West
NRA bets big on Montana in gun rights push as Tester teeters in Senate race
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FIRST ON FOX: The National Rifle Association (NRA) is going live on Montana’s airwaves with a massive push against vulnerable Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., on Tuesday, specifically attacking his record on gun rights.
“Where I live, you can’t wait for 911. My family’s safety is in my hands alone,” a female narrator says in a new ad from the NRA’s political action committee, the NRA Political Victory Fund.
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The NRA is going up with a new ad against Tester in Montana. (Reuters | iStock)
The video depicts a would-be intruder approaching a home with a woman alone inside who grabs her firearm when she realizes someone is outside. The narrator says Tester “failed to protect my right to self-defense.”
“And that’s why moms like me can’t wait to fire him in November,” she continued.
The more than $2 million reservation will be seen across the Big Sky State and will also reach Montana voters on digital platforms, through text and direct mail components.
The expenditure is the NRA Political Victory Fund’s first television ad of the cycle.
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Tester is running for re-election in red Montana. (Samuel Corum)
According to the PAC, the ad was filmed on location and also features a real Montana mother.
“This November, gun owners can’t afford to sit on the sidelines,” Randy Kozuch, chair of the NRA Political Victory Fund, said in a statement.
“With this seven-figure ad buy, only a portion of our electoral engagement in Montana, we are calling out Jon Tester,” he said.
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Per Kozuch, Tester’s “voting record in the Senate makes clear he is not on the side of Montanans who support the 2nd Amendment.”
He specifically pointed to Tester’s support for “anti-gun” Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
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The NRA is highlighting gun rights for rural Americans. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“He has voted to spend taxpayer dollars to promote state-level red flag laws, which are ripe for abuse, and deny gun owners basic due process protections. And he’s voted multiple times to criminalize private firearms transfers while supporting government blacklists,” he said.
The Montana Democrat notably voted in favor of bipartisan gun legislation in 2022 that made millions of dollars in grant funding available to states for the purpose of enforcing protection orders for those deemed to be extreme risks, colloquially referred to as “red flag laws.” The grants also assist states in closing what’s referred to as the “boyfriend loophole,” expanding limits on firearm ownership for domestic abusers to a variety of relationships, as opposed to only spouses.
Fifteen Republicans joined Senate Democrats at the time to support the bill. However, the majority of the GOP conference did not back the measure.
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Tester campaign spokesperson Monica Robinson told Fox News Digital in a statement, “As Tim Sheehy himself said, ‘I’m not the biggest fan of the NRA, because I don’t think the NRA is really, truly worried about Second Amendment rights.’ There’s one champion who has always defended Montana gun owners, and that’s Jon Tester, who is a proud gun owner himself.”
Robinson was referencing a June Politico report that Sheehy was skeptical about the NRA’s interests during an event last year. A Sheehy spokesperson responded at the time, pointing to the fact that he is a “political outsider who calls it like he sees it.”
![Tim Sheehy, Jon Tester](https://newspub.live/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1726112131_882_NRA-bets-big-on-Montana-in-gun-rights-push-as.jpg)
Sheehy, left, is favored to win the Montana Senate race against incumbent Tester by one handicapper. (Reuters)
In a statement to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for Sheehy’s campaign said, “The choice is clear this election. Tim Sheehy is A rated by the NRA because he’ll always protect our Second Amendment rights and Jon Tester is F rated by the NRA because he supports the Obama-Biden-Harris radical liberal gun control agenda.”
The Montana Senate seat is considered Republicans’ No. 1 target in the upcoming Senate elections, aside from West Virginia, which is expected to easily turn red after independent Sen. Joe Manchin’s retirement. Tester’s race is also believed to be the Senate GOP’s key to the majority in 2025.
A top political handicapper, the Cook Political Report, has long rated the race between Tester and former Navy SEAL Tim Sheehy as a “toss up.”
However, another respected handicapper recently shifted the matchup to “leans Republican.” Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics explained the change, pointing to a new poll from the AARP showing Sheehy with a six-point 51%-45% advantage over Tester in a two-way race.
In an expanded field, Sheehy still defeated Tester, 49%-41%.
Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
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Montana
Greens Fighting Empire’s Grip in Montana
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Photograph Source: Montana Green Party Facebook Page
Democrats talk “bipartisanship” while surrendering to right-wing oligarchic warmongers.
Does anyone really think Dick Cheney is becoming a Democrat?
Election narratives focusing on neoliberal capitalism, imperialism, militarism, and colonialism aren’t debate topics and never make it to the voting booth. These are the ‘isms’ the system runs on. We are not part of it.
Stop identifying with the Ruling Strata.
With courage and creativity, Green progressives can break free of fossilized and oppressive systems steering us all toward economic and social ruin, climate collapse, genocide, and World War III. We are growing a grassroots movement for real people, planet Earth, and peace across all territories.
In Montana, Green Party progressives want an immediate end to genocide in Gaza and true universal healthcare. Democrats sued (2018, 2020, and 2024) to deny voters progressive options.
Voter suppression, blocking fair, open debate and preventing ballot access are tactics commonly employed to ‘erase’ all true-left political entities.
Americans generally say they oppose all systems that constrain or replace the self-evident, natural rights of man (man and woman) or destroy the divine natural gifts their local habitats and holistic ecosystems provide.
In Montana, the systems suffocating our very existence lack any real programs for real people and our life-sustaining environment. We must reinvent real systems and real programs so real people and all real lifeforms can thrive once again without worrying about being turned into “things” to be used to generate profit. Stop identifying with simulation.
With big open hearts, much enthusiasm and effervescence, and a clear vision we must not retreat or concede to the corporate-owned political system dragging us down. Our task is to change direction, change “I” (self-interest) into a new “we” (communication/community). Let’s co-create a refreshed mindset that invites poor, the ailing, young, female, non-white, and common working-class families to make new friends, imagine and dream (big) what our better future might be.
Green Party candidates are fighting for Montana’s better future. Join our fight to end (debt) slavery and to de-colonize our mountainous homeland from neo-feudal slave masters who worship money over all lifeforms. Bloodthirsty Democrats, aligned with Wall Street and warmongers, marginalize and suppress true-left voters, day in, day out. The Green Party remains grassroots and independent despite facing relentless attacks by Democrats. Greens are a people-powered party.
Hard work has produced impressive ballot-access results across the U.S.
I’ve a few thoughts on how we can free Montanans, wild forests, rivers and lakes, wildlife and native fish from Empire’s grip.
Eschew fragmentation using class, markets, profit, material wealth, ethnic supremacy, and colonialism; it’s one cognitive model.
Support a different, more effective environmentalism. Stand up. Fight to protect the environment.
Stop genocide now! End Foreign Wars. Disband NATO and close military bases on foreign soil. Ban nuclear weapons, depleted uranium rounds, and landmines, globally.
End “Full Spectrum Domination” (Wolfowitz Doctrine).
Consolidate all federal programs into one – ‘Medicare for All’ – system. Ensure comprehensive care including dental, mental, vision, hearing, substance abuse, and long-term.
Working men and women must be paid a living wage and paid leave.
Montana’s corporate-owned system is not competent to represent or protect Mother Earth, the source of all life, water, and the air we breathe.
To restore man’s birthright, and dignity, we must quit claiming to be something that we are not, to be property of another. We must be no thing.
We must struggle to break away from false demigods and align ourselves with those who actively protect our natural world. Always remember, the future is not yet written.
Nevada
Murdoch succession battle to play out in Nevada courtroom
By Dawn Chmielewski
RENO, Nevada (Reuters) – A closed-door court battle over control of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire begins Sept. 16, and could determine the future of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.
Murdoch, 93, is attempting to change the terms of the family’s irrevocable trust to ensure his newspapers and television networks remain under control of his eldest son and chosen heir, Lachlan Murdoch, according to the New York Times, which obtained a sealed court document detailing the succession drama.
Reuters and other news organizations are attempting to gain access to sealed court records, and to open the court hearings in Reno, Nevada, before probate commissioner Edmund J. Gorman Jr.
The trust lays out a scenario on how a potential takeover could occur, according to a source who has seen the documents. The trust is the vehicle through which the elder Murdoch controls News Corp and Fox, with roughly a 40% stake in voting shares of each company. Murdoch also holds a small amount of shares of the companies outside the trust.
Upon Rupert Murdoch’s death, News Corp and Fox voting shares will be transferred to his four oldest children – Prudence, Elisabeth, Lachlan and James. Potentially, three of the heirs could out-vote a fourth, setting up a battle over the future of the companies, even as Lachlan Murdoch runs Fox and is sole chair of News Corp.
Rupert Murdoch’s proposed amendment to the trust would block any interference by three of Lachlan’s siblings, who are more politically moderate, the Times reported, citing a sealed court document.
Lachlan Murdoch is viewed as ideologically aligned with his conservative father. James Murdoch, who has donated to progressive political groups, resigned in 2020 from the News Corp board, citing disagreements over editorial content. James also has criticized the U.S. media for amplifying disinformation about the 2020 election results ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He hosted a fundraiser for U.S. President Joe Biden in 2021, before the Democrat ended his re-election campaign.
A hearing to determine whether Rupert Murdoch’s proposed changes to the trust would benefit his heirs will take place in a Reno courtroom, well outside the media hubs from which the conglomerate operates in New York, Los Angeles, London and Sydney.
“He’s going to have to prove that these changes are being made in good faith,” said Shane Jasmine Young, a Nevada attorney who specializes in estate planning. That means demonstrating any changes would not “sacrifice the rights, or discriminate against, any of the parties that this trust was intended to protect.”
A group of news organizations, including the New York Times, CNN, The Associated Press, National Public Radio, The Washington Post and Reuters, have asked to intervene in the matter, arguing that the court should unseal the records and provide access to the proceedings.
“Though some litigants may desire secrecy and some courts indulge this desire, this level of sealing does not pass constitutional muster,” attorneys for the Access Coalition of news organizations wrote in a memo to the court, arguing the First Amendment calls for civil judicial proceedings and records to be open to the public.
The news organizations say the public has immense interest in which of Murdoch’s children will succeed him at the helm of the influential media empire, an outcome that will affect thousands of jobs, millions of worldwide media consumers and the political landscape.
Spokespeople for Lachlan, James and Elisabeth Murdoch declined comment. A spokesman for Rupert Murdoch referred inquiries to his attorney, who did not respond to a request for comment. An attorney representing James, Elisabeth and Prudence also could not be reached for comment.
“The reason this is interesting is the outsized role that Fox (News) has played in the political landscape, in the U.S. and around the world,” said Paul Hardart, director of the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “I think this is a reflection of the future of not only the business, but also how conservative media is handled going forward.”
(Reporting by Dawn Chmielewski in Los Angeles; Editing by David Gregorio)
New Mexico
Buttermilk spice cake takes home ‘Best of Show’ at 2024 New Mexico State Fair
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