Nashville country musician and conservative activist Alexis Wilkins, who’s dating FBI Director Kash Patel, is performing at an upcoming event in Brussels, Belgium, to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.
Wilkins is also fighting back against some of the scrutiny she’s faced over her ties to Patel and President Donald Trump’s administration in a recent defamation lawsuit she filed against MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC.
“As a country singer, author, and political advocate, known for her Christian, patriotic, America-First, and pro-law enforcement values, her brand and ability to work in her profession would be significantly damaged if her employers, her publishers, her listeners, or her readers, believed that she was abusing the public trust and using her relationship with Director Patel to misappropriate FBI resources,” Wilkins said in the lawsuit. Wilkins filed the lawsuit in late May in the U.S. District of Middle Tennessee.
Wilkins, a graduate of Nashville’s Belmont University, has performed at multiple politically conservative events. In February, she performed the national anthem at the National Religious Broadcasters summit in Nashville at a keynote event that also included Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.
Alexis Wilkins during the discussion “How to be a Charlie Kirk: Communicating Well and Defending Truth” during the National Religious Broadcasters summit at Gaylord Opryland & Convention Center in Nashville on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026.
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She is next expected to perform at a “Freedom 250” party in Brussels on June 28, which will be located near the European Parliament buildings. Another U.S. country act, the Zac Brown Band, will be the headliner.
The New York Times reported in February that Patel assigned a SWAT team of four agents and two vehicles to protect Wilkins full-time.
Before that New York Times report, MS NOW had reported Wilkins’ security detail gave her inebriated friends a ride home. That MS NOW report is now at the center of Wilkins’ lawsuit, which says the article “portrayed Ms. Wilkins as being intoxicated even knowing that she does not drink.”
The lawsuit says Patel did not order FBI agents or a member of Wilkins’ security detail to give Wilkins’ friends a ride home. MS NOW has said it stands by its reporting.
“The Article deliberately omits key context that Ms. Wilkins has received hundreds of credible death threats, another fact that Defendants knew from their own prior reporting,” Wilkins’ lawsuit says. “This is particularly manipulative, as the narrative thrust of the Article is that Ms. Wilkins is the beneficiary of misappropriated taxpayer resources.”
Patel is suing The Atlantic for defamation after an article alleged he had a drinking problem, which the FBI director says is a lie.
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