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Morning Brief 2025-10-24

October 24, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Jonathon Seidl
TOPIC: What society gets wrong about alcoholism.

News...

Doc shows Garland, Wray, and Monaco all over corrupt Arctic Frost
The fingerprints of top deep-staters in Biden’s weaponized Department of Justice are all over the launch of the corrupt Arctic Frost investigation, according to a document just dropped by Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

FBI releases new footage, renews $500,000 reward in search for J6 pipe bomber
The bureau unveiled clearer, longer video of the suspect seen placing bombs near both party headquarters on January 5, 2021, urging the public to help identify the individual nearly five years after the attack.

Pennsylvania Democrats advance amendment to legalize abortion until birth
The Democrat-led Judiciary Committee passed six extreme pro-abortion bills, including a constitutional amendment that would erase all limits on abortion and enshrine “reproductive rights” in state law. The proposal, which also covers sterilization and gender procedures, could allow abortions up to a baby’s due date if ratified by voters.

Owners of in-progress China-tied battery plant in Michigan default on state deal, ending project
The battery plant faced significant local and national scrutiny over its ties to a China-based company.

Female spies are waging ‘sex warfare’ to steal Silicon Valley secrets
China and Russia are sending attractive women to seduce tech workers — even marrying and having children with their targets. "It’s the Wild West out there," says insider.

Trump holds off National Guard deployment after San Francisco mayor vows local crime cleanup
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president is willing to work with “anyone across the aisle” who’s serious about restoring law and order.

‘Frustrated’ accused Palisades firebug Jonathan Rinderknecht has outburst in court over his ‘detainment’
“They’re trying to associate and blame him for a fire that he was possibly associated with on Jan. 1, the Lachman Fire, with a fire that started seven days later, which is the Palisades Fire. Why are they blaming him for whatever the fire department didn’t do?" his lawyer said after the court appearance.

Left-wing cultural revolutionaries are decapitating statues and calling it art
When they told you Confederate statues were going to museums, you didn’t know they meant this.

US chess grandmaster's suspected cause of death being investigated as possible suicide or drug overdose
The death of 29-year-old Daniel Naroditsky is being eyed as a possible suicide or drug overdose — but is still being investigated by a homicide squad, according to a police report.

Felon accused of shooting man in scrotum reportedly after victim recorded video of gunman — after he fell off a scooter
A Chicago construction worker texting in his car filmed a man wiping out on a scooter — but the embarrassed rider didn’t take it well, returning moments later with a gun and allegedly shooting him in the thigh, calf, and groin.

Retired wrestler snaps armed robber’s arm in West Hollywood showdown
The sheriff's department told Blaze News that a black man wearing a mask exited a vehicle holding a semiautomatic handgun and demanded the victim’s Rolex watch. But the victim refused to comply, and a physical struggle ensued, authorities said.

White House...

White House fires back at Democrat's fake outrage over East Wing project by posting reminder of their own scandals
As Democrats desperately try to whip a frenzy over Trump’s privately funded 90,000-square-foot East Wing expansion, the White House updated its website to spotlight past scandals — from Bill Clinton’s affair and Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood meeting to Biden’s cocaine discovery — mocking critics for their manufactured outrage.

A Virginia couple is asking a judge to block Trump from tearing up the East Wing
They say the project is taking place “without legally required approvals or reviews.”

NYC...

Zohran Mamdani most popular with foreign-born New Yorkers, but Cuomo favorite with homegrown voters: Poll
The Patriot Polling survey found that Mamdani has a whopping 62% of the foreign-born vote, while Cuomo nets 24% and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa has a paltry 12%. Cuomo, who is running as an independent, has a healthy lead among American-born New Yorkers, securing 40% compared to Mamdani’s 32% and Sliwa’s 25%.

TikTok denies boosting pro-Mamdani content while undermining Cuomo's campaign
"Our early analysis suggests that content favoring Zohran Mamdani is being amplified, while videos supporting Andrew Cuomo are being suppressed, a pattern that could meaningfully influence public perception and voter behavior," tech founder Yehonatan Dodeles wrote.

Cuomo campaign pulls viral AI ad mocking criminals who endorse Zohran Mamdani
The satirical video, featuring AI-generated “criminals” praising Mamdani’s soft-on-crime agenda, was deleted shortly after posting, with Cuomo’s team calling it an unfinished upload — but not before racking up millions of views.

Politics...

Here are the major races and ballot measures in next month’s elections you need to know about
While not as expansive and numerous as midterm or presidential contests, this year’s Nov. 4 races are expected to be as important as the rest. From control of Virginia state government to a Democrat-led California redistricting initiative, here’s a breakdown of the biggest elections set to occur next month.

The Democrats’ convenient case of political amnesia
After years of weaponizing the justice system against the president and his allies, Democrats now warn against “political retribution,” pretending their own prosecutions and abuses of power never happened as the pendulum swings back their way.

The DNC’s biggest donor group? Those without jobs
An analysis of donors listed by the DNC in its most recent federal election filing found that “not employed” was the top occupation listed in the filing, donating a total of $12 million so far in 2025.

White House aides losing patience with Transportation Secretary Duffy for stoking feud with Elon Musk
"Duffy picking a fight with Elon doesn't sit well with a lot of people because Elon is going to be a pretty big factor in the midterms," a senior White House official told the Washington Free Beacon.

Maine Dem Senate candidate with Nazi tattoo apologizes for numerous anti-gay slurs
"I stopped using that specific kind of language a while ago ... and today I find that stuff abhorrent," Graham Platner said, who has previously claimed he is not a "secret" Nazi.

Jay Jones’ wife donated to ‘Freedom Fund’ that busts murderers and rapists out of jail
Mavis Jones’ donation is just the latest revelation as her husband faces questions over his commitment to law and order as he aims to become Virginia’s top cop.

Former NFL quarterback AJ McCarron launches bid for Alabama lieutenant governor, citing Charlie Kirk’s influence
"It's time for political newcomers and outsider candidates like me to lead the battle."

Ex-CNN analyst Chris Cillizza warns Jasmine Crockett could hand Texas senate seat to GOP
"I think this would be a dream scenario for Republicans. Because I think Ken Paxton has a real chance at winning the primary against John Cornyn and Wesley Hunt. And if he does, the best chance Republicans have of keeping that seat is Jasmine Crockett as the Democratic nominee.”

Economy...

Most potential homebuyers expect mortgage rates to drop. That’s why they’re waiting.
Mortgage rates have been creeping down over the last few months, with the 30-year fixed mortgage now sitting at 6.17%.

Intel beats on sales in first earnings report since US government became top shareholder
Intel reported third-quarter results on Thursday in which sales beat analyst estimates, signaling that demand for its core x86 processors for PCs has recovered. Shares of the chipmaker are up over 87% so far this year.

Target to lay off 1,000 and cut hundreds of open roles ahead of new CEO starting job
About 80% of the roles being cut are based in the U.S., with the majority concentrated in the Minneapolis area, where the company is headquartered, and in leadership positions.

Immigration...

Justice Department warns California officials not to arrest ICE agents
"Stand down or face prosecution. No one threatens our agents. No one will stop us from Making America Safe Again."

California defied federal order, let illegal migrant trucker keep license before deadly crash
A DOT investigation found Gavin Newsom’s administration ignored federal directives to revoke commercial licenses from illegal migrants, allowing 21-year-old Jashanpreet Singh to upgrade his CDL days before allegedly killing three in a drug-fueled California highway crash.

Walmart, other major companies retreat from sponsoring H-1Bs following Trump administration's reforms
The $100,000 fee for sponsorship is too rich for some large companies.

New York human rights office fines apartment building owners $55K over poster telling tenants to report immigrants to ICE
Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul praised a settlement reached to fine apartment building owners $55,000 after they hung a poster calling on tenants to report immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

WAR news...

Trump says he will inform Congress of plans to strike land-based cartel targets in Venezuela
"We’re going to go [to Congress]. I don’t see any loss in going — no reason not to. ... We’re going to tell them what we’re going to do, and I think they’re going to probably like it, except for the radical left lunatics.”

China...

China’s state oil giants halt Russian seaborne crude after new US sanctions
PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC, and Zhenhua Oil have paused seaborne purchases of Russian crude “at least for the short term” due to fears of secondary sanctions, according to Reuters.

China has been stockpiling oil for months
China — one of the biggest buyers of cut-price crude from Russia — has already spent months building up supplies, shielding it from potential disruption.

How China cheats its way into US law schools
Chinese LSAT preparation companies have violated the security of remotely administered exams for years, allowing Chinese nationals to access stolen questions and take the place of qualified Americans, the CEO of a U.S. test preparation company told the Washington Free Beacon.

Canada...

Trump says all trade talks with Canada are terminated over 'fake' ad featuring Ronald Reagan
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump said on Truth Social. "Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED."

Palestinian refugee rips 'white people' for putting up Halloween decorations
Samar Alkhdour, a Palestinian refugee living in Montreal, filmed herself raging over Halloween decorations, calling Western traditions “uncivilized” and shouting “f**k you white people” and “f**k you Westerners” in an expletive-filled rant posted online.

Entertainment...

Science fiction must return to the three Rs: Rockets, robots, and ray guns
Once filled with hope, adventure, and wonder, modern science fiction has traded its rockets and ray guns for pronouns and politics. The genre that once inspired humanity to reach the stars now mostly lectures it — but a few writers are fighting to bring back the golden age of imagination and optimism.

'Lord of the Rings' demonizes orcs, says college prof
A University of Nottingham professor is teaching a course called Decolonising Tolkien that claims "The Lord of the Rings" portrays people of color and orcs as enemies of white men, extending similar arguments to "The Chronicles of Narnia" and Shakespeare for depicting a “mono-ethnic” England.

Media...

Colbert reclaims late-night lead as Kimmel loses top spot
"The Late Show" leads the way with just 2.46 million total viewers, as Kimmel raked in 2.11 demented leftists viewers.

Health...

Biohacker Bryan Johnson says sauna and ice pack routine cut microplastics in his semen by 85%
The 48-year-old claims daily 200-degree dry saunas paired with an ice pack on his groin slashed the amount of microplastic particles in his semen. Johnson credits the detox to his Blueprint regimen and now sells a $135 at-home microplastics test kit.

AI...

2 federal judges say use of AI led to errors in US court rulings
Two U.S. judges told Sen. Chuck Grassley their staff used ChatGPT and Perplexity to help write recent rulings that were later found to be full of errors, prompting new AI policies in their chambers and renewed calls for judiciary-wide oversight.

Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers
When a driver parks at a delivery location, Amazon says the glasses automatically activate. The glasses' heads-up display help the driver locate the package inside the vehicle and then navigate to the delivery address. The glasses provide directions in places like multi-unit apartment complexes and business locations.

Technology...

Google’s Quantum chip claims 13,000x speed advantage over supercomputers in real-world applications
The move marks the shift from theory to practical quantum computing.

Amazon cloud crash leaves ‘smart bed’ users sweating through the night
An AWS outage knocked out several major apps and even smart mattresses, trapping users on overheated or tilted beds with no offline control.

Travel...

The world's best airlines and airports of 2025, according to Forbes
The winners were determined by an invitation-only survey of more than 9,000 of the most well-traveled people in the hospitality industry, including luxury travel advisers and FTG’s most frequent fliers — its incognito inspectors and training team. They determined the best U.S. airport is ... LaGuardia!

Sports...

NBA stars arrested in major mafia gambling bust involving Bonanno, Genovese, Lucchese, and Gambino families
Three NBA stars, including Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups, have been charged in a pair of sweeping and “historic” federal gambling busts — one of which implicates four of the five mafia families, and the other involves bets placed on LeBron James and four NBA teams.

How mafiosos and NBA stars used rigged card shufflers, X-ray tables, and secret contact lenses in multimillion-dollar poker scam
The scam began at least in 2019 and netted millions using a mixture of high-tech gadgets and old school mob tricks.

Babylon Bee: WNBA players assure FBI they weren't missing layups to throw games, they just suck at basketball
"I know it seems like a scam, but we're all just really, really bad at this game," said Chicago Sky star Angel Reese. "The truth is, we're just not that good at making the ball go into the little circle. We really are trying. It's just a lot harder than it looks."

Oct. 24, 2008 - Dow opens down… Dangerous day, could be historic… Hopes dwindling for McCain... Glenn talks with author Peter Schiff… In depression, name brands don’t matter… Glenn talks with Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.)...

Is Socialism seducing a lost generation?

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

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

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

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

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

The appeal of a broken dream

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

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

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

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

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

The bridge that never ends

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

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

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

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

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

What young America deserves

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

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

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

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

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

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

Socialism does not offer salvation. It requires subservience.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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.