01/27/2025 05:15 CDT

HEGSETH CONFIRMED BY U.S. SENATE; TRUMP BACKS DOWN COLUMBIAN PRESIDENT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

TODAY’S TOP TEN

HEGSETH IS NEW DEFENSE SECRETARY

U.S. SENATE CONFIRMS PETE HEGSETH as Defense Secretary in tie vote broken by Vice President Vance. Free Beacon.

TRUMP GETS COLUMBIAN PRESIDENT to fold in record time when it comes to accepting illegal immigrants back. PJ Media.

SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR KRISTI NOEM confirmed as new Secretary of Homeland Security. ZeroHedge.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FIRES 17 INSPECTORS general in continued purge of Deep State. Breitbart.

CIA NOW OFFICIALLY CONCLUDES THAT COVID likely arose from Wuhan lab leak. Off the Press.

TRUMP DOJ CLEARS SURGEON WHO BLEW WHISTLE on Texas hospital performing child sexual surgeries. PJ Media.

TRUCKERS FILE LAWSUIT SAYING THEY SHOULDN’T lose Second Amendment rights by crossing state lines. The Federalist.

OBSCURE MEGADONOR JUMPS into the deep end of Democrat dark money. Restoration News.

CNN BOSS REPORTEDLY TELLS STAFF to stop being so knee-jerk anti-Trump. The Western Journal.

EX-POLITICO REPORTERS ADMIT THEIR BOSSES killed legitimate stories because they would have helped Trump. The National Pulse.

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COMMENTARY WORTH READING

• Target says bye to DEI. John Hinderaker.
• Trump is a great man of history. Roger Kimball.
• Birthright citizenship is a lie that is destroying America. John Daniel Davidson.

VIDEO WORTH WATCHING

• Trump tells LA Mayor Karen Bass to let wildfire victims clean up their properties. Real Clear Politics.
• VP Vance: Reducing energy prices will bring down consumer prices. CBS News.
• Mollie Hemingway: Deep State trying to fight back against Trump. Fox News.

LATEST FIRST RIGHT PODCAST

• Host Hayden Ludwig interviews culture warrior Terry Schilling about American Principles Project’s fight to expose “Trans Inc.” Rumble.

OFFBEAT BEAT

• A foot of snow in Florida and other odd climate stories of the week. Restoration News.

TWEETS OF NOTE

• (@JeannaHoch) I'm in a group with a federal employee who is married to a federal employee. She's freaking out because they just had a baby and neither can work from home anymore. Welcome to the real world, lady. Most Americans weren't treated like feds. Stay home and raise your own kid. Tweet.
• (@ClassicLearner) President Trump just suggested replacing the federal income tax with tariffs, & if the American education system wasn’t hijacked more people would know that there was no federal income tax the first 137 years in America as a country. In fact under President James Monroe there was not only no federal income tax, but there were no internal taxes at all, no excise taxes, nothing, he got rid of all of them… & not only did he use tariffs to create a budget surplus, but he cut America’s debt in half, purchased Florida from Spain, and facilitated the creation of infrastructure that bolted the American economy into the future. The American people are beginning to remember what made America the greatest country in the history of the world. Tweet.

MOST CLICKED ITEM YESTERDAY

• TWO FEDERAL AGENCIES SEEK TO HIDE DEI employees to evade Trump’s DEI crackdown. Daily Caller.

BONGINO REPORT TOP HEADLINE AT TIME OF EMAIL

• Colombian President Immediately Caves on Deportation Flights After Trump Goes Scorched Earth BONGINO REPORT.

STATE OF THE RACE

• New Senate composition: Democrats 47, Republicans 53.
• New House composition: Democrats 215, Republicans 220.