In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.
She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.
The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.
She handed out the checks herself.
In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.
When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.
You've probably heard that part.
Here's the part you haven't:
The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.
Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.
She built her county an entire hospital.
She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.
In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.
Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.
In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.
And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.
She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.
She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.
Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸
This is the worst thing I’ve ever read, but it’s entirely true and accurate. For anyone who has expressed even the faintest sympathy for Lindsay Clancy: this is what you’re sympathizing with. This is what it actually means, in real life, to strangle 3 children to death. This is what that scene would have looked like. This is the level of raw unbridled soulless evil required to do what Clancy did. Read this and tell me this woman doesn’t deserved to be convicted and then strapped to an electric chair.
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Charlotte NC after a man who planned MASS SH00TINGS at FIVE Charlotte NC schools was JUST LET OUT OF JAIL...
...just FOUR DAYS before those schools open for the year.
Read that again.
His name is Drew Owens, he's 31 and he's been arrested 6 times in Charlotte NC alone.
Back in February 2025, police say he sent threats to five CMS schools, Hawk Ridge Elementary, Community House Middle, Ardrey Kell and West Charlotte High, and Garinger High. Investigators say he laid out actual mass sh00ting plans for them.
He was charged with five felony counts of threatening mass violence on school property.
On Friday night, he posted bond and by Saturday morning, he walked out.
Charlotte school kids go back to class on TUESDAY.
One mom said it was her number one fear: "If he gets out, when will he get out, and will we know?"
Well, he's out, and it gets worse.
His OWN FATHER went to police.
He said his son had been harassing family, neighbors, and friends.
Sending threatening letters.
Sitting outside their homes.
His father even said Owens went to West Charlotte High and photographed his car, police believe to try to lure him out.
His own father took out a restraining order against him.
One neighbor said she is "constantly in fear for my life."
WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?!!!!!!
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW 🚨 Foreign born man in California caught setting up fraudulent hospice companies and working with mortuaries to get the names of dead people to bill Medicare
- He stole $27 MILLION
- California didn’t care he misspelled his hospice company names, one was spelled “Holly Trinity"
- He bought a Rolls Royce
- His patients were dead people
- He billed $33,000 per patient per year
“Prosecutors are also charging 2 accomplices — the manager of a mortuary, who gave David Shachar names of people who recently passed in exchange for cash”
This is the exact type of fraud Nick Shirley was investigating and exposing and Democrats just made it illegal to investigate in California
Gavin Newsom signed the Stop Nick Shirley act shock will protect these foreign fraudsters stealing our tax money in the future
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom was just EJECTED from a WNBA game for wearing a shirt with the definition of “WOMAN” on it
You’re a freaking LEGEND, @EnesFreedom 🔥
ENES: “I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!”
What is shocking is not the utter depravity and cruelty of Hasan Piker, but the ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views. It is part of the conditioning in what I have previously called an “age of rage.” https://t.co/42ZhjRomD9
DSA members say they’re going take over our country with a violent revolution
“It’s going to be a violent process.”
Believe them when they tell you their plans.
These aren't just people who disagree with us politically.
They are enemies of everything that is good and holy about our civilization.
And they will stop at nothing to destroy it.
We’re still in the Western Slope and started our morning off in Montrose!
The momentum out here is real and it’s humbling to see so many Coloradans full of hope.
Tonight, we’re heading to Delta for the Lincoln Day Dinner and tomorrow we’ll be in Gunnison.
Head over to https://t.co/Y0YV2tdnti for more info.
Bill Maher: “Jason Arday… he was the first Black professor at Cambridge… the youngest… really he was GUILTY of plagiarism and all sorts of incredible lies, and because [the left] is so captivated by DEI and wanting this. They just let it pass… It’s the soft bigotry of LOW expectations.”
New York Times’ Jeremy Peters: “They IGNORED the glaring red flags like grammatical errors in his thesis and things in his back story that just didn’t add up, like running 30 marathons in 35 days.”
*Audience Laughs*
“Cambridge has a LOT of explaining about how they seemed to have really cynically used this person who was obviously struggling with mental illness to FURTHER their diversity and inclusion goals.”
Bill Maher: “He said he ran the marathons with a broken leg... It’s like a prank! Like can we make liberals, who want to believe this, actually do it, and they did.”
“White people are crazy.”
Biden ordered culls for 3 years and removed 4M acres of open land from cattle ranchers.
But temporarily alleviating prices while herd sizes rebound is a “betrayal”
Two years ago, I wouldn’t have been caught dead at a Trump rally.
I was a liberal, I thought Trump was awful.
Tonight was a beautiful moment to remember just how far I’ve come in 2 years.
Yes, I’m frustrated with a lot, but I’m reminded just how INSANELY GOOD we have it.
Do you remember what it used to be like?
Do you remember how bad it was?
I remember screaming on X for the Biden administration to help Western North Carolina for MONTHS.
All I got was silence.
I was mocked by Biden’s FEMA and they called me a liar for showing what was OUTSIDE MY OWN FRONT DOOR.
Do you remember that?
I do.
Do you remember when they called illegal immigration unsolvable?
I do.
Before Trump got into office, I had no idea it was even a big problem, I had no idea our country was completely invaded by illegals until I got on X, and saw the truth.
We are so quick to forget how dark it was before Trump came into office.
I’m guilty of it just as much as anyone.
But the beauty of the Trump rally, was that he reminded me of all the things he’s accomplished, and how much crap I’ve taken for granted, forgotten about, and then gotten upset about the problems he hasn’t solved yet.
And I’m worried that a lot of people have or will be so caught up in the bad, that they forget the good.
And there’s so much good
On a personal note… I live in a very liberal city, and it was such a uniquely beautiful experience to be surrounded by people who didn’t hate me or want me dead.
There’s so many good amazing people that love America and want her to succeed.
That alone made the trip with it.