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The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government shutdown in U.S. history. And while the blame lies squarely with Senate Democrats, we cannot ignore the weapon they used to hold the country hostage: the legislative filibuster. In January, when spending considerations again come due, if Democrats once again choose to shut down the government, then Republicans should immediately end the filibuster.By wielding the filibuster, which requires a 60-vote Senate supermajority to pass legislation, Democrats inflicted tremendous harm on the nation, including: $11 billion in permanent economic damage; an estimated 1.5 percentage points in lost...

MARGARET BRENNAN: ... Is the President holding himself to the same standard that he is asking of others when it comes to dialing back dangerous rhetoric? PAUL: You know, everybody knows that the President is famous for his unfiltered social media. But if you take at face value the idea that calling your opponents traitors and then specifically saying that it warrants the death penalty is reckless, inappropriate, irresponsible, there are a number of other ways to describe it, but it’s not something that is helping the country heal wounds. I think it stirs things up and- and really, I...

Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson’s lax residency directive is ‘unconstitutional and unlawful,’ the RNC lawsuit alleges. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is violating the state’s constitution and breaking the law through a directive allowing individuals who have never resided in Michigan to vote in the Great Lakes State’s elections, a lawsuit filed Friday by the Michigan GOP and the Republican National Committee alleges. The complaint, exclusively obtained by The Federalist, takes issue with the secretary of state’s guidance on overseas voters who generally fall under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. The lawsuit asks the court to...

The Democrats’ orders to defy President Trump’s lawful orders and their outrage over Trump’s calls for accountability– and even the death penalty– are now blowing up in their faces after days of intended backlash against Trump.Trump is being proven right to call for criminal charges and the death penalty, if a jury determines it appropriate, by their own statements! In a recent video message to active-duty military members, six Democratic lawmakers told service members and intelligence officials that they have a “duty” to disobey “illegal” orders from President Trump. The members of Congress used their credentials as high-ranking former members...

Fmr CIA Ops Officer: Slotkin ‘Knew Exactly What She Was Putting Together with Her Little Propaganda Video’ On Friday’s “Jesse Watters Primetime” on FNC, former CIA operations officer and host of the “The Wright Report” podcast, Bryan Dean Wright, argued that Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) intentionally sparked a firestorm with what he deemed a “propaganda video” urging military members to defy so-called “illegal orders.” “All right, Brian, these Democrats. Is this seditious what they’re doing?” host Jesse Watters asked. “It is,” Wright replied. “And look, we need to be very, very clear about Slotkin and who she is, so she...

Grok Summary of Video Transcript:Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) appeared on a Sunday morning show to discuss the intense backlash and security threats she and other Democratic lawmakers have received after releasing a video reminding U.S. military personnel of their right and duty to disobey unlawful orders. President Trump has repeatedly labeled the lawmakers “traitors” engaged in “seditious behavior at the highest level,” called for their arrest and trial, and amplified posts suggesting they be hanged or punished by death. Slotkin said the rhetoric, coming directly from the President, immediately escalated threats against them and changed the security environment.Slotkin defended the...

President Donald Trump on Friday welcomed the announcement by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) that she will resign from Congress in January, characterizing the decision as a positive development and signaling no intention to repair their strained relationship.In a phone conversation with ABC’s Senior Political Correspondent Abby Scott, President Trump responded to news of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation by saying, “I think it’s great news for the country. It’s great.”When asked if Greene had given him advance notice of her plans, he replied, “Nah, it doesn’t matter, you know, but I think it’s great. I think she should be...

The group of Democrat lawmakers who told military members to disobey orders should be locked up, President Donald Trump proposed Saturday.Trump made his statements after those lawmakers, including Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), were featured in a video on Tuesday urging troops to ignore orders in the clip that said “Don’t give up the ship,” per Fox News.In his post on Truth Social, Trump said, “THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK. IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL...

A Queens senior citizen who shot dead a man who tried to rob him will spend four years in prison after admitting to toting an unlicensed revolver — as his lawyer ripped the city’s “draconian” gun laws. Charles Foehner, 67, pleaded guilty to one count of criminal weapons possession Thursday in a deal to end his case more than two years after he fatally shot would-be thief Cody Gonzalez, who charged at him near his Kew Gardens home. The Queens District Attorney’s Office chose not to prosecute Foehner, a retired doorman, for Gonzalez’s killing after he told cops that he’d...

Eric Swalwell sometimes flies under the radar among members of Congress who operate daily with a double-digit IQ. Often, it's members of the so-called Squad who earn that accolade. They get the spotlight, and rightly so. But the congressman proves his mettle time and time again, spitting out ideas indicating he's clearly two beers short of a six-pack. Swalwell, the Democrat Representative who has served California's 14th congressional district, recently announced he was jumping into the Golden State's gubernatorial race. He announced his laughable campaign with the less humorous Jimmy Kimmel because, of course. Things got infinitely funnier when, speaking...

WINDHAM, Maine—Senate candidate Graham Platner (D.) urged his supporters to publicly harass members of Maine’s congressional delegation who oppose Medicare for All. “In the future, when we’re trying to vote on something like Medicare for All, if there are other members of the Maine delegation that don’t want to come along, we need to be able to impose costs,” he said during a Saturday town hall in the southern Maine town of Windham. “We need to be able to turn people out to flood their offices. Frankly, I want people to follow them around and don’t let them have a...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that he still believes President Donald Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot,” but he viewed their first face-to-face meeting at the White House on Friday as an “opportunity” to work together on lowering the cost of living for New Yorkers. After months of trading insults during the campaign, the two were friendly during the meeting, with the president telling reporters he’ll be “cheering” for Mamdani, and the mayor-elect calling the meeting “productive.” Following their meeting, Mamdani was asked by reporters if he stood by his decision to call Trump a “fascist”...

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is breaking with veteran party strategist James Carville, arguing that Democrats should “win more elections” rather than change the rules. His remarks come as a response to Carville’s recent calls to pack the Supreme Court and confront the party’s “identity left.” “I strongly rejected trying to pack the Supreme Court or to change those things,” Fetterman said on “Saturday in America.” “When I ran for the Senate back in the ‘21, ’22, I rejected those things,” he added. The difference in opinion between Carville and Fetterman underscores a growing divide within the Democratic Party between reformers...

President Donald Trump revealed he would 'love' to see Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene make a political comeback just hours after labeling her a 'traitor.' During a brief NBC News interview on Saturday, the president was asked about the Republican lawmaker's future after she abruptly announced she would resign from Congress in early 2026 following their public split. Trump admitted that 'it's not going to be easy for her' to claw her way back into politics, but said, 'I'd love to see it,' noting that for now, 'she's got to take some rest.' When pressed on whether the relationship between the...

MATTHEW BOYLE, BREITBART NEWS: Right, okay, so you mentioned George W. Bush at the beginning of that answer, and now there's a lot of news going on out there. Today is a somber day for the Bush family and for your predecessor, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who passed away, today's his funeral, so I wanted to see if you have any thoughts on or message to the Cheney family. I know there was some misreporting out there about whether or not you were invited to that or whatever, but outside of that, there's also another big report that came...

On Thursday, a gathering of people who many on both the political left and right view as the so-called "uniparty", attended former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral. Notably absent and reportedly not invited were the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and his Vice President, JD Vance. The mixture of mourners included both Republicans and Democrats, some of whom formerly referred to Cheney in unflattering term. Atendee Rachel Maddow of MS NOW referred to him as "the maestro of terror politics." Others in attendance were former Presidents George W. Bush, Joe Biden, former Vice Presidents Kamala Harris and Mike...

The conservative backlash against Nick Fuentes has yet to challenge the president who had him over for dinner.Last month, Tucker Carlson, the host of one of the country’s most popular podcasts, interviewed Nick Fuentes, a white-nationalist influencer, for more than two hours. The two men got along famously, and it was little wonder why. Carlson has become a fierce and obsessive critic of Israel; he has interviewed a Holocaust revisionist and said that “Christian Zionists” have “been seized by this brain virus.” Not everyone on the right was pleased. So in the aftermath of the Carlson-Fuentes conversation, Kevin Roberts, president...

It’s Tuesday, Nov. 4: Election Day 2025. The day began with the death of Dick Cheney and ended with the election of Democrats and Democratic Socialists all over the country. I grew up in Astoria, Queens — the heart of the NYC Democratic Socialists of America with Tiffany Cabán, Zohran Mamdani and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez as my DSA-endorsed representatives. Ever since the Democratic primary, I had been counting down the months, days and, by 8:59 p.m., the seconds until New York City would elect a Democratic Socialist as our mayor.

'Come and get me,' Illinois Governor JB Pritzker taunted Donald Trump last month. And it now appears Trump's Justice Department is doing just as he asked – launching a new criminal investigation that threatens to embroil the billionaire governor, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal. Pritzker is a potential 2028 presidential contender. He is worth an estimated $3.9 billion, according to Forbes, with much of his wealth coming from his inherited stake in the Hyatt Hotels fortune. The case revolves around Pritzker's alleged links to his wife's friend, Jenny Thornley, who volunteered on his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018 and...

Yesterday, I wrote about the fact that Canada is being overrun by migrants. Almost half of all births are now to foreign-born mothers (42% currently, and rising), and one-third of the overall population is foreign-born. One of the many terrible consequences of the liberal policies that have resulted in this replacement of the native population is stagnating economic growth. Migration, of course, is not the only cause of this stagnation. Energy policies, housing policies, and all sorts of government meddling in the economy are at fault as well, but it is undeniable that replacing a high-trust first-world citizenry with people...