Kathy Hochul expands MMR vaccine administration to midwives — but is it safe for the baby?



New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has declared a state of emergency over measles — and as the self-described “OG antivaxxer at the Blaze,” Sara Gonzales is pushing back.

Especially against the new recommendation for who exactly can administer the shot.

“Why is it in the government’s purview to determine what is and is not acceptable for your family?” Gonzales asks, noting that she takes “particular issue” with Kathy Hochul for “expanding the pool of health care providers who can administer MMR vaccines to include midwives.”

“Now, what I take issue with on this is that midwives would treat who?” Gonzales asks.


“Obviously, they would be treating pregnant women,” she says.

“And pregnant women specifically, they have done no studies for the MMR vaccine, how it affects pregnant women, and the CDC’s own website says that pregnant women should not get the MMR vaccine because they don’t know what it can do to a fetus,” she continues.

“So I’m like, why is the government stepping in and saying, ‘No, actually, don’t listen to our own CDC,’ who they just said several years ago we have to trust. ‘The CDC is the end-all be-all. They are the science,’” she adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Sara Gonzales exposes a popular Texas university for paying a foreign firm to fill American seats



Whether she’s rooting out H-1B fraud or exposing the open-border flood, BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales is adamant about fighting back against the “globalist plan to flood the zone and displace actual Americans who should be put first in their own country.”

On this episode of “Come & Take It,” the Texas native shines the light on a local university that commissioned an overseas business to recruit foreign students.

The school under Sara’s microscope is the University of North Texas in Denton. According to Texas Scorecard, “A third-party vendor received payments from the University of North Texas to ‘recruit’ international students from 2018 through at least 2023.”

“All of the money that you guys are working hard to then sign over to UNT and all of these other public universities, this money went to that school only for them to turn around and pay a foreign recruiting firm up to $3,000 per foreign student that they recruited,” says Sara.

“It is bad enough that they are paying to recruit foreigners at all ... but they aren't even paying an American company. ... They're siphoning money out of this country to bring in people to take spots that could be going to an American or a Texan,” she continues.

Texas Scorecard identified the third-party recruiter as the Edwise Foundation — a student-placement agency based in Kathmandu, Nepal, focused on placing Nepalese students in higher education, specifically in the U.S.

“Their entire existence is to empower foreigners to come have access to our colleges, and we are paying them real money to do that,” says Sara. “That's bonkers crazy to me.”

On its website, the Edwise Foundation claims it has “placed thousands of students into a diverse range of [universities] in the United States — from small private liberal arts colleges to top-tier research Institutions — often with partial or full financial aid.”

“I'm just wondering at this point, financial aid paid for by whom? Where is the financial aid money coming from? ... I certainly would like to know,” says Sara.

“Then again, maybe I wouldn't like to know because maybe it's just going to be further black-pilling to hear that ... more of my money is somehow being siphoned into this financial aid fund that's then being given to foreigners who are taking spots that could be going to Texans or Americans.”

She then pulls up a page from the Edwise Foundation’s website titled “Why Study in the USA from Nepal?” which identifies the U.S. as a top destination for Nepali students because it has “the world’s best universities,” “research and innovation” opportunities, “academic flexibility,” “work after graduation” opportunities, “scholarships and assistantships,” and degrees that promise “global” value.

“So we're all on the same page that our system, that the American higher education system, is ... the best,” says Sara.

“It sounds to me like this should be one of the most competitive areas ever, and you should be paying us for the opportunity to potentially come here and scout you out.”

To hear more of Sara’s scathing exposé, watch the episode above.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Paramore's Hayley Williams says Christian nationalism is the biggest threat to democracy — and she's right



Following in the footsteps of Macklemore, Paramore lead singer Hayley Williams is fighting her dwindling relevancy by making a political statement.

“She must have noticed the big boost Macklemore got from ruining Ed Sheeran’s tour, because neither Macklemore nor Williams have had a Billboard Top 100 hit since 2017,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales says.

“But there are two words that can make them relevant again,” she adds.

Predictably, Williams yelled “f**k ICE” and “free mother-f**king Palestine.”

“Hayley Williams actually wasn't done. Hayley Williams wasn’t done trying to gain some sort of legitimacy again. Maybe people might start Googling her name. And so she decided to take it one step further by targeting yet another group,” Gonzales says.


“The greatest threat to American democracy is Christian nationalism,” she said in another set.

“I hate to sound like a broken record, but the Democrats force me to do this every single time because they are trying to brainwash people. They think if they say ‘democracy, democracy, democracy’ enough times that you will forget that our country is not a democracy,” Gonzales comments.

“It is actually a constitutional republic. That’s very important. Like, they’re doing this intentionally. They are using language to try to change your perspective on this country and how we are set up. It’s actually a very, very important distinction,” she continues.

One, Gonzales explains, that “the founding fathers knew they needed to very clearly lay out because they knew that American democracy promotes mob rule” and “its end point is socialism.”

“What would we have if we were a democracy?” she asks, before answering, “Legalized federal abortion, transgender protection at the federal level, men in women’s sports, men invading your bathrooms and girls' locker rooms. You’d have state-mandated DEI.”

“I realize I’m describing a total dystopian hellhole, but that’s what you would have if we were an American democracy,” she continues.

“This is why leftists like Hayley Williams are pushing their democracy narrative. That’s what they want, actually,” she adds.

This is why she thinks Williams might be right.

The definition of Christian nationalism from the book “The Case for Christian Nationalism” reads “is a nation that understands itself to be a Christian people and therefore orders its laws and customs accordingly, seeking both its earthly and spiritual good.”

“So when you use this term how it has been defined, Hayley Williams is actually correct. Christian nationalism is the greatest threat to American democracy because it seeks to return us to our founding principles,” she says.

“That’s actually very scary for them,” she adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

They botched her execution. Now they're trying to save her life?



Christa Pike was sentenced to death for one of Tennessee's most brutal murders — she led her roommate into the woods, tortured her, and killed her. Three decades later, the state attempted to carry out that sentence.

But it failed.

Pike survived two lethal injection attempts and was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is not happy about it.

“So now you have this headline I can’t wrap my brain around, actually. ‘Christa Pike getting lifesaving medical care after surviving Tennessee execution,’” Gonzales says, noting that Tennessee taxpayers are footing the bill.

“[They’ve] paid for her to live up until this point, and the point of that, I guess, was that she needed to go through all of her appeals or whatever until the state found that they could execute her in good conscience,” she explains.


“And now Tennessee taxpayers are spending more money and more resources to try to save the life of the person who was on death row who was supposed to be executed,” she says.

Gonzales also points out that the execution squad was all women.

“This actually was a DEI execution squad. It was an all-female execution squad,” Gonzales says. “Why?”

“I don’t know,” she says, answering herself. “But they injected her twice with pentobarbital. And they couldn’t find the vein. I don’t know. They tried to establish an IV line for an hour, using at least seven needles.”

“So maybe, instead of figuring out how we can get all-female execution squads, we should just get people who understand how to put an IV line in, because now this chick is in the hospital in critical condition,” she explains.

“And her attorney is arguing, like, ‘Oh, actually … this should all just be canceled and she should just be allowed to go home because of what she’s been through,’” she continues.

“So all I’m saying is I think we need to bring back the firing squad,” she adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Democrats just revealed their endgame if they retake power



Democrats aren’t hiding anything when it comes to what they want for not only our immigration system, but the future of America — and BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is sick of hearing it.

“They’re just saying it out loud,” Gonzales says, noting that all she has to do is “roll the tapes.”

“I’m going to have to remind you guys what this country will look like again with Democrats in power,” she continues, adding, “One of their endgames is to flood this country with immigrants to replace us.”

“And this is an area that we really need to have a healthy and robust immigration program,” Democrat Senate candidate Josh Turek said to an audience.


“You’ve got around 41% of the direct care workers that are immigrants. And so I think we also need an easier pathway to earn citizenship so that we can bring in more workers, not only for that industry but as well as the agriculture industry and the meatpacking plants,” Turek continued.

“I mean, this is a state that’s really, really struggling,” he added.

“No, no, no,” Gonzales says. “Literally all across the country, we are all saying the same thing. We do not need more foreign workers. We do not need more immigrants. We actually need less. We just voted in November of 2024 for mass deportations. We want people gone.”

“‘Meatpacking plants are struggling, let’s bring in cheap foreign labor,’” she mocks.

“Because you know, that’s always the Democrats' plan. The Democrats' plan is always, ‘Let’s figure out how to make slavery legal again in every way, shape, or form,’” she adds.

But Turek isn’t the first one to make his case for what Gonzales calls “slave labor” in the United States.

“Mass amnesty for cheaper labor,” Gonzales says. “Chuck Schumer actually let that cat out of the bag all the way back in 2022.”

“Now more than ever, we’re short of workers,” Schumer said in a 2022 speech. “We have a population that is not reproducing on its own with the same level that it used to. The only way we’re going to have a great future in America is if we welcome and embrace immigrants. The dreamers and all of them.”

“Because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers but get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however many undocumented there are here,” he added.

“What are we doing?” Gonzales, annoyed, asks.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Clancy’s lawyer FLIPS, says ‘there’s no evidence’ she killed her kids — Sara Gonzales has receipts of him saying otherwise



Despite multiple documented admissions that she did kill her three children, Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, recently argued that “there’s no evidence” of these admissions.

BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales is so disgusted by Reddington’s sudden shift, she names him “a close second for worst person of the year” behind Clancy, who Sara believes acted in a “premeditated manner.”

“Nobody, including Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, nobody really disputed that Lindsay Clancy killed her children, that she strangled her children to death. ... He was trying to get her a not-guilty plea by reason of insanity,” she says.

To prove it, she plays two clips.

The first captures Reddington mid-trial arguing, “She knows that she killed these children. We'll sit here, listen to their evidence, but I suggest to you that the issue for consideration is what was going on in that woman's mind.”

The second clip features him in a CBS News interview, saying, “No one is discounting the horrific loss of those kids, let alone Lindsay Clancy, who is well aware and lives with that every day.”

“So obviously, there's no disputing it. This was not in question. Anyone who watched the trial knows this was just an assumed fact the entire time,” says Sara, “and now all of a sudden out of nowhere, Kevin [Reddington] has himself some amnesia.”

But that’s not Reddington’s only crime in her book.

“On top of all of that, this lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has, I guess, made it his life's mission to go after the holdout juror who prevented Lindsay Clancy from being found not guilty,” Sara adds.

She explains how Reddington even asked the judge to investigate the holdout juror, but the motion was postponed to a later hearing. When Reddington was called out for attacking the holdout juror, he acted like the accusations were overblown, arguing, “I filed one motion and said nothing.”

But Sara has the receipts — and they suggest otherwise.

She plays a clip of Reddington bashing the holdout juror to reporters after the mistrial was declared on September 4.

“They know that they were robbed by one man for whatever his agenda was who stole seven weeks of the life of these other jurors that were so attentive, so beautiful, so wonderful. ... And I got a funny feeling that they would have gone on for another week if they had to. So I hope that guy can sleep well at night,” he said.

In an interview with Fox News, he also said, “The biggest misconception is that this individual is referred to as the holdout juror. He in fact is the obstructionist juror.”

“So because he had convictions about Lindsay Clancy's guilt, he is somehow an obstructionist,” Sara quips.

To see the clips of Reddington and hear more of Sara’s commentary, watch the episode above.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

BlazeTV’s Sara Gonzales’ H-1B investigations earn Dao journalism prize finalist spot



Since 2023, the Dao Feng and Angela Foundation, in partnership with Young America’s Foundation’s National Journalism Center, has given a set of annual awards for journalism it calls accurate, courageous, and in the public interest — a counter to what the organizers describe as a media establishment that “protects power rather than challenges it.”

Former winners include Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger, and Bari Weiss for the Twitter Files; Susan Crabtree for her Secret Service reporting; and the Federalist for its series on the Russia collusion story.

This year, BlazeTV's Sara Gonzales is a finalist in the multimedia category for her investigation of H-1B visa abuse in Texas — a $10,000 prize. Winners will be announced November 19 in Washington, D.C.

Gonzales has spent over a year investigating businesses in North Texas that sponsor H-1B workers. Again and again, the address on file was a home residence, an empty office, or a space with no signs of any business operations. Several of Gonzales’ visits turned into heated confrontations, but the end results were always fruitful.

Her work has drawn multiple official responses. Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) opened an investigation into suspected H-1B abuse by Texas businesses, first sending civil investigative demands to three North Texas companies and later expanding the probe to nearly 30, crediting Gonzales with getting it started.

Governor Greg Abbott (R) froze new H-1B petitions at state agencies and public universities through May 2027 and ordered a review of how those institutions were already using the program. By summer, Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito had joined her in Dallas as the federal probe moved into the same companies she had been filming.

Gonzales’ eight exposés follow the same pattern. She finds a North Texas-based company approved to sponsor H-1B workers, visits the address on file, and films what actually takes place there: a house, an empty office, a day care with no children, a food truck.

Several visits turned into arguments. In more than one, someone called the police. Later installments went farther, including workers who say they paid for visas they never received and a sponsor accused of not paying the employees he had brought in.

That reporting is what the Dao Prize judges singled out. Asked about the nomination, Gonzales said, “It’s very rewarding to see my hard work in uncovering H-1B fraud being recognized alongside so many other great journalists.”

To see Gonzales root out H-1B corruption and fraud that costs American workers their jobs and taxpayers their money, watch the video above. Check back in November to find out if she takes home a prize.

Editor’s note: Blaze News editor in chief Christopher Bedford is a member of the Dao Prize committee. Like the other members of the committee, he is unable to vote on nominations from his own organization.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Sara Gonzales reacts: James Talarico's ‘mentor’ gets exposed as a FRAUD by undercover video



Texas Senate Democrat candidate James Talarico has long made wild and untrue statements regarding Christianity, and now it’s become clear why.

His own pastor, Dr. Jim Rigby, holds equally insane beliefs about the religion, and he was caught on camera proudly announcing them.

“James Talarico calls Jim Rigby his mentor,” BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales comments. “And so Jim Rigby, according to his biography on the St. Andrews website, has a love of world religions and a passion for social justice.”

“And of course, James Talarico has referred to him as the biggest influence on him as a Christian and a human being,” she adds, before playing undercover footage obtained by Blaze Media of Rigby discussing the “problem” with evangelical Christians.


“They are people who are just not that smart, and like abstract thinking, which is where a lot of the liberal stuff and the principles of human rights, all that stuff, comes up ... it doesn’t show up on their radar,” Rigby told the undercover reporter unwittingly.

“They panic when that stuff is laid out in front of them. They know there’s something they’re not seeing. It’s like they have black-and-white vision and somebody’s showing them a color photograph or something like that,” he added.

But that’s not the worst of it. When Rigby was asked by the reporter if he needed to profess the belief that “God became a baby and that a virgin had a baby” in order to become a member of his church, Rigby answered that “we all got in by lying.”

“That’s the least you can do,” he added.

“It’s just a social club that we have,” Gonzales mocks, “We call ourselves Christians, but we don’t actually intend to live by any of the principles set forth in the actual document, the Bible.”

Matthew Marsden is shocked by the footage but unsurprised that he’s linked to Talarico.

“I don’t get this Talarico thing,” he says. “It’s almost as if they went, ‘Let’s get the worst possible candidate, especially for Texans, and let’s roll him out and let him just express what he thinks.’"

“And he’s still in the running. It is completely mind-boggling to me,” he adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Karoline Leavitt reveals how ‘fake news’ stories get made



While some reporters follow the facts wherever they lead, others start with a story they want to tell and work backwards from there.

And former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt explains that it’s the latter more often than the public realizes — but BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales has had it happen to her and is well aware.

In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Leavitt described a common media tactic: A reporter develops a negative narrative about the Trump administration, finds loosely connected sources willing to validate it, and publishes the story even after receiving direct denials from people who were actually in the room.

“They, you know, believe they are arbiters of the truth and doing the country a great service, but they are clearly slanted and biased against the president,” she told Hannity.


“This is how fake news is manufactured, for your audience to understand,” she continued. “You’ll have a hack journalist who comes up with a narrative on their own that they think is true about the president or the White House, and they love the palace intrigue stories.”

Leavitt explained that “batting down fake stuff” was about 90% of her job.

“They’ll find a source who has no idea what they’re talking about, was not in the room, doesn’t even work at the White House, maybe worked on the campaign as a volunteer staffer for one day. And they’ll say, ‘A source close to President Trump told us this,’” she said.

“Like, who’s your source? Because I was in the room, so I’m a better source than them. And I’m telling you, this did not happen,” she added.

Leavitt went on to say that the reporters would then respond that they “really trust” that source and would “still write it” anyways.

“All they need is two sources,” she said. “One to say that happened. Another for them to call and say, ‘I heard this happened.’ And that person will say, ‘Yeah, that probably sounds right.’ And then the story’s written, and you can have the White House aggressively on the record pushing back, and they’ll still print.”

“That’s how things get written. They just seek to get a bad narrative, and they’ll find anyone who helps them push that narrative,” she added.

“I know it sounds crazy that they would just come up with a narrative and then try to approach people to corroborate that narrative that they just made up,” Gonzales says.

“Sounds crazy, but Karoline is 100% correct,” she adds.

Gonzales reveals that reporters have reached out to her with a political bias attempting to spin a story, revealing one recent text conversation she had with a reporter at Politico.

“No thanks, I’m going to pass on that,” she says. “I don’t need to engage with you, I know what this is. I always know what it is.”

“The mainstream media is trash,” she adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Sara Gonzales mocks media outrage over White House ban: 'You are literally covering him right now'



The mainstream media outlets are in shambles after President Trump banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House access, with some claiming the move goes against their constitutional right to cover him.

But BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales explains they're framing it all wrong.

“I regret to inform you that the fake news media has a new thing that they are clutching their pearls about. You know, they just love to be the victims. They actually really enjoy any time that they can paint themselves as some little precious little victims,” Gonzales says.

“For years, they have been allowed to just run rampant and say whatever the hell they want about President Trump and defame him. And you know what? He’s finally said, ‘You know, I’ve just kind of had enough with this,’” she continues.


However, she points out, they’re still allowed to cover Trump — just from a distance.

“We have a First Amendment right, freedom of the press. You are allowed to criticize the president whenever you want. It can be factual. It can be not factual unless it rises to the level of defamatory. But you are allowed to talk about the president all day long if you want,” Gonzales explains.

“You just don’t get the special privilege of being allowed in the White House,” she adds, before playing a clip of CNN’s Kaitlan Collins complaining about the president’s ban.

In a video posted to social media, Collins said, “One of the biggest questions that we’ve gotten asked and that we’ve asked our sources ever since the president announced that he was banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from covering his administration on Friday was ‘Why now?’”

“The president has complained about negative coverage for decades, long before he was in political office. So why is he taking this step to block outlets whose coverage he doesn’t like from covering him?” she added.

“You are literally covering him right now in this moment that you speak into a microphone about President Trump’s decision. No one is blocking you from covering him. You are not allowed in the White House. That’s it,” Gonzales responds.

“Nowhere in the First Amendment does it say that it is your constitutional right to have unlimited access … to the presidential residence, to the White House, to any of the White House grounds,” she continues.

“It doesn’t say any of that. They just can’t prevent you from criticizing them,” she adds.

Want more from Sara Gonzales?

To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred takes on news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.