Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., told MS NOW Wednesday night that she believes the raid on her home was to "intimidate and scare people" away from voting in the midterm elections.

Omar's home in Washington, D.C., was raided by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) last Monday in connection to an investigation into potential immigration fraud. Authorities are probing whether Omar or her father lied on paperwork that helped her gain citizenship. Border czar Tom Homan has said that if the allegations are proven, Omar could be denaturalized.

Omar, who has largely avoided public scrutiny since the raid, gave her first interview on the subject on "All In with Chris Hayes" and suggested that the decision to investigate her was a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump to appeal to right-wing influencers.

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"I think they were like starting to lose faith that these were empty promises, and they had to do something, I believe, to say, 'Hey, look, we raided her house. You know, now you can feel comfortable that we are doing something,'" Omar said. "I think ... whether it’s Metro Surge, whether it is the voter rolls that they’re looking at, whether it’s the door knocks that you just spoke of, that is all to show these people that they’re doing something and to save face." 

"Because they made this huge promise that there was somehow this massive ... sort of undocumented people that were voting in American elections and that there is something that they need to go and fix."

"And so they, you know, they’re going to try to gin up this sort of frenzy," she added. "And, I think ultimately their goal is to intimidate and scare people from wanting to participate and vote."

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Despite that, Omar insisted that the raid had likely inspired people to vote in spite of the president.

"As I was driving up here today, we were getting calls that people, you know, are just like, there’s a massive line at early voting sites. And a lot of our staff that are, you know, helping people drive to go vote are saying, you know, ‘We don’t have the capacity to keep up with the requests that we’re getting of people who need assistance to get to the early voting site.’ I think it’s doing the opposite," Omar said.

Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment but did not immediately receive a response. 

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Prior to Tuesday night via a campaign video, Omar had not been seen publicly since before the raid on her home, which was first reported by Fox News Digital last week. Her husband, Tim Mynett, has been seen outside the residence walking their dog. 

Additionally, Fox News Digital has spotted a campaign aide bringing in food and both of her daughters arriving at the home two days apart.

Trump warned Tuesday from the Oval Office that Omar could be jailed if the allegations against her are true.

"Well, she could be. She could also go to jail," Trump said. "You know, they keep talking about deportation. No, she could go to jail."

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"This is just my opinion," he continued, before calling the congresswoman "a very dishonest person" who "hates our country."

An apparent childhood disappearance sent Akiane Kramarik's family and police scrambling to find her, but the artist who famously painted Jesus at age 8 says she was somewhere no one thought to look.

"I recall I am in this entire zone, I'm seeing my whole family and all the dogs and all of the police below," Kramarik said on the "Hang Out with Sean Hannity" podcast.

"It's as if I have like an eagle-eyes perspective."

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Kramarik, 32, recalled feeling as though her body had "zoomed out" before everything went black. 

According to Kramarik, her disappearance sparked fears of a possible kidnapping, prompting family members, neighbors and police to launch a search.

"My mom comes and she can't find me. My brothers search around the house, they couldn't find me. [They] call[ed] my dad. Every single neighbor, every friend... The police come, their dogs come, everybody is around the whole neighborhood searching for me. I'm missing, and no one knows where," she said.

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"They think it was a potential kidnapping," she continued. "So my photo was displayed in all the town."

Kramarik said she was just 5 years old when the incident occurred in Missouri, recalling that what she described as a journey through another realm corresponded to nearly seven hours of elapsed time, according to her parents.

"My parents told me it was about six and a half, seven hours, something like that," she shared.

During that time, Kramarik said God showed her extraordinary sights and imparted knowledge to her. She described the experience as lasting longer than the nearly seven hours she said she was missing.

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Kramarik's account is one of several spiritual experiences she has described from her childhood, a period also marked by her exceptional artistic talent.

At age 8, she painted "Prince of Peace," her now-famous portrait of Jesus that helped propel her to international recognition as a child prodigy.

Kramarik said her otherworldly experience left a lasting impression that extended beyond her artwork. She said the experience also prompted her parents, who had raised their children in a nonreligious household, to reconsider their beliefs.

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Viewers and listeners can watch or listen to Hannity's full conversation with Akiane Kramarik on "Hang Out with Sean Hannity," available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and iHeartRadio.

Activists or cowards?

That's the question I often ask about members of the media when they go radio silent on a hot-button issue.

Do they avoid asking tough questions because they fear the answers might undermine a cause they support? Or do they stay quiet because they're scared of the blowback they'd get from their peers?

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Look no further than the past two weeks, when three major stories captured public fascination while traditional newsrooms responded with either deliberate silence or toothless coverage.

Story No. 1: The WNBA's national anthem walk-offs.

Before Games 1 and 2 of the WNBA Finals, both the Atlanta Dream and the Golden State Valkyries walked off the court before the singing of the Star Spangled Banner, only to return as soon as it was over. Yet, besides OutKick, I couldn't find a single instance of credentialed media covering the Finals even mentioning this. The San Jose Mercury News lauded Alanis Morissette's rendition before Game 2, but didn't appear to care that players weren't on the court for it. And a writer from SF Gate decried how "conservative media can't stop complaining" about personnel deciding to leave the floor.

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Sorry, but this story matters to people. And apparently, mainstream reporters have no interest in asking players or coaches about it. OutKick's Dan Zaksheske has been ready with questions at press conferences but hasn't been called upon. Perhaps WNBA public relations officials are concerned he'll make the people he covers uncomfortable. They certainly don't seem worried that the other journalists in the room will.

Story No. 2: Valkyries fans' open hostility toward attendees wearing XX-XY shirts at Game 1.

Jennifer Sey, founder of XX-XY Athletics, posted disturbing video from Chase Center on Saturday. In it, a woman calls Sey "disgusting" and tells her to "f---ing kill yourself" for donning a shirt advocating for female-only sports. The clip got four million views on X, but virtually no mainstream media coverage — and certainly no condemnation. Yahoo! Sports ran a story that originally appeared on Basketball Network, but the author, Yakshpat Bhargava, seemed to be siding against Sey.

"What Sey should truly understand is that if her goal is to help women's sports take the next leap forward, why ignite controversies that are already in the past?" he wrote. "At this point, all attention should be on the Valkyries and Dream's play on the hardwood."

No, the issue of males in female sports is not a controversy that's in the past. It's alive and well. Need proof? Then look at...

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Story No. 3: A high school cross country runner who switched from the boys to the girls team midway through the season.

I've been covering this one for a couple weeks now. After finishing 76th in a boys JV race in September, a sophomore boy from Camas High in Washington state decided he was going to compete against the girls. Since making the switch, he has won a varsity meet and finished second in another race. In September, two girls from Skyview High protested by walking off the start line after the gun went off, and last week, about a dozen of his own teammates did the same thing.

As you might imagine, this has gotten national attention. Several Fox News Channel shows have covered the story, as have the likes of Clay Travis and Riley Gaines. But ESPN? The Athletic? Crickets. And though papers in Washington State such as the Seattle Times have mentioned the protests, nobody in legacy media is criticizing the boy's participation.

A couple months ago, I wrote about a new category that The Associated Press Sports Editors added to their annual writing contest: Excellence in Transgender Sports Coverage. But if you read how the category was introduced, you'd see that the only stories that have a chance at winning are hagiographies to trans athletes. There is no room for pushback — only acceptance.

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I've said before that journalists should be judged on two criteria — what they write, and what they don't write. And too many sports journalists have decided that certain stories are better left untold. The reason is simple — they care more about what their peers think about them than the public. And whether that's born out of activism or cowardice, the result is the same: The public gets cheated.