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March 03, 2025
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Trump & Friends...

Trump: US should focus on migrant crime, not Putin
President Trump warned that the U.S. should “spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!”

Trump unveils digital assets to be included in ‘crypto strategic reserve’
“My Executive Order on Digital Assets directed the Presidential Working Group to move forward on a Crypto Strategic Reserve that includes XRP, SOL, and ADA. I will make sure the U.S. is the Crypto Capital of the World,” Trump wrote Sunday on Truth Social.

Defense secretary directs civilian employees to comply with OPM request
Hegseth said the Pentagon reviewed the OPM request and said DOD employees are now expected to comply with the “What You Did Last Week?” email scheduled to arrive Monday.

Keeping Up With Trump: Here’s Everything The President Did In Week Six
The Epstein files released, Mexican cartel members extradited, and an Oval Office shouting match.

Trump signs order making English official language of America
It is the first time the federal government has ever declared an official language for the nation.

AP: What Trump’s order making English the official language in the US could mean
Some activists and organizations think the move is just another way for the president to stoke division and fear.

Vance family moved to ‘undisclosed location’ after hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters swarm resort
Vance cut his family vacation short after a mob of pro-Ukraine protesters swarmed a Vermont ski resort, accusing him of being a “traitor” and telling him to “go ski in Russia.”

F-16s are scrambled and deployed flares as three planes caught circling near Mar-a-Lago
These kinds of scenarios have been happening quite frequently since Trump regained the presidency as flight restrictions around Mar-a-Lago are expanded when he visits.

‘We Have A Chance To Literally Change The Whole World’: Doug Burgum On The New Trump Cabinet
"I felt the energy in the room was electric," Burgum said. "People were excited ... to be part of this historic team."

Elon Musk welcomes baby No. 4 with Shivon Zilis, his 14th child
At this point, the real test of his genius is remembering all his kids' names.

News...

Rasmussen Reports poll finds majority of voters think feds act as ‘government gangsters’
Voters were asked, "How much of the time do you believe the federal government acts as government gangsters?" Respondents said all of the time (17%), most of the time (24%), and some of the time (28%) for a subtotal of 69%. Rarely or never was 22% and not sure was 9%.

Liz Wheeler tells Glenn Beck about meat behind Epstein 'nothingburger,' fallout of White House embargo
Wheeler took heat after AG Pam Bondi overpromised and under-delivered with regard to the Epstein files.

Patel defends FBI agent accused in 'honeypot' operation
FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed media claims that an FBI female agent was a “honeypot,” stating she was cleared by Special Counsel John Durham and did nothing wrong. Patel vowed to defend agents from false attacks while holding real corruption accountable.

Georgia senator calls for investigation of organizations tied to Stacey Abrams
State Sen. Bill Cowsert filed a resolution that would authorize the Senate Special Committee on Investigations to look into the New Georgia Project and Power Forward Communities.

WSJ: Can White Men Finally Stop Complaining?
For 50 years, we’ve been hearing from men who feel threatened by the gains of women and minorities. Now that the manosphere is in charge, the victim mentality has to go.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu offers 'condolences' to knife-wielding attacker
The suspect was chasing two people with a knife and refused orders to drop his weapon before being shot.

LA’s $588M ‘Ribbon of Light’ bridge now a dark, crime-ridden mess
Originally hailed for its striking look, the bridge — dubbed the “Ribbon of Light” for the color-changing spotlights that set its flowing, modern-style architecture aglow — has become darkened due to thieves stealing the copper wire used for the lights.

Utah woman accused of killing husband compared herself to ‘Queen of Hearts’
She allegedly told her lover she was like Alice in Wonderland’s Queen of Hearts, saying “off with their heads” in a chilling recorded call after prosecutors say she shot her husband and disposed of his body. She was arrested after her affair partner turned over their conversations to police.

Politics...

Centrist Dem group rails against leftist identity politics and purity tests
So called "moderate" Democrats blame their party’s struggles on identity politics and far-left influence, calling for a return to patriotism, traditional values, and working-class engagement to win back voters.

Bernie Sanders Runs For Cover After NBC Host Asks If Dems Should ‘Have Done More’ To Cut Waste Under Biden
When pressed about Medicare and Medicaid’s $100 billion in improper payments, Sanders deflected to defense spending and accused the GOP of wanting to cut aid programs to benefit billionaires.

Democrats attack billionaires while cashing their checks
Democrats love to rail against billionaires — until it’s time to cash their donations. From Elizabeth Warren’s “billionaire tears” mugs to Bernie Sanders’ crusade against the “oligarchy,” many top Democrats have taken millions from the very people they claim are ruining the country.

Ron And Casey DeSantis Golf, Eat With Trump Amid Speculation She Is Preparing Bid For Governor
When asked by reporters on Friday about running for governor, Casey DeSantis said, “To quote the late and great Yogi Berra: ‘When you come to a fork in the road, take it.’”

Economy...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Addresses Concerns DOGE Cuts Will Harm Economic Numbers
“You know, that governments historically have messed with GDP,” Lutnick said. “They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.”

America’s appetite for gold is ‘sucking’ bullion out of other countries
More than 600 tons, or almost 20 million ounces of gold, has been transported into vaults in New York City since December last year, according to data provided by the World Gold Council.

Immigration...

Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to lowest levels on record
Last month, Border Patrol recorded about 8,450 illegal crossings. February's total would be the lowest monthly apprehensions tally recorded by Border Patrol since at least fiscal year 2000, the last period with public monthly data.

Hegseth Orders 3,000 Troops To US Southern Border: ‘Dead Serious’
The forces include a Stryker Brigade Combat Team.

Viruses...

Cuomo claims he ‘saved’ NYC during COVID, now wants to ‘save’ it as mayor
Disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ordered COVID-positive patients into nursing homes, now says he can rescue New York City as mayor. Critics blame his disastrous pandemic policies for up to 15,000 nursing home deaths.

Mysterious Congo outbreak likely linked to contaminated water, researchers say
Despite initial fears of a new Ebola-like pathogen, WHO "experts" say the rapid-spreading illness in the DRC is likely linked to contaminated water or poisoning.

Israel...

Hezbollah chief's children say he cried after pager attack and fell into depression
Nasrallah became depressed and was emotionally changed by Israel’s exploding pager attack on his operatives as well as by strikes that decimated the group’s leadership, his family told Lebanese media.

Ukraine - Russia...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Zelenskyy Owes Trump An Apology For Oval Office ‘Fiasco’
“This agreement could have been signed five days ago, but they insisted on coming to Washington and there was a very — and should have been a very clear understanding: Don’t come here and create a scenario where you’re going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn’t going to work."

Commerce Secretary Says Zelenskyy Wanted ‘Make-Believe Bargain’ With Reparations, Security Guarantees
"So we were 40 minutes before the cameras came in ... Zelenskyy never stopped asking for, you know — ‘I will give no concessions. They have got to leave my land. I want reparations of $300 billion. And I want the United States to give me security guarantees while they’re at war with Russia.'"

Dems met with Zelenskyy right before Trump meeting, pressured him to reject mineral deal
Before meeting Trump, Zelenskyy met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering, according to Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy.

GOP’s Biggest Ukraine Booster Thinks Zelenskyy Overplayed His Hand
“I met with Zelenskyy this morning, I urged him to be on message, be grateful, be thankful, we’ll talk about details and security guarantees later. Keep it up, keep it positive. It was an absolute, utter disaster,” Lindsey Graham said.

Johnson Pushes Zelenskyy To ‘Come To His Senses’
"When we did the aid to Ukraine a year ago, the entire of that — and I was consistent from that moment until today — the whole point was to position Ukraine for peace talks."

Ukraine still 'ready' to sign US minerals deal, Zelenskyy tells BBC
Zelenskyy told the BBC that he is still willing to have a "constructive dialogue" with the U.S., adding: "I just want the Ukrainian position to be heard."

Ukrainian president thanks Trump, US on X day after heated meeting
“America’s help has been vital in helping us survive, and I want to acknowledge that. Despite the tough dialogue, we remain strategic partners,” Zelenskyy wrote.

NATO's Rutte urges Zelenskyy to mend his relationship with Trump
He told Zelenskyy that “we really have to respect what President Trump has done so far for Ukraine”, reminding Zelenskyy that Trump was the one who provided Javelin anti-tank weapons to Ukraine in 2019. “Without the Javelins in 2022 ... Ukraine would have been nowhere,” said Rutte.

British Ambassador: Zelenskyy Should Give 'Unequivocal Backing' To Trump's Peace Initiative
"It is the only show in town. It's the only negotiation available, and it's got to be made to work," he said. "And by the way, I think that Ukraine should be the first to commit to a ceasefire and defy the Russians to follow."

Ukrainian ambassador’s mortified reaction to Zelenskyy’s Oval Office clash with Trump goes viral
After Zelenskyy talked over Trump and started to lecture him on ceasefires, Markarova dropped and shook her head — rubbing the bridge of her nose in frustration and disbelief.

Starmer says UK, France, and Ukraine have agreed to collaborate on ceasefire plan, present it to US
Starmer also says Britain is ready to put "boots on the ground and planes in the air" to defend Ukraine.

Russia's Lavrov: Zelenskyy is a 'pure Nazi' and a ‘traitor to the Jewish people’
He also said that the Kremlin found any EU presence in the Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine a threat to the Russian language and culture.

China...

China builds roads, USAID funds gender theory — who’s winning?
China is building roads and infrastructure, winning the soft power battle while Washington exports radical ideology.

Europe...

Romanian outsider candidate catches fire with voters, then comes Russia allegations, seem familiar?
Calin Georgescu, the nationalist frontrunner in the race to become Romania’s next president, was arrested last week as he was about to formally register his candidacy. The events took place barely two weeks after Vance warned Europe was at risk from what he called “the threat from within.”

Entertainment...

‘Reagan’ and ‘Deadpool’ crush Academy’s leftist flops in 2024 poll
As Sunday’s Oscars on ABC will push progressive duds like "Emilia Pérez," a new poll finds the best film of 2024 was "Deadpool & Wolverine" while the favorite biographical movie was "Reagan."

The Oscars gift bags are worth over $216,000. Here's what's inside.
Hollywood’s elite are scoring lavish gifts ahead of the Oscars, with nominees receiving $50,000 in home renovations, luxury vacations worth over $23,000, and high-end skincare.

Gene Hackman death: Sheriff says timeline may be a 'challenge' as investigation continues
Hackman's pacemaker revealed that "his last event was recorded on Feb. 17, 2025," Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said.

Media...

Rubio Rips Stephanopoulos Over UN Resolution: If Trump Was A Democrat, He’d Win ‘Nobel Peace Prize’
“We are trying to end a war. You cannot end a war unless both sides come to the table, starting with the Russians. And that is the point the president has made. And we have to do whatever we can to try to bring them to the table to see if it’s even possible.”

Daily Beast columnist compares Zelenskyy to Jesus after White House clash with Trump
Julia Davis likened Ukraine’s Zelenskyy to Jesus Christ after his heated Oval Office showdown with Trump and Vance.

Americans’ Trust In The Press Has Literally Never Been Lower: Poll
Americans trust small business and the military the most, but even big business and Big Tech have higher net confidence rates than the press.

Health...

Yes, we have to cut Medicaid — it’s grown out of control
Since 2013, the number of Americans living in poverty has fallen by 10 million. Yet during that time, Medicaid’s monthly enrollment has leaped from 54 million to 79 million, and its inflation-adjusted federal cost has nearly doubled from $351 billion to $643 billion..

Technology...

Microsoft to shut down Skype
Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011, which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online.

World's largest call center using AI to 'neutralize' Indian employees' accents
“When you have an Indian agent on the line, sometimes it’s hard to hear, to understand." The AI technology can “neutralize the accent of the Indian speaker with zero latency."

Sports...

Trump to pardon late Pete Rose ‘in the coming weeks’
President Trump announced Saturday that he plans to pardon the late baseball all-time hit king Pete Rose “in the coming weeks,” while Major League Baseball is considering a petition to posthumously remove the Cincinnati Reds icon from the sport’s ineligible list.

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

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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

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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?

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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.