Plus: Virginia judge blocks $64M redistricting push, Navy Secretary Phelan fired, Planned Parenthood's 40% gender surge, Trump halts Iran executions, and the FCC targets children's TV ratings — all in today's episode.
The "anti-hate" smear machine just got federally indicted on 11 counts. Prosecutors allege the Southern Poverty Law Center secretly funneled more than $3 million to individuals tied to the very extremist groups the SPLC publicly claimed to be fighting, including groups the DOJ named in the indictment from 2014 through 2023. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson served on the SPLC board in 2017, inside that alleged window. Chuck breaks down what the DOJ is charging, what it isn't, and why the legacy press is going quiet on a story that should be leading every broadcast this week.
Also in today's episode: a Virginia judge throws out a redistricting referendum bankrolled with more than $64 million in out-of-state Democratic money, a thin 51.5 to 48.5 margin unraveling in court before it was ever certified. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fires Navy Secretary John Phelan effective immediately, with UnderSecretary Hung Cao stepping in. The FCC opens public comment on whether voluntary TV ratings from the 1990s are still telling parents what their kids are actually being shown. Concerned Women for America documents a 40 percent surge in gender-affirming care at Planned Parenthood's regional clinics. And President Trump intervenes directly on Truth Social, sparing eight Iranian women protesters from execution.
