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The Tennessee Star brings you the latest news across Nashville TN. We feature articles reporting news, politics, and policy at the state level, primarily from Tennessee. We round out our daily coverage with national stories and thoughtful commentary of interest to our readers.
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Judson Phillips, founder of Tea Party Nation, said 15 years after the Tax Day Tea Party, the movement’s effect on fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free markets in federal politics has been “an abject failure.” “The Tea Party movement was an abject failure. There's just no other way to put it. Look at where we are today. When the Tea Party movement started, it was triggered by Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. Today, that's a rounding error. The deficit was $10 billion when Obama took over in January 2009. Today, it's $34 trillion. It's going up by a trillion dollars every hu ..read more
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More than eight months after a raid that left a Henderson man dead, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) won't disclose details about the case, while the local police department says they weren't made aware of the raid until after it happened. FBI agents shot and killed Theodore Deschler at his mother's home where he lived in August of last year ..read more
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Chloe Akers, who founded The Best of Tennessee with seasoned political fundraiser Kim Kaegi, previously raised nearly $440,000 for a political action committee that sought to elevate moderate voices in support of abortion and gun control. Prior to founding The Best of Tennessee, Akers was the creator of The Liminal Plan, a political action committee where she reportedly raised $439,461, according to Tennessee Lookout ..read more
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A Congressman from Tennessee took to NewsMax to ensure Americans that he won't vote to continue sending taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, and noted that many domestic problems could have been solved with the money Congress has already allocated to the country. "Of course I'm not going to vote for any more funding for Ukraine," Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) said in a segment on the news station Monday. "$116 billion dollars? We could have built the wall, I believe six times. We could have fixed the Flint, Michigan lead situation a dozen times, probably. We could give every homeless veteran a mil ..read more
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The majority of American voters polled believe the U.S. is being invaded at the southern border. The findings come after Texas counties have led the national conversation on invasion, introducing the term and making the case for Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.  ..read more
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An advocacy group based in Northeastern Mexico that lobbies U.S. lawmakers has distributed and posted flyers encouraging illegal immigrants to vote for President Joe Biden in the 2024 election, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. Translated from Spanish, the Oversight Project notes, the flyers posted by the organization Resource Center Matamoros say: "Reminder to vote for President Biden when you are in the United States. We need another four years of his term to stay open." (The Daily Signal is Heritage’s news and commentary outlet ..read more
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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced on social media Tuesday that he's co-sponsoring a motion to vacate the chair against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. In doing so, Massie joined the motion to vacate push against Johnson launched by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., in March. Massie is the first other Republican to back Greene in the effort ..read more
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Only 35 perdent of Americans believe former President Donald Trump acted illegally in regard to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against him, which began on Monday, a Tuesday poll found. Jury selection is underway in the first of Trump’s four criminal cases, where he faces 34 felony counts over allegations related to falsifying business records when reimbursing a hush money payment to former porn star actress Stormy Daniels leading up to the 2016 election. As Trump sits in the courtroom this week, 31 percent believe Trump’s alleged actions were "unethical, but not ..read more