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Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi Calls a Rally, 200,000 People Show Up
By Jihad Watch In Munich, on the margin of the NATO conference, 200,000 people took part in the largest rally so far against the Iranian Islamic regime. Inside Iran, after the killings of 36,500 protesters and the wounding of 300,000, demonstrators now restrict themselves to synchronized yelling against the regime from their apartment windows. Outside […]
PODCAST: Inflation Slowed to 2.4% in January and Crime Rates are Crashing
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV The January inflation reading offered encouraging signs for consumers and the U.S. economy, with the Consumer Price Index coming in below Wall Street expectations and falling to its lowest level in nine months. “Inflation fell to the lowest level since May, and key items such as food, gas […]
EXCLUSIVE: Texas Facebook Billionaire Accused Of Violating Law To Fund Liberal Causes
By The Daily Caller A Texas philanthropist is abusing the nonprofit legal system to quietly fund Democratic priorities such as ranked-choice voting, a conservative watchdog group claims. John Arnold’s Action Now Initiative pretends to be a social welfare organization to enjoy tax-exempt status while spending heavily on campaigns, American Accountability Foundation (AAF) alleged in an IRS complaint […]
Witkoff and Kushner Tell Trump Nuclear Deal With Iran ‘Difficult to Impossible’
By The Geller Report Not ‘difficult to impossible’ — just impossible. Iran will never agree to dismantle it’s nuclear program. Any deal that Iran’s leaders do sign with the Trump Administration, will be ripped to shreds as soon as President Trump leaves office in January 2029. Only decisive military action by the U.S and Israel […]
Supreme Court Hands Trump HUGE Victory, Clears Path to Freeze $4 Billion in Foreign Aid
By The Geller Report The U.S. Supreme Court will allow the federal government to freeze more than $4 billion in foreign aid payments that President Trump tried to cancel last month using a rare “pocket rescission.” The justices voted 6-3 to grant the Trump administration’s emergency appeal, which stopped a lower court’s order to release […]
Mamdani’s Muslim ‘Community Engagement’ Specialist Called for Killing All Israelis
By Jihad Watch “1 Israeli left in this world would be too many!” We recently learned that the founder of ‘Hot Girls for Zohran” is a Muslim man whose tweets defended Hamas and during the war tweeted, “Tell Iran we voting for a Muslim in NYC please let them know lmao.” When asked to condemn his supporter, […]
VIDEO: Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference
By The White House Remarks by Marco Rubio, Secretary of State at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany on February 14, 2026 TRANSCRIPT SECRETARY RUBIO: Thank you very much. We gather here today as members of a historic alliance, an alliance that saved and changed the world. When this conference began in 1963, it was in […]
ROOKE: Vance And Rubio Deliver One-Two Punch To Our Western Allies In Munich
By The Daily Caller Vance’s tone was urgent and paternalistic, made starker by the fact the U.S. was a child of Europe. However, he urged Europe not to fear its own voters, stunning the audience and forcing a reckoning with how Europe had strayed from its heritage of liberty, rooted in Enlightenment ideals but underpinned […]
Nonprofit Launches to Implement Trump’s Election Integrity Executive Order
By The Daily Signal A new Trump-aligned nonprofit is launching to fill a gap in enforcement of the president’s election integrity executive order. Nicole Kelly, senior counsel at Lex Politica, the law firm that represents Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and other Republicans, is the president of a new 501(c)4 called Save Election Day to lead the fight in battleground […]
Iran Racing to Build More Ballistic Missiles; Israel Racing to Shore Up Its Anti-Missile Defenses
By Jihad Watch While President Trump has been focusing on curbing Iran’s uranium enrichment program, the Israelis are much more worried about the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missiles. Iran has between 1,500 and 2,000 missiles still intact after the 12-Day War last June, when about 1,500 were destroyed, and its missile plants have been producing between […]
JUST FACTS: Epstein Case Red Flags
By Royal A. Brown III Please read this Just Facts exposé on Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein Case Red Flags Here are 21 explosive facts about the Jeffrey Epstein case that have received scant attention, including some new facts from the DOJ and forensic experts who reviewed prison video footage on the night of Epstein’s death: 1) […]
A Message to Awaken Now Not Later
By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. The day is quickly coming, and is already here, says the Lord, when the United States of America will weep at night, tears from sea to once shining sea. Among all her mighty allies there will be none to comfort her; most have become her enemies, and what terribly few […]
EPA Exonerates Carbon Dioxide
By Family Research Council The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday committed “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described it, by eliminating an Obama-era verdict against carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The 2009 Endangerment Finding functioned as the bottommost block in the Left’s Jenga tower of climate regulation, […]
Yes, Leftists are “Evil.” Here’s How They Got That Way—and Why You’ll Never Change Them
By Selwyn Duke “They are programmed…,” Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind…. You are stuck with them.” It’s common for people to say today when contrasting our two major ideological groups, “Conservatives think leftists are misguided; leftists think conservatives are […]
Stonewall’s Rainbow Falls: Trump Pulls Pride Flag from ‘Birthplace’ of Modern LGBT Movement
By Family Research Council The Stonewall National Monument, located in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, has become the epicenter of LGBT-related symbolism. Having been designated by President Obama in 2016, this is the location of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which many have argued to be the birthplace for the so-called LGBT rights movement. But now, the Trump administration has […]
Iran’s Ayatollah Is Facing Defeat instead of Admitting Failure
By Family Research Council Time is running out for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his repressive regime in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In fact, a unique window of opportunity for the Iranian people opens next week, and the Trump administration is likely preparing to lend support this time before the window closes yet again. Like he […]
The Conundrum of President Donald J. Trump
By Linda Goudsmit I have learned to trust my instincts and that when things don’t make sense something else is going on. America 1st President Donald J. Trump has done extraordinary things to strengthen the United States and Make America Great Again (MAGA). Journalist Joan Swirsky lists the extraordinary first-year accomplishments of President Trump ’45 […]
“Affordability” and Illegal Immigration are Mutually-Exclusive: It’s the Math, Stupid
By Beverly Newman, Ed. D. One key cause of elevated worst case needs is immigration. Between 2021 and 2024, the foreign-born population of the United States increased by more than 6 million—the largest such increase over such a short period in American history. The foreign-born population now stands at more than 53 million individuals, making […]
Florida Becomes Only the Fourth State to Offer English-Only Driver’s License Exams
By The Daily Signal Last Friday, Florida began administering English-only driver’s license exams, only the fourth state to do so. English-only driving exams make the roads safer for all drivers, and every other state should follow suit. Recently, the Florida Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles office announced that all driver’s license exams will be administered in English […]
Moment Muslim Migrants Caught Plotting to Kill ‘As Many Jews as Possible’ in UK’s ‘Worst Ever’ Terror Attack
By The Geller Report And still the world……blames the Jews. It’s a societal sickness, a madness. In his own chilling words, would-be Muslim terror mastermind Walid Saadaoui boasted of his twisted desire to massacre British Jews, saying he wanted to ‘run rivers of their impure blood’ — with any murdered Christians ‘a bonus’. The Tunisian-born […]
How Trump’s ICE Built Nationwide Police Alliance Right Under Democrats’ Noses
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump dramatically expanded a little-known program allowing local law enforcement to assist deportation operations even in liberal states, documents show. Since 2019, more than 1,350 local agencies have penned agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including 68 from Democratic states and 88 in swing states, a Daily Caller […]
U.S. Expands Footprint in Nigeria, Sends 200 Troops for Anti-Terror Training
By Family Research Council The U.S. military announced Tuesday that it would send 200 servicemembers to the embattled African nation of Nigeria to help train Nigerian troops to fight Islamist terrorists, who have murdered tens of thousands of Christians and other religious practitioners in the country over the last two decades. According to a Wall […]
Stopping Islamic Rage
By Amil Imani While our officials repeat the same mantra that ‘Islam is a religion’ of peace, and the great majority of Muslims are not a party to any plans and actions of radicals, the incantation of these “authorities” is the lullaby that puts most people to sleep in complacency. It is crucial for the […]
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Strips Deportation Protections From Yemenis, Orders Them To Return Home
By The Daily Caller The Department of Homeland Security has revoked deportation protections for Yemenis living in the United States, ordering them to return home, according to a draft press release obtained by the Daily Caller. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday that Yemen no longer meets the statutory requirements for Temporary Protected Status after a […]
Lilliputians, Unite!
By Kenneth R. Timmerman While President Trump was talking big strategic issues with Bibi Netanyahu in the White House this week, Europe’s lilliputian leaders gathered for a leadership retreat in a snug Flemish castle, far from prying eyes. Trump and Bibi were of course talking War and Peace. The future of the Middle East. What […]
Shared Vision
By Karen Schoen February is filled with many historical events. Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12 and Washington’s birthday on February 22 reminds us of the great men that helped make America the leader of the free world! President Abraham Lincoln kept the union together. Without him, there would be no United States at all. Honest […]
EXCLUSIVE: A Look Into Trump’s Plans For ‘Rededicate 250,’ A Day Of Worship On The National Mall
By The Daily Caller The Trump administration revealed to the Daily Caller its plans for an event on the National Mall focused on commemorating America 250 through worship early this summer. President Donald Trump announced last Thursday that his administration plans to hold a faith event on the National Mall over the summer, in honor […]
Democrats to ‘Disenfranchise Voters’ With Election Integrity Opposition, GOP Says
By The Daily Signal Republican lawmakers on Wednesday accused Democrats of being “anti-American” and wanting to “disenfranchise” American voters by “allowing noncitizens to vote.” Their remarks come after Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, became the sole House Democrat to vote in favor of legislation that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship and voter identification before casting a ballot. Democrats have […]
House Passes SAVE America Act, All Eyes Now On The Senate
By The Geller Report One small set for voter integrity, one giant step for …… the Senate. This is a no brainer. Any Republican opposed is working for the enemy. The House has passed the SAVE America Act in a 218–213 vote, requiring documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and establishing […]
MAMDANI: No Real Instinct of Good or Bad Policy
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV Based on recent analysis of Zohran Mamdani’s 2025–2026 mayoral term and campaign, the argument that he lacks a “real instinct of good or bad policy” is a central criticism from opponents who characterize his agenda as ideologically driven rather than economically sound. Critics frequently argue that his proposals—such […]