ALWAYS YELL THE TRUTH. Lifting up voices and shining a light on injustices in Tennessee. (DM with story tips!) CASH APP $TNHoller or CHIP IN at the link👇🏽
🔥🔥 MUST-WATCH: “I’ve never been sexually assaulted at a drag show, but I have been at church. TWICE! The men told me it was MY fault.”
MAURY COUNTY library board - local mom rips homophobe County Commissioner Aaron Miller, whose ignorant hate chased out the library director📚
🔥WATCH: “CRT is not in our schools, you didn’t know what it was 6 months ago… my 5yo gets that we mask up for others, wish more adults grasped that… if you only like democracy when it goes your way, you don’t like democracy”
Holler’s
@Kanew
at last night’s WILCO board meeting
REP. BARTLETT (D-INDIANA): “This bill makes erectile dysfunction drugs illegal... If an unwanted pregnancy is an act of God, impotency must be an act of God."
WATCH: “Jim Jordan called me, begging me to change my story. To go against my brother. I had to get my lawyer to tell him to stop. That’s the kind of cover up it is. He’s a coward.”
Trumpist Rep.
@Jim_Jordan
won’t outwrestle the sex abuse scandal demons.
Just now on ABC’s New Years Bash with
@RyanSeacrest
—
@GreenDay
sings “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda”, changing the lyrics of ‘American Idiot’.
#RockinEve
🔥 VIRGINIA BEACH: “You’re never going to find a right way to do the wrong thing… be the good guys, while you still can.”
A local dad speaks up against anti-LGBTQ student policies.
Rep.
@Justinjpearson
: “You all heard that. How many of you would want to be spoken to that way?”
Pearson responds to Rep. Farmer’s belittling, disrespectful rant.
#TennesseeThree
🔥EMAIL FROM CHATTANOOGA MOM TO
@hamcoschools
(Chattanooga): “Since you made the mask policy optional, I intend to opt my daughter out of the dress code. Please make note.”
@NoogaHoller
WATCH: “Thank you for being a role model for the young.”
As the
#TennesseeThree
arrived at the White House a group of Jewish students from across 🇺🇸 were there on a tour, and they were thrilled to meet
@brotherjones_
.
#TikkunOlam
KANSAS CITY: “Ralph Yarl (16, Black) shot twice by a white man after accidentally ringing the doorbell of the wrong home attempting to pick up his sibling… shot in the head through the glass door, then, bleeding out on the ground, shot him again…”
👀 Hayley Williams of
@paramore
: “I’ll be happy to tell you I’m very fucking comfortable talking politics — and if you vote for Ron Desantis you’re fucking dead to me.”
❤️GARTH BROOKS: “Diversity. Inclusiveness. That’s me. That’s always been me… diversity is the answer to our problems. If you come to our bar, come in with love.”
@garthbrooks
addresses the unhinged backlash to his NASHVILLE bar carrying Bud Light. This is leadership.
🌺 NASHVILLE:
@flwrshopnash
posts a response to the RNC declining to provide floral design services for their fundraising event this weekend feat. Trump and others, and challenging other businesses to do the same.
POST:
WEBSITE:
8 YEAR-OLD who was at the Nats game: "It was my 2nd shooting, so I was kind of prepared. I’m always expecting something to happen."
A gun-sick nation. 🇺🇸
🔥KANSAS: “I planned to oppose this bill — but I support it… with this we can promote our leftist agenda to our targeted students without any administrative oversight.”
A mom/teacher uses reverse psychology to expose the GOP scheme to dismantle public schools.
@GovBillLee
WATCH: “The people of Ohio said to Republicans — uh, I think I’ma vote for my vote SHOULD count… this is all about the future of American democracy, y’all… it is THIS close.” 🇺🇸
As always Tennessee’s own
@traecrowder
has the best takes on everything 🔥
FOLLOW UP: Here’s Sophia Rosing at the University of Kentucky getting arrested after assaulting a Black student working at the desk and saying the N word for 10 minutes straight — for those who wanted to see her in cuffs. (Like we did)
WATCH: “Y’all mean a lot to us. I know I’m a Republican, but you guys stood up for us. This is not a partisan issue.”
Covenant Moms pin a ribbon on Rep.
@brotherjones_
and thank him for fighting to protect kids alongside them.
#TNSpecialSession
👀 WATCH: “Do you remember dressing in drag in 1977? Is it only illegal when gay people do it?”
@GovBillLee
didn’t appreciate that we printed out the FRANKLIN HIGH YEARBOOK PHOTO — but did not deny it’s him. Meanwhile he’s about to make drag a felony by signing an absurd law.🤔
CNN: “Why were those two expelled and you weren't?”
@VoteGloriaJ
: “I think it's pretty clear. I'm a 60 year-old white woman and they’re 2 young black men.”
🚨🏳️🌈NEW: A Trump appointed judge just ruled the Tennessee drag ban unconstitutional.
@SenJohnson
@GovBillLee
“Passed for the impermissible purpose of chilling free speech… Unconstitutionally vague and substantially overbroad…”
NASHVILLE: “I should not have to conform to femininity to attend my senior prom.”
On Instagram, a student posts that Nashville Christian School
@NCSEAGLES
“wouldn’t let me in because I’m in a suit”
Many protestors are gone — but this young man, whose father was a pastor at COVENANT, remains.
He wants Tennessee legislators to act on common sense gun laws.
UPDATE: special session just ended in absolute chaos and the tears of Covenant families as
#KremlinCameron
@CSexton25
and the
@tnhousegop
changed the rules and made sure Dems couldn’t speak as they rushed to adjourn.🎪
Democracy dies in the light.
WATCH: “My daughter was raped. She’s 12. You won’t do anything?”
“I’m a Republican… I won the election… It’s MY decision.”
Brutal new ad from
@progressaf3
. (Every Tennessee Republican legislator voted not to let raped kids have abortion care)
⚡️NEW LEAKED AUDIO: TN House Republicans infighting over
#TennesseeThree
votes.
CEPICKY: “You gotta do what’s right even when you think it might be wrong.”🤔
Leadership says Barrett made them look racist, Cepicky says they're at "war", etc. must-listen.
MUST-WATCH:
@joerogan
says people regret voting for Biden and labels him mentally incompetent for talking about “airports during the revolutionary war” — then fact-checks himself… and slowly realizes TRUMP SAID IT. Whoopsy!🤦🏻♂️
More:
WATCH: “Bro, you’re already facing charges.”
Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro fails to snatch a “Trump Lost and you know it” sign away from a protestor behind him, who was unflappable🦸🏻♀️
🚨 Reps.
@brotherjones_
&
@Justinjpearson
both re-elected to their seats after being expelled by Tennessee Republicans for standing up for gun safety reform.
WATCH: Tik Tok-ers point out that members of congress are telling on themselves by saying their tik tok feeds are filled with inappropriate videos of young people… 👀
If you’ve been calling librarians and teacher “groomers”.
If you’ve been vilifying trans kids and trans adults.
If you’re criminalizing drag shows.
If you want kids not to know gay people don’t exist, and strip their equal righra.
Colorado Springs is the result.
😂TN’s own
@traecrowder
: “I’m from a small town—Aldean sings about being carjacked at a red light… I’m like, a RED LIGHT? What is this, Times Square? He’s from Macon, GA - the fact that you’ve heard of it means it isn’t a small town. They have a TARGET. Might as well be PARIS.”
PELOSI: “Happily, the honorable Hakeem Jeffries.”
Pelosi graciously votes for Jeffries for speaker and blows him a kiss — gets an ovation. A peaceful transfer of power that must look very foreign to the GOP.
Here are troopers telling us we couldn’t be in the rotunda today, where we have always reported from, because it was “full” — despite nobody being there, as you can see.
They roped it off so legislators could ignore the people without discomfort.
#TNSpecialSession
YIKES — MAGA “stop the steal organizer” Ali Alexander calls “Marge” Greene a “whore” who “played me” and threatens to release evidence she “committed a crime” that will get her expelled from Congress. 👀
UPDATE:
@VoteGloriaJ
(D-Knoxville) ‘seriously’ weighing bid for senate seat held by
@MarshaBlackburn
👀
GLORIA: "It needs to be done. People want somebody who will stand up for Tennessee families, they just don't feel Marsha's doing the job.”
😳 WATCH — UNC: “We are CURRENTLY in the middle of another shooting. I am DONE. We were just kicked out of our state legislature for demanding our politicians do literally fucking ANYTHING about this. Students are terrified to go to school… This is HELL.” (H/T
@mfolunc
…
OHIO: Anti-vaccine *expert* witness claims vaccine causes forks and keys to stick to your forehead and it’s linked to 5G network towers…. Up there trying to out-Tennessee us! 😵💫🥴
Rep. Rose met his wife (pictured here) when she was a teenager and he was in his 40’s. He gave her a scholarship, then later married her.
Maybe you’re not the best messenger for this, congressman? 🤔😳
"God's children are not for sale."
What a powerful message from The Sound of Freedom blockbuster about the despicable practice of sex trafficking. We must take a stand for these children. An essential step is securing our border.
Thanks to the actors and the hero behind the…
BREAKING: Justin Jones has been sworn back in to the Tennessee Legislature after being reappointed by the Metro Nashville Council. Reports are
@brotherjones_
is signing his oath of office on the capitol steps right now
@scrippsnews
@NC5
FLASHBACK —
HANNITY: “I was surprised Obama left so many judge vacancies.”
MCCONNELL: “I’ll tell you why- I was in charge.”
*LAUGHS LIKE A MANIAC*
So yeah, spare us your disingenuous Court-packing Pearl-clutching.
🔥WATCH: “My main Q is WHEN ARE YOU LEAVING? We’ve lost our democratic ability to make decisions about our children’s education.”
After
@GregAbbott_TX
’s hostile takeover of Houston school district in Lauren Ashley DRAGGED puppet
@HISDSupe
Mike Miles…
“Small Government” doesn’t chase you to other states to get your medical records
“Pro-Life” doesn’t push kids into rivers
“Local control” doesn’t force charter schools into communities that reject them
“Parents choice” doesn’t let 11 parents ban books for the rest of 🇺🇸
WATCH: Rep.
@AndyOgles
(aka “Pinocchiogles”) snuck out the back of the Williamson County Library in FRANKLIN to duck 🦆 protestors (aka his constituents) to his car, which was parked in a handicapped spot — as his goons tried to bully us, even after he was gone.
REP.
@brotherjones_
as Republicans vote to expel him: “I WAS FIGHTING FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN TOO…
…if this can happen in Tennessee it’s coming to your state next.”
NEW: “According to Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, leaders in Nashville threated to pull state funding for projects in the Memphis area if commissioners were to reappoint
@Justinjpearson
.”🤔
#TennesseeThree
🌍 Rep.
@DennisHPowers
(R-Jacksboro): “There is no climate change.” 🤔
🔥Rep.
@brotherjones_
(D-Nashville): “Thank you, Representative, for making the case for investing in public education — so we don’t have lawmakers who have this mentality.”
TRUMP: "They were trying to take Christmas out of Christmas"
REALITY: HERE'S OBAMA SAYING "MERRY CHRISTMAS" EVERY SINGLE YEAR (cc:
@BillHagertyTN
@realDonaldTrump
)
🇺🇸
@JessicaTarlov
: “Trump was indicted in 4 jurisdictions around this country by juries of regular Americans. This wasn’t Joy Reid & Rachel Maddow sitting there — it was regular people who listened to the evidence.”
🗣️🔥VANDY STUDENT
@kepkjp
: “We are the mass shooting generation… I’m skipping class to be here today because my life depends on it… no meaningful action was taken at this
#TNSpecialSession
, but PEOPLE POWER WILL WIN.”
WATCH: “It’s easier to be a parent this morning. It’s easier to be a dad. It’s easier to tell your kids character matters.”
- a beautiful 2 minutes from
@VanJones68
🇺🇸❤️
COLLIERVILLE, TN: Moms For Liberty-backed school board member Keri Blair resigns 13 months after being elected, following $728 worth of shoplifting charges from Target. (after 7 total offenses)
So the Trump administration runs a pill mill and
@NBCNews
works Biden’s name into the tweet? 🤔
Framing is everything. After all this time, there are no accidents anymore.
🗣️🔥WATCH: “SHAME! SHAME! SHAME!”
A smirking
#KremlinCameron
Speaker
@CSexton25
just got stuck waiting for an elevator as protestors, moms, covenant parents gave him a big piece of their grieving minds — as he and his party refuse to address the issue of gun safety reform.…
OKLAHOMA: “FBI investigating GOP Okla. officials (including the sheriff) caught on tape talking about lynching Black people, murdering newspaper reporters”
COVENANT MOM: “I’m sick of it! Listen to me! I’m a pleading mother! I don’t want anyone to feel what this feels like.”
The Covenant families left in tears after
#KremlinCameron
& the
@tnhousegop
ended
#TNSpecialSession
in anti-democratic chaos with very little accomplished.
👀 WATCH: “Mr. Clerk, can you read the residency requirements for the speaker?”
@brotherjones_
takes a jab at Speaker Sexton, who faces serious questions about his residency and per diem claims after
@JuddLegum
’s reporting — not to mention other nefarious allegations.
😳NIGHTMARE: “She bled so heavily her husband slipped in her blood.”
PRO PUBLICA on a Tennessee mom without funds to travel out of state forced to carry a life-threatening pregnancy, gave birth to a 1 pound 15 oz baby, can never have kids again.
#ForcedBirthState
@GovBillLee
Wow —
@katzonearth
busts Senator Katie Britt on the sex trafficking anecdote she used in her rebuttal, revealing (courtesy of
@MarshaBlackburn
’s site) it happened to the woman she referred to 20 years ago, in Mexico
Needless to say, Joe Biden was not president of Mexico in 2004
TENNESSEE BRANDO: “Uvalde was a small town… Newtown was a small town…” —
@Tn_Brando
reacts to Aldean’s song🔥
If you make a taunting song/video like this in times like these, at least have enough integrity not to feign surprise at the backlash.
Republicans have now put a rule in place to be able to object to anything
@brotherjones_
&
@Justinjpearson
say they don’t like. Then they can all vote to cut them off.
Don’t turn away. Democracy is being strangled to death here in Tennessee. Fascism reigns. 🇺🇸
New
@JuddLegum
update on Speaker Sexton’s dismissive answer to his residency & per diem questions: “Virtually nothing he said is true… Under the Tennessee Constitution, if Sexton does not live in Crossville, he can not legally represent Crossville.”
FORMER SANTOS ROOMMATE: “He never went by George or Santos… He told me if he could get in Congress for 1 term he’d have a pension and free healthcare for the rest of his life.”
MEANWHILE congress denies that care to the rest of 🇺🇸.
#MedicareForAll
WATCH: “This is not democracy.”
@NC5PhilWilliams
lays out some of the ways democracy has been smothered to death in Tennessee — through absurd “voice votes” and last-minute amendments that rewrite entire bills.
MORE:
LANCASTER, CA:
@LASDHQ
Deputy slams elderly Black woman with cancer to the ground and assaults her as she films her husband being arrested for ALLEGEDLY shoplifting a cake. Outrageous. (H/T
@Lesdoggg
)
“I don’t want to pay taxes for all roads, I just want to pay for the private roads I use.” - vouchers
“I don’t want to pay taxes for police, I want to keep my💰and hire private security.” - vouchers
What y’all call “freedom” is the dismantling of basic society.
@GovBillLee
MELISSA JOAN HART: “I stand here today as someone who for the third time in 11 years has had her kids go on active lockdown, begging our elected officials to enact meaningful and measured laws.”
#TNSpecialSession
NASHVILLE, TN: “He came at me with racism and hatred, like I was an enemy… We deserve respect. We deserve a chance.”
White guy trashes immigrant’s fruit stand on the side of the road in Antioch, gets arrested for vandalism.
Amazing to watch this entire segment and not once hear it mentioned that this was because of a bill passed by Biden and the Democrats (opposed by every Tennessee Republican) — just straight-up irresponsible.
Starting today, all three major insulin manufacturers are offering $35/mo caps on out-of-pocket costs.
Also today, they’re cutting list prices by 70% or more - a move that’s expected to *save* them hundreds of millions of dollars a year.