Across the country, public institutions are doing everything they can to preserve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, even in defiance of state laws.

That’s true for the University of Missouri – Kansas City, where administrators say DEI programming is up and running, with slight modifications.

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“I’m not saying the work isn’t being done, but we don’t have a central office on the campus. Do you see what I mean?” Kimberly Johnson, a Senior Program Manager of Student Support Services for Multicultural Student Affairs, told Accuracy in Media’s investigative journalist.

On AIM’s hidden camera, she explained, “it’s not like it’s not being done, but it’s not called that.”

Johnson cited President Trump’s administration as the reason for this.

Over in the Office of Student Involvement, Student Support Services Graduate Assistant Celeste Michael revealed, “Full disclosure, we’re one of the only LGBTQ offices at a university within the area. Like all the other big universities around us don’t have one, so we’re kind of one of the only ones.”

Michael sat in front of a desk with the sign “Rainbow Lounge.”

As for potential threats to university funding due to its DEI persistence, Michael said, “We are kind of taking it day by day and seeing what we can do and continuing to fight for our programs to exist on our campus.”

“We had to change some of the wording for our stuff so that our programs and services are open to anyone and everyone.”

Last year, Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order banning DEI in state agencies.

“Missourians deserve a government that treats all individuals equally, without preferential treatment or discrimination based on immutable characteristics,” he said at the time. “Our state agencies must operate under a framework that ensures fairness, equal opportunity, and merit-based decision-making. This order reaffirms Missouri’s commitment to a constitutional, color-blind approach that serves all citizens fairly.”

But that order didn’t touch universities.

To combat similar stubborn woke warriors, both North Carolina and Kansas recently passed laws to strengthen their DEI bans.

Missouri must do the same to stop secretive DEI programs from operating at public universities.

Visit SaveMissouriStudents.com now to send one convenient message to all relevant officials. It’s time to shut down DEI in Missouri for good.

This article originally appeared on Accuracy In Media. It is republished with permission.

Rapper Nicki Minaj and actor Dean Cain are set to take part in a White House entrepreneurship competition later this month as five small-business finalists compete for a share of a $1 million prize pool.

The live pitch event, scheduled for Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C., will feature a celebrity judging panel and a live audience, according to the Small Business Administration.

The competition is expected to air on television and stream online, with viewing details to be announced later.

Minaj will join private-equity investor Grant Cardone and Joe Gebbia, the Airbnb co-founder who now serves as President Donald Trump’s chief design officer, on the judging panel. Cain, best known for playing Superman in the 1990s series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, will host the event.

“Great American entrepreneurs themselves, Nicki Minaj, Grant Cardone, Joe Gebbia and Dean Cain will only add to the excitement of this historic celebration of free enterprise in the finale of our Million Dollar Pitch Competition,” SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler said in a statement.

“From building globally recognized personal and business brands and multibillion-dollar portfolios to launching innovative wellness solutions and digital platforms, each brings a unique, real-world perspective on business growth and impact.”

Five Companies Competing for $1 Million

The Trump administration launched the competition earlier this year as part of a series of events celebrating the United States’ 250th anniversary.

Submissions came in from around the country before the field was narrowed to five finalists: Compotech, Inc. of Brewer, Maine; Winton Machine of Suwanee, Georgia; Plas-Tech Tooling of Garner, Iowa; Red River of Gillette, Wyoming; and VetPowered LLC of San Diego, California.

Clover, a payment-processing company, is funding the $1 million prize pool.

Every finalist will receive money regardless of where they finish. First place will take home $400,000, while second place will receive $250,000. Third place will get $150,000, fourth will receive $125,000 and fifth will take home $75,000.

The format bears an obvious resemblance to ABC’s Shark Tank, where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to prominent investors, but it also recalls Trump’s own reality television career.

Trump hosted The Apprentice beginning in the early 2000s, presiding over competitions among aspiring business executives seeking employment or investment opportunities. The show ran for 14 years and helped turn Trump into a nationally recognizable television personality years before his 2016 presidential campaign.

Trump Allies Take Center Stage

Several of the celebrities involved in the White House event have developed increasingly visible ties to Trump.

Gebbia already serves in the administration, while Minaj, Cardone and Cain have all publicly expressed support for the president.

Minaj’s political shift has become particularly notable over the past year.

In January, she described herself as Trump’s “number one fan” while pledging hundreds of thousands of dollars to support his new tax-advantaged investment accounts for children.

Trump later returned the praise at a White House event earlier this year.

“She’s so beautiful. Her skin’s so beautiful,” Trump said.

Cain has also publicly backed Trump and previously met with him in the Oval Office.

The September competition will add another entertainment-driven event to a second Trump administration that has repeatedly blended politics, celebrity culture and spectacle.

In June, the administration held a UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House South Lawn, bringing professional mixed martial arts fighters to compete at the executive mansion.

The entrepreneurship competition is similarly being positioned as part business showcase and part national celebration, with the administration using the country’s 250th anniversary to spotlight small businesses, celebrity entrepreneurs and Trump’s longstanding branding around American business culture.

Tucker Carlson laid out a sweeping 10-point vision for America during a highly promoted livestream Wednesday, giving ideological shape to a breakaway faction of the MAGA movement that is openly challenging President Donald Trump.

The former Fox News host did not announce a presidential campaign or formally launch a new political party. But he presented his manifesto as the foundation for “whatever comes next,” arguing that America’s current political system has collapsed into paralysis and self-dealing.

The timing has poured fuel on speculation surrounding Carlson’s political future.

Just days earlier, Carlson hosted a gathering at his Maine home with several prominent Trump critics, including former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Rep. Thomas Massie and Joe Kent, who resigned as Trump’s counterterrorism chief in March to protest the Iran war.

Greene declared after the meeting that Trump had betrayed the anti-war voters who helped return him to the White House. Kent later said members of the group had urged Carlson to run for president in 2028, although Carlson has repeatedly insisted that he does not want to become a candidate.

What is no longer in doubt is Carlson’s desire to build something outside the Republican establishment.

In a July interview with the Columbia Journalism Review, Carlson said he intended to “help build a third party,” arguing that Republicans and Democrats had become indistinguishable on the questions he considers most important: war, money and who ultimately pays the price for both.

Wednesday’s manifesto offered the clearest look yet at what that political alternative could stand for.

Carlson’s 10-Point Vision

Carlson organized his plan around 10 qualities he said America should embody: fair, sovereign, productive, beautiful, healthy, honest, optimistic, wise, decent and united.

Under the banner of fairness, Carlson demanded equal treatment under the law for presidents, federal agents and wealthy elites. He pointed to Jeffrey Epstein and what he called an “Epstein class” as symbols of a protected ruling class that operates without the consequences imposed on ordinary Americans.

His call for sovereignty targeted several forces at once. Carlson attacked foreign lobbying, corporate control of government and predatory debt while alleging that Israel pushed the United States into war with Iran. He portrayed all of them as threats to Americans’ ability to govern themselves.

On the economy, Carlson rejected a system dominated by finance, weapons, surveillance and real estate speculation. He called instead for a revival of farming, manufacturing and skilled craftsmanship—the kind of productive work that creates tangible goods and stable communities.

Carlson also argued that the country should be beautiful and healthy. He blamed modern planners and permissive local governments for brutalist architecture, graffiti, public drug use and violent crime.

Echoing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda, he called for better food, widespread sobriety and a reckoning with the use of prescription drugs such as Xanax, Adderall and SSRIs.

His honesty plank called for consequences when government officials lie to the public and for the release of most classified material, including records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Sept. 11 attacks.

The final four points turned toward culture and national identity.

Carlson argued that having children encourages optimism and long-term thinking, while aging and childless elites are more likely to advance policies without regard for future generations.

He said schools should teach practical knowledge and enduring truths about human nature—including innate differences between men and women—instead of chasing credentials, screens and technological fads.

Under “decent,” Carlson said the United States should apologize and pay restitution when it kills innocent civilians. He also called for reversing Trump’s “Department of War” rebrand and ending support for allies that, in Carlson’s view, commit genocide—a charge he directed at Israel.

His final point, unity, included some of the plan’s toughest immigration proposals.

Carlson called for halting immigration while the country determines how artificial intelligence will affect American jobs, ending benefits for undocumented immigrants and making English the sole language used on federal documents and ballots.

From Trump Ally to MAGA Dissident

Carlson’s rupture with Trump did not happen overnight, but the Iran war turned a long-running disagreement into a public break.

Carlson has said he personally warned Trump against entering a regime-change conflict with Iran and visited the White House three times before the war began.

After U.S. forces became involved, Carlson stopped speaking with the president and accused the administration of abandoning the anti-interventionist promise at the heart of “America First.”

Trump fired back publicly in March, saying Carlson had “lost his way” and was no longer aligned with MAGA.

Carlson later told the Columbia Journalism Review that Trump was “not a man in charge of his own life,” an extraordinary attack from a commentator who had once been one of the most influential media voices in Trump’s orbit.

The divide widened over the administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

Carlson accused the government of shielding politically connected figures and used the controversy as evidence that America’s justice system protects the powerful. Massie and Greene likewise became leading critics of the administration on the issue.

Those disputes now form the backbone of the breakaway faction: opposition to foreign wars, hostility toward foreign influence and a demand that the government expose elite wrongdoing rather than conceal it.

A Movement—or a Spoiler?

The Maine gathering suggests that Carlson is no longer acting alone.

Kent said the group is exploring how to place a third-party candidate on ballots across all 50 states and build a broad coalition around an anti-war “America First” agenda.

That remains a formidable undertaking.

Carlson has not agreed to run, the emerging movement has no publicly announced party structure and Trump continues to dominate the Republican Party. A third-party bid could also split right-of-center voters and hand an advantage to Democrats in 2028.

The White House dismissed Carlson’s gathering as a collection of bitter defectors who exaggerate their own influence, while insisting that Trump remains the unquestioned leader of the GOP.

Some pro-Trump influencers were equally hostile, accusing Carlson and his allies of trying to hijack a movement they could not command.

But Carlson’s manifesto shows that the rebellion has moved beyond scattered criticism.

His coalition may still be small, yet it now has a set of ideas, a roster of recognizable Trump defectors and a political grievance built around one provocative charge: The president promised “America First,” then delivered something else.

Whether that anger produces a new party, a Tucker Carlson campaign or pressure on the Republican Party remains uncertain.

Carlson’s message Wednesday was unmistakable: The post-Trump battle for MAGA’s future has already begun.

Ben Shapiro has appeared on countless television shows, podcasts and political programs over the course of his career, but there is one booking the conservative commentator says he still can't land: The View.

“Can you get on The View or Good Morning America? Would they book you?” O'Reilly asked.

“No, not in a million years,” Shapiro replied with a laugh. “I've been trying to get on The View for years. That is a dream booking for me.”

Shapiro revealed during an appearance on Bill O'Reilly's We'll Do It LIVE! podcast that he has spent roughly a decade trying to get invited onto the ABC daytime talk show, describing an appearance as his "dream booking."

The subject came up as O'Reilly criticized Disney, ABC's parent company, arguing that the entertainment giant has damaged its reputation among conservatives and independents through a "radical form of presentation." O'Reilly cited both The View and Jimmy Kimmel's late-night program as examples.

Shapiro Says He ‘Hate-Watches’ The View

For Shapiro, the appeal appears to be precisely how much he disagrees with the show's hosts.

The Daily Wire co-founder described himself as a "hate-watching fan" and said he would relish the opportunity to debate Goldberg, Behar and Hostin face-to-face.

“There is nothing I would love better than to have a conversation with Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin,” Shapiro said. “I'm a bit of a hate-watching fan of The View, so I would definitely appreciate a booking slot, but that has never been in the offing.”

“Ten years I've been trying to get myself booked on The View, so that's not going to happen,” he added.

Shapiro's claim presents an interesting counterpoint to comments Behar made last year when she said the program wanted to feature more Republicans but suggested conservatives were sometimes "scared" to appear.

Vice President JD Vance did sit down with the women of The View this year, but appearances by major conservative media personalities remain relatively uncommon on the program.

Shapiro, at least according to his telling, certainly isn't staying away out of fear.

O’Reilly Has His Own History With the Show

O'Reilly told Shapiro that his own invitations to The View largely disappeared following Barbara Walters' departure from the program in 2014.

The former Fox News host was once a memorable—and combustible—guest.

During a notorious 2010 appearance, O'Reilly got into a heated confrontation with Goldberg and Behar while discussing plans for an Islamic community center and mosque near Ground Zero in Manhattan.

O'Reilly argued that building the center so close to the site of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was inappropriate, declaring during the exchange that "Muslims killed us on 9/11."

The comment prompted an angry reaction from Goldberg and Behar, who temporarily walked off the set before eventually returning.