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Morning Brief 2025-10-07

October 07, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Dinesh D'Souza
TOPIC: What is the dragon’s prophecy?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Jason Miyares
TOPIC: Will Democrat Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones take accountability for his horrific text messages and drop out of the race?

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Buck Sexton
TOPIC: Sexton: “China is preparing for an invasion of Taiwan; the question right now is when.”


News...

Biden FBI spied on 8 GOP senators, damning new doc claims: ‘Arguably worse than Watergate’
The FBI secretly obtained the phone records of nine Republican members of Congress, including eight sitting senators, under the Biden administration as part of its Arctic Frost investigation of 2020 election meddling, a bombshell document revealed.

WaPo editorial admits Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable
The Washington Post editorial board just admitted that the so-called "Affordable Care Act," one the most notorious pieces of Obama-era legislation foisted upon consumers by legislators and the liberal media as the saving grace of American health care, turned out to be an expensive mess.

Man arrested and charged with possessing explosives ahead of church service marking start of Supreme Court term
Police arrested and charged a man with possession of explosives Sunday outside a Washington, D.C., church where an annual Mass to mark the start of the Supreme Court term was set to take place hours later.

Alleged killer’s Mormon family showed moral courage America should learn from
After Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin turned himself in at his parents’ urging, the Utah family’s quiet strength and faith stood in sharp contrast to a culture that excuses evil and erodes responsibility. Their example reminds us that good families can still anchor a broken nation.

DA drops charge against conservative journalist Nick Sortor after alleged Antifa attack in Portland
Sortor was arrested by police while covering an anti-ICE protest but was cleared after video showed he acted in self-defense.

Stephen Miller rips 'egregious' judicial block on deploying National Guard to Portland
"A district court judge has no conceivable authority, whatsoever, to restrict the President and Commander-in-Chief from dispatching members of the US military to defend federal lives and property," he posted on X.

Virginia prosecutor planning to let Letitia James off the hook on mortgage fraud allegations: MSNBC
The report said that Yusi will present her recommendation to interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan in the coming weeks. The sources said that prosecutors are bracing themselves for the likelihood that Yusi will be fired by Halligan for refusing to prosecute.

Judge's family injured in house fire as Democrats and media pray for a right-wing connection
An explosion leveled Judge Diane Goodstein’s South Carolina home, injuring her husband and relatives; despite no evidence of arson, Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman immediately blamed Trump supporters.

Time: House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration burns down
If the fire at the judge’s house turns out to be targeted, it may mark the latest incident of a startling rise in political violence in the U.S. ... an attack on a judge would come as the administration has increasingly vilified the judiciary, blasting judges that rule against it as “U.S.A-hating” insurrectionists.

Update: South Carolina authorities say fire at judge's home not arson
"At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set. SLED agents have preliminarily found there is no evidence to support a pre-fire explosion."

Richest US real estate baron disowns son over alleged 'ultimate man cave' scam
Billionaire developer Donald Bren cut off his 33-year-old son David after he was accused of inventing a fake luxury car club called “The Bunker” to swindle investors out of $2 million. The supposed “SoHo House for car lovers” never existed, and one investor later committed suicide after losing his savings.

Florida firefighter accused of chucking 75 red-stained tampons onto ex-boyfriend’s yard
Apparently, this is illegal.

Government shutdown...

Senate Democrats reject latest effort to end government shutdown – as Trump signals he’s open to negotiating a health care deal
Democrats blocked a Trump-backed bill to reopen the government, insisting on extending Obamacare subsidies, while the president said he’s willing to strike a broader deal on health care once funding is restored.

70% of voters oppose government shutdown: Poll
The poll found 65% said Democrats should accept a continuing resolution at current spending levels while 35% said they should hold out until they get additional funding for ObamaCare.

Politics...

Media goes full damage control on Jay Jones scandal that could cost Dems Virginia election
Major outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Bloomberg, have ignored the scandal involving Jones’ disturbing private messages and use of a reckless driving conviction for political gain.

Jay Jones’ sick texts sum up the Dems’ position on political violence
Protesters believe their violent attacks are justified because Democrats keep telling them they’re fighting racist, fascist Nazis. Dems don’t care that they’re encouraging law-breaking, dividing the country — or even that more people may die — as they paint opponents as evil.

Virginia AG candidate Jay Jones said if more cops got killed, they wouldn’t shoot so many people, lawmaker claims
Former delegate Carrie Coyner says Jones made the remark during a 2020 discussion on qualified immunity, suggesting officer deaths would lead to less police violence.

Jay Jones demanded cop’s badge over Rittenhouse donation
The Virginia Democrat mired in scandal over text messages — in which he called for the assassination of a political opponent — once called for a police lieutenant to lose his job over a $25 donation to Kyle Rittenhouse’s legal defense fund.

Jim Banks demands Census Bureau fix errors that gave Dems 6 extra seats
The skewed results gave “disproportionate political power to Democrats and illegal aliens,” Sen. Jim Banks said.

Utah state legislature approves new congressional map that creates two competitive seats opening door for Democrats
The old map divided the Democratic Salt Lake County into the state's four districts, which diluted Democratic influence.

For Charlie Kirk, conservatives will knock 500,000 New Jersey doors
Turning Point organizers are leading a massive ballot-chasing push modeled after Trump’s 2024 Pennsylvania success, aiming to deliver GOP victories from the governor’s race to local offices across the state.

Zohran Mamdani flashes beaming smile in pic with Uganda bigwig who pushed law to jail gay people for life
The socialist NYC mayoral frontrunner posed with Uganda’s Rebecca Kadaga, who pushed legislation imposing life sentences for homosexuality.

Economy...

US liquor exports to Canada drop 85%
According to the report, “The majority of Provinces continue to ban American spirits from their shelves. Canada remains the only key trading partner to retaliate against U.S. spirits.”

Immigration...

Here are the 14 states offering free health coverage to illegal aliens
Utah is the only Republican-led state on the list.

Chicago's Democrat mayor creates 'ICE-free zones' meant to impede federal agents
"Today we are signing an executive order aimed at reining in this out-of-control administration," Johnson said. "The order establishes ICE-free zones. That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as staging grounds for these raids."

Florida sheriff Grady Judd unloads on Chicago police for abandoning ICE during attack
"I have NEVER heard of one law enforcement agency not helping another when they call for help until this weekend. ... If you allow anarchists and criminals to run wild in your community, people will die. People will be shot."

Don Lemon stunned by black New Yorker’s response to mass deportations during live streaming video
The former CNN anchor was caught off guard when a man he interviewed in New York City praised Trump’s immigration raids and called for even tougher enforcement, declaring, "Get them all out of here — Trump four more years for that!"

Israel...

Trump ‘pretty sure’ there will be a Gaza deal, denies telling Netanyahu to not be ‘f**king negative’
“No, it’s not true. He’s been very positive on the deal,” Trump said of the PM.

Hamas celebrates 2 years since October 7, calls terror attack a ‘glorious day’
The video, made mostly from AI footage, celebrates the attacks and calls the terrorists who pillaged Israeli kibbutzim “heroes,” with them being described as going in “defense of their religion and homeland.”

Qatar reins in Al Jazeera after Trump pressure over Hamas propaganda
Facing a White House ultimatum, Qatar has reportedly ordered its state-run network to tone down anti-Israel incitement and purge pro-Hamas content, marking a major shift as Trump’s Middle East peace talks advance.

Europe...

Boris Johnson admits he went 'far too fast' on the net-zero policy he championed as British PM
"I got carried away by the idea that sustainable and renewable forms of energy could fill the gap. When the price went up and the Ukraine thing happened, it was obvious that that wouldn’t work."

Spanish priest found guilty of ‘hate crime’ after criticizing Muslim persecution of Christians
Barcelona priest Fr. Custodio Ballester was found guilty and now faces prison time for warning that "Islam does not allow dialogue" with Christianity.

Africa...

Ancient limestone tablet disappears from tomb in Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis
Authorities are investigating the "disappearance" of an item from Khenti Ka’s tomb, a month after a priceless golden bracelet was sold and melted down after being stolen from a Cairo museum.

Entertainment...

Amazon removes guns from promotional James Bond artwork
In posters from “Dr. No” and “Goldeneye,” the guns were edited out of the original images and replaced with nothing. In “A View to a Kill” and “Spectre,” the images were altered and cropped to remove the weapons.

Media...

Meltdown as Bari Weiss takes over CBS, Democrats told to 'pray' for '60 Minutes'
Left-wing media figures panicked after Weiss called for core journalistic values at CBS News, with some saying the legendary show now needs divine intervention to survive fair reporting.

NBC’s divorce from MSNBC is almost final. Who gets custody of the kids?
NBC News, that failing left-wing media company, celebrated a key milestone Monday in its ongoing divorce from MSNBC, the failing radical left-wing media company soon to be rebranded as MS NOW.

Alert: CNN informs its viewers that if you see a dog reporting the news online, it’s likely an 'AI fake'

LGBTQIA2S+...

Jonathan Turley flabbergasted by 'very light' sentence for Brett Kavanaugh's would-be assassin
United States District Judge Deborah Boardman of the District of Maryland, a Biden appointee, sentenced Nicholas Roske to just over eight years in prison Friday, citing the fact that Roske identified as a transgender woman named Sophie as one reason for her ruling.

Christian legal group cancels SCOTUS rally in case involving transgender issues over safety concerns
Alliance Defending Freedom called off its Supreme Court rally for Chiles v. Salazar after security teams warned of potential threats. The case challenges Colorado’s law restricting counseling for minors seeking to change gender identity, which ADF says infringes on free speech.

Education...

Trinity Washington University hosting all-day event honoring cop killer Assata Shakur
Nancy Pelosi, an alumna, maintains close personal and financial ties to the university.

Health...

Alzheimer’s breakthrough? Scientists use nanotech to reverse disease in mice
Researchers used “supramolecular drugs” to repair the blood-brain barrier and clear toxic amyloid buildup, restoring memory and brain function in aging mice — a potential breakthrough still years from human trials.

Religion...

Something spiritually off: Pope Leo and the strange direction of the Vatican
When Liz Wheeler joined Glenn Beck by phone to talk about the Vatican’s recent actions, what started as a conversation about faith and leadership quickly turned toward something far deeper.

Vatican’s top diplomat says Israel carrying out ‘ongoing massacre’ in Gaza
The Vatican’s top diplomat sharply criticized Israel’s “ongoing massacre” in Gaza in comments published on Monday — one of the Catholic Church’s strongest condemnations of Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group.

AI...

AI could wipe out 100M US jobs over the next decade: Report
AI, automation, and robotics could hit 40% of registered nurses, 47% of truck drivers, 64% of accountants, 65% of teaching assistants, and 89% of fast-food workers, according to Bernie Sanders, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

The AI boom's reliance on circular deals is raising fears of a bubble
A spate of recent deals among AI's biggest players has tightened the circle of companies and investments underpinning the technology’s explosive growth.

Science...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may come from the mysterious frontier of the early Milky Way, new study hints
A new study that models the last four million years of the comet's journey through the Milky Way hints that the interstellar visitor came from far, far away — potentially originating from the wild frontier where the galaxy's oldest and youngest stars meet.

An asteroid just made 'one of the closest approaches ever' to Earth
Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. last Tuesday, roughly 266 miles above Earth’s surface.

Sports...

ESPN’s Bias And Hypocrisy On Full Display In Treatment Of Paul Finebaum And Stephen A. Smith
When Stephen A. Smith announced that he was considering running for president as a Democrat, ESPN rewarded him with a $100 million contract that included a clause that allowed him to talk about politics on his show. Yet when Paul Finebaum expressed interest in running as a Republican for Senate, the network canceled all his scheduled appearances.

Bad Bunny: Learn Spanish if you want to understand my Super Bowl performance
Mr. Bunny delivered part of his monologue in Spanish on "Saturday Night Live."

MTG pushes English-language law ahead of ‘perverse, unwanted’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance
“It would be a good time to pass my bill to make English the official language of America. And the NFL needs to stop having demonic sexual performances during its halftime shows."

Whoopi Goldberg suggests Super Bowl attendees darken their skin and adopt a ‘Latin accent’ to dupe ICE
“You know, Whoopi, that is a good idea,” Behar said.

Oct. 7, 2010 - National debt is out of control... Food stamp recipients are at an all-time high... GB discusses the importance of self-education... The Fabian Society wants to control your life...

Is Socialism seducing a lost generation?

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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.

Faith, family, and freedom—The forgotten core of conservatism

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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.

Glenn Beck: Here's what's WRONG with conservatism today

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What does it mean to be a conservative in 2025? Glenn offers guidance on what conservatives need to do to ensure the conservative movement doesn't fade into oblivion. We have to get back to PRINCIPLES, not policies.

To be a conservative in 2025 means to STAND

  • for Stewardship, protecting the wisdom of our Founders;
  • for Truth, defending objective reality in an age of illusion;
  • for Accountability, living within our means as individuals and as a nation;
  • for Neighborhood, rebuilding family, faith, and local community;
  • and for Duty, carrying freedom forward to the next generation.

A conservative doesn’t cling to the past — he stands guard over the principles that make the future possible.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: You know, I'm so tired of being against everything. Saying what we're not.

It's time that we start saying what we are. And it's hard, because we're changing. It's different to be a conservative, today, than it was, you know, years ago.

And part of that is just coming from hard knocks. School of hard knocks. We've learned a lot of lessons on things we thought we were for. No, no, no.

But conservatives. To be a conservative, it shouldn't be about policies. It's really about principles. And that's why we've lost our way. Because we've lost our principles. And it's easy. Because the world got easy. And now the world is changing so rapidly. The boundaries between truth and illusion are blurred second by second. Machines now think. Currencies falter. Families fractured. And nations, all over the world, have forgotten who they are.

So what does it mean to be a conservative now, in 2025, '26. For a lot of people, it means opposing the left. That's -- that's a reaction. That's not renewal.

That's a reaction. It can't mean also worshiping the past, as if the past were perfect. The founders never asked for that.

They asked that we would preserve the principles and perfect their practice. They knew it was imperfect. To make a more perfect nation.

Is what we're supposed to be doing.

2025, '26 being a conservative has to mean stewardship.

The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization.

Of a moral inheritance. That is too precious to abandon.

What does it mean to conserve? To conserve something doesn't mean to stand still.

It means to stand guard. It means to defend what the Founders designed. The separation of powers. The rule of law.

The belief that our rights come not from kings or from Congress, but from the creator himself.
This is a system that was not built for ease. It was built for endurance, and it will endure if we only teach it again!

The problem is, we only teach it like it's a museum piece. You know, it's not a museum piece. It's not an old dusty document. It's a living covenant between the dead, the living and the unborn.

So this chapter of -- of conservatism. Must confront reality. Economic reality.

Global reality.

And moral reality.

It's not enough just to be against something. Or chant tax cuts or free markets.

We have to ask -- we have to start with simple questions like freedom, yes. But freedom for what?

Freedom for economic sovereignty. Your right to produce and to innovate. To build without asking Beijing's permission. That's a moral issue now.

Another moral issue: Debt! It's -- it's generational theft. We're spending money from generations we won't even meet.

And dependence. Another moral issue. It's a national weakness.

People cannot stand up for themselves. They can't make it themselves. And we're encouraging them to sit down, shut up, and don't think.

And the conservative who can't connect with fiscal prudence, and connect fiscal prudence to moral duty, you're not a conservative at all.

Being a conservative today, means you have to rebuild an economy that serves liberty, not one that serves -- survives by debt, and then there's the soul of the nation.

We are living through a time period. An age of dislocation. Where our families are fractured.

Our faith is almost gone.

Meaning is evaporating so fast. Nobody knows what meaning of life is. That's why everybody is killing themselves. They have no meaning in life. And why they don't have any meaning, is truth itself is mocked and blurred and replaced by nothing, but lies and noise.

If you want to be a conservative, then you have to be to become the moral compass that reminds a lost people, liberty cannot survive without virtue.

That freedom untethered from moral order is nothing, but chaos!

And that no app, no algorithm, no ideology is ever going to fill the void, where meaning used to live!

To be a conservative, moving forward, we cannot just be about policies.

We have to defend the sacred, the unseen, the moral architecture, that gives people an identity. So how do you do that? Well, we have to rebuild competence. We have to restore institutions that actually work. Just in the last hour, this monologue on what we're facing now, because we can't open the government.

Why can't we open the government?

Because government is broken. Why does nobody care? Because education is broken.

We have to reclaim education, not as propaganda, but as the formation of the mind and the soul. Conservatives have to champion innovation.

Not to imitate Silicon Valley's chaos, but to harness technology in defense of human dignity. Don't be afraid of AI.

Know what it is. Know it's a tool. It's a tool to strengthen people. As long as you always remember it's a tool. Otherwise, you will lose your humanity to it!

That's a conservative principle. To be a conservative, we have to restore local strength. Our families are the basic building blocks, our schools, our churches, and our charities. Not some big, distant NGO that was started by the Tides Foundation, but actual local charities, where you see people working. A web of voluntary institutions that held us together at one point. Because when Washington fails, and it will, it already has, the neighborhood has to stand.

Charlie Kirk was doing one thing that people on our side were not doing. Speaking to the young.

But not in nostalgia.

Not in -- you know, Reagan, Reagan, Reagan.

In purpose. They don't remember. They don't remember who Dick Cheney was.

I was listening to Fox news this morning, talking about Dick Cheney. And there was somebody there that I know was not even born when Dick Cheney. When the World Trade Center came down.

They weren't even born. They were telling me about Dick Cheney.

And I was like, come on. Come on. Come on.

If you don't remember who Dick Cheney was, how are you going to remember 9/11. How will you remember who Reagan was.

That just says, that's an old man's creed. No, it's not.

It's the ultimate timeless rebellion against tyranny in all of its forms. Yes, and even the tyranny of despair, which is eating people alive!

We need to redefine ourselves. Because we have changed, and that's a good thing. The creed for a generation, that will decide the fate of the republic, is what we need to find.

A conservative in 2025, '26.

Is somebody who protects the enduring principles of American liberty and self-government.

While actively stewarding the institutions. The culture. The economy of this nation!

For those who are alive and yet to be unborn.

We have to be a group of people that we're not anchored in the past. Or in rage! But in reason. And morality. Realism. And hope for the future.

We're the stewards! We're the ones that have to relight the torch, not just hold it. We didn't -- we didn't build this Torch. We didn't make this Torch. We're the keepers of the flame, but we are honor-bound to pass that forward, and conservatives are viewed as people who just live in the past. We're not here to merely conserve the past, but to renew it. To sort it. What worked, what didn't work. We're the ones to say to the world, there's still such a thing as truth. There's still such a thing as virtue. You can deny it all you want.

But the pain will only get worse. There's still such a thing as America!

And if now is not the time to renew America. When is that time?

If you're not the person. If we're not the generation to actively stand and redefine and defend, then who is that person?

We are -- we are supposed to preserve what works.

That -- you know, I was writing something this morning.

I was making notes on this. A constitutionalist is for restraint. A progressive, if you will, for lack of a better term, is for more power.

Progressives want the government to have more power.

Conservatives are for more restraint.

But the -- for the American eagle to fly, we must have both wings.

And one can't be stronger than the other.

We as a conservative, are supposed to look and say, no. Don't look at that. The past teaches us this, this, and this. So don't do that.

We can't do that. But there are these things that we were doing in the past, that we have to jettison. And maybe the other side has a good idea on what should replace that. But we're the ones who are supposed to say, no, but remember the framework.

They're -- they can dream all they want.
They can come up with all these utopias and everything else, and we can go, "That's a great idea."

But how do we make it work with this framework? Because that's our job. The point of this is, it takes both. It takes both.

We have to have the customs and the moral order. And the practices that have stood the test of time, in trial.

We -- we're in an amazing, amazing time. Amazing time.

We live at a time now, where anything -- literally anything is possible!

I don't want to be against stuff. I want to be for the future. I want to be for a rich, dynamic future. One where we are part of changing the world for the better!

Where more people are lifted out of poverty, more people are given the freedom to choose, whatever it is that they want to choose, as their own government and everything.

I don't want to force it down anybody's throat.

We -- I am so excited to be a shining city on the hill again.

We have that opportunity, right in front of us!

But not in we get bogged down in hatred, in division.

Not if we get bogged down into being against something.

We must be for something!

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From Pharaoh to Hamas: The same spirit of evil, new disguise

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The drone footage out of Gaza isn’t just war propaganda — it’s a glimpse of the same darkness that once convinced men they were righteous for killing innocents.

Evil introduces itself subtly. It doesn’t announce, “Hi, I’m here to destroy you.” It whispers. It flatters. It borrows the language of justice, empathy, and freedom, twisting them until hatred sounds righteous and violence sounds brave.

We are watching that same deception unfold again — in the streets, on college campuses, and in the rhetoric of people who should know better. It’s the oldest story in the world, retold with new slogans.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

A drone video surfaced this week showing Hamas terrorists staging the “discovery” of a hostage’s body. They pushed a corpse out of a window, dragged it into a hole, buried it, and then called in aid workers to “find” what they themselves had planted. It was theater — evil, disguised as victimhood. And it was caught entirely on camera.

That’s how evil operates. It never comes in through the front door. It sneaks in, often through manipulative pity. The same spirit animates the moral rot spreading through our institutions — from the halls of universities to the chambers of government.

Take Zohran Mamdani, a New York assemblyman who has praised jihadists and defended pro-Hamas agitators. His father, a Columbia University professor, wrote that America and al-Qaeda are morally equivalent — that suicide bombings shouldn’t be viewed as barbaric. Imagine thinking that way after watching 3,000 Americans die on 9/11. That’s not intellectualism. That’s indoctrination.

Often, that indoctrination comes from hostile foreign actors, peddled by complicit pawns on our own soil. The pro-Hamas protests that erupted across campuses last year, for example, were funded by Iran — a regime that murders its own citizens for speaking freely.

Ancient evil, new clothes

But the deeper danger isn’t foreign money. It’s the spiritual blindness that lets good people believe resentment is justice and envy is discernment. Scripture talks about the spirit of Amalek — the eternal enemy of God’s people, who attacks the weak from behind while the strong look away. Amalek never dies; it just changes its vocabulary and form with the times.

Today, Amalek tweets. He speaks through professors who defend terrorism as “anti-colonial resistance.” He preaches from pulpits that call violence “solidarity.” And he recruits through algorithms, whispering that the Jews control everything, that America had it coming, that chaos is freedom. Those are ancient lies wearing new clothes.

When nations embrace those lies, it’s not the Jews who perish first. It’s the nations themselves. The soul dies long before the body. The ovens of Auschwitz didn’t start with smoke; they started with silence and slogans.

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A time for choosing

So what do we do? We speak truth — calmly, firmly, without venom. Because hatred can’t kill hatred; it only feeds it. Truth, compassion, and courage starve it to death.

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage. That’s how Amalek survives — by making you fight him with his own weapons. The only victory that lasts is moral clarity without malice, courage without cruelty.

The war we’re fighting isn’t new. It’s the same battle between remembrance and amnesia, covenant and chaos, humility and pride. The same spirit that whispered to Pharaoh, to Hitler, and to every mob that thought hatred could heal the world is whispering again now — on your screens, in your classrooms, in your churches.

Will you join it, or will you stand against it?

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.