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Morning Brief 2025-11-04

November 04, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Stephen Moore
TOPIC: New York is losing its "most precious resource: their citizens."

News...

DOJ reveals Comey expected to work for 'President Clinton' and coordinated anonymous media leaks before 2016 election
Federal prosecutors unveiled emails showing Comey anticipated joining a Hillary Clinton administration and secretly approved leaks to shape media coverage of her email scandal. The DOJ filing includes notes proving he knew of Clinton’s plan to smear Trump with Russia claims despite denying it to Congress.

Read handwritten notes on Clinton’s ‘plan to tie Trump’ to Russia that James Comey left in an FBI safe in 2016
Comey testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2020 that he was unfamiliar with Clinton’s plan to tie Trump to Russia.

Obama judge accused of breaking law to help Biden DOJ secretly seize GOP senators’ phone records
Judge James Boasberg approved gag orders blocking carriers from notifying 11 Republican lawmakers about subpoenas from Special Counsel Jack Smith for their private phone data. Legal experts say the move may violate a federal law protecting Congress from such secret seizures.

Group of GOP Senators introduce legislation to codify Antifa terror designation
“Violent extremists who target our law enforcement officers and destroy our communities must be held accountable. It’s far past time to designate Antifa a terrorist organization. The Stop ANTIFA Act makes it clear that organized violence has no place in America,” Sen. Moody of Florida wrote in a news release.

5 things to watch as Supreme Court considers Trump’s tariffs
President Trump’s sweeping tariffs will be scrutinized by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, placing the president’s most significant economic initiative into the justices’ hands.

Foreign charities pump nearly $2 billion into US left-wing causes, watchdog finds
A new report reveals five foreign charities funneled billions into U.S. groups pushing radical climate and progressive agendas. The money, much of it from U.K. and Danish foundations, has funded protests, litigation, and policy campaigns aimed at reshaping American energy and environmental policy.

Maine churches, schools opening chapters of the late Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA organization
At least 20 Turning Point chapters have been established at colleges, high schools, and churches in Maine in the two months since its co-founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah.

Michigan Muslim preacher helped radicalize teen ‘co-conspirator’ in Halloween terrorist plot, FBI says
The teen was influenced by Dearborn preacher Ahmad Musa Jibril, an ISIS supporter previously tied to convicted jihadists. The FBI says the teen reposted Jibril’s content and sought his father’s advice on when to act, allegedly being told to “do the good deed now” before agents intervened.

Mystery deepens over Special Forces soldier who blew up Cybertruck outside Trump Las Vegas hotel
“This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call,” Livelsberger wrote in a notes app. “Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives.”

Judge rejects plea deal for funeral home owner accused of stashing nearly 190 decaying bodies
Hallford and her husband admitted to giving families fake ashes.

Mississippi mom guns down monkey that escaped from overturned truck to protect her children: ‘I did what any other mother would do’
Jessica Bond Ferguson said she and other Heidelberg residents had been on high alert after word spread that monkeys — believed to be carrying dangerous diseases but later confirmed by officials not to be — had been roaming loose since last week.

Government shutdown...

8 Democrats sit at center of potential deal to end government shutdown this week
The eight Democrats, who include Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Jon Ossoff, the latter a top Republican target in 2026, will need to feel comfortable with whatever is offered by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and they may need to hear from President Trump himself.

'Moderate' House Dems, GOP release ‘principles’ for ObamaCare subsidy extension
A quartet of bipartisan House lawmakers on Monday proposed a framework to temporarily extend ObamaCare’s enhanced tax credits that includes a sunset period and an income cap for high earners.

Johnson defends filibuster as Trump urges Senate to scrap it amid shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the filibuster remains an “important safeguard” against Democrats’ “worst impulses,” even as President Trump pushed to eliminate the 60-vote rule to end the record government shutdown.

Schumer wants to file complaint about ’60 Minutes’ editing Trump interview, White House fires back
"Due to the Schumer Shutdown, even your frivolous filing could not be processed by the FCC ..."

NYC...

Iran tried Mamdani’s ideas 45 years ago — it ended in ruin
In 1979, Iran’s revolutionaries — an alliance of Marxists and Islamists — rose on promises of justice and equality. They pledged to give citizens free water, free electricity, and free housing. The slogans captured a nation’s imagination, uniting two ideologies that despised each other but shared the same illusion: that moral purity and government control could replace economic discipline.

Mamdani leans into Sarsour support, Muslim faith & ‘Islamophobia’ claims in campaign finale
Surrounded by his far-left allies, Mamdani cast criticism of him as anti-Muslim attacks and called on voters to “make history” in Tuesday’s election.

Trump endorses Cuomo and threatens to pull federal funding to NYC if Mamdani wins
"If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds ... this once great City has ZERO chance of success, or even survival!"

Cuomo downplays president's endorsement
"We need a mayor who can stand up to Donald Trump and get the funding that New York deserves," Cuomo told reporters. "I can stand up to Trump. Trump will go through Mamdani like a hot knife through butter."

Elon Musk urges New Yorkers to vote for Cuomo
"Bear in mind that a vote for Curtis is really a vote for Mumdumi or whatever his name is. VOTE CUOMO!"

Abbott says he’ll impose 100% tariff on New Yorkers moving to Texas after election
“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.”

Politics...

‘Total and complete garbage’: CNN pollster says the Democrat brand is ‘in the basement’
"If you’re a Democrat potentially thinking about running in 2028, jump right in — because at this point there is no front-runner."

Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi blurts out he’s ‘all for you paying higher taxes anywhere in the country’
“I don’t want someone to say I’m moving to Florida or Texas because I can have lower taxes there. Wherever you go in the country, I’m all for you paying higher taxes anywhere in the country.”

Fetterman shares the one line he won’t cross as a Democrat
Sen. Fetterman told Fox News he refuses to demonize political opponents, saying Democrats lose credibility when labeling Trump or his supporters as fascists. Fetterman said he prefers open dialogue over vilification, adding, “I’m not gonna call you a fascist or a Nazi ... that’s wrong.”

Jeffries says Trump and Mike Johnson are running a 'pedophile protection program'
“The Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program,” Jeffries said. “That’s what they’ve been doing, and that’s the reason why they refuse to swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, for weeks now.”

Pelosi: Trump is ‘worst thing on the face of the earth’
The San Francisco leftist called Trump “a vile creature” and “the worst thing on the face of the Earth.”

NBC News: Democrats brace for Nancy Pelosi's possible retirement
Democrats are bracing for the possible retirement of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, one of the party’s most powerful, popular, and effective leaders.

Economy...

Both subprime and super prime loans are on the rise, signs of a K-shaped economy that is a ‘prescription for real trouble’
The share of consumers taking out the riskiest form of loans has reached its highest peak this decade, a sign of growing financial stress for many Americans.

US layoffs reflect ‘no hire, more fire’ environment
The U.S. labor market’s post-pandemic penchant for holding on to employees is coming to an end, analysts say. For years, many large businesses effectively hoarded workers, leading to a “no hire, no fire” environment; that’s now shifted to a “no hire, more fire” job market, a Reuters columnist wrote.

Fed injected $50 billion into markets last Friday as repo surge sparks liquidity fears
Despite the Fed's stance that these operations are part of routine market management, analysts are beginning to question whether these measures are indicative of deeper liquidity issues.

Immigration...

Over 2 million illegal aliens gone as Trump’s deportation plan delivers early results
DHS says more than two million illegal aliens have left the U.S. since Trump’s return to office, including 1.6 million who self-deported. Officials credit tougher enforcement, new incentives to leave, and a 99.99% drop in migration through Panama’s Darien Gap as proof the president’s border policies are working.

Federal memo says cartels offering $10K for shooting at Border Patrol agents
“Additional reporting suggests that assailants may wear Mexican military uniforms to avoid raising suspicion while carrying long arms or machine guns,” the alert says.

Israel...

Trump plan would place US-led force in control of Gaza for two years
A leaked draft U.N. resolution shows the Trump administration proposing an International Stabilization Force to govern Gaza and handle security, border control, and Hamas disarmament. The U.S.-backed force would work with Israel and Egypt while overseeing civilian safety and rebuilding efforts until the Palestinian Authority completes reforms.

US looks to build ‘new Gaza’ on half of Strip under IDF control, but faces pushback
A plan to build half a dozen residential regions on the eastern side of the Yellow Line for up to one million people receives a chilly reception from some potential donor countries in the Gulf.

Ukraine - Russia...

Russia scrambles to reassure China after Trump-Xi summit
Following Trump’s breakthrough talks with Xi Jinping, Russia sent PM Mikhail Mishustin to Hangzhou to shore up ties. Analysts say Moscow is uneasy over warming U.S.-China relations but confident Beijing won’t sacrifice its partnership with Russia, despite Trump’s pressure over the Ukraine war.

22 earthquakes rattle Russia over 24 hours
The region has seen frequent seismic activity over the last few months, with a potent 8.8 magnitude earthquake striking on July 29 and prompting tsunami warnings up and down the U.S. West Coast.

China...

Report: China offers tech giants cheap power to boost domestic AI chips
Local governments have beefed up incentives to help Chinese tech giants such as ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent, which have been hit with higher electricity costs following Beijing's ban on purchasing Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips.

Europe...

Worker dies after 11 hours trapped under collapsed medieval tower in Rome
The man had been carrying out conservation work on the medieval tower, which is part of the Roman Forum.

Media...

Top Heritage Foundation staffer departs after Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes controversy
Ryan Neuhaus, who until Friday was chief of staff to Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, left the conservative think tank in the wake of an uproar over a statement from Roberts last week defending Tucker Carlson after he interviewed anti-Semitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.

BBC caught doctoring Trump’s Jan. 6 speech to make him look like he incited Capitol riot
A leaked dossier reveals the BBC edited Trump’s J6 speech to splice his call to “fight like hell” into his remarks about marching to the Capitol, falsely portraying him as urging violence.

The Atlantic says it’s Trump officials’ own fault they have to flee homes for safety
The threat of left-wing violence against senior members of the Trump administration is so severe that families with young children are being forced to vacate their homes and live on military bases. According to the Atlantic, they had it coming.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Court orders ‘gender-affirming’ care for pedophile who abused his son
A federal judge ordered the Bureau of Prisons to provide laser hair removal and cosmetic treatments to convicted child predator, who now claims he's a woman. The man, sentenced to over 20 years for abusing his 10-year-old son, sued after being denied the procedures, and the court sided with him.

LA singer says her Gold’s Gym membership was revoked after heated confrontation with ‘man’ using women’s locker room
Singer Tish Hyman says Gold’s Gym revoked her membership after she confronted a man using the women’s locker room, saying she and other women had repeatedly filed complaints about him. Video shows Hyman shouting for the man to stay out before staff escorted her out and canceled her membership.

Education...

Letitia James leads blue-state coalition, teachers' unions suing Trump for ‘weaponizing’ loan forgiveness
The left-wing lawsuit claims the Education Department unlawfully rewrote loan forgiveness rules to exclude groups accused of violating federal law. The administration says it’s ending taxpayer support for organizations tied to crimes, illegal immigration, and performing sex changes on children.

Health...

Human 'butt-breathing' trials completed as bottom can be used 'beyond primary function'
In years to come, our lungs might be entirely pointless as a bunch of researchers have completed the first-ever human trials of "butt-breathing." It seems that our bottoms could be good for another use.

AI...

Big Tech's rising AI investments show market bubble 'still has a good ways to go'
"We're still in such a massive growth phase that the bubble still has a good ways to go before we're at risk of the massive correction," Futurum Group analyst David Nicholson said.

Science...

JD Vance declares himself 'UFO' lunatic as he vows to pull back the curtain on government secrets
The vice president said he plans to use his access to classified material to uncover what the government knows about UFOs, promising to “pull back the curtain” on long-hidden secrets.

Travel...

Director of elite private school, son stung to death by swarm of Asian giant hornets during zip-line vacation
The man and his son were swarmed and stung more than 100 times while they were zip-lining at an eco-adventure resort in Laos.

Nov. 4, 2004 - Why America is unique... Coming together... What we have in common... Is Barack Obama the next great hope for the Democrat Party?... All the potential 2008 Republican candidates will move the party to the left...

Is Socialism seducing a lost generation?

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

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

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

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

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

The appeal of a broken dream

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

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

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

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

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

The bridge that never ends

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

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

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

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

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

What young America deserves

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

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

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

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

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

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

Socialism does not offer salvation. It requires subservience.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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

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Conservatism is not about rage or nostalgia. It’s about moral clarity, national renewal, and guarding the principles that built America’s freedom.

Our movement is at a crossroads, and the question before us is simple: What does it mean to be a conservative in America today?

For years, we have been told what we are against — against the left, against wokeism, against decline. But opposition alone does not define a movement, and it certainly does not define a moral vision.

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

The media, as usual, are eager to supply their own answer. The New York Times recently suggested that Nick Fuentes represents the “future” of conservatism. That’s nonsense — a distortion of both truth and tradition. Fuentes and those like him do not represent American conservatism. They represent its counterfeit.

Real conservatism is not rage. It is reverence. It does not treat the past as a museum, but as a teacher. America’s founders asked us to preserve their principles and improve upon their practice. That means understanding what we are conserving — a living covenant, not a relic.

Conservatism as stewardship

In 2025, conservatism means stewardship — of a nation, a culture, and a moral inheritance too precious to abandon. To conserve is not to freeze history. It is to stand guard over what is essential. We are custodians of an experiment in liberty that rests on the belief that rights come not from kings or Congress, but from the Creator.

That belief built this country. It will be what saves it. The Constitution is a covenant between generations. Conservatism is the duty to keep that covenant alive — to preserve what works, correct what fails, and pass on both wisdom and freedom to those who come next.

Economics, culture, and morality are inseparable. Debt is not only fiscal; it is moral. Spending what belongs to the unborn is theft. Dependence is not compassion; it is weakness parading as virtue. A society that trades responsibility for comfort teaches citizens how to live as slaves.

Freedom without virtue is not freedom; it is chaos. A culture that mocks faith cannot defend liberty, and a nation that rejects truth cannot sustain justice. Conservatism must again become the moral compass of a disoriented people, reminding America that liberty survives only when anchored to virtue.

Rebuilding what is broken

We cannot define ourselves by what we oppose. We must build families, communities, and institutions that endure. Government is broken because education is broken, and education is broken because we abandoned the formation of the mind and the soul. The work ahead is competence, not cynicism.

Conservatives should embrace innovation and technology while rejecting the chaos of Silicon Valley. Progress must not come at the expense of principle. Technology must strengthen people, not replace them. Artificial intelligence should remain a servant, never a master. The true strength of a nation is not measured by data or bureaucracy, but by the quiet webs of family, faith, and service that hold communities together. When Washington falters — and it will — those neighborhoods must stand.

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This is the real work of conservatism: to conserve what is good and true and to reform what has decayed. It is not about slogans; it is about stewardship — the patient labor of building a civilization that remembers what it stands for.

A creed for the rising generation

We are not here to cling to the past or wallow in grievance. We are not the movement of rage. We are the movement of reason and hope.

For the rising generation, conservatism cannot be nostalgia. It must be more than a memory of 9/11 or admiration for a Reagan era they never lived through. Many young Americans did not experience those moments — and they should not have to in order to grasp the lessons they taught and the truths they embodied. The next chapter is not about preserving relics but renewing purpose. It must speak to conviction, not cynicism; to moral clarity, not despair.

Young people are searching for meaning in a culture that mocks truth and empties life of purpose. Conservatism should be the moral compass that reminds them freedom is responsibility and that faith, family, and moral courage remain the surest rebellions against hopelessness.

To be a conservative in 2025 is to defend the enduring principles of American liberty while stewarding the culture, the economy, and the spirit of a free people. It is to stand for truth when truth is unfashionable and to guard moral order when the world celebrates chaos.

We are not merely holding the torch. We are relighting it.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

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

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

To be a conservative in 2025 means to STAND

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

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

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Is what we're supposed to be doing.

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

The stewardship of a nation, of a civilization.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Global reality.

And moral reality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our faith is almost gone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why can't we open the government?

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

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

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

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

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

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

But not in nostalgia.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A conservative in 2025, '26.

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

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

For those who are alive and yet to be unborn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Progressives want the government to have more power.

Conservatives are for more restraint.

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

And one can't be stronger than the other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have that opportunity, right in front of us!

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

Not if we get bogged down into being against something.

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

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

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

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

Evil wins when good people mirror its rage.

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

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

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

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

Ancient evil, new clothes

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

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

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

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A time for choosing

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

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

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

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

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.