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Elon Musk And His Third Party

By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Elon Musk is frustrated with both political parties. The Republicans are not doing nearly enough to correct the course of public finance in the country. Democrats keep spending, put millions of illegals on public assistance programs, and have fully embraced Modern Monetary Theory, which claims taxes don’t support […]

The Biden Staff Coup Was The Biggest Conspiracy Against Americans In History

By Rachel Bovard Written by Rachel Bovard Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Republicans can’t stop investigating the Biden staff coup until people go to prison The past week finally blew the lid off the worst political corruption scandal of the 21st century. And if you’re not sure what I’m talking about, that means the criminal […]

Education Reform SIECUS State Report Card: A Tool for Spotting Parental Rights Violations

By Kali Fontanilla Written by Kali Fontanilla Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s note: it is obvious by now that the Left’s obsession with children and sex is not merely odd, but immoral. They use non-parental sex education partly as a way to put as much distance between parent and child as possible, and partly […]

Trump Is Asking Us To Move On But MAGA Media Luminaries Resist

By Neland Nobel Written by Neland Nobel Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editor’s note: As The Prickly Pear has previously written, this “debacle” is particularly frustrating because it has the recognizable features of a deep state scandal: the classic narrative stuttering, high-ranking officials suddenly contradicting themselves, and a a central lie which is so ridiculous […]

Toyota To Build Track And More At Arizona Testing Site

By Zachery Schmidt Written by Zachery Schmidt Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Toyota has begun construction of a $50-million-plus expansion project at an Arizona testing facility. The new amenities will include a 5.5-mile oval track, an off-road park, new ride and handling surfaces, as well as other improvements, Toyota announced. The changes are being made […]

Shot Heard Round the Web: The Democrat Party, America’s Number One Enemy

By Catherine Salgado Written by Catherine Salgado “The river was dyed with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards,” wrote Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general, war criminal, future Ku Klux Klan founder, and Democrat, about his slaughter of the surrendering black and white Union troops at Ft. Pillow. “The approximate loss was upward […]

Freedom and Nationalism

By Daniel Sutter Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Editors’ Note: Although this essay was written for the July 4th celebration, his commentary on Libertarian opposition to MAGA was spot on. Too many Libertarians are hung up on their theories of free trade and mass migration, and align themselves with the Totalitarian Left. Nationalism, and putting […]

2024 Was A Year Of Bullet-Dodging

By Elle Purnelle Written by Elle Purnelle Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Sometimes we see the divine hand of providence work in the shadows. Other times, it’s caught on live television One year ago Sunday, presidential candidate Donald Trump turned his head to point to a graphic at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Milliseconds later, […]

This Land Is Your Land

By Tony Francois Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Senator Lee should introduce the New Frontier Homestead Act of 2026 Should the federal government auction less than one percent of non-conservation status public lands to alleviate housing shortages and reduce the federal debt? This is how Utah Senator Mike Lee tried to frame the question when […]

Who’s Putting the “Con” in Conservative?

By The Trumpanian Devil Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Turning Point Action is a generally good organization when it stays within its boundaries. What they do best is campus recruiting and action. Only the Democrats do it better. Lately, however, they’ve decided to stray into policy making and picking candidate winners and losers. There are […]

Bipartisan Senators Propose Bold Sanctions to End Ukraine Conflict

By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Published by Newsmax In a clear, knowledgeable style, the article details how Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are pushing a bipartisan sanctions package to empower President Donald Trump against Russia. It outlines the proposal’s sweeping measures as a ‘diplomatic sledgehammer,’ aimed […]

Gavin Newsom’s Donor Ties Raise Questions of Influence and Ethics

By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute Published by The Washington Free Beacon In a commonsense, matter-of-fact style, the article uncovers how California Governor Gavin Newsom’s actions may favor corporate donors to a family charity, blurring ethical lines. It lays out the facts: significant contributions preceded Newsom’s intervention in […]

Qualitative Analysis of the Big Beautiful Bill

By M. Stanton Nobel Written by M. Stanton Nobel The incessant flap over President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) has been based on challenges to the numbers. Both opposition forces and supporters fling billions and trillions of dollars into the political air, like so much confetti, while the fundamental financial analysis and logic are scrupulously […]

‘Dangle Sweet Nothings’: Megyn Kelly Urges Trump To Focus On Pam Bondi Before Epstein ‘Hornet’s Nest’ Blows Up

By Hailey Gomez Written by Hailey Gomez Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly told Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk Friday that President Donald Trump should pay attention to Attorney General Pam Bondi before the “hornet’s nest” surrounding the “Epstein Files” blows up. The Department of Justice (DOJ) quietly said Sunday that deceased pedophile Jeffrey […]

20 States Sue To Keep Medicaid Data Away From ICE

By Elyse S. Apel Written by Elyse S. Apel Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Editors’ Note: The divisions within the Republican Party that allowed for a Democrat victory that tilted Arizona purple with Democrat Governor Katie Hobbs and turncoat Republican Attorney General Chris Mayes, is the gift to Democrats that keeps giving. It is annoying […]