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There is only ONE HOPE for our nation: We MUST bend our knee to God

April 05, 2023
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Glenn Beck

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Why do we have the government that we have? Why do we have representatives who represent us, rather than rule over us? Why don't we just have a king or a dictator? Why is the American experiment so different?

This is what makes us so different: we were the first people on earth who believed that man can rule himself and constructed a government accordingly. We don't believe a legitimate form of government has the power to tell you how to live your life, where to live your life, or what to do with your life. We were bold enough to assert that man can rule himself, something we too often take for granted.

We were the first people on earth who believed that man can rule himself.

Other governments believe they have the authority to dictate how you must live your life. You belong to them, and if you disagree with them, they can end your life, your liberty, your freedom. You're just a cog in the machine. That's the way it has been since the beginning of time.

Until America.

We dared to institute our government with a new set of principles: we, the people, are in charge. The individual is the one that makes the final decision for their life—the individual, not the collective; the smallest, not the biggest. That's why we have always been for underdogs.

But we don't have underdogs anymore.

We dared to institute our government with a new set of principles.

What happened to the underdog? Who is rooting for an underdog today? We have half the nation rooting for large, giant, out-of-control corporations that are in bed with global governments. Where is the American ideal in all of this? We believe that governments are instituted among men, to secure an individual his right—not corporations, not global elitists.

Over and over and over, throughout the history of time, men have been prone to ignore the personality of the individual and to disregard man's rights by governing against them and their opportunity to develop. What are we doing right now? What is the sickness that is infecting our minds and souls?

Men have been prone to ignore the personality of the individual.

On one side, there are those who believe in the dignity and worth of the individual, who proclaim the right to be free and achieve one's fullest destiny—spiritually, intellectually, and materially. On the other side, there are those who deny and disdain the worth of the individual. They will subject people to the will of the authoritarian state, the dictates of a rigid ideology, the ruthless disciplines of a party apparatus. We're in danger now of actually surrendering our personal and property rights.

I still hold these truths to be self-evident—I'm just looking for the government that will secure those rights, the eternal and everlasting rights.

The principles of tyranny maintain that human beings are incurably selfish. They can't govern themselves. They're too stupid. They're too selfish. Dictatorships are the way to go. However, dictators argue that people should be governed by a clique, like that high school clique that was so very popular and would rub everybody else's face in the dirt. They'll seize power through subversion, or outright bloodshed. Then you will be left without any guarantees or rights, and the regime will be beholden only to the plans and whims of the ruling tyrants.

The regime will be beholden only to the plans and whims of the ruling tyrants.

Today, freedom is being destroyed in the name of freedom. Political, economic, and individual freedom is in the course of being destroyed all across the globe. The struggle for truth is being distorted by those who don't have the slightest regard for truth. All the words which mean so much to us—liberty, freedom, democracy—are being spoiled and prostituted by the enemies of liberty and freedom and democracy.

Today, freedom is being destroyed in the name of freedom.

A ruthless battle is going on, and it is not a battle of flesh and bone. It is a battle for and against the Christian way of life. When I say Christian way of life, I don't mean Gregorian chants. I don't mean your doctrine vs. my doctrine. I mean the eternal truths that we hold dear: love one another, serve one another, and treat others the way you wish to be treated. That kind of Christian way of life.

This war is being waged in the name of freedom, even in the name of God. According to their God, black becomes white, tyranny becomes freedom, and the forced labor camp will set you free! The slave state is represented as a democracy. They put their emphasis on man as an "economic being," explaining man in terms of mere scientific and chemical facts, an accident of circumstance. They regard "human beings" as just a pile of bodies, denying man's individual, spiritual existence. Each of them aids and hastens the destruction of the political institutions in which our free society rests.

They regard "human beings" as just a pile of bodies, denying man's individual, spiritual existence.

Our founders put something together to further the welfare of man. The end—the telos—of man is happiness, and the internal value of every child of God ought to be secured the right to pursue happiness. We in the West are losing our independence to do this. Men becoming more and more defeated. Hopeless.

Know this: force and compulsion will never establish the ideal society. Anyone who has to enforce their truth by the barrel of a gun, anyone who has to have 80,000 new IRS agents to frighten you into silence, they are the ones on the losing side. They are the defenders of deceit and lies. They will lose in the end. There is great hope in this.

Freedom does not come through a barrel of a gun or through a work camp or through a number. It comes from the transformation within the individual soul, a life redeemed, a life brought into harmony with the divine.

Freedom comes from the transformation within the individual soul, a life redeemed.

We live in a world now that doesn't believe in redemption. We live in a world that doesn't believe in the individual, but in dictators, who think they can control the "selfish, awful masses" into heaven. Those are the words of Satan.

I believe the natural man is the enemy of God. If I just let myself go and have no regulators or governors to keep me in-check, I got news for you: I'm going to do all kinds of awful things because it's all about me, me, me. However, the minute I surrender my will to God, I wish to serve my fellow man. Why? It's the only way I can repay my debt for the forgiveness of everything else I've done in my life.

We live in a world now that doesn't believe in redemption.

The Judeo-Christian way of life is not a cartoon! If you're describing it as a cartoon or living it as a cartoon, you're part of the problem. Once we find what is eternally true instead of selfishness, we dedicate our ability our possessions, our lives if necessary, our fortunes, and our sacred honor for the alleviation of the ills of mankind.

I am only asking God: What do you want me to say? What do you want me to say to the people who are listening to me? He wants me to say, "It doesn't have to be this way." He wants me to say, "Please, recognize what you're about to lose, and turn back to me." He wants me to say, "I love the people who are currently persecuting this country." He loves Donald Trump and everybody else across the political spectrum. He loves the people that we relish in hating today. He loves them, just like he loves you.

In him, there is complete forgiveness. Hate must be supplanted by sympathy and forbearance. Peace and true prosperity can only come from conforming our lives to the law of love. The law of principles that are found only in the gospel of Jesus Christ can change man's heart and soul.

Hate must be supplanted by sympathy and forbearance.

Nothing will change until the hearts of the men and women of this nation are changed. God does not want us to have to suffer, but until we bend our knee to him, we will.

A new Monroe Doctrine? Trump quietly redraws the Western map

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The president’s moves in Venezuela, Guyana, and Colombia aren’t about drugs. They’re about re-establishing America’s sovereignty across the Western Hemisphere.

For decades, we’ve been told America’s wars are about drugs, democracy, or “defending freedom.” But look closer at what’s unfolding off the coast of Venezuela, and you’ll see something far more strategic taking shape. Donald Trump’s so-called drug war isn’t about fentanyl or cocaine. It’s about control — and a rebirth of American sovereignty.

The aim of Trump’s ‘drug war’ is to keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

The president understands something the foreign policy class forgot long ago: The world doesn’t respect apologies. It respects strength.

While the global elites in Davos tout the Great Reset, Trump is building something entirely different — a new architecture of power based on regional independence, not global dependence. His quiet campaign in the Western Hemisphere may one day be remembered as the second Monroe Doctrine.

Venezuela sits at the center of it all. It holds the world’s largest crude oil reserves — oil perfectly suited for America’s Gulf refineries. For years, China and Russia have treated Venezuela like a pawn on their chessboard, offering predatory loans in exchange for control of those resources. The result has been a corrupt, communist state sitting in our own back yard. For too long, Washington shrugged. Not any more.The naval exercises in the Caribbean, the sanctions, the patrols — they’re not about drug smugglers. They’re about evicting China from our hemisphere.

Trump is using the old “drug war” playbook to wage a new kind of war — an economic and strategic one — without firing a shot at our actual enemies. The goal is simple: Keep the hemisphere’s oil, minerals, and manufacturing within the Western family and out of Beijing’s hands.

Beyond Venezuela

Just east of Venezuela lies Guyana, a country most Americans couldn’t find on a map a year ago. Then ExxonMobil struck oil, and suddenly Guyana became the newest front in a quiet geopolitical contest. Washington is helping defend those offshore platforms, build radar systems, and secure undersea cables — not for charity, but for strategy. Control energy, data, and shipping lanes, and you control the future.

Moreover, Colombia — a country once defined by cartels — is now positioned as the hinge between two oceans and two continents. It guards the Panama Canal and sits atop rare-earth minerals every modern economy needs. Decades of American presence there weren’t just about cocaine interdiction; they were about maintaining leverage over the arteries of global trade. Trump sees that clearly.

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All of these recent news items — from the military drills in the Caribbean to the trade negotiations — reflect a new vision of American power. Not global policing. Not endless nation-building. It’s about strategic sovereignty.

It’s the same philosophy driving Trump’s approach to NATO, the Middle East, and Asia. We’ll stand with you — but you’ll stand on your own two feet. The days of American taxpayers funding global security while our own borders collapse are over.

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine

Critics will call it “isolationism.” It isn’t. It’s realism. It’s recognizing that America’s strength comes not from fighting other people’s wars but from securing our own energy, our own supply lines, our own hemisphere. The first Monroe Doctrine warned foreign powers to stay out of the Americas. The second one — Trump’s — says we’ll defend them, but we’ll no longer be their bank or their babysitter.

Historians may one day mark this moment as the start of a new era — when America stopped apologizing for its own interests and started rebuilding its sovereignty, one barrel, one chip, and one border at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Antifa isn’t “leaderless” — It’s an organized machine of violence

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The mob rises where men of courage fall silent. The lesson from Portland, Chicago, and other blue cities is simple: Appeasing radicals doesn’t buy peace — it only rents humiliation.

Parts of America, like Portland and Chicago, now resemble occupied territory. Progressive city governments have surrendered control to street militias, leaving citizens, journalists, and even federal officers to face violent anarchists without protection.

Take Portland, where Antifa has terrorized the city for more than 100 consecutive nights. Federal officers trying to keep order face nightly assaults while local officials do nothing. Independent journalists, such as Nick Sortor, have even been arrested for documenting the chaos. Sortor and Blaze News reporter Julio Rosas later testified at the White House about Antifa’s violence — testimony that corporate media outlets buried.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened.

Chicago offers the same grim picture. Federal agents have been stalked, ambushed, and denied backup from local police while under siege from mobs. Calls for help went unanswered, putting lives in danger. This is more than disorder; it is open defiance of federal authority and a violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause.

A history of violence

For years, the legacy media and left-wing think tanks have portrayed Antifa as “decentralized” and “leaderless.” The opposite is true. Antifa is organized, disciplined, and well-funded. Groups like Rose City Antifa in Oregon, the Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club in Texas, and Jane’s Revenge operate as coordinated street militias. Legal fronts such as the National Lawyers Guild provide protection, while crowdfunding networks and international supporters funnel money directly to the movement.

The claim that Antifa lacks structure is a convenient myth — one that’s cost Americans dearly.

History reminds us what happens when mobs go unchecked. The French Revolution, Weimar Germany, Mao’s Red Guards — every one began with chaos on the streets. But it wasn’t random. Today’s radicals follow the same playbook: Exploit disorder, intimidate opponents, and seize moral power while the state looks away.

Dismember the dragon

The Trump administration’s decision to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization was long overdue. The label finally acknowledged what citizens already knew: Antifa functions as a militant enterprise, recruiting and radicalizing youth for coordinated violence nationwide.

But naming the threat isn’t enough. The movement’s financiers, organizers, and enablers must also face justice. Every dollar that funds Antifa’s destruction should be traced, seized, and exposed.

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This fight transcends party lines. It’s not about left versus right; it’s about civilization versus anarchy. When politicians and judges excuse or ignore mob violence, they imperil the republic itself. Americans must reject silence and cowardice while street militias operate with impunity.

Antifa is organized, funded, and emboldened. The violence in Portland and Chicago is deliberate, not spontaneous. If America fails to confront it decisively, the price won’t just be broken cities — it will be the erosion of the republic itself.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

URGENT: Supreme Court case could redefine religious liberty

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The state is effectively silencing professionals who dare speak truths about gender and sexuality, redefining faith-guided speech as illegal.

This week, free speech is once again on the line before the U.S. Supreme Court. At stake is whether Americans still have the right to talk about faith, morality, and truth in their private practice without the government’s permission.

The case comes out of Colorado, where lawmakers in 2019 passed a ban on what they call “conversion therapy.” The law prohibits licensed counselors from trying to change a minor’s gender identity or sexual orientation, including their behaviors or gender expression. The law specifically targets Christian counselors who serve clients attempting to overcome gender dysphoria and not fall prey to the transgender ideology.

The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The law does include one convenient exception. Counselors are free to “assist” a person who wants to transition genders but not someone who wants to affirm their biological sex. In other words, you can help a child move in one direction — one that is in line with the state’s progressive ideology — but not the other.

Think about that for a moment. The state is saying that a counselor can’t even discuss changing behavior with a client. Isn’t that the whole point of counseling?

One‑sided freedom

Kaley Chiles, a licensed professional counselor in Colorado Springs, has been one of the victims of this blatant attack on the First Amendment. Chiles has dedicated her practice to helping clients dealing with addiction, trauma, sexuality struggles, and gender dysphoria. She’s also a Christian who serves patients seeking guidance rooted in biblical teaching.

Before 2019, she could counsel minors according to her faith. She could talk about biblical morality, identity, and the path to wholeness. When the state outlawed that speech, she stopped. She followed the law — and then she sued.

Her case, Chiles v. Salazar, is now before the Supreme Court. Justices heard oral arguments on Tuesday. The question: Is counseling a form of speech or merely a government‑regulated service?

If the court rules the wrong way, it won’t just silence therapists. It could muzzle pastors, teachers, parents — anyone who believes in truth grounded in something higher than the state.

Censored belief

I believe marriage between a man and a woman is ordained by God. I believe that family — mother, father, child — is central to His design for humanity.

I believe that men and women are created in God’s image, with divine purpose and eternal worth. Gender isn’t an accessory; it’s part of who we are.

I believe the command to “be fruitful and multiply” still stands, that the power to create life is sacred, and that it belongs within marriage between a man and a woman.

And I believe that when we abandon these principles — when we treat sex as recreation, when we dissolve families, when we forget our vows — society fractures.

Are those statements controversial now? Maybe. But if this case goes against Chiles, those statements and others could soon be illegal to say aloud in public.

Faith on trial

In Colorado today, a counselor cannot sit down with a 15‑year‑old who’s struggling with gender identity and say, “You were made in God’s image, and He does not make mistakes.” That is now considered hate speech.

That’s the “freedom” the modern left is offering — freedom to affirm, but never to question. Freedom to comply, but never to dissent. The same movement that claims to champion tolerance now demands silence from anyone who disagrees. The root of this case isn’t about therapy. It’s about erasing a worldview.

The real test

No matter what happens at the Supreme Court, we cannot stop speaking the truth. These beliefs aren’t political slogans. For me, they are the product of years of wrestling, searching, and learning through pain and grace what actually leads to peace. For us, they are the fundamental principles that lead to a flourishing life. We cannot balk at standing for truth.

Maybe that’s why God allows these moments — moments when believers are pushed to the wall. They force us to ask hard questions: What is true? What is worth standing for? What is worth dying for — and living for?

If we answer those questions honestly, we’ll find not just truth, but freedom.

The state doesn’t grant real freedom — and it certainly isn’t defined by Colorado legislators. Real freedom comes from God. And the day we forget that, the First Amendment will mean nothing at all.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Glenn Beck joins Megyn Kelly LIVE — One night ONLY in Fort Worth!

Get ready for sparks to fly. For the first time in years, Glenn will come face-to-face with Megyn Kelly — and this time, he’s the one in the hot seat. On October 25, 2025, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, Glenn joins Megyn on her “Megyn Kelly Live Tour” for a no-holds-barred conversation that promises laughs, surprises, and maybe even a few uncomfortable questions.

What will happen when two of America’s sharpest voices collide under the spotlight? Will Glenn finally reveal the major announcement he’s been teasing on the radio for weeks? You’ll have to be there to find out.

This promises to be more than just an interview — it’s a live showdown packed with wit, honesty, and the kind of energy you can only feel if you are in the room. Tickets are selling fast, so don’t miss your chance to see Glenn like you’ve never seen him before.

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