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Morning Brief 2025-11-07

November 07, 2025
Chris Brady

TOP OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Noah Oppenheim
TOPIC: How close are we to nuclear war?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: Stephen Limbaugh
TOPIC: How YOU can help celebrate America's 250th anniversary through music.

Government shutdown...

‘Thank a Democrat’: Delta, United cancel hundreds of weekend flights due to government shutdown
The reduction in air traffic comes just weeks before the Thanksgiving holiday, which is typically the busiest travel weekend of the year in the United States.

Here are the airports that are canceling flights over shutdown
The flight reductions will begin at 4% on Friday, then increase to 6% by Nov. 11, 8% by Nov. 13, and 10% by Nov. 14.

Democrats vow to continue shutdown for sake of the party’s ‘brand’
Sen. Chris Murphy said Thursday his party’s “brand” could undergo “substantial damage” if Democrats were to cave and reopen the federal government following their overwhelming election victories Tuesday night.

Media shields Democrats from blame over government shutdown
A new Media Research Center study found ABC, CBS, and NBC gave overwhelmingly positive coverage to Democrats during the shutdown — 87% in their favor — while blaming Republicans nearly seven times more often.

News...

Russiagate subpoenas sent out by grand jury as Comey prosecution unearths new revelations
A federal grand jury is in the process of issuing more than 30 subpoenas tied to the false claims of Trump-Russia collusion, a source directly familiar with the matter told Just the News on Thursday.

If Arctic Frost perpetrators don’t go to jail, conservatives will
To conservatives, Arctic Frost is a scandal. To Democrats, it’s their new baseline. And the only way to stop it is to punish them.

Indiana sues woke school district that allegedly tried to prevent illegal alien from self-deporting with his kid
Attorney General Todd Rokita filed suit against Indianapolis Public Schools for blocking ICE cooperation, telling Glenn Beck the district’s “sanctuary” rules broke state law and even stopped a Honduran father from retrieving his son to self-deport.

Multiple people at Joint Base Andrews fall ill after suspicious package delivered with white powder, sources say
An envelope containing white powder and political materials triggered evacuations and sent multiple people to the hospital at the Maryland base. The base is the military base through which VIPs such as the president, vice president, and Cabinet secretaries regularly travel on official business.

Portland cancels Veteran's Day Parade
The Portland chapter of the National Association for Black Veterans said he was not able to get sponsors this year.

Here are 7 key moments from Justice Barrett’s latest sit-down interview
In a wide-ranging interview, Justice Barrett defended originalism, said Dobbs returned abortion to democracy, and warned that judges can’t overreach just because Congress won’t act. She urged Americans to stay engaged, saying the Constitution only works if people still believe in it.

Accused NJ jihadi yuppie teen wanted to murder mom’s Jewish friends, bragged about being ‘biggest antisemite in America’: Feds
Milo Sedarat, the son of a noted Iranian American poet and a mother who hosts a local podcast, raged about how he wanted to carry out mass executions of Jews and wanted to run down a pro-Israel demonstration in Montclair, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey alleged in a complaint unsealed Thursday.

DC man cleared after throwing sandwich at federal agent during Trump crime crackdown
A jury acquitted former DOJ employee Sean Dunn, who hurled a sandwich and shouted obscenities at federal agents during Trump’s anti-crime surge. Prosecutors sought assault charges, but D.C. claimed the act was protected speech.

Mom, 43, chaperoned junior high dance — then allegedly had a child with daughter's 14-year-old date
Prosecutors say the woman had sex with her daughter’s 14-year-old friend and filmed the encounter, later giving birth to his child.

Last monkey on the loose after Mississippi highway crash is captured
Jasper County authorities announced the capture of the final lab monkey near a home in Heidelberg, Mississippi, ending a search that lasted more than a week and drew national headlines.

NYC...

Zohran Mamdani’s unimpressive win
Eric Adams won 67% of the vote in 2021. Did anyone argue that he was the template for the future? Bill DeBlasio won with 73% and 66% of the vote. The last Democratic mayoral candidate to win a lower total was David Dinkins when he ran against Rudy Giuliani in 1989.

Bernie Sanders says Dems should 'absolutely' run on Mamdani's tactics nationwide
When asked, "Do you think Zohran Mamdani is a leader in the Democratic Party now?" Sanders replied, "Of course."

Ben Shapiro: The Democratic Socialist plan to take over America
There's going to be a whole new wave of DSA-inspired candidates all across America.

The New York Times is terrified of Mamdani, the mayor it helped create
After years of championing radical left policies, the Times is suddenly pleading for moderation from New York’s new socialist mayor. The paper that fueled the city’s decline is now panicking over the monster it built.

Florida locals rush to buy homes over fears New Yorkers fleeing Mamdani will flood the market
Anticipating a surge in pricing similar to the COVID-era flight, Floridians are working fast to stake their claim.

Politics...

Ranking the 2028 Democratic presidential contenders
There are a few standouts already, but the long road to the next presidential contest features plenty of dark horses.

Crazy Nancy cashes out
After decades of scheming, preening, and cashing in on “lucky” trades, Nancy Pelosi is finally hanging it up at 85. The Botoxed tyrant of San Francisco leaves behind a city drowning in filth and a party that aged as badly as she did.

Pelosi retirement, election results fuel momentum for progressive takeover of Democratic Party
With Pelosi out of the picture, two prominent far-left figures are set to duke it out for her seat in a crowded primary. The background of that scenario is colored by the light of the far-left's midterm election wins.

Did Democrats over-perform in election sweep — or was Kamala Harris just uniquely terrible?
Blue victories in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York weren’t proof of a Democratic comeback — just proof voters couldn’t stand Harris. Without her on the ballot, Democrats finally looked competent again.

Perjuring manslaughterer who killed a soldier over an alleged racist comment wins election in Maine
A woman convicted of helping bludgeon a solider and forcing a lethal amount of sand down his throat will now serve on the Bangor City Council.

Noncitizen Kansas mayor accused of illegally voting 'multiple times' after winning re-election
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced the charges against Jose "Joe" Ceballos, the mayor of Coldwater, on Wednesday. The 54-year-old is a permanent resident of the U.S. but not a citizen, according to Kobach, and is a citizen of Mexico.

Free speech...

Tucker Carlson defends Nick Fuentes interview, says free speech means hearing ‘bad people’
Appearing with Megyn Kelly, Carlson said he interviewed Fuentes to understand his influence among young men and to confront him on attacking people "for their DNA," calling such views un-Christian and anti-Western. The move sparked a GOP firestorm, splitting conservatives over free speech and anti-Semitism.

Threads is now bigger than X, and that’s terrible for free speech
Looking at raw data, the graph is clear: X has been on a steady decline for years dating back to Elon Musk’s acquisition. At the same time, Threads hasn't shown any signs of stopping. (It's worth noting, X is the most aggressive platform at purging bots, that does play a role in raw numbers — but doesn't change the trends.)

Economy...

NY Post: Trump touts affordability while inflation rages across America on everything from food to furniture to cars
Target’s prices are up 5.5% nationwide this year and Walmart’s are up 5.3%, according to an analysis by DataWeave, which looked at roughly 16,000 items across each retailer’s website. Amazon’s price hikes have averaged more than 12%, according to a report.

Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package
To unlock the award, Tesla must reach $8.5 trillion market capitalization (currently around $1.4T) and meet 12 milestones including 20 million vehicle deliveries, 10 million Full Self-Driving subscriptions, and 1 million Optimus robots delivered.

Middle East...

Trump confirms Kazakhstan has become first country to join Abraham Accords in second term
"This is a major step forward in building bridges across the World," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Today, more Nations are lining up to embrace Peace and Prosperity through my Abraham Accords."

Iran upholds death sentence for boxing coach accused of joining protests
Iran’s Supreme Court confirmed the execution of Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a boxing coach accused of joining 2019 anti-regime protests and contacting opposition groups. His lawyer says the case was riddled with legal flaws and political interference.

China...

Chinese scholars at Michigan linked to growing bio-smuggling scandal
Federal authorities charged three more Chinese nationals at the University of Michigan for allegedly smuggling biological materials into the U.S., bringing the total to seven tied to the plot. Lawmakers say it’s part of a wider Chinese campaign to steal American research through university networks.

Entertainment...

Ryan Murphy’s ‘All’s Fair’ crashes with critics, proving woke TV is finally out of gas
The Kim Kardashian-led legal drama scored a rare 0% from top critics, who called it “stiff and affectless.” Once the darling of woke Hollywood, Murphy’s formula of girlboss clichés and empty empowerment has finally worn thin — even the critics have had enough.

Sydney Sweeney refuses to participate in struggle session over white supremacy, shuts down woke reporter
"I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear," Sweeney responded in the interview. It is the first time that Sweeney spoke about the ad that sparked so much backlash on the left.

Why would Alec Baldwin bash Radio City’s Christmas Spectacular?
Three guesses ... no, it’s not because it’s Christian ... no, it’s not because he’s a bitter a-hole still mad no one called his radio show 20 years ago ... YES! You got it — he’s mad about the animals being exploited! Baldwin’s new PETA ad rips using sheep, camels, and donkeys on stage, calling it cruel and outdated.

Media...

Stephen Colbert insists he's more conservative than people might think, not a 'lefty figure'
"I just happen to be talking about a government in extremis. ... So that makes me perceived as more left necessarily than I am. ... It’s hard to have a balanced reaction to the idea of troops on streets of a city that actually is not undergoing an invasion." Colbert said that he did not intend "The Late Show" to be a show to "save the republic" as people claimed, but he was later motivated by the 2016 election to warn audiences about Trump.

MSNBC says Trump’s White House ballroom to blame for GOP losses
Lawrence O’Donnell said voters were driven to the polls over "the demolition."

BBC claims anchor broke guidelines with ‘facial expression,’ replacing ‘pregnant people’ with ‘women’
According to the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit, 20 viewers filed complaints about Martine Croxall’s reaction and determined that she breached the BBC’s editorial standards of impartiality.

CNN reporter visibly agitated when White House leaf blower disrupts live segment: ‘Deafening to me’
Senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes was midway through an update on newly announced pharmaceutical deals when the whirring of a leaf blower drowned out her voice.

LGBTQIA2S+...

SCOTUS overrules Biden judge who blocked State Dept. from putting factual sex on passports
The U.S. Supreme Court momentarily paused a lower court injunction on Thursday that sought to force the Trump administration to deny biological reality when issuing passports to trans-identifying individuals.

Trans person accused of exposing self in women’s locker room was convicted of brutally beating ex-wife before taking her name
The man in a viral Los Angeles gym bathroom row had been convicted of assaulting his wife while living in Ohio — before taking her first name as his own.

Health...

Trump announces deals with Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk to slash weight-loss drug prices, offer some Medicare coverage
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk agreed to cut prices of blockbuster GLP-1 drugs under Trump’s new TrumpRx program, with Medicare coverage expanding in 2026. The move will drop monthly costs from over $1,000 to as low as $149, marking a major step in Trump’s plan to make obesity drugs affordable nationwide.

AI...

Trump AI czar Sacks says ‘no federal bailout for AI’ after OpenAI CFO’s comments
Sacks’ comments came after OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said Wednesday that the startup wants to establish an ecosystem of private equity, banks and a federal “backstop” or “guarantee” that could help the company finance its infrastructure investments.

OpenAI does damage control after a top exec talked government support for its spending spree
The company cleaned up comments supporting a government guarantee so AI firms can maintain their huge spending on chips and new data centers.

China’s key weapons in its AI battle with the US — massive Huawei chip clusters and cheap energy
Huawei’s systems can compete with Nvidia’s on some metrics but they require the use of more chips and much more energy. China’s subsidies, energy discounts, and cheap power allow these systems to be used.

Sen. Blackburn: Google’s biased AI accused me of rape — shut down its rampant lies
“During her 1987 campaign for the Tennessee State Senate, Marsha Blackburn was accused of having a sexual relationship with a state trooper, and the trooper alleged that she pressured him to obtain prescription drugs for her and that the relationship involved non-consensual acts.” None of this is true.

Kim Kardashian blames ChatGPT for making her fail multiple law school tests repeatedly
"It has made me fail tests all the time. And then I'll get mad, and I'll yell at it and be like, 'You made me fail! Why did you do this?' And it will talk back to me."

Sports...

Police audio reveals Cowboys player spoke of ending his life before fatal shooting
Dispatch recordings show Marshawn Kneeland’s girlfriend warned Texas police he was armed and suicidal just hours before the Dallas Cowboys defensive end was found dead after a police chase. Authorities say he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound following the late-night pursuit.

Nov. 7, 2012 - Obama wins re-election... Price for freedom is steep... Elections have consequences... No time for a pity party... Glenn's future plans... Callers express fears after election... How we got here and where we're going...

Why do Americans feel so empty?

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Anxiety, anger, and chronic dissatisfaction signal a country searching for meaning. Without truth and purpose, politics becomes a dangerous substitute for identity.

We have built a world overflowing with noise, convenience, and endless choice, yet something essential has slipped out of reach. You can sense it in the restless mood of the country, the anxiety among young people who cannot explain why they feel empty, in the angry confusion that dominates our politics.

We have more wealth than any nation in history, but the heart of the culture feels strangely malnourished. Before we can debate debt or elections, we must confront the reality that we created a world of things, but not a world of purpose.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

What we are living through is not just economic or political dysfunction. It is the vacuum that appears when a civilization mistakes abundance for meaning.

Modern life is stuffed with everything except what the human soul actually needs. We built systems to make life faster, easier, and more efficient — and then wondered why those systems cannot teach our children who they are, why they matter, or what is worth living for.

We tell the next generation to chase success, influence, and wealth, turning childhood into branding. We ask kids what they want to do, not who they want to be. We build a world wired for dopamine rather than dignity, and then we wonder why so many people feel unmoored.

When everything is curated, optimized, and delivered at the push of a button, the question “what is my life for?” gets lost in the static.

The crisis beneath the headlines

It is not just the young who feel this crisis. Every part of our society is straining under the weight of meaninglessness.

Look at the debt cycle — the mathematical fate no civilization has ever escaped once it crosses a threshold that we seem to have already blown by. While ordinary families feel the pressure, our leaders respond with distraction, with denial, or by rewriting the very history that could have warned us.

You cannot survive a crisis you refuse to name, and you cannot rebuild a world whose foundations you no longer understand.

We have entered a cultural moment where the noise is so loud that it drowns out the simplest truths. We are living in a country that no longer knows how to hear itself think.

So people go searching. Some drift toward the false promise of socialism, some toward the empty thrill of rebellion. Some simply check out. When a culture forgets what gives life meaning, it becomes vulnerable to every ideology that offers a quick answer.

The quiet return of meaning

And yet, quietly, something else is happening. Beneath the frustration and cynicism, many Americans are recognizing that meaning does not come from what we own, but from what we honor. It does not rise from success, but from virtue. It does not emerge from noise, but from the small, sacred things that modern life has pushed to the margins — the home, the table, the duty you fulfill, the person you help when no one is watching.

The danger is assuming that this rediscovery happens on its own. It does not.

Reorientation requires intention. It requires rebuilding the habits and virtues that once held us together. It requires telling the truth about our history instead of rewriting it to fit today’s narratives. And it requires acknowledging what has been erased: that meaning is inseparable from God’s presence in a nation’s life.

Harold M. Lambert / Contributor | Getty Images

Where renewal begins

We have built a world without stillness, and then we wondered why no one can hear the questions that matter. Those questions remain, whether we acknowledge them or not. They do not disappear just because we drown them in entertainment or noise. They wait for us, and the longer we ignore them, the more disoriented we become.

Meaning is still available. It is found in rebuilding the smallest, most human spaces — the places that cannot be digitized, globalized, or automated. The home. The family. The community.

These are the daily virtues that do not trend on social media, but that hold a civilization upright. If we want to repair this country, we begin there, exactly where every durable civilization has always begun: one virtue at a time, one tradition at a time, one generation at a time.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The Bubba Effect erupts as America’s power brokers go rogue

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When institutions betray the public’s trust, the country splits, and the spiral is hard to stop.

Something drastic is happening in American life. Headlines that should leave us stunned barely register anymore. Stories that once would have united the country instead dissolve into silence or shrugs.

It is not apathy exactly. It is something deeper — a growing belief that the people in charge either cannot or will not fix what is broken.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf.

I call this response the Bubba effect. It describes what happens when institutions lose so much public trust that “Bubba,” the average American minding his own business, finally throws his hands up and says, “Fine. I will handle it myself.” Not because he wants to, but because the system that was supposed to protect him now feels indifferent, corrupt, or openly hostile.

The Bubba effect is not a political movement. It is a survival instinct.

What triggers the Bubba effect

We are watching the triggers unfold in real time. When members of Congress publicly encourage active duty troops to disregard orders from the commander in chief, that is not a political squabble. When a federal judge quietly rewrites the rules so one branch of government can secretly surveil another, that is not normal. That is how republics fall. Yet these stories glided across the news cycle without urgency, without consequence, without explanation.

When the American people see the leadership class shrug, they conclude — correctly — that no one is steering the ship.

This is how the Bubba effect spreads. It is not just individuals resisting authority. It is sheriffs refusing to enforce new policies, school boards ignoring state mandates, entire communities saying, “We do not believe you anymore.” It becomes institutional, cultural, national.

A country cracking from the inside

This effect can be seen in Dearborn, Michigan. In the rise of fringe voices like Nick Fuentes. In the Epstein scandal, where powerful people could not seem to locate a single accountable adult. These stories are different in content but identical in message: The system protects itself, not you.

When people feel ignored or betrayed, they will align with anyone who appears willing to fight on their behalf. That does not mean they suddenly agree with everything that person says. It means they feel abandoned by the institutions that were supposed to be trustworthy.

The Bubba effect is what fills that vacuum.

The dangers of a faithless system

A republic cannot survive without credibility. Congress cannot oversee intelligence agencies if it refuses to discipline its own members. The military cannot remain apolitical if its chain of command becomes optional. The judiciary cannot defend the Constitution while inventing loopholes that erase the separation of powers.

History shows that once a nation militarizes politics, normalizes constitutional shortcuts, or allows government agencies to operate without scrutiny, it does not return to equilibrium peacefully. Something will give.

The question is what — and when.

The responsibility now belongs to us

In a healthy country, this is where the media steps in. This is where universities, pastors, journalists, and cultural leaders pause the outrage machine and explain what is at stake. But today, too many see themselves not as guardians of the republic, but of ideology. Their first loyalty is to narrative, not truth.

The founders never trusted the press more than the public. They trusted citizens who understood their rights, lived their responsibilities, and demanded accountability. That is the antidote to the Bubba effect — not rage, but citizenship.

How to respond without breaking ourselves

Do not riot. Do not withdraw. Do not cheer on destruction just because you dislike the target. That is how nations lose themselves. Instead, demand transparency. Call your representatives. Insist on consequences. Refuse to normalize constitutional violations simply because “everyone does it.” If you expect nothing, you will get nothing.

Do not hand your voice to the loudest warrior simply because he is swinging a bat at the establishment. You do not beat corruption by joining a different version of it. You beat it by modeling the country you want to preserve: principled, accountable, rooted in truth.

Adam Gray / Stringer | Getty Images

Every republic reaches a moment when historians will later say, “That was the warning.” We are living in ours. But warnings are gifts if they are recognized. Institutions bend. People fail. The Constitution can recover — if enough Americans still know and cherish it.

It does not take a majority. Twenty percent of the country — awake, educated, and courageous — can reset the system. It has happened before. It can happen again.

Wake up. Stand up. Demand integrity — from leaders, from institutions, and from yourself. Because the Bubba effect will not end until Americans reclaim the duty that has always belonged to them: preserving the republic for the next generation.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

Grim warning: Bad-faith Israel critics duck REAL questions

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Bad-faith attacks on Israel and AIPAC warp every debate. Real answers emerge only when people set aside scripts and ask what serves America’s long-term interests.

The search for truth has always required something very much in short supply these days: honesty. Not performative questions, not scripted outrage, not whatever happens to be trending on TikTok, but real curiosity.

Some issues, often focused on foreign aid, AIPAC, or Israel, have become hotbeds of debate and disagreement. Before we jump into those debates, however, we must return to a simpler, more important issue: honest questioning. Without it, nothing in these debates matters.

Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

The phrase “just asking questions” has re-entered the zeitgeist, and that’s fine. We should always question power. But too many of those questions feel preloaded with someone else’s answer. If the goal is truth, then the questions should come from a sincere desire to understand, not from a hunt for a villain.

Honest desire for truth is the only foundation that can support a real conversation about these issues.

Truth-seeking is real work

Right now, plenty of people are not seeking the truth at all. They are repeating something they heard from a politician on cable news or from a stranger on TikTok who has never opened a history book. That is not a search for answers. That is simply outsourcing your own thought.

If you want the truth, you need to work for it. You cannot treat the world like a Marvel movie where the good guy appears in a cape and the villain hisses on command. Real life does not give you a neat script with the moral wrapped up in two hours.

But that is how people are approaching politics now. They want the oppressed and the oppressor, the heroic underdog and the cartoon villain. They embrace this fantastical framing because it is easier than wrestling with reality.

This framing took root in the 1960s when the left rebuilt its worldview around colonizers and the colonized. Overnight, Zionism was recast as imperialism. Suddenly, every conflict had to fit the same script. Today’s young activists are just recycling the same narrative with updated graphics. Everything becomes a morality play. No nuance, no context, just the comforting clarity of heroes and villains.

Bad-faith questions

This same mindset is fueling the sudden obsession with Israel, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in particular. You hear it from members of Congress and activists alike: AIPAC pulls the strings, AIPAC controls the government, AIPAC should register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. The questions are dramatic, but are they being asked in good faith?

FARA is clear. The standard is whether an individual or group acts under the direction or control of a foreign government. AIPAC simply does not qualify.

Here is a detail conveniently left out of these arguments: Dozens of domestic organizations — Armenian, Cuban, Irish, Turkish — lobby Congress on behalf of other countries. None of them registers under FARA because — like AIPAC — they are independent, domestic organizations.

If someone has a sincere problem with the structure of foreign lobbying, fair enough. Let us have that conversation. But singling out AIPAC alone is not a search for truth. It is bias dressed up as bravery.

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If someone wants to question foreign aid to Israel, fine. Let’s have that debate. But let’s ask the right questions. The issue is not the size of the package but whether the aid advances our interests. What does the United States gain? Does the investment strengthen our position in the region? How does it compare to what we give other nations? And do we examine those countries with the same intensity?

The real target

These questions reflect good-faith scrutiny. But narrowing the entire argument to one country or one dollar amount misses the larger problem. If someone objects to the way America handles foreign aid, the target is not Israel. The target is the system itself — an entrenched bureaucracy, poor transparency, and decades-old commitments that have never been re-examined. Those problems run through programs around the world.

If you want answers, you need to broaden the lens. You have to be willing to put aside the movie script and confront reality. You have to hold yourself to a simple rule: Ask questions because you want the truth, not because you want a target.

That is the only way this country ever gets clarity on foreign aid, influence, alliances, and our place in the world. Questioning is not just allowed. It is essential. But only if it is honest.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.

The melting pot fails when we stop agreeing to melt

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Texas now hosts Quran-first academies, Sharia-compliant housing schemes, and rapidly multiplying mosques — all part of a movement building a self-contained society apart from the country around it.

It is time to talk honestly about what is happening inside America’s rapidly growing Muslim communities. In city after city, large pockets of newcomers are choosing to build insulated enclaves rather than enter the broader American culture.

That trend is accelerating, and the longer we ignore it, the harder it becomes to address.

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world.

America has always welcomed people of every faith and people from every corner of the world, but the deal has never changed: You come here and you join the American family. You are free to honor your traditions, keep your faith, but you must embrace the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. You melt into the shared culture that allows all of us to live side by side.

Across the country, this bargain is being rejected by Islamist communities that insist on building a parallel society with its own rules, its own boundaries, and its own vision for how life should be lived.

Texas illustrates the trend. The state now has roughly 330 mosques. At least 48 of them were built in just the last 24 months. The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex alone has around 200 Islamic centers. Houston has another hundred or so. Many of these communities have no interest in blending into American life.

This is not the same as past waves of immigration. Irish, Italian, Korean, Mexican, and every other group arrived with pride in their heritage. Still, they also raised American flags and wanted their children to be part of the country’s future. They became doctors, small-business owners, teachers, and soldiers. They wanted to be Americans.

What we are watching now is not the melting pot. It is isolation by design.

Parallel societies do not end well

More than 300 fundamentalist Islamic schools now operate full-time across the country. Many use Quran-first curricula that require students to spend hours memorizing religious texts before they ever reach math or science. In Dallas, Brighter Horizons Academy enrolls more than 1,700 students and draws federal support while operating on a social model that keeps children culturally isolated.

Then there is the Epic City project in Collin and Hunt counties — 402 acres originally designated only for Muslim buyers, with Sharia-compliant financing and a mega-mosque at the center. After public outcry and state investigations, the developers renamed it “The Meadows,” but a new sign does not erase the original intent. It is not a neighborhood. It is a parallel society.

Americans should not hesitate to say that parallel societies are dangerous. Europe tried this experiment, and the results could not be clearer. In Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, entire neighborhoods now operate under their own cultural rules, some openly hostile to Western norms. When citizens speak up, they are branded bigots for asserting a basic right: the ability to live safely in their own communities.

A crisis of confidence

While this separation widens, another crisis is unfolding at home. A recent Gallup survey shows that about 40% of American women ages 18 to 39 would leave the country permanently if given the chance. Nearly half of a rising generation — daughters, sisters, soon-to-be mothers — no longer believe this nation is worth building a future in.

And who shapes the worldview of young boys? Their mothers. If a mother no longer believes America is home, why would her child grow up ready to defend it?

As Texas goes, so goes America. And as America goes, so goes the free world. If we lose confidence in our own national identity at the same time that we allow separatist enclaves to spread unchecked, the outcome is predictable. Europe is already showing us what comes next: cultural fracture, political radicalization, and the slow death of national unity.

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Stand up and tell the truth

America welcomes Muslims. America defends their right to worship freely. A Muslim who loves the Constitution, respects the rule of law, and wants to raise a family in peace is more than welcome in America.

But an Islamist movement that rejects assimilation, builds enclaves governed by its own religious framework, and treats American law as optional is not simply another participant in our melting pot. It is a direct challenge to it. If we refuse to call this problem out out of fear of being called names, we will bear the consequences.

Europe is already feeling those consequences — rising conflict and a political class too paralyzed to admit the obvious. When people feel their culture, safety, and freedoms slipping away, they will follow anyone who promises to defend them. History has shown that over and over again.

Stand up. Speak plainly. Be unafraid. You can practice any faith in this country, but the supremacy of the Constitution and the Judeo-Christian moral framework that shaped it is non-negotiable. It is what guarantees your freedom in the first place.

If you come here and honor that foundation, welcome. If you come here to undermine it, you do not belong here.

Wake up to what is unfolding before the consequences arrive. Because when a nation refuses to say what is true, the truth eventually forces its way in — and by then, it is always too late.

This article originally appeared on TheBlaze.com.