Category: Elections and Politics
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Zero Election Commissioners, Four Months Before You Vote
On Thursday, July 9, President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland. The last Republican commissioner, Christy McCormick, resigned the same day. The other Republican seat had been empty since Donald Palmer left in April to join the Heritage Foundation. So, four months before the…
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$70 Billion for the Border: What the Secure America Act Actually Does — And What Conservatives Should Still Demand
Congress sent President Trump the Secure America Act on June 9, 2026, and he signed it the next day. It is a roughly $70 billion reconciliation bill. The law funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through fiscal 2029, the end of his term. Senators passed it 52-47 on Friday, June 5.…
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One Death Per Week in ICE Custody. 2026 Has Already Broken the All-Time Record. Here’s What the Data Shows.
Twenty-nine people died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between October 1, 2025, and mid-April 2026, according to government data reported by NPR. That already passed the previous full-year record of 28, set in fiscal 2004, with five and a half months of the fiscal year still to go. Those are not just numbers. They…
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DACA Is No Longer a Shield. Half a Million People Need to Know This.
On Friday, April 24, 2026, a three-judge panel at the Board of Immigration Appeals issued a DACA ruling that changed the legal landscape for about half a million people living in the United States. The ruling is straightforward. DACA status is no longer automatic protection from deportation. That is not a small change. Since 2012,…
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Comey Indicted for a Seashell Photo — Three Days After an Assassination Attempt
Three days after a gunman charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with a shotgun, the Department of Justice had former FBI Director James Comey indicted for posting a photo of seashells on Instagram. The conservative instinct is to say: finally. Hold on for one minute, because the principled conservative answer to…
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Trump Lost His Third Cabinet Member in Four Months. Conservatives Need to Say That Out Loud.
Three Cabinet secretaries are gone in under seven weeks. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday, April 20, while under an inspector general investigation. She follows Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, fired on March 5, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, fired on April 2. That much Cabinet turnover this fast would lead every conservative show…
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