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The Tennessee House voted Thursday to expel state Rep. Justin Jones (D), one of three Democrats alleged to have joined in with protesters who stormed the legislative chambers in a gun control protest last week.

Tennessee state Reps. Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville), Justin Jones (D-Nashville), and Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), dubbed the “Tennessee three” by gun control supporters, voted Thursday against a bill adding armed security to schools in Tennessee. 

Gov. Bill Lee (R) on Thursday put forward three provisions to keep schools safe, the first of which is a budget amendment to fund an armed guard at every public school in Tennessee. 

Republicans on the Tennessee House Education Administration Committee voted Wednesday to advance legislation allowing armed teachers for classroom defense in response to the March 27 shooting at a Christian school.

A growing number of straight male rockers are choosing to perform in drag to protest Tennessee and Florida laws that are designed to prevent drag queens from performing their frequently raunchy acts in front of children.

Country music superstar Reba McEntire used an interview to once again disavow an interest in politics and commit herself instead to entertaining her audiences before immediately saying she was “disappointed” in Tennessee anti-drag laws, adding “God bless ’em for wearing those heels” as a salute to transgender exponents.

Country singer Kelsea Ballerini danced alongside a quartet of drag queens as a co-host of the annual CMT Music Awards.

Some protesters inside the Tennessee State Capitol counted transgender shooter Audrey Hale among the victims during a moment of silence.

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has called for armed guards at American schools after transgender shooter Audrey Hale’s rampage in Nashville, Tennessee.

CBS News executives have allegedly barred staffers from using the word “transgender” to describe the Nashville shooter.

The Office of Naval Intelligence recently sent its staff a reminder to “recognize” transgender or transitioning co-workers and treat them with “dignity and respect,” according to an email obtained by Breitbart News.

Young anti-gun protesters blocked the path of a Tennessee legislator while in the state capitol building and had to be moved by state troopers, footage captured by Breitbart News reveals. 

The scene of gun controllers at the Tennessee state capitol chanting “Gun control now” gave way to scenes of gun controllers storming legislative chambers, screaming other mantras, including, “No justice, no peace.”

Protesters flooded into Tennessee’s capitol building Thursday holding signs and changing, “Gun control now.”

A fundraiser set up for the family of a custodian who was killed during an attack on the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, has raised almost $500,000.

Corporate media outlets are blurring the Nashville school shooter’s preferred “transgender identity,” revealing their desire to minimize political damage to the transgender cause that they usually celebrate.

Gov. Katie Hobbs’s (D-AZ) press secretary has reportedly resigned after a tweet that focused on pointing guns at “transphobes.”

Disney’s “Frozen” star Josh Gad reacted to the transgender mass shooter who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school on Monday by blaming the Republican Party, stating “The GOP have decided that guns are more important than kids,” adding, “they have decided it is okay to let kids die.”

Anti-woke Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is calling for gender dysphoria to be treated as a mental illness following the horrific shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee, Christian school.

MSNBC anchor Joy Reid said Monday on her show “The ReidOut” that it was ironic the Republican-led Tennessee government is in “moral panic” over drag shows but not gun laws after six people were killed in a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville.

Hollywood celebrities wasted little time demanding gun control in the immediate aftermath of Monday’s shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee that left six dead, including three children. Authorities said the shooter, who is also dead, was a 28-year-old female.

Six girls were killed during a car wreck in Tennessee on Sunday, but what caused the crash has not yet been made clear.

Madonna will protest Tennessee’s laws protecting children from transgender and drag queen ideology by donating profits from the Nashville stop of her upcoming tour to various transgender groups.

Country singer Maren Morris joined a host of Tennessee drag artists Monday night in Nashville to protest recent state legislation aimed at cross-dressing performers, using the occasion to dare local authorities to arrest her on the basis she took her toddler to meet some drag queens.

A public library director in Tennessee has reportedly been fired following allegations that he and some library staff tried to shut down a children’s reading event last month featuring conservative actor Kirk Cameron.

The Kentucky House of Representatives has passed a bill that would prohibit healthcare professionals from using medical interventions like puberty blockers or sex change operations on minors who identify as transgender.

Hollywood star Gabrielle Union has issued a warning to Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) and other governors who have sought to prohibit transgender medical procedures for children.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed into law bills that ban sex change operations, cross-sex hormone therapy, and puberty blockers on children who are attempting to transition, in addition to banning drag performances on public property and in the presence of children. 

Memphis, Tennessee, has experienced a lot of problems, but one man is determined to see things change for the better.

A homeowner in Kingsport, Tennessee, encountered and shot an alleged home intruder Wednesday night around 8 p.m.

The University School of Nashville (USN), a private school affiliated with the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), organized third grade students in a “Young Activist Club.”

The Tennessee State Legislature passed a bill that would ban the use of puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgical operations on children in order to change their gender.

Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill that would prevent drag shows from taking place on public property or in front of children. 

The Biden administration is reviewing a $200 million grant it planned to award a Chinese battery maker after Republicans demanded answers.

Tennessee “would become one of the top spending states” on organizations that help pregnant women in need of resources.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-TN) is readying a plan that would convert Title 42, the public health authority used at the United States-Mexico border to stem illegal immigration, to fight the nation’s deadly fentanyl crisis.