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Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) is trailing her Democratic competitor, state Rep. Josh Turek, by 8 points in the upcoming Iowa Senate race, survey results published Tuesday found. Around 50 percent of respondents to Marists’ latest poll said they plan to vote for Turek in November, while 42 percent said the same of Hinson. Two percent…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) of “supporting” the terror group Hamas ahead of visiting the United Nations General Assembly in the city. “Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani,” Netanyahu said in a video posted to the social platform X. “Shame on you for supporting the Hamas…
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LOCAL INPUT: Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing fresh backlash over sidelining key stakeholders from talks about developing thousands of housing units on top of a Queens rail yard.
The Sunnyside Yard project landed back in the headlines yesterday when Mamdani and President Donald Trump emerged from a chummy meeting at Gracie Mansion to announce they’d agreed to bring conversations about the long-stalled housing plan to “a new level.” The unlikely duo first announced at a White House meeting in February they were looking into reviving the project, which would be contingent on billions of dollars in federal funding and involve
“Freedom Fest,” a pro-Trump event in Kentucky featuring Kid Rock that was scheduled to take place this weekend, has been canceled after low VIP ticket sales, according to its organizer, Eric Deters, a failed House candidate and Trump supporter.
In a now-deleted video posted to his Facebook page late on Monday, Deters said he had to cancel the event, “Patriot State Freedom Fest,” which was free to the public but cost $1,000 for the “VIP experience.”
Deters said only six VIP passes had been purchased as of Monday, which was not enough to offset the cost of the event for him, Newsweek reported.
“When I put together Patriot State Freedom Fest, I put it together with the game plan and the idea that I could pay for it with the VIP sales of $1,000 from these hundred people that I interact with on a regular basis that have money,” Deters said in the video.
“Out of all these people that have money that I interact with, who I do favors for all day long, they ask me for something, I never say no. I never said no to these people,” Deters went on, railing against his acquaintances for their lack of support.
“I am never ever, ever, ever, ever doing this event again,” he added.
Deter did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment.
Deters, who lost a Kentucky Republican primary for a U.S. House seat in 2024, has organized Freedom Fest for years, with high-profile MAGA figures like Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Candace Owens making appearances. Deters also canceled the event in 2023 after announcing that then-candidate Donald Trump, whom Deters said would headline the festival, pulled out.
This year’s event was to include featured guests and speakers Kid Rock, Dog the Bounty Hunter and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky.
Deters’ Monday night announcement of the event’s cancellation was widely covered by news outlets. He subsequently posted several additional videos on Facebook in which he directed his ire at the media, saying his true purpose in organizing the event was to support Comer’s campaign for Kentucky governor.
Comer is weighing a run for governor, but he has not officially declared his candidacy. His office did not immediately respond to MS NOW’s request for comment about the canceled event.
Deters said the decision to scrap the festival was nothing more than “a business call.”
“This moment in time, because of my other financial obligations in the law game, I just can’t write that check like I’ve done in the past,” he said. He added that calling off the event “saved me from picking up a pretty goddamn large tab that I was going to pick up that I didn’t want to freaking pick up. It’s a business call, plain and simple.”
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Former Times staffer Amy Kaufman’s column might have entered Swift’s songwriting canon, as many of the singer’s fans seem to believe today.
Republicans have long ridiculed Jimmy Carter as a feckless figure who did little to help a limping economy and was outsmarted by foreign adversaries like Iran. President Donald Trump once used the occasion of Carter’s 100th birthday, in October 2024, to declare him a success — at least compared with Joe Biden.
Now, with few options at their disposal to tackle the record-high diesel prices battering farmers and truck drivers, and with just six weeks to go until the midterms, growing pockets of the Republican Party are reaching into the Carter playbook.
In the past three days, the concept of a diesel export ban caught fire among Republican lawmakers. Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa spearheaded the GOP jailbreak when he endorsed the proposal on Saturday, saying in an X post that “high diesel prices ARE KILLING FARMERS INCOME.”
Republicans are falling back on a Carter-era idea that only deepened rock bottom for farmers.
Now a stampede of Iowa Republicans is rushing to back the proposal, as diesel scaled to a record high of $6.53 per gallon nationwide. It’s more than double the price from a year ago, thanks in large part to the Iran war and, to a lesser extent, the war in Ukraine. Republicans are demanding immediate action.
“Iowa farmers are filling combines this week at the highest diesel price this state has ever seen, while oil companies ship record amounts of American diesel overseas,” Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks said, calling companies to “sell American diesel to Americans first.” The three-term congresswoman’s re-election race has been rated as a toss-up by Inside Elections, a nonpartisan publication.
Rep. Ashley Hinson, who is campaigning to replace retiring Sen. Joni Ernst as Iowa’s next senator, joined the pack as well. Other House Republicans also introduced legislation last week to implement a temporary diesel export ban through January 2027 just before they skipped town until after the Nov. 3 midterms.
For now, there’s little to indicate that the White House is seriously considering a diesel export ban. On Tuesday, Trump said he had “called for it within my people,” and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration was studying its overall feasibility.
Diesel prices have shot up about 70% since the Trump administration and Israel launched their war with Iran in late February. Different from gasoline, diesel fuel powers the large trucks and heavy freight vehicles carrying food, furniture, clothing and energy products to their destinations. It’s also critical in operating farm and construction equipment, as well as the composition of home heating oil. Diesel is the concealed lifeblood of the U.S. economy, and Republicans are panicking that its price is about to spiral out of control.
The fact that Republicans from ruby-red states are clamoring for government intervention underscores the dwindling levers they have left to pull in their campaigns to keep control of the House and Senate. Polls have shown Republicans are struggling to persuade voters to give them another chance to quell rising prices, with inflation topping their list of concerns. That’s hard to pull off when Trump has dismissed affordability as a “fake” Democratic-manufactured crisis as recently as the GOP midterm convention.
And so Republicans are falling back on a Carter-era idea that only deepened rock bottom for farmers.
In January 1980, Carter implemented a grain export ban to punish the Soviet Union for its invasion of Afghanistan. “I am determined to minimize any adverse impact on the American farmer from this action,” he said in a primetime speech. Seventeen million tons of American wheat, corn and soybeans would no longer flow to Soviet livestock.
It wasn’t popular with most Republican or Democratic lawmakers from the Farm Belt — the latter was still a thriving species in Congress instead of an extinct one. The Senate rebuked Carter eight months into the export ban. Grains piled up at storage bins and prices plunged, sinking many farmers into financial ruin. Other grain-exporting nations like Argentina, Brazil and Australia stepped into the void, replacing U.S. farmers who lost their Soviet market share.
Ronald Reagan campaigned against the grain export ban and lifted it in April 1981, shortly after taking office. He later bashed it as “a cynical, wrongheaded, totally unfair grain embargo” that backfired on the U.S. by also demonstrating that the country was an unreliable trade partner. Doesn’t that ring familiar?
Energy analysts today are wary about enacting a diesel export ban. They argue that domestic diesel inventories would climb and lead to lower prices in the short run. But by removing diesel from the global market, prices would shoot up over time and ripple through many parts of the East Coast that still rely on imported diesel. Enclosing diesel domestically doesn’t mean international supply and demand will magically decrease into a lower sale price.
“The U.S. is not short of diesel. The world is,” wrote Patrick De Haan, chief petroleum analyst at Gas Buddy, a price-tracking platform, on social media. “A potential export ban treats the global price problem as if it was a U.S. only problem, and the cure would be far worse than the disease.”
Republican desperation ahead of the midterms is growing. By endorsing a diesel export ban, they’re dusting off a flawed, antiquated blueprint and hitting the panic button.
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