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The networks still talk like they own the public square. The public left years ago. What is happening now is not a ratings slump. It is a funeral that the corpse keeps trying to emcee. Look at the week that just closed. Fox News still led cable news, as it almost always does, averaging about 1.78 million primetime viewers. That used to sound like a fortress. Set it next to last September, when the...

Somewhere tonight, millions of men will say goodnight to a woman who does not exist. She never argues. She never has a headache or a bad day or a conviction that challenges his. She is endlessly available, endlessly affirming, and endlessly fake, and she is being marketed as the cure for the loneliest generation in American history. The scale is difficult to overstate. AI companionship has become...

Elon Musk does not mince the reality. “America is toast if the radical left wins,” he declared earlier this year. “They will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud. Won’t be America anymore.” Now the world’s richest man is putting serious capital behind those words. According to Axios , Musk is reviving his America PAC for a major push in the 2026 midterms. The focus is pure turnout:...

Your leftist relative did not just wake up one morning and decide the family Thanksgiving table was too toxic. A licensed professional looked her in the eye, nodded solemnly, and told her that cutting you off forever is a form of self-care. Then she did it. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is the quiet new normal, confirmed by a recent Wall Street Journal investigation and the growing pile of s...

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It seems as if Graham Platner has no future for his Senate campaign. If he drops out before July 13, Maine Democrats can replace him. Who will they pick? Should Republicans be pleased that the flawed candidate is toast?

America threw itself the party of the century on Saturday, and it earned it. Two hundred fifty years of the boldest experiment in self-governance ever attempted deserves fireworks over Mount Rushmore and a National Mall packed shoulder to shoulder. But the confetti has a way of obscuring the calendar. The midterms are four months away, and President Trump's agenda for the back half of his term liv...

California's political establishment learned this week that the FBI didn't merely investigate Gavin Newsom's inner circle from the outside. It recruited from within. According to an exclusive report in the New York Post, Democratic power broker Alexis Podesta secretly recorded conversations for federal investigators as far back as June 2024, gathering evidence in the corruption probe that brought...

There are some who believe we should help the Democrat establishment defeat the Marxists of the Democratic Socialists of America. JD disagrees. They made their bed. They need to sleep in it.

Consider how the partnership describes itself, because the description is almost entirely negative. Anti-imperialist. Anti-colonial. Anti-capitalist. Anti-Zionist. Anti-Western. Anti-Christian. The vocabulary is a wall of negations, and that is not an accident of rhetoric. It is the actual structure of the thing. A coalition that agreed on a destination would talk about the destination. This coali...

Some of us think that President Trump and his administration should do more to fix the border crisis. Build the wall, do more deportations, and stop the "protesters" from obstructing justice. But even those who want more must admit it's far better now than it was before.

The Newsoms are corrupt. Illegal aliens in Massachusetts are corrupt. Child health is rife with corruption. Exposing these and others can help Republicans win the midterm elections.

The left has a challenge with facing those who oppose their views. If they don't have a friendly legacy media person interviewing them, they tend to crumble. The right, on the other hand, has people like JD Vance and Scott Jennings entering the lions' den on a regular basis and coming out unscathed.

Spencer Pratt may not be the next Mayor of Los Angeles, but that doesn't mean he can't help his fellow Angelenos in their fight against the oppressive Democrats. Meanwhile, the view of Democrat lawmakers is shifting as a majority of Americans believe they want open borders.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday night by sixteen points, a Texas-sized message to Washington, as he put it, that the establishment wing of his party no longer commands the votes it once did. The celebration lasted about an hour. The hard math began at sunrise. Paxton’s general election opponent, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, raised more th...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday night by sixteen points, a Texas-sized message to Washington, as he put it, that the establishment wing of his party no longer commands the votes it once did. The celebration lasted about an hour. The hard math began at sunrise. Paxton's general election opponent, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, raised more th...

The polls in Texas have not yet closed, but the story of John Cornyn’s political demise has already been written. It was written over the course of two months by a Senate Republican leadership team that had every opportunity to save him and chose, instead, to save the filibuster. Cornyn did not lose to Ken Paxton because Texas Republicans suddenly developed an allergy to the establishment. They ha...

The polls in Texas have not yet closed, but the story of John Cornyn's political demise has already been written. It was written over the course of two months by a Senate Republican leadership team that had every opportunity to save him and chose, instead, to save the filibuster. Cornyn did not lose to Ken Paxton because Texas Republicans suddenly developed an allergy to the establishment. They ha...

The most fortunate thing that ever happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the catastrophic Palisades fire of January 2025. That sentence sounds cruel until you study how her political survival actually works. The fire — with its dead, its incinerated neighborhoods, its iconic image of a stone-faced mayor refusing to answer questions on a tarmac after returning from Ghana — is so visually ove...

Three hundred thousand. That is the figure the federal government now uses to describe the unaccompanied migrant children that the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services lost track of or handed to unvetted sponsors between January 2021 and December 2024. Three hundred thousand children is not a statistic. It is the population of Anaheim. It is larger than Pittsburgh, larger...

Three hundred thousand. That is the figure the federal government now uses to describe the unaccompanied migrant children that the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services lost track of or handed to unvetted sponsors between January 2021 and December 2024. Three hundred thousand children is not a statistic. It is the population of Anaheim. It is larger than Pittsburgh, larger...

Xavier Becerra wants to be the first Latino governor of California in more than 150 years. He is running on biography, on representation, on the idea that a son of Mexican immigrants who climbed from a one-room apartment to the Biden Cabinet is uniquely positioned to fight for working Latino families against corporate exploitation and Republican villainy. It is a powerful pitch. It also raises an...

Discovering fraud isn’t victory. It’s the bare minimum. In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced charges against 21 suspects in a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud ring. Shell companies used stolen identities to bill taxpayers for end-of-life care that never happened—no patients, no services, just straight cash grabs. Days earlier, federal agents arrested eight more in a separate $50...

Discovering fraud isn’t victory. It’s the bare minimum. In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced charges against 21 suspects in a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud ring. Shell companies used stolen identities to bill taxpayers for end-of-life care that never happened—no patients, no services, just straight cash grabs. Days earlier, federal agents arrested eight more in a separate $50...

New York State has decided that the women who have spent 125 years washing, feeding, and sitting with the dying poor need to be taught a lesson in gender ideology — or face jail time. That is not a rhetorical flourish. It is the actual situation facing the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, an order of Catholic nuns who run Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York, a 42-bed facility where terminal can...