Politics

Red State Reckoning

Hoosiers Fire Pence-Endorsed RINOs in Brutal Primary Rejection In December 2025, I ripped into Indiana Senate Republicans for their jaw-dropping act of political malpractice: killing a Trump-backed mid-decade redistricting plan that would have turned a solid 7-2 House edge into a locked-down 9-0 dominance in one of the reddest states in America. Twenty-one GOP senators teamed up with Democrats to block it, cowering behind “norms,” “collegiality,” and the usual fear of media scolds instead of seizing a generational opportunity to secure power. I called it cowardice: a self-inflicted wound that handed Democrats breathing room they never would have granted us. Last…

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After Callais

Callais > Redistricting > Messaging: The Chain That Secures the Long Game The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is not some isolated procedural win. It is the root. Aggressive redistricting is the multiplier. Unapologetic messaging (anchored in the economy we delivered through OBBBA and the must-pass wildcard of the SAVE America Act) is the payoff. Get this chain right and we do not merely hold the House in a tough midterm environment. We build the structural dominance that carries the long game: enforcing the filibuster, restoring federalism, and ultimately repealing the 17th Amendment so senators answer to state…

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The COVID Fracture

The Pandemic Policies That Tore America Apart In 2020 and 2021, our suburban streets emptied. Playgrounds sat silent. School parking lots became ghost towns while kids stared at screens. Neighbors glared at each other over masks in grocery stores. Families split at dinner tables over vaccines. Old friendships ended with the question “Are you vaxxed?” What began as a response to a virus became one of the most divisive events in modern American history. It turned neighbors, families, and communities against each other far more than the virus itself. The root causes were panic-driven centralization of power and the suppression of…

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Long March Consequences

The Manifesto That Wasn’t Original: Elite Rhetoric Meets Its Own Predictable Output There’s nothing in Cole Allen’s manifesto that hasn’t been said and repeated by elected Democrats and mainstream media figures for years. On Saturday night, a Caltech-educated teacher and game developer walked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. He checked in the day before. He had a manifesto ready. Minutes before the attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he sent it to family. In it, he called President Trump a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” declared attendees complicit simply for being there, and justified lethal action…

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Divided Among Ourselves

How Mass Immigration Fractures Native American Solidarity and Why a Complete Pause Can Restore It I live in Plano, Texas. The changes I described yesterday (the mosques, the layered languages in the parks, the shifting rhythms of daily suburban life) are not abstract. They have done something deeper and more insidious than simply altering the face of my hometown. They have fractured us, the native-born Americans who built these neighborhoods, these schools, these parks. Neighbors who once shared the same unspoken assumptions about backyard barbecues, English-default conversations, and a common Texas cadence now eye one another warily across the street. Parents…

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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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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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