America First Legal (AFL), the conservative law organization founded by Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller, is petitioning two major federal health agencies to immediately repeal a Biden-era kidney transplant payment model that the group argues embeds race-based decision-making into the national organ transplant system. The petition targets the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model, […]
U.S. Southern Command is reportedly tightening Thanksgiving and Christmas leave schedules as the Pentagon considers potential land strikes on Venezuela in the next 10 to 14 days. The move comes as the United States continues to increase pressure on Nicolás Maduro. Multiple outlets, including The Telegraph, highlighted the reporting out of Washington. SOUTHCOM pushed back, […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – As details of 28-point peace plan for Ukraine attributed to Trump administration have emerged, European leaders and U.S. lawmakers, who say it didn’t come from U.S., railed against the plan as straight out of Russia’s playbook. It asks for major territorial concessions and a limited military from Ukraine. Regardless of where […]
Amid a deepening rift with the Trump White House… According to Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman, Republican frustration with President Trump’s second-term leadership has reached a boiling point, with some senior GOP lawmakers warning that mass retirements could cost Republicans control of the House even before the 2026 midterms. Sherman quotes an anonymous senior Republican who […]
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from sharing taxpayer address information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), halting a key Trump administration policy meant to help immigration authorities locate illegal aliens with deportation orders. United States District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, appointed by former President Bill Clinton and serving in the […]
Ukraine has agreed to the core terms of a peace agreement with Russia, marking the most significant movement toward a negotiated settlement since Moscow’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago. President Volodymyr Zelensky’s tentative approval of a revised U.S.-brokered plan comes as talks with American officials in Geneva narrow remaining differences — now down […]
A wave of legal upheavals, political shockwaves, and unprecedented maneuvers inside the federal government sets the tone for today’s national landscape. Three major developments—spanning the courts, Congress, the FBI, and even the Pentagon are reshaping the conversation around power, accountability, and the boundaries of executive authority. Federal Judge Tosses Comey and Letitia James Indictments After […]
In the early days of President Trump’s first term, he watched a quiet but consequential battle between former President Obama and the National Archives unfold. That dispute, which concerned control of Obama’s presidential papers, shaped Trump’s understanding of his own later conflict with NARA. The pattern was clear. A president who fears that his successor […]
Not so fast… Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said Sunday she is “not aware” of President Donald Trump issuing any illegal military orders, responding for the first time to criticism surrounding a video she and several other Democratic lawmakers released urging service members to “refuse illegal orders.” Slotkin addressed the controversy during an appearance on ABC’s […]
I was on a radio show this week when I first saw Everytown’s latest anti-gun campaign: “Debunking Gun Myths at the Dinner Table.” By Lee Williams for Ammoland The show’s host, Mark Walters, of Armed American Radio, is a longtime friend who enjoys discussing new anti-gun propaganda with his guests live on the air in multiple cities. Neither […]
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continued his campaign against “Sharia law” on Wednesday morning. By Adam Schwager for Border Report The governor sent a letter to North Texas law enforcement officials to alert them of “possible criminal violations by Sharia tribunals masquerading as legal courts and to call for investigations into these entities purporting to enforce Sharia […]
Smartmatic, Tren De Aragua, And A New Claim From Emerald Robinson
When I first heard that Emerald Robinson had dropped a sprawling new thread on election integrity, my instinct as a writer was simple: tell the story carefully and check as much of it as I could. Then I went looking for her posts on 𝕏 and discovered that she had blocked me. Perhaps one of […]