Morning Brief 2025-10-09

October 09, 2025

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Daniel Keene
TOPIC: Keene, a Texas business owner, has had his life turned upside down after making a social media post criticizing H-1B visas.

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Carol Roth
TOPIC: The price of gold hits $4,000 an ounce — what does this signal?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Cheyenne Grace
TOPIC: Movie — "The Best Thing About Christmas"

News...

Stand with Voddie Baucham’s family in this time of loss
Beloved pastor and theologian Voddie Baucham has passed unexpectedly, leaving behind a powerful legacy of biblical faithfulness and truth. His wife, Bridget, now faces rebuilding their life in the U.S., and a fundraiser has been launched to support the family as they grieve and transition after his death.

Trump credits Blaze News for exposing funding behind left-wing violence
At a White House roundtable, the president thanked Blaze News reporters for highlighting billionaire Neville Roy Singham’s ties to radical left-wing groups and directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate.

Trump floats Antifa foreign terrorist organization designation in White House roundtable
“Would you like to see it done? You think it would help?” Trump asked of the FTO designation. “I’d be glad to do it. I think it’s the kind of thing I’d like to do. Does everybody agree? If you agree, I agree. Let’s get it done, OK? Let’s get it done. Marco, we’ll take care of it. ... Sounds good to me.”

Comey pleads not guilty to false statements charges, defense lawyer calls it ‘vindictive prosecution’
U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff, a Biden-appointee, will be handling the case and the likely trial. The DOJ said that it would not be seeking Comey’s detention ahead of the trial, and the judge placed Comey on a personal recognizance bond.

Sen. Blackburn says Jack Smith should face prosecution after FBI spied on GOP senators
"[Smith] should be disbarred at the very least and should face the full extent of accountability under the law.”

Man fascinated with fire imagery is arrested in Palisades blaze, officials say
Jonathan Rinderknecht of Melbourne, Fla., had intentionally set a fire on New Year’s Day on a hiking trail in the Santa Monica Mountains. That small blaze rekindled disastrously a week later into the Palisades fire, killing 12 people and destroying 6,837 structures, most of them homes.

Son of missionaries accused of setting destructive Palisades fire
His landlord said he appeared “very intelligent” and told her that he had family in France and that he considered himself a Frenchman.

Suspect in Palisades fire linked to strange AI images, ChatGPT queries
Charging documents contained snippets of a conversation he had with ChatGPT, in which he reportedly said, “This just happened. Maybe like ... I don’t know, maybe like 3 months ago or something. Like, the realization of all this. I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt so liberated.”

The left blamed deadly California fire on climate change. It was actually arson.
Democrats and major media outlets had blamed the fire on “climate change,” shattering the narrative pushed by figures like Gavin Newsom, Bernie Sanders, and CNN.

Government shutdown...

No, Obamacare premiums are not doubling
People with low, or no, out-of-pocket costs would see the highest percentage increases, which lends itself to partisan scaremongering. By Greene’s logic, if someone’s out-of-pocket cost went from $1 per month to $3 per month, their “premiums” would TRIPLE. In reality, it's $2.

Duffy warns ATC staffing issues have caused delays to skyrocket from 5% to 53% during shutdown
Duffy urged air traffic controllers to continue showing up for work as much as they can, even though they are not immediately being paid.

Nancy Pelosi can’t explain how GOP’s gov’t funding bill isn’t ‘clean’
“It’s not a clean CR, there’s no reason to go into that. The point is Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, all of that are now being asked ‘reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich.’ We’re not doing it."

Politics...

Report: CBS, ABC, PBS shows fail to mention Jay Jones scandal once
NBC alone dedicated a mere 63 seconds to the Virginia attorney general candidates’ texts, Media Research Center’s study of major NBC, ABC, CBS, and PBS segments revealed.

AP says Democrat fetishizing assassinations of Republicans is actually a story about GOP pouncing
“Republicans are seizing on recently unearthed violent rhetoric from Virginia’s Democratic candidate for attorney general in a push to re-shape the state’s governor’s race — and tarnish the Democratic Party nationally — less than a month before Election Day.”

How many of 300,000 Virginia early voters want to change their mind on Jay Jones but can’t?
In addition to calling on Jay Jones to drop out, Democrats should also end the nonsense of a months-long "election season."

Nancy Pelosi has unbelievable response to Democrat candidate who issued death wish against Republican
"I wish there would be enough fuss of all the times that people have said they were gonna put a bullet in my head right in public, in the public domain."

New poll shows 'deeply vulnerable' Kathy Hochul clinging to narrow lead in hypothetical Stefanik matchup
Stefanik is just 5 points behind Hochul, trailing 43% to 48%, according to the poll. But when voters learn about each candidate’s background, including Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani, Stefanik erases that gap and takes an edge, 46.4% to 45.9%.

AOC gets shamed for violating cardinal rule of modern liberalism
After mocking Trump official Stephen Miller’s height, AOC backpedaled and declared her “love for the short king community,” claiming she was only talking about how “big or small someone is on the inside.”

New Jersey House hopeful warns of existential 'climate crisis' — after quietly selling off thousands of dollars’ worth of oil stocks
Democrat Rebecca Bennett began touting climate action one day after unloading as much as $211,000 in oil and gas holdings, disclosures show.

Economy...

Divided Fed officials saw 2 more interest rate cuts by the end of 2025, minutes show
Fed officials in September were strongly inclined to lower interest rates, with the only dispute seeming to be over how many cuts were coming, meeting minutes released Wednesday showed.

Immigration...

National Guard troops begin arriving in Chicago to help with crime despite governor's opposition
"These forces will protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property," Northern Command said in a statement.

Trump says Chicago mayor and Illinois governor ‘should be in jail’ over ICE violence
After Border Patrol agents were attacked in Chicago, the president blasted Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker for obstructing law enforcement and refusing to back federal efforts to stop left-wing rioters targeting ICE.

Democrats can’t stop admitting their foot soldiers are out of control
In a moment of inconceivable stupidity or hubris, depending on how charitable you want to be, the NY Times published its “five lessons” for cities that have found themselves in Trump’s criminal crackdown crosshairs.

Appeals court restores Oregon National Guard to Trump's control, does not rule on deployment
A federal judge in Oregon has blocked the Trump administration twice so far from deploying National Guard troops to Portland amid heavy protests. The troops would have protected an ICE facility where protesters have clashed with agents.

Chip Roy introduces bill to bar sharia law adherents from entering or remaining in US
Following pro-Hamas rallies on the Oct. 7 anniversary, the Texas congressman unveiled the Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act, which would revoke visas and deport foreign nationals found to follow sharia law, calling it “incompatible with the American way of life.”

Reddit founder says website wouldn't exist if immigration law was enforced
“As the son of an undocumented immigrant ... it’s deeply personal: Reddit wouldn’t exist if ICE had come for her,” Ohanian self-importantly wrote — ignoring that Reddit was just another message board, hardly an original idea, and the internet would’ve simply filled the void with another one.

WAR news...

Senate votes down war powers resolution aimed at blocking Trump's boat strikes
Democrats forced a vote on the issue under the War Powers Act. In a 48-51 vote, the effort failed to garner enough support to move forward.

Trump admin gets UN to slash 'ineffective' peacekeeping force's US-funded budget
U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz reached a deal with U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to cut global peacekeeping troops by 25% and reduce the $6.7 billion budget by 15%, following the Trump administration’s decision to withhold billions until reforms were made.

Middle East...

Israel and Hamas agree to first phase of Trump’s plan to end Gaza war
The deal is expected to be signed in Egypt on Thursday at noon (6 a.m. ET).

Trump expects Israeli hostages to be released Monday after admin brokered breakthrough peace deal
“The big thing is hostages are going to be released, probably, our time would be, probably Monday,” Trump told Hannity.

Trump: Netanyahu told me everyone likes him now. I said, ‘More importantly, they are loving Israel again’
“The whole world came together, to be honest, so many countries that you wouldn’t have even thought of it, and they came together," Trump told Hannity.

Hostage families ask Trump for meeting to thank him personally
The families suggest Trump could deliver a public address in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, the locus of their activist movement, or could meet them privately “or any gathering that fits your schedule.”

'Peace finally feels obtainable': World welcomes imminent release of hostages, Gaza deal signing
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the "stakes had never been higher" for establishing a two-state solution.

‘Seemed almost impossible’: Praise for Trump pours in on news of Middle East peace deal
ABC News called it “a huge night,” Fox News’ Brit Hume said it “seemed almost impossible,” and even CNN’s Jake Tapper conceded the Israel-Hamas ceasefire marked significant progress — as praise poured in for President Trump’s role in brokering the deal.

Turkish involvement, Doha apology convinced Hamas to trust US will hold Israel back — official
Qatar’s ability in pushing the U.S. to extract an apology from Netanyahu over an attempted strike on the terror group’s leaders in Doha last month also went a long way in boosting Qatar’s stature in Hamas' eyes, as it weighed whether to place its trust in Trump that he could hold Jerusalem to the terms of the deal.

Gazans cheer news of ceasefire deal
"We finally feel like we’re getting a moment of respite."

Hamas must not win the peace with Israel
Sparing its commanders to live in luxury would reward mass murder, let them regroup the way Arafat did, and guarantee a moral victory that only invites more slaughter.

Entertainment...

Dolly Parton addresses serious illness rumors: ‘I ain’t dead yet!’
“Today is October the 8, and obviously, I’m here doing some commercials for the Grand Ole Opry. Before I got started, I wanted to say ... I know lately everybody thinks that I am sicker than I am. Do I look sick to you? I’m working hard here!”

Dolly Parton’s sister clears the air on singer’s health after asking for prayers
“I want to clear something up. I didn’t mean to scare anyone or make it sound so serious when asking for prayers for Dolly. She’s been a little under the weather, and I simply asked for prayers because I believe so strongly in the power of prayer. It was nothing more than a little sister asking for prayers for her big sister.”

Zach Bryan pushes back after anti-ICE song sparks backlash, says he’s not ‘radical’
After criticism over his new song “Bad News,” the country singer said the lyrics were meant to show love for America and unity, not division, adding that he’s “on neither of these radical sides” and was “just as confused as everyone else.”

Ridley Scott says most modern movies are ‘s**t’ and saved by CGI
The 87-year-old director slammed today’s film industry as “drowning in mediocrity,” arguing that digital effects prop up bad scripts and that only about 5% of movies made today are truly great.

Media...

Don't mess with Melania Trump
Melania Trump is doing her part to restore public faith in mainstream media by forcing journalists to atone for their lies. Over the past several weeks, Melania has obtained retractions and apologies from media outlets that published falsehoods about her ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

CNN: Paramount's David Ellison trying to shift CBS 'further' to the right
CNN analyst Sara Fischer said Paramount’s $150 million purchase of the Free Press proves CEO David Ellison wants to move CBS News “further to the right” after naming Bari Weiss editor in chief, as host Audie Cornish cited CBS staff calling the move “utterly depressing.”

LGBTQIA2S+...

Drag queen removed from Pride parade after allegedly having sex with 13-year-old boy he met on dating app
The man said it was too dark in his apartment to ascertain the boy's age.

Drag queens outraged after rainbow crosswalk is obliterated by Gov. DeSantis: 'Our pride is being erased'
"Our pride is getting erased just like that," said CC Glitzer, a drag queen. "It's very painful." Another drag queen said, "This represents blood, sweat, and tears. ... They might take this away, but they didn't take the love and memories we've built here."

Environment...

CNN to asthmatics — drop dead! Blames inhalers for climate change
CNN’s Health and Climate Unit claimed metered-dose inhalers “have the impact of half a million cars per year,” warning that people using them to breathe “may inadvertently be adding to the problem” and urged switching to more expensive inhalers with “fewer problematic propellants.”

AI...

1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship or knows someone who has
"The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like, 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"

Bank of England warns of ‘sharp market correction’ if AI bubble bursts
The central bank becomes the latest in a long list of banks and investors to weigh in on whether an AI bubble is forming as markets tick into the fourth quarter.

An AI system with detailed diagnostic reasoning makes its case
Harvard researchers’ “Dr. CaBot” became the first artificial intelligence to publish a diagnosis in the New England Journal of Medicine’s Case Records, demonstrating how it reasons through complex medical cases step-by-step like an expert physician.

Sports...

Argentina soccer match relocated to Fort Lauderdale amid Chicago unrest
A friendly between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, amid the immigration crackdown in the city, sources told ESPN Argentina's Diego Monroig.

Ex-MLB draft pick sets flags on fire, tips over iconic busts after breaking into state capitol: Officials
A former Miami Marlins draft pick allegedly broke into the Washington State Capitol and set fire to several flags — including “Old Glory” — and toppled several iconic busts during his destructive rampage on Sunday night.

Oct. 9, 2009 - Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize… Nomination process ended 2 weeks after he was inaugurated… The thrill of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize… Various awards of 'The Glenn Beck Program'… What is social justice?…

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.

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!

I know what I'm for.

Do you?

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.

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

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 wins when good people mirror its rage.

Ancient evil, new clothes

A time for choosing