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As an average, everyday American wife and mom of two small children, my priorities start simply every day. I want to be a good mother, spend time with my kids, have a healthy marriage, keep up my home, and work together with my husband to protect our small portion of the American Dream. We are not rich. We are barely lower-middle class. We make just enough to not qualify for assistance, but barely enough to feel like we're doing anything other than scraping by. This is not a

How have we gone from being the party of free speech, the movement of free debate, and the world-altering force that called out the insanity of establishment politics to a divided imitation of the same dangerous rhetoric and ideology we claimed to oppose? I am conservative with some libertarian views, but more than anything, I am conservative. I was hesitant to take Trump seriously at first, but like many rational-minded, unindoctrinated, free-thinking Millennials and Gen Xer

What is American Populism, and why is there such a large divide inside the conservative movement today? Why are so many younger conservatives, working-class Americans, independents, former Democrats, and even people who never cared about politics suddenly finding themselves united under a banner that seems completely different from the Bush controlled Republican party we grew up knowing? We saw with Donald Trump's second election that there was a direct mandate from the Ameri

I recently saw a TikTok of an angry liberal woman ranting about how stupid the average white working-class male is for believing Donald Trump would affect real change in this country. The type of change we were promised. I listened to the brutal shrieking and harpy howling and was shocked that this woman didn’t ask herself, could we be the problem? I mean, really, who were we supposed to vote for, Kamala and the promise of more shrieking harpies? Harris Walz for more globalis

How American Leaders Have Lost Their Way The past few days, I’ve seen and heard some of the most ridiculous “news.” First, I watched as South Carolina’s finest neocon, warmongering swamp creature, Lindsey Graham, wandered around Disney clutching a child’s Ariel bubble wand — during yet another government shutdown and in the middle of yet another foreign conflict he helped push us into. My first thought? That this sick man was celebrating — celebrating defeating the America Fi

Frequently, I’ve had people tell me, “It’s not that deep,” or “You’re overthinking it.” And maybe I am. But not thinking past the surface is what gave us Jeffrey Epstein. Blowing everything off as a “conspiracy theory” or an overreaction is how people in power have been able to manipulate our parents’ generation, and how the Epstein class of elites — and the politicians they control — have been able to get away with unimaginable crimes and abuses of power. So maybe it actual

I’m a Yankee — a Good Yankee , but a Yankee nonetheless. I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up, I was blessed with a typical ’90s middle-class childhood. My dad worked in hotels until he was laid off and started his own business. My mom worked at my elementary school, so we had good insurance, and I played outside until the streetlights came on in my little townhouse community. Even though we lived just 15 minutes from one of America’s most dangerous cities, as a child

These are the questions I’ve been asking myself since the latest release of documents connected to the Epstein case: How are people this evil? Why is no one being arrested? How are we all ignoring this? Where are these children? And how many families are still waiting for answers? Let me address the most important question head-on: How are we all ignoring this? We’re not. The mainstream media might be. The political class might be. The wealthy and powerful might be. But we —