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(March 18, 2025) - Since Hamas’s barbaric attack on Israel on October 7th, many of our nation’s top universities have abandoned their Jewish students. Instead of providing a place …
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I don’t know about you, but my wife and I had a scary afternoon on Saturday. Watching the Nashville news, and even national broadcasts, as they namedropped streets and roads right near our …
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Troy Smith
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3/21/25
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It is only five weeks into the second Trump administration, and I am starting to see evidence that some of his voters are experiencing buyers’ remorse. Of course, there are plenty who are …
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Troy Smith
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3/10/25
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The Republican-controlled House of Representatives recently unveiled their draft for a budget (which was supposed to have been done in October but has kept getting pushed back due to politics). This …
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Troy Smith
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2/24/25
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(Feb. 18, 2025) - Today, after four years of reckless spending and decades-high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration, our national debt sits at $36.4 trillion.
In many ways, this …
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Marsha Blackburn U.S. Senator (R)
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2/24/25
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(Feb. 10, 2025) - In just his first weeks back in the Oval Office, President Trump has taken strong action to secure our border. Through executive actions alone, the President has restored the …
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For the last few weeks, I’ve been repeating a message about robber barons, on the national and state level. It has been a message aimed at the political middle and at the working-class voters …
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Troy Smith
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2/17/25
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As you probably know, last week the Tennessee General Assembly passed Gov. Bill Lee’s school voucher plan. This passed - via a majority of the Republicans in the legislature - despite the …
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Troy Smith
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2/7/25
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(Feb. 5, 2025) - Today is National Girls and Women in Sports Day—a holiday that celebrates women’s many accomplishments in athletics. Since Title IX’s enactment in 1972, which …
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Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator (R)
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2/7/25
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On Jan. 20, 2025, President Trump took the oath of office to become the 47th President of the United States of America.
For so many in Tennessee and across our country, this is a moment to …
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Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee U.S. Senator (R)
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1/28/25
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I’ve been talking a lot the past month or so about robber barons, past and present, and the need to push back against them. In doing so, I must point out, I have very explicitly stated …
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Troy Smith
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1/28/25
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In my last couple of columns, I have discussed, in some detail, the Gilded Age and the “robber barons” associated with it. I briefly mentioned the Populist Movement and the Progressive …
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Troy Smith
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1/17/25
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(Jan. 13, 2025) - Earlier this month, I joined my Senate colleagues in a tradition that has marked the beginning of each new congressional term since our nation’s founding: reciting the oath of …
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(Jan. 2, 2024) - What we are already seeing from the next Trump administration, before it has even started, is reminiscent of an earlier time (way before the first Trump administration). Let’s …
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Troy Smith
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1/2/25
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By now, everyone knows about Luigi Mangione and Brian Thompson. Thompson was the CEO of a major insurance company who was assassinated by Mangione while in New York attending a conference. The …
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Troy Smith
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12/23/24
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Last week, I said I would talk about what the Democrats could have done differently and why things may have turned out the way they did. The short answer, of course, is that a majority of …
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Troy Smith
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11/25/24
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After four years of Biden-Harris failures, our country is set to make an incredible comeback with Republican control of the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the White House starting in the …
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Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator (R)
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11/25/24
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I am writing this column more than two days before the election, yet you will be reading it two days after. I don’t know what will happen - at this point it looks like it could go either way - …
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Troy Smith
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11/7/24
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(Oct. 28, 2024) - On the north bank of the Nolichucky River in Telford, Tennessee, sits Plum Grove. Between 1796 and 1801, the property served as the home of Tennessee’s first governor and …
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Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator (R)
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11/7/24
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(Sept. 16, 2024) - Across our country, more than 3 million female high school and college athletes compete, practice, and train every day to achieve athletic success.
For many of these …
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Marsha Blackburn, U.S. Senator (R)
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9/19/24
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