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title: "The Morning Brief — April 1, 2026"
date: 2026-04-01T01:00:02-05:00
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description: "Iran's endgame, SCOTUS slaps down Colorado's speech police, the NBA fires a Christian for being Christian, and blue states hand voter rolls to leftists while stonewalling DHS — Wednesday's Morning Brief has it all."
tags: ["Morning Brief", "conservative", "news", "America First"]
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### [Trump Says U.S. Will Exit Iran in 2-3 Weeks — And Will Address Nation Tonight](https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2026/03/31/trump-says-u-s-will-exit-iran-in-2-3-weeks/)

Operation Epic Fury is winding down, with Trump telling the country a formal address is coming tonight and an exit is weeks — maybe days — away. Rubio is already warning that Tehran was racing to become the next North Korea, complete with intercontinental missiles, which tells you everything you need to know about why acting was better than watching. Whether you loved or hated going in, getting out fast and clean is exactly what America First looks like in practice.

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### [8-1 SCOTUS Nukes Colorado's Ban on Therapists Helping Gender-Confused Clients](https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/31/8-1-scotus-nukes-egregious-colorado-ban-on-therapists-helping-gender-confused-clients/)

Eight to one. That's not a close call — that's a constitutional rout. Colorado decided that a therapist helping a client *accept* their biological sex was somehow more dangerous than, say, a therapist enthusiastically affirming surgical mutilation, and the Supreme Court said no, actually, the First Amendment applies to everyone. The lone dissenter presumably also thinks the Constitution only protects speech the right people approve of — which, conveniently, is the same logic that got Colorado into this mess.

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### [NBA Fires Jaden Ivey for Being Christian; Protects Players Accused of Violent Crimes](https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/31/nba-protects-players-accused-of-violent-crimes-while-targeting-christians-for-saying-christian-things/)

The Chicago Bulls kept players credibly accused of violence right up until the cameras stopped rolling — but the moment Jaden Ivey said Pride Month is "unrighteousness," he was gone by Monday morning. The league that plasters rainbow logos on its courts apparently has a very specific theology: you may worship at any altar you like, as long as it isn't the one that's been around for two thousand years. Multiple Christian athletes have rallied to Ivey's defense, and good for them — somebody has to say it out loud.

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### [Blue States Give Voter Rolls to Leftist Groups, Stonewall DHS](https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/31/blue-states-withhold-voter-rolls-from-dhs-while-giving-them-to-leftist-orgs-for-free/)

Blue states are refusing to hand voter rolls to the Department of Homeland Security — citing privacy, sanctity of the process, the usual hymns — while simultaneously sharing that same data with left-wing organizations for free. ERIC's member states are almost exclusively Democrat-run, and those same states' senators are blocking the SAVE America Act. It's almost as if the objection isn't to sharing voter data. It's to sharing it with someone who might actually check it.

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### [Trump Signs Order to Secure Mail-In Voting](https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-targets-mail-in-as-new-move-could-reshape-how-your-ballot-is-handled)

The president signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at making sure mail-in ballots are sent to eligible voters and returned by them — a sentence that shouldn't need to be in an executive order, and yet here we are. States run their own elections, but the federal government has a legitimate interest in federal races, and if the price of that interest is the left screaming about "voter suppression," consider it a feature. Funny how verifying that voters are real is controversial only among people who'd prefer they not be checked.

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### [Trump to Attend SCOTUS Arguments on Birthright Citizenship](https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/31/president-trump-attend-scotus-oral-arguments-birthright-citizenship/)

Trump announced he'll personally attend oral arguments today on birthright citizenship, which sent Van Jones into a full pearl-clutching episode about norms and belonging. Setting aside that Van Jones's sense of constitutional propriety is somewhat selective, the substance matters: the idea that the children of people who entered the country illegally automatically receive full citizenship is a wildly generous reading of the Fourteenth Amendment — one that was never intended to cover it. The Court gets to decide, and Trump showing up to watch them do it is, if nothing else, a good way to make CNN anchors have a bad morning.

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### [Florida Court Keeps Execution on Hold After Inconclusive DNA Test](https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-supreme-court-keeps-ex-cops-execution-hold-dna-test-fails-give-clear-answer)

The Florida Supreme Court denied a request to lift the execution stay on former cop James Duckett after DNA testing came back inconclusive — and this is exactly where a consistent-life ethic demands intellectual honesty. If the evidence isn't clear, you don't execute. The state's power over life is not something to exercise on a shrug and a "probably." Get it right or don't do it at all.

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### [Col. Bud Anderson, Last WWII Triple Ace, Laid to Rest at Arlington](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/videos/4511543/honoring-wwii-veteran-bud-anderson/)

Col. Clarence "Bud" Anderson — triple ace, living legend, the last of a kind — received full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. In a news cycle stuffed with noise and nonsense, take thirty seconds and let that land. Men like him are the reason there's an America left to argue about.

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## Bottom Line

On a day when the NBA fires a Christian for scripture, blue states hide voter rolls from their own government, and a triple ace gets his final salute at Arlington, the through-line is simple: the institutions that were built to protect Americans keep picking fights with the wrong people.