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August 20, 2025
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News...

These are all the wars Trump ended so far
Here are all the conflicts that President Trump has had his hand in ending.

Trump pledges to clean up and remove the wokeness from our great American museums
"The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been -- Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Tulsi Gabbard strips 37 security clearances over Obama-ordered intel report that launched Russiagate
An ODNI memo dated Monday announced that the more than three dozen intel professionals — including a former top aide to Obama DNI James Clapper — had either politicized or weaponized intelligence, failed to safeguard classified info, or not followed tradecraft standards.

Indiana woman allegedly threatened to disembowel Trump in revenge for pandemic deaths
When she was interviewed by the Secret Service about the posts, Jones allegedly said that she wanted to kill Trump in order to “avenge all the lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Unions can’t hide behind veterans any more
VA employees will now be judged on performance — not protected by union contracts.

CNN reporter turned judge minimizes anti-white hostility, strips religious protection from nuns
Judge Wendy Beetlestone ruled that Penn State’s mandatory trainings and repeated denigration of white faculty weren’t “severe or pervasive” enough for a hostile workplace claim, while also striking down Trump’s rule exempting the Little Sisters of the Poor from contraceptive mandates.

Soros-backed prosecutor network implodes after leader accused of racism
Miriam Krinsky, head of Fair and Just Prosecution, resigned after staff accused her of mistreating black female employees, a scandal that coincided with election defeats and recalls for a wave of progressive prosecutors the group had propped up.

FDA warns public about eating radioactive shrimp from Walmart
The FDA said Tuesday that certain types of Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart may be contaminated with cesium-137, a radioactive isotope.

Huge explosion rocks North Carolina neighborhood after car crashed into veterinarian's offices
An impaired driver struck a gas line at the under-construction clinic, setting off a blast that injured three firefighters and sent plumes of black smoke and debris across the area.

Crime...

Stats are in: Crime has plummeted in DC since Trump crackdown
Since the president took control of the capital’s policing, carjackings are down 83%, robberies 46%, and violent crime 22%, with hundreds arrested, dozens of guns seized, and nearly 50 homeless encampments cleared.

Justice Department opens investigation into allegations that DC police manipulated crime data
The investigation is being run through U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro's office.

Bret Baier pulled over amid Trump’s crackdown on DC crime
“I picked up my ringing phone as I drove past an officer while driving my wife’s car in Georgetown. He pointed to have me pull over- I did,” Baier wrote on X. “He was very professional. I had to dig for the registration card. Got a ticket and left. I didn’t know there was paparazzi,” Baier continued.

Baltimore 13-year-old with 18 felonies charged in armed carjackings
Police say the teen’s ankle monitor placed him at multiple robberies and carjackings, adding to a staggering record that has locals demanding tougher action as violent juvenile crime spirals out of control.

Babylon Bee: Metropolis Sues Superman For Reducing Crime
"This is literal fascism. Restoring law, order, and safety will never be acceptable here," said Mayor Sackett. "The criminal element is a long-revered part of the fabric of our city's culture and tradition, and we will not stand for someone from another planet coming here and making Metropolis safer for everyone."

Epstein...

DOJ to send Epstein documents to House Oversight Committee on Friday
"Officials with the Department of Justice have informed us that the Department will begin to provide Epstein-related records to the Oversight Committee this week on Friday."

Top Oversight Democrat: DOJ plan to release Epstein files in ‘batches’ a ‘cover-up’
“Releasing the Epstein files in batches just continues this White House cover-up,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) said Tuesday. “The American people will not accept anything short of the full, unredacted Epstein files.”

Politics...

Biden ignored DOJ warnings over legally flawed autopen pardons
Senior Justice Department officials were left scrambling to interpret sweeping clemency orders former President Joe Biden approved for thousands of federal convicts in his final days in office, and they chastised the White House for falsely portraying the releases as limited to “nonviolent” offenders, according to internal emails.

What Is the Democrats’ Endgame?
The Democratic Party’s belief that conservatives are morally unfit to participate in society risks pushing the nation toward conflict.

John Kennedy mocks NYC candidate Zohran Mamdani as 'cray-cray' gift to Republicans
The GOP senator said Mamdani’s radical policies are so extreme that they’re driving voters away from Democrats, joking that “if I didn’t know better, I’d think Republicans had created Mr. Mamdani in a petri dish.”

Eric Adams slams Zohran Mamdani over socialist's push for legalized prostitution
“I don’t know what Quran he is reading. It’s not in my Bible,” Adams said.

Economy...

Bank executives blow the whistle on how Obama, Biden admins pressured them to de-bank conservatives
"Those pressures were very, very real. When your regulator gives you a suggestion, it’s not a suggestion; it’s an order. The political stuff is very real; those pressures are real," a senior banking executive told Fox News Digital.

World Economic Forum anoints BlackRock CEO after investigation into Klaus Schwab goes nowhere
Larry Fink, a champion of ESG and globalism, will co-chair the World Economic Forum with a Swiss billionaire.

John Kennedy says Trump is not talking ‘enough’ about inflation
“President Trump is not talking enough about the economy and specifically inflation. People are tired of paying more to live worse. Republicans promised to get prices down. There are things we can do to do that that we are doing, but I don’t [think] the president’s talking about it enough."

Home Depot reverses course, now says tariffs may result in price hikes
A major U.S. retailer that previously said tariffs wouldn't increase prices reversed course on Tuesday, with officials saying they expect "modest" price increases for some products.

Bessent Says US Tariff Revenues To Rise ‘Substantially,’ Focus On Reducing Debt
The U.S. economy could return to the "good, low-inflationary growth" of the 1990s, Bessent said.

GE Appliances moving production from China and Mexico back to US
The company announced a $3 billion plan to shift refrigerator and gas range manufacturing to plants in the South, citing Trump-era tariffs and a push to build closer to American customers, creating over 1,000 new jobs.

Immigration...

Illegal alien trucker tragedy exposes multiple blue-state failures
Federal investigators say Harjinder Singh, who entered the U.S. illegally, passed only two of 12 English questions and one of four traffic sign questions, yet he obtained a commercial license in California before allegedly causing a deadly crash in Florida.

Noem says Trump wants border wall painted black so that it’s hotter, harder to climb
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the color will extend the wall’s life span and make it too hot to climb.

Federal police arrest several Portland Antifa rioters who mobilized attack on ICE facility
Antifa had put out a call for "mass mobilization" on social media after reports that ICE had detained an illegal migrant inside the facility.

COVID...

Study shows lockdowns rewired America’s brains for the worse
A Financial Times analysis of long-running personality surveys found sharp declines in conscientiousness and agreeableness and a surge in neuroticism since 2020, especially among young people — evidence that the COVID lockdown era left lasting psychological damage.

Ukraine - Russia...

Trump floats air support for Ukraine as part of security guarantees
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Trump has tasked his national security team to “come up with a framework for these security guarantees that can be acceptable to help ensure a lasting peace and end this war.”

US boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine and we will 'not be writing blank checks' to Ukraine
Leavitt said that upon taking office, Trump "made it very clear that we’re not going to continue writing blank checks to fund a war very far away."

White House says Trump canceled Bedminster vacation to work on Ukraine-Russia peace talks
Leavitt said that Trump considered trying to continue arranging the peace talks during his New Jersey trip but opted to remain at the White House instead.

Karoline Leavitt slams New York Times reporter
At the NY Times, Russia collusion never died, leading to clown questions like “Why wouldn’t Trump just take the call from Putin while the other leaders were in the room?” Karoline Leavitt fired back, “With all due respect, only a reporter from the New York Times would ask a question like that.”

Stephen A. Smith defends Trump, blames Biden, Obama, and Clinton for Russia-Ukraine war in fiery rant
Smith blamed former presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton for their actions in the region while they were in office, arguing that the major catalysts for this war occurred on their watch.

Israel... 

Trump says Netanyahu is a war hero ‘and I am too’
In an interview with conservative radio host Mark Levin, Trump says he is working with Netanyahu to free the hostages, adding that Netanyahu is “a good man; he’s in there fighting.”

Europe...

The EU's Latest Plan to Stifle Online Privacy Is Terrifying
The "Chat Control" law threatens to transform the internet into an even more centrally controlled, surveilled environment. And it could be a legal reality by October.

Gabbard says UK scraps demand for Apple to give backdoor access to data
Britain abandoned its demand that Apple provide so-called backdoor access to any encrypted user data stored in the cloud, U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Monday.

JD Vance Worked Behind Scenes To Push Brits To Drop Data Demands Of Apple
Vance was personally involved in negotiating the deal and had direct conversations with the British government, official says.

Latin America...

Maduro deploys millions of Venezuelan troops across country after US ships near Latin America
The communist dictator said that the activations are in response to the recent "extravagant, bizarre, and outlandish" threats from the United States.

Entertainment...

Mark Hamill gave wife ultimatum to move to England or Ireland after Trump win — she talked him out of it
Leftists always threaten to move to countries with less racial diversity.

Media...

Former Paramount chairwoman pushed CBS to settle Trump lawsuit over fear that Biden interview edits would surface
Shari Redstone told the New York Times she worried that Trump’s attorneys could use raw footage of a “drowsy” Biden to damage the network and said CBS also needed more balance in its coverage of Israel.

Leftist Philanthropic Groups Pledge $50 Million To Rescue NPR, PBS Stations After Federal Funding Cuts: Report
The Knight, MacArthur, and Ford Foundations are among the organizations backing local broadcasters as Trump slashes funding to public media over left-wing bias.

Joy Reid says white people 'can't originally invent anything'
White people can’t “originally invent anything more than they were able to invent good music."

Environment...

Trump Is Winning the Emissions War with Red China (and Other Acts of American Greatness)
Trump secured another important victory last week when a team of climate scientists revealed, in a departure from recent trends, that America outpaced China in CO2 emissions growth during the first six months of 2025.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Yosemite ranger fired over hanging transgender flag on El Capitan
A nonbinary park ranger was terminated following a months-long probe after helping drape the Pride flag from the iconic cliff, with park officials citing conduct violations and possible criminal charges for breaking federal demonstration rules.

Appeals court shuts down ban on drag shows at Texas A&M
The Fifth Circuit ruled that the university’s system-wide prohibition violated free speech, allowing drag shows to resume.

Education...

Trump administration drops Biden’s ‘politically motivated lawfare’ against nation’s largest Christian university
In 2023, the FTC, under Biden, accused Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, of “deceptive advertising and illegal telemarketing.”

Military schools could soon swap woke SAT for classical exam
A Senate defense bill amendment would let students at DODEA schools take the Classic Learning Test — a Great Books alternative to the SAT and ACT — for college admissions, a shift backed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and framed as a way to steer education away from politicized testing.

Religion...

1,400-year-old cross found in Abu Dhabi reveals thriving Christian community
Christianity during this period was typically associated with the Levant, Mesopotamia, and parts of Europe, making the discovery of a thriving community on a southeastern Arabian Gulf island both unexpected and historically significant.

AI...

Americans fear AI permanently displacing workers, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
The six-day poll, which concluded on Monday, showed 71% of respondents said they were concerned that AI will be "putting too many people out of work permanently."

AI turns customer service into surveillance and charges
From rental cars to hotels and even restaurants, businesses are rolling out algorithmic auditing systems that automatically fine customers for microscopic “infractions,” replacing human judgment with nonstop digital billing.

August 20, 2012 - Obama's hard-hitting questions from Top 40 radio... How is Biden still on the ticket?... Proof Obama doesn't believe in his own words... Who is Obama ripping off in his new ad campaign?...

The melting pot fails when we stop agreeing to melt

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Shocking: Chart-topping ‘singer’ has no soul at all

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A machine can imitate heartbreak well enough to top the charts, but it cannot carry grief, choose courage, or hear the whisper that calls human beings to something higher.

The No. 1 country song in America right now was not written in Nashville or Texas or even L.A. It came from code. “Walk My Walk,” the AI-generated single by the AI artist Breaking Rust, hit the top spot on Billboard’s Country Digital Song Sales chart, and if you listen to it without knowing that fact, you would swear a real singer lived the pain he is describing.

Except there is no “he.” There is no lived experience. There is no soul behind the voice dominating the country music charts.

If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

I will admit it: I enjoy some AI music. Some of it is very good. And that leaves us with a question that is no longer science fiction. If a machine can fake being human this well, what does it mean to be human?

A new world of artificial experience

This is not just about one song. We are walking straight into a technological moment that will reshape everyday life.

Elon Musk said recently that we may not even have phones in five years. Instead, we will carry a small device that listens, anticipates, and creates — a personal AI agent that knows what we want to hear before we ask. It will make the music, the news, the podcasts, the stories. We already live in digital bubbles. Soon, those bubbles might become our own private worlds.

If an algorithm can write a hit country song about hardship and perseverance without a shred of actual experience, then the deeper question becomes unavoidable: If a machine can imitate the soul, then what is the soul?

What machines can never do

A machine can produce, and soon it may produce better than we can. It can calculate faster than any human mind. It can rearrange the notes and words of a thousand human songs into something that sounds real enough to fool millions.

But it cannot care. It cannot love. It cannot choose right and wrong. It cannot forgive because it cannot be hurt. It cannot stand between a child and danger. It cannot walk through sorrow.

A machine can imitate the sound of suffering. It cannot suffer.

The difference is the soul. The divine spark. The thing God breathed into man that no code will ever have. Only humans can take pain and let it grow into compassion. Only humans can take fear and turn it into courage. Only humans can rebuild their lives after losing everything. Only humans hear the whisper inside, the divine voice that says, “Live for something greater.”

We are building artificial minds. We are not building artificial life.

Questions that define us

And as these artificial minds grow sharper, as their tools become more convincing, the right response is not panic. It is to ask the oldest and most important questions.

Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of freedom? What is worth defending? What is worth sacrificing for?

That answer is not found in a lab or a server rack. It is found in that mysterious place inside each of us where reason meets faith, where suffering becomes wisdom, where God reminds us we are more than flesh and more than thought. We are not accidents. We are not circuits. We are not replaceable.

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The miracle machines can never copy

Being human is not about what we can produce. Machines will outproduce us. That is not the question. Being human is about what we can choose. We can choose to love even when it costs us something. We can choose to sacrifice when it is not easy. We can choose to tell the truth when the world rewards lies. We can choose to stand when everyone else bows. We can create because something inside us will not rest until we do.

An AI content generator can borrow our melodies, echo our stories, and dress itself up like a human soul, but it cannot carry grief across a lifetime. It cannot forgive an enemy. It cannot experience wonder. It cannot look at a broken world and say, “I am going to build again.”

The age of machines is rising. And if we do not know who we are, we will shrink. But if we use this moment to remember what makes us human, it will help us to become better, because the one thing no algorithm will ever recreate is the miracle that we exist at all — the miracle of the human soul.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Shocking shift: America’s youth lured by the “Socialism trap”

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A generation that’s lost faith in capitalism is turning to the oldest lie on earth: equality through control.

Something is breaking in America’s young people. You can feel it in every headline, every grocery bill, every young voice quietly asking if the American dream still means anything at all.

For many, the promise of America — work hard, build something that lasts, and give the next generation a better start — feels like it no longer exists. Home ownership and stability have become luxuries for a fortunate few.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them.

In that vacuum of hope, a new promise has begun to rise — one that sounds compassionate, equal, and fair. The promise of socialism.

The appeal of a broken dream

When the American dream becomes a checklist of things few can afford — a home, a car, two children, even a little peace — disappointment quickly turns to resentment. The average first-time homebuyer is now 40 years old. Debt lasts longer than marriages. The cost of living rises faster than opportunity.

For a generation that has never seen the system truly work, capitalism feels like a rigged game built to protect those already at the top.

That is where socialism finds its audience. It presents itself as fairness for the forgotten and justice for the disillusioned. It speaks softly at first, offering equality, compassion, and control disguised as care.

We are seeing that illusion play out now in New York City, where Zohran Mamdani — an open socialist — has won a major political victory. The same ideology that once hid behind euphemisms now campaigns openly throughout America’s once-great cities. And for many who feel left behind, it sounds like salvation.

But what socialism calls fairness is submission dressed as virtue. What it calls order is obedience. Once the system begins to replace personal responsibility with collective dependence, the erosion of liberty is only a matter of time.

The bridge that never ends

Socialism is not a destination; it is a bridge. Karl Marx described it as the necessary transition to communism — the scaffolding that builds the total state. Under socialism, people are taught to obey. Under communism, they forget that any other options exist.

History tells the story clearly. Russia, China, Cambodia, Cuba — each promised equality and delivered misery. One hundred million lives were lost, not because socialism failed, but because it succeeded at what it was designed to do: make the state supreme and the individual expendable.

Today’s advocates insist their version will be different — democratic, modern, and kind. They often cite Sweden as an example, but Sweden’s prosperity was never born of socialism. It grew out of capitalism, self-reliance, and a shared moral culture. Now that system is cracking under the weight of bureaucracy and division.

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The real issue is not economic but moral. Socialism begins with a lie about human nature — that people exist for the collective and that the collective knows better than the individual.

This lie is contrary to the truths on which America was founded — that rights come not from government’s authority, but from God’s. Once government replaces that authority, compassion becomes control, and freedom becomes permission.

What young America deserves

Young Americans have many reasons to be frustrated. They were told to study, work hard, and follow the rules — and many did, only to find the goalposts moved again and again. But tearing down the entire house does not make it fairer; it only leaves everyone standing in the rubble.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It is flawed because people are flawed, but it remains the only system that rewards creativity and effort rather than punishing them. The answer is not revolution but renewal — moral, cultural, and spiritual.

It means restoring honesty to markets, integrity to government, and faith to the heart of our nation. A people who forsake God will always turn to government for salvation, and that road always ends in dependency and decay.

Freedom demands something of us. It requires faith, discipline, and courage. It expects citizens to govern themselves before others govern them. That is the truth this generation deserves to hear again — that liberty is not a gift from the state but a calling from God.

Socialism always begins with promises and ends with permission. It tells you what to drive, what to say, what to believe, all in the name of fairness. But real fairness is not everyone sharing the same chains — it is everyone having the same chance.

The American dream was never about guarantees. It was about the right to try, to fail, and try again. That freedom built the most prosperous nation in history, and it can do so again if we remember that liberty is not a handout but a duty.

Socialism does not offer salvation. It requires subservience.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Rage isn’t conservatism — THIS is what true patriots stand for

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.