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It’s hard to avoid noticing, and internally screaming over, the Trump administration’s proposed military budget upgrade to $1.5 trillion annually – as though the present trillion-dollar annual gift to the end of the world weren’t enough.
It’s not just the proposed taxpayer bleed. It’s the collective assumption that “self-defense” requires an ever-present readiness to kill lots of people – and beyond that the utter certainty that we have soulless enemies out there who want what we have, hate our freedoms and will take what they can the moment we relax. This is just the way it is. No questions allowed.
And our enemies aren’t pussycats. One of them, for instance, is China. Indeed, as Megan Russell of CODEPINK writes:
Censorship is not protected by the Constitution — but free speech is. Senator Mark Kelly is a U.S. Senator, not an enlisted soldier, and he is fully within his rights to speak freely. Even King Trump and his War Minister, Pete Hegseth, must abide by the Constitution.
All Senator Mark Kelly (D‑AZ) wanted to do was continue serving his country, just as he did when he was sworn into the U.S. Navy 35 years ago. However, President Donald Trump accused Kelly and five other Democrats — Rep. Jason Crow (D‑Colo.), Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D‑N.H.), Reps. Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan (both D‑Pa.), and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D‑Mich.) — of engaging in “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” after they appeared in a video in November condemning lethal military strikes on alleged drug‑smuggling boats in international waters.
The 12-day war between the United States, Israel, and Iran in 2025, followed by renewed conflict on February 28, 2026, revealed not merely a military confrontation, but a fundamental misreading of how political power survives. The strategy pursued by Washington and Tel Aviv appeared to rest on a familiar assumption of modern interventionism: that authoritarian states are internally hollow, and that sufficient military pressure combined with popular discontent whether staged or organic can trigger rapid political collapse from within.
According to reporting by Israeli newspaper Ynet, the Mossad established an “influence network” intended to stimulate protest movements inside Iran during the conflict. The expectation was clear. Once senior leadership had been eliminated, Kurdish forces who were already trained in Iraq would advance, mass demonstrations would erupt, state cohesion would fracture, and an alternative political order would emerge through the vacuum left behind.
But the anticipated collapse never materialized.
The lines of engagement in our country have shifted. We are no longer merely witnessing a partisan struggle of Right vs. Left; we are standing at the precipice of a much deeper chasm: Freedom vs. Dictatorship.
The Southern States are clearly looking like Jim Crow-era representation, where the rules are changed in the middle of the game to ensure the outcome is rigged against the people. We see the echoes of this assault stretching across the map, with Alabama leading the most recent charge:
Alabama: Just yesterday, the courts cleared the way for Alabama to reinstate a map that dilutes Black voting power. Despite early voting already being underway, the state is moving to upend the active election and force through a map that strips away a newly won majority-Black district.
Louisiana: Canceled primaries under "emergency" orders to force through new, rigged maps after the Supreme Court weakened the Voting Rights Act.
Texas & Florida: Using aggressive redistricting to fracture minority communities and flip seats, ensuring our neighborhood voices are diluted.
House Republicans introduce bill to extend renewables tax credits
Republican lawmakers in the US House of Representatives are trying to restore tax credits for wind, solar and other clean energy technologies that were curtailed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
The American Energy Dominance Act, introduced last week, would remove the accelerated deadlines that the OBBBA placed on the renewable energy production and investment tax credits.
Under current law, key renewable energy incentives are scheduled to expire on June 30th of this year. The proposed legislation would "fully restore" many of these credits eliminating the scheduled expiration.
Political observers note that this bill is unlikely to gain support under this Congress; however, if the Democrats take the House and/or the Senate later this year,it is anticipated that clean energy tax credits would be restored. Democratic lawmakers introduced a similar bill in March.
This article first appeared here
Palmer Luckey’s defense startup is everywhere now. And that is exactly the problem.
In the span of a single news cycle, Anduril Industries announced it is leading a team to build space-based weapons for the United States Space Force, embedded its drone defense systems into NATO infrastructure in the Netherlands, and unveiled a subscription-based private cellular network it wants to rent to the military for battlefield communications. Three announcements. Three new sectors. One company. One software backbone running through all of it.
This is not a disruption. This is an occupation.
In the halls of academia, there was once a historian named Kevin Roberts. Long before he became the President of the Heritage Foundation, Roberts spent years submerged in the archives of American history. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on the evolution of slavery in Louisiana and a master’s thesis on West African family structures. He was a man who once deeply researched the "DNA of resilience"—the same resilience we trace in our own family lineages.
But today, that same scholar has traded the historian’s pen for a political sledgehammer. As the chief architect of Project 2025, Roberts is no longer documenting history; he is attempting to rewrite the future of the American republic. As we look at this 900-page blueprint, we have to stop and ask ourselves: How did America get here?