Conservative Playlist

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...

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...

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...

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, a 125-year-old Catholic religious order, filed a federal lawsuit on April 7, 2026, challenging New York's LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents' Bill of Rights, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in November 2023.The sisters operate Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed facility in Hawthorne, New York, providing free terminal cancer care to those who cannot afford it — acceptin...

Senator Thom Tillis has publicly declared he will block any attorney general nominee who fails his personal “red line” on January 6, effectively holding the Trump administration’s justice agenda hostage. As a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tillis wields outsized influence over confirmations for judges, prosecutors, and top law-enforcement officials at the precise moment the Depar...

Democrats have spent years warning that voter ID laws amount to a new era of voter suppression — a modern-day Jim Crow designed to disenfranchise minority communities. But a viral moment from a black church in Alabama is raising some uncomfortable questions about that narrative. Representative Shomari Figures, a Democrat, recently stood before a Black congregation and posed a pointed question: how...

There is an old adage in politics, roughly translated from the language of hardball to plain English, that you don't spend ammunition on a target that isn't a threat. By that measure, the American left has just handed JD Vance the most sincere endorsement a political figure can receive: they are terrified of him, and they want you to hate him before you've had the chance to decide for yourself. Th...

A new report indicates President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican Senate primary runoff against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. The May 26 runoff follows a March 3 primary in which neither candidate reached 50 percent, with Cornyn edging Paxton by a slim margin and Rep. Wesley Hunt taking third. Over half of GOP primary voters supported candidates...

It can be extremely challenging to convince a modern leftist that their ideas are wrong. Even trying to get them to acknowledge that the borders are more secure today is often met with challenges in the "way" the border has been secured, which invariably turns the conversation towards ICE and deportations. Their cognitive dissonance is strong. There is a path to wake many Democrats up, particular...

President Donald Trump has declared that election integrity, specifically through voter ID and proof of citizenship, constitutes a core element of homeland security and must be addressed immediately. Trump urged Senate Republicans to attach the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to resolve the ongoing partial government shutd...

President Trump announced ICE agents will assist TSA at airports starting Monday amid a partial DHS shutdown causing travel delays. The move, led by border czar Tom Homan, aims to relieve overwhelmed TSA workers unpaid for weeks due to congressional funding impasse. Long airport lines during spring break have intensified public frustration with staffing shortages and absenteeism. ICE's visible, he...

In the deep-blue stronghold of Illinois, voters delivered a clear message on Tuesday: the far-left wing of the Democrat Party, often amplified by high-profile endorsements from members of “The Squad,” does not command the loyalty it once appeared to hold. Progressive challengers backed by figures like Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others went down to defeat in mult...

The battle lines have been drawn between the various warring factions within the conservative movement. The MAGA faithful are being torn apart as they choose whether to back this side or that side. But is it really that bad? Perhaps. But is it really going to have an impact on the midterms? No. Here's why...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://ar...

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) launched a Faith Advisory Council on March 10, 2026, as part of his evangelical outreach effort ahead of a May Republican primary runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Three council members — Dr. Jack Graham, pastor Max Lucado, and Dr. Gus Reyes — are affiliated with the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a group that advocates for chain migration and pathw...