Articles by Eleanor Stratton

Defense Secretary Praises Removal of Overweight Texas National Guard Troops from Illinois Deployment

A photograph can end military careers now. Several Texas National Guard members deployed to Illinois last week got sent home after pictures showing their heavyset physiques went viral. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth celebrated the removal on social media Monday, declaring “Standards are back at...

Day 14: Trump Raids Pentagon Funds, Fires Thousands, and Calls Schumer “Weakened.” Democrats Won’t Budge

The government has been closed for two weeks. President Trump redirected $8 billion in Pentagon research funds to pay troops. The Office of Management and Budget began mass firings over the weekend. Senate Democrats blocked their eighth attempt to reopen government Tuesday. And the president called...

The Constitutional Rundown About Medals of Freedom And Controversial Recipients

The Presidential Medal of Freedom represents America’s highest civilian honor. Presidents award it to individuals who’ve made exceptional contributions to national security, world peace, cultural endeavors, or public service. And the Constitution doesn’t authorize it at all. The medal exists...

China Warns of Countermeasures as Trump’s 100% Tariff Threat Escalates Trade War

The global economy runs on 17 obscure elements most Americans have never heard of. China controls the supply. And the United States just discovered what happens when trade war rhetoric collides with geological reality. President Trump threatened 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports on October 10,...

Trump Rewrites Jan. 6 History

The president just accused his predecessor of orchestrating surveillance at an attack that happened while he himself was president. The claim collapses under the weight of basic chronology – but the constitutional implications extend far beyond a single social media post. Donald Trump stated on...

Israel Prepares for Final Hostage Release as Trump Visits to Launch Middle East Peace Initiative

The hostages come home tomorrow. After nearly two years in captivity, 48 Israelis will cross back into their country in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. President Trump will arrive in Israel to claim credit for a ceasefire he calls historic. And buried in the celebration is a...

Trump Orders Military Pay Using Redirected Pentagon Funds as Shutdown Enters Third Week

The troops will get paid on October 15. President Trump announced Saturday he’s directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to use “all available funds” to issue military paychecks despite the government shutdown. The Pentagon identified $8 billion in unobligated research and development money...

Republican Lawmaker Proposes Withholding Funds from Cities Celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day

Representative Michael Rulli wants to punish cities that replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day. His proposed legislation would withhold federal funding from any jurisdiction that celebrates the wrong holiday. And Trump’s Cabinet applauded October 9 when the president signed a...

This Isn’t a Normal Shutdown: Begin of Mass FIRINGS

The government has shut down. But this time is different. The White House has just confirmed that for thousands of federal workers, this will not be a temporary, unpaid vacation. It will be a permanent pink slip. The administration is using the chaos of a government shutdown to achieve a...

Nobel Prize Winner Tells Trump She’s Accepting Award “In Honor of You”

Maria Corina Machado won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her work promoting democracy in Venezuela. The White House immediately denounced the decision as proof the Nobel Committee “places politics over peace.” Hours later, Machado called Trump to tell him she was accepting the award in...

Everything You Think You Know About Immigrant Healthcare in the Shutdown Fight Is Probably Wrong

Immigrant healthcare has become the rhetorical centerpiece of the government shutdown standoff. Republicans claim Democrats are demanding taxpayer funding for “illegal aliens.” Democrats insist they’re protecting American families’ access to affordable insurance. Both sides are talking past...

Grand Jury Indicts Letitia James

A federal grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday on bank fraud charges and making false statements to a financial institution. The indictment came from U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan – the Trump-appointed prosecutor with no prior criminal law experience...

In Fiery Hearing, AG Bondi Refuses To Answer Epstein Questions, Clashes with Democrats

“I’m not going to discuss anything about that with you.” With those ten words, the Attorney General of the United States refused a direct question from the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The moment was not just a tense exchange in a heated hearing; it was a dangerous and...

Hamas Accepts Trump Peace Deal After Two-Year War

President Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas have both agreed to the first phase of his peace plan, ending two years of war that began with Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack. “ALL of the Hostages will be released very soon,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, “and Israel will withdraw...

Examining Trump’s Year of Middle East Diplomacy From Saudi Normalization Talks to Hamas Agreement and What Actually Got Accomplished

President Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas agreed to his peace plan ending two years of Gaza war. The announcement caps a year where Trump positioned himself as Middle East peacemaker through multiple diplomatic initiatives – some successful, some stalled, and some still unfolding....

Virginia Prosecutor Prepares to Tell Trump No on Letitia James Charges

Elizabeth Yusi, who oversees major criminal prosecutions in the Norfolk office of Virginia’s Eastern District, has told colleagues she sees no probable cause to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud. She plans to present that conclusion to the president’s...

Kash Patel’s Bureau Leadership Collapses From Personnel Purges to Publicity Stunts

Kash Patel fired an FBI agent for refusing to arrange a televised perp walk of James Comey – the former FBI director whom Trump orchestrated criminal charges against despite career prosecutors considering the case too weak to bring. The agent, stationed in the Washington D.C. field office, balked...

Trump Fired the Eisenhower Library Director for Refusing to Break Federal Law

Todd Arrington spent nearly 30 years in government service as director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene, Kansas. His job was preserving historic artifacts that belong to the American public and are protected by federal law from being given away or removed from...

Trump Promises Military Pay Raise He Can’t Deliver Amid “Democrat-Induced Shutdown”

On the deck of a mighty aircraft carrier, surrounded by thousands of cheering sailors, the President of the United States celebrated the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy with a powerful promise. He vowed to secure “across the board pay raises for every sailor and service member in the United...

Trump Stops Pretending He Has Nothing to Do With Project 2025, Announces Meeting With Russell Vough

Donald Trump spent months during the 2024 campaign insisting he had nothing to do with Project 2025. The 900-page Heritage Foundation blueprint for restructuring federal government became politically toxic, so Trump distanced himself repeatedly, claiming he’d never read it and didn’t know the...