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Morning Brief 2024-09-24

September 24, 2024
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Brendan Carr
TOPIC: George Soros is set to buy a major stake in the second-largest chain of radio stations.

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Justin Haskins
TOPIC: What happened at the U.N. Summit of the Future meeting?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Sen. Rand Paul
TOPIC: Will we EVER get REAL answers about the assassination attempts on President Trump?!

Daniel 6:26-27

Daniel 6:26-27

Glenn Beck...

Pulsecast: Your one-stop shop for 2024 presidential polling
Stu and his team of fellow political wizzes created Pulsecast in tandem with "The Glenn Beck Program," a comprehensive view of national sentiment toward Trump and Harris heading into November.

Glenn Beck Still Fights for the Constitution Each Day on Radio and at Blaze
The radio legend and founder of Blaze Media reflects on his journey and growing concern over America’s future.

Glenn Beck: How Anti-Trump Media Rhetoric to Blame for New Assassination Attempt
Ryan Routh was the second person to be tipped over the edge by the corporate media’s propaganda, convinced that he would be saving democracy by taking out Trump.

Where do the 1963 communist goals stand now?
In 2002, GlennBeck.com published a list of communist goals, as entered into the congressional record in 1963. In the early 2000s, it was seen as a warning of things to come — now it reads like a roadmap of where we've been.

News...

Arizona court allows nearly 98K people without citizenship confirmation to vote over decades-old gov't error
"We're very grateful to the state Supreme Court for protecting the voices of almost 98,000 voters who were in danger of being disenfranchised in this election," said Gina Swoboda, the state GOP party chair.

What really happened in Ukraine with Hunter and Joe Biden
Emails reveal Hunter Biden’s 2014 Burisma board appointment was solidified during a luxury Lake Como trip with Devon Archer, with the help of Russian oligarchs and a $3.5 million wire transfer.

Trying to Bridge the Partisan Divide One Conversation at a Time
StoryCorps is opening the One Small Step program up to anyone. “We’re asking people to do something that they’ve never done before,” he said. “Talk to a stranger across the political divides at this toxic moment in the country.”

Street takeovers involving hundreds of cars, reckless drivers wreak havoc in Philly
Multiple Philadelphia police officers were attacked and their vehicles damaged while trying to break up nearly a dozen illegal car meetups throughout the weekend.

Mob of 50 teens on bicycles easily ransacks 7-Eleven in LA and escapes cops
It was the latest episode in an apparent criminal trend in the area.

Trump - Vance...

Suspected would-be assassin offered a bounty on Trump's head, prosecutors reveal
Donald Trump Jr. asked on X, "WTF!? Why is Kamala's DOJ publicizing Ryan Wesley Routh putting a bounty on my dad's head???"

Ex-AG Barr joins criticism of DOJ's release of Trump bounty letter: 'No apparent justification'
"It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence," former Attorney General William Barr said.

Trump blasts Biden-Harris admin for giving 'slap on the wrist' to would-be assassin — says Florida should 'handle the case'
"The Kamala Harris/Joe Biden Department of Justice and FBI are mishandling and downplaying the second assassination attempt on my life since July," Trump wrote in an email to supporters.

Jack Smith Should Not Be Allowed To File 180 Page ‘Hit Piece’ While Trump Remains Under Gag Order, Attorneys Say
Special counsel Jack Smith should not be allowed to file a massive “hit piece” against Trump on the public docket ahead of the election, especially while Trump remains under a gag order, Trump's attorneys told a judge on Monday.

Vance Unloads On Kamala Over Border Disaster: ‘We Are Not Bad People For Complaining About It’
“Our message to Kamala Harris is, HOW DARE YOU call people a racist for wanting to close down that wide-open border,” Vance began.

Historian Douglas Brinkley riles up the crazies
Left-wing presidential historian Douglas Brinkley claimed on Monday — following two assassination attempts on Trump — that people needed to “wake up” because it would be a “doomsday scenario” if Trump were to win again in November.

Harris - Walz...

Kamala Harris supported 'finally putting an end to fracking once and for all' on 2020 campaign trail
“Climate change is the single greatest threat facing our world today. That’s why I am committed to passing a Green New Deal, creating clean jobs and finally putting an end to fracking once and for all."

Kamala Harris Chants ‘Down With Deportation’ In Unearthed Video
“Up, up with education. Down, down with deportation,” the then-California senator chanted alongside a crowd during a January 2018 parade in Los Angeles.

Flashback: Kamala Harris pushed to gut religious liberty protections
Kamala Harris led efforts to weaken the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and backed the "Equality Act" to target faith-based groups. She even attacked a judicial nominee for being part of a Catholic charity.

Meta AI chatbot praises Kamala Harris for her ‘trailblazing leadership’
But it warns that critics have called Trump "crude and lazy."

PBS says Harris a ‘happy warrior’ ready to ‘slap’ Trump
“She’s part of what’s driving this culture that I think you said will slap Donald Trump in the face. It’s slapping him in the face now. She, in her entire career, has been the happy warrior about helping people and leaving aside the negativity."

BBC: Why 'Comrade Kamala' memes are spreading among Latino exiles
These expats are especially vulnerable to misinformation.

Politics...

Dem Senators Fear Trump’s Support Is Undercounted In Polls
Multiple Democratic senators expressed concern that Trump has more support from the American people than polling suggests.

Democrats angry at New York Times poll showing Trump gains
"Yes, there is new NYT polling this morning with good data for Trump in AZ, GA, NC, but I want to be very clear — the NYT has been running 3-4 points more Republican than other pollsters of late."

CNN’s Harry Enten Calls Presidential Race ‘Closest’ He’s ‘Ever Seen’
The election could be decided in the margin of error.

Trump leads Cincinnati ‘cookie’ poll that has predicted every election but one since 1984
“Our results, out of our four retail stores, kind of cover the north, south, east and west portions of Cincinnati. So they’re pretty diverse,” Busken explained.

Pennsylvania county has more registered GOP voters than Dems for the first time in 52 years
Statistics released on Monday by the Pennsylvania Department of State showed that a Democratic stronghold had flipped to the Republican column after 52 years.

Minnesota County Sends Out Ballots Wrongly Labeling Republican Candidate As Democrat
The Secretary of State’s office said in a release on Friday that “seventeen ballots were issued with this error.”

Free Speech...

FTC Commissioner Warns New Report Could Be Used By Big Tech To Justify Censorship
The report's vague recommendations on content moderation could harm free speech, especially given social media companies’ history of government coordination to suppress certain viewpoints.

Gavin Newsom defends AI censorship laws, says criticism 'hurts democracy'
"Parody is still alive and well in California, but deepfakes and manipulations of elections ... that hurts democracy and the integrity of the system and trust."

Flashback: Trump supporter convicted of election interference, conspiracy for memes
Sending political opponents who mock the ruling class to the gulag is the kind of behavior one usually associates with China, North Korea, or some despotic Middle Eastern regime.

Economy...

Existing Home Sales, Pending Sales Fall to Lowest Level Since Pandemic Start
Sales of existing homes fell 1% month over month and 3.1% year over year in August to the lowest level in records dating back to 2012.

The last full-size Kmart in the United States is closing
The Long Island store closing will close one more chapter in the disastrous 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart.

Immigration...

Sanctuary policy leads to failing schools in affluent Fairfax County
A quarter of Fairfax County’s public high schools are at risk of losing state accreditation due to rising drop-out rates and chronic absenteeism, coinciding with a surge in non-English-speaking students following a 2021 sanctuary policy.

Democrats are gaslighting Americans about Springfield's cat BBQs
The mainstream media has once again cast Trump as a liar and racist, claiming that his cat-eating rumors are entirely baseless. But are they?

COVID-19...

Victims' families want Andrew Cuomo to face justice over COVID nursing home deaths following bombshell report
"We call on the Department of Justice to launch a full and fair investigation into Andrew Cuomo's statements to Congress, his coordination with other witnesses, and his role in covering up the nursing home death toll."

While Your Family Members Died Alone, Lockdowners Had Sex Parties
Millions of New York City residents struggled under the public health official’s aggressive lockdowns that permanently closed more than 5,000 businesses in Manhattan alone.

Israel...

IDF Shows Proof Of Hezbollah Hiding Cruise Missiles In Lebanese Homes
According to a video released by the IDF spokesman, a few weeks ago the air force detected and hit an attempted launch from a launcher concealed inside a house.

US sending more troops to Middle East as latest Israel-Hezbollah fighting sparks fear of all-out war
“In light of increased tension in the Middle East and out of an abundance of caution, we are sending a small number of additional US military personnel forward to augment our forces that are already in the region.”

Ukraine - Russia...

Putin Realizing That Nuclear Threats 'Don't Frighten Anyone': Report
With Moscow's red lines constantly being crossed, Putin is developing a "more nuanced and limited response" to future Western approval of long-range strikes into Russia, the Post reported, without specifying details.

Kremlin says Putin was joking about backing Harris for president
“It was a joke,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

World...

Blinken pushes globalist UN reform agenda
At the UN on Monday night, the Biden-Harris administration backed a plan giving more seats to developing nations, expanding the security council and emphasizing globalist priorities like climate change.

Sri Lanka, the WEF's failed economic guinea pig, just elected a Marxist
Chinese president Xi Jinping congratulated Dissanayake on his victory. So did the Biden administration.

Tech billionaire's sunken yacht may hold classified secrets from Western intelligence agencies on hard drives
Specialist divers have since asked for heightened security to guard the sunken vessel over concerns that classified data is inside locked safes that are still aboard, some 160 feet under water.

Entertainment...

Lynda Carter trashes her sister in effort to endorse local Democrats
Her sister, Pam, responded to the public slight, saying, "I love my sister even though her politics are very far left and we disagree on some issues. That doesn’t change how I feel about her, so you won’t catch me criticizing her or bad-mouthing her in the press."

Media...

RFK Jr. may sue Olivia Nuzzi after writer ‘bombarded’ him with ‘increasingly pornographic’ pics and videos: Report
“This had nothing to do with romance. He was being chased by porn.”

Environment...

Three Mile Island nuclear plant will reopen to power Microsoft data centers
Constellation Energy, which bills itself as America's largest producer of "clean, carbon-free energy," announced Friday that it had signed its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft.

World’s top banks back boosting nuclear energy
On Monday, 14 financial institutions said they would now back the goals set during negotiations at the 28th U.N. Climate Change Conference last year to triple global nuclear energy capacity by 2050.

Technology...

FCC delay of internet rollout in rural communities slammed as ‘worst abuse’ by Commissioner Brendan Carr
Dish chairman and longtime Democrat donor Charlie Ergen was given up to three more years to bring service to the most remote communities in the U.S. by the FCC last week — without giving the public or internal FCC officials any input.

EU set to warn Google to change search practices or face major fines: Report
The EU watchdogs are prepping a “formal chargesheet” that is focused on how Google displays links to its competitors within embedded search services like Google Flights or Google Hotels, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

Video: Snapchat AI is told that it's 2029 and asked who president was in 2027
"In 2027, the President of the United States was Kamala Harris. She was in office from 2025 to 2029."

Facebook blocks Texas homeschool group over bizarre drug association
Texans for Homeschool Freedom faced repeated bans and warnings from Facebook, which flagged their page as related to drug sales because the word "Texan" was linked to injectable drugs.

Science...

A First-Of-Its-Kind Study Reveals What Pregnancy Does To The Brain In Real Time
Pregnancy is transformative in myriad ways. From bones to hormones, few systems remain untouched during and after gestation. And yet, we still understand very little about this process. But new research out today opens a new window into what those nine months do to the brain.

Eagle-eyed viewers claim this photo is proof of time travel
“How is the first kid in line holding an Apple iPad in 1941!”

Sports...

High school officials ban parents for wearing pink wristbands with 'XX' after boy allowed on girls' soccer team
School officials responded by stopping the game, demanding the parents take off the wristbands, and having police issue "no trespass" orders against parents.

Christian judo champion suspended 5 months for making sign of the cross at the Olympics
World champion judo competitor Nemanja Majdov was suspended for five months by an international governing body for making the sign of the cross before a match at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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Trump's proposal explained: Ukraine's path to peace without NATO expansion

ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / Contributor | Getty Images

Strategic compromise, not absolute victory, often ensures lasting stability.

When has any country been asked to give up land it won in a war? Even if a nation is at fault, the punishment must be measured.

After World War I, Germany, the main aggressor, faced harsh penalties under the Treaty of Versailles. Germans resented the restrictions, and that resentment fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler, ultimately leading to World War II. History teaches that justice for transgressions must avoid creating conditions for future conflict.

Ukraine and Russia must choose to either continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

Russia and Ukraine now stand at a similar crossroads. They can cling to disputed land and prolong a devastating war, or they can make concessions that might secure a lasting peace. The stakes could not be higher: Tens of thousands die each month, and the choice between endless bloodshed and negotiated stability hinges on each side’s willingness to yield.

History offers a guide. In 1967, Israel faced annihilation. Surrounded by hostile armies, the nation fought back and seized large swaths of territory from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. Yet Israel did not seek an empire. It held only the buffer zones needed for survival and returned most of the land. Security and peace, not conquest, drove its decisions.

Peace requires concessions

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says both Russia and Ukraine will need to “get something” from a peace deal. He’s right. Israel proved that survival outweighs pride. By giving up land in exchange for recognition and an end to hostilities, it stopped the cycle of war. Egypt and Israel have not fought in more than 50 years.

Russia and Ukraine now press opposing security demands. Moscow wants a buffer to block NATO. Kyiv, scarred by invasion, seeks NATO membership — a pledge that any attack would trigger collective defense by the United States and Europe.

President Donald Trump and his allies have floated a middle path: an Article 5-style guarantee without full NATO membership. Article 5, the core of NATO’s charter, declares that an attack on one is an attack on all. For Ukraine, such a pledge would act as a powerful deterrent. For Russia, it might be more palatable than NATO expansion to its border

Andrew Harnik / Staff | Getty Images

Peace requires concessions. The human cost is staggering: U.S. estimates indicate 20,000 Russian soldiers died in a single month — nearly half the total U.S. casualties in Vietnam — and the toll on Ukrainians is also severe. To stop this bloodshed, both sides need to recognize reality on the ground, make difficult choices, and anchor negotiations in security and peace rather than pride.

Peace or bloodshed?

Both Russia and Ukraine claim deep historical grievances. Ukraine arguably has a stronger claim of injustice. But the question is not whose parchment is older or whose deed is more valid. The question is whether either side is willing to trade some land for the lives of thousands of innocent people. True security, not historical vindication, must guide the path forward.

History shows that punitive measures or rigid insistence on territorial claims can perpetuate cycles of war. Germany’s punishment after World War I contributed directly to World War II. By contrast, Israel’s willingness to cede land for security and recognition created enduring peace. Ukraine and Russia now face the same choice: Continue the cycle of bloodshed or make difficult compromises in pursuit of survival and stability.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The loneliness epidemic: Are machines replacing human connection?

NurPhoto / Contributor | Getty Images

Seniors, children, and the isolated increasingly rely on machines for conversation, risking real relationships and the emotional depth that only humans provide.

Jill Smola is 75 years old. She’s a retiree from Orlando, Florida, and she spent her life caring for the elderly. She played games, assembled puzzles, and offered company to those who otherwise would have sat alone.

Now, she sits alone herself. Her husband has died. She has a lung condition. She can’t drive. She can’t leave her home. Weeks can pass without human interaction.

Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

But CBS News reports that she has a new companion. And she likes this companion more than her own daughter.

The companion? Artificial intelligence.

She spends five hours a day talking to her AI friend. They play games, do trivia, and just talk. She says she even prefers it to real people.

My first thought was simple: Stop this. We are losing our humanity.

But as I sat with the story, I realized something uncomfortable. Maybe we’ve already lost some of our humanity — not to AI, but to ourselves.

Outsourcing presence

How often do we know the right thing to do yet fail to act? We know we should visit the lonely. We know we should sit with someone in pain. We know what Jesus would do: Notice the forgotten, touch the untouchable, offer time and attention without outsourcing compassion.

Yet how often do we just … talk about it? On the radio, online, in lectures, in posts. We pontificate, and then we retreat.

I asked myself: What am I actually doing to close the distance between knowing and doing?

Human connection is messy. It’s inconvenient. It takes patience, humility, and endurance. AI doesn’t challenge you. It doesn’t interrupt your day. It doesn’t ask anything of you. Real people do. Real people make us confront our pride, our discomfort, our loneliness.

We’ve built an economy of convenience. We can have groceries delivered, movies streamed, answers instantly. But friendships — real relationships — are slow, inefficient, unpredictable. They happen in the blank spaces of life that we’ve been trained to ignore.

And now we’re replacing that inefficiency with machines.

AI provides comfort without challenge. It eliminates the risk of real intimacy. It’s an elegant coping mechanism for loneliness, but a poor substitute for life. If we’re not careful, the lonely won’t just be alone — they’ll be alone with an anesthetic, a shadow that never asks for anything, never interrupts, never makes them grow.

Reclaiming our humanity

We need to reclaim our humanity. Presence matters. Not theory. Not outrage. Action.

It starts small. Pull up a chair for someone who eats alone. Call a neighbor you haven’t spoken to in months. Visit a nursing home once a month — then once a week. Ask their names, hear their stories. Teach your children how to be present, to sit with someone in grief, without rushing to fix it.

Turn phones off at dinner. Make Sunday afternoons human time. Listen. Ask questions. Don’t post about it afterward. Make the act itself sacred.

Humility is central. We prefer machines because we can control them. Real people are inconvenient. They interrupt our narratives. They demand patience, forgiveness, and endurance. They make us confront ourselves.

A friend will challenge your self-image. A chatbot won’t.

Our homes are quieter. Our streets are emptier. Loneliness is an epidemic. And AI will not fix it. It will only dull the edges and make a diminished life tolerable.

Before we worry about how AI will reshape humanity, we must first practice humanity. It can start with 15 minutes a day of undivided attention, presence, and listening.

Change usually comes when pain finally wins. Let’s not wait for that. Let’s start now. Because real connection restores faster than any machine ever will.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Exposed: The radical Left's bloody rampage against America

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For years, the media warned of right-wing terror. But the bullets, bombs, and body bags are piling up on the left — with support from Democrat leaders and voters.

For decades, the media and federal agencies have warned Americans that the greatest threat to our homeland is the political right — gun-owning veterans, conservative Christians, anyone who ever voted for President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden once declared that white supremacy is “the single most dangerous terrorist threat” in the nation.

Since Trump’s re-election, the rhetoric has only escalated. Outlets like the Washington Post and the Guardian warned that his second term would trigger a wave of far-right violence.

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing.

They were wrong.

The real domestic threat isn’t coming from MAGA grandmas or rifle-toting red-staters. It’s coming from the radical left — the anarchists, the Marxists, the pro-Palestinian militants, and the anti-American agitators who have declared war on law enforcement, elected officials, and civil society.

Willful blindness

On July 4, a group of black-clad terrorists ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Alvarado, Texas. They hurled fireworks at the building, spray-painted graffiti, and then opened fire on responding law enforcement, shooting a local officer in the neck. Journalist Andy Ngo has linked the attackers to an Antifa cell in the Dallas area.

Authorities have so far charged 14 people in the plot and recovered AR-style rifles, body armor, Kevlar vests, helmets, tactical gloves, and radios. According to the Department of Justice, this was a “planned ambush with intent to kill.”

And it wasn’t an isolated incident. It’s part of a growing pattern of continuous violent left-wing incidents since December last year.

Monthly attacks

Most notably, in December 2024, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione allegedly gunned down UnitedHealth Group CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. Mangione reportedly left a manifesto raging against the American health care system and was glorified by some on social media as a kind of modern Robin Hood.

One Emerson College poll found that 41% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 said the murder was “acceptable” or “somewhat acceptable.”

The next month, a man carrying Molotov cocktails was arrested near the U.S. Capitol. He allegedly planned to assassinate Trump-appointed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

In February, the “Tesla Takedown” attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships started picking up traction.

In March, a self-described “queer scientist” was arrested after allegedly firebombing the Republican Party headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Graffiti on the burned building read “ICE = KKK.”

In April, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D-Pa.) official residence was firebombed on Passover night. The suspect allegedly set the governor’s mansion on fire because of what Shapiro, who is Jewish, “wants to do to the Palestinian people.”

In May, two young Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Witnesses said the shooter shouted “Free Palestine” as he was being arrested. The suspect told police he acted “for Gaza” and was reportedly linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In June, an Egyptian national who had entered the U.S. illegally allegedly threw a firebomb at a peaceful pro-Israel rally in Boulder, Colorado. Eight people were hospitalized, and an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor later died from her injuries.

That same month, a pro-Palestinian rioter in New York was arrested for allegedly setting fire to 11 police vehicles. In Los Angeles, anti-ICE rioters smashed cars, set fires, and hurled rocks at law enforcement. House Democrats refused to condemn the violence.

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In Portland, Oregon, rioters tried to burn down another ICE facility and assaulted police officers before being dispersed with tear gas. Graffiti left behind read: “Kill your masters.”

On July 7, a Michigan man opened fire on a Customs and Border Protection facility in McAllen, Texas, wounding two police officers and an agent. Border agents returned fire, killing the suspect.

Days later in California, ICE officers conducting a raid on an illegal cannabis farm in Ventura County were attacked by left-wing activists. One protester appeared to fire at federal agents.

This is not a series of isolated incidents. It’s a timeline of escalation. Political assassinations, firebombings, arson, ambushes — all carried out in the name of radical leftist ideology.

Democrats are radicalizing

This isn’t just the work of fringe agitators. It’s being enabled — and in many cases encouraged — by elected Democrats.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz routinely calls ICE “Trump’s modern-day Gestapo.” Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass attempted to block an ICE operation in her city. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE agents to a neo-Nazi group. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson referred to them as “secret police terrorizing our communities.”

Apparently, other Democratic lawmakers, according to Axios, are privately troubled by their own base. One unnamed House Democrat admitted that supporters were urging members to escalate further: “Some of them have suggested what we really need to do is be willing to get shot.” Others were demanding blood in the streets to get the media’s attention.

A study from Rutgers University and the National Contagion Research Institute found that 55% of Americans who identify as “left of center” believe that murdering Donald Trump would be at least “somewhat justified.”

As Democrats bleed working-class voters and lose control of their base, they’re not moderating. They’re radicalizing. They don’t want the chaos to stop. They want to harness it, normalize it, and weaponize it.

The truth is, this isn’t just about ICE. It’s not even about Trump. It’s about whether a republic can survive when one major party decides that our institutions no longer apply.

Truth still matters. Law and order still matter. And if the left refuses to defend them, then we must be the ones who do.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

America's comeback: Trump is crushing crime in the Capitol

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Trump’s DC crackdown is about more than controlling crime — it’s about restoring America’s strength and credibility on the world stage.

Donald Trump on Monday invoked Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, placing the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deploying the National Guard to restore law and order. This move is long overdue.

D.C.’s crime problem has been spiraling for years as local authorities and Democratic leadership have abandoned the nation’s capital to the consequences of their own failed policies. The city’s murder rate is about three times higher than that of Islamabad, Pakistan, and 18 times higher than that of communist-led Havana, Cuba.

When DC is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak.

Theft, assaults, and carjackings have transformed many of its streets into war zones. D.C. saw a 32% increase in homicides from 2022 to 2023, marking the highest number in two decades and surpassing both New York and Los Angeles. Even if crime rates dropped to 2019 levels, that wouldn’t be good enough.

Local leaders have downplayed the crisis, manipulating crime stats to preserve their image. Felony assault, for example, is no longer considered a “violent crime” in their crime stats. Same with carjacking. But the reality on the streets is different. People in D.C. are living in constant fear.

Trump isn’t waiting for the crime rate to improve on its own. He’s taking action.

Broken windows theory in action

Trump’s takeover of D.C. puts the “broken windows theory” into action — the idea that ignoring minor crimes invites bigger ones. When authorities look the other way on turnstile-jumping or graffiti, they signal that lawbreaking carries no real consequence.

Rudy Giuliani used this approach in the 1990s to clean up New York, cracking down on small offenses before they escalated. Trump is doing the same in the capital, drawing a hard line and declaring enough is enough. Letting crime fester in Washington tells the world that the seat of American power tolerates lawlessness.

What Trump is doing for D.C. isn’t just about law enforcement — it’s about national identity. When D.C. is in chaos, it sends a message to the world that America is weak. The capital city represents the soul of the country. If we can’t even keep our own capital safe, how can we expect anyone to take us seriously?

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Reversing the decline

Anyone who has visited D.C. regularly over the past several years has witnessed its rapid decline. Homeless people bathe in the fountains outside Union Station. People are tripping out in Dupont Circle. The left’s negligence is a disgrace, enabling drug use and homelessness to explode on our capital’s streets while depriving these individuals of desperately needed care and help.

Restoring law and order to D.C. is not about politics or scoring points. It’s about doing what’s right for the people. It’s about protecting communities, taking the vulnerable off the streets, and sending the message to both law-abiding and law-breaking citizens alike that the rule of law matters.

D.C. should be a lesson to the rest of America. If we want to take our cities back, we need leadership willing to take bold action. Trump is showing how to do it.

Now, it’s time for other cities to step up and follow his lead. We can restore law and order. We can make our cities something to be proud of again.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.