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Morning Brief 2025-10-14

October 14, 2025
Chris Brady

BOTTOM OF HOUR 1
GUEST: Kevin Roberts
TOPIC: Government shutdown enters its third week. Is there any sign of a resolution?

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears
TOPIC: Could Virginia’s governorship flip blue this November?!

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Eric Dexheimer
TOPIC: How an out-of-towner is plotting to take over Loving County, Texas.

News...

The latest FBI spying makes Watergate look trivial
A newly released document shows the Biden administration’s FBI secretly monitored the phone records of at least eight Republican senators under Jack Smith’s sham Trump probe — a government-sanctioned surveillance operation that dwarfs Watergate in scope, method, and abuse of power.

If Trump labels Antifa a foreign terrorist organization, here's what he can do next
An FTO designation allows for increased ability to surveil and investigate anyone found to be in connection with it.

British billionaire cuts funding to US left-wing groups after watchdog exposé
Christopher Hohn’s foundation halted donations to American activist groups after a report revealed it funneled over $550 million into climate, DEI, and China-linked organizations, prompting calls for Congress to crack down on foreign influence in U.S. politics.

If anyone’s causing a ‘judicial crisis,’ it’s rogue lower-court judges
Dozens of Democrat-appointed judges are anonymously attacking the Supreme Court in the NY Times after it blocked their barrage of injunctions against President Trump’s policies, proving the real crisis comes from activist jurists trying to override the executive branch and sabotage his agenda.

GOP leader roasted for refusing to celebrate Columbus Day
Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota was mocked Monday by X users for not celebrating Columbus Day. Thune posted a tribute to “Native American Day” on X in an attempt to acknowledge their contributions to the United States.

Why Democrats demonize Christopher Columbus and lionize Che Guevara
Many have lost the intellectual faculty necessary for making good judgments about our history — and thus also about our present and future.

Father charged with killing 13-year-old daughter's 67-year-old rapist runs for sheriff in Arkansas
"I’m the father who acted to protect his daughter when the system failed. ... Through my own fight for justice, I have seen firsthand the failures in law enforcement and in our circuit court. And I refuse to stand by while others face these same failures."

Philadelphia medical examiner again rules teacher’s 20-stab death a suicide
Fourteen years after Ellen Greenberg was found stabbed 20 times in her apartment, officials reaffirmed the controversial suicide ruling, claiming she could have inflicted the wounds herself despite expert analyses suggesting her body was moved and the injuries were inconsistent with self-harm.

Politics...

Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans 'have plans' to 'fix' Obamacare
“Let’s just state it simply: Obamacare failed the American people,” the speaker said. “It was promised to be a great success, to make health care more affordable. It’s done exactly the opposite.”

North Carolina Republicans will 'follow Trump's call' to redistrict the state
They said they needed to counteract redistricting in California.

Jay Jones wanted to 'divest' from police, pull cops from schools, compares himself to blacks killed
Hateful and violent texts sent by Jay Jones have taken the spotlight as he seeks to become Virginia's attorney general. But his animosity toward police and the justice system and his alignment with the BLM movement have flown largely under the radar so far.

Jill Biden spokesman goes scorched-earth on Biden’s worst propagandist
Former first lady aide Michael LaRosa tore into ex-White House press official Andrew Bates, accusing him of lying, gaslighting, and bullying reporters for years, and blaming Biden-era flacks like him for destroying Democrats’ credibility with the media and the public.

Obama praises Texas Dem James Talarico who said ‘God is non-binary’
Barack has fallen yet again for a boy-faced Democrat hoping to "turn Texas blue."

Economy...

Rare-earth stocks soar as China tightens supply in trade escalation with Trump
MP Materials, a U.S. mining company in which the Trump administration has taken an ownership stake, was up more than 21% Monday, while another domestic company, Energy Fuels Inc., rose 17.5%. USA Rare Earth Inc. was up more than 26%, while Critical Metals Corp surged a staggering 32%.

Rare-Earth Stocks Surge On JPMorgan’s $1.5 Trillion US Investment Pledge
Shares of companies producing rare-earth minerals surged Monday as JPMorgan announced a decade-long $1.5 trillion “Security and Resilience Initiative” aimed at investing in industries like artificial intelligence, manufacturing, and critical minerals.

Gold, silver soar to record highs
On Monday, December gold futures hit an intra-day record high of $4,124.30 an ounce, and silver futures hit an intra-day record peak of $50.56 an ounce.

US, India returning to trade talks, with focus for both sides on energy
Talks were suspended in August after the Trump administration hiked tariffs on most India goods to 50% as a penalty for Indian purchases of Russian crude oil.

New vehicle prices top $50,000 while auto loan delinquencies keep rising
The average price paid for a new vehicle last month topped $50,000 for the first time ever, Cox Automotive’s Kelley Blue Book reported Monday. Meanwhile, auto loan delinquency rates remain near all-time highs for those with low credit ratings.

Amazon to hire 250,000 workers during holiday season for third straight year
Overall, U.S. retailers plan to add fewer than 500,000 seasonal jobs this year, the lowest since 2009, while Target plans 100,000, Bath & Body Works 32,000, and Spirit Halloween 50,000.

Immigration...

Majority of voters back Trump deploying National Guard to defend ICE facilities
A Rasmussen poll found 52% of voters support the president’s use of the National Guard to protect ICE sites, and 56% agree that activist judges are waging a “legal insurrection” through unconstitutional rulings blocking his actions.

Oregon spends twice as much on free health care for illegal aliens as on state police
State budget records show Oregon will pour $1.5 billion into its “Healthier Oregon” program offering taxpayer-funded medical coverage to illegal immigrants from 2025 to 2027 — more than double the $717 million allocated for state police — illustrating the deep-blue state’s priorities amid rising crime and fiscal shortfalls.

Anti-ICE protest in Portland takes ugly turn when naked cyclists show up
Hundreds of naked demonstrators swarmed the ICE facility in Portland, blocking the driveway and clashing with federal officers as agents worked to clear the crowd — just days after a judge blocked the deployment of National Guard troops to the site.

Israel...

Trump calls for ‘new era of harmony’ at Middle East summit following Gaza ceasefire
Speaking at a global summit in Egypt, President Trump urged nations to join the Abraham Accords and help rebuild Gaza after his U.S.-brokered peace deal ended two years of war, declaring that “a beautiful Middle East” was finally within reach.

Peace through strength: Understanding why Trump succeeded where others failed
Trump doesn't like long wars. His tendency to want results, focus on personal relationships, and transactionalist mindset allowed him to do what no other U.S. president had done before.

Hamas storms through Gaza, executing opposition groups in attempt to cling to power
As Israelis celebrated the return of their countrymen from Hamas captivity early Monday, the terror group stormed through the streets of Gaza executing Palestinians they claim collaborated with Israel, graphic videos circulating on social media show.

What comes next after the end of the Israel-Hamas War?
While rebuilding Gaza and discussing the Palestinian future are important steps, the second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza remains unclear.

Trump earns fresh comparisons to Cyrus the Great as last living hostages return home
Knesset speaker hails the U.S. president as a "giant of Jewish history," after he was first compared to the ancient Persian ruler in 2018 for moving the American embassy to Jerusalem.

Bill Clinton praises Trump for Israel-Hamas peace deal
"President Trump and his administration, Qatar, and other regional actors deserve great credit for keeping everyone engaged until the agreement was reached."

Biden backhandedly 'commends' Trump for getting 'renewed' peace deal 'over the finish line'
"The road to this deal was not easy. My Administration worked relentlessly to bring hostages home, get relief to Palestinian civilians, and end the war. I commend President Trump and his team for their work to get a renewed ceasefire deal over the finish line."

No, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire could not have happened earlier
The truce came only after Israel and President Trump applied decisive military and diplomatic pressure — destroying Hamas’ strongholds, crippling Iran’s capabilities, and forcing Qatar to act. Claims that Biden’s earlier diplomacy could have achieved the same result are pure fantasy.

Bernie Sanders celebrates release of Palestinian murderers, rapists, and terrorists
The Vermont senator, who has called for a ceasefire for the past two years, also used the moment to call for an end to the U.S.-Israel alliance.

Mamdani-linked DSA denounces ‘conditional’ Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal, demands ‘Palestinian liberation’
While acknowledging “the relief that may be afforded to Palestinians under the agreement in humanitarian assistance and cessation of Israeli military operations,” the DSA said it harbors “no illusions that Israel will honor any negotiated agreement that preserves Palestinian life or self-determination.”

Wife of NYC socialist front-runner mourns pro-Hamas influencer’s death
Rama Duwaji, wife of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, shared tributes to Palestinian influencer Saleh al-Jafarawi, who had celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, drawing new scrutiny as her husband faces questions over foreign donations and his stance on Israel.

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour says starved and tortured Israeli hostages were treated ‘better than the average Gazan’
"They're probably being treated better than the average Gazan because they are the pawns and the chips that Hamas had," Amanpour said Monday morning on CNN News Central. "Now Hamas has given up all its leverage, by the way, by giving them all up."

Will 'The View's' Alyssa Farah Griffin keep her promise to wear a MAGA hat after Trump secured hostage release?
"If he does good — if he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will wear a MAGA hat for one day on the show and say, ‘Thank you for doing it.'"

Ukraine - Russia...

Trump's Israel-Hamas deal sets stage for new overtures to Iran and Russia, if they want it
Trump has been touted as a historic peacemaker after he helped end or de-escalate multiple global conflicts in the wake of his second term, which began just 10 months ago.

Trump to meet Zelenskyy at White House on Friday
The meeting was scheduled after the two leaders spoke twice on the phone over the weekend and discussed the possibility of the U.S. approving the transfer of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, according to NBC.

Europe...

Netherlands seizes Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia
Nexperia, a subsidiary of China’s Wingtech Technology, specializes in the high-volume production of chips used in automotive, consumer electronics, and other industries, making it vital for maintaining Europe’s technological supply chains.

Asia...

Seoul blasts Hyundai for boosting US investments during trade talks
South Korea’s industry minister said Hyundai’s decision to expand its U.S. investments while Seoul negotiates tariffs with Washington was “deeply regrettable,” accusing the automaker of undermining the nation’s leverage as it seeks relief for its car industry.

Entertainment...

Martin Sheen, who played a president on TV, lectures Trump on how to be the president
The left-wing actor launched into a tirade during a live podcast, calling Trump “the biggest nothing in the world” and dishing out presidential advice as if playing one on "The West Wing" made him a statesman.

Justin Trudeau mocked relentlessly after steamy session with Katy Perry
“Katie Perry vacationing on a yacht with her new same-sex partner, Justin Trudeau,” one person said in response to the photo.

Media...

Press outlets, including the Washington Times and Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon pledge ahead of deadline
Newsmax, the Washington Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the New York Times, CNN, the Guardian, Breaking Defense, and other outlets have all said they would not sign it. Those outlets will be made to turn in their credentials by Tuesday at 5 p.m. and remove their things from the press offices.

Restrictions on Pentagon press corps part of American history, despite uproar
The U.S. Wartime Censorship Office restricted content flows abroad and the War Department regularly censored journalist’s articles with sensitive material — neither of which the modern Pentagon has proposed.

John Oliver complains about Bari Weiss takeover at CBS, claims her past work is 'irresponsible,' 'deeply misleading'
"It is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading.”

Religion...

Beijing’s crackdown on ‘underground’ churches is a damning sign of weakness
If Xi Jinping’s rule of China is so fragile that he feels mortally threatened by independent religious institutions, it’s hard to see how any Western nation can trust his word on anything.

New York Times attempts to explain rise in Christianity among Gen Z. The piece is as terrible as you’d think.
A Times guest essay fretted that the growing revival of conservative Christianity among young Americans — especially Gen Z men — could threaten “liberal democracy,” framing faith and traditional values as dangerous while ignoring how left-wing culture pushed a generation to seek meaning elsewhere.

Technology...

Europe’s war on innovation is driving it into technological irrelevance
While American freedom fuels invention, Europe’s regulators keep choking creativity with red tape like the Digital Markets Act and Copyright Directive — punishing success, stifling competition, and proving that bureaucrats can kill progress faster than they can regulate it.

How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BC inscriptions offers clues
New analysis of 2,600-year-old Tel Arad ostraca suggests Iron Age soldiers tracked months, days, and supplies with sophisticated numerical systems.

Science...

SpaceX launches 11th test flight of giant Super Heavy-Starship rocket
It was the 11th test flight for a full-scale Starship, which Musk intends to use to send people to Mars. NASA's need is more immediate. The space agency cannot land astronauts on the moon by decade's end without the 403-foot Starship.

Travel...

Canadian airline to charge extra for reclining seats
In an effort to make flying even more miserable, WestJet announced that its flyers will now have to pay an upcharge if they want a reclining seat on their next flight.

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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!

I know what I'm for.

Do you?

How America’s elites fell for the same lie that fueled Auschwitz

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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.

Bill Gates ends climate fear campaign, declares AI the future ruler

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The Big Tech billionaire once said humanity must change or perish. Now he claims we’ll survive — just as elites prepare total surveillance.

For decades, Americans have been told that climate change is an imminent apocalypse — the existential threat that justifies every intrusion into our lives, from banning gas stoves to rationing energy to tracking personal “carbon scores.”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates helped lead that charge. He warned repeatedly that the “climate disaster” would be the greatest crisis humanity would ever face. He invested billions in green technology and demanded the world reach net-zero emissions by 2050 “to avoid catastrophe.”

The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch.

Now, suddenly, he wants everyone to relax: Climate change “will not lead to humanity’s demise” after all.

Gates was making less of a scientific statement and more of a strategic pivot. When elites retire a crisis, it’s never because the threat is gone — it’s because a better one has replaced it. And something else has indeed arrived — something the ruling class finds more useful than fear of the weather.The same day Gates downshifted the doomsday rhetoric, Amazon announced it would pay warehouse workers $30 an hour — while laying off 30,000 people because artificial intelligence will soon do their jobs.

Climate panic was the warm-up. AI control is the main event.

The new currency of power

The world once revolved around oil and gas. Today, it revolves around the electricity demanded by server farms, the chips that power machine learning, and the data that can be used to manipulate or silence entire populations. The global contest is no longer over barrels and pipelines — it is over who gets to flip the digital switch. Whoever controls energy now controls information. And whoever controls information controls civilization.

Climate alarmism gave elites a pretext to centralize power over energy. Artificial intelligence gives them a mechanism to centralize power over people. The future battles will not be about carbon — they will be about control.

Two futures — both ending in tyranny

Americans are already being pushed into what look like two opposing movements, but both leave the individual powerless.

The first is the technocratic empire being constructed in the name of innovation. In its vision, human work will be replaced by machines, and digital permissions will subsume personal autonomy.

Government and corporations merge into a single authority. Your identity, finances, medical decisions, and speech rights become access points monitored by biometric scanners and enforced by automated gatekeepers. Every step, purchase, and opinion is tracked under the noble banner of “efficiency.”

The second is the green de-growth utopia being marketed as “compassion.” In this vision, prosperity itself becomes immoral. You will own less because “the planet” requires it. Elites will redesign cities so life cannot extend beyond a 15-minute walking radius, restrict movement to save the Earth, and ration resources to curb “excess.” It promises community and simplicity, but ultimately delivers enforced scarcity. Freedom withers when surviving becomes a collective permission rather than an individual right.

Both futures demand that citizens become manageable — either automated out of society or tightly regulated within it. The ruling class will embrace whichever version gives them the most leverage in any given moment.

Climate panic was losing its grip. AI dependency — and the obedience it creates — is far more potent.

The forgotten way

A third path exists, but it is the one today’s elites fear most: the path laid out in our Constitution. The founders built a system that assumes human beings are not subjects to be monitored or managed, but moral agents equipped by God with rights no government — and no algorithm — can override.

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That idea remains the most “disruptive technology” in history. It shattered the belief that people need kings or experts or global committees telling them how to live. No wonder elites want it erased.

Soon, you will be told you must choose: Live in a world run by machines or in a world stripped down for planetary salvation. Digital tyranny or rationed equality. Innovation without liberty or simplicity without dignity.

Both are traps.

The only way

The only future worth choosing is the one grounded in ordered liberty — where prosperity and progress exist alongside moral responsibility and personal freedom and human beings are treated as image-bearers of God — not climate liabilities, not data profiles, not replaceable hardware components.

Bill Gates can change his tune. The media can change the script. But the agenda remains the same.

They no longer want to save the planet. They want to run it, and they expect you to obey.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.