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When Stephen Miller first appeared on my radio show as a high school teenager, did I see his potential? I've been asked this many times. Stephen, then a student at California's Santa Monica High School, contacted my radio show with a complaint. California's Education Code requires elementary, middle and high schools to conduct "a patriotic ritual," like citing the Pledge of Allegiance, at the beginning of each school day. Santa Monica High was not doing this. Stephen complained, without success, to his teachers, the principal and administrators. So, he called my show, cited the Education Code and talked about the...

Texas Democrats rode last week's blue wave to a majority in the state House and the governor's mansion, and they've wasted no time showing gun owners what comes next. It ain't pretty. When bill prefiling opened on November 9, Democrats flooded the docket with gun-control proposals. The Texan counted 23 gun bills, all but one in the House, and NRA-ILA tallied roughly 35 firearm-related bills on day one alone. That's a lot of gun control bills for a group that duped voters into thinking their primary concern was gas and grocery prices. The wish list reads like it was copied...

On the "Verdict" podcast, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told Ben Ferguson that Democrats are likely to make impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth their first order of business when the House returns, predicting that the votes are already there to impeach him. --------snip-------------- BEN FERGUSON: Now, Senator, let's talk about what impeachment looks like outside of the president. You can hear Jeffries there. He's making it clear this is their bullseye. They want him gone. You said it takes a simple majority. That happens in the House. Then, what would happen next? Is it the same procedures as when they go...

The Democrats’ Blueprint for Permanent PowerThe Constitution supplies legitimate ways to change those rules via the constitutional amendment process and nearly every item on the Democrat agenda is designed to bypass it.Every generation of Americans is told that some emergency justifies setting the Constitution aside just this once. Today’s “emergency” comes with a slogan: saving democracy. Strip away the branding, and the Democrat Party’s structural agenda looks like something entirely different—and reminiscent of the old Bolsheviki power play 100 years ago but recast for gaining control of U.S. institutions. Two new states, a packed Supreme Court, the end of the...

This is a fairly long video on YouTube, over an hour. Victor does a great job analyzing what happened in the election. Short synopsis: The media was effective in demonizing Trump. People wanted the border closed. Trump did it, so people did not see it as an issue in the election. It was done. People wanted deportation, but not in their face, on TV. The imaging from Minneapolis was very effective against Trump and the Republicans. The Media was effective at turning Homeland Security into the SS. The Trump administration did a bad job on explaining inflation. Inflation is down,...

A political clash over firearms is brewing across the country after election night shifted the balance of power in dozens of statehouses, putting firearm advocates on high alert ahead of the new legislative year.The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms announced it has launched an aggressive tracking effort to monitor pre-filed legislation nationwide. Following Democratic victories up and down the ballot, the group warns that state capitols are primed to become the next major battleground for gun laws.Early skirmishes are already underway. In Texas, where Democrats secured a majority in the House, lawmakers have pre-filed at...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — New federal appeals court rulings will change how protests and crowd control are handled around the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in south Portland, and what rights demonstrators, journalists and nearby residents hold under the law. A panel of Ninth Circuit judges vacated major preliminary injunctions that previously barred federal officers’ use of non-lethal crowd-control measures like tear gas or pepper balls. It also applied strict limits on when and how they could deploy munitions near the Portland ICE facility. In both decisions handed down Tuesday, the judges sided 2-1 with the Trump administration. KATU...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume building a border wall through the Big Bend region of West Texas. The justices voted 8-1 on Monday to lift a federal judge’s order that had stopped construction across the sector for more than a month. The unsigned five-page decision said a 1996 immigration law gives the Homeland Security secretary wide room to waive environmental rules and that Congress wrote it to favor fast construction over the harm the challengers described. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only one who said she would have turned the administration down. She did...

The 2026 midterm rout exposed Republican failures on the economy, Iran, and immigration. Trump can still recover, but Democrats risk overplaying their hand with a radical agenda.Midterm RealitiesIn the 126 years since 1900, nearly 90 percent of the midterm elections have led to the party in the Oval Office losing House seats, and two-thirds of those same elections have led to it losing Senate seats. Given this history, midterm losses of some sort in 2026 were almost a sure bet. But what ensued in November went well beyond all normal expectations. When all the votes are tabulated, the current...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume building a border wall and other infrastructure through a remote area of West Texas while litigation over the project moves forward. In an unsigned decision, the high court agreed to lift a district court's injunction that temporarily stopped construction of the wall and related infrastructure in the Big Bend sector, which covers more than 500 miles of the southern border and includes Big Bend National Park. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she would have denied the Justice Department's request for emergency relief. In its...

“. . . history and even corruption itself have a way of normalizing the unbearable.” —Naomi Wolf on Substack That 60-Minutes interview with the President Sunday night was a doozy: he allowed Ross Douthat (moonlighting from his New York Times column) to over-speak him so audaciously you had to wonder why Mr. Trump even bothered to show up. He barely levered a word in edgewise and looked rather glum in the process. Actually, you were watching an act of political ju-jitsu: the president pretending to take it like a whipped dog, so that his antagonists would think he was offering...

President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly informed thousands of conservative organizations that it is keeping tabs on their public remarks as some Republicans start to turn on the president following Tuesday’s disastrous midterm elections. According to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal, the White House Office of Public Liaison sent a memo to more than 3,000 conservative groups just two days after Democrats delivered a crushing defeat to Republicans, seizing control of both the House and Senate.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) called out Republicans who push crony capitalist policies, explaining that it is part of the reason young people see socialism favorably. During an interview on the Sage Steele Show with host Sage Steele, DeSantis explained that one reason “screaming socialism” didn’t work in the midterm elections was because “young people have a very positive view of socialism compared to capitalism.” DeSantis noted that while part of the reason is “the education in our universities,” the other part is that young people are comparing socialism to “how government gets involved in business and you have crony...

BLACK BOX VOTING BOOK FREE DOWNLOAD! This book was ordered by the White House in 2004. It was reported to have been found on Osama bin Laden’s bookshelf when he was killed. It has been downloaded half a million times. The information in the book is heavily sourced and it has been vetted by editors from several major media outlets. Though it is old (I wrote it in 2003) the information in it still stands — if anything, elections today are even more opaque and tamper-friendly than before. Here are links for free download of the complete first edition of...

A Talk with NRA Director and Chairman of the Finance Committee, Jonathan Goldstein. The transcript has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Jonathan Goldstein was speaking in his personal capacity, and not on behalf of the NRA.NRA Finance Committee Chairman Jonathan Goldstein discusses financial accountability, the NRA 2.0 reform movement, and rebuilding trust with gun owners. IMG Credit: John Petrolino Jonathan Goldstein has an interesting history of how he came to be on the NRA Board. Goldstein became involved with the NRA shortly after law school. The Heller decision had recently been published by the Supreme Court. Jonathan started...

Democrats swept Republicans off the map in nearly every purple and blue state, but in many of those same states, voters also approved conservative ballot measures by wide margins. Voters in eight states passed ballot initiatives strengthening voter identification requirements or explicitly restricting voting to American citizens. Oklahoma voters approved a voter ID constitutional amendment in August, bringing the year’s total to nine states. Ohio voters — who elected Democrat Amy Acton governor and sent Sherrod Brown back to the Senate — simultaneously approved Issue 3, a ballot measure that writes the state’s photo ID requirement into the constitution, with...

So, in the spirit of calmate, some advice to Republicans after Tuesday's midterm drubbing: calm down and reassess the not-so-distant future political terrain. In 2028, Republicans will at least retain the White House. Here's why. President Donald Trump remains president and commander-in-chief for the next two years. Democrats can yell and scream — and they will. After all, they are Democrats. But they have no choice but to deal with the man many in their party routinely refer to as a "fascist." A Democrat House has no power to prosecute, no matter the upcoming hearings over alleged corruption and self-dealing...

Harmeet Dhillon had overseen a massive overhaul of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, targeting universities and focusing on culture war issues. WASHINGTON — Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican attorney who oversaw a massive overhaul of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X that he has accepted Dhillon’s resignation. He wrote that she “defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor” and that the DOJ “is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors.” The...

That didn't take long. Democrats had barely clinched Congress last night when their supporters were calling for the execution of Elon Musk for being a "traitor to the west." affordability? "We've begun believing through this ridiculous, unhealthy, and dangerous idolatry of innovators that they get to live by an entirely different standard," Galloway said. "Elon Musk is a traitor to the West." "We lined up the Rosenbergs against a wall," he continued. "This is a traitor to the West, and he should be held to the same standards as every other traitor in the West." And the crowd applauded. This...

On Monday, Pat Buchanan turned 88. I leave it to others who knew and worked with him to sing his praises; I have little new to add. I can say simply that his record speaks for itself. It is, however, my privilege to help run the magazine he founded. When in the Trump years you’ve run into conservatives in the under-50 DC set, they’ve always been enthusiastic about Pat and the idea of his magazine, even when they can’t tell you a single thing it’s published in the past year. People knew how much the Trump thing owed to our...