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A group of House Democrats joined with activists Friday in front of the Capitol, warning about the future of the country on the day before the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. “The struggle that began on Jan. 6 in this building continues to this day,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said. “Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election by more than 7 million votes — 306-232 in the Electoral College. This is the hard, inescapable, ineradicable fact that Donald Trump and his followers have never been able to accept to this day,” he continued. “That...

A commander of a U.S. Space Force unit tasked with detecting ballistic missile launches has been fired for comments made during a podcast promoting his new book, which claims Marxist ideologies are becoming prevalent in the United States military. Lt Col. Matthew Lohmeier, commander of 11th Space Warning Squadron at Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, was relieved from his post Friday by Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting, the head of Space Operations Command, over a loss of confidence in his ability to lead, Military.com has exclusively learned. "This decision was based on public comments made by Lt. Col. Lohmeier in a...

Like the KGB, the woke know that everyone has a breaking point. They are trained to push their victims until they snap. In the Soviet Union, we learned to silently endure official meetings, eyes glued to the floor, heavy sighs suppressed, hoping for some fresh air and a smoke when it was all over. The state seemed indestructible. But when it became possible to speak the truth again in the mid-’80s, the whole rotten apparatus quickly collapsed. The woke have no winning arguments: contra their assertions, white skin does not confer guilt, America was founded in 1776, and there are...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III has ordered a DOD-wide stand down to discuss the problem of extremism in the ranks, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said today. Austin and Army Gen. Mark A, Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met with service civilian leaders and service chiefs to discuss the problem of extremism. Kirby noted that some of the extremists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were active duty service members and others were military veterans. Kirby was quick to say that "the vast majority of men and women who serve in...

Struggle sessions were a form of public humiliation and torture used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) at various times in the Mao era, particularly during the years immediately before and after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and during the Cultural Revolution. The aim of struggle sessions was to shape public opinion, as well as to humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and those deemed class enemies.[1] In general, the victim of a struggle session was forced to admit various crimes before a crowd of people who would verbally and physically abuse the victim until they...

The leftÂ’s multi-decade project to teach everyone that America is irredeemably racist has led to the emergence of a new regime in American life. Amid the scenes circulating on social media this week of protesters and rioters and burned out storefronts and police barricades, two of them stand out as harbingers of what all of this means for the future of mainstream American society.The first was a video clip of a small group of white people kneeling down before a group of black people. A white man at the head of the kneeling group was praying, his voice shaking with...