Loathsome Rep. Dina Titus (D-NV) shared a tweet following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, expressing her ‘concern.’

A heavily armed man stormed the lobby of the Washington Hilton Saturday night, sprinted past a Secret Service checkpoint, and shot at a Secret Service agent.

The shooter, identified as Cole Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, was taken into custody and charged with using a firearm during a crime of violence and assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon.

On Sunday, it was revealed that Cole Allen wrote a manifesto and expressed his hatred for “pedophile, rapist” Trump.

As more details come out about tonight’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, my concerns are for the safety of the attendees. https://t.co/jqZKPd6Z4F

— Dina Titus (@repdinatitus) April 26, 2026

Following her performative post, Titus was quickly reminded of her own threatening rhetoric.

“So I got a word for JD Vance…..You better hide behind that sofa ’cause we’re coming for ya! We are coming for you, J.D.! We’re coming for J.D. Vance!”

“We’re coming for the MAGA folks!”

“Donald Trump, we’re coming for you!”

“We’re coming for ya. And what a day it’s gonna be!”

Watch:

Really? Here’s what Dina Titus was saying not too long ago…

“JD Vance…You better hide behind that sofa ’cause we’re coming for ya…We are coming for you, J.D.! We’re coming for J.D. Vance! We’re coming for the MAGA folks! Donald Trump, we’re coming for you!”

“We’re coming… https://t.co/IipuQrGDsn pic.twitter.com/anC7CtNRCW

— Austin Kruger (@AustinKruger) April 26, 2026

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WATCH: Democrats Propose “Political Violence Commission” After WHCD Attack

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna went on Meet the Press and did what Democrats increasingly do after major incidents of political violence: shift quickly from the facts of the case to a sweeping federal “solution” that expands bureaucracy without addressing root causes.

In this case, that solution was a so-called “bipartisan national commission on political violence.”

Khanna framed the idea as a necessary response to rising tensions, calling for a broad investigative body to study political violence across the country.

On paper, the proposal sounds reasonable. In practice, it follows a well-established pattern—create a commission, generate a report, and use the findings to justify predetermined policy outcomes.

Washington has seen this before.

Commissions do not stop violence. They do not enforce laws. They do not prosecute offenders. All commissions do is produce recommendations—often shaped by the political priorities of the people who design them. That is the central flaw in Khanna’s proposal.

It treats political violence as a research problem rather than a law enforcement issue.

The United States already has a system in place to handle violent threats: federal law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and courts.

When individuals commit or attempt acts of political violence, the response is supposed to be immediate and direct—investigate, charge, and prosecute under existing statutes. That framework already exists. It does not require a new commission.

What Khanna is proposing is not a solution—it is a layer.

And that layer raises serious concerns.

First, any “national commission on political violence” would inevitably become politicized. The definition of “political violence” is not neutral in today’s environment. It is contested, often selectively applied, and frequently used as a political weapon.

A federally backed commission would be tasked with defining that term—and those definitions would shape policy, funding, and enforcement priorities.

Commissions also often serve as vehicles for narrative-building rather than objective analysis.

Depending on its structure, such a commission could emphasize certain forms of extremism while downplaying others. 

That has been a consistent criticism of past federal efforts in this space. Khanna’s proposal does not address that risk—it assumes neutrality without providing any mechanism to ensure it.

Rather than focusing on the specifics of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner incident—that the suspect specifically attempted to target Trump administration officials—Khanna moved almost immediately to a national-level response. That shift matters. It moves the conversation away from accountability and toward abstraction.

A commission reframes the issue.

Instead of asking what went wrong in a specific case, it asks broad, often politically loaded questions about the state of the country. That approach may be useful for messaging, but it does not produce immediate or measurable results.

A national commission may produce headlines. It may generate a report. It may even hold hearings that dominate a news cycle. But it will not prevent the next attack.

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On April 6, 2026, Ben Shapiro appeared on the Hoover Institution’s Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson and argued that three institutional lies, stacked in sequence, had produced a collapse of trust so severe it was generating dangerous anti-establishment radicalism. Nineteen days later, on April 25, that argument was confirmed with the assassination attempt on President Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, fired shots and attempted to breach security at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Trump, Melania, Vice President Vance, and cabinet members were evacuated unharmed.

Allen who worked as a teacher at C2 Education, was a member of a group called “The Wide Awakes” and attended a “No Kings” protest in California. Allen described himself in writings as the “Friendly Federal Assassin.”

The April 25 attack was the fifth documented attempt or plot against Trump across a decade. On June 18, 2016, Michael Steven Sandford, a British national, attempted to grab a police officer’s weapon at a Trump rally at the Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas with the stated intent of shooting Trump. On July 13, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, grazing Trump’s right ear, killing one rallygoer and critically wounding two others before being shot dead by Secret Service on the scene.

On September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was found with a rifle in the tree line outside Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach with documented intent to kill the president and was apprehended before firing. He was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison in February 2026.

Separately, U.S. intelligence agencies and the Department of Justice documented an active Iranian government conspiracy to assassinate Trump in retaliation for the killing of IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, resulting in federal criminal charges against named individuals, though no physical attempt was executed on U.S. soil.

Shapiro’s Uncommon Knowledge framework explains how that environment was built. In his own words: “I think there were three things that happened right in a row, historically, that really shifted the mindset and it matches up with the timeline.” He identified three lies, each containing what he called a “grain of truth” exploited by mainstream media and Democrat lawmakers, and then amplified on social media. Together, these lies produced what he described as a “vast anti-institutional burgeoning” that has “exploded over the course of the last five years.”

The first was Russiagate. The claim that Vladimir Putin manipulated the 2016 election, blackmailed Trump, and installed him as a foreign puppet was, in Shapiro’s words, “trash,” sustained by establishment media for four years. The Mueller Report (2019) found no evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The Durham Report (2023) concluded the FBI launched its Crossfire Hurricane investigation without adequate factual basis and applied a double standard not used against Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The Steele Dossier, which drove much of the coverage, was largely discredited, and its primary sub-source Igor Danchenko was indicted for lying to the FBI.

The narrative shaped impeachment proceedings for the entirety of Trump’s first term, then collapsed under scrutiny. For those who had accepted it, it established that Trump was not a legitimately elected president but a foreign-installed puppet, a framing that made violent removal easier to rationalize.

The second lie was that COVID would kill anyone who went outside, that the young faced the same mortal risk as the elderly, and that refusing vaccination was a betrayal of the social compact. As Shapiro put it, media and Democrat lawmakers were pushing the message: “COVID is going to kill you. If you go outside, it will kill your parents as well. You must end your life as we know it.” Shapiro went on to add, “And you must also get a shot that you really don’t have to take because, as a young person, your chances of surviving COVID are basically 100%.”

CDC data showed infection fatality rates for Americans under 30 consistently below 0.01–0.02%, comparable to seasonal influenza in that cohort. Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis published peer-reviewed work estimating population IFR far below official projections. Sweden kept schools open and recorded negligible teacher or child mortality. Vaccine mandates were nonetheless imposed on college students, military personnel, and federal workers regardless of prior infection or age-based risk, a policy even some pro-vaccine researchers publicly questioned as disproportionate.

Millions lost businesses, missed funerals, were barred from dying relatives, and watched children fall behind, all under mandates framed as non-negotiable, with Shapiro noting that refusing the shot meant having “fundamentally vitiated the ties that bind us all together.” The grievance this produced had nowhere legitimate to go, because the institutions that should have processed it destroyed their own credibility through what came next.

The third lie was exposed by the BLM riots of 2020. The same public health establishment that banned outdoor funerals and church services endorsed mass street protests that summer on explicitly political grounds. In Shapiro’s words: “The idea that you could go out and riot in the streets, and that was okay…rioting in the streets about BLM, spitting on each other and being in close proximity with one another.”

The belief being promoted by media and democrat lawmakers gave the virus agency. They claimed “That the virus was not only going to kill you if you went outside, but it was so woke that if you went outside for the right reason, you’d be totally fine.”

In June 2020, over 1,200 public health professionals signed an open letter declaring that protests against police brutality and systemic racism were “vital to the national public health and to the threatened health specifically of Black people in the United States,” that public health officials should not condemn or attempt to shut down the demonstrations on COVID-19 grounds, and that white supremacy was itself “a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19.”

The same letter declared anti-lockdown protests “rooted in white nationalism” and contrary to respect for Black lives, endorsing one category of mass gathering as a public health intervention while condemning another on explicitly ideological grounds.

Those signatures came from the same public health community that weeks earlier had condemned Memorial Day gatherings. The epidemiological conditions were identical in both cases: large crowds in close contact. The political valence was not. COVID was apparently, the first virus in history that responded to political will.

The treatment of the unrest that followed defied that same logic. The occupation of city blocks, the establishment of self-declared autonomous zones, and months of property destruction, arson, theft, and assaults on police officers produced no serious institutional condemnation. Arrests were relatively few, and offenders were released by activist prosecutors and district attorneys without charges.

The same media and institutional voices that had cheered or excused those months of disorder then condemned January 6, a single day, in terms they had never applied to sustained riots that ran from June through September 2020. No serious Republican defense of January 6 exists. It was condemned across party lines. Yet the media continued to frame it as an insurrection despite no defendant being charged with insurrection and no court finding evidence sufficient to sustain that charge.

To Shapiro’s three lies, a fourth must be added: the Democrat and media framing of ICE as a Nazi-style secret police force. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, in a May 2025 commencement address at the University of Minnesota Law School, called ICE “Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo,” claiming agents were shipping people to “foreign torture dungeons.” The White House compiled 57 documented instances of Democrat officials branding ICE officers as Nazis, Gestapo, the SS, terrorists, and vigilantes. These include Rep. John Larson calling ICE “the SS” and “the Gestapo.”

This framing carries no legal foundation. The Supremacy Clause of Article VI establishes federal law as supreme across all U.S. territory. As the Supreme Court held in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), states have no power to impede or control constitutional federal operations.

A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel recently found California’s law requiring ICE agents to display identification violated the Supremacy Clause, writing that it “attempts to directly regulate the United States in its performance of governmental functions.” Every square mile of California, Minnesota, and Illinois is sovereign U.S. territory subject to federal jurisdiction.

The violence that followed was documented and continues to escalate. In January 2026, the Department of Homeland Security released a report stating that officers had been subjected to a 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,200% increase in vehicular attacks, and an 8,000% increase in death threats.

The five assassination attempts on President Trump, the murder of Charlie Kirk, and the violence surrounding ICE operations are not separate phenomena. They are the documented output of four institutional lies propagated by the mainstream media, pushed by Democrat lawmakers, and amplified across social media.

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Republicans are blasting what they describe as dangerously lax security after an attempted assassination at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton, where President Donald Trump, the first lady, and top officials were rushed from the ballroom as shots were fired near a security checkpoint.

Authorities have identified the suspect as 31‑year‑old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California, who charged a Secret Service screening area outside the main ballroom with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives, shooting a Secret Service agent in the chest before being tackled; the agent survived thanks to a ballistic vest.

Investigators claim writings attributed to Allen, including a manifesto and social media posts, criticized Trump administration policies, contained anti‑Trump and anti‑Christian rhetoric, referred to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin,” and indicated he intended to target Trump officials, likely including the president, leading authorities to treat the case as a politically motivated assassination attempt.

Even before the shots were fired, some attendees were alarmed by what they called minimal ID checks and screening in the hotel lobby, noting that guests could enter the Washington Hilton and move toward pre‑event areas without bag checks or metal detectors until just before the secured ballroom.

Kari Lake wrote on X that she “can’t believe how lax the security was at the White House correspondents dinner tonight,” saying that when she arrived, “nobody asked to visibly INSPECT my ticket nor asked for my photo identification,” and later reiterated in interviews that the setup felt shockingly exposed given the presence of the president, vice president, and Cabinet.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin similarly recounted that he flashed his ticket and was “waved through in one second” without having his name checked against a list, showing ID, being patted down or going through a metal detector, and warned that if he had hidden an explosive in his shoe or jacket, he could have reached packed pre‑party ballrooms with no additional screening.

Other Republican allies pointed to reports that there were “no checkpoints to get into the hotel” and “no real buffer” between public hotel spaces and VIP areas, arguing that a gunman was effectively able to roam near a room containing the president and much of the line of succession before confronting the Secret Service barrier.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna stated in a now-deleted post on X, “The entire Cabinet, the press corps, and numerous members of government were present at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, yet security was noticeably relaxed. Multiple attendees have since reported that it was inadequate.”

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The Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin has officially canceled school for all students on Friday, May 1, due to a large number of teachers planning to participate in anti-ICE protests.

In a message sent to parents and posted on the district’s website, officials announced the closure due to expected low staff turnout for the “A Day without Immigrants” event, which is part of the far-left “May Day Strong” National Day of Action.

A whopping 70 percent of the district’s staff signed on to support canceling school for the protest.

SCOOP: The Madison Metropolitan School District (@MMSDschools) in Wisconsin sent out a message notifying parents that May 1st classes will be canceled so teachers can join anti-ICE protests

Your students are forced to lose out on their education so teachers can be left-wing… pic.twitter.com/xTuAvFBSsU

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2026

The full announcement from the Madison Metropolitan School District website read as follows:

No school Friday, May 1

Our Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI) partners recently shared that they received 70% of staff signatures supporting participation in “A Day without Immigrants” as part of the May Day Strong national day of action.

After a conversation with MTI, we understand that we may experience low staff turnout and believe this will directly affect the safety of our community due to insufficient supervision and educational support for our students.

Once we were made aware of the anticipated staff absences, we reviewed options and scenarios to best support students and families. After thoughtful discussion and collaboration, it has been determined that:

• School will be cancelled for all students on Friday, May 1.
• There will be no after-school care.

However, all other activities, including events and athletics, will continue as scheduled.

Although school is cancelled, students’ instructional time still meets Department of Public Instruction requirements, and they will not be required to make up the missed day.

We know school schedule changes can have impacts on our communities. Thank you for your patience. School will resume Monday, May 4, as scheduled.

The district is shutting down classes and after-school programs because teachers want to participate in activist demonstrations rather than show up for work.

Madison Teachers Inc. (MTI), the union representing the district’s educators, actively encouraged participation in the protest.

In a press release about the protest, MTI wrote:

On Friday May 1st, 2026, Madison Teachers Inc., will join Voces de la Frontera and a broad coalition of labor and community partners in a powerful act of Solidarity to take action on “A Day Without Immigrants.” Starting at noon at the State Street Library Mall, Voces, MTI, and thousands of supporters will march to the Capitol at 2 PM to hear from impacted communities and activists.

“No School, No Work, and No Shopping.” By choosing to march with our students and community instead of going to work, the members of MTI are aligning with Voces de la Frontera’s demands and our immigrant communities while calling attention to the state’s failure to live up to its obligations to Wisconsin’s public-school students.

The decision has sparked immediate outrage among parents who now must scramble for childcare or take time off work while their children lose another full day of education.

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