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Reclaiming America’s Story

Inside the Smithsonian’s Assault on American History Americans have every right to expect their flagship national history museum to tell the story of the United States with honesty, balance, and pride. The National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution was founded for precisely that purpose: to commemorate our heritage of freedom, highlight the basic elements of American life, and instill a deepened faith in the country’s destiny. Yet a comprehensive White House report released this month tells a different tale. Titled Saving America’s Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage,…

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The Platner Class

Democrats Owned Him, Defended Him, and Are Now Scrambling to Save Themselves The Democrat Party didn’t just nominate Graham Platner. A broad coalition of prominent Democrats — the Platner Class — owned him, platformed him, and defended him through scandal after scandal. Now, as his campaign collapses under credible sexual assault allegations, they’re desperately trying to distance themselves. This isn’t principle. It’s raw power politics. They believed women only when it was convenient. Sen. John Fetterman stood apart with principle. And as I’ve documented since October 2025, this disaster was entirely predictable. No one in the Platner Class gets to slither…

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A Time for Choosing, Again

Steeling Our Patriotic Reserve on America’s 250th As we mark the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, Ronald Reagan’s words from more than six decades ago echo with fresh urgency: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.” This wasn’t mere rhetoric from…

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The Birthright Citizenship Decision

How the Majority Rewrote the Fourteenth Amendment—and Why Congress Must Now Act The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara ranks among the most consequential rulings of the Term. In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court struck down President Trump’s Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship for children of parents who are unlawfully present or only temporarily in the United States. The majority held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause demands automatic citizenship for virtually every child born on American soil, no matter their parents’ status. On the surface, the opinion gleams with scholarly polish—historical citations to Blackstone and…

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The Revolution Always Eats Its Own

How the Radicals Are Devouring the Democrat Party The images from the last week tell the story better than any poll or press release. On one side, Hakeem Jeffries beams as he congratulates the new DSA-backed members of New York’s congressional delegation — calling them public servants, union organizers, and community activists, as if they’re simply Democrats who took a different path. On the other side, the same radical energy that carried those candidates to victory turns inward almost immediately. Crowds chant “You’re next” at Jeffries himself. In San Francisco, longtime progressive stalwart Scott Wiener is surrounded, harassed, and physically intimidated…

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¡Afuera!

Why Trump Must Veto the ROAD to Housing Act In my last column I warned that the Democratic Socialists of America have a coherent, long-term strategy for American housing: aggressive rent controls paired with tenant “protections” and subsidized “social housing” models designed to gradually displace private property owners and decommodify shelter. That Trojan horse has now breached the gates. In New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani just delivered on a signature campaign promise—a rent freeze on roughly one million rent-stabilized apartments. And Congress has handed him, and every other DSA-aligned operator across the country, the federal fuel to make the strategy…

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The DSA’s Housing Trojan Horse

How a “Bipartisan” Bill Rewards Sanctuary Cities and Illegals President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Big Dig—the massive Boston highway project sold to Congress as a modest infrastructure fix. Lawmakers overrode him anyway. What followed was a textbook Washington story: initial cost estimates ballooned from a few billion into more than $14.6 billion (plus interest), with years of delays, leaks, design failures, graft, and federal taxpayers left holding the bag. Reagan was right then. History is about to rhyme. The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act now sitting on the President’s desk follows the same script. Marketed as a commonsense answer to…

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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 Art of the Hammer

Kharg as Catalyst, MOU as Pause, and the Path to Enforceable Peace Well, here we are. Just days after President Donald J. Trump’s pointed Truth Social signaling on Kharg Island—the credible threat to seize Iran’s primary oil export terminal and redirect those flows under American leverage—Iran moved. High-level approvals followed. The naval blockade held until the “transaction” advanced. Now we have the 14-point Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed, with a 60-day window for verification and deeper negotiations. The Strait of Hormuz prospects have brightened. Oil and gas prices have eased. Texas pump prices in competitive spots already sit in the low…

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