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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday announced a new indictment for more alleged members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA), the Venezuelan terrorist gang, claiming they participated in a jackpotting conspiracy that spread across the country, including automated teller machines (ATMs) in Tennessee. According to the DOJ press release, a federal grand jury in Nebraska returned the indictment after hearing allegations that Venezuelan and Colombian nationals, including TdA members, participated in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank robbery, and computer fraud, as well as other crimes, by using computer malware to trick ATMs into fraudulently producing thousands of dollars in false transactions.

Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) last week announced a formal partnership with the new artificial intelligence (AI) company co-founded by Colin Kaepernick, the leftist ex-NFL player who started the nationwide activist effort by professional athletes to kneel during the national anthem in 2016. The Tennessee Star first reported last week that Kaepernick spoke to MNPS administrators before touring Antioch High School on the one-year anniversary of the tragic school shooting that saw one student killed before the shooter, another student at the school, took his own life. In a press release published last week, the district announced a partnership

State Representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) on Tuesday appeared at an anti-ICE protest at the Tennessee State Capitol, where the Democratic lawmaker was captured on video with a banner that read “Abolish ICE,” with activists protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). At least one camera captured Jones carrying the banner as he repeatedly stated “Abolish ICE” while the crowd cheered and photographers jostled to snap images. [Snip] The protest in Nashville came one day after an anti-ICE activist in Memphis claimed he was struck by a Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) vehicle, though law enforcement has debunked the claim.

State Representative Gabby Salinas (D-Memphis) introduced a bill last week that seeks to interfere with the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Tennessee. House Bill (HB) 1482 would prevent ICE agents from using areas such as public parking lots, vacant lots, public garages, public schools, and religious institution property as a “staging area.” The bill defines a “staging area” as an “area that is used to assemble, mobilize, and deploy vehicles, equipment, or materials, and related personnel.” “No child or person should fear being abducted or risk having their family ripped apart when they leave their home,” Salinas said on Facebook. “We are losing friends, neighbors,

State Representative Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) announced on Monday that she will not run for Congress in 2026, citing the “unimaginable toll” her special election campaign took on her health last year. Behn made the announcement less than two months following her December 2 concession speech following her loss to U.S. Representative Matt Van Epps (R-TN-07), when she suggested she may challenge the newly elected Republican during the 2026 midterm elections. Both candidates ran last year to fill the seat vacated by former U.S. Representative Mark Green upon his retirement. “Running for this race was really tough, and after much consideration, I’ve decided to run only for reelection to my State House seat,”

Tom Pappert, lead reporter at The Tennessee Star, said that the Tennessee Democratic Party’s expletive-laden social media post attacking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is not an isolated outburst, but part of a broader political narrative that encourages resistance to federal immigration enforcement. On Wednesday, hours after 37-year old Renee Nicole Good struck an ICE agent with her car in Minneapolis and was fatally shot while trying to flee arrest, the Tennessee Democratic Party posted on social media, “ICE shot and killed a woman today. Plain and simple, no matter how Trump & Republicans try to spin it.”

Opponents of affirmative action hoped that the Supreme Court had delivered a death blow to the controversial policy in 2023 when Chief Justice John Roberts declared for the court’s majority that “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.” But as sweeping as that pronouncement was, it came in a ruling in the landmark SFFA v. Harvard case, solely barring the use of racial preferences in college admissions. The practices that the court deemed illegal on campus have persisted elsewhere, including in programs across the federal government. A lawsuit now wending its way through the courts, Revier v. Loeffler, aims to

State Representative Antonio Parkinson (D-Memphis) on Wednesday told NewsChannel 3 that he wants to implement a pilot program that would allow county Registers of Deeds to require photo identification in order to transfer the ownership or file liens against a property. The outlet additionally reported that Shelby County Register of Deeds Willie Brooks said the number of fraud cases involving property fraud increased by 33 percent in 2025, just one year after scammers attempted to foreclose on Graceland, the former home and final resting place of Elvis Presley, which now operates as a successful museum.

A U.S. military operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, was applauded by the group Latinos for Tennessee. Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. “successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, President Nicolas Maduro, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country.” Trump, on his Truth Social account, also released a photo of Maduro handcuffed on board the USS Iwo Jima en route to the U.S.

A law invalidating out-of-state driver licenses issued exclusively to illegal aliens and making it a misdemeanor offense to operate motor vehicles in the state with such licenses is set to take effect in Tennessee this week. Passed by the Tennessee General Assembly and signed by Governor Bill Lee earlier this year, the law deems any driver’s license issued by another state exclusively to illegal aliens – for example, those distinctly marked to differentiate them from licenses issued to U.S. citizens or lawful residents – invalid in the Volunteer State. Further, the law classifies operating a motor vehicle in the state with an invalid license as a Class B misdemeanor.

There was a lot to digest online this week. There’s a brutal, merciless slaughter of civilians in Nigeria and Sudan. The silence is deafening. Civilian men, women, and children are being slaughtered in Sudan. Estimates of over 150,000 killed & 14 million displaced since April 2023. Considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. No mass protests. No daily political statements/demands. No college campus encampments. More is unraveling about Arctic Frost, in which the fanatical prosecutor Jack Smith, with the aid of a fiercely partisan Judge James Boasberg, surveilled 20% of the Republican senators, their donors, media companies, including Fox News, Fox Business, Newsmax, OANN, and Sinclair, and conservatives

Images obtained by The Tennessee Star appear to show lessons about Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA) History Month, unofficially observed in October, were distributed by Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) to social studies teachers using Schoology, the Learning Management System (LMS) used by the district. The images appear to depict two lessons that are part of an LGBTQIA History Month curriculum, with the materials obtained by The Star covering the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016. Popularized as a term in the early 2000s, the Lavender Scare saw gays and lesbians dismissed from public service