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A traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall, its black chevron-shaped panels lined with engraved names, with American and U.S. military service flags rising above it on a green lawn. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

A three-quarter-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial will stand free and open around the clock July 9 to 12 at Star Valley Middle School in Afton, brought to western Wyoming by VFW Post 4797 so veterans who cannot travel to Washington can find the names close to home. Gov. Mark Gordon is scheduled to speak at the July 9 opening.

National · Kim Monson Newsroom · Jun 26, 2026
Combat boots at the foot of a bare barracks bunk with an American flag. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Constitutional rights stay with service members in uniform, Brad Miller says as 'Duty to Disobey' opens nationwide
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Constitutional rights stay with service members in uniform, Brad Miller says as ‘Duty to Disobey’ opens nationwide

The documentary Duty to Disobey opens in theaters across the country on Tuesday, June 30. Brad Miller, who resigned his...

National · 6d ago
High-voltage steel transmission towers and power lines marching in a long row across wide-open golden shortgrass prairie rangeland under a vast sky, with a barbed-wire fence line in the foreground and distant low bluffs. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Little Bighorn at 150: a rancher draws a line from broken treaties to today's land fights
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On Little Bighorn’s 150th anniversary, a rancher sees the same fight over land

On the sesquicentennial of the battle the Lakota call the Greasy Grass, rancher Trent Loos told The Kim Monson Show...

National · 7d ago
Macro photograph of an engorged adult blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), the species that transmits Lyme disease. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: HHS launches a federal plan to combat long-neglected Lyme disease

HHS launches a federal plan to combat long-neglected Lyme disease

Health and Human Services has stood up a dedicated Lyme disease program, prize-funded diagnostics, and updated clinical guidance for an...

National · 1w ago
An ordinary middle-aged American sits at a kitchen table, head lowered over a smartphone held low in both hands. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Section 702 lapses as Fourth Amendment fight and DNI standoff stall renewal
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Section 702 lapses as Fourth Amendment fight and DNI standoff stall renewal

A surveillance authority used to sweep up Americans' communications expired for the first time since 2008, caught between a bipartisan...

National · 2w ago
An empty modern classroom with desks, chairs, and blank whiteboards. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Federal education spending soared as 12th-grade scores hit record lows
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Federal education spending soared as 12th-grade scores hit record lows

Washington Stand journalist Mark Tapscott told The Kim Monson Show that Department of Education funding has risen 749 percent since...

National · 3w ago
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New York enacts 3D printer gun-blocking mandate and criminalizes blueprint files

New York now requires 3D printers sold in the state to carry technology that blocks firearm prints, and it makes...

National · 3w ago
A wild golden eagle in flight with wings fully spread against a snowy mountainside. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Wind projects kill golden eagles while getting a federal pass
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Wind projects kill golden eagles while getting a federal pass

Rancher Trent Loos told The Kim Monson Show that federal agencies let subsidized wind farms kill protected eagles while using...

National · 3w ago
John Trumbull's painting Declaration of Independence, showing the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Continental Congress. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Natelson on the Declaration at 250: a 'conservative revolution' that kept the rights of Englishmen
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Natelson walks Coloradans through the Declaration of Independence as it turns 250

Constitutional scholar Rob Natelson walks through his six-part essay series on the Declaration of Independence, from the run-up to revolution...

National · 3w ago
Decommissioned wind turbine blades lying abandoned on bare West Texas scrubland. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Abandoned wind blades in Texas raise a question for Wyoming: who pays?
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Abandoned wind blades in Texas raise a question for Wyoming: who pays?

On the Kim Monson Show, Cheyenne real estate agent Wendy Volk said thousands of turbine blades stranded in Sweetwater are...

National · 4w ago
A wild golden eagle in flight over open high-plains sagebrush rangeland, with a consistent row of wind turbines along the distant ridgeline. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: At the Wyoming Capitol, ranchers and CFACT press for a cumulative review of the wind wall
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At the Wyoming Capitol, ranchers and CFACT press for a cumulative review of the wind wall

At a June 4 rally in Cheyenne, Realtor Wendy Volk and CFACT president Craig Rucker asked Wyoming to weigh the...

National · 4w ago
Close-up macro photograph of a Culex mosquito. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Alphabet seeks EPA approval to release 32 million sterile mosquitoes in Florida and California

Google parent Alphabet seeks EPA approval to release 32 million sterile mosquitoes in Florida and California

Verily, the life-sciences arm of Google parent Alphabet, has applied for a federal Experimental Use Permit to release up to...

National · 4w ago
A refugee family of four, seen from behind, walks down a plain institutional corridor carrying suitcases and bags past empty waiting-room chairs in soft natural light. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Gaffney says federal refugee grants fund resettlement without assimilation
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Gaffney says federal refugee grants fund resettlement without assimilation

On The Kim Monson Show, Frank Gaffney argued that faith-based resettlement agencies have profited from federal grants while bringing in...

National · 4w ago
A voter marks a paper ballot with a pen, checking a box, beside a voting booth panel with a stars-and-stripes VOTE graphic. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: 1.9 million Texans vote to prohibit Sharia law on primary ballot

1.9 million Texans vote to prohibit Sharia law on primary ballot

Texas Republican primary voters approved an advisory measure declaring the state should prohibit Sharia law by a margin of roughly...

National · 4w ago
U.S. Army soldiers stand at attention in formation during a remembrance ceremony. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Pentagon has reinstated under 200 of nearly 8,000 vaccine-refusal troops
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Pentagon has reinstated under 200 of nearly 8,000 vaccine-refusal troops

President Trump ordered the reinstatement of service members forced out for refusing the COVID-19 shot. More than a year later,...

National · 5w ago
An empty formal legislative chamber with curved rows of wooden desks descending toward a raised rostrum. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Hickenlooper moves to bar Tina Peters from DOJ lawfare fund

Hickenlooper moves to bar Tina Peters from DOJ lawfare fund

The Colorado senator plans a floor amendment to keep people convicted of election-related crimes, including the former Mesa County clerk,...

National · 5w ago
A traffic surveillance camera mounted over a roadway watching approaching cars. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: License plate cameras face a national backlash as towns and courts push back

License plate cameras face a national backlash as towns and courts push back

Lawsuits, documented police misuse, and data-sharing fears are driving towns to terminate Flock Safety camera contracts. Lauren Fix urged Kim...

National · 5w ago
A loaded crude oil tanker riding low on open water at hazy twilight. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Helen Raleigh argues the Iran war weakened China by squeezing its oil and exposing its weapons
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Helen Raleigh argues the Iran war weakened China by squeezing its oil and exposing its weapons

On The Kim Monson Show, the Federalist contributor said Beijing's reliance on Middle East crude and questions about Chinese-made arms...

National · 5w ago
Empty office interior with rows of vacant workstations and large windows. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: ICE alleges widespread fraud in foreign-student work program OPT

Foreign student work program OPT faces federal fraud investigation

Federal investigators say a probe of Optional Practical Training found phantom employees, suspicious worksites and cross-border money movement; Epoch Times...

National · 6w ago
Generic figure in a dark suit escorted by two officers walking through an institutional federal courthouse corridor, seen from behind, federal seal motif at the far end. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: CDC autism researcher Poul Thorsen extradited from Germany to face federal grant fraud charges
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CDC autism researcher Poul Thorsen extradited from Germany to face federal grant fraud charges

The Danish scientist, a co-author of two widely cited studies finding no link between vaccines and autism, was flown to...

National · 7w ago
An empty paneled federal-style courtroom with a single closed folder on the bench. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Natelson walks Coloradans through a Supreme Court term reshaping power, speech, and citizenship
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Natelson walks Coloradans through a Supreme Court term reshaping power, speech, and citizenship

On his monthly Kim Monson Show appearance, constitutional scholar Rob Natelson surveyed more than a dozen pending and just-decided cases...

National · 7w ago
A U.S. Navy destroyer on station at sea in late-day light, an oil tanker visible in the middle distance. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: Retired general links Iran war, Maduro raid, and Hormuz blockade into one China strategy
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Retired general links Iran war, Maduro raid, and Hormuz blockade into one China strategy

On the Kim Monson Show, retired Maj. Gen. Joe Arbuckle of STARRS read the Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz...

National · 8w ago

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Declaration of Independence at 250

The founders’ deepest right was ownership, and the Declaration’s lineage proves it

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Macro photograph of an engorged adult blacklegged deer tick (Ixodes scapularis), the species that transmits Lyme disease. Featured image for Kim Monson Newsroom: HHS launches a federal plan to combat long-neglected Lyme disease

Federal Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Policy

Tick Bites: Prevention, Intervention, Infection

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The Wall That Heals Comes to Wyoming

Wall That Heals Vietnam memorial replica makes its only 2026 Wyoming stop in Star Valley

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