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(RNS) — In recent days, a few journalists have noticed that conservative religion in America is on the back foot. In a New York Times article published Friday (Sept. 13), reporters Elizabeth Dias and Ruth Graham found evangelical Christian activists notably discouraged. Despite significant judicial and legislative victories on abortion and religious liberty, they see no sign of the country abandoning its increasingly secular ways. Meanwhile, Times columnist Ross Douthat weighed in on the spreading incrementalism taking place in conservative Catholic circles in the face of overwhelming popular support for abortion rights. The “pro-life realists” are saying it’s time the...

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Former MSNBC analyst and U.S. Navy veteran Malcom Nance appeared Monday on The ReidOut from Ukraine, where he joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense to fight Russia’s continued invasion. For Nance, the war is personal, and he could no longer be a bystander. “I spent quite a bit of time here in the pre-war period, and when the invasion happened, I had friends who are in Donetsk, who are in the Ukrainian army, who are writing to us and telling us, ‘We’re not gonna survive tonight. We’ve been hit 500 times,’” Nance said, adding “The more I saw of...

Another high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, calling former President Donald Trump “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.” Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez revealed his support for Harris in an op-ed for Politico, saying he couldn’t “sit quietly” as Trump “eyes a return to the White House.” “The American presidency is the most powerful position in the world. Of course, our constitution and laws, as well as institutions such as Congress and our courts, act as guardrails to that power,” wrote the 69-year-old former...

Clearly only 2 things happened before last night’s presidential debate… Either Kamala’s best friends who run ABC gave her all the questions in advance of the debate… Or Team Kamala gave the questions they wanted asked to ABC. I told President Trump the exact same thing last night, right after the debate. What happened last night wasn’t normal. More importantly, Kamala’s debate performance wasn’t possible- not without a lot of help from her friends. First, I want to tell a little story. Democrats, the Deep State, DC Swamp and mainstream media all want you to believe President Trump is a...

Veteran GOP strategists overwhelmingly said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris won her debate with former President Donald Trump — *** One prominent Republican operative supportive of Trump, 78, told The Post they believed Tuesday’s ABC News debate in Philadelphia likely shifted popular support one percentage point in the Democrat’s favor — at least for now. *** “If you are an undecided voter who wanted to, finally, hear Kamala Harris’ policy agenda last night, all you got were scripted lines of attack against Trump because Harris is the incumbent and has no plan to change course,” a former Trump White...

A former governor of New Jersey and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 and 2024. Tens of millions of Americans will be watching the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump on Tuesday night. Many of these folks will be Republicans and independents who, like me, have decided that they are unwilling to vote for Mr. Trump. I’ll be honest: I don’t have much of an opinion of Ms. Harris yet, because I don’t know her well. If she’s an unknown quantity to me, you can bet she’s also one to the countless everyday Americans she...

The cliché about politics making for strange bedfellows may seem too tired to trot out, but The Babylon Bee reenergized it this week with their headline, “‘Maybe We Took A Wrong Turn Somewhere,’ Thinks Party Whose Candidate Just Got Endorsed By Dick Cheney And Vladimir Putin.” It’s almost as strange and funny as the fact that Republicans now have Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., in their corner. But as funny as all this is for those who have been around for a while, what these seemingly odd endorsements give us is a knowledge about how things are shaking out in this...

Former Sen. Pat Toomey (R), who represented the key state of Pennsylvania for 12 years in the Senate, says he won’t vote for former President Trump or Vice President Harris in November’s election. Toomey noted during an interview on CNBC that he voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but can’t bring himself to support Trump again because of his efforts to overturn the results of the last presidential election. “When you lose an election and you try to overturn the results so that you can stay in power, you lose me. You lose me at that point,” Toomey said...

This year’s election is shaping up to be decided in court rather than the ballot box. Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are preparing for what will become a very heated and nasty legal battle that is certain to tear the country further apart. The mainstream media will naturally betray the country and everything the American Constitution once stood for. They will support all the illegal aliens and Kamala no matter what. When Communism fell, they tore down statues of Lenin everywhere. He was the champion of the mainstream press, and ushering in equality and fairness was the dream. The...

A network of Republicans is reportedly backing the ballot access efforts of several third party and independent presidential candidates, aiming to either place or keep them on state ballots to siphon support from the Democratic Party ticket in the upcoming election. According to the Associated Press, Republican operatives, lawyers, and allies have been assisting at least three third party or independent presidential campaigns in securing state ballot access. The sources of funding for these efforts remain unclear, and the individuals and organizations involved vary depending on the state. However, Republicans or individuals with Republican ties have reportedly supported the presidential...

Recently released data points to a possible reason for the reported increase in abortions in the United States two years after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled abortion is not a constitutional right. According to the latest data from the pro-choice Society of Family Planning's #WeCount research project, the monthly average of abortions between January through March was 98,990. The group found between 94,670 and 102,350 abortions monthly, with the national monthly total of abortions reportedly exceeding 100,000 in January for the first time since #WeCount began. States with the highest average number of abortions per...

The Forward Party’s Christine Todd Whitman and former Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee William Weld are among a list of Republicans openly supporting Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris later this year. Earlier this month, the Harris campaign announced “Republicans for Harris,” a list of over two dozen Republican Party officials helping with outreach efforts to GOP voters who remain critical of Republican nominee Donald Trump. Included on that list were Christine Todd Whitman, a former New Jersey governor who later helped create the Forward Party, and William Weld, a former Massachusetts governor who ran as Gary Johnson’s vice presidential nominee...

Donald Trump signaled that he could vote to end Florida's six-week abortion ban when it comes up in a referendum later this year, as he continues his delicate dance around a key election issue. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com he previewed an upcoming announcement on his voting stance by saying that he did not think six weeks was enough time. But he avoided committing to using the presidential veto if a nationwide federal ban arrived on his desk as president even though his running mate said he would. ~snip~ Trump said he has decided how he will vote. 'Well,...

Former President Donald Trump says he’ll vote in favor of Florida’s abortion referendum that will appear on the ballot throughout the state for the Nov. 5 election. NBC News reporter Dasha Burns on her X feed highlighted video of Trump telling her that he would vote to support the ballot initiative. He said, according to Burns, that he thinks Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks is too restrictive. “I think the six-week is too short, there has to be more time,” Trump said. Florida’s ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect in May. The statewide...

While support for Donald Trump has held steady, Kamala Harris has improved on Joe Biden’s 2024 election numbers in four battleground states, driven by strong support among women, Black voters, and young voters. In addition, while Trump leads on top issues, more voters see Harris as the one who can unite the country -- and who will "fight for people like you." That’s according to new Fox News statewide surveys in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, and North Carolina. Each survey includes about 1,000 registered voters and was conducted August 23-26, post Democratic National Convention and just after Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

We were wondering if there would be another election-year letter by 51 Experts Who Hate Donald Trump, and lo and behold, we have not been disappointed. This year's letter is a doozy for how completely dumb it is. It's as if these supposedly well-connected politicos have been disconnected from reality for the last four years. For that reason alone, they should be widely mocked and ridiculed, and I'm here for it. This time around, the letter is written by people you've never heard of who used to work for people you have heard of. The political progeny of Mitt Romney...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday called for increased immigration, insisting "we need more people, especially with AI coming." "We're going to let a lot of people come in, because we need more people, especially with AI coming and all the different things," Trump said. "And the farmers need, everybody needs but we're going to make sure they're not murderers and drug dealers."

Fox News has published a mass endorsement from a group of prominent Republicans backing Vice President Kamala Harris over former President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. The endorsement, which labels Trump as "unfit" for office, marks a significant shift in the political landscape, particularly given Fox News' long-standing support for the former president. The endorsement was published in a full-page editorial on the network’s website and printed in several major newspapers, making it clear that a growing number of Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump as the 2024 election approaches. The group of GOP members who signed...

Former President Donald Trump again drew outrage from pro-life organizations this week after he said he would not ban the distribution of abortion pills by mail if elected, drawing outrage from pro-life organizations. In an interview with CBS News on Monday, Trump answered whether he would enforce the Comstock Act if he won the 2024 presidential election. As explained by reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns, the 1873 law could "prohibit the … distribution of medication abortion by mail." "No," Trump responded. "We will be discussing specifics of it but generally speaking, no." When asked again if he would enforce the Comstock Act,...