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U.S. Extends Strikes on Iran to Bridges and Airport in Escalation of Campaign
By Family Research Council DUBAI, (Reuters) — The United States escalated its renewed bombing campaign on Iran on Friday by hitting bridges and an airport, and Tehran responded with strikes on U.S. bases across the Middle East. In the contested Strait of Hormuz, where the renewed conflict has again cut off global energy supplies from […]
Are Cartels Being Charged As Terrorists? Your Briefing on a Major Legal Pivot
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Justice Department just charged two cartel leaders with a crime it once reserved for al Qaeda financiers: material support to a foreign terrorist organization. On the same day, it charged eight Tren de Aragua members in Illinois and Texas with murder, kidnapping, […]
Antifa the Focus at Rubio-Hosted International Summit
By Sarah Roderick-Fitch Written by Sarah Roderick-Fitch Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes (The Center Square) – Secretary of State Marco Rubio highlighted what he described as the growing threat of left-wing terrorism Thursday at a ministerial he convened at the State Department comprising representatives from over 60 countries. The summit comes months after the Trump […]
Is Washington About To Waste Billions? Time to Call Out a Red Flag
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A federal watchdog found the government paid a contractor $11.5 million to run a detention camp that held zero detainees. Not underused. Empty, for two weeks, on the meter. Any business that paid full freight for an empty warehouse would call it fraud. […]
Every Branch Hit Its Goal: How Strong is Military Recruiting Now?
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Navy set out to sign 45,000 sailors this year. It hit that number three months early, its strongest haul in about two decades. Two years ago, the same service was missed by thousands. In hiring terms, that is a company that went […]
Why is Pima County in AZ Protesting an Additional Border Wall? Tribal Land
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes On Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to back the Tohono O’odham Nation’s suit against the Department of Homeland Security, and the board’s chairman supplied an inconvenient figure: existing measures, he said, have already cut illegal crossings by […]
Antisemitic Violence Hits Three-Decade High: New Numbers Are In
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Twenty. That is how many Jews were murdered for being Jews in 2025, across four separate attacks, the deadliest such year in more than three decades. Hold that number, because the rest of the data will try to talk you out of it. […]
Trump Convenes Secret Situation Room Meeting to Plan Major Iran Military Offensive
By The Geller Report The President is very serious about a new course against the terror regime. Axios’ Barak Ravid, citing sources familiar with the discussions, reports that President Donald J. Trump convened a Situation Room meeting yesterday to review plans for a broader military campaign against Iran, extending beyond the ongoing strikes around the […]
Why is the Government Testing Soldiers’ Testosterone Levels? Your Briefing
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 16, 2026 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just ordered every active-duty service member 30 and older to have their testosterone checked once a year, with hormone therapy on offer if the number comes back low. […]
America’s 5 Essential Statistics: July 16
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute ENERGY 319.5 million barrels. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell to 319.5M barrels for the week ending July 3, down 20.7% year-on-year and the lowest weekly level since April 1983, as releases continue against the Strait of Hormuz supply gap. The nation’s emergency oil […]
What Does A Wingman Drone Cost? USA National Security Tech Breakthrough
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 16, 2026 On July 10, over the Mojave Desert, an uncrewed Air Force jet named Fury took off from Edwards, ingested a target track through its own software, waited for a human operator to […]
2 Million Muslims in America Support Hamas
By Jihad Watch As many as 1 million may support Al Qaeda and ISIS. In 2024, 37% or 1 in 3 Muslims in America, told a Pew survey that they have a positive view of Hamas. In a new Pew survey, 44% or nearly 1 in 2 Muslims in the US now support Hamas. 50% support the PLO or […]
America’s Problems with Islam
By Amil Imani A relatively recent demographic change—a significant increase in the Muslim population—poses a severe challenge to the American system of governance—reprehensive democracy. Historically, people from all over the world came to this land-of-take-all and made it their home. In becoming American, each new aspirant had to meet specific provisions and take the “Pledge […]
To Avoid Forever Wars, U.S. Must Fight to Win: Congressman
By Family Research Council President Donald Trump on Tuesday scuttled his plans to impose a 20% toll on every ship the U.S. Navy escorted through the Strait of Hormuz, as hostilities with Iran drift along with no harbor in sight. “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the […]
Khamenei Is Dead. Finish the Regime.
By Amil Imani The Fall of a Tyrant’s Empire: A Final Warning to the IRGC and the West. For forty-seven agonizing years, the ancient and noble land of Iran has lived under the suffocating boot of a brutal theocratic occupation. Today, the supreme architect of that misery, Ali Khamenei, is gone. He is dead, yet […]
What Does A Justice’s Life Cost? Disturbing SCOTUS Testimony Explained
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Liberty · Upstream of the Swamp · July 15, 2026 Two Supreme Court justices, Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett, went to Capitol Hill on July 14 to ask Congress for security money, the first time justices have testified on their own budget […]
Are We Running Out Of Missiles Because of Iran? Latest Numbers
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 15, 2026 The Iran war is now over. But the bill is already coming due in empty launch racks. The U.S. has been firing hundreds of Tomahawks and has burned through a large […]
China And Russia Rehearse Together: Critical Updates from the Pacific
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 15, 2026 On July 13, China and Russia concluded “Joint Sea-2026” in Qingdao and sailed together into the Pacific for joint patrols. It is the twelfth exercise in the series since 2012. To […]
Judge Orders Illegal Alien Hijacker Released
By Catherine Salgado Written by Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Yet another activist judge has appointed himself unelected ruler of the United States and ordered the federal government to release an illegal alien with a conviction for plane hijacking. Now, what could go wrong with that decision? Maybe this idiot judge needs a […]
Can America Make Enough Shells? The Shocking State of Play
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 15, 2026 The Pentagon’s own inspector general says the Army is turning out 36,000 155mm artillery rounds a month against a target of 100,000. In a shooting war, that is not a rounding […]
Chinese Cracks Down on Christianity
By Catherine Salgado Written by Catherine Salgado Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to try to obliterate the Christian faith from China. This is one thing Western leaders like Donald Trump don’t seem to understand when they make deals with China. Not only do the Chinese leaders hate freedom and […]
Huckabee: Americans Fail to Grasp the Threat of Iran
By Family Research Council Conflict between Iran and the U.S. has resumed, despite the efforts of President Donald Trump to secure peace in the troubled region. According to the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the U.S. military conducted “a new wave of offensive strikes against Iran” on Sunday, successfully striking “dozens” of targets. At issue is Iran’s continued […]
France Launches Cheap Drone Killer: Weapons Worth Monitoring
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 14, 2026 France cleared a weapon that kills a drone for the price of a used car instead of the price of a house. The reason it belongs on an American radar: the same […]
Is Pharma Coming Home to the USA? Post-COVID State of Play
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Energy & Manufacturing · National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 14, 2026 The drug industry is moving roughly half a trillion dollars of manufacturing back to American soil, the quiet twin of the semiconductor boom. Why it reaches your medicine […]
China Chokes Our Magnets: New Export License Endangers U.S. Supplies
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes National Security · Energy & Manufacturing· Upstream of the Swamp · July 14, 2026 Beijing tightened its grip on the rare-earth magnets in every American missile, fighter, and submarine, and it did so with a paperwork rule, not a blockade. The reason it […]
Did NATO Finally Pay Up? New Numbers Are In
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes National Security · Upstream of the Swamp · July 14, 2026 NATO wrapped its Ankara summit with tens of billions in fresh weapons contracts and a spending target that has real teeth. The question for anyone paying an American tax bill is simple: […]
TERRORIST CAUCUS: Rashida Tlaib Hate-America Profanity-Laced Meltdown, “America Was Built on Slavery, Genocide and Oppression”
By The Geller Report Rashida Tlaib Delivers Speech Claiming U.S. Political Structures Built on Slavery, Genocide, and Oppression Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “The political structures that we are surrounded by were built on slavery and genocide and oppression. Look at this room, motherf*kers. We aren’t going anywhere. Now we’re in Congress and every corner of […]
Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates Graham’s death, publishes hit list of targeted foes
By Jihad Watch No other regime takes such pleasure in the suffering and death of its foes. The “Palestinians” do, whether they’re in the government or out of it, but Iran’s Islamic regime is the only full member of the UN that behaves this way. And the UN is too busy devising new bogus condemnations […]
Critically Thinking about WW III
By John Droz, Jr. A new type of warfare: Get an opponent to self-destruct. This is arguably the most important commentary I’ve ever written. Hopefully it is not only understandable, but will prompt you into action. World War III began years ago, but (to the great satisfaction of our opponents) almost no one here has […]
Oil Reserves Flashing Red: USA vs. China Snapshot Briefing
By The Editors Written by The Editors Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The Strategic Petroleum Reserve just hit a level not seen since Ronald Reagan’s first term. Beijing is sitting on roughly triple the crude. And the Strait of Hormuz sits in the middle. WHY IT MATTERS The SPR is the country’s oil insurance policy, […]