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2023 STATE OF THE YEAR

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Nate Cain Announces Candidacy for United States Congress Nate Cain, a Republican, U.S. Army Veteran, cybersecurity entrepreneur, and FBI whistleblower announces his candidacy for West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. With a track record of integrity, selfless service, personal courage, and loyalty to his country, Cain is focused on restoring our Constitutional freedoms, strengthening our national security, and opening the doors to prosperity for all Americans.

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Nate Cain for United States Congress, West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District. Nate Cain is a military veteran who stands for America First principles & the people of West Virginia. He is a family man whose foundation is upon God, Family and Country. Cain is an entrepreneur and small business owner in Berkley County, West Virginia, https://www.cain.associates For more information about Nate Cain's campaign for Congress in 2024 or to donate, please visit https://natecain4wv.com

"I am excited to announce my candidacy for the West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District," Cain said. "I believe West Virginia needs a strong and trustworthy leader representing them, with a track record of integrity and personal courage when it matters. I firmly support the U.S. Constitution and intend to boldly fight to restore our God-given rights to guns, free speech, religion, medical freedom, and privacy. I also pledge to strengthen our national security and sovereignty with strong borders, balanced budgets, accountable foreign aid, a strong military, and a replenished national strategic stockpile and oil reserve. By restoring American freedom and national security we will ensure an enduring prosperity that will last for generations."

Texas Wins 2023 State Of The Year Governor Greg Abbott today celebrated that Texas has been named 2023 State of the Year by Business Facilities magazine in recognition of the state's best-in-the-nation business climate, economic development leadership, and a "blockbuster 2023 for capital investment and job creation." This marks the fifth State of the Year win for Texas from Business Facilities, more than any other state.

"Texas moves at the speed of business," said Governor Abbott. "As recognized by Business Facilities magazine, Texas leads the nation for corporate relocations, business expansions, and job creation. I am proud to celebrate Texas as the 2023 State of the Year alongside our state, local, and regional economic development partners, as well as the innovative industry leaders who call Texas home. With the best business climate in the nation, leading investments in education and workforce development, and our young, skilled, diverse, and growing workforce, Texas is poised to lead the nation in 2024."

Texas was chosen as the 2023 State of the Year by Business Facilities for its business-friendly environment, including legislation and incentives, workforce development programs, and the breadth of companies selecting the state for corporate relocation and expansion projects.

Texas was also recently awarded three No. 1 business climate rankings: Best Business Climate in the nation by Business Facilities in June, Best Business Climate in the nation by corporate executives in September, and Top Business Climate in the nation by Site Selection Magazine in November.

Business Facilities is a national publication that has been the leading location source for corporate site selectors and economic development professionals for more than 50 years.

Dan Newlin says Florida Tort Reform Compromise on the Horizon.

Tort reform legislation pending in the Florida House and Senate was being rapidly pushed by the Insurance Lobby and Big Business. The original bill filed (HB 837) on February 15, 2023, was quickly and quietly introduced with the hope it could reach the Governor's desk without scrutiny. The bill as originally drafted "could directly harm minorities, senior citizens, veterans, and the majority of hard-working Floridians. Thankfully, today the Florida sun is shining down on this bill and amendments have been made," stated Attorney Dan Newlin of Dan Newlin Injury Attorneys.

Thanks to some Republican and Democrat lawmakers and several consumer lawyers, the original bill and the harm it could cause was publicly acknowledged, which has led to closer scrutiny and pursuit of some compromises for everyday Floridians.

Attorney Dan Newlin was thankful that legislators took time to listen and meet with him and other concerned citizens. Newlin stated, "having the opportunity to meet and speak with so many legislators was an amazing experience. Seeing that they cared to listen to all sides, and that we had a voice for many powerless accident victims was a great honor."

Additionally, under current Florida law there are provisions that require an insurance company to act fairly to an injured person and pay benefits when they reasonably know they should be paid. When an insurance carrier fails to act fairly and timely pay benefits the carrier can be sued for violating this law. This area of the law is known as insurance "bad faith" and under the original bill, insurance bad faith might have been completely removed.

Attorney Dan Newlin believed that removing all current bad faith provisions under Florida law could allow insurance companies to offer much less than a claimant is entitled because the insurance company would have no repercussions for acting poorly and paying much less than an injury victim legally deserved and was entitled to.

The Insurance Lobby broadly proclaims that bad faith lawsuits are out of control and that the current law is misused, which is causing rates to skyrocket and carriers to leave Florida. Newlin says this is largely propaganda, at least as it concerns the personal auto insurance market in Florida, which is very competitive and healthy with carriers making record profits. Accident claims and cases brought for personal injury and wrongful death by his law firm and many others rarely result in bad faith lawsuits. In fact, in 21 years of practicing law, Attorney Newlin and his firm, who have represented hundreds of thousands injured accident victims, have only filed one bad faith lawsuit.

Newlin believes there needs to be balanced bad faith provisions that operate to make the insurance companies play fairly, especially for Florida seniors, minorities, veterans. Floridians are required to pay for auto insurance so they also deserve to have some form of legal protection.

We will find compromise. There will be no winners in Tallahassee. It's about going home knowing we did the best for Floridians, that is my hope."

Larry Thompson, Hollywood talent manager and film producer, is running for Congress in California's 32nd District Larry Thompson, veteran entertainment attorney/talent manager/film producer, announced today that he is running for California's 32nd congressional district against Rep. Brad Sherman (D). www.LarryThompsonForCongress.com "The polarized political positions in our nation have become dangerous in many ways," Thompson says. "As a Moderate Republican, I want everyone to use Common Sense with Common Civility to find Common Ground to solve our Common Issues.

"I have been a 'Representative' of Hollywood Talent for over 50 years," said Thompson. "As either their lawyer or personal manager I have spent a career listening, caring, nurturing, planning, marketing, negotiating, and enhancing their personas and lives. I now want to be a 'Representative' of the people who live in our California 32nd District to do those things for them even more profoundly, give them a voice, and empower their lives."

"With all that is going on today in this world, there is much disenchantment, disappointment, frustration, and fear with many Democrat and Republican voters. As a new Moderate Republican, I offer a fresh option to the Republican and long-standing Democratic voters.

Larry Thompson, acclaimed Hollywood talent manager and veteran film producer, lawyer, book packager, author, Broadway Producer, and motivational speaker, is founder and President of the Larry A. Thompson Organization, a next-generation, Los Angeles based Talent Management, Motion Picture, Television, and New Media Production Studio.

Thompson has managed the careers of over 200 Stars and produced 21 Movies for Television, 5 Motion Pictures, 2 Television Series, 12 Television Specials, and various Series Pilots.

Thompson has received the Industry's prestigious Vision Award and his productions have won 2 Accolade Awards, 2 Imagen Awards, The Epiphany Prize, The Wilbur Award, The Christopher Award, and have received Nominations for 10 Emmys, 6 Imagen Awards, 2 Prism Awards, the Humanitas Prize, and a Golden Globe.

He serves on the Advisory Boards of The Delta Blues Museum, Paulist Productions, and Good News Communications. He is a Founding Member Enthusiast of the Museum of The Bible in Washington, D.C. and a Charter Member of the United States Capitol Historical Society. He is perennially listed in Who's Who In America and Who's Who In The World, and on August 1, 2018, Thompson was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who. The National Conference of Personal Managers inducted Thompson into the Personal Managers Hall of Fame on May 12, 2016. Thompson was also honored on September 19, 2013, by the Talent Managers Association with the prestigious Seymour Heller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Talent Management. These two entertainment industry awards are the highest honors a personal manager can receive for representing talent.

Thompson was Knighted in Rome, Italy on May 20, 2017. Grand Prior, Prince Lorenzo de' Medici, sponsored Thompson, an American of Italian Heritage, into the prestigious Order of Saint Martin of Mount of the Beatitudes as a Patron of the Arts and Protector of the Most Needy.

Thompson was born, raised, and educated in Mississippi. After finishing law school at the University of Mississippi in 1968, he drove three days to the corner of Hollywood and Vine to start his dream career in show business. Also from 1968 to 1974, Thompson served in the United States Army Reserve's Judge Advocate General's Corps mostly in Torrance, California.

FORMER HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAYRA FLORES JOINS AMERICANO MEDIA Americano Media, the nation's first ever Spanish language network rooted in American values, announced today that former Texas Republican Congresswoman Mayra Flores has joined the network as its Senior Political Contributor. She will provide commentary daily on Americano's news and opinion programs.

"Rep. Flores surprised the country when she won handily in a traditionally Democrat district, and then brought to Washington her unique and smart perspective on how to save our declining nation," Americano founder and chief executive Ivan Garcia-Hidalgo said. "She is now a leading voice of Hispanic Americans who are fed up with business as usual and we are delighted to give her a nationwide platform to continue her leadership."

"I am proud to join Americano Media, a truly important new development in the Spanish language media arena," Rep. Flores said.

"Hispanics are family-oriented, hardworking and conservative by nature, and I am excited to amplify their views in a more fulsome discussion where both sides are heard on issues important to our community."

Americano Media airs 18 hours of original news and opinion programming every weekday. The company syndicates its content with Audacy's Radio Libre 790AM in Miami, and is positioned to announce in 2023 dozens of new radio station partners in vital markets across the country. New TV and digital news and talk content will also be rolled out in the first quarter of 2023.

Flores represented Texas's 34th district in the U.S. House of Representatives after a stunning upset win in a June 2022 special election. A Republican, she was the first Mexican-born female member of the House. The district was then reconfigured to make it strongly favor a Democrat candidate, which resulted in her defeat in the recent midterm elections.

Flores campaigned on her story as the wife of a U.S. Border Patrol agent and as a Mexican immigrant whose parents brought her to the United States as a young child. She has said the Rio Grande Valley, her home, is "under attack" at the border and speaks out against business-as-usual in the nation's capital.

"Mayra's story is America's story, and in many ways she's also Americano's story, so you can imagine how exciting this is for our company," Garcia-Hidalgo said.

ABOUT AMERICANO: Founded in 2022, Americano Media aims to be the number one Spanish language news and opinion network reaching over 500 million Spanish speakers globally. Focused on U.S. Hispanics, the fastest growing demographic in the nation, Americano works to empower this community through credible and accessible news and frank two-sided discussion with focused entertainment content that resonates Hispanic core values. Americano can be heard and viewed on its iOS and Android mobile apps and over-the-top on Apple TV, Fire TV, Roku, and Google TV. To learn more about the company please visit: www.americanomedia.com.

Newsmax, DIRECTV Finalize Renewal Programming to Resume on DIRECTV, DIRECTV Stream And U-verse EL SEGUNDO, Calif. and BOCA RATON, Fla., March 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DIRECTV and Newsmax Media, Inc. announced today that they reached a business agreement for a multi-year distribution deal that will return the Newsmax channel to DIRECTV, DIRECTV STREAM and U-verse on March 23, 2023.

When the two companies were initially unable to agree on financial terms to extend their carriage agreement, DIRECTV lost the rights to distribute the programming on January 25, 2023. Unfortunately, this is a common occurrence in the pay TV industry, and often consumers are caught in the middle.

"Newsmax recognizes and appreciates that DIRECTV clearly supports diverse voices, including conservative ones," said Christopher Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. "As a standalone company, DIRECTV helped give Newsmax its start nearly a decade ago as it continues to do with upcoming news networks, which is why we are pleased to reach a mutually beneficial agreement that will deliver our network to DIRECTV, DIRECTV STREAM and U-verse customers over the next several years."

"This resolution with Newsmax, resolving an all-too-common carriage dispute, underscores our dedication to delivering a wide array of programming and perspectives to our customers," said Bill Morrow, CEO of DIRECTV. "Through our persistent negotiations, we reached a resolution under mutually-agreeable business terms allowing us to deliver the conservative news network at the right value – a reflection of the free market at work."

Newsmax will be available on DIRECTV, DIRECTV STREAM and U-verse at no additional cost to customers, rejoining the now expanded and diversified news lineup which includes six 24/7 news networks – CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation, and The First.

This agreement marks DIRECTV's latest successful resolution of a carriage dispute, an unfortunate but increasingly frequent occurrence involving nearly every pay TV and streaming provider attempting to keep rising consumer costs in check. Over the past five years alone, the industry has endured no less than 140 distinct disputes pitting programmers or station groups against their primary distributors. While some resolve in as little as a few hours to days or weeks, others last several months to more than a year. During that same timeframe, DIRECTV has resolved public disputes with approximately 50 programmers or station groups, typically lasting a few days or weeks, but routinely extending to several months in some instances.

About NEWSMAX: Newsmax Media, Inc. operates Newsmax, one of the nation's leading news outlets. The Newsmax channel is carried on all major cable and satellite systems. Newsmax's media properties reach more than 40 million Americans regularly through Newsmax TV, the Newsmax App, its popular website Newsmax.com, and publications like Newsmax Magazine. Forbes has called Newsmax "a news powerhouse.

From the editor: Jay Shapiro I'm a little bit unhappy with the fact that the media lies to us on a constant basis. I'm VERY unhappy that we sometimes actually believe what they say!

Last year I remember several news channels and media outlets stating: Zelensky is the first Jewish President outside of Israel! I did not think much about it then. In fact I was a bit proud. But recently I started to do some research and found out that there have been over 100 Jewish President's, Prime Ministers, Head's of State and Premiers in modern history! If you include Wazirs and go back in time even further to biblical times there have been thousands of Jewish Presidents and rulers...

Lets not hide Jewish rulers!! Lets share their great wisdom and LETS ALL BECOME JEWISH!!!

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