Elections

The Democrat Fracture

The Pieces Are Falling Right Into Republican Hands The Democrat Party is fracturing in real time, and the pieces are landing exactly where Republicans can pick them up. Last night in New York, Zohran Mamdani’s socialist machine knocked off two incumbents tied to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. One of the winners, Aber Kwas, is the child of illegal immigrants who won a state senate race. She has already blamed 9/11 on America’s “system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.” Another Mamdani-backed candidate helped lead an organization whose stated goal includes the “eradication of Western civilization.” These are not fringe…

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Voter Citizenship Checks

Privacy Protections or Roadblock to Election Integrity? On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked key federal tools meant to help states verify whether people on the voter rolls are actually U.S. citizens. The ruling in League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security vacates the 2025 updates to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements—better known as SAVE. For those of us who’ve spent years watching how government systems either protect or undermine self-government, this isn’t just another administrative-law skirmish. It strikes at the heart of federalism, election integrity, and whether outdated privacy statutes from the Watergate era can…

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The Incoherent, Inauthentic Brute

Why Democrats Own Graham Platner Democrats spent years perfecting the art of the skin suit — wearing the outward appearance of working-class grit, moral clarity, and principled outrage while the underlying reality was privilege, grievance, and raw political calculation. They draped themselves in the language of #MeToo, “believe all women,” and fighting fascism. Then they nominated Graham Platner for U.S. Senate in Maine — a direct sequel to the themes explored in last month’s “The Skin Suits.” He won the primary decisively. The party that once purged its own for far lesser offenses has now strapped this incoherent, inauthentic brute to…

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California’s Engineered Election Opacity

How the Democrat Machine Protects Itself and Why Election Day Must Mean Election Day It’s Sunday, June 7 — five full days after Election Day on June 2 — and LA County officials continue counting ballots in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Incumbent Karen Bass maintains a solid lead at roughly 34.8% and advances to the November runoff. The real contest for second place continues: Independent outsider Spencer Pratt still leads progressive Councilmember Nithya Raman by about 7,500 votes at ~78% counted. Yet each new batch of late mail and provisional ballots narrows that gap. Raman will almost certainly overtake Pratt…

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History Rhymes

Why Democrats Are in Deep Trouble Five months out from the 2026 midterms, Andrew Cuomo delivered a blunt assessment that should send alarm bells ringing through the Democrat Party. He observed that he has never seen a time when his party had no agenda, no message, no coherent vision. This diagnosis is particularly devastating because it directly echoes one of the most instructive midterm cautionary tales in recent American political history: the 1998 Republican collapse under Newt Gingrich. 💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith & Andrew Cuomo *GO OFF* on Dem Party💥SMITH: “They don’t wanna listen!”CUOMO: “The hope is the other side —…

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The Skin Suits

Why Inauthenticity and Chaos Will Doom Talarico and Platner Democrats have a serious candidate selection problem heading into the 2026 midterms. In two states with some of the strongest, most distinct political cultures in America, they have advanced nominees who are profoundly mismatched with the very electorates they need to persuade. One is culturally inauthentic. The other is personally and temperamentally chaotic. These are not minor liabilities to be messaged away or spun. They are the defining characteristics of their candidacies — and they are likely fatal in Texas and Maine. James Talarico is not authentic. Graham Platner is not steady.…

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Going on Offense Wins the Midterms

How Republicans Can Seize the Midterms by Attacking the Failed Hart-Celler Legacy In 1965, Congress inserted the camel’s nose under the tent. Lawmakers sold the Hart-Celler Act as a modest, humane tweak — ending national origins quotas while promising no major shift in America’s overall immigration numbers or cultural character. Sixty years later, the tent is overflowing. We now live with a record foreign-born population, sustained wage pressure on American workers, stalled assimilation in many communities, overburdened schools and housing, and growing public safety concerns. As I have documented in prior columns, this post-1965 system has systematically depressed wages for native-born…

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Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Be Major Midterm Issues

Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Dominate the Midterms Stephen Federico stood before Congress and unleashed raw fury. The father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screamed at Democrats about the system that failed his daughter. A career criminal with 39 arrests and 25 felonies dragged Logan from her bed, forced her to her knees, and executed her in cold blood. That monster walked free because politicians, prosecutors, and judges chose leniency over public safety time and time again. Federico’s testimony remains one of the most powerful and heartbreaking moments of the past year. One grieving father’s uncontrolled rage cuts through every carefully worded…

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Why Ken Paxton Crushed Cornyn

Washington Turned John Cornyn Into an Establishment Figure Ben Domenech, who once worked for John Cornyn, cut straight through the spin on Laura Ingraham’s show just prior to polls closing in the Texas GOP Senate runoff: “Washington sucks it all out of you. He’s more establishment now. I wish he was still more conservative.” That one line is the perfect epitaph for Cornyn’s long political career in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, Ken Paxton didn’t just beat him — he destroyed him. Paxton cruised to a decisive 64-36 victory in the runoff after Cornyn had barely edged him out in the…

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The Autopsy That Refuses to Die

How the Democrats’ 2024 Post-Mortem Became Their Own MacGuffin The Democrat Party — or at least someone inside it — unloaded a 192-page beast titled “Build to Win. Build to Last.” Marketed as a serious post-2024 election autopsy and a forward-looking 10-year strategic blueprint, the document was supposed to mark a turning point. A sober reckoning. A Ron Brown-style call to rebuild from the ground up and reconnect with the voters who had drifted away. Instead, it has become something far more compelling and far more lethal: a MacGuffin. You know the term — that Hitchcock plot device everyone obsesses over,…

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