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A Democrat candidate in North Carolina is forcing her party to run the other way after she appeared to defend resurfaced comments calling for political violence.The website for Shelly Headen's campaign says she is a mom, a neighbor, and an advocate, but on social media she advocated for a military strike against many of those neighbors.When asked about the extremist insults, Headen compared herself to Jesus Christ.Headen is running for North Carolina's state House District 62 without the support of her party after the comments went public."I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil … preferably Alabama, Louisiana … where the stupid people live,” Headen wrote in one post, according to the Carolina Journal.Another comment said the "MAGA cult may be more destructive and evil than the Nazis" and also accused President Donald Trump of "getting close to surpassing Hitler."When asked about the extremist insults, Headen compared herself to Jesus Christ."I’ve sacrificed myself just like Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross, and Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln and all the people that put themselves out there to sacrifice for our country,” Headen said in a statement to the Assembly.“If a few angry moments on social media are the end, then so be it," she added. "MAGA will keep winning if we continue with not standing up for what’s right."The North Carolina House Democratic Caucus appeared to disagree with Headen that she was acting like Jesus Christ, and the organization stripped its support from her campaign."Shelly Headen’s posts are unacceptable and do not reflect the values we expect of our candidates," claimed Sam Lozier, the communications director for the caucus. "The North Carolina House Democratic Caucus condemns these comments without qualification and will not support Shelly Headen’s candidacy."RELATED: 14 times 'unhinged' Democrats have called for political violence Republican state House Speaker Destin Hall condemned the "absolutely disgusting" comments.Headen is running against incumbent Republican state Rep. John M. Bust.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

When news broke that Charlie Kirk had been assassinated while speaking on a college campus, British podcaster Zuby was thousands of miles from home, recording podcast interviews in California.A year later, he can still remember the shock of seeing the reports and reactions flash across television screens and social media feeds — especially the negative ones.“I couldn’t believe it was real. It kind of felt like a weird dream. Now, reflecting back one year on from that, it’s still incredibly sad. I mean it was a massive loss. I wouldn’t say just for the USA. I wouldn’t say just for the West. I wouldn’t say just for the conservative movement or whatever you want to call it,” Zuby tells BlazeTV host Pat Gray on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”“But I think it was a massive loss for the world,” he says.“And then there was a sort of a secondary wave of upset and anger when you saw some people’s response to it, which just showed just how dark some people’s hearts are,” he recalls.“It’s one thing for one person to do something awful, but when that happens, and it seems like hundreds of thousands or potentially millions of people may feel like, 'Oh, that was justified,' or whatever. And obviously these people are a minority, but in this day and age of social media, they’re a very loud minority,” he continues.“It’s not a majority of people who think that that is acceptable. But it’s far more people than it should be,” he adds.However, because Charlie was largely seen through social media, those disrespecting him in the wake of his assassination simply “see people as avatars.”“People forget that there’s a living, breathing human being with friends and family and relationships and their own troubles and problems and so on. They just kind of see this avatar,” he tells Gray.“They’re a liberal, or they’re a progressive, and they don’t like conservatives or they don’t like MAGA or they don’t like Trump or whatever, and they just see whoever’s in that bucket, whoever is in that box, this is how I feel about it right,” he continues.“They’re just not really rooted in reality,” he adds.Want more from Pat Gray?To enjoy more of Pat's biting analysis and signature wit as he restores common sense to a senseless world, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

The national debate over criminal responsibility and postpartum depression got somewhat derailed after the jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial revealed more details about the lone holdout.The defense never denied that Clancy strangled her three young children to death in the case that caused a nationwide battle. The defense argued that she sought help for mental illness and postpartum depression but did not get the treatment she needed.'For people who revel in identity politics, they certainly fit the most awful stereotypes of white liberals.'There were nine women and three men on the jury. One lone juror, a male, held out against the 11 others who wanted to acquit Clancy of the charges by reason of insanity.Some jurors have gone to the public to plead their case that the lone juror was obstinate and refused to listen to the others, but their arguments have only led to more support for the holdout.An interview with one juror in the case led to the revelation that the holdout was a black man.On "CBS Mornings," juror Paula Devlin was asked by Gayle King to describe the racial makeup of the jury, and Devlin revealed that only one member was not white."One person of color. Was the person of color a woman or a man?" asked King."A man," she replied."A man. Is the holdout juror a black man?" she asked."Yes," Devlin said."A black man is the holdout juror?" King repeated."Yes," Devlin said."Whoa. I have to sit with that for just a second," King replied.Video of King's stunned reaction was posted to social media.Devlin went on to say that two jurors initially believed Clancy was guilty, two were undecided, and eight said she was not guilty.She believes that the lone juror felt personally attacked, and for that reason, he refused to go along with the rest of the jurors after they deliberated and 11 were ready to find Clancy not guilty.Critics online saw the irony in the demographic revelation."The liberal white women who tried to lecture him and shame him into acquiescing literally knew better than him," said one critic. "Holy heck, for people who revel in identity politics, they certainly fit the most awful stereotypes of white liberals.""This is AMAZING! Why didn't the black man listen to the white priveledged [sic] saviors!?? How dare he not bow down and submit to their supremacy?!?" said another sarcastically."So there was a gaggle of white Karens hectoring a black man. Who didn’t care about all the other s**t, only that the mother had strangled her children," said another.RELATED: Hundreds of women rally outside courthouse show support for mother who killed 3 children Devlin went on to explain her own process of arriving at a not-guilty verdict."I was leaning towards not responsible, from all the evidence I had heard," she said. "And I had certain things I wanted to look at when we got into deliberation. Everything that we talked about and every point that everybody in the room made just kind of reinforced that more and more."The case ended in a mistrial and may go to trial again.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States that robbed 2,977 innocent people of their lives.Col. Rob Maness was inside the Pentagon that horrific day. On this episode of “Rufo & Lomez,” BlazeTV hosts Christopher Rufo and Jonathan Keeperman sit down with the retired Air Force colonel to hear insider details of a day America will never forget. “Colonel, it’s been 25 years since that day. What is your general reflection looking back after all these years?” Rufo asks.America today, warns Maness, is in the same vulnerable position it was on September 10, 2001.Between “importing hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of [Islamists] over the last 25 years with a very poor vetting process” and corrupt “intelligence agencies,” Maness says he’s “very concerned” for the country, because "in many ways, we're at September 10, 2001."“A lot of us were sort of younger when this happened. It's a kind of fuzzy memory. … Just kind of walk us through what it was like to be there on the ground directly, where this event happened, how people were thinking about it at the time, people's response to it, what those first 24, 48 hours were like,” says Keeperman.In those days, Maness was a major — “the coffee guy,” he laughs.“I walked by the day-care center every day up into corridor 8, into my office area, which was inside the National Military Command Center. And, you know, at the time I was getting there, the kids were being dropped off … and I always enjoyed watching them and the parents and all that stuff because I had little kids of my own,” he recounts.“I just walked in and said, ‘Man, this is going to be a fantastic day,”’ he adds.It wasn’t long before he discovered how wrong that prediction was.That day, he explains, marked the start of America’s “global nuclear war game.” Maness’ real job, he explains, was in the Joint Staff’s nuclear operations division, which trained the aides with access to the “nuclear football book” and oversaw the doomsday plane.“A lot of my leadership and teammates were out at different nodes around the world for command and control of nuclear forces because we were kicking that exercise off that day,” he tells Rufo and Keeperman, “and that was literally happening at the moment the airplanes hit the towers.”After the first strikes, Maness’ on-site team “stayed on duty” to “help with the command and control decision-making.” They were “ordered out” of the Pentagon just after the third plane hit.Once evacuated, Maness immediately turned his attention to helping the wounded.“I just started helping do what I could for the first aid and those kind of things until we got asked to go back inside the courtyard because the fire trucks couldn't get inside and the building's roof was burning,” he recounts.“I estimate probably between 100 and 200 people … split up into two teams and went to those inside corners, and we started helping continue to fight the fire [and] see if we could find anybody alive.”To hear more of Maness’ story, watch the video above.Want more from Rufo & Lomez?To enjoy more of the news through the anthropological lens of Christopher Rufo and Lomez, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.