Pat Gray Unleashed

Trump just did something Biden never managed: He got a 74-year-old American out of a Russian prison after more than four years, and he didn’t have to hand over a single prisoner in return. Stephen Hubbard, a retired Michigan teacher and Air Force/National Guard veteran who had been living in Ukraine, was detained by Russian forces in April 2022 and later sentenced to nearly seven years on mercenary charges his family has long called fabricated. The State Department eventually designated him wrongfully detained. For years, his family watched the case stall. Then last week, Trump raised Hubbard’s name dire...

Texas parents are opening their mailboxes to find unsolicited envelopes addressed to the “students” in their household from something calling itself the Texas Transgender Student Union. The enclosed guide walks minors through what to do if their parents aren’t supportive of a “trans” identity: find a “safe adult” like a teacher or counselor, pursue legal emancipation as young as 16, and look for out-of-state medical care for hormones. It even tells kids that groups are ready to become their “found family.” The timing is hard to ignore. The mailers started showing up as early voting opened for the November 3 election. The sender traces...

A campaign official for Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed just admitted on hidden camera that El-Sayed receives illegal overseas donations. James O’Keefe’s undercover video shows regional field organizer Abdoul Beckwith saying, “You know, he has people from overseas that donate to him,” then confirming, “No it is not allowed.” He describes the pass-through: Overseas money goes to a family member, who then gives it to the campaign, adding “Everybody does it!” This is the exact foreign-national contribution ban under 52 U.S.C. § 30121. Beckwith also tells the undercover journalist that El-Sayed cannot openly reject Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhoo...

The night before far-left rioters torched Limoges’ historic town hall and French cities erupted in looting and arson, President Emmanuel Macron was at a Celine Dion concert in Nanterre. On Friday, he sat among roughly 35,000 spectators after days in Brussels. On Saturday, the protests over school conditions, teacher shortages, inequality, and the rising cost of living turned into the worst unrest in years. Masked far-left groups smashed their way into the 19th-century Limoges town hall, set it ablaze, and brought down the clock tower and belfry. The mayor called it a premeditated arson attack and said people inside feared for th...

A 16-year-old walked into Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon, just after 1 p.m. Thursday and murdered three children — ages 5, 8, and 11 — and a teacher. Another child and a teacher were left in critical condition. He forced entry by shooting at the locked doors with his mother’s shotgun. Then a student’s dad who saw him go in pursued him inside and ended it. Dispatch audio caught what happened before officers even cleared the building: The shooter had been neutralized, possibly by a father at the school. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz later confirmed that a community member who watched the susp...

Texas Democrat and seminarian James Talarico just sat across from a Catholic voter at a CNN town hall and told her the Bible is silent on abortion. She didn’t let it slide. Jody Hunt, a self-described one-issue Catholic voter, was asking how she could trust him to protect the most innocent. Talarico’s answer: “We’re both Christians, and the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion.” He argued that they could still find common ground by reducing unplanned pregnancies through other policy levers. Hunt came back immediately: The Bible is not silent. She pointed to the Ten Commandmen...

The latest Marist poll of Texas likely voters just dropped, and the Senate race is a dead heat. Democrat James Talarico is at 47%, Republican Ken Paxton at 45%. Independents are breaking for Talarico at 52%, while a majority of the same voters still think Paxton is going to win the seat anyway. That gap between the numbers and the expectation is the real story here. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is holding a 49-45 edge over Gina Hinojosa for governor among likely voters, with seven in 10 Texans convinced the incumbent will win. The generic congressional ballot shows Republicans up five points. But Trump’s...

Ken Martin just said the quiet part out loud. The DNC chair sat down with Peter Alexander and refused to treat the Democratic Socialists of America as a liability — even as Republicans point out their calls to abolish ICE, abolish the police, and open the borders. Instead he doubled down on the “big tent,” claiming you win through addition, not subtraction, and that expanding to include these new voices is how Democrats grow. This isn’t a fringe group on the outside looking in. The DSA has its own Abolish ICE Commission, endorses candidates running on abolishing the Senate and calling...

Trump declared an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine “effective immediately.” He posted it after Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries that the administration blamed for pushing U.S. diesel to $6.28 a gallon. Days earlier, he announced a deal for Russia to send hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel to ease pressure on American drivers and truckers. Zelenskyy called the diesel purchase a “betrayal” and then said the ceasefire announcement itself was news to him. He indicated that Ukraine would support a mutual halt if Russia stops hitting Ukrainian energy sites, but Moscow has not confirmed. This is at least the four...

The Pentagon just settled the argument: Nidal Hasan's firing squad will be live streamed. On November 5, 2009, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, shouted "Allahu akbar," and opened fire on soldiers lined up for deployment clearances. Thirteen people were killed. Thirty-two were wounded. He called it jihad. President Trump approved a firing squad. Pete Hegseth says it happens at Fort Hood on December 3 at 1 p.m. Central, the same base and the same hour Hasan opened fire. Soldiers with rifles, and the public gets to watch, because people need to understand there are...

Ken Paxton put one question on the mic at President Trump’s San Antonio rally, and the room answered it back: Where is James Talarico? Trump was in San Antonio campaigning for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, against Democrat James Talarico. Paxton led the crowd in “Where is Talarico?” and said the Democrat had not been seen campaigning in Texas for 11 days. Talarico’s campaign answered through spokesman JT Ennis. After more than 100 public events and tens of thousands of hands shaken, James came down with the flu and will be back on the trai...

Oct. 7 didn't end. The survivors still can't go back to work. Three years after Hamas murdered and kidnapped civilians at the Nova music festival and in places like Kibbutz Be'eri, the New York Post checked on the people who lived. Recovery is not what they found. Nova survivor Rom El-Hai, 32, hid in a forest while gunfire passed. He came out without his job, his girlfriend, or his friends, and he says the PTSD and depression are still intense. People tell survivors that making it out means life snaps back. It did not. Photographer Shye Klein still cannot shoot events. A...

Twelve American B-1 bombers did not leave a British base by accident. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times report that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was behind a complex, multipronged plan to destroy U.S. aircraft and kill American service members at RAF Fairford, about 90 miles west of London. All 12 bombers went back to their home stations in the United States over the weekend. Some officials say the plot looked loosely like Ukraine’s Operation Spider Web, the truck-launched drone strikes on Russian bomber bases. This was not a strike that already happened. It was intelligence serious en...

Justice Samuel Alito just told CBS he is considering retirement. Alito is 76, the second-oldest justice on the bench. He said he thought about retiring this year and decided to stay, because he still believes he can make a valuable contribution. He also said somebody his age has to think about it every term, and he will look at it again in 2027. That is not a resignation. It is a clock. If he leaves while President Trump is still in office, Trump gets a shot at a fourth Supreme Court justice. His first three already moved the Court to the right...

Core drilling just started on the boat-shaped ridge in eastern Turkey that some people have called Noah’s Ark since a Turkish Army captain spotted it from the air in 1959. The Durupinar formation sits in the Tendurek Mountains near Mount Ararat, about 164 meters long — close to the 300-cubit length in Genesis. Modern geologists have treated it for decades as limestone and volcanic clay carved by erosion. David Fasold measured it in the 1980s, called it a fossilized deck, then later dismissed the ark theory himself. Now a Sivas Cumhuriyet University team, with Turkish government approval, has run the first real core...

A FlyDubai jet full of Israelis was supposed to land in Tel Aviv. The co-pilot stabbed the captain instead. The plane plunged thousands of feet. Passengers had to break into the cockpit to stop it. Wednesday morning, FlyDubai flight FZ1073 left Dubai for Tel Aviv with about 174 people on board, most of them Israelis. At cruise altitude, near 34,000 feet, the co-pilot stabbed Captain Smit Machchhar. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacker apparently tried to crash the plane with the passengers on board. The Boeing 737 dropped thousands of feet — some flight data put the fall around 17,000 to 18,000 feet — sent a 7700 emer...

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer just stood in a Plymouth courtroom and asked the judge where the evidence is that she killed her three children. Cora was 5. Dawson was 3. Callan was 8 months. In January 2023 their father, Patrick Clancy, came home from errands and found them on the basement floor with exercise bands around their necks. Lindsay Clancy was in the yard after jumping from a second-floor window. She was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. At trial the defense was not criminally responsible — postpartum psychosis, a voice telling her to kill the children and herself — because the judge would not split...

AOC stood in front of a packed New York hall and told the room ICE is Palantir, ICE is AI, ICE is facial recognition, ICE is surveillance, and ICE is coming after you regardless of your status. This was not a gaffe. At a Students vs. Billionaires town hall in Ithaca, in front of more than 1,000 people, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for abolishing ICE and framed the agency as a post-9/11 surveillance-state shop tied to private contractors, not ordinary law enforcement. She named Palantir. She brought up facial recognition. She said ICE is going after every man, woman, and child because...

James Talarico just posted a slick little video: He "dialed" Ken Paxton’s cell and invited him to a Fox News debate. Paxton didn’t pick up. The clip took off. Fair enough — it’s good campaign theater. It does not reset the record on how Talarico talks about Christianity and Christian Texas. He’s a Presbyterian seminarian running for U.S. Senate, and for years, he has drawn a hard line between his faith and the faith of the people who actually fill Texas pews. He has called Christian nationalism heretical, unbiblical, a cancer, and a betrayal of Jesus. He has des...

Trump just hosted Xi Jinping at the White House like it was a friendship tour. Bald eagle sculpture at dinner. Invitation to walk the unfinished ballroom. Granite helipad. Marine One. Fighter jets and a B-2 overhead. A photo of the two of them already hanging in the West Wing. This is the first White House meeting between the two men. Trump greeted Xi at Andrews, showed him the renovations, cracked the Biden autopen bit, and talked “mutual respect.” Xi talked market access for Chinese cars and “partnership” on advanced AI chips. Two pandas are headed to Atlanta. Tech names were on the d...

James Talarico wants Texas evangelicals to treat him like a brother in the faith. His own pastor just told a hidden camera they are “not that smart.” Blaze News obtained footage of Rev. Jim Rigby — the Austin Presbyterian who Talarico has called one of the biggest influences on him “as a Christian, as a human being,” and “my pastor in every sense of the word.” Asked what’s wrong with evangelical Christians, Rigby guessed they lack abstract thinking. He said they panic when “liberal stuff” and human rights are put in front of them. Then he went further: “What Hitler did and what Trump is...

Trump didn’t give the United Nations a therapy session. He gave it a choice on Iran: a deal that lets the country rebuild, or annihilate the Islamic Republic and do it quickly. Most of Tehran’s delegation walked out. One seat stayed. That is the speech. Not a press-release peace process. A president standing in the General Assembly and asking whether you let a regime that has spent years killing and exporting chaos get another rebuild — or you end the unfinished business. He called Iran the bully of the Middle East that isn’t a bully anymore. He said he belie...

Zohran Mamdani is at it again. Days before Benjamin Netanyahu is in New York for the U.N., the mayor of New York City called the Israeli prime minister a war criminal and an “architect of a horrific genocide” and said he should be arrested if he sets foot in the city. Pat Gray has heard enough of that script. On this episode of "Pat Gray Unleashed," he takes the Mamdani remarks head-on, then does what the sloganeers never do: He runs the history. How Israel was founded. What the wars actually were. Who started them. What “from the river to the...

Trump just put the Iran question on the table in language nobody in Washington wanted on tape: “When do I blow the entire nation up?” The options he named are not think-tank fog. Make a deal. Let Iran rot under the naval blockade. Or wipe the regime out. Last week, he told Axios a big decision was coming on whether to annihilate Iran’s government. Now he’s saying very big things are coming in the not-so-distant future — and he cut Camp David short, coming back to the White House a day early to sit with it. Iranian officials are headed to...

Mamdani just sued the Trump administration over green cards and welfare — and he said people could die if the rule stands. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with Letitia James and a stack of blue-city mayors, is in federal court to block the public charge rule. Starting now, immigration officers can weigh SNAP, Medicaid, and other benefits when deciding who gets a green card. The administration’s point is simple and old: People coming here should be able to support themselves. Mamdani’s point is the opposite. He says up to four million people could unenroll from health coverage — including 1.8 million...

A GOP senator leaned over and told Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) how to vote. The clerk still couldn’t hear him. This is day three back for an 84-year-old senator after more than 90 days away — a fall, pneumonia, two months in the hospital, and a wheelchair through the Capitol. The Senate Agriculture Committee had already stalled the farm bill without him. On Wednesday, they needed that vote. So they brought him in, called his name, and the country watched Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) lean in with “no” while McConnell quietly said “aye,” then had to say it again louder because nobo...

James Talarico was asked one question at a Texas campaign stop: Who’s your favorite drag queen in the state? He didn’t hesitate. “Oh my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards.” Watch the clip. Then ask yourself if that’s the reflex you want in a U.S. senator. Most Americans could not name a drag queen if you handed them a week. The Democratic Senate nominee in Texas had a name in under a second — and he smiled when he said it. The performer he picked, Alyssa Edwards, has described himself as a drag performer who works with children. That sits on top...

Mitch McConnell just rolled back into the Senate after three months away. The Kentucky Republican is 84. He fell at his Washington home in June, was treated for pneumonia, spent two months between the hospital and rehab, then recovered at home with almost no public appearances. While Kentucky still counted him as its senator, he missed 60 recorded votes — judicial confirmations, housing and Medicare rules, immigration procedures, and votes tied to the war in Iran. On Monday, he arrived in a wheelchair, joked about dodging reporters for two decades, and said it was time to get back to work and finish the jo...

James Talarico thought he had Ken Paxton in a box. After GOP Railroad Commission of Texas nominee Bo French posted a photo from the UT student section and said the problem in Texas is “far worse than anyone imagined,” Talarico quoted John Cornyn and went straight at Paxton: Condemn this “blatant racism,” or “cower to extremists.” Paxton didn’t take the bait. He condemned racism — then pointed at Talarico’s own record. White men as America’s top terror threat. Praying to overcome his own “whiteness.” The substance underneath it is the part polite Texas will not say out loud: Generations of Texans po...

Twenty-five years later, one lab three miles from Ground Zero is still identifying 9/11 victims. The lab promised the families it would never give up — and it hasn't. Mark Desire and the NYC medical examiner team are still pulling DNA from tiny bone fragments that the fire, jet fuel, and water nearly destroyed. Last month, the team identified the 1,651st victim. Nearly 7,000 pieces still have no match. The team has gone back to the same bones 10 times, waiting for the science to catch up. A firefighter’s helmet went home. The man who wore it has not. This is what “never forget...

Trump just put a $5,000 check on the midterms. He told the 2026 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas that if the GOP holds the House and the Senate, every adult citizen gets a “Trump dividend.” He framed it like a company paying shareholders after “tremendous economic success,” and he told the crowd to pretend he’s on the ballot so he can finish the job. Keep the majority, he said, and the next two years include voter ID, energy production, permanent cuts on tips, overtime, and Social Security, plus bills on surprise medical billing, hospital prices, credit-card swipe fees, cashless bail, and the death...

Families of 9/11 just walked a petition into New York City Hall asking Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to stay away from Friday’s 25th anniversary memorial. More than a dozen relatives of the dead stood on the steps and said the mayor’s presence turns a private hour of grief into a political photo. The Change.org petition started by Giovanni Galante — whose wife, Grace, was killed in the attacks — now has more than 102,000 signatures. They asked for one window: 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the National September 11 Memorial, where the names of 2,983 victims will be read. Mamdani has said he will...

Rudy Giuliani just told Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) to skip this week’s 9/11 memorials: “It offends me.” Watch this before Friday’s ceremony and decide if America’s mayor is out of line — or saying what the families have been saying for months. It is the 25th anniversary. More than 2,700 people were murdered in New York that morning. Giuliani was the mayor who walked the pile. The man in that office now says he will stand at Ground Zero anyway. Giuliani, former Gov. George Pataki, and a petition that has cleared 100,000 signatures are telling him to stay home. This is not a manner...

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer just said the quiet part out loud. After six days and about 36 hours, the jury is still stuck — and Kevin Reddington says one juror “refuses to listen to the law.” The judge even framed it as one juror against the other 11. That is 11-1. Watch this first. Twice the panel told Judge William Sullivan they could not agree. He sent them back. He read the dynamite charge. Then the forewoman’s note pointed to a holdout who would not follow the reasonable-doubt instruction. Reddington asked the judge to remove that juror. Sullivan said no — he would not “side wi...

Rep. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has not been seen in public for 80+ days. The last real update from his office is almost a month old. He has missed 60 Senate votes — Iran war powers, housing, even the confirmation of a new attorney general — while Republicans hang onto a thin majority where every vote is supposed to matter. Pat starts with the question everybody is already asking: Where is Mitch? The Kentucky senator, 84, was rushed to the hospital on June 14. Dispatch audio said first responders treated someone in cardiac arrest and used CPR. Weeks later, his team said it was a fall, that he wa...

The Lindsay Clancy jury just told the judge they are deadlocked. After nearly 18 hours, they still cannot agree on whether a Massachusetts mother murdered her three children. The judge sent them back in. Pat opened the phones and asked you what you think. Lindsay Clancy is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. The defense says postpartum psychosis, a pile of psychiatric medications, and a command hallucination. Prosecutors say she planned it: She sent her husband out for a prescription and takeout, then used exercise bands. Supporters in pink shirts showed up arguing that...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just said the part Canada does not want on loop: You cannot be in a tit for tat with a country 13 times larger than you are. Watch the clip. Then watch what he said next. On CNBC from the G20 in Asheville, Bessent was asked if America is now in a trade war with Canada. He waved it off. Mark Carney, he said, turned a deal into a political shouting match because it helps Carney and the Liberal Party — not Canadian workers. The United States offered what Bessent called the best trade deal of any country on...

Two mothers. Five children. One diagnosis now stands between a crime and a courtroom. A Bronx judge just found Dimone Fleming not responsible for stabbing her 3-year-old and 11-month-old sons in a family shelter. In Massachusetts, a jury is deciding whether Lindsay Clancy was too sick to be guilty after she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. Pat puts both cases on the table and asks the question a lot of people only whisper: Why are moms no longer connecting with their kids? Nobody seriously pretends postpartum psychosis is fake. The fight is what comes after — responsibility, culture, fa...

President Trump just signed an order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America — and he says it’s official, effective immediately. Watch Pat break down the Oval Office map, the jab at Canada, and what the order actually changes. This is the same playbook as the Gulf of America. After talks with Ottawa collapsed, Trump put 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods and said Canadian officials are “nasty people” who charge American farmers 400% tariffs. The order directs Interior to put Lake America on U.S. maps and in the federal naming system. Trump’s claim: The deepest water and most of the volume...

A chunk of Himalayan ice snapped off at about 17,000 feet and turned into what Nepal’s disaster chief called a “tsunami from the sky.” Watch what happened. Around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, the collapse smashed into a valley, dammed the Lhende River, then let go. A 33-foot wall of water, mud, and debris tore down the Bhote Koshi and Trishuli. Villages were wiped out. About 25 miles of road and 19 bridges are gone. At least 273 people are dead. More than 1,300 are missing. U.S. Geological Survey first reported a 4.4 earthquake north of Kathmandu, then said the seismic reading was the glacier and the de...