The Obamagate scandal and the Epstein scandal are, in many ways, fundamentally similar. Both involve rogue elements within the United States intelligence community and include many of the same key figures. Robert Mueller and his deputy, James Comey, were leading the FBI when Jeffrey Epstein was first arrested during the Bush administration. At that time, federal prosecutor Alex Acosta was reportedly told that Epstein was an intelligence asset and advised to "leave it alone." Comey later became D...
Jul 25, 2025•1 hr 6 min
For years, U.S. intelligence agencies have invoked national security threats to conceal their activities and withhold information—even from Congress, which is tasked with overseeing them. The courts have reinforced this secrecy by establishing a legal precedent known as the ‘ state secrets privilege’ , an evidentiary rule that allows the exclusion of evidence in legal cases based solely on affidavits from these agencies, claiming that disclosure could endanger national security. Given this conte...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 1 min
The biggest question surrounding Jeffrey Epstein is: where did his money come from? He went from being a teacher at the prestigious Dalton School—without even a college degree—to becoming a billionaire who owned two private islands in the Virgin Islands, a personal jet, and numerous luxury properties in some of the most exclusive neighborhoods in the United States, seemingly overnight. He also maintained close relationships with many wealthy and powerful individuals, including U.S. Presidents, I...
Jul 18, 2025•1 hr 5 min
In an effort to move on from the Jeffrey Epstein controversy and close the case, President Trump posted a message on his social media account over the weekend, urging his supporters not to waste time or energy on Epstein, calling him “somebody that nobody cares about.” Unsurprisingly, this did little to quell public curiosity. Both his supporters and critics continue to demand answers. At the recent Turning Point conference, Tucker Carlson claimed in a speech that he believes Epstein was working...
Jul 15, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi invited several right-wing social media influencers to the White House and presented them with binders titled “The Epstein Files: Phase 1.” It was promoted to the public as the first batch of documents exposing Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, including information about his clients. Upon review, the files contained no new information and did not name any clients. Bondi claimed that additional documents were still under review and th...
Jul 11, 2025•1 hr 10 min
One of the largest budget items in the newly passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is a significant funding increase for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE is set to receive over $75 billion through 2029, in addition to its base budget of $11 billion for the year 2026. With these resources, ICE raids, arrests, and deportations are expected to rise sharply. However, during a weekend rally in Iowa, President Trump once again floated the idea of new legislation that would allow undocumented immig...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Conflict Theory, the foundation of Communist ideology, was developed by Karl Marx. It posits a perpetual struggle between a small group of individuals who control the means of production (the bourgeoisie) and the larger working class (the proletariat). Marx argued that this class conflict underlies all societies and would inevitably lead to revolution. Although Marxist theory has been largely dismissed in the United States for decades, growing economic hardship is prompting increased interest in...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 5 min
The number of people shocked by Zohran Mamdani's victory in the New York City mayoral primary is remarkable—particularly within the Democratic Party. For over a decade, the party has been fractured, held together largely by a shared opposition to President Trump and the perception of him as a singular existential threat. However, since Bernie Sander’s 2016 campaign, Democratic Socialism has gained significant traction within the party. Running as a Democratic Socialist, Sanders built a movement ...
Jun 28, 2025•1 hr 22 min
Over the past few months, Democrats have given President Trump a pointed nickname: “TACO,” which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. They've even created AI-generated memes depicting the president in a chicken suit, suggesting he backs down and rarely follows through on his tough talk. The nickname reportedly originated on Wall Street, where traders coined it in response to Trump’s tariff and trade policies. When MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle mentioned that her contacts in the financial world wer...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 7 min
The “No Kings” protest last weekend drew large crowds across the country and is being billed as the largest protest in American history. An estimated 5 to 6 million people turned out to demonstrate in opposition to the Trump administration. The protest was organized by over 200 NGOs and other groups, with significant support from wealthy donors, such as Walmart heiress Christy Walton. While the sheer size of the protest might suggest a resurgence of the Democratic Party, the data tells a differe...
Jun 20, 2025•1 hr 4 min
The rise of political violence in the United States is deeply concerning. Over the past decade, incidents of politically motivated violence have become increasingly frequent. The recent murder and attempted murder of lawmakers in Minnesota have prompted many to ask: Is this the new normal? In just the past few weeks, a Jewish couple was murdered outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., and another violent attack targeted Jewish demonstrators in Colorado. Additionally, politically driven an...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 6 min
The City of Los Angeles was forced to issue a curfew this week in the downtown area following three consecutive nights of violent protests, looting, and vandalism. Mayor Karen Bass announced the curfew on Tuesday, reporting that 23 businesses had been looted, with extensive additional property damage and destruction. Similar demonstrations—and accompanying violence—have spread to other cities, including Seattle, Chicago, and Atlanta, where clashes between protesters and police have also occurred...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 10 min
The state of California has operated as a sanctuary state for illegal immigrants for nearly two decades. They have extended benefits to these individuals, including access to driver's licenses, healthcare services, and protections from federal immigration enforcement. However, this arrangement has been mutually beneficial to the Democratic Party in California, which has championed these policies. They get to maintain unchallenged power in the state and increase the power of their party at the na...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced this week that she is leaving the Democratic Party to become an independent. She also revealed that she is writing a book titled 'Independent’, which will explain her decision. The book will focus on the three weeks between the presidential debate between President Biden and President Trump—a period she previously described as a “firing squad” within the party aimed at pushing Biden out. Since her announcement, she has faced harsh c...
Jun 07, 2025•1 hr 7 min
One of the most surprising revelations from the 2024 presidential election is how Donald Trump managed to win with what was once considered the "Obama Coalition." When Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012, he did so with the support of a younger, more diverse electorate. President Trump also won with significant support from young voters and people of color—an outcome that runs counter to the prevailing narrative that his message only appeals to White voters resentful of demographic change. Trump s...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 6 min
The progressive voter data firm Catalist recently published its comprehensive analysis of the 2024 presidential election, titled "What Happened in 2024." The report provides a detailed picture of how Kamala Harris lost and how Donald Trump won. Trump won by assembling a broad coalition of voters across age groups, genders, races, education levels, and income brackets. Compared to the 2020 election, he gained support among nearly every demographic, while Harris saw declines across almost every gr...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Former First Lady Jill Biden told The Washington Post —in her final sit-down interview while in the White House—that she was disappointed in Nancy Pelosi for her role in pressuring President Biden to withdraw from his 2024 reelection campaign. "We were friends for 50 years," she said. She clearly viewed the move as a betrayal, especially given the long-standing nature of their relationship. The Bidens maintain that the president could have won reelection and insist he stepped aside only due to p...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 2 min
During the early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary, Joe Biden pledged to choose a woman as his running mate if he secured the nomination. After winning the nomination, many Black activists within the Democratic Party demanded Biden select a Black woman. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was being vetted, as her selection could have helped in a key swing state. However, these Black activists warned that failing to choose a Black woman would lead to a lack of enthusiasm among Black voters, an...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 7 min
The belief that a woman cannot be elected President of the United States is often supported by pointing to the losses of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris. However, both were among the most unpopular presidential candidates in recent history. Clinton not only lost to Donald Trump in the 2016 general election, but she was also defeated by Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. Similarly, in 2020, Kamala Harris ended her presidential campaign before the primaries started, failing to secure a...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 7 min
With several books now being released about President Biden’s cognitive decline during his presidency, the blame game has begun. It’s becoming increasingly clear that there was a conspiracy to cover up and hide his condition —yet no one wants to take responsibility for being part of that effort. President Biden and his wife deny any conspiracy, claiming the anonymous sources cited in these books are mistaken. Biden insists he simply had a bad debate, and that had he stayed in the race, he would ...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 10 min
When President Clinton signed the Telecommunication Act that deregulated corporate media and allowed ownership to concentrate in the hands of just a few companies, critics warned of potential dangers. They feared that as media ownership became concentrated among a few large corporations, the public would increasingly perceive news outlets as serving corporate interests rather than the public good, thereby eroding trust in the media. They also warned that with large corporations owning both media...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Reporters Without Borders recently released their annual World Press Freedom Index for 2025. Using a variety of metrics, the index ranks nations' press freedom as good, satisfactory, problematic, difficult, or very serious. This year, for the first time, more than half of the countries were rated below satisfactory, and the number of nations classified as very serious increased. The United States dropped two places from last year and is rated problematic. Although all of the data used in this ye...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Now that we are more than three months into President Trump’s second term, questions are being raised about President Biden’s cognitive decline and whether there was a cover-up to conceal it before the election. The key questions are: who knew, when did they know, and who helped hide it from the American people? The blame game has begun, with much of the criticism directed at the media. Journalists allowed Biden’s surrogates and members of his administration to appear on their programs and misle...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 7 min
The agenda of the Democratic Party is virtually indistinguishable from that of the mainstream media, so it should come as no surprise that as support for the Democratic Party declines, so does trust in the media. Gallup has been tracking Americans’ trust in the media for over 50 years, and in a recent poll, only 33% of Americans reported having a great deal or a fair amount of trust and confidence in mass media. This is a sharp drop from the high of 72% in 1976 and now mirrors the Democratic Par...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 4 min
The first hundred days of President Trump’s second term have been encouraging for those who supported the agenda he campaigned on last year. While not every promise has been fulfilled, the administration appears to be moving in the direction voters expected—and it's still early in the term. Democrats argue that these initial months have been a failure, with no accomplishments. They point to a decline in the president’s approval ratings, even though recent polls suggest the Democratic Party is vi...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 8 min
The United States is a consumer powerhouse, responsible for about one-third of all global consumption of goods and services. This dynamic once worked in favor of American workers, particularly when the U.S. was also a leading manufacturing nation, producing much of what it consumed. However, the landscape began to shift when corporations started leveraging free trade and cheap labor overseas to manufacture products at lower costs and boost their profits. This shift contributed to the decline of ...
Apr 26, 2025•1 hr 9 min
When China was granted permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status and admitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO) during the Clinton administration, it marked the end of the annual requirement for Congressional waivers to maintain free trade status with the United States. This major policy shift allowed American corporations to enter into long-term agreements with China without the uncertainty of Most Favored Nation status being revoked each year. Following the granting of PNTR, the outso...
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Democrats have been accusing China of human rights abuses and unfair trade practices for years. Back in 1996, Nancy Pelosi gave an impassioned speech making a strong case against granting China Most Favored Nation status and argued in favor of using tariffs to address our trade deficit. Similarly, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and many others on the left have consistently criticized China and supported the use of tariffs to hold them accountable. They've all talked tough—but w...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 10 min
President Trump has referred to his second term as the beginning of a "golden age" in America. So far, he has enacted several major transformative policies. While not all of his efforts have been successful, he is actively working to end the war in Ukraine, reduce the size of the federal government, and reset global trade to better benefit American workers and consumers. You may not agree with his approach, but his commitment to these objectives is clear. These issues have been central to his ad...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Democrats in Congress are accusing President Trump of insider trading following a series of social media posts he made on Wednesday. Early that morning, he posted, “This is a great time to buy. DJT.” Approximately nine hours later, he announced that he was ending reciprocal tariffs on nations that had not retaliated. In contrast, China, because they had retaliated, would see their tariffs raised to 125%. This news caused the markets to surge. Democrats argue that President Trump acted out of fea...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 8 min
