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3 days ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) described this legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly as “very productive” in terms of legislation passed by lawmakers on key statewide topics, including immigration and education. On January 27, the General Assembly convened for a special session called by Governor Bill Lee to pass the Education Freedom Act, a disaster relief package, and other measures related to immigration.
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6 days ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, raised multiple concerns surrounding the 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen of El Salvador who was deported last month under President Donald Trump, by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) officers.
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6 days ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee appointed long-time law enforcement veteran Ryan Hubbard to serve as the state’s first-ever chief immigration enforcement officer. The chief immigration enforcement officer will lead the Tennessee Chief Immigration Enforcement Division (CIED), a new division within the Tennessee Department of Safety, established through legislation passed by the Tennessee General Assembly earlier this year.
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6 days ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, criticized the mainstream media for uniformly labeling President Donald Trump’s tariff trade strategy as “chaos” as part of a coordinated messaging effort to attack the administration.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said the release of records relating to the 2022 traffic stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the alleged MS-13 gang member and citizen of El Salvador who was deported last month under President Donald Trump, by Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is in the public interest.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Tennessean and NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore was honored on the floor of the Tennessee House of Representatives on Wednesday. Wilmore, who was born in Murfreesboro and grew up in Mt. Juliet, arrived at the International Space Station in June 2024 along with NASA astronaut Suni Williams for what was initially planned for a week-long trip on a Boeing Starliner flight.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Chris Ruddy, CEO and chairman of Newsmax, is encouraging Americans to invest in the media company as it began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) last month. On March 31, Newsmax’s Class B Common Stock began trading on the NYSE under the symbol “NMAX.”Ruddy, who founded Newsmax in 1998, touted the media company’s rise over the years in the cable news space and through its online news website and digital app. “Newsmax is growing really well.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Paul Teller, executive vice president of Advancing American Freedom, sat down with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy on Tuesday for an exclusive interview to discuss his journey in the conservative political movement through the years and how he is working to advance conservative principles through Advancing American Freedom.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
Todd Bensman, a senior national security fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, supports a bill sponsored by U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA-14), which would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report how many special interest aliens are illegally crossing the border each month and their countries of origin.
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1 week ago | 
tennesseestar.com | Kaitlin Housler
The Tennessee Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the case Committee to Stop an Unfair Tax v. Freddie O’Connell on Tuesday which upheld a majority of a lower court’s previous ruling finding that the multi-billion dollar Nashville transit plan can be legally implemented. In November, Davidson County voters approved a half-cent increase to the city’s sales tax to fund the “Choose How You Move” transit plan.
