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A multi-agency enforcement operation along Interstate 40 in western Oklahoma has spotlighted growing concerns about the validity and legality of commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued by certain states to undocumented immigrants, including at least one CDL listing the driver’s name as “No Name Given.”
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt announced Monday that Operation Guardian, conducted jointly by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), resulted in the apprehension of 125 undocumented immigrants from nine countries operating commercial vehicles on the state’s highways.
The ‘No Name Given’ Problem
The operation uncovered what transportation security experts are calling a glaring vulnerability in the nation’s commercial licensing system: valid CDLs issued with placeholder names rather than verified identities.
According to California Department of Motor Vehicles policy, if an identity document presented by an applicant lists “No Name Given” in the first name field, DMV officials are required to transfer that exact text onto the driver’s license, including commercial licenses authorizing operation of 80,000-pound tractor-trailers.
“If New York wants to hand out CDLs to illegal immigrants with ‘No Name Given,’ that’s on them,” Governor Stitt said. “The moment they cross into Oklahoma, they answer to our laws.”
WayMo self-driving car drives onto light rail tracks, passenger avoids the worst
Link to story here.
Waymo Car Seen Driving on Light Rail Train Tracks in Phoenix
January 9, 2026
Today.com
Video captured in Phoenix shows a driverless Waymo car driving down light rail train tracks with a passenger inside. The passenger exited the car as the train approached the intersection and the Waymo drove off long before police arrived at the scene. Waymo says the incident is under investigation and that safety is its highest priority.
Climate Change study retracted, good news for drivers
Apocalyptic 2024 Climate Change Study Retracted
Dec 9, 2025 | Liberty Matters
In April of 2024, three scientists published a study in the scientific journal Nature that claimed the burning of fossil fuels would be apocalyptic and make the world $38 trillion poorer over the next 75 years, a whopping 62% drop in worldwide economic output.
Last Wednesday, the journal retracted the paper because it clearly overestimated the economic toll of climate change. But central banks worldwide had already used the study to create risk management scenarios.
As reported in Just the News, “The impacts of flawed climate research that gets widely circulated can go beyond the walls of academia into the realm of policymaking. The now-retracted study has been cited by organizations influencing policy around the globe, including the World Bank, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., cited the study last year and again in July — both times entering it into the Congressional Record.”
When it was published, the legacy media salivated over the study. CNN warned “climate change will make you poorer.”
The Guardian, Reuters, Forbes and the Associated Press reported on the study claiming the damage would all occur within 25 years, not at the end of this century.
This past summer, the climate study authors – Maximilian Kotz, Anders Levermann and Leonie Wenz of the Potsdam Institute in Germany – reviewed and amended the paper in light of the critical findings, but the Journal decided to retract the entire study last week when they later acknowledged that their errors were “too substantial for a correction.”
Elizabeth Warren pushes Right to Repair
While Texas passed its own RIght to Repair law in 2025, drivers desperately need an auto-centric one on the federal level in order to compel manufacturers and dealers to allow drivers to get access to their own vehicle's data and parts (to keep them in good repair). If you can't replace or fix basic parts of your car because a dealer or manufacturer wants a monopoly on it or to force you to buy a completely new car using planned obsolescence, do you really even own your car? The answer is 'no.'
Dem Sen. Elizabeth Warren Pushing Defense Industry on Right-to-Repair
NewsmaxNovember 10, 2025
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is escalating pressure on the defense industry to stop opposing military right-to-repair legislation, as House and Senate negotiators work to finalize the fiscal 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.
In a Nov. 5 letter to the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) obtained by Reuters, Warren accused the industry group of attempting to undermine bipartisan efforts to give the Pentagon greater ability to repair weapons and equipment it owns.
She called the group's opposition "a dangerous and misguided attempt to protect an unacceptable status quo of giant contractor profiteering."
Currently, the government is often required to pay contractors like NDIA members Lockheed Martin Boeing and RTX to use expensive original equipment and installers to service broken parts, versus having trained military maintainers 3D print spares in the field and install them faster and more cheaply.
Microtransit? Are these real commuter solutions or money pits?
Check out this video featuring Charles Blain of Texas Tomorrow, a project of Texas Scorecard.
Chip Roy calls for halt to all illegal immigration
Watch more in this interview with Benny Johnson. See it here.
WayMo self-driving cars recalled for illegally passing school buses
Waymo Recalls Over 3,000 Self-Driving Vehicles Following Repeated Illegal School Bus Passings
Waymo received a dozen citations related to the passings between September and November.
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Grassroots support Duffy's crackdown on truckers with illegal CDLs
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Three Texas grassroots organizations applaud Secretary Duffy's emergency action on commercial driver licensing
Call for stronger federal oversight of autonomous 18-wheelers due to national security concerns
(AUSTIN, TEXAS — October 6, 2025) — Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom(TURF), Texans for Toll-free Highways (TTH), and Grassroots America - We the People (GAWTP) are committed to protecting the safety and sovereignty of Texas roads and highways and announce their strong support of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s emergency actions announced Friday, September 26, 2025. The new rule targeting the abuse of non-domiciled Commercial Driver’s Licenses (CDLs) is a bold and necessary move that prioritizes the lives and safety of American citizens.
The Department of Transportation’s decision to crack down on dangerously lax licensing procedures is long overdue. The groups share Duffy’s outrage over the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) review of state issuances of both CDLs and commercial learner’s permits (CLP) that found substantial non-compliance of drivers who live in a state or country with different standards than the state where they are licensed.
Texas is one of six states in systematic non-compliance for issuing non-domiciled CDLs along with California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington.
“American families should not have to worry about unqualified or unlawfully-present individuals operating 85,000-pound trucks on public roads. Texans are fed-up with policies that put political correctness over basic public safety,” noted TURF Founder and Executive Director Terri Hall.
“We applaud Secretary Duffy and the Trump administration for taking decisive action and demanding accountability from rogue states. Dangerous drivers with expired visas or no legal status should never have been licensed to begin with. This rule is a victory for safety, common sense, and the rule of law,” remarked JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director of Grassroots America.
TURF Report: 89th Legislative Session Wrap-Up
- Texas lawmakers pass first Right to Repair bill in red state, other priorities unsuccessful (Failed to pass toll relief, didn't stop the kill switch, or road diets in Texas)
- No progress curbing tolls, but expansion stymied by grassroots
- BRAVE NEW WORLD: Driverless Autonomous Vehicles unleashed in Texas
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House Subcommittee on Highways hearing - Massie shreds panelist
Massie shreds panelist about the pie in the sky remote kill switch technology during the first House Subcommittee on Highways hearing of the new congress on February 12, 2025.
Costly and Glitchy: A Taxpayer-Funded Electric Vehicle Odyssey
From Homer’s “Odyssey” to Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress,” great authors have often communicated timeless truths through tales of long journeys. Two years ago, a Biden administration official set out to make a point through her own long road trip. Her trip did make a point, but not the one she intended.
In the summer of 2023, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and a cadre of aides took a four-day road trip in electric vehicles (EVs) that meandered from Charlotte, N.C. to Memphis, Tenn. The trip was “intended to draw attention to the billions of dollars the White House is pouring into green energy and clean cars,” according to NPR’s Camila Domonoske, who accompanied the secretary’s convoy. Granholm would make her case at townhall stops along the route.
In reality, the road trip proved that EVs are not yet ready for prime time — at least in the epic road trip department. Or, in Domonoske’s gentle words, “Granholm’s entourage at times had to grapple with the limitations of the present.”
Worse, the trip blew out the budget and broke regulations left and right, according to a scathing report released Wednesday by the Department of Energy’s inspector general (IG).
The main problem with taking an electric vehicle — or three electric vehicles, like Granholm — on a long road trip is that you can’t just pull up to any roadside service station and fill ‘er up. As the secretary’s team discovered upon their southeastern zig-zag, charging stations are sparse and can take up to an hour to charge a battery — if they’re even working at all.
Paxton sues more companies for illegally harvesting, selling driver data
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Allstate and Arity for Unlawfully Collecting, Using, and Selling Over 45 Million Americans’ Driving Data to Insurance Companies
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Allstate and its subsidiary, Arity (“Allstate”), for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling data about the location and movement of Texans’ cell phones through secretly embedded software in mobile apps, such as Life360. Allstate and other insurers then used the covertly obtained data to justify raising Texans’ insurance rates.
Allstate, through its subsidiary data analytics company Arity, would pay app developers to incorporate its software to track consumers’ driving data. Allstate collected trillions of miles worth of location data from over 45 million consumers nationwide and used the data to create the “world’s largest driving behavior database.” When a consumer requested a quote or renewed their coverage, Allstate and other insurers would use that consumer’s data to justify increasing their car insurance premium.
These actions violated the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (“TDPSA”), which created heightened protections for Texans’ sensitive data, including but not limited to precise geolocation information. The law requires clear notice and informed consent regarding how a company will use Texans’ sensitive data. Allstate never provided notice or obtained Texans’ consent to collect or sell their sensitive data. This is the first enforcement action ever filed by a State Attorney General to enforce a comprehensive data privacy law.
“Our investigation revealed that Allstate and Arity paid mobile apps millions of dollars to install Allstate’s tracking software,” said Attorney General Paxton. “The personal data of millions of Americans was sold to insurance companies without their knowledge or consent in violation of the law. Texans deserve better and we will hold all these companies accountable.”
This lawsuit follows Attorney General Paxton’s lawsuit against General Motors and his ongoing investigations into several car manufacturers for secretly collecting and selling drivers’ highly detailed driving data.
To read the filing, click here.
NYC imposes congestion tolls on cars to pay for transit upgrades
Trump Tower is in the congestion zone. Trump vows to fight it here.
Link to article here.
Nation's first congestion toll now active in Manhattan
ABC Eyewitness NewsJanuary 6, 2025
Watch the story here.
MANHATTAN, New York City (WABC) -- For many New Yorkers, Monday was the first day back to work following the holiday break, and for a swath of commuters, it was also the first time they paid the new congestion pricing toll to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul vowed to closely study congestion pricing data, and make changes to the program, if needed.
"I am committed and the MTA is committed to intensely monitoring the trends, and if adjustments are necessary, to be willing to make those going forward," she said.
"Traffic is down today," but Hochul noted it is also snowing. "Today is the first day. I wouldn't count today, let's give it a few days to sink in and get a trend."
WATCH | NJ drivers discuss impact of congestion pricing on commute
Anthony Johnson has more on the impact of congestion pricing on New Jersey drivers entering Manhattan.
New York City's new congestion pricing toll began on Sunday, meaning many people will pay $9 to access the busiest part of the Big Apple during peak hours.
The toll is meant to reduce traffic gridlock in the densely packed city while raising money to help fix its ailing public transit infrastructure.
NYC congestion tolling unleashes congestion nightmare
Congestion toll chaos will push commuters to ditch their cars in northern Manhattan, outer boroughs: 'New park-and-ride'
By Georgia Worrell, Rich CalderNY Post
January 5, 2025
The invasion of the Bridge and Tunnel crowd won’t just be on weekends anymore.
Commuters to the Big Apple will be turning neighborhoods across the city into their own personal parking lots beginning this week, ditching their rides to save their wallets because of the $9 congestion pricing plan, concerned residents told The Post.
The plan is expected to upend neighborhoods closest to the 60th Street tolling zone with nightmarish gridlock as a surge of drivers begin scouring for free parking spots.
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