• Jesse Jackson dies: Longtime civil rights/leftist activist Jesse Jackson has died at the age of 84. Jackson, a disciple of Martin Luther King Jr., turned his civil rights activism into political activism, twice seeking the Democrat presidential nomination in the 1980s. A gifted orator, Jackson was often celebrated for his rhetorical gamesmanship, as he regularly demonized Republicans as not just wrong but evil. An example of his cutting rhetoric came during a commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the civil rights movement, when Jackson infamously called America the “land of the free and the home of genocide.” He went on, “We are, at our foundation, born in sin and shaped in iniquity.” In 2017, Jackson revealed he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, and since then, he made far fewer public appearances.

• Man identifying as woman murders two in Rhode Island: Less than a week after one of the deadliest school attacks in Canadian history, another man wearing a dress has gone on a rampage. Robert Dorgan, who was calling himself Roberta Esposito, killed his ex-wife and son and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game on Monday in Rhode Island. He killed himself when a Good Samaritan intervened. Someone believed to be Dorgan’s daughter said on video that he “shot my family” and “he’s dead now.” Some reports also show that Dorgan’s wife had left him after he began “transitioning.” Leftmedia outlets are inevitably tripping over themselves with pronouns and gender identifiers.

• Trump insists FEMA step in even though Democrats are defunding FEMA: The collapse of the Potomac Interceptor sewage system has released over 300 million gallons of wastewater into the Potomac River since January, threatening an “ecological disaster.” Residents in the area have been warned to avoid contact with the river, including recreational activities, and to keep their pets away. Authorities say that drinking water is unaffected and is expected to remain safe. E. coli is a serious threat from this spill and will remain so as the spring thaws previously frozen bacteria. President Donald Trump addressed the issue last night, blaming Maryland Gov. Wes Moore for gross mismanagement and directing federal authorities to step in. Trump said FEMA will play a key role in the response, despite being currently defunded by Democrats.

• School teacher killed by illegal fleeing ICE: Linda Davis of Savannah, Georgia, was on the street on a day when her school was closed for a planning day for her special education class. Guatemalan citizen and illegal immigrant Oscar Vasquez Lopez was also on the street that day because Joe Biden refused to enforce immigration law. In 2024, a judge issued a final order of removal, but Lopez was not removed. After ICE agents attempted to arrest Lopez on Monday, he fled in a car despite not having a valid driver’s license, performed a reckless U-turn, ran a red light, and collided with Davis’s car, ending her life. In a press release on the event, ICE highlighted that Lopez was egged on to evade arrest by such prominent Democrats as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Karen Bass, and Gavin Newsom, all of whom have issued guidance on how illegals can avoid deportation.

• Frey’s sanctuary costs Minneapolis $200M: Minneapolis Democrat Mayor Jacob Frey likes to talk about how much he cares for the residents of his city as he blasts federal law enforcement for wreaking havoc and threatening the lives of citizens. However, when it comes to the actual price of Frey’s “care,” it looks much more like abuse when measured by the cost of his sanctuary policies on the city’s law-abiding, legal residents. Not only did Frey encourage lawlessness against ICE, costing the lives of two residents, but his pandering has led to lost revenue for small businesses. A recent report found that Minneapolis businesses lost more than $200 million in revenue due to Frey’s push for anti-ICE activism. Had he simply cooperated with the federal government in arresting the worst of the worst illegal aliens, businesses likely would have profited, especially with fewer criminals roaming the streets.

• Judge to Trump: Put back the slavery exhibit: U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe ordered the Trump administration to restore a slavery exhibit to the historic Philadelphia mansion that was George Washington’s workplace and home while he served as president. The DOJ argued, “As with any national park or museum, reasonable minds might differ about what to display in the limited space available. But this is fundamentally a question of Government speech.” Rufe likened the removal of the exhibit to “the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984.” She explained that the federal government “does not” have “the power it claims — to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts.” The removal of the display was tied to President Trump’s order last year to remove from government property radical ideology passed off as history that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.”

• Trump’s tax rates yield 11% higher returns: Filing taxes this year won’t be as painful for most Americans. On average, thanks to President Trump and the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which zero Democrats voted for — Americans will get an average tax refund that’s 11% higher than last year’s. The average tax return so far this year is $2,290. Those seeing the biggest returns are the top 10% of households, i.e., those who pay the most in taxes. However, the tax savings will affect all Americans, and because lower-income households generally file their taxes earlier than wealthier taxpayers do, this benefits the nation as a whole. With Democrats harping on affordability, Trump and Republicans can point to these tax returns as evidence that their economic policies are working for the American people.

• Rent prices dropping across the country: Americans are paying less for their monthly rent, and the reason is not at all surprising. The administration reports that three million illegal immigrants have left the country since the start of Trump’s second term. Vice President JD Vance commented in a speech that fewer people means lower housing prices: “It’s very, very simple economics.” Top economists agree that the outflow of immigrants is driving down housing costs. Some are desperate to spin lower costs for Americans as a bad thing, pointing out that landlords who relied on illegal renters are being left in the lurch. Southern and Southwestern cities, including Atlanta, Phoenix, and Raleigh, have seen the sharpest decline in rent prices. Monthly rent has now declined for six months straight, reaching its lowest level since 2022 and down 6.2% from the peak that year.

• Maxwell’s naturalization fraud: Documents released by the DOJ reveal that Ghislaine Maxwell lied on her naturalization application when acquiring U.S. citizenship 20 years ago. Court documents indicate that Maxwell is a British national with French citizenship who also became an American citizen in 2002. But as The Daily Caller reports, “Maxwell answered ‘no’ to two key questions on her application for naturalization: whether she’d committed criminal acts in the past or ‘procured anyone for prostitution.’” Since she was convicted of trafficking underage girls for prostitution for Epstein from 1994 to 2004, this is grounds for denaturalization. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, any naturalized citizen may be subject to denaturalization if they committed fraud or misrepresentation during the application process. The number of processed denaturalization cases is only about 11 annually. The Trump administration is attempting to increase that number to 100-200 per month.

Headlines

• Schumer embraced ID laws to counter fraud in the 1990s, but now calls voter ID “Jim Crow 2.0” (Washington Times)

• U.S. and Iran sit down for talks under growing shadow of Trump’s military threat (CBS News)

• A defector explains the remote-work scam helping North Korea pay for nukes (WSJ)

• Britain’s diminished military sinks to alarming levels (Washington Times)

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