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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...

Portland Police Sergeant’s Email Criticizes Counter-Protesters Who Were Assaulted at ICE Facility

A Portland police sergeant wrote an email describing three people who were assaulted outside an ICE facility as a “chronic source of police calls” who “constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed.” The victims included a conservative journalist...

Government Shuts Down, Federal Workers Lose Paychecks

The federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2025, after Congress failed to pass a continuing resolution before the midnight deadline. Roughly 875,000 federal workers will be furloughed without pay. Another 1.4 million essential employees will work without paychecks until funding...

Trump Lectured Generals About Military Fitness After Dodging Vietnam Draft Five Times

President Trump stood before 800 generals and admirals at Quantico on Tuesday and declared the military would end “political correctness” and return to merit-based standards focused on “fitness, ability, character, and strength.” He praised Pete Hegseth’s speech condemning “fat...

Federal Layoffs Loom as Shutdown Enters Second Day

The government has been shut down for barely 24 hours, and already the Trump administration is preparing to do something that sounds routine but is actually constitutionally extraordinary: lay off federal workers. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought told House Republicans Wednesday...

Reagan-Appointed Judge’s Ongoing Trump Criticism Raises Questions About Judicial Independence

U.S. District Judge William Young has been on the federal bench for nearly 40 years. He’s a Reagan appointee with impeccable conservative credentials. And in 2025, he’s become something extraordinary in American jurisprudence: a sitting federal judge who writes legal opinions that read more...

A Democratic mayor in New Jersey just announced he’s supporting the Republican gubernatorial candidate backed by President Trump. James P. Dodd, mayor of Dover, says he’s tired of sanctuary policies, rising taxes, and Democrats who complain without offering solutions. He’s also suggesting he...

Every American military officer swears an oath that begins with ten critical words: “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Not the president. Not the party in power. Not the Secretary of Defense. The Constitution. That distinction has...

With hours remaining before a midnight government shutdown, Republicans have found their messaging strategy: accuse Democrats of prioritizing “free healthcare for illegal aliens” over paying U.S. troops. Democrats call it an outright lie designed to obscure their real demand – extending...

A Reagan-appointed federal judge just delivered what might be the most constitutionally significant – and personally scathing – rebuke of the Trump administration yet. In a stunning 161-page opinion released Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William Young didn’t just rule against the...

SCOTUS Hands Trump Rare Loss: Fed Governor Who Set Your Interest Rates Can’t Be Fired

The Supreme Court just agreed to answer a question that’s never been asked in the 112-year history of the Federal Reserve: can a president fire a Fed governor? The answer will determine whether the central bank that controls interest rates, inflation, and essentially the value of every dollar in...

Idaho Used Religious Discrimination to Cancel Church Lease

A Baptist church in Middleton, Idaho was renting a gymnasium from a public charter school to hold Sunday services. Then the school applied for $15 million in state bonds to finance building upgrades, and state attorneys flagged the church’s lease as a potential constitutional problem under...

Nearly 800 generals and admirals from around the world received orders last week to report to Quantico, Virginia on Tuesday. No explanation was provided. No agenda was disclosed. Just a command to appear – and speculation about what happens when that many stars gather in one room at the same...

Zohran Mamdani wants to spend $165 million of New York City taxpayer money to protect immigrants from deportation. The 33-year-old Democratic socialist leading the mayoral race calls it the “cornerstone” of creating the “strongest sanctuary city in the country.” He just won’t specify...

Tyler Robinson’s new defense attorney walked into a Utah courtroom Monday and immediately asked for more time. Not to prepare a defense strategy or interview witnesses – just to comprehend the sheer volume of evidence prosecutors have compiled against her client in the assassination of...

Can a President Grant Amnesty to Foreign Terrorists? Trump’s Gaza Plan Tests Constitutional Limits

President Trump just promised something no American president has ever offered before: amnesty for members of a foreign terrorist organization . The 20-point Gaza peace plan unveiled Monday at the White House includes a provision granting Hamas members who disarm “amnesty” – and that single...

Vice President JD Vance walked out of the White House on Monday afternoon and delivered the news nobody wanted to hear. “I think we’re headed into a shutdown because the Democrats won’t do the right thing. I hope they change their mind.” The hour-long meeting between President Trump and...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stood before nearly 800 generals and admirals summoned from around the world and declared the organization they’ve spent decades serving no longer exists. “The era of the Department of Defense is over,” he announced Tuesday at Marine Corps Base Quantico. “From...

A coalition of celebrity chefs, the friendly faces who teach America how to cook, have now stepped onto the front lines of a high-stakes constitutional battle. They are fighting against a new California law that bans “forever chemicals” in cookware. But this is a story about more than just...

For the third time in as many months, the President of the United States is preparing to send federal forces into a major American city against the strenuous objections of its local leaders. The new flashpoint is Portland, Oregon , a city that has long been a center of left-wing protest and a...