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No Surprise in ‘Arctic Frost’ Scandal, as Every Dem President in 21st Century Has Weaponized the Government
By Family Research Council Cries of “Worse than Watergate” quickly followed Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley’s (R-Iowa) revelation from a whistleblower within the FBI that eight Republican senators and a House GOPer had been illegally spied upon during the Biden administration’s failed prosecutions of then-former President Donald Trump. Grassley called Arctic Frost “arguably worse than Watergate” […]
Schumer’s Treasonous Legacy
By Amil Imani Chuck Schumer represents the lowest point of American political corruption — the worst senator our country has ever faced, a malicious traitor hiding behind a leader’s facade while betraying the American people through every sneaky move. This corrupt relic, rooted in Washington for nearly fifty years, epitomizes everything corrupt about our Republic: […]
DAY 9: Democrats Continue Government Shutdown In Order to Hurt the American People
By The Geller Report Rational Americans agree, why shutdown the government? The House passed a clean continuing resolution, the same CR that Democrats have voted for thirteen times in the last four years, including back in March. So what’s the point? The point is to hurt Americans. Trump has made things better for every American […]
Leftists Put $10K Bounty on Killing ICE Officers, Chicago Mayor Johnson Escalates Violent Rhetoric
By The Geller Report Anti-American leftist anarchists are doxing, stalking, and targeting federal agents in coordinated plots across major U.S. cities, with some groups offering thousands of dollars to kidnap or kill them, according to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Democrat rioters are chant “K*LL ICE” rhetoric. ICE agents are being called the […]
Democrats Are Terrified Of Trump’s Shutdown Slasher — And They Should Be
By The Daily Caller Trump depicted him as the Grim Reaper. His neighbors think he wants to cause “maximum trauma.” Senate Leader John Thune told Democrats to brace for impact. And those who know Russ Vought best say, good. Democrats should be scared. Because if unleashed, Trump’s two-time Office of Management and Budget Director Russ […]
Trump Gives Democrats Deadline For When Permanent Government Firings Will Begin
By The Daily Caller President Donald Trump gave Democrats a deadline for when he would start making cuts to federal workers and other federal programs. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and the majority of his caucus again rejected a continuing resolution Monday, extending the government shutdown. Trump, who’s administration previously teased mass firings as a result […]
State Laws on K-12 School Classroom and Library Age-Appropriate Book Policies
By John Droz, Jr. How is this MAJOR issue handled across the country? As a K-12 education expert, one of the more problematic matters happening in US K-12 schools is the insidious infiltration of age-inappropriate material in school libraries and classrooms. Many people have the mistaken idea that this is all about sex, but it […]
Video on What Digital ID is, and How it Already is Being Used for Tyranny in Multiple Countries
By Vlad Tepes Blog Please watch every word of this. I will likely go through it once or twice more to try and extrapolate to what this system of digital ID is meant to do. One suspects that it will make cash pointless as well. A store will have all their inventory tracked all the […]
Schumer Shutdown Now in FOURTH Day
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) It’s becoming increasingly clear that Minority Leader Schumer has essentially buckled to AOC —Alexandra Ocasio Cortez (D-NY)—and the radical left. WATCH: House Spending Bill Fails in the Senate Again—44 Democrats Vote NO! The shutdown is the gift that keeps on giving… to the Republicans. The live […]
Kash Patel’s FBI Cuts All Ties to Hate Group Southern Poverty Law Center
By The Geller Report It is unfathomable that the FBI worked with this terrorist organization. The most corrupt hate group in America was given power and influence over the country’s most powerful law enforcement agency. Chills to the bone. The ‘work’ of the hate group SPLC is to smear, defame and libel anyone who effectively counters […]
Radical Left-Wing Nonprofits Out Themselves Following Trump’s Executive Crackdown
By The Daily Caller Hundreds of far-left nonprofits signed an open letter condemning President Donald Trump’s September memo cracking down on domestic terrorism and organized political violence. “Political violence is unacceptable. But efforts by the president of the United States to defund, discredit, and dismantle nonprofit groups he simply disagrees with are reprehensible and dangerous,” […]
Secretary of War Hegseth Fires Navy Chief Of Staff
By The Daily Caller Secretary of War Pete Hegseth fired Navy Chief of Staff Jon Harrison on Friday, the Department of War said. Harrison was appointed in January to lead as the Navy’s chief of staff, working alongside Navy Secretary John Phelan to implement organizational changes under Hegseth’s new leadership. A War Department official confirmed Harrison’s removal to the […]
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To End Protected Status For Venezuelan Migrants
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Friday to move forward with ending protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen, an Obama appointee, found in September that the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for […]
Hate Speech Laws is Shooting Yourself in the Face
By Vlad Tepes Blog A quick note on the situation in Vietnam. There are a lot of videos explaining how the Vietnamese state has closed the bank accounts of millions and millions of people who refused to get a digital ID. I have spoken to two Vietnamese people now, one of whom is a recent […]
Transform or Terminate? Our options for failing Federal Agencies.
By John Droz, Jr. We MUST choose wisely! Almost everyone complains about government — Local, State, & Federal. It’s right up there with finding fault with your spouse, being annoyed with your kids, bitching about the weather, etc., etc. Today, let’s just focus on Federal Agencies (e.g., DOE, EPA, DHHS, DOEd). Unfortunately, most people have […]
Trump Trolls Leftists as Shutdown Presents Key Opportunity to Cut ‘Democrat Agencies’
By Royal A. Brown III Democrats in Senate led by “Chuck U” Schumer have fallen right into POTUS Trump’s trap. Following is statement by POTUS Trump from the below article. “I can’t believe the Radical Left Democrats gave me this unprecedented opportunity,” “They are not stupid people, so maybe this is their way of wanting […]
On a Surprising ICE Arrest and Asking the Right Questions
By Family Research Council On Friday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced the most jaw-dropping apprehension of an illegal immigrant. ICE arrested Ian Andre Roberts, a native of the small South American nation of Guyana, whose last work authorization expired in 2020. What made this arrest so surprising weren’t the crimes committed by the detainee (although there were […]
Democrats Box Themselves into a Shutdown America Blames Them for
By Family Research Council While the country keeps a weary eye on the latest spectacle on Capitol Hill, some D.C. establishments are trying to have a little fun with the government shutdown. On Wednesday, a local restaurant called Butterworth’s tried to lighten the mood by offering a themed drink menu, including a “furlough-rita” and a “continuing […]
Change is Coming
By Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D. The United States is under assault. I am not saying this for sensational, or conspiracy play but to be a Shofar of Warning to those who have ears to hear and eyes to see. Yesterday I received an intelligence briefing conducted by Gen. Mike Flynn and hosted by the MacArthur […]
PODCAST: Federal Agencies Blame Democrats for the Government Shutdown
By Conservative Commandos Radio Show and AUN-TV Are they violating the Hatch Act? A banner on the Department of Housing and Urban Development website currently reads, “The Radical Left in Congress shut down the government. In a striking departure from long-standing norms, several federal agencies are publicly blaming congressional Democrats for the government shutdown. A […]
‘Ready to Win’: Hegseth Announces New Policies to Restore Department of War’s ‘Warrior Ethos’
By Family Research Council Progressive policies are out and wartime fitness standards are in at the newly-renamed Department of War, according to Secretary Pete Hegseth. At a high-profile meeting with the U.S. military’s top generals in Quantico on Tuesday morning, Hegseth and President Donald Trump unveiled new plans and policies to restore the military’s “warrior ethos” after […]
‘Make Assassinations Great Again’ Bumper Stickers and Music
By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.) There is a connection to transgender ideology. There is an epidemic of violence coming from these people. As Democrats and media figures keep hawking the “both sides” argument regarding political violence, leftist activists are less interested in muddying the waters. They openly embrace political violence and […]
Trump Admin. Sends Federal Troops, Anti-Terrorism Units to Protect ICE against Antifa Violence
By Family Research Council After weeks of violence against conservatives and federal law enforcement, President Donald Trump is deploying the military to protect federal agents carrying out his immigration agenda. In response to riots outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Portland, the president announced Saturday that he is deploying soldiers to deal with […]
FLORIDA: Polk County Sheriff’s Deputies Conduct Raid ResultIng in 33 ICE Holds, 188 Arrests and 1,221 Traffic Stops
By Royal A. Brown III And my reaction to this article below by Gary White who is almost always biased to the left is it is about time. Anyone who thinks Polk County is not loaded with illegal aliens is living in a dream world. Too bad Rep Canady didn’t have courage to respond and […]
Political Violence Escalates as Rioters Target ICE Operations
By Family Research Council The domestic terrorist attack at a federal immigration facility in Texas Wednesday morning has only served to highlight the rash of political violence and civil unrest targeting President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda and the officers carrying it out. Following the deadly shooting at a Dallas U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]
Soros-Backed Leftist Group Behind Campaign To Force Government Shutdown
By The Daily Caller A left-wing activist group that received millions of dollars from the Soros family’s organization is spearheading a pressure campaign to push Democratic senators to vote against funding the government and force a partial shutdown. Indivisible — the organization behind many of the recent “No Kings” protests and other demonstrations part of the so-called “resistance” against […]
VIDEO: Leading Democrats Incite to Murder, Leftwing Protests Call to “SHOOT ICE”
By The Geller Report The Democrat Party is actively putting law enforcement in danger. This despite a Democrat inspired sniper opening fire on a Dallas ICE facility just days ago. Leftists are yelling “shoot ICE” outside an ICE facility in Illinois. Just a few weeks ago, Illinois Gov JB Pritzker compared ICE to nazis. WATCH: 7 minutes […]
Who is Adam Schiff?
By Amil Imani Sen. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, is a slimy, deceitful criminal who has infested the halls of the House and now the Senate like a venomous parasite, sucking the lifeblood from American democracy while enriching himself through brazen fraud and treasonous schemes. With his beady eyes and perpetual smirk, Schiff isn’t just a […]
Who is King of America?
By Karen Schoen October 17, 2025 there will be another protest for NO Kings. I thought and said out loud, “Boy these people have no clue as to what they are asking for.” How pathetic. They are giving away their own power. In America, We the People are King. We the People are the sovereign. Of […]
2025 Republican Liberty Caucus Scorecard FL Legislators
By Royal A. Brown III The Republican Liberty Caucus is a national grassroots organization working to advance the principles of individual rights, limited government, free markets, and personal freedom and responsibility. For more than twenty years the Republican Liberty Caucus (RLC) has been the strongest, most consistent voice for these principles within the Republican Party. […]