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Damon Darling appears in the public record primarily as a social-media comedian and merchandiser who posts oil-rig–themed content and sells apparel through his website; multiple profile pieces claim h...
Several states have written or more generalized “lethal gas” options into law or into proposed bills; , and are among the earliest adopters on the books, Alabama is the only state that had developed a...
Several recent state bills sought to change ages tied to sexual consent, marriage, medical consent, or criminal prosecution — mostly to raise ages (e.g., Oklahoma’s HB1003 to raise statutory‑rape thre...
Since 2010 dozens of U.S. states considered or passed laws aimed at blocking “Sharia” or foreign/religious law; databases count between roughly 201 and 233 anti‑Sharia/anti‑Muslim bills introduced acr...
No U.S. state has “passed Sharia law” as a parallel legal system; instead, more than a dozen states have enacted laws or ballot measures intended to block courts from applying “Sharia,” “foreign,” or ...
Available reporting does not identify a physical oil rig owned or operated by Damon Darling; his public profile in the supplied sources portrays him as a content creator who produces “oil rig”–themed ...
Twelve to fifteen U.S. jurisdictions already let residents store state IDs or mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) in smartphone wallets or state apps for some official uses, and at least 14 states are acc...
A single, definitive list of states that bar firearms at political demonstrations or across entire capitol grounds does not exist in the provided reporting; instead, advocacy groups, think‑tanks and n...
ICE operated a large, dispersed network of detention facilities in and before 2024, ranging from dedicated ICE processing centers to county jails holding immigration detainees; reporting and advocacy ...
Data from the 2023 American Community Survey shows many of the states with the highest poverty rates are in the South and Southwest, and a plurality of those high-poverty states are under Republican c...
As of the sources provided, a majority of reporting distinguishes ordinary state driver’s licenses (19 states + DC as of 2023–2025 reporting) from federally regulated commercial driver’s licenses (CDL...
Hugo Chávez’s government seized or nationalized foreign oil assets in multiple waves, most prominently in 2007 when it reasserted state control over Orinoco heavy‑oil projects operated by major intern...
States that passed measures explicitly described as banning Sharia or restricting foreign/religious law include Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, South Dakota, Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama; Oklahom...
Since 2020, reporting shows a renewed push by some Republican lawmakers and state officials to curb the influence of “Sharia” by advancing new bills or touting existing laws; Texas actions and multipl...
Official and reputable post-election analyses put 2024 turnout between about 64% and 65.3% of the eligible U.S. electorate: the University of Florida Election Lab and related reporting cite roughly 64...
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) reported roughly 900 official college chapters in 2025, and multiple contemporary news outlets and TPUSA’s own materials describe hundreds-to-thousands of campus presences an...
Twenty‑three states and the District of Columbia maintain statutes that limit wearing masks in public, but those laws vary sharply in scope: some are narrow, criminalizing masking conducted with inten...
No credible public record in the provided reporting lists as the owner or operator of any oil rigs or drilling companies; sources state he before and sell oil-rig-themed merchandise, and there is an i...
As of the documents in this file, at least eight U.S. states (California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Texas, Wisconsin and Alabama) and the U.S. territory of Guam have laws that authorize chemi...
Available reporting does not show Damon Darling owning an oil rig or an oil company; coverage characterizes him as a comedian and content creator whose persona and merchandise reference oil-rig work a...