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Top 5 Most Underreported Stories of 2025

By Family Research Council The Washington Stand published a number of important stories that were largely ignored by the mainstream media in 2025. Here are the top five. 1. The Apparent Decline in Trans-Identifying Youth As reported by TWS’s Joshua Arnold in October, two studies were released that month showing that a decreasing number of young […]

Iron Beam, the Laser-Based Aerial Defense, Now Operational All Over Israel

By Jihad Watch The Iron Beam is the first laser-based aerial defense in the world to be operational; other countries are working on laser-based weapons but have yet to complete them, much less to put any such weapons into operation. The Iron Beam is fantastically cheap; each “burst” of light costs a few dollars, compared […]

China Bans Silver Exports, and Price Skyrockets

By Joanne Nova nginx

U.S. immigration Enforcement Data– Cutting Through The Noise

By David Zimmer nginx

Fraudulent Businesses Paid the Equivalent of the GDP of Somalia

By Jessica Rose nginx

Trump’s Border Shake-Up: Top Immigration Actions of 2025

By The Daily Signal Seven weeks after Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump stood before America and declared the U.S. southern border secure. “The media and our friends in the Democratic Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president,” Trump said to […]

New Details Emerge on Venezuela Port Attack

By The Daily Signal President Donald Trump on Monday confirmed reports of a United States drone attack on a Venezuelan port last week, telling reporters the target was a loading area for drugs. On Monday, CNN reported the Central Intelligence Agency carried out a drone strike on a Venezuelan port earlier in December, the first known U.S. […]

Inside the Antifa Militant Network

By Center For Security Policy Can the Trump Administration shut it down?  In this week’s episode of Rufo & Lomez, we’re talking to domestic security expert Kyle Shildeler, who’s going to lift the veil on Antifa, explain its history, its origins, its ideologies, its tactics, and then give us a guided tour through the Trump administration’s […]

Kash Patel: FBI’s Minnesota Fraud Case to Expand

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Trump Suggests He’ll Strike Iran Again If Military Buildup Continues

By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump warned Monday that the U.S. could hit Iran again if Tehran rebuilds its nuclear program, delivering the threat as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for talks. Trump’s comments follow U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear enrichment sites earlier this year, as the […]

10 Major Incidents of Left-Wing Violence and Threats in 2025

By The Daily Signal This past year, the Left crossed a Rubicon in normalizing political violence. The year opened with many on the Left praising a man who allegedly murdered a health care CEO, and it ended with Virginia Democrats overwhelmingly voting for a man who fantasized about shooting his political opponent and wished death on […]

Muslim Prayer in Dearborn, Michigan: “Oh Allah, Kill Every Jew, Christian and American”

By The Geller Report Muslim prayer in Dearborn, Michigan. Chants heard: “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian and American.” This isn’t the Middle East. This is the United States. How is this tolerated on American soil? And whle the First Amendment protects free speech, speech only loses protection if it constitutes a “true threat” (serious […]

U.S. strikes Islamic State jihadis in Nigeria, jihad will continue

By Jihad Watch Will this end the jihad in Nigeria? No. It’s really more of a symbolic thing than anything else. It’s proof that Trump was not issuing an empty threat when he said he would send soldiers with guns blazing into Nigeria. But the jihadis are patient. The Americans will finish their air strikes […]

U.S. conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump’s threat to intervene to end persecution of Christians

By Jihad Watch And now, American surveillance has begun, bringing the Trump administration’s threats closer to actualizing. The Nigerian government has tried to cover its indifference to the persecution of Christians by presenting the conflicts as being between warring factions. The government insists that what is happening is not Muslim persecution of Christians, but conflicts […]

Military Recruitment Surges Under Trump and Hegseth

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UK TERROR HORROR: Muslim Plot to Mass Murder Jews — Gunmen Planned to Pose as Jews, Mow Down Manchester March, Then Target Christians

By The Geller Report The terrible horrible details of the foiled yesterday Islamic attack on Jews in the UK: They planned to disguise themselves as Jews to infiltrate a march against anti semitism in Manchester City Center, before opening fire on the crowd with assault rifles. The pair hoped to throw emergency services into chaos […]

Ban the Muslim Brotherhood, or Witness the West’s Demise

By Jihad Watch President Trump has tasked Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent with providing a report on whether to designate Muslim Brotherhood entities as terrorist organizations. The report is due by Christmas Eve. At the state level, Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have designated the Muslim Brotherhood “mother movement” […]

VIDEO: What happens in Medina doesn’t stay in Medina

By Vlad Tepes Blog The video below needs to be understood for what it is, and not how it might appear to people who grew up in free nation states, regardless of what they may be now. When a sermon is given in the grand mosque of Medina, it is a reflection of Saudi policy. […]

Europeans May Not Love Trump—but Many Agree With Him

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PROFESSOR FOR THE AYATOLLAH: Pro-Iran Professor Hijacked U.S. University to Defend a Regime Butcher

By Amil Imani For years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been playing a long game on American soil. While the regime chants “Death to America” in the streets of Tehran, their ideological foot soldiers have been quietly embedding themselves in the ivory towers of our universities. But at the University of Arkansas, the mask hasn’t just […]

The Communist/Islamic Religious War is for All the Marbles

By Vlad Tepes Blog 1. The Phrase, “religious war” has real meaning and real implications. And for the most part it still flies under the radar in terms of its effects and tactics. First, have a look at this short video from Denmark: This certainly seems trivial in comparison to the numerous and still ongoing […]

The Trump Administration’s Plans for Gaza

By Jihad Watch Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have been busy planning Gaza’s future — when the hurly-burly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won — and they see the Strip as a “glittering metropolis,” both a tourist destination and a center for high-end high-tech businesses. If this sounds crazy, it’s because it is crazy. […]

Trump Says U.S. Needs Greenland for Security, Taps Envoy to ‘Lead the Charge’

By Family Research Council PALM BEACH, Florida/COPENHAGEN, Dec 22 (Reuters) — President Donald Trump reasserted on Monday that the United States needs Greenland for its national security and said a special envoy he appointed to the Arctic island would “lead the charge.” Trump named Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry (R) on Sunday as his special envoy […]