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If Donald Trump wins in November, it will be a massive victory for the Right. Some right-wingers may dismiss a second-term Trump as pointless. But they would be mistaken. A Trump victory would be both significant symbolically and in actual policy accomplishments. It would be a bigger boost to the Right than his first victory in 2016. Moreover, it would be a serious setback for nationalists if he lost. Let’s start with immigration. Trump’s first term marked the first time immigration had been positively addressed since the Eisenhower administration. Trump actually brought down immigration. Near the end of his term,...

Things aren’t looking good for House Speaker Mike Johnson. House conservatives are outraged by his commitment to fund Ukraine. They’ve already been upset with his past failures to pass any substantial right-wing legislation. At least two Republicans–Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie–support a motion to vacate against Johnson. If every Democrat votes for it, Johnson is done. A lot of conservatives wouldn’t be bothered by this. They see Johnson as a traitor and would like him to pay for his failures. Many believe they can get an even better speaker with Johnson gone. This is the exact same kind of...

Mexico is in the midst of a presidential election. Voting is scheduled for June 2, with the winner taking office October 1. The three candidates are frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, second-place challenger Xochitl Galvez, and male candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez, in a distant third in single digits. On April 7, the first general election debate was held. The candidates made all sorts of promises which would require plenty of government spending, with almost no mention of wealth creation. They pledged allegiance to the LGBTQXYZ agenda, which is strong in Mexico. And, the candidates discussed immigration. That’s of interest to us, Mexican...

The VDARE.com website, founded by Peter Brimelow, has been on the internet since 1999. VDARE deals with immigration (legal and illegal), national identity, ethnic identity politics, race and crime, and related topics; especially aspects of these matters that are excluded by the Mainstream Media. That’s why VDARE is under attack and is currently in imminent danger of being abolished. Its payment processing has been shut down repeatedly. It’s been banned from YouTube and Facebook. Sadly, VDARE has been very shabbily treated by the conservative movement itself. VDARE is currently being destroyed by Leticia James, the attorney general of New York....

“…[F]or I have seen violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it." - Psalm 55:9,10 There is a Mexican NGO called the Consejo Ciudadano para la Seguridad Pública y la Justicia Penal, A.C. which releases an annual list of the world’s 50 most violent cities. The country with the most violent cities on the list was Mexico, with 16. In second place was Brazil, with 10 cities, followed by Colombia with eight. The United States of America was #4 on the...

Mass immigration is completely destroying our country. Why is no one doing anything about it? Because they’re afraid of ending up like Lydia Brimelow. [Interview follows on video]

Mexico is our next-door neighbor but it seems many Americans are not well-informed about it. Wrong and outdated impressions of Mexico affect our policymakers as well. This is particularly true regarding border and immigration policy. Americans think of Mexico as a poor country. And it is, compared to the United States. But Mexico is wealthier and has a higher standard of living than most countries in Latin America and Africa. There are, of course, many poor Mexicans. But doesn’t Mexico itself, with all its wealth, have a responsibility to help its own poor people? In the U.S., any meddling perpetrated...

Donald Trump won Iowa decisively Monday night. Despite spending little money and time in the state (especially compared to his rivals), Trump won the caucus by 30 points. This was a humiliating defeat for his closest competitor, Ron DeSantis. Despite spending over $30 million on ads and visiting every county, DeSantis only eked out 21 percent of the vote. The Florida governor bet his whole campaign on Iowa, and he came up well short. However, he’s not dropping out. His campaign still insists he’s going to be the next president, but there’s no strategy or plan besides massive amounts of...

Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom won big in Dutch parliamentary elections last month. One of the keys to the nationalist’s party success was its large share of the youth vote. Young people in the Anglosphere tend to be more left-wing than their elders. Seeing the reverse in continental Europe always surprises outside observers. The Guardian tried to solve this mystery. It asked young Dutchmen why they voted for the Party for Freedom. The Dutch youth said they did so because it was the one party that addressed their concerns. Other European parties, such as AfD in Germany and National Rally...

American conservatives fell in love with Poland and Hungary. The two countries stand as models for what all right-wing governments should be. Not only do they keep migrants out, they also promote pro-family policies designed to boost birth rates. Many of their fans want America to adopt these same policies to fix our fertility woes. But the two countries are not quite the paragon of fecundity some may believe. Hungary did boost its fertility from the lowest in Europe after implementing pro-natalist policies, but its total fertility rate (TFR) still remains low. Poland’s TFR continues to rapidly decline in spite...

If you are elderly or disabled, would you feel safe having caregivers with inadequate English-language skills? The recent death of Barbara Rymell in England, as reported in The Telegraph, shows us the danger of bringing in foreign caregivers and medical personnel with inadequate English skills. Against the residential home’s own policy, Barbara was left alone on a stairlift for five minutes. She got off the machine and attempted to walk up the staircase, but she fell back downwards, getting her head caught under the stairlift chair. This predicament was bad enough, but it wasn’t helped by the inadequate English skills...

One of our country’s most insane policies is that of automatic birthright citizenship for babies born to illegal aliens on U.S. soil. People in the Third World certainly know about this policy and take advantage of it. A surprising recent action taken by the U.S. government sheds some light on the issue. The U.S. State Department, under the Biden administration, rejected the citizenship of Siavash Sobhani, a 61-year-old doctor in Virginia who was born in the United States in 1960. Current birthright citizenship policy is based on an interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, enacted in 1868, a few years after...

Another Good Samaritan was arrested in New York for intervening against a violent hobo. John Rote witnessed a man attacking a woman on the subway. He yelled at the vagrant to stop, before pulling out a gun and firing warning shots. The shots scared the assailant away, saving the woman from a terrible fate. Rote was rewarded with a criminal warrant and the woman’s ingratitude. The upstanding citizen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, criminal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment and menacing. This story illustrates why so few people want to intervene to help out their fellow...

For years it’s been said that high levels of immigration are nothing to worry about. After all, we’re reminded, the proportion of the foreign-born population is still lower than it was during the Great Wave Era. The Great Wave Era of Immigration was a period between the 1880s and 1920s when shiploads of immigrants would enter New York Harbor, pass the Statue of Liberty, and go to Ellis Island to be admitted into the country. So don’t worry, the foreign-born proportion of the population is still lower than it was then. That was true, but we are now reaching the...

The past month has led to agonizing reappraisals among some mainstream Jewish-American liberals over the traditional Jewish-American shibboleth that diversity must be good for the Jews. Not surprisingly to anybody who has been paying cold-blooded attention to the past half century, the older, unfashionably homogeneous American population has turned out to be wildly positive toward the Jewish state in its moment of crisis, while the younger, diverse upcoming generation finds itself roughly evenly split over whether the real bad guys are Hamas or Israel. In the wake of the October 7th atrocities, the Harvard/Harris Poll asked, “In general in this...

A presidential candidate recently visited Los Angeles, California, and made some big promises. No, I’m not referring to Biden or Trump, or any other American candidate, but to Claudia Sheinbaum of the MORENA party. Who? She’s a Mexican presidential candidate and is currently ahead in the polls. Mexican politicians have been meddling in U.S. politics, particularly in immigration policy, for years. Almost nobody in our government, of either major party, seems to care.

Democratic leaders want their base to absolutely hate Hamas following its attack against Israel. They’ve settled on a way to do this: argue the Palestinian jihadis are just like the white people who marched in Charlottesville and stormed the Capitol on January 6. President Biden tied Hamas to the alt-right at a Human Rights Campaign event last week. Democrats have to connect foreign enemies to their domestic enemies. The average liberal hates the white Trump supporter far more than the Muslim terrorist. A liberal leader must claim that the white racist and jihadi are the same thing–no matter how ridiculous...

Believe it or not, there are some foreigners the Biden administration wants to deport. The government has served notice to a foreign family that they need to leave the United States by October 11. In less than a week, they need to be out of this country. They have applied for asylum, but the government rejected their claim. The Romeike family has resided here for 15 years and has both citizen and non-citizen members, but it doesn’t matter. The non-citizens of the family – the majority – have to get out. It’s quite a contrast with what’s going on at...

If Speaker Kevin McCarthy and company really care about the border crisis, they should make it their top priority and be public about it. They should play hardball, using the budget process to fight for a secure border. If they don’t, it will be clear Republican leadership doesn't take the border seriously.

The Biden administration is managing an illegal invasion of the United States, bringing in millions of unvetted foreigners in order to transform the country. Is there anything the House of Representatives can do to improve the border situation? What about Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy? What could he do about the border? Why doesn’t McCarthy put the border on the front burner and confront the administration? If he were really serious about the border, Speaker McCarthy could announce that no bills will be passed until the Biden Border Rush is ended. No budgets. No continuing resolutions. No appointments. No...