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Conservative Candidate’s Campaign Materials Seem to Suggest Open Campus Carry Can Protect Students Against ‘Men in Women’s Bathrooms’

A Dallas candidate’s campaign materials appear to imply guns are necessary to protect against transgender people who use public restrooms according to their gender identity.

Brad Underwood, a candidate for the board of the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD), is making headlines for a campaign flier (below) featuring a photo of a man with a beard in a bra that states: “He can now share the same bathroom or locker room as your daughter or granddaughter thanks to the DCCCD trustees.” 

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As horrific as the flier may be, Underwood’s campaign website appears to contain an even more dangerous message. Here’s what it says under “Issues”:

“I will fight to protect the safety of students, faculty and the natural right to self-defense – 

In 2012, the Dallas County Community College District Board of Trustees decided 4-1-2 (4 trustees in favor, 1 against, 2 abstaining) to a policy of making bathrooms and locker rooms transgender. What does this mean? Men do not belong in the ladies restrooms or locker rooms. We’ve seen examples across the country where sexual predators have used this to their advantage, even though assurances were given that our wives and daughters would not be in danger.

… If elected, I will not vote for policies that put your daughter or granddaughter at risk. I will also fight for your daughter to protect herself while on campus with Texas’ new Campus Carry law.” 

Candidate Campaigning on ‘Taxes, Tuition and Transgender’ 

Underwood’s website also features photos of him alongside Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and actor Chuck Norris. The outgoing message on his cell phone voicemail states that his three issues are, “Taxes, tuition and transgender.” 

Underwood (photo, top, at a campaign event with Gov. Greg Abbott,) did not respond to telephone and email messages from NCRM seeking comment about whether he’s advocating violence against trans people in public restrooms, or suggesting guns are a solution to trans people in public restrooms.

If he is, he would not be the first Dallas-area candidate to do so. Tracy Murphree, the GOP candidate for sheriff of Denton County, north of Dallas, wrote on Facebook last month: 

“This whole bathroom thing is craziness I have never seen. All I can say is this: If my little girl is in a public women’s restroom and a man, regardless of how he may identify, goes into the bathroom, he will then identify as a John Doe until he wakes up in whatever hospital he may be taken to. Your identity does not trump my little girl’s safety. I identify as an overprotective father that loves his kids and would do anything to protect them”

In any case, Underwood’s disgusting flier appears to have backfired, angering local parents and exposing possible campaign finance issues. 

The flier states that it was paid for by “A Better Dallas County Community College District,” a political action committee that has raised $10,000 from a single donor. However, campaign finance reports list the PAC’s mailing address is the same as Underwood’s. 

“While I didn’t seek them out, I was glad to have their endorsement,” Underwood told WFAA-TV.

Asked why the PAC’s address is the same as his, he added: “I’ll have to take a look at it and see. I have a lot of help. … I have several people working on my campaign. Somebody could have put something on there that doesn’t belong there.” 

Wednesday afternoon the PAC’s website displayed a new message: “Due to a security breach, this website is locked and has no content.”

Underwood wants to repeal the community college district’s 2012 nondiscrimination policy, which prohibits discrimination based on gender identity. But a spokeswoman for the district told WFAA the policy doesn’t address restroom use. 

Teia Collier, a mother who lives in the district, called the flier “ugly and not nice,” adding that it could force her to have a conversation with her children that she’s not ready to have.  

Rafael McDonnell, a spokesman for Dallas’ LGBT community center, called the flier “factually inaccurate, intellectually dishonest and sleazy politics.”

The Dallas Morning News reports that an identical flier was sent out by a candidate in another DCCD race, Dorothy Zimmermann. 

 

Image of Underwood via Facebook 
Flier image screenshot via WFAA

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‘Positively Authoritarian’: White House Tweets and Deletes ‘Naughty List’ of Journalists

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The White House appears to have tweeted then deleted a “Naughty List” of journalists, including top news reporters and outlets, in an act that is being described as “positively authoritarian” by one legal expert.

The video was posted to X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, and the White House’s own website, which reads: “MEDIA OFFENDERS ON THE NAUGHTY LIST,” and “Video unavailable. This video has been removed by the uploader.”

A Google search of the White House’s page shows a video thumbnail consistent with the videos captured by several social media influencers.

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The video includes a Santa Claus chortling “ho ho ho,” and unrolling a scroll titled “Naughty List” that includes MS NOW reporters Carol Leonnig and Ken Dilanian, CNN’s Jake Tapper, and reporters from CBS News, Axios, and The Bulwark as well. The background music is “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.”

The video closes with the message, “Better luck next year,” then the screen reads:

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An AI generated trending page on X reads: “The 34-second clip, posted Thursday evening, showed photos of journalists pinned to a wall alongside names like The New York Times and The Washington Post. It disappeared from the official account within hours amid backlash comparing it to authoritarian blacklists. Supporters laughed it off as holiday humor, while the White House site already tracks similar outlets in an ‘Offender Hall of Shame’ for alleged bias. The episode highlighted ongoing tensions over media coverage during the Trump administration.”

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“This is a blacklist,” wrote social media influencer The Maine Wonk, saying the video was “quickly deleted…after getting serious backlash.”

“This isn’t a joke. It’s a blacklist,” warned another influencer, Brian Allen. “Authoritarians always start by mocking the press… then labeling them… then listing them. We’re now on step two. History has seen this movie before and it never ends well.”

The Bulwark’s Tim Miller offered “Huge congrats” to one of the outlet’s reporters who appeared on the list, Adrian Carrasquillo, and commented, “(ooh we are really quaking in our boots on that one nerds).”

Justin Kanew’s The Tennessee Holler called it a list “showing who is doing their jobs.”

Professor of Law, MSNOW legal analyst, and former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance commented on the video, writing, “How positively…authoritarian.”

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‘Lame Duck’ Trump Loses Major Battle in Indiana: ‘Not Even Close to Being Close’

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President Donald Trump’s efforts to compel Indiana lawmakers to enact a mid-decade congressional map that could have wiped out all of the Hoosier State’s Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives has failed.

“Republicans hold a 40-10 advantage in the state Senate but still rejected Trump’s pressure,” The Washington Post reported. HuffPost called it a “a furious pressure campaign by Trump.”

“Indiana’s proposed congressional map goes down in flames in the state Senate, 31-19,” Votebeat managing editor Nathaniel Rakich observed. 26 votes were needed for the new maps to have been adopted.

Politico reported that the “failed vote is the culmination of a brass-knuckled four-month pressure campaign from the White House on recalcitrant Indiana Republicans that included private meetings and public shaming from Trump, multiple visits from Vice President JD Vance, whip calls from Speaker Mike Johnson and veiled threats of withheld federal funds.

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“Not even close to being close,” noted Bloomberg Government’s Jonathan Tamari. “I certainly did not predict the Indiana state Senate as a hotbed of Trump resistance.”

“Trump’s such a lame duck that he is getting his a– kicked by the Indiana State Senate,” remarked former Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer.

Journalist Todd Zwillich called it a “Wholesale rejection” of a “threat” from the conservative Heritage Action.

Aaron Fritschner, deputy chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), noted that Trump “didn’t just lose that vote, he got blown out.”

“Lesson for national Republicans,” wrote Jessica Riedel of the Brookings Institution. “You don’t have to sell out every principle and publicly worship Trump. Really, you can just do things. And you should ask why it took some state legislators in Indiana to finally stand up for common sense governance.”

“You do, unironically and in earnest, have to hand it to the Indiana GOP for not giving in to the threats on their lives etc.,” declared Everytown Senior Director of Communications Max Steele. “Trump is a duck getting lamer by the day. Hopefully this emboldens others to do what’s right.”

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‘Shakedown’: Outrage Over Claim of Trump Plan to Defund Indiana in Map Clash

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Heritage Action and President Donald Trump are coming under fire after the conservative advocacy organization made a claim that the president threatened to defund the state of Indiana should lawmakers not pass legislation to redraw its congressional district maps.

“President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” Heritage Action wrote on social media on Thursday. “Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame.”

The post ended with, “#PassTheMap.”

While President Trump has publicly threatened to support primary challengers against lawmakers who oppose his redistricting push, NCRM has not found any news reports confirming Heritage Action’s assertion. It is possible the group is relying on information that has not been reported or made public.

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Should Indiana pass legislation to redistrict, it reportedly could pick up only two more GOP-held seats.

Critics blasted Heritage Action, a sister group to the Heritage Foundation, for appearing to support Trump’s alleged threat, and blasted the president as well.

“The president and one of the most influential conservative groups in the country are threatening to deprive all Indiana residents of paved roads, guard bases, and major projects if they don’t pass an extremely gerrymandered map to deprive voters of choice,” noted Isaac Saul, founder of Tangle News. “Awesome stuff.”

“Heritage sure loves authoritarianism,” remarked Media Matters researcher Zachary Pleat.

Calling it “nonsense,” Joel Griffith, a senior fellow at the conservative group Advancing American Freedom wrote: “Appalling to see @Heritage_Action endorse this unconstitutional threat by @realDonaldTrump. The President does not have power to coerce state legislators to redraw congressional maps.”

Others appeared to aim their ire directly at the president.

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“This is the behavior of a madman,” declared Tim Carney, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute.

“This isn’t conservative. This is fascist,” commented former Republican U.S. Congressman Joe Walsh.

Mother Jones’ D.C. bureau chief David Corn declared the move “dictatorial.”

“This does not sound like an appropriate or legal use of federal authority or presidential discretion,” observed Bloomberg columnist Matthew Yglesias.

“Nothing about this shakedown is conservative,” noted CNN’s Jake Tapper.

Jacob Stewart, the deputy opinion editor for the IndyStar called the move “illegal.”

Jonah Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the conservative online magazine The Dispatch, wrote: “I remember when Heritage cared about federalism, the rule of law, separation of powers, and all that stuff. Now it’s all ‘We love Trump’s musk, do what he says (or what Tucker says).'”

“This is called extortion,” wrote former White House correspondent Sam Youngman, also deeming it “illegal.”

“If this comes to pass,” wrote IndyStar columnist James Briggs, “then the story will be that Trump is punishing Indiana citizens for reasons that have nothing to do with them and so-called Indianans will see the punitive measures for what they are.”

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