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Next week, millions of Americans who rely on food stamps are going to feel something brutal and immediate: their benefits won’t show up. The money simply won’t load onto EBT cards. Grocery trips that were already hard are about to become impossible. Food banks are already warning they can’t absorb the impact if this drags on. This is not an accident. This is not a “glitch.” This is a direct result of the ongoing federal shutdown — a shutdown driven by Democrat demands to force taxpayer-funded health coverage for illegal aliens back into the budget.

Federal workers lined up around the corner outside of the Capital Area Food Bank in Southeast Washington, D.C., on Friday after missing their first full paycheck since the now 24-day government shutdown began. The food bank, set up specifically for federal workers, provided boxed meals, household goods and personal hygiene items to over 250 federal employees on Friday, according to Wil Stroman, a local pastor who is helping organize a food bank for federal workers every Friday until the shutdown ends. Anthony Speight, who is furloughed for the first time in his 17 years as a federal employee, said that...

Tyler Maxon Avalos from FBI affidavit (Screenshot: Tampa Free Press) An assassination threat against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has led to the arrest of a 30-year-old Minnesota man, after federal agents tracked a murder-for-hire TikTok post that offered $45,000 for her death. According to the Tampa Free Press, the suspect, Tyler Maxon Avalos of St. Paul, Minnesota, is facing federal charges for Interstate Transmission of a Threat to Injure the Person of Another, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(c). The investigation began on October 9, 2025, when a Detroit-based TikTok user reported a chilling video to the FBI’s...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has praised a piece published in a liberal news outlet about Trump's ballroom project. 'First dose of common sense I’ve seen from the legacy media on this story,' Leavitt wrote on X, sharing a Saturday piece from the Washington Post Editorial Board, which has been revamped in 2025 to share more libertarian views. The Board used the editorial piece to push back on the 'Not In My Back Yard' crowd, often called NIMBY's. 'In classic Trump fashion, the president is pursuing a reasonable idea in the most jarring manner possible,' the Board writes, while...

Despite calls for many Democratic politicians and pundits to temper their inflammatory rhetoric, this week has proven a further escalation in this dangerous form of rage rhetoric. DNC Chair Ken Martin just told MSNBC’s “The Beat” that “we may be nearing” the moment when “elections don’t matter and then the resistance looks completely different.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called on people to “forcefully rise up.” With political violence on the rise, these leaders are clearly fueling the mob in hopes that they and their party can ride the wave of rage back into power. History suggests that it is...

One of the stars of the White House is no more. The White House Family Theater, the movie theater which first came to be in 1942 when a cloakroom was converted into a screening room, was demolished this week as part of the destruction of the East Wing to make room for President Donald Trump’s planned $300 million ballroom. From sporting events to film screenings, the theater provided entertainment and enjoyment to presidents and their families since the latter part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. According to The White House Historical Association, Roosevelt enjoyed watching World War II-era news reels...

There’s a gold empire hiding in plain sight. Not in history books. Not in museums. But right now — operating in secret, controlling more wealth than most nations. This is the story of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) — the mysterious institution in Basel, Switzerland, that acts as the central bank of central banks. Created after World War I, it quietly became the world’s most powerful financial entity — managing the hidden gold that backs nations, funds wars, and shapes the global economy. From Nazi gold transactions to Bretton Woods, to modern gold manipulation through paper markets, the BIS...

For 500 years, a pattern has destroyed every global superpower that followed it. Spain collapsed in the 1600s. Britain lost its empire by 1954. The Soviet Union disintegrated in 900 days. Three empires. Three complete collapses. All following the exact same seven-stage sequence. And the United States has already completed five of those seven stages. This documentary traces the collapse pattern across three superpowers and five centuries—from Spain's silver wealth that bankrupted the richest empire on Earth, to Britain's pound that lost reserve currency status within decades of two world wars, to the Soviet Union that went from superpower to...

The defense team for Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of assassinating conservative icon Charlie Kirk, has filed a motion requesting that he appear in civilian clothing without restraints during court proceedings and that cameras be banned from the courtroom. Robinson is charged with aggravated murder and other felonies for the September 10 shooting death of Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, during a speech at Utah Valley University. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty, citing the presence of children at the event and the political nature of the crime. In a 20-page filing submitted on Wednesday, defense attorneys, including...

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) warned of rising Jew-hatred on the right during a speech at Hagee Ministries’ 45th Annual Night to Honor Israel at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio on Sunday evening. The senator accused Democrats of harboring a “pro-Hamas contingent” and said the rest of the party is “terrified” of them. But in his remarks at the event, he highlighted Jew-hatred on his own side of the aisle. Cruz described a recent conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which the latter attributed online, right-wing antisemitism to funding from Qatar and Iran. Cruz disagreed. “These are real human...

“‘There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true. . . . And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form. You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent’” (John 5:32, 37–38). Of infinitely greater importance than any human testimony is that the Father who sent Jesus has testified about Him. The gospels record two specific instances in which the Father gave verbal testimony...

“‘But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works that I do—testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me’” (John 5:36). John the Baptist’s testimony carried considerable weight; after all, he was the greatest man who had ever lived up to this time (Luke 7:28). But the testimony Jesus was about to introduce was far “greater than the testimony of John.” More convincing than the greatest prophet’s testimony to Christ were “the very works that” He did. Throughout His ministry the Lord...

Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey filed a motion on Monday to dismiss the charges of lying to Congress brought by District Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia. Comey, however, has retained yet another one of his former leak recipients as a defense attorney, raising the question: Is there anyone on Comey’s defense team that he wasn’t leaking to?According to a 2019 Office of Inspector General report, in May 2017, James Comey sent four confidential FBI memos to his personal lawyer Patrick Fitzgerald, along with instructions to share the documents with two other lawyers: Daniel Richman and...

VIDEOThe famous Dom Luis bridge in Porto over the Douro River felt like a magical experience while we were walking on it. Built in 1886, the arched bridge has two levels. The lower level for vehicular traffic and the upper level, where we were, is for light rail and pedestrian traffic. The elements of the lighting from a perfect sunset, the music in the distance from a festival, electric train cars gliding past us, the variety of people, both locals and tourists, including the eccentric English Fox hunters, all blended to create that magical unforgettable ambiance. I hope this video...

“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting,” G.K. Chesterton noted in 1910. “It has been found difficult; and left untried.” Perhaps this helps explain why Christian adherence is in decline in the United Sates. On the other hand, whether or not Islam is found difficult, one thing is for sure.It’s being tried — with zeal.The former reality has inspired glee among Christophobes; the latter, alarm among Christians (and others). An example of this alarm is the recent Daily Mail feature, “Experts: Islam will be the dominant religion in America.” There’s an issue, however:This isn’t really what “experts”...

The entitled son of top lawyer has been arrested after he tried to evade police by mowing down two officers with his white Mercedes G-Wagen in Pennsylvania. Dalton Janiczek, 21, was charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, aggravated assault, fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer and was arraigned on Saturday. The drama unfolded on October 24, when a sergeant attempted to stop Janiczek's car - but the vehicle sped away, driving erratically at a high speed while crossing over a concrete median, police said. Police tracked the car down to a parking lot near the...

JPMorgan Chase is seeking to get out of its legal obligation to pay a staggering $115 million in attorney fees racked up by two former business partners who were convicted of scamming the banking giant out of $175 million. The nation’s largest lender filed legal papers in Delaware on Friday demanding that a judge reverse an earlier ruling that required it to pay the lawyers for Charlie Javice and her convicted co-conspirator Olivier Amar. According to the filing, Javice’s team of lawyers across five law firms have billed JPMorgan approximately $60.1 million in legal fees and expenses, while Amar’s lawyers...

Conservatives and Republicans should stop viewing Democrats as crazy, out of touch, or going through a phase before they find themselves. This is not a phase, and they are not crazy. They have a plan. As they lose more and more ground among ordinary Americans, Democrats remain committed to making socialism acceptable in America, whether through pretty words or hardcore violence.Currently, Democrats are crouched in a defensive posture. They lost the last presidential race, dropping 2,559 counties out of 3,112. That’s the dagger at their throats. The Electoral College decides presidential races, and with continued population loss in Blue states,...

‘Petey’ is back in Britain, looking for a vengeance. And so it happens that Lord Peter Mandelson is back to Britain, after getting fired as US ambassador in the wake of the scandal caused by his emails to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Instead of the glory he would have dreamed of, he is facing ignominy. Mandelson and Epstein shopping in the US Virgin Islands. ============================================================================== The leaked emails revealed that Mandelson continued to support Epstein even after a conviction in Florida for ‘procuring a child for prostitution’. Columnist Andrew Pierce, wrote on the Daily Mail: “‘Fight for early release,’ he...

In early May, Emily Waite stood in the center of the cavernous first floor of a concrete bunker of a building. She gestured widely across the expanse of the empty hall toward the barren southern wall. It was where the once and future home of the building’s historic lunch counter had been excavated, piece by piece, bolt by bolt, for restoration. The particle-laden air of a construction site was scored by the clanging of metal rods spilling on the ground. Conversations from hard-hatted workers rose over the hum of idling power tools. Blue wires hung from the ceiling like icicles...