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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Heartlander. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Illegal Immigration
Congress needs ‘a whole new batch of Republicans’ before agreeing to a border security deal that doesn’t secure the border, Hawley argues

If a “border security” bill that still allows for the entry of 5,000 illegals a day is the best deal Republicans can get, “we need a whole new batch of… Read More

January 26, 2024
Courts, Missouri
Missouri taking a lead role in lawsuits to secure border, as Biden administration actively recruits illegals to enter U.S.

While Texas battles the feds over stopping the tsunami of illegal immigrants, Missouri is quietly and methodically pressing three lawsuits to force the Biden administration to secure the border. Read More

January 25, 2024
Media
Then came Trump: KC news anchor Mark Alford got up, ran for Congress after hot liquid media meltdown reached his morning show couch

With everyone else playing games outside at his family reunion, 6th-grader Mark Alford was inside. Watching the Watergate hearings live. It was an era when a… Read More

January 19, 2024
Biden administration
Biden administration spied on Trump supporters, used tax dollars for anti-conservative propaganda, Sen. Josh Hawley warns

After already having censored conservatives online, the Biden administration has now funded anti-conservative “propaganda” while having the FBI rummage around Trump supporters’ bank accounts, notes a livid Sen. Read More

January 18, 2024
Josh Hawley
‘I’m going to be a real pest on this’: Josh Hawley pledges to make Congress face feds’ failure to compensate victims of WWII-era nuclear waste

Zoey had a mass removed from her ovary several years ago, but the St. Louis-area native recently had to return to the doctor because she’s in so much… Read More

January 15, 2024