Month: March 2026

The Supreme Court gave Christian street preacher Gabriel Olivier of Mississippi the green light to proceed with a federal lawsuit after he was arrested for violating a city ordinance preventing him from ministering outside a public amphitheater.

This is a massive win for advocates of the First Amendment and religious liberty.

The 9-0 opinion, announced Friday, was authored by Justice Elena Kagan, an appointee of former Democratic President Barack Obama.

A unanimous opinion about religious freedom, written by a liberal justice? That should tell you everything.

In a world where the tentacles of partisan politics constantly creep into America’s courtrooms, this is a surprising outcome.

Olivier was arrested back in 2021 in Brandon, Mississippi, for preaching about his religious beliefs outside the city’s amphitheater during a scheduled event, according to Kagan’s opinion.

The ordinance requires groups that are engaging in “protests” or “demonstrations” to remain in designated areas.

He pleaded no contest in municipal court, was fined $304 fine, and received one year of probation.

In addition, he was instructed that he would be imprisoned for 10 days if he violated the ordinance during his probationary period. Olivier chose not to appeal, paid the fine, and served no prison time.

He still wanted to preach near the amphitheater, however, so he filed suit against the city in federal court, claiming his First Amendment rights were being trampled.

The preacher also wanted a legal declaration stating the ordinance is unconstitutional and sought an injunction against the city to prevent it from ever enforcing the measure again.

Olivier did not seek financial compensation and did not ask for his prior conviction to be overturned. Lower courts dismissed his case, citing Supreme Court precedent from the 1994 case of Heck v. Humphrey. 

Kagan’s opinion reversed that ruling, however, and held that this precedent does not apply because Olivier is not attempting to reverse his conviction, obtain any financial damages, or secure release from prison.

“Heck’s purpose is to prevent improper collateral attacks on criminal judgments through civil suits, but prospective injunctions pose no such risk,” Just The News reported.

“The ruling resolves a circuit split and preserves federal court access for constitutional challenges focused on preventing future enforcement of allegedly unlawful laws,” the article continued. “The case now returns to lower courts to consider the merits of Olivier’s First Amendment claim.”

Olivier gave a statement following the ruling, saying that people with “deeply held Christian religious beliefs” who are called to preach the Gospel are now free to do so in the public square, according to The Hill.

“My goal from the beginning was to be granted my rights as an American citizen under our great Constitution,” he proclaimed.

Though Olivier is not guaranteed to win his lawsuit, this was an important signal from the high court.

It showed that no matter how divided the justices might be on certain issues, First Amendment questions are always entitled to a thorough examination and must be strictly scrutinized to protect the rights of U.S. citizens.

There’s a reason why America’s Founders tackled freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition as top priorities in the Bill of Rights.

They are the most important elements in building a successful, civil, and free society. They are also the foundation of true liberty.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The “tolerant” left is at it again, and this time, it’s coming from the “Golden Years” crowd.

Two elderly leftists in Arlington Heights, Illinois, have been arrested and charged after a months-long investigation into the disgusting vandalism of the Republicans of Wheeling Township headquarters.

According to the Arlington Heights Police Department, 72-year-old Brock McNerney and 69-year-old Moisette McNerney were taken into custody on Monday in connection with the defacement of the headquarters last January.

The pair now face misdemeanor charges of criminal damage to property and criminal defacement of property under Illinois law. Authorities say the arrests were made without incident, and the suspects were released pending their initial court appearance.

ABC7 Chicago reported:

Surveillance video from the late evening hours of Jan. 25 shows a couple, a man in glasses and a woman, both dressed in black, drawing explicit words and what ABC7 Chicago has been told were several Nazi symbols over the face of Charlie Kirk on the windows in Arlington Heights.

“Charlie Kirk was born in Arlington Heights, and he actually had come through our doors; so, he was initially started off with our organization. So, we’re really kind of deeply saddened to see that,” Deputy Committeeman John Saletta said.

The Republicans of Wheeling Township Office said the alleged vandals drew antisemitic symbols on their building.

Saletta said they put up surveillance cameras after their building was previously vandalized in December.

“It’s obviously highly offensive, and we’re better than this,” Saletta said. “I think that as a nation, you know, we can resolve our differences through dialogue. That’s what Charlie was all about.”

Watch the report from last month by ABC7 Chicago:



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I’d really hoped that I was beyond talking about Democratic U.S. House candidate Bobby Pulido’s strange public sex habits. As much as I want the guy to lose, I also don’t want to lose my lunch, either.

Thus, when the Tejano music star and the multiple Latin Grammy-winning entertainer got busted for old Twitter posts in which he both linked to pornography and suggested other bored folk search it out, I’d hoped that was the end of it.

After all, it was old stuff, he was supposed to be the new moderate face of the party in Texas, and surely he’d disavow thoughts like his 2014 statement that “It’s impossible to have Twitter and not watch porn.” (I’ve somehow managed, but I guess the Pulido fanbase is a different animal entirely.)

Alas, I was mistaken. Last week, the New York Post unearthed an old music video in which Pulido, who trails incumbent GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in the polls, played a serial pervert who, among other things, pleasures himself in public.

From the New York Post:

In a music video for his song “Dias de Ayer,” Pulido pantomimed as multiple characters including an exhibitionist, who wraps himself in a red blanket while repeatedly masturbating and even exposing himself to a woman while apparently on a private jet flight.

The two-time Latin Grammy winner seemingly caused such a stir with the 2010 video — which also displayed him as a homosexual admirer of the serial exhibitionist figure — that he faced questions from the Mexican press about his sexuality the same month it was released on an eponymous album.

“People are opening up more. I can even tell you that when I started my career, I saw the whole situation (of gays) very differently. At first, they said I was gay; there were rumors that I was like that,” Pulido told the outlet El Norte in a translated Spanish language March 2010 interview.

Oh yeah, because this makes him look so much better:

It’s worth noting too that the song “Dias de Ayer,” which translates to “Days of Yesterday,” has little to do with gender-bending onanistic creeps.

The chorus, translated:

How I miss those days of yesterday!
Oh, how I miss those innocent days
When they’d spend their time drinking Coca-Cola
And a jacket was part of the outfit!
Oh, how I miss those days of yesterday!
To those days… how I wish I could return.
When they’d throw a log on the fire
And a dagger was the weapon of choice.
Oh, how I miss those days of yesterday!

And now we’re all committing illegal sex acts on planes, I guess? You got me. Apparently, Pulido’s dias de hoy are a lot weirder than those dias de ayer.

Let’s face the facts: Nobody really did that much digging into this guy’s personal life when he announced that he was interested in entering Texas politics, because of course the Democrats didn’t. Pulido might not be a household name for most of us, but he’s a mega-star in the Tejano music scene.

Think of what Modest Mouse or Wilco would be to aging New York City hipsters with a trust fund and too many pairs of Adidas shell toes. If those bands’ lead singers (yes, I know their names are Isaac Brock and Jeff Tweedy, and yes, I own a pair of Adidas shell-toes — but no trust fund!) were to announce their intention to flip a red Staten Island seat blue, nobody would care that both men have done enough drugs to clear out several Rite-Aids. (And yes, I also know that Tweedy is now sober. In short, I’ve wasted too many hours browsing Pitchfork.)

Similarly, nobody decided to look into Pulido’s background — which appears to now be a problem, since while everyone loves a good rehab comeback story, nobody feels quite the same way about serial perverts walking the straight and narrow.

Call it hypocrisy, but people feel more comfortable with people who used to swallow a handful or two of Vicodin than with pornhounds who portrayed themselves as criminal sex perverts in a music video for a song that had almost nothing to do with that.

A Democrat-funded poll last September found Pulido behind Rep. De La Cruz by three points. If she wants to increase that margin exponentially, she should buy television spots featuring “Dias de Ayer” in its entirety, with the words “this is the freak I’m running against” superimposed on the video. If that lead isn’t double-digits by the end of the week, the people of Texas’ 15th Congressional District have lost their ever-loving minds.

Of course, that’s part of the problem. This is what Democrats’ new blood looks like — the best they’ve got. They’re freaks, libertines, and perverts. It’s what happens when your ideology is revolutionary and anchors outside of reality; eventually the executors of that ideology revolt their way outside of reality themselves, which is when people like this start showing up.

The fact that Pulido was referred to as moderate is extremely telling about the current state of the Democrat establishment. What’s scary is that there’s probably worse to come.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Politics

‘Unpatriotic Conservatives’ Redux

The Iran War is bringing back some of the lowest forms of intellectual dishonesty.

At the beginning of the Iraq War, David Frum published an article in National Review entitled “Unpatriotic Conservatives,” attacking those on the right opposed to the war—including the founders of this magazine, Patrick J. Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and Taki Theodoracopulos. Almost a quarter-century later, Frum’s arguments stand out as particularly lazy and dishonest smears. Almost everyone acknowledges that the Iraq War was a mistake sold to the American people on false pretenses, directly causing the deaths of 460,000 Iraqis and 4,506 American servicemen, destroying Iraq’s ancient Christian community, and replacing a stable government with a power vacuum that has been ripe for sectarianism and terror. Those who opposed the war now stand vindicated, even if many lost their careers due to their opposition to the Iraq War.

But, at the time, the Bush speechwriter chalked their opposition to the war not up to well-thought-out (and later vindicated) analyses of the disaster that the war would bring to the Middle East and the quagmire that it would be for United States, but instead to supposed lack of patriotism and personal opposition to the neoconservatives. “They began by hating the neoconservatives,” Frum wrote, in the part of his article that has become the most infamous. “They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.”

One would expect Frum’s line of argumentation to remain in the dustbin of history. But, in the midst of the current war with Iran, somehow this argument returned. The most noteworthy proponent of this argument—albeit in a more low-brow form—has been Ben Shapiro, the co-founder of the Daily Wire and a popular hawkish podcast host.

“There’s a coalition of people who are uniting to take down the United States,” Shapiro wrote in a recent op-ed, describing people who oppose the Iran War. “These people are cowards, plus liars, plus people who despise America.”

Another line of attack taken by both Frum and Shapiro is to attempt to accuse those on the right opposed to the war of not being real conservatives, as there are some on the left who also happen to oppose the war. 

“They have made common cause with the left-wing and Islamist antiwar movements in this country and in Europe,” Frum wrote in 2003.

Shapiro has made similar arguments when attacking non-interventionists. For instance, in a December 2025 speech at the Heritage Foundation, Shapiro attacked the prominent conservative media presenter Tucker Carlson for his foreign policy orientation, which, according to Shapiro, “has become essentially indistinguishable from the thought of far-leftists like Noam Chomsky.” 

Since the start of the war, Shapiro has continued this, calling those conservatives opposed to the war as being part of the “horseshoe right,” implying that they are somehow in cahoots with the left in opposing a foreign war. 

Contra Shapiro, Frum, and others, if anything it is deeply conservative to oppose the war in Iran. America’s great conservative statesmen, from John Randolph of Roanoke to Robert Taft, have been markedly noninterventionist in foreign policy, seeking to preserve the republic bequeathed by the Founders and fighting back against attempts to turn America into an empire that, though (in the words of John Quincy Adams) it “might become the dictatress of the world” would “be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.” The principles of geopolitical noninterventionism and neutrality comprised an important part of the American tradition, and anyone who seriously seeks to conserve this tradition will recognize this. While Frum and  Shapiro use the label “conservative” to describe themselves, are on matters of foreign affairs utterly disconnected from historical American conservatism.

Shapiro’s arguments, though mirroring Frum’s, are considerably less convincing. Whereas the Iraq War initially had broad support, the current Iran War only has the support of 27 percent of Americans. The original conservative opponents of the Iraq War were a small (though correct) minority, and Frum et al. could write them off as kooks. Today, it is implausible that the majority of Americans who oppose or question the war with Iran are “uniting to take down the United States” or “despise America.”

Shapiro is not the only one to make the argument that conservatives opposed to the Iran War are “anti-American.” The radio host Mark Levin often whines about those he deems to be “isolationists,” calling them “the Woke Reich” (apparently borrowing a phrase from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu). Levin also routinely attacks noninterventionist media figures, such as Carlson—who Levin says “hates America, our Judeo-Christian beliefs, President Trump, and MAGA”—and Steve Bannon, whom he accused of “aiding the enemy” for hosting, Trita Parsi, one of America’s foremost scholars on Iran. 

But Shapiro, unlike Levin, is broadly intelligent. He is a Harvard Law graduate; unlike Levin, he does not write books criticizing the “Franklin School” or attacking St. Thomas More for writing a satire titled “Utopia.” One might expect him, as a former supporter of the Iraq War (he wrote an article in favor of invading Iraq in 2001, as a UCLA undergraduate), to have some level of introspection about adventures abroad, or to at least explain to the audience why they should trust him on matters of Middle Eastern war and peace. Instead he is reviving neoconservative canards about war skeptics. We’ll see how that ages.

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Politics

Today’s Handmaidens of War

They come in many shapes and sizes and with myriad conflicts of interest, but they share one agenda: perpetual war.

This is not a partisan affair. Experts in military strategy, regional history, and current power dynamics in the Middle East—as well as American politics and geoeconomics—are struggling to make sense of the U.S.–Israel war launched on February 28 and warn that its escalatory spiral is spinning out of control.

But just like when the bloom was off the rose in late 2003, when the insurgencies and sectarian violence started emerging in Iraq and it was becoming clear that the Bush administration had no plan for “what’s next,” the cheerleaders and shills are rushing to battle stations today to do everything to maintain some sort of rationalization for the disaster unfolding right before our eyes.

This time, these messaging force-multipliers, tied directly or otherwise to the political and military machinery behind this war, shouldn’t get off so easily. Too many of them were around for the last big war when they lied and cajoled the American public into thinking we simply needed more “stomach” for the fight in Iraq. Many were called out. But apparently not enough.

Mixed in with the familiar figures are new voices lobbying for a big Mideast war. We have influencers paid in dark money from our “partners” in the Israeli government. They are mixed in with ideological diehards pervasive in conservative normie media and the fever swamps of X, Fox News, and talk radio. Then there are the national security “experts” who for professional reasons—establishment status or, more insidiously, ties to the defense industry or the think tanks funded by it—are rolled out onto major media to legitimize a cockeyed strategy pulling the country further into endless war.

Take note, because remembering what they say today will be important for the reckoning tomorrow.

Ideological Diehards

The loudest voices in this arena are also the most bloodthirsty and vicious when it comes to dissent. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Fox News host Mark Levin, podcaster Ben Shapiro, and social media influencer Laura Loomer are like the Red Guards trying to enforce order on the right, and they are becoming more shrill by the day as they see MAGA cohesion breaking down because of President Trump’s war.

“Just so you are aware, if you suspect someone you know in the US is working on behalf of Iran or any other adversary during a time of war, you can and should report them to the FBI and DOJ. It’s the America First thing to do,” said Loomer in a recent X post. “We need to bring back McCarthyism and start rooting out traitors.”

On March 15, Levin read out most of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1940 Fireside Chat, “Arsenal of Democracy”, which was an effort to conflate anti-war voices in America at the time with spies, enemy agents, and sympathizers. In FDR’s words, “these trouble-breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people, to divide them into hostile groups and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves.”

Levin said Trump “is doing what all great presidents do: taking on a government, an illegitimate terrorist regime, whose roots are in seventh-century barbarism… just like Franklin D. Roosevelt had to take out a barbaric Third Reich.”

He said opponents of this war, like those of 1940, “are giving aid and comfort to the enemy.” Levin saves his real venom for dissidents on the right. “Shame on you… You will be remembered as anti-America, neo-fascist Jew haters.”

The political scientist Max Abrahms has long promoted war with Iran and often smears conservatives as antisemitic isolationists. Abrahms, who teaches counterterrorism at Northeastern University, last week joined Loomer in rage-posting against Tucker and Joe Kent, who resigned from his position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center over the war with Iran. 

“My sense is Tucker served as a backchannel between Joe Kent and Iran. Joe leaked national security secrets to Tucker who was communicating with the Iranian regime,” Abrahms posted on X last week.

Abrahms chortled in July that “MAGA isolationists” were embarrassed because they had warned that the U.S.–Israel attacks on Iran in June would lead to a regional conflagration. Yet here we are. But he and others still cling to the notion that Trump is playing 4D chess and that America’s apparent strategic blunder is part of an elaborate plan that only really smart military experts can understand.

Other pro-war voices share that view. “You actually have to throw your enemies off their game,” Ben Shapiro told Fox News last week, calling Trump’s war “the single bravest foreign policy move of my lifetime” and arguing that the Iranian regime is now in its “death throes.”

Many think tankers seem to think the Iran war is going swimmingly for the U.S. “We are destroying Iran’s ability to even produce more weapons after we’ve destroyed the missiles, the launchers, the drones, and so the Iranians at this point only have the ability to essentially terrorize, shooting a drone here, a drone there, at civilian targets against Gulf states,” said the Hudson Institute’s Rebeccah Heinrichs, a regular now on Fox News, last week. 

It was the same week in which “a drone here, a drone there,” plus Iran’s ballistic missiles, struck numerous oil and gas sites across the Gulf, emptied U.S. embassies, terrorized Israeli citizens, drove up gas prices, and raised the risks of a global recession. The neoconservative Hudson Institute has received $2.6 million from defense contractors in funding since 2019, according to the Think Tank Tracker.

The best sign that things are going sideways is when the cheerleaders just stop making sense, like when they say Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s announcement of lifting sanctions on some Iranian oil only hurts the Chinese, or that Iran’s launching Intermediate Range Ballistic Missiles at Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, is an ex-post facto “imminent threat” to the United States. “Basically every major development in the Iran War has vindicated Trump’s decision to strike,” says Will Chamberlain. Nice try.

Abrahms unironically says “the discrepancy between the war commentary and what’s actually happening in the war is the greatest the world has ever seen.” He doesn’t realize how right he is.

Then there is the stray neoconservative Never Trumper who, despite their previous revulsion at anything the current president says or does, has given their blessing to his war aims today.

Eliot Cohen, who not only led the cheer sections for Iraq and Afghanistan two decades ago but has been shaming Americans into supporting the Ukraine war, now says the media is being too “negative” with regards to Operation Epic Fury.

“The [Iranians’] desire to destroy [Israel]… the failure to talk about that is driving me crazy. The truth is on [Trump’s] side,” Cohen said, noting that previous presidents just didn’t act against Iran decisively but that Trump “is actually trying to resolve it in a very direct violent way.” 

Retired four stars giving one-star analysis

When you see a retired four-star on the media, it’s best to follow the money and/or the professional affiliation to understand where their analysis is coming from. The producers and editors won’t do it for you: That way, Admiral High Hat can say whatever he wants and be afforded all sorts of authority without the viewers knowing what his conflicts of interest are. 

Take General Jack Keane. He has been shilling for war on Fox since Iraq. He’s been out of service since 2003 and in that time has worked in private equity investing in military tech and has ties with several defense contractors, including serving on the board of General Dynamics. 

Keane is probably the most prolific war supporter on Fox and stands to benefit financially the longer the war goes on. Each of his appearances show his aptitude for saying things that defy reality. He told Fox News viewers that “we aren’t going to go toe-to-toe” with Iran on the Strait of Hormuz (which days later the Pentagon said we were doing) and that we would instead escort shipping with Navy ships (which we are not doing). 

The Jewish Institute for National Security of America has scores of former American military officers in its stable, including Ret. Vice Adm. Robert Harward, a former Centcom deputy commander, who just a week ago was lauding Israeli assassinations and regime change operations.

Calling Tehran “the center of gravity,” he told CNN that “if the IRGC can be decimated so the people have that advantage, maybe arm the people. That’s how this thing flips.” Harward retired in 2013 went to work for Lockheed Martin, heading up its UAE business for eight years. He is now a top executive for Shield AI, which currently holds major contracts with the U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.

In a later interview with NPR, he said the length of the war would be “irrelevant” if the end result was destroying the regime. “Only allow a regime that we support, and the people support, to come to power. Anyone else remains a target. So I think that’s a very sound strategy.”

So does Ret. General H.R. McMaster, who works for the neoconservative  Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, which we now know the White House cribbed from to make its case against Iran. He actually laughed when asked by CBS News last week about regional escalation. 

Ret. Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who also works for FDD (which does not disclose its donors), warns that “China is watching” and that we just need patience to see the genius of Trump’s vision.

“If the United States can hold firm for the next few weeks, it can fully degrade Iran’s war-making apparatus,” he wrote for the New York Times on March 19. “This would usher in a multiyear interval of calm of the kind that neither sanctions nor diplomacy has been able to produce in over four decades. In that window, a better regional order could emerge.”

These manufacturers of consent are no different from their Iraq war counterparts. Calling them out will mean absolutely nothing, however, if they are not held accountable by the court of public opinion and whatever foreign policy establishment survives the wreckage of this catastrophic war.

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Politics

Trump’s New Media Army

Will the president suffer losing his dovish supporters?

As the United States is once again stuck in another war in the Middle East, it is worth remembering many people voted for President Donald Trump, and some of his most implacable conservative foes opposed him, precisely because they thought he might avoid costly nation-building projects.

While the Never Trump movement was somewhat eclectic, it was always disproportionately hawkish. Some of the original Never Trumpers returned to the Republican fold when Trump turned out not to be a Trojan horse liberal. Others more animated by character concerns—things like Trump’s nasty parting shot at the former special counsel Robert Mueller—never came back. And we are learning in real time what certain prominent people would pick if forced to choose between opposing Trump and supporting a war in Iran.

Trump actually succeeded where the Never Trumpers failed: He forced a change in leadership of the Republican Party. George W. Bush no longer has the same hold on the grassroots he once did. Dick Cheney died having most recently endorsed a Democrat for president. His daughter Liz frequently campaigned for Kamala Harris after losing the GOP primary for the House seat her father once held by 37.4 points. Mitt Romney left the Senate after a single term, with a lesser standing among some conservatives than when he was a moderate Massachusetts governor.

John McCain was still highly respected when he died and remains fondly remembered by the Washington press corps. But his status on the right was surely diminished, though his relationship with movement conservatives was complicated before Trump. Nevertheless, Trump sent many neoconservatives packing for their ancestral homes in the Democratic Party. Many of neoconservatism’s leading pundits are now functionally liberals, their primary audiences having shifted from Republican congressmen and center-right policymakers to Resistance wine moms.

It is all the more bewildering, then, that Trump did not decisively break with their ideology and instead delivered the regime-change war many neoconservatives really wanted far more than the ouster of Saddam Hussein. 

Which brings us to the conservatives who have long supported Trump but have broken with him on Iran. We are constantly reminded that there is a disconnect between the podcasters and the polls on whether this war divides MAGA. That’s true so far as it goes, though MAGA is an imprecise category that self-selects for those who trust Trump the most. It’s also probably true that many more Trump voters than pundits believe his promises that this won’t be a forever war, which none of his previous military interventions have turned out to be.

There is something that the doves of MAGA can learn from the Never Trumpers, however. Never Trump spoke to concerns about Trump’s temperament and commitment to conservative causes that were somewhat more widely shared by Republican-leaning voters, but few went along with the movement’s willingness to vote against Trump once he was the nominee. As these commentators and consultants deepened their hostility toward Trump at the same time he was strengthening his emotional connection to the base, they fell into irrelevance, at least within their former party.

Never Trump was really an elite phenomenon. At its peak, its primary power came from starving Trump of top Republican talent in campaigns, government, and media. This, as much as Trump’s personal whimsy, contributes to the chaos that surrounds him to this day. Trump was able to win without them, and some of this talent proved overrated. But it has also taken a decade for Trumpworld to shed its amateurishness, and it has left MAGA highly vulnerable to grifters.

The conservatives who backed Trump because they wanted to see changes to Republican positions on foreign policy, among other issues, are in a similar position. They have provided a great deal of the energy, intellectual firepower, and ideological coherence for what might otherwise be a cult of personality. They matter beyond their numbers.

As Trump now wages war in Iran, the biggest media megaphones behind him were reluctant adopters of the president at best—some were even OG Never Trumpers—whose audiences are dominated by people who were already going to turn out and vote Republican in the midterm elections anyway. Paradoxically, some of the conservatives who trusted Trump the least now have the most riding on his ability to succeed where past Republican presidents have failed.

Perhaps Trump can live without his erstwhile “new media” admirers as easily as he did the Never Trumpers. The conservative influencer space is, to put it mildly, highly flawed. Some of the most prominent podcasters are too fixated on Israel to be all that persuasive to Republicans over 40, though they are reaching audiences that helped Trump in 2024.

But Trump is going to war with the media army he has. It’s not the army he once had, and we’ll soon learn if it’s the one he might want or wish to have at a later time.

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It is AMAZING that Democrat Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said this out loud.

During an appearance on MSNOW, he actually said that illegals are the people Democrats care about the most. They have shown this as a party over and over again in the last two years, but it’s still incredible to hear one of them slip like this and say it out loud.

The clip is from 2024 and is going viral now because it was shared on Twitter/X today but he could have said this just yesterday. It’s as true now as it was in 2024.

FOX News even reported on it today:

A resurfaced post by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy discussing the people Democrats “care about most” is sparking social media outrage from conservatives, making the case it points to their priorities in the current fight on Department of Homeland Security funding.

In the clip, posted on Monday night by the conservative influencer account End Wokeness, MSNBC host Chris Hayes asked Murphy in 2024 about negotiations between Democrats and Republicans happening at the time about a border security bill. Hayes pressed Murphy on why Democrats were pushing to get funding for Ukraine instead of pushing for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, as the party had done in the past.

“Well, I mean, Chris, that’s been a failed play for 20 years,” Murphy replied. “So you are right that that has been the Democratic strategy for 30 years, maybe, and it has failed to deliver for the people we care about most, the undocumented Americans that are in this country.”

Here is the clip. Watch to the end:

Senator Chris Murphy: “The people we care about most, the undocumented migrants”

He actually said that

pic.twitter.com/FsEPmWs81U

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 24, 2026

People were amazed by this on Twitter/X.

Murphy said it out loud. Game’s over. https://t.co/VmTPENd8rh

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) March 24, 2026

Chris Murphy has been a Senator for 12 years.

His constituents can’t afford rent.
Hartford is one of the poorest cities in the US.
Veterans are sleeping on the streets.

And he just told you why. His words not mine. https://t.co/Kj9qEPbWAq

— Mehek Cooke (@MehekCooke) March 24, 2026

Without loyalty to a specific people democracy is a suicide pact https://t.co/z7MKzQGxcV

— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) March 24, 2026

This has absolutely proven to be true and never more than this week.

Senate Democrats have allowed 260,000 American workers to be used as political pawns so that they could protect criminal aliens that invaded our nation.

Sick stuff. https://t.co/jdXsQtzIv9

— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) March 24, 2026

You better believe that clip is going to be an ad for the midterms. It is a perfect summary of the Democrat party today and who they truly support.

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There was supposed to be a debate tonight for the California gubernatorial race but it has been canceled because only white candidates met the criteria for the event.

Millions of Americans tonight are saying – So what? Who even cares about this?

California has massive problems right now. Is this really one of them?

Perhaps this is one of the reasons that California is bleeding population for the first time in history. Because the people in charge are obsessing over skin color instead of the crazy high taxes and homes that are still not rebuilt more than a year after the wildfires.

NBC News reports:

California governor debate canceled after criticism of criteria that excluded candidates of color

A California gubernatorial debate was canceled just hours before it was set to occur on Tuesday after mounting criticism that only white candidates in the crowded field had qualified for the event.

The criteria to participate in the debate, which was set to be co-sponsored by the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles TV station KABC, had emerged in recent days as a source of controversy in the wide-open race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom. The sprawling field includes eight prominent Democrats and two major Republicans, as well as several other lesser-known candidates.

USC had faced condemnation for using polling and fundraising criteria for participation in the debate that had resulted in the exclusion of all the nonwhite gubernatorial candidates.

In a statement from late Monday night, USC said that the “concerns about the selection criteria” for the debate had “created a significant distraction from the issues that matter to voters.”

“Unfortunately, USC and KABC have not been able to reach an agreement on expanding the number of candidates at tomorrow’s debate. As a result, USC has made the difficult decision to cancel tomorrow’s debate and will look for other opportunities to educate voters on the candidates and issues,” the university said in that statement.

Here’s a video report:

The left’s obsession with DEI and race is destroying the country. The candidates for governor should be slugging it out, offering ideas for how to fix the problems there, but they can’t because if only white candidates qualify for the event, it’s racist.

California has serious issues. It’s time to get serious about fixing them and knock off all of the woke nonsense. It’s pointless and destructive.

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The Pentagon is preparing to deploy about 3,000 troops from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to multiple reports.

Politico reported the deployment would add to thousands of Marines already heading to the region.

Two defense officials confirmed the planned troop deployment.

U.S. officials have told Axios’ Barak Ravid that the Headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division, stationed at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina, has been directed by the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East together with a Brigade Combat Team consisting of several thousand troops,…

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 24, 2026

A U.S. official told me the Command element of the 82nd airborne division has been directed by the Pentagon to deploy to the Middle East together with an infantry brigade consisting of several thousand troops
This is another significant troops reinforcement in the region…

— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) March 24, 2026

Pentagon officials said no decision had been made to send troops into Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The U.S. currently has about 50,000 troops in the area.

The troop increase follows ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran.

U.S. Central Command said strikes have destroyed thousands of military targets since Feb. 28, when President Donald Trump announced the beginning of Operation Epic Fury.

The New York Times previously reported the Pentagon was considering deploying the 82nd Airborne Division to the area.

Iran continued drone and missile attacks in the region Tuesday.

Trump said he delayed additional strikes due to conversations with Tehran toward a peace deal.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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Actor Vince Vaughn recently appeared on the Theo Von Podcast and at one point, criticized Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and others over the fact that they have all become the same show.

This is a completely justified and kind of perfect criticism.

The only people who watch those shows anymore are raging Trump-haters who want to have their biases confirmed every night. There are no surprises. You know what these hosts are going to say about any given issue because they have hijacked these shows as their own personal soap boxes to push their political agenda.

FOX News has details:

Vince Vaughn calls out late-night shows all feeling ‘the same,’ becoming ‘agenda-based’ scolding

Actor Vince Vaughn said late-night talk shows have all become the “same” and are too “agenda-based” for people to watch.

“I think that the talk shows to a large part became really agenda-based,” Vaughn said Tuesday. “They were going to [evangelize] people to what they thought. You know what I mean? And so people just rejected it because it didn’t feel authentic. It felt like they had an agenda. It stopped being funny and it started feeling like I was f—— in a class I didn’t want to take. You know? I’m getting scolded.”

The “Wedding Crashers” actor made the remarks on Theo Von’s “This Past Weekend” podcast after Von noted how late-night shows have been struggling after only targeting “White redneck kind of people” in their comedy routines.

Vaughn added that people have likely become more drawn to podcasts over late-night shows for authenticity and to “feel like people are having a real conversation.”

“If you look at what happened to the talk shows and why their ratings are low, it’s got only to do with the fact of what you just said, which is they all became the same show. And they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad. And it’s like, imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f—— plane,” Vaughn said.

See the video below:

Actor Vince Vaughn calls out late-night comedians, says people like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others have all become the “SAME SHOW.”

“It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.”

THEO VON: “A lot of the late… pic.twitter.com/9gTyBfdWtc

— The Vigilant Fox (@VigilantFox) March 24, 2026

This is one of the main reasons that Greg Gutfeld has such amazing ratings. He is the only host who is doing something different. All of the other shows are basically the same show.

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