around $44 million. 
Schools that accept scholarship students would have to ensure that they provide “instruction in reading, writing, mathematics, civics, including studies of the United States constitution and the constitution of the state of Wyoming, history, literature and science,” according to the text of the bill. 
The bill removes restrictions on eligibility that were <a href="https://wyofile.com/gordon-narrows-education-savings-account-income-eligibility-signs-bill-into-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put in place</a> last year by Governor Mark Gordon after the legislature passed a more limited school choice proposal. 
A majority of voters in Wyoming support the proposal, <a href="https://www.clubforgrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2025/02/CfG_WYFreedomScholarshipAct_PollingMemo.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a recent poll conducted by WPA Intelligence. Overall, 51% of voters support the bill, with 54% of Republicans and 56% of unaffiliated voters in support. A strong majority (68%) of Democrats oppose the legislation. 
Earlier this year, the Club for Growth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-org-launches-push-to-get-school-choice-across-finish-line-in-tennessee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">backed</a> a successful effort in Tennessee to pass school choice legislation and the organization has also helped back primary challenges to Republican school choice opponents in both Texas and Tennessee. 
Promoting school choice has been a top priority for President Donald Trump as he seeks to bring dramatic reforms to the Department of Education. Last month, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-first-white-house-roundtable-to-highlight-school-choice-with-top-gop-govs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosted a roundtable</a> with Republican governors to discuss legislative efforts to promote school choice.

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said Thursday that he would release a report on the recent mystery drone sightings reported in New Jersey and other states once he takes office. 
Trump made the comments as he met with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago, prompting several to chime in with their own reports of drone sightings. Last month, the FBI, FAA, and Pentagon said they identified no threats among the 500 drone sightings they had investigated based on public tips.
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones,” Trump said, noting that drones had been spotted over his property in Bedminster, New Jersey. “It’s not only with me, [Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin] was telling me today that in Virginia they have drones all over the place too and nobody is reporting it.” 
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it&#8217;s ridiculous that they&#8217;re not telling you about what&#8217;s going on with the drones.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/BnUBaAsBl6">pic.twitter.com/BnUBaAsBl6</a>
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Trump said he would issue a report on the drones “shortly” after his inauguration on January 20. 
“They don’t want to talk about it and nobody knows why,” Trump said. “That could be us sending drones, I hope that’s the case, us doing it and doing research and maybe they don’t want to talk about it from that standpoint. I hope it&#8217;s not an enemy, but we’re going to find out on the 21st.”
Referencing how much of the U.S. military and intelligence infrastructure is in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin said that drones had been flying over secure air space for the last two years. 
“For two years running we have had drone incursion over secure air space and we still don’t know why. And I think that’s absolutely unacceptable,” Youngkin said. “And I think President Trump and the new leadership coming in will work diligently to understand who’s behind this and what we do in order to stop the digital surveillance of all our secure infrastructure.”
Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry said that his state had recently seen drones flying over its nuclear reactors but that the FAA had done nothing after they brought it to their attention. 
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Wyoming Republican Governor Mark Gordon added that he had also struggled to deal with drones being flown over critical infrastructure. 
“We have drones in Wyoming flying over our infrastructure as well,” he said. “And it&#8217;s incredibly frustrating that we not only have no way of knowing what it is, but nobody knows how to deal with them.”

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Utah State University has become the fourth college to protect their women’s volleyball team from playing against San Jose State University with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> male on the women&#8217;s team.
On Wednesday, a <a href="https://www.usu.edu/today/story/university-announces-volleyball-schedule-update">statement</a> from the school’s athletic department read, “Utah State University will not participate in its scheduled October 23, 2024, volleyball match at San Jose State University. The University will abide by Mountain West Conference policy regarding how this match is recorded.&#8221;
Former collegiate swimmer and advocate for women&#8217;s sports Riley Gaines praised the move by the school and wrote that it was the “fourth school to forfeit their match against SJSU due to a man playing on the women&#8217;s volleyball team. Major kudos to<a href="https://x.com/USUAthletics"> @USUAthletics</a> THIS. IS. THE. WAY.”
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A movement is in motion. It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that the NCAA has a decision to make. So far, the NCAA has prioritized inclusion over safety &amp; fairness.
Will the <a href="https://twitter.com/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NCAA</a> keep letting girls take matters into their own hands or will they step up &amp; protect their athletes? <a href="https://t.co/21VHlX5YF5">https://t.co/21VHlX5YF5</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1841856829925527758?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
“A movement is in motion,” she added in a second post. “It&#8217;s becoming increasingly clear that the NCAA has a decision to make. So far, the NCAA has prioritized inclusion over safety &amp; fairness. Will the @NCAA keep letting girls take matters into their own hands or will they step up &amp; protect their athletes?”
Utah Gov. Spencer J. Cox wrote on <a href="https://x.com/GovCox/status/1841671214802338139">X</a> that he stood with “the students, coaches and leadership at @SUUtbirds and @USUAggies in their decision to forgo their women’s volleyball matches against San Jose State.”
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“It is essential that we preserve a space for women to compete fairly and safely,” he added. “Our female athletes are left grappling with this difficult issue because the NCAA has failed in its responsibility to protect female athletes and women’s sports. It’s time for the NCAA to take this seriously and protect our female student athletes.”
On Monday, the women’s volleyball team at the University of Wyoming became the third school to refuse to play against SJSU because of the California school&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">trans-identifying male</a> on the women’s team, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-womens-team-becomes-latest-to-refuse-to-play-against-trans-identifying-male">reported</a>.
In a statement posted on <a href="https://x.com/RealDanZak/status/1841229572886364624">X</a> from Wyoming Cowgirl Volleyball, the team stated, “After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5.”
“Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming,” the statement added. “The Cowgirls will host Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.”
SJSU’s star volleyball player is a trans-identifying male who goes by the name of Blaire Fleming, OutKick’s David Hookstead previously <a href="https://x.com/dhookstead/status/1840089721877229584">reported</a>.
On Friday, the Boise women’s volleyball team announced that it would forfeit its match over the weekend against SJSU, OutKick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/wyoming-boise-state-southern-utah-san-jose-state-volleyball-blaire-fleming">noted</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/girls-soccer-team-refuses-to-play-team-with-biological-male-following-similar-move-by-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Girls’ Soccer Team Refuses To Play Team With Biological Male, Following Similar Move By University</a>

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Members of a New Hampshire high school girls&#8217; soccer team refused to play against a team whose star player is a biological male, following a similar move by some universities when it comes to teams with trans-identifying athletes.
On Tuesday, at least five of the girls on the Hillsboro-Deering High School Girls Varsity Soccer team skipped their game against Kearsarge Regional High School where the team’s star player is a male named Maelle Jacques, <a href="https://nhjournal.com/hillsboro-deering-girls-players-refusing-to-take-field-against-male-today/">NHJournal</a> reported.
“This isn’t about transgenderism,” Heather Thyng, the mother of a Hillsboro-Deering player who refused to play, told the outlet. “This is about biology for us and the increased physical risk when playing a full contact sport against the opposing sex.”
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BREAKING: Members of the Hillsboro-Deering High School Girls Soccer team in New Hampshire refused to play against the Kearsarge team because of their star athlete, Maelle Jacques, who is a male.
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“No one ever got near [Maelle,] so I guess they’ll never be in any danger if there’s enough girls to always have a weak team,” Betsy Harrington, another parent said. “If every game has a few girls refusing to play, we will never know the ability of the Kearsarge team. They have an advantage I hadn’t thought about. It’s that they get to always play a crippled team without all of their players.”
&#8220;We believe, my daughter included, that refusing to compete is the best way to push back on this issue, and we are hoping parents will be more willing to put themselves out there knowing they don’t have to be the first or the only family within our community to do so,” Thyng said.
&#8220;The coaches reassured me they told the girls there would be no negative repercussions for anyone who refuses to compete,&#8221; she added. &#8220;They said they understood the increased risk and would be paying attention to the aggressiveness of the game, and if anyone was getting hurt or play was too rough, they were prepared to end the game.&#8221;
Jacques is not only dominating in soccer but also in high school <a href="https://x.com/icons_women/status/1757146082331775460">track and field</a>, taking away the opportunity for a female to be named the girls’ high jump champion when the biological male won first place at the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Division 2 state championship in February, the outlet noted.
On Monday, the women’s volleyball team at the University of Wyoming became the third school to refuse to play against San Jose State University because the California school has allowed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">trans-identifying male</a> to play on the women’s team, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-womens-team-becomes-latest-to-refuse-to-play-against-trans-identifying-male">reported</a>.
In a statement posted on <a href="https://x.com/RealDanZak/status/1841229572886364624">X</a> from the Wyoming Cowgirl Volleyball, the team stated, “After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5.”
“Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming,” the statement added. “The Cowgirls will host Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.”
SJSU’s star volleyball player is a trans-identifying male who goes by the name of Blaire Fleming, OutKick’s David Hookstead previously <a href="https://x.com/dhookstead/status/1840089721877229584">reported</a>.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-womens-team-becomes-latest-to-refuse-to-play-against-trans-identifying-male" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University Women’s Team Becomes Latest To Refuse To Play Against Trans-Identifying Male</a>

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The women&#8217;s volleyball team at University of Wyoming has become the latest to refuse to play against San Jose State University because the California school has allowed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying male</a> to play on the women’s team.
In a statement posted on <a href="https://x.com/RealDanZak/status/1841229572886364624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X</a> from the Wyoming Cowgirl Volleyball, the team stated, “After a lengthy discussion, the University of Wyoming will not play its scheduled conference match against San José State University in the UniWyo Sports Complex on Saturday, Oct. 5.&#8221;
“Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Wyoming,” the statement added. “The Cowgirls will host Fresno State on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 6:30 p.m. in the UniWyo Sports Complex.”
SJSU’s star volleyball player is a trans-identifying male who goes by the name of Blaire Fleming, OutKick’s David Hookstead previously <a href="https://x.com/dhookstead/status/1840089721877229584">reported</a>.
Former female collegiate swimmer and outspoken advocate for women’s sports <a href="https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1841235912887345624">Riley Gaines</a> praised the school and wrote on social media, “LETS GOOOO. University of Wyoming is the third school to forfeit their match against SJSU because they have a man on their women&#8217;s team.”
“This is the way,” she added. “Do not comply. Major kudos to @WYO_Volleyball @BroncoSportsVB @SUUVolleyball.”
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Wyoming <a href="https://x.com/GovernorGordon/status/1841234858468917535">Gov. Mark Gordon</a> also praised the move by the school. “I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State,” Gordon’s post on X read. “It is important we stand for integrity and fairness in female athletics.”
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The University of Wyoming becomes the third school to refuse to face San Jose State in volleyball due to the presence of biological male Blaire Fleming. <a href="https://t.co/vyJgoxn4R6">pic.twitter.com/vyJgoxn4R6</a>
— Dan Zaksheske (@RealDanZak) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealDanZak/status/1841229572886364624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 1, 2024</a></blockquote>
Wyoming is the third school to forfeit its game against the team with the trans-identifying male in order to protect its female players from a serious injury, as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boise-state-womens-volleyball-forfeits-game-to-protect-players-from-trans-opponent-report">reported</a>. 
On Friday, the Boise women’s volleyball team announced that it would forfeit its match over the weekend against SJSU, following Southern Utah, which was the first school to refuse to play against SJSU in a non-conference match as part of the Santa Clara Tournament, OutKick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/wyoming-boise-state-southern-utah-san-jose-state-volleyball-blaire-fleming">noted</a>.
“Boise State volleyball will not play its scheduled match at San José State on Saturday, Sept. 28,” the team said in a statement. “Per Mountain West Conference policy, the Conference will record the match as a forfeit and a loss for Boise State.”
On social media, the team received overwhelming support.
“I applaud @BoiseState for working within the spirit of my Executive Order, the Defending Women’s Sports Act,” Governor Brad Little said. “We need to ensure player safety for all of our female athletes and continue the fight for fairness in women’s sports.”
“Kudos to @BoiseState for taking a stand for women in sports!” Sen. James Risch (R-ID) said. “Idaho’s hardworking, talented female athletes deserve a fair playing field where they can compete and WIN.”
Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) posted on X: “The safety of Idaho’s female athletes is paramount to the appeasement of a woke agenda. @BoiseState made the right call.”

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University Women’s Team Becomes Latest To Refuse To Play Against Trans-Identifying Male

University Women's Team Becomes Latest To Refuse To Play Against Trans-Identifying Male

A Wyoming woman who claimed a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting died after falling down the stairs has been convicted of the child’s murder.
Cheri Marler, 53, was convicted of first-degree murder and child abuse on May 10, the Cowboy State Daily <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/05/10/kemmerer-babysitter-guilty-of-beating-5-year-old-girl-to-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The jury took less than 5 hours to return the guilty verdict.
“There isn’t a winner or loser today. Families lives have been changed forever on both sides,” Kemmerer City Police Chief Michael Kahre told the outlet after the verdict was read. “The justice system worked like it is supposed to. I would be lying if I said I was not pleased with today’s verdict. Unfortunately nothing will bring Annabelle back. She is gone. Today’s verdict however brings us justice for her. I am grateful to everyone who did their part to make this trial a success.”
Marler had been babysitting 5-year-old Annabelle Noles and her sister for several weeks when, on November 25, 2022, she called 911 around 3:40 p.m. and reported an unresponsive child, the Star Valley Independent <a href="https://svinews.com/jury-finds-marler-guilty-of-murder-and-child-abuse/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0AedDD7qG9O1zxZZ3aPBSYTk8ibN3akcwqaKeYi1cWL0tAkKfp_mkceIo_aem_AaiA-dHoqS4AzXLam4P8UzYz7igINgpaskEiIBGwg1dlmOO5HvbgiRzlak9bOaqACqWtIcl9bQU9vDApv_EN2Wvo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. First responders arrived and provided life-saving measures for the girl before she was taken to a local hospital, where she died the next morning as a result of her injuries.
Marler was arrested shortly after Noles died, and told the Kemmerer, Wyoming, police chief that she had slapped and hit the young girl up to 10 times by “clapping” her hands on either side of the girl’s head, the State Daily <a href="https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/23/kemmerer-babysitters-child-murder-trial-delayed-for-surgeries-health-care/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> after reviewing an affidavit in the case. Marler explained to the police chief how she clapped her hands with Noles’ “head in the middle.”
After the attack, Marler said Noles went to lie down, and the babysitter found her unconscious.
Marler also admitted to police that she had beaten Noles with kitchen utensils the day before the clapping attack.
“Eventually, she succumbed to these fatal injuries. Her deep brain injury was a result of blunt force trauma, not just contact injuries,” Dr. Ruiz-Maldonado testified at Marler’s trial, the Uinta County Herald <a href="https://www.uintacountyherald.com/stories/kemmerer-babysitter-found-guilty-of-murder,31461" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Marler denied harming Noles when she took the stand in her own defense.
In its closing arguments, the defense argued that it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Marler had caused the death of Noles. The defense stuck to the claim that the girl had fallen down the stairs, with those injuries causing her death. Noles had a broken back, bleeding in the brain, and had cuts and bruises from new and previous injuries, a doctor testified at her trial.
The defense argued that Noles’ mother was the possible cause of the abuse, as she had a history of drug abuse and had multiple drug charges.
Ultimately, the jury sided with prosecutors and found Marler guilty. She faces up to life in prison without parole or even the death penalty, along with up to 10 years in prison for the child abuse charge. Her sentencing date has not been set.

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Wyoming Babysitter Who Claimed Child Died After Falling Down The Stairs Convicted Of Murder

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