Reporter speaks out after getting thrown out of Jasmine Crockett's rally by armed guards

A reporter who was unceremoniously ejected from Rep. Jasmine Crockett's campaign event for Texas Senate is speaking out in a piece for The Atlantic, describing her experience and what she believes it says about the campaign.

Crockett has sometimes been described as a rising star in the Democratic Party, for her ability to tear apart Republican witnesses in House committee hearings. Her main competition in the Senate primary is James Talarico, a Presbyterian minister and state representative who has been campaigning as a progressive unifier.

The reporter, Elaine Godfrey, has reportedly been on Crockett's bad side since writing a profile of her last year, in which she wrote a handful of unflattering personal details, including that Crockett used a headshot of herself as the lock screen on her phone.

When Godfrey showed up to a campaign event for Crockett's Senate run in Lubbock, she discovered the extent of those lingering ill feelings.

"As I attempted to join the other reporters interviewing the lawmaker, a woman with a badge approached me," wrote Godfrey. "'Are you Elaine?' she asked. I recognized her from the entrance of the event, where I had identified myself as she’d waved me into the building’s press area. Yes, I answered. 'Her team has asked you to leave,' she said. When I asked why, the staffer looked at her phone and read dutifully: 'They just said, ‘Elaine from Atlantic, white girl with a hat and notepad. She’s interviewing people in the crowd. She’s a top-notch hater and will spin. She needs to leave.’'"

Godfrey says she was promptly thrown out by armed guards, who "left me on the edge of a Texas-county road."

Crockett has denied that this took place, telling CBS News there is "no evidence" of any reporter being ejected from her events.

"Perhaps my — very real — ejection shouldn’t have come as a surprise," wrote Godfrey. "Crockett is not known for calm restraint. This, in fact, is core to her appeal. For the Democrats who are sick of their leaders wilting before President Trump like cut hydrangeas, Crockett is a refreshing exception."

"The two-term congresswoman has established herself as the most anti-MAGA candidate in the race and is unafraid to match the president’s vulgarity with insults of her own, such as when she referred to former Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s 'bleach-blond, bad-built, butch body' and called Governor Greg Abbott, who uses a wheelchair, 'Governor Hot Wheels,'" she continued. "Crockett’s supporters believe that her pugnacity makes her well suited for this coarse, high-stakes political moment."

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem sang the praises of tech billionaire Elon Musk after she claimed he helped expose spyware on her devices planted by her own staff.

Noem dropped the explosive claims during an hour-long podcast appearance with MAGA personality Patrick Bet-David released Thursday. The clip was flagged by The Daily Beast.

“I’ll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was—Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me,” she said. “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.”

Noem claimed staffers spied on multiple political appointees before she took action.

“They had done that to several of the politicals,” she added. “And so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that, if you didn’t have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.”

The scandal-ridden DHS chief revealed the culprits were "brought in, polygraphed, fired." She also claimed her office requires regular sweeps for listening devices and discovered a secret file room containing classified documents now in the hands of attorneys.

Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman with autism from Minneapolis who was severely injured by President Donald Trump's immigration forces in January, claimed on Thursday that she was targeted for removal from the president's State of the Union address.

Rahman attended the address as a guest of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who claimed Rahman was "aggressively handled" while she was escorted out of the House chambers. Rahman was later charged with "unlawful conduct" for allegedly standing in silent protest during the speech, a claim she denied during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Thursday.

Rahman added that she wondered whether she was targeted for removal because she's spoken out against the Trump administration.

"I think you do have to ask that question, right?" Rahman said. "I can be kind of a cold, logical, autistic person sometimes, and what I am seeing is that the people to either side of me are standing up and not just standing up, but they're making noise. I was actually quiet. So if the issue is disruption, I'm not aware that anybody on the floor even knew I was standing up."

Rahman spoke out against the Trump administration during a hearing in early February about how Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers treated civilians in Minneapolis. She told the committee of all Democrats that the officers who dragged her from her car tore the rotator tendons in both of her shoulders, which prevented her from using the cane she needs for mobility.

She also described the horrific conditions inside the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

"The only thing I'm known for is giving testimony about what I saw inside the Whipple Center," Rahman said.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department is suing the state of Oklahoma for refusing to turn over confidential information from its voter rolls.

According to KOSU, "Earlier this month, State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax wrote in a letter first obtained by Oklahoma News 4 that he could not legally share voter data with the DOJ. The Trump administration disagrees with Ziriax’s interpretation. Oklahoma was among five states sued Thursday by the DOJ."

Among the information the DOJ demanded from the Oklahoma State Election Board is the driver's license and Social Security numbers of people registered to vote — a demand they have made in other states as well.

"Accurate, well-maintained voter rolls are a requisite for the election integrity that the American people deserve," said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement announcing the lawsuit. "This latest series of litigation underscores that This (sic) Department of Justice is fulfilling its duty to ensure transparency, voter roll maintenance, and secure elections across the country."

A number of other states have also refused to hand over their voter rolls, and Oklahoma is not along among Republican-controlled states. Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who famously rebuffed Trump's demands to "find" extra votes in 2020 and is currently running for governor, also did not comply with the order.

This comes as Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, who was elected as a hard-right candidate, has grown bolder in speaking out against the Trump administration's more controversial policies in recent months. In an interview this week, he criticized Trump for rolling back renewable energy projects and pursuing a no-tolerance mass deportation program.