TENNESSEE BULLET POINTS 7-30-26
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19 segmentsStart your day with the morning jolt of Drake C. Toll. See, now it's on demand. My podcast is kind of a radio thing, I think, but also it's a bit of a TV show, and it's about whatever I want it to be. It's listening live as it happened, when it happened, with the instant reaction. You're home for talking sports. We go back, the Great Toll Show, Westwood One Sports Network, and there will be on demand on your radio. Anywhere in the country, I'll see you there. Westwood One Sports Talk, your home for Drake C. Toll. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. Welcome back to Talk Radio 102.3. This is Yaffe Live. Of course, I am Tennessee's voice of reason. And you can always check out this show 1 to 3 p.m. weekdays right here on the Talk Monster. And coming up in a few minutes, we'll speak with Brandon Lewis from the Tennessee Conservative. Lots of Tennessee News and politics to talk about with him. So check that out. And he always posted on his site, Tennessee Conservative News.com. Right now, though, let's get to the headlines. So once again, many of them I get from Tennesseeconservative News.com, we have the Tennessee bullet points. The Tennessee bullet points, the top headlines from around the volunteer state. And it's sponsored by the Tennessee conservative. Number four today, thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants in Tennessee had been impacted by the end of temporary protected status. So the U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump's termination of temporary protected status for Haitians and Syrians, affecting more than 300,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians nationwide. And apparently, thousands of them are living in Tennessee, who must now either return home, pursue other limited legal avenues, or risk remaining illegally in facing deportation. Now, immigration advocates in Tennessee notes sharply reduced to options amid broader policy changes, such as delayed green card renewals, loss of DACA protections, and a recent high court ruling restricting judicial challenges to the TPS decisions. Meanwhile, overall TPS numbers, once about 1.3 million people at one point. continue to fall as designations for additional countries face likely termination. And Haitian migrants in places like Springfield, Ohio, have been self-deporting in large numbers. So it really affects us in Tennessee as well. Number three today, Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to keep men out of the daughters of the American Revolution. It's a sentence I never thought I'd have to say, but here we are. Senator Marsha Blackburn, along with co-sponsors, including Senators Katie Britt, Mike Lee, Tommy Tuberville, and Kevin Kramer. She has introduced the Daughters of the American Revolution membership Integrity Act. Now, the bill would amend the organization's federal charter to restrict membership to biological females defined by reproductive biology instead of just what they define themselves as. Now, after the DIR updated its bylaws in 2023 to admit biological males who identify as women with an estimated five such members so far, which is ridiculous, and recently rejected a member proposal to ban trained gender applicants. Blackburn and supporters argue the group founded in 1890 for women descended from American Revolution participants. It's all to promote historic preservation, education, and patriotism.
should preserve its original female-only purpose rather than allow biological males, a position backed by several conservative organizations. And it's also backed by, you know, common sense. They're called the Daughters of the American Revolution. Daughters are female. This isn't hard, everyone. Just so you know. Number two, Donald Trump stumps for Andy Ogles' re-election campaign. That's in the tightening District 5 primary race in Tennessee. So President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Representative Andy Ogles for re-election in Tennessee's 5th Congressional District during a Tuesday teller rally organized by the Freedom Caucus Fund. As early voting continues in a tightening Republican primary against former Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher, betting market show Andy Ogles lead narrowing significantly since district lines were redrawn in May. With Hatcher gaining ground among stronger fundraising and independent PAC support from renewable energy interest, apparently is one area. Now, Trump praised Andy Ogles as a key ally on legislation and urged voters to support him while Andy Ogles highlighted outside of liberal money opposing him. Campaign finance figures reveal Hatcher slightly ahead in cash raised on hand. With both candidates facing a potentially well-funded Democratic opponent in the general election, that's if Columbia Mayor Chas Mulder advances in that election. I've had my issues with Andy Ogles in the past. I probably agree with them on most of the policy issues, though, and most of the votes, but he does a lot of trying to get attention, like on social media and from Trump and not a lot of actually paying attention to the district. And so he's trying to change that. He was actually at the Tennessee conservative event last week and see if that helps him. Now, number one today, Memphis and Nashville are among America's least safe cities, according to a new study. So a new smart asset study ranking the safety of 83 U.S. cities with populations over 250,000, found Memphis to be the least safe overall. Hopefully that's changing now with the Memphis Safe Task Force. and Nashville is the eighth least safe. Now this is based on a composite score of violent and property crime rates, traffic fatalities and FEMA natural disaster risk. Now Memphis recorded 25 violent crimes and 69 property crimes per 1,000 residents. plus 21.5 motor vehicle deaths per 100,000, while Nashville had about 11.2 violent and 45.1 property crimes per 1,000 and 13.6 traffic fatalities per 100,000. Now, both received relatively high disaster risk ratings. Other bottom 10 cities include Houston, St. Louis, San Francisco, Kansas City, Oakland, Philadelphia, and Detroit, while Virginia Beach ranked safest, followed by Plano, Madison, Honolulu, and Chesapeake. The analysis used 2024 FBI crime data, CDC traffic figures, and FEMA's April 26 Risk Index. By contrast, the Tennessee Midside City of Franklin ranked the 12 safest, the 12th safest among smaller cities.
in related report, which is kind of a suburb of Nashville. So interesting that Nashville itself isn't safe, but one of the suburbs is one of the safest areas. Very kind of interesting. And Franklin is a nice city. I love it. This was brought to you by the Tennessee Conservative. Go to Tennessee Conservative News.com to see that story and much, much more. And we'll speak with Brandon Lewis next here on Yafi Live. The U.S. Soccer Podcast. These players are battered and exhausted, but you don't hurt like this if you don't care about this team, about this country, about this game. You can feel the intensity, the goals, the energy that, wow, look at us. Here in the U.S., I have got some news for you. There's so much more to come. My name is Megan Klingberg, and we're just getting started. The U.S. Soccer Podcast, presented by Henkel. Follow and listen on your favorite platform. form.