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I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired. The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass. A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed. Everything else was improvised. I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76. What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation. I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one. She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure. The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet. The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent. That's priority. The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago. A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced. That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details. I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column. I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously. 188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken. A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

I wasn’t happy when Clinton, Obama or Biden won, but I didn’t call them fascist/dangerous/threat to democracy. I didn’t hope someone would assassinate them. I went on with my life with gratitude. Friends on the left, please try this. Your life and our country will be better.

All I know, is that I’m on the side that doesn’t kill anyone, nor celebrates the killing of anyone, nor fantasizes about the killing of anyone... …just for winning an election That’s what side I’m on.

This dude had a school shooter arrive on his campus. This dude catches a round to the leg and still tackles and subdues the shooter because this dude is awesome! Principal Kirk Moore He’s already back at work because he’s also apparently Wolverine

I spend time in the room we built for my daughter Katie, a place to honor her life and feel close to her. It’s where I reflect, and where the weight of everything since her death comes rushing back. In those moments, I lean on faith, scripture, and her memories to carry me through. In June 2025, I went to Washington for oversight hearings on sanctuary policies. I sat there for 8 hours as a father who lost his daughter. Every Republican lawmaker took time to speak with me, they didn’t have to, but they did. Not a single Democrat even looked my direction. Not one. Leaders from Illinois, the state I’ve called home my entire life, ignored Katie. Ignored her story. Ignored her life. I believed they would show basic humanity. They didn’t. We never thought this would happen to our family. Like so many, we believed it was something that happens somewhere else, until it doesn’t. We upheld our end of the social contract. We followed the rules. We trusted our government would do the same. They didn’t, and now we have no recourse. This could happen to any family. And when it does, don’t expect Illinois politicians to stand with you. They will leave you alone, and erase you too. And that includes Governor Pritzker. Now when I sit in Katie’s room, the room we were forced to build because of radical policies with zero guardrails, it leaves me with an increasing, uncomfortable tension: staying in a broken state led by fallen leaders, where my family is, where my friends are, where Katie lived, where our lives were built, or leaving the only home I’ve ever known. These politicians, in their callous indifference to the people they serve, put my family and me in this position: @GovPritzker 
@JulianaStratton
@SenDuckworth 
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@KwameRaoul It is disheartening to watch a once prosperous state devolve into something I don’t recognize. Even more discouraging is watching the same politicians get reelected, not because they’ve earned it, but because they outspend opponents, manipulate districts, and rely on low turnout, propped up by a media that too often acts as a willing participant, not a check on power. These politicians, and their handmaidens in the media, serve themselves, not taxpayers. They have no regard for the people they represent. It’s clear they don’t want citizens like me here, independent voices who won’t fall in line. We are not welcome. They would rather see us leave. I may soon oblige them. And that, in itself, is yet another indictment of leadership that continues to fail, and still gets rewarded. That reality is salt in a wound that never heals. But I will not be silent. I will speak for Katie. For the Katies. For every victim they ignore, erase, and abandon. Because Illinois leaders never will. To them, we do not exist.

@AstroVicGlover @JavonPrice @NASA @csa_asc So inspiring! Thank you!! And WOW! You have a beautiful family!!

Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!

@mattvanswol @NateSilver538 Agree with all but the part of you being a nobody!! I find you to be an inspiration! You are a child of God so most definitely NOT a nobody! Keep being YOU!!

I was going to stay out of this, but I'll jump in here. The only reason I am big on X is because "the media" literally left an entire open lane for me to fill in 2024. After the first initial days of Hurricane Helene, nearly all MSM packed up and left. I continued to share the stories of Helene victims LONG after the media was gone. It had nothing to do with me as a person, but everything to do with filling a void the media left behind. That's why X is so amazing. A literal nobody with a camera and a drone can make massive change in the world. It took me awhile to understand the entire gambit, but what the media chooses to cover and what they choose not to cover has absolutely NOTHING to do with the amount of views the content will recieve. My videos of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the stories of survivors got tens of millions of views on X. The NYTimes could have shared those stories too. They just chose not to. The media will literally give up revenue just to push a narrative. They made a calculated decision that the suffering of people in Western North Carolina was not useful to the political narrative during election season and they left. And once you understand that, you can never look at a news broadcast the same way again. The stories they run are selected. The stories they skip are selected. The stories they choose to omit are just as deliberate as the coverage. They don't just shape what you think. They shape what you think ABOUT. I'm just a guy. I'm nobody special But I showed up and they didn't. That lane is STILL wide open. And there are thousands of stories just like that waiting for someone to tell them. And the truth is that people are HUNGRY for those stories... if you do the work to find them. I am so grateful for X and the people that choose every single day to share the stories I post or my thoughts. You all make real change in the world, and I am so grateful.

These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

Proud of our troops. Proud of our President. Proud to be an American. 🇺🇸

President Donald J. Trump delivers a message on Holy Week ✝️ 'Happy Easter to all, may God bless you, may God bless the United States of America.'

.@GovPritzker has never responded to me regarding the tragic murder of my innocent teenage brother in Chicago on June 24th, 2022. There are countless families who have experienced similar tragedies in Chicago and throughout Illinois, and they have all been completely ignored by Governor JB Pritzker. I hope their voices are heard loudly at the ballot box this November.

.@GovPritzker, I saw your post honoring lives lost in Minnesota—standing publicly, naming Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and laying flowers in their memory. But where was that same compassion on January 19, 2025? That is the day my 20-year-old daughter, Katie Abraham, was killed here in Illinois. She was innocent. She did not knowingly put herself in the middle of an ongoing law enforcement situation. She was not making a dangerous choice. She was simply living her life—and it was taken from her. You have never said her name. You have never come to where she died. You have never acknowledged her publicly. And beyond that—you have never even responded to me. I sent you a simple, non-political letter. Not for attention. Not for headlines. Just a father asking for clarity, for answers, and for understanding of the state’s position. You never replied. And now, in the wake of another tragedy here in Chicago, your public display of compassion elsewhere—while remaining silent about victims in your own state—feels deeply disconnected from the reality families like mine are living every day. Instead, you continue to defend sanctuary policies that create the conditions where preventable tragedies like hers can happen. This is not about politics. It’s about leadership and accountability. When you choose to publicly mourn some victims while remaining silent about others—especially those lost under policies you support—it sends a message. Whether intentional or not, it tells families like mine that our loss does not matter the same way. So I am asking you directly: Where is your compassion for my daughter? Where is your acknowledgment of victims here in Illinois? And when will you take responsibility for the consequences of the policies you defend? Say her name: Katie Abraham. Stand where she died. Show the people of Illinois that every life matters.

@atensnut Anything by the Dixie Chicks!

Anything Springsteen!!

The left has billionaire George Soros who uses his money to hurt humanity. The right has billionaire Elon Musk who uses his money to help humanity. We are not the same!

Mayor Mamdani REFUSES to honor this Officer, but we should. 🎖 NYPD Chief Aaron Edwards first joined the force after Muslims attacked his city on 9/11. 23 years later, he was able to save New Yorkers lives from another Muslim attack. When 2 Islamic terrorist began throwing IEDs into a crowd of conservative protesters, Chief Edwards didn't hesitate to act. Edwards jumped a barricade and threw himself on the terrorist holding a LIT explosive with complete disregard for his own life. Edwards tackled the suspect and secured the IED before it could explode, saving everyone in the crowd. Chief Edwards deserves to be recognized for his bravery and self-sacrifice, even when cowardly Mayors stay silent.

Life is more beautiful when you have friends who know how to be friends.

Just a note, there were more Americans killed in Chicago this weekend then there was in Iran. Democrats won’t say much about the deaths in Chicago because it’s not actually about caring for people. It’s about what they see as politically useful.

In the official Democratic response to the President’s State of the Union address last night, Virginia's governor said she wanted Americans to ask themselves three questions: 1-Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family? 2-Is the president working to keep Americans safe, both at home and abroad? 3-Is the president working for you? I am thankful to say that the answer to all these questions is a resounding, absolutely 100%, YES.

This will have you in tears. Stop letting them divide us. ❤️

WATCH: To a crowd of black voters in my home state of GA, @GavinNewsom said “I am like you. I'm a 960 SAT guy. I can't read.” As a young black man, who got into EVERY college I applied to, I’m not just offended by this casual racism. I’m outraged. IMAGINE if Trump said this.