Morning Brief 2025-10-15

October 15, 2025

TOP OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Peter Schweizer
TOPIC: The alleged foreign influences behind Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for mayor of New York City.

BOTTOM OF HOUR 2
GUEST: Dave "Heavy D" Sparks
TOPIC: “Heavy D” of the Diesel Brothers was ARRESTED over fines he was given over car modifications.

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Chris Martenson
TOPIC: Are AI data centers the new oil?

News...

Glenn Beck joins Megyn Kelly LIVE — one night ONLY in Fort Worth!
On October 25, 2025, at Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas, Glenn joins Megyn on her “Megyn Kelly Live" tour for a no-holds-barred conversation that promises laughs, surprises, and maybe even a few uncomfortable questions.

Trump honors Charlie Kirk with highest civilian honor
President Trump honored Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, the day that would have been the conservative activist's 32nd birthday. Erika Kirk, Charlie's widow, accepted the award at the White House Tuesday afternoon on his behalf.

Glenn: Only Charlie could bring the legends … and me together.

'Deadass serious': FBI goes to Glenn Beck's home after he helped expose Antifa's terror network
The Trump administration appears keen to weaponize Glenn Beck's insights about leftist terrorists.

Barack Obama unironically says politics have no place in courts, DOJ
"We don't want kangaroo courts and trumped-up charges. We want our court system and our DOJ and FBI to be playing things straight and not meddling in politics."

Congress collected 30 million lines of phone data in Trump J6 probe, raising civil liberty concerns
More details continue to emerge about the collusion between Democrats in Congress and Biden's weaponized DOJ in targeting Trump.

Jim Jordan demands interview with Jack Smith
"Your misdeeds were so flagrant that the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed to the Committee in November 2024 that it had opened an inquiry into the tactics of your office," he said.

Stefanik, Cotton urge Bessent to open funding probe on Council on American-Islamic Relations
Stefanik and Cotton urged the investigation in a joint letter, accusing CAIR 's executive director of previously leading the Islamic Association for Palestine, which they claimed authorities have identified as a propaganda front for Hamas.

Matt Walsh: An update on the shocking crime that Democrats don’t want you to know about
When Florida officials read what I wrote about Ronald Exantus, they ordered 24-hour surveillance that same day.

Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco, calls city a ‘drug zombie apocalypse’
Musk said sending in the feds is “the only solution at this point,” siding with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s earlier remarks about using the National Guard to restore order in crime-ridden San Francisco — even as Benioff scrambled to walk back his comments ahead of his company’s major conference.

Newsom vetoes California bill that would have fined social media for ‘offensive’ speech
Free-speech groups applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for rejecting SB 771, a Democrat-backed measure that sought to punish platforms for hosting so-called hateful content, warning it would have gutted First Amendment protections and silenced political dissent online.

Mitt Romney speaks out after sister-in-law Carrie is found dead near Los Angeles parking garage
On Monday, a representative for the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department confirmed to People that a woman jumped or fell from a nearby parking structure. According to NBC Los Angeles, the garage is five stories and located next to a Hyatt Regency hotel.

Government Shutdown...

Trump says a very wealthy 'gentleman' offered to pay troops' wages through government shutdown
"I said, ‘Look, we're not going to need it. We're going to take care of our troops,'" he added. "But this was a position that's being forced upon us by Democrats."

Democrats’ shutdown just gave our enemies the green light
In a joint column, Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) and August Pfluger (R-Texas) argue that Senate Democrats’ refusal to pass a clean funding bill has halted training, cut off pay for troops, and weakened U.S. readiness just as China, Russia, and Iran grow more aggressive.

Thune open to extending government funding deadline as Senate stalls on budget bill
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) signaled he’s willing to push the Nov. 21 funding deadline further as the Senate repeatedly fails to pass the House-approved continuing resolution, saying more time is needed to complete the regular appropriations process.

Politics...

DOGE says that it has created $210 billion in taxpayer savings
Trump and Elon’s DOGE effort to reduce government costs, in conjunction with reducing the size of the workforce, fulfills — mostly — a campaign promise that many Americans were anxious to see implemented. The actual numbers can get complicated.

Millions of dollars are being spent in California on redistricting campaign commercials
As the California special election heats up in the weeks leading to voters saying yay or nay on Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s congressional redistricting effort, big money continues to fuel campaigns for and against it.

Local Democrats hosting fundraiser for candidate who fantasized about killing GOP lawmaker
The Stafford Democratic Committee is moving forward with a “Defending Democracy” fundraiser featuring attorney general candidate Jay Jones, despite reports that he texted about shooting a Republican legislator and wished death on the lawmaker’s children.

Democrats silent as NYC socialist candidate caught with foreign campaign donations
New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani reportedly accepted nearly $13,000 in potentially illegal foreign donations, but Democrat leaders who claimed “no one is above the law” during their crusade against President Trump have had nothing to say about the alleged election violations in their own ranks.

Indicted Letitia James is housing ‘fugitive’ grandniece in her Virginia home: Report
The New York attorney general’s grandniece, wanted in North Carolina for violating probation on assault and trespassing charges, has reportedly lived with her three children in James’ Norfolk property since 2020 while officially listed as an absconder.

Trump jokes about his beach body at White House event
"I'd like to be like Biden. I'd like to go to the beach. You know, my legs are not quite as thin as his." President Trump joked that he doesn't go to the beach because his "slightly larger" body would not "be appreciated" by others.

Immigration...

Dallas ICE facility shooter feared radiation exposure and thought he was 'allergic to plastic,' records show
The parents of the 29-year-old gunman who opened fire on a Dallas immigration facility in September told police their son was "completely normal" before he moved to Washington state and returned home several years ago, believing he had "radiation sickness" and was "allergic to plastic."

DHS reveals Mexican criminals have placed alleged bounties on ICE, Border Patrol officers
The plot includes a tiered bounty system that allegedly pays people $2,000 to gather information on ICE and Border Patrol officials, $5,000 to $10,000 to kidnap or attack officials, and up to $50,000 to assassinate high-ranking officials.

Rioters in Chicago hurl rocks at feds after illegal immigrant rams Border Patrol car
Federal agents were attacked with rocks and bottles after an illegal immigrant rammed their vehicle and tried to flee, forcing officers to use tear gas as the mob turned violent amid rising cartel-linked threats against U.S. agents in the city.

Records: Blue states can’t provide any evidence to defend anchor baby citizenship
Public records obtained by America First Legal show that states suing to block President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens have no data proving financial harm, revealing their lawsuit rests on political claims instead of evidence.

Trump administration revokes visas of foreigners who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination
"Aliens who take advantage of America’s hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed."

WAR News...

Trump announces another strike against 'narcoterrorist' vessel
"Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed."

The government's anti-drone energy weapons you didn't know existed
Amid thousands of drone sightings along the East Coast, biotech entrepreneur Jake Adler revealed that the Pentagon has accelerated deployment of microwave and energy-based systems capable of neutralizing entire drone swarms, marking a major leap in low-cost defense technology.

Israel...

Netanyahu says Hamas must disarm or 'all hell breaks loose'
Netanyahu said he's hopeful for a peaceful next phase in the deal between Israel and Hamas, but noted President Trump's conditions are "very clear": Hamas must give up its arms and demilitarize, or "all hell breaks loose."

AP: Hamas reasserts control in a chaotic Gaza, posing a risk to the fragile ceasefire
As the Gaza ceasefire holds, Hamas security forces have returned to the streets, clashed with armed groups, and killed alleged gangsters in what the militant group says is an attempt to restore law and order in areas where Israeli troops have withdrawn.

Israel said to cancel planned Gaza sanctions as Hamas expedites return of dead hostages
The measures were announced Tuesday after Hamas initially only handed over the remains of four out of 28 dead hostages held in the Strip by Palestinian terrorists.

His captors were teachers, university lecturers, and doctors, Israeli hostage reveals
Former hostage Tal Shoham said civilians — including a first-grade teacher, lecturer, and doctor — helped Hamas hold Israelis captive, describing them as “brainwashed and full of hate” and confirming that ordinary Gazans were complicit in the Oct. 7 atrocities.

Released hostage in shock, would be killed if there had not been a deal, uncle says
After enduring starvation, torture, and constant fear during 738 days in Hamas captivity, Rom Braslavski remained remarkably selfless, rejoicing when other hostages were freed and never asking, “Why not me?”

‘Doctor Who’ star admits she had ‘Trump derangement syndrome,’ praises president for Gaza peace deal
British actress Frances Barber said she was “deeply moved” and now respects President Trump after his successful Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release, thanking him for securing freedom for all surviving captives.

Entertainment...

Mel Gibson's 'Resurrection of the Christ' casts new Jesus, Mary Magdalene
Shooting started last week at Rome’s Cinecittà Studios on the film, with its main ensemble having been entirely recast.

George Clooney criticizes Hollywood culture — now that he lives in France
Clooney revealed in an interview with Esquire that he did not want to raise his kids immersed in Hollywood culture, with their heads buried in technology and trying to avoid paparazzi.

Dramatic video shows moment Alec Baldwin rams head-on into tree in Hamptons car crash
Newsmax, which obtained the video, says it “contradicts” Baldwin’s contention that the truck cut him off, causing the crash. But the NY Post says the video arguably shows the garbage truck rolling through a stop before making a turn, giving Baldwin little time to slow down on a clearly wet and slippery road.

Media...

Understanding the Pentagon’s dispute with the media
The Washington Examiner is among more than 35 media outlets that have publicly said they will not sign the pledge. The reporters from those outlets will continue to cover the Department of War, but will do so from afar now. One America News Network is the only media outlet to publicly say it will sign it.

Pentagon press pool's main hang-up: Journalists confirming they 'understand' new policies
When the Department of War published the new policies earlier this month, the Pentagon Press Association and its allies raised only one issue with Hegseth’s staff, that reporters would likely refuse to sign any statement that they “understand” the contents of the new policies.

Supreme Court denies hearing appeal from Alex Jones against $1.4 billion judgment
The decision means Jones is out of options and must break out the checkbook and write a check for "one billion and four hundred million dollars and zero cents."

RFK Jr.’s wife Cheryl Hines clashes with Sunny Hostin over his qualifications as health secretary
The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress defended her husband’s record on fighting corporate toxins after Hostin called him “the least qualified” health secretary ever, sparking a fiery debate on "The View" over his medical background and past vaccine claims.

Environment...

The United Nations is about to tax you
A new global climate tax would be the ultimate in taxation without representation.

Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project
Although the project was greenlit by the Biden administration, it remained controversial with some conservation groups and residents, who feared the sheer size of the solar arrays would impact critical desert wildlife habitat. Desert tortoises and Joshua trees live in the area that would be developed for the solar array.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Study finds transgender identification in nosedive among American students
The number of young Americans who identify as transgender has dropped by nearly half since peaking in 2023, an indication that the gender-identity trend is rapidly going “out of fashion,” according to a newly published survey of polling data.

Activists outraged after Gov. Abbott orders removal of Pride crosswalk and BLM mural
One resident said the act was a "breach" of "queer history."

Religion...

Study finds near-death survivors often face isolation, spiritual upheaval
A University of Virginia study found that nearly 70% of people who experienced a near-death event reported major spiritual changes and less fear of death, while many also struggled with loneliness, broken relationships, and finding support afterward.

Charles Murray: I thought I didn’t need God. I was wrong.
I spent decades dismissing religion as superstition. But the more I learned, the less my own certainty made sense.

Vatican Library grants Muslim scholars a prayer room
Fr. Giacomo Cardinali, vice prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Muslim academics had requested a small area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying, and we have given it to them,” he said.

AI...

Walmart teams with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products through ChatGPT
"For many years now, eCommerce shopping experiences have consisted of a search bar and a long list of item responses. That is about to change. There is a native AI experience coming that is multimedia, personalized, and contextual," Walmart CEO Doug McMillon said.

Goldman Sachs warns of looming layoffs as AI reshapes Wall Street giant’s operations
Despite reporting record profits, the firm told employees it will limit head count and cut some roles as part of its new “OneGS 3.0” overhaul, shifting toward AI-driven efficiency and automation that executives say will redefine how the bank operates.

Oct 15, 2010 - Caller gives Glenn fashion advice... O'Reilly's appearance on 'The View'...The decline of the dollar... Obama doesn't take responsibility for any of his programs... The guys disagree on vaccinations for children...

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?

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.

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.

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