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The Machiavellian Nonprofit

Funding the Hate It Professes to Fight: And Why Marc Andreessen Is Asking the Right Question A federal indictment has exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly doing the unthinkable: using donor money to secretly sustain the very extremist groups it built a fortune warning the public about. Over $3 million routed through sham entities between 2014 and 2023. One paid asset, identified only as F-37, received more than $270,000 while embedded in the online leadership chat planning the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He attended at the SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under its supervision, and helped…

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Beyond the “Independent Commissions” Soundbite

How Democrats’ Redistricting Bill Codifies Race-Conscious Gerrymandering If you've been following the endless cable chatter or social media loops about congressional redistricting, you've almost certainly heard the polished Democratic soundbite: "Republicans voted against independent commissions to end partisan gerrymandering." It's clean, it's simple, and it requires no further explanation. It paints opponents as defenders of rigged maps and self-interested power-grabs. For many well-meaning citizens who want fair elections, that line lands like common sense. Who could possibly be against "independent" commissions and an end to gerrymandering? But as a constitutional scholar who's studied every redistricting battle for over two decades, through…

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Redistricting Power Politics

On Deadly Ground: Why Virginia Democrats Just Rewrote the Map Sun Tzu said: “When on surrounded ground, plot. When on deadly ground, fight.” We are on politically deadly ground in America. The old norms of “fair” redistricting and waiting for the decennial census have been trashed. Both parties understand the new reality: whoever controls the legislature, the governorship, and (when needed) the constitutional amendment process gets to draw the lines that determine who holds power in Congress. Virginia Democrats just demonstrated they grasp this better than many Republicans. The Birth of the Gerrymander The term “gerrymander” was born in 1812 in…

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The $38 Million Red Flag

How Foreign Money Triggered a Full Compliance Meltdown When ActBlue’s own board chair, Kimberly Peeler-Allen, told the New York Times in early April 2026 that “less than 1 percent” of the platform’s 2024-cycle contributions showed “signs” of foreign origin, the math should have stopped everyone cold. ActBlue processed billions in small-dollar donations that cycle. One percent of that haul is $38 million, money that carried internal red flags for potential illegal foreign-national contributions under federal law. That isn’t a rounding error. That is real political oxygen: enough to bankroll ad blitzes, field offices, and turnout operations in multiple tight races. Yet…

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Mark Cuban’s Realistic AI Take

Why the Next Job Wave Belongs to Integrators, Not Wizards Mark Cuban has seen technology shifts before. He built a career explaining personal computers to businesses that had never touched one. In August of 2025, he called the next wave with characteristic bluntness. Now in 2026, his words have proved prescient. Mark Cuban on the next big job students should focus on:Most companies don’t know how to implement AI, especially small businesses.“Companies don’t understand how to implement AI right now to get a competitive advantage… learn to customize a model, walk into a company, show… pic.twitter.com/Cwl6yGBand— TBPN (@tbpn) February 15, 2026…

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Jimmy Carter’s Lasting Damage

The Hubris That Betrayed Us Amy Curtis nailed it. This man did more damage to the world and the country than we will ever fully comprehend. https://t.co/p3VQPLeqMT— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) April 14, 2026 It started early. Just two weeks into his presidency, on February 2, 1977, Jimmy Carter delivered a fireside chat from the White House, sitting comfortably in a beige cardigan sweater. With the nation facing natural gas shortages and a brutal winter, he urged Americans to turn down their thermostats to 65 degrees by day and 55 at night as a patriotic act of conservation and sacrifice. The image…

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The Art of Malacca

The Donroe Doctrine Goes Global Two developments landed on Monday, and the symmetry was no accident. While the U.S. Navy enforced a blockade of Iranian ports and coastal areas in the Strait of Hormuz, targeting vessels entering or exiting Iranian-controlled waters after peace talks collapsed, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood alongside Indonesian Defense Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin at the Pentagon and announced the elevation of bilateral ties to a Major Defense Cooperation Partnership (MDCP). This new framework establishes a guiding structure for defense modernization, joint training, operational collaboration, interoperability, and enhanced maritime domain awareness, subsurface and autonomous systems, and special forces…

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The Impeachment Hoaxers Lied

Declassified Records Reveal Coordinated Ukraine Impeachment Hoax Seven months after the July 2025 “Lied” series exposed how the Obama administration, elements of the Intelligence Community, and legacy media deliberately manufactured the Russiagate hoax to undermine Donald Trump’s legitimate 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton, the same damning pattern has now been laid bare in the 2019 Ukraine impeachment episode. DNI Tulsi Gabbard and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford released two long-classified HPSCI transcripts from September 19 and October 4, 2019, along with more than 350 pages of supporting documents detailing closed-door briefings with then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael…

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The Unifying Confirmation Fight We Need

Nominate Ron DeSantis for Attorney General Theodore Roosevelt captured it best: “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” That’s the mindset that matters right now at the Department of Justice. On Thursday, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi. She’s heading to the private sector after months of frustration over the pace of key priorities and, most glaringly, the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Deputy AG Todd Blanche, Trump’s former defense attorney, steps in as acting AG. The move was abrupt but not surprising. The DOJ has a credibility problem that’s been festering for over a…

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Thune’s Midnight Folly

How Senate Leadership Played the House and the Base for Suckers, and Why the Speaker's Backbone Points the Way Forward In the wee hours of March 27, 2026, around 2:30 to 3 a.m., the U.S. Senate passed a unanimous consent request to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security. Only about five senators were physically present on the floor: Republicans John Thune, Eric Schmitt, and Bernie Moreno (presiding), plus Democrats Brian Schatz and Andy Kim. The deal cleared funding for TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, CISA, and other non-enforcement functions while explicitly carving out full funding for Immigration and Customs…

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