I heard that Trump heard, Smokey was the fastest thing in Tennessee… and took that personally. Only on Rocky Top. 🍊🇺🇸 Go Vols!

Happy birthday, @RepFaison! Your leadership and unmistakable swagger will certainly be missed on Capitol Hill. I hope you have a fantastic day, sir. @VoteMarsha @Kanew @TNDemocrats @tnhousegop

It's a special day because we have two birthdays today! Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to Caucus Chairman @RepFaison from District 11 and State Representative @DennisHPowers from District 36!

Tennessee’s best days are ahead.

Rep. Hicks and I have been out knocking doors for Rep. Lankford in Clarksville, and I can tell you one thing, Michael could not be stronger!  BTW… if you ever find yourself over that way in Clarksville, go eat some wings at Mr. Billy’s. Trust me on this one. They are amazing!

Tennessee workers, entrepreneurs, and job creators make Tennessee the best state in the nation to live, work, and build a future. Low taxes. Smart regulation. A skilled workforce. That's how you build an economy that works for everyone. @RepFaison @CSexton25 @WilliamLamberth @JasonZacharyTN @repmarkcochran

I have thought a lot about the Clancy case, and I keep coming back to the same place. Three children are dead. Three innocent children whose lives were taken by the very person they should have been safest with. I can have compassion for someone who is struggling emotionally or mentally. I can believe that a person can be deeply troubled, overwhelmed, and in desperate need of help. But, compassion for someone’s struggles cannot require us to forget the victims. Emotional struggles cannot become a common defense for killing innocent people. If we as a society dissolve that line, we are opening a door that will certainly lead to more victims. Capital punishment was not the only option here. There is an enormous distance between executing someone and holding them criminally accountable for taking three innocent lives. Yet here we are with a hung jury, and I struggle deeply with the precedent and the message that sends. Somewhere along the way, the perpetrator has become the victim and society is asked to see her primarily as one who is suffering, while three children who can never speak for themselves risk becoming almost secondary to the story. I also cannot help but wonder what message we are sending to the next generation. Justice has to mean something. Personal responsibility/accountability has to mean something. The lives of innocent children have to mean something. Can’t we be compassionate toward mental and emotional suffering without abandoning accountability for the choices people make and the lives they destroy? I also cannot escape this thought: If those had been the jurors’ own children, I have a hard time believing that jury would have remained hung for very long. When you picture your own child in the place of those three little ones, the conversation changes very pretty dang fast. My heart can break for a mother who was clearly struggling while still breaking first for the three children who lost everything. Those two things are not mutually exclusive. Mercy matters. Compassion matters. Mental health matters. But so does justice. If emotional suffering becomes enough to excuse the intentional killing of innocent people, we we will have to accept that the consequences of that precedent will not end with this case. Three children lost their lives. Whatever else we discuss, they should never become the afterthought.

As we head into the holiday weekend, we honor the hardworking men and women who keep our state moving. Tennessee's low taxes and pro-growth policies keep our state a place where hard work pays off. @RepFaison @WilliamLamberth @CSexton25 @JasonZacharyTN @repmarkcochran

🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance calls Tucker Carlson his friend, refuses to "throw him under the bus," but says Tucker is WRONG in many of his attacks on Donald Trump "Tucker is a friend of mine." "I'm not gonna play the game where I throw friends under the bus because I have political disagreements!" "He's said some things about POTUS that are just WRONG...he would support El Sayed over Mike Rogers. El Sayed is a crazy person." "I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest things for me personally is not when people attacked me, but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her heart, who knew what a good person she was." "And I remember thinking to myself, what a travesty it is that in the United States of America, we let political disagreements define who our friends are going to be and not going to be."

Behind every job, in every industry, in every corner of our state is a Tennessean providing for their family, building a career, and moving the Volunteer State forward. @RepFaison @WilliamLamberth @CSexton25 @JasonZacharyTN @repmarkcochran

Dolly Parton’s commitment to early childhood reading has inspired millions in Tennessee. We are honoring her legacy by preserving the Imagination Library. Today, @SenBoWatson and I announced for the state to fund 100% of the imagination library. This follows investing an additional $4.5 billion in state dollars in k-12, and $200 million in TN Accelerating Literacy and Learning Corps which has lead TN to be ranked 18th in k-12 education and 4th for reading proficiency growth!

My friend @GlennJacobsTN wrapped up eight years of service as Mayor of Knox County, and I was privileged to be a part of the celebration honoring him. Glenn has been incredibly successful in life, but one of the things I’ve always admired most about him is that success has never changed who he is. No matter the title, the position, or the spotlight, he has never become too important to be reachable or too big to be relatable. He is genuinely a great friend and public servant.

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For 100 years, volunteers have made the Appalachian Fair a special tradition for this community. Grateful to celebrate a century of neighbors coming together and keeping this tradition strong!

Who doesn't love a little moonshine?🫙⚡ When my constituents, @MoonshinersTV stars Digger Manes & Mark Ramsey, approached me about ending the 158-year-old federal ban on home distilling, I knew it was a fight worth taking on! Today I introduced the Freedom to Home Distill Act:

On October 21, 1990, we had the privilege to confer upon Dolly Parton a Doctorate of Letters. Here is the full, unreleased video of her inspirational address from that day. We will always love you, Dolly. piped.video/watch?v=J3gpibfA…

Not to mention, Tennessee already has two @Bucees with two more coming! Just another perk of living in a conservative, business-friendly state.

Y’all could get @flocksafety cameras to be taken down yesterday if you told democrat ran cities Flock uses Data Centers to store info.

Make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube channel so you can watch the press conference live at 1 p.m. CT! piped.video/@TennesseeAG

Back in 2019, I told a @Tennessean reporter that I could “think of 100 other people deserving to be honored in the State Capitol alcoves than one of the current ones." Since then, the Capitol Commission has removed a few of those figures, and those alcoves remain empty to this day. Even though I won’t be serving there next year, I’d love to see one of those spaces filled with someone who represents the very best of Tennessee: @DollyParton Few Tennesseans have lived out the heart, spirit, generosity, and story of our state to the world quite like Dolly, and the Capitol would look better with a statue commemorating her. Put Dolly in an alcove. abc3340.com/news/local/dolly…