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Watch as numerous fire departments rush to the scene of a major fire at a lithium battery recycling plant in Fredericktown, Missouri, earlier this evening. The blaze, which broke out at the 225,000-square-foot facility owned by Critical Mineral Recovery, led to shelter-in-place advisories and mandatory evacuation orders in the surrounding area. According to its website, the company uses this facility to “recycle lithium-ion battery materials from battery manufacturers, automotive OEMs, battery dealers, recyclers, and processors worldwide,” describing it as “one of the largest lithium-ion battery processing facilities in the world.” All plant workers have been safely accounted for, with only...

Posting for Hawley's SAVAGE opening at about the 2:35 mark. "Thank you to the reporters for being here. You know, it takes a little bit of courage to share a stage with Lucas Kunce after he shot a reporter last week." LOLOLOL!

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Leftists are losing their minds over a cartoon depicting “Squad” member Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) with an exploding pager, howling “Islamophobia” over the satirical depiction of the virulently antisemitic lawmaker. In what is being described as an “ingenious” operation attributed to Israeli intelligence, the pagers belonging to members of the Hezbollah terror organization were remotely detonated after a message was sent to the devices which aren’t as easily trackable as cellphones, causing a major disruption to the network that left hundreds badly wounded and reportedly claimed at least 20 lives. The cartoon which portrays the Muslim Michigan bomb thrower sitting...

Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho have filed an amended lawsuit in federal court, claiming their “sovereign” interest in “protecting… citizens” was violated by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to expand access to the abortion pill to mail-order dispensing. The lawsuit, State of Missouri; State of Kansas; State of Idaho v. FDA, filed on October 14, 2024, in Amarillo, Texas, is “asking US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk to rollback efforts the Food and Drug Administration has taken over the past eight years to ease access to the drug, such as allowing it to be dispensed through the mail,” CNN reported....

A Missouri Democratic Senate candidate — and Marine vet — who often smugly touts his gun safety expertise online is being viciously mocked after a journalist was struck by a stray bullet fragment during a campaign event at his haphazard backyard shooting gallery. Photos from the ill-conceived gathering — which one observer likened to “A Where’s Waldo for ‘things that would get you perma-banned from any state-regulated gun range'” — show Senate hopeful Lucas Kunce firing a scoped AR-style rifle at what appear to be aluminum cans from about 25 feet away. The event was held at his home in...

The futures of Elon Musk, SpaceX, Starlink, Tesla, and the Second Amendment are inexorably linked to the future of the United States of America.The world watched in amazement and awe as the SpaceX Starship performed its fifth test flight. The Starship is made mostly of stainless steel. Starship is the largest spaceship and rocket system ever built. It is designed to take 100-200 tons into orbit at a time. The booster (first stage) is about 233 feet tall. The cost to take a kilogram to orbit before SpaceX was about $11,000 to $13,000 per kilogram, or about $5000 to $6000...

In a sudden turn of events, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey signed an emergency preamble to the state’s latest gun reform bill, making it effective immediately. This action has sparked significant debate and frustration from gun owners, advocates, and legal experts across the state. The law went into action without any delay. Let’s break down the key elements of this move and the reactions it has triggered from various sides. Governor Healey signed the gun reform bill earlier this summer, but in a private decision made this October, she invoked an emergency preamble to accelerate the law’s implementation. Healey stated that...

Disgraced former Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s (R) Tuesday gun range photo op is being mocked online after a reporter was hit while Democrat candidate Lucas Kunce shot at targets that were apparently too close.Davis also noted, “Kinzinger holds his rifle like a complete ninny, and that will never not be funny to me. And pro-tip for Kinzinger: the eye protection works better when it’s on your eyes, not your head. You stupid idiot. Try using your brain for once. You’re lucky you still have one after today.”

1) They are shooting steel at 5-7 yards with rifles, which could’ve killed somebody given the force with which the bullets will ricochet off the steel targets at the at distance. You would instantly get permanently banned at my range if you did that. Zero questions asked. 2) Kinzinger holds his rifle like a complete ninny, and that will never not be funny to me. And pro-tip for @AdamKinzinger: the eye protection works better when it’s on your eyes, not your head. You stupid idiot. Try using your brain for once. You’re lucky you still have one after today.

Steve Guest @SteveGuest It’s too on the nose: Democrat Senate candidate Lucas Kunce shot a reporter at an event with Adam Kinzinger.

A television reporter was wounded by an apparent bullet fragment while Missouri Democrat Senate candidate Lucas Kunce was shooting an AR-15 at a campaign event. The Kansas City Star reported that the event was held in a rural area north of Kansas City. The Star also noted, “Kunce was shooting an AR-15 at the time, and was the only person shooting when the injury occurred.” The reporter, KSHB-TV’s Ryan Gamboa, stood in place while Kunce bandaged the wound. With the election only two weeks away, Kunce had been stressing his military service as a way to appeal to voters, and...

The owner of the Kansas City Chiefs said Wednesday that he has no issue with kicker Harrison Butker forming a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as "traditional values." Butker announced his Upright PAC last weekend, during the Chiefs' bye, in a series of postings on social media. "One of the things I talk to the players every year about at training camp is using their platform to make a difference," Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt said. "We have players on both sides of the political spectrum, both sides of whatever controversial issue...

There’s “a monumental presidential election approaching,” said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Monday’s episode of “Washington Watch,” and pro-lifers in 10 states have the opportunity to stand up and protect life, or see countless pro-life protections erased. One of the 10 states with abortion-related ballot initiatives is Missouri with its Amendment 3. According to Perkins, this initiative, “if passed, would enshrine a deregulated industry of abortion and gender transition into Missouri’s state constitution.” Chris Williams, pastor of Kansas City’s Abundant Life Church, insisted that “we need all hands on deck to defeat this ideology trying to get a...

Former President Donald Trump has made gains in 19 states in the past week, according to a major election forecast. Pollster Nate Silver's forecast shows that the Republican presidential nominee has made marginal gains in six swing states during the past week and in Florida, Texas and New Mexico. Trump has also made gains in New Hampshire, California, Montana, Washington, Massachusetts, Indiana, Missouri, Maryland, Rhode Island and Nebraska, including in its 2nd Congressional District. Nebraska does not use the "winner takes all" system for awarding Electoral College votes. Two votes are awarded to the winner of the statewide popular vote,...

Rudy “Junior” Zevallos' family is remembering the 18 year old as "a remarkable friend, student, brother, and son"A Missouri family is mourning the death of a high school senior who “tragically and very unexpectedly" died after crossing the finish line of a half marathon over the weekend. Rudy “Junior” Zevallos was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed at the finish line on Saturday and was pronounced dead, according to The Kansas City Star. Zevallos was 18, according to his family, who launched a GoFundMe fundraiser over the weekend to help the family with funeral costs. “Junior was a...

US Secret Service officials have kept federal auditors from Donald Trump’s campaign events to hide “that the former president is not receiving a consistent level of protective assets,” according to new whistleblower allegations. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) revealed the claims in a Tuesday letter to Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe — and demanded immediate answers about whether the protective agency was impeding an internal investigation... “The whistleblower alleges that the Secret Service denied access to [Department of Homeland Security] auditors because the former president is not receiving the full level of protective assets for all of his events, and...

Democratic operatives in St. Louis have been caught encouraging noncitizens to register to vote in the 2024 election and support Kamala Harris. The evidence was uncovered by a St. Louis Fox affiliate after an investigation found flyers mailed to the workplace of illegal migrants that declared, “Stop the steal by stopping Trump’s allies.” Unsurprisingly, the flyers encouraged the illegals to “vote for Harris-Walz and pro-worker candidates.” A local business owner who got wind of voter fraud told Fox2 that the workers are Mexican migrants who are authorized to temporarily work in the U.S. under H2-B visas.

The state of Missouri has executed Marcellus Williams despite concerns that the convicted murderer might have been innocent. Williams died by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday at Missouri state prison in Bonne Terre. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle, a social worker and former St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter who was fatally stabbed during a daytime burglary. Republican Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Missouri's Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court all rejected last-minute attempts to halt the execution, ignoring clemency pleas from Williams' lawyers, prosecutors and members of the...

The execution of a death row inmate whose murder conviction has been doubted by the prosecutors that convicted him has sparked a wave of outrage across the US. Missouri Governor Mike Parson has been branded 'shameful' and 'racist' and the state and federal justice systems accused of being 'flawed' after Marcellus Williams was put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday. Williams, 55, was sentenced to death over the 1998 killing of Lisha Gayle, who was stabbed repeatedly during a burglary of her suburban St. Louis home. The St. Louis County prosecutor's office - which originally secured his conviction in...