Conservative Article Reference List

Conservative Article Reference List

Below are links with summaries to primarily Conservative, Libertarian-leaning articles and/or blog posts that I have found enlightening with all that is happening in America and worldwide.

Scan the list and read what catches your eye; for some, just reading the headlines and summaries should provide enough insight into the article’s content.

(Some articles may appear outlandish to some, but are also believable, so I leave it to readers to decide for themselves, as many things we considered to be conspiracy theories in the past have proven to be true.)

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February 28, 2026 – As Of 8:50 AM PST

Powerline: Major Combat Operations In Iran – Following through on his public statements and other signs of impending action, President Trump announced the initiation of major combat operations against the Iranian regime overnight. – He announced it in a video posted to his Truth Social account (below). Text of the president’s remarks is posted here…

The War Zone: The U.S. and Israel Are At War With Iran (Updated) – The U.S. and Israel have begun a major military operation that is aimed directly at the regime. – Israel struck targets with a preemptive strike. – Images show smoke plumes rising in urban areas. – Also, video from Iraq shows what appear to be low-flying cruise missiles or possibly fighter aircraft…

American Thinker: Trump’s Masterful Statement About the Attack on Iran – Ordinary people, not the crazies, will recognize that Trump made the case for today’s decapitation strike against Iran. – Trump opened by laying out the indictment against Iran. For decades, it has been committing bloody acts of violence against America – You can read the full text here…

Breitbart: President Trump, ‘Major Combat Operations’ Underway to ‘Obliterate’ Iran’s Missile Factories – Trump told the Iranian armed forces to lay down their arms or face “certain death.” – And asked the people of Iran to rise up and “seize control of their destiny” as “major” strikes against Tehran commenced…

Daily Wire: A Bird’s-Eye View Video Shows The U.S.-Israel Strike That Stopped Iran Missile Launchers Cold – According to the IDF, the footage is part of Operation Roaring Lion, a “broad and joint operation” carried out alongside U.S. armed forces.

Trending Politics: Multiple senior Iranian defense and military commanders are confirmed dead after a series of U.S. and Israeli military strikes launched early Saturday morning. – The strikes have been described by U.S. officials as the first wave in a military operation that could last for several days…

Gateway Pundit: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Reportedly Fled Tehran and Was Moved to a “Secure Location” After U.S.-Israel Strikes Targeted The Regime’s Past, Present, and Future Leadership. – According to multiple breaking international reports, Khamenei was moved out of the Iranian capital after explosions rocked Tehran early Saturday morning…

Geller Report: The GULF STATES UNITE AGAINST IRAN – Saudi Arabia Is Joining The US-Israeli Strikes. – Bahrain, Jordan, and the UAE are expected to join. – By entering the conflict directly, the Saudis have shifted from deterrence and proxy containment to open strategic alignment, integrating air defense systems, intelligence networks, and potentially offensive strike capabilities…

Post Millennial: Canadian PM Mark Carney releases statement in support of US strikes on Iran – “Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.”

Breitbart: When Israel and the US launched coordinated military strikes against Iran on Saturday, one AI system was not surprised. – According to the Jerusalem Post, Elon Musk’s AI platform Grok had correctly predicted the specific date of the attack last week when the publication asked four AI systems when the combined strikes would occur…

General Michael Flynn: On The Breaking WAR in IRAN – First, and I believe most important, is for all Americans to steady themselves for a lot of misinformation. – This will come from all angles of attack. – In war and intelligence reporting, we always say that first reports are always wrong. – That’s a good starting point for us all…

Zero Hedge: Iran launched retaliatory strikes targeting Israel and US assets across the Middle East, hitting sites in Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq, soon after ‘Operation Epic Fury’ started. – Multiple explosions rocked Tehran, with additional blasts reported in several other locations nationwide…

Zero Hedge: Iran Signals It Is Ready To Deescalate After The Defense Minister and IRGC Chief Were Killed In The US-Israeli Strikes – Will the chaos be contained, after Iran unleashed retaliatory missiles on at least five regional countries, including Israel? Iran is quickly signaling that it’s not willing to escalate this further, hoping for a halt in the US-Israeli operation…

Washington Free Beacon: A Tale of Two Reactions – Iranian Civilians Cheer as American Leftists Shriek after Trump Strikes Iran – In Tehran, there are chants of, ‘Freedom, freedom.’ – In Washington, The Left calls for impeachment.

American Thinker: From Loyal Opposition to Sabotage – The idea of the “loyal opposition” remains central to democratic life. – But in practice, it is disappearing before our eyes. We still have opposition parties, of course. – But what we increasingly lack is: loyalty to anything beyond political allegiance. – When politics becomes scorched earth, it is the nation itself that burns…

American Thinker: The obvious has been exposed time and time again to The Left, so why doesn’t it sink in? – For some people, no matter how often they have proven to them that the emperor is naked, they still insist on seeing imaginary clothes. – Rational minds store away facts so when the same or similar experience presents itself, they can deal with it rationally…

American Thinker: The Cyber State of the Union – A nation that leads in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and fintech must also lead in securing them. The address made that connection unmistakable. Economic security and cybersecurity are now inseparable…

American Thinker: Where’s The Beef? – Biden policies screwed beef producers. – Now we’re seeing is the inexorable bio-math of cattle ranching. – Ranchers wanting to increase herd size must reduce the slaughter rate to less than 50% – This allows more females to reach fertility age and produce, say, seven to ten years of calves, at that slow rate of one per year. – Pork and chicken production is different…

American Thinker: Fool’s Gold On The West Coast – What will it take to turn California’s tragic downward spiral around? – The pattern is clear: in California, capital investment is treated with hostility rather than respect. – Its energy policy reflects the same mindset. – New faces in power may not solve every problem, but they might restore accountability…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures Groovin’ Gavin-Mogging Edition – So I gather “mogging,” and/or “mogged” is the new hip term for something among the Gen Z or Millennials, like “flexing” a decade ago. – I can’t keep up, but somehow I suspect both terms can be used creatively with Gruesome Newsom, whose 2028 presidential campaign is already over…

February 27, 2026

Trending Politics: Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate will vote on the SAVE America Act. – The legislation, formally titled the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections and strengthen enforcement requirements for states that fail to verify voter eligibility…

American Spectator: American Muslims Must Acknowledge the Supremacy of the Constitution Over Sharia Law – What started as a debate over dogs begs a vital question. – The disagreement about the relationship of religion and state within Islam has been the crux of much violent disagreement among Muslims. – Unlike Muhammad’s writings on the subject, the U.S. Constitution is unambiguous…

One America News: Kansas has invalidated all driver’s licenses and birth certificates for transgender-identifying residents. – In an 87-37 vote, the Kansas Legislature’s Republican majority overrode a veto by Governor Laura Kelly to approve Senate Bill 244, which took effect on Thursday. – Some 1,700 Kansas residents will need to obtain a new $26 standard driver’s license, effective immediately.

American Spectator: Newsom’s Ticking Time Bomb – The trial of his former chief of staff could happen right as he launches his presidential campaign. – Dana Williamson, who stood at the very top of Newsom’s organizational chart, faced an investigation under the Biden administration that led to her being indicted in November 2025 for a slew of charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States…

Updates For This Date Are Above This Note

Powerline: Here We Go – At 10:24 AM, this morning, Mike Huckabee, the man Donald Trump personally appointed to represent America in Israel, emailed his staff and told them to leave the country today. – Not next week. – Not when convenient, but Today. – When an ambassador tells his people to leave, he is not managing risk. – He is clearing the blast radius…

The War Zone: Amid movement of U.S. Air Tankers from an airbase in Qatar, the US has urged its citizens to leave Israel immediately as the threat of a strike on Iran looms ever larger. – With negotiations floundering and the USS Gerald R. Ford about to arrive off Israel, the window for a major air operation is now cracked open…

Epoch Times: President Trump Orders Federal Agencies to Cease All Use of Anthropic Technology – This development comes after escalating negotiations this week between Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, where the Pentagon asked the company to open its AI for unrestricted military use.

Zero Hedge: Pakistan Declares ‘All-Out War’ Against Afghanistan With Hundreds Dead – Overnight, Pakistan airstrikes included targets in the capital of Kabul. – Hours before the airstrikes and heavier clashes, Afghan Taliban forces reportedly attacked Pakistani border troops Thursday night in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes earlier in the week…

Patriot TV: Thune Rules Out Changing The Filibuster To Pass The SAVE Act, While Other Republicans Double Down on Changing It – Senate Democrats are universally opposed to the bill, so Republicans want to return to the historical method of filibustering, which would allow them to pass it after Democrats’ filibuster, with a 51-vote majority…

America Wire News: Melania Trump Will Make History As The 1st “First Lady” to preside over the UN’s Security Council – Her speech will focus on “Peace Through Education.” – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Michael Waltz, “Her message fits exactly with our mission at the U.N., to achieve meaningful and lasting peace.”

American Thinker: Republican’ New Song, ‘Somebody I Watching Me’ – In the last 48 hours, we’ve learned that, on at least two occasions, Democrats, both in the FBI and the DHS, have spied on Trump team members. – Don’t forget, the entire executive state edifice, every agency, is riddled with people completely loyal to the Democrat party, and they are willing to violate the law to win…

American Thinker: A Disney-style music video previews life in an Islamic United Kingdom – If a picture is worth a thousand words, this well-produced AI video, sung beautifully and powerfully, reminds us where the UK is going. – This video is not just some bizarre dystopian fantasy. It is what has happened to women in every region of the world that Islam conquered over the last 1,400 years…

Geller Report: A New York City Muslim Crowd Calls for a New, ‘Stronger’ October 7 Jihad Massacre – NYC has officially become a staging ground for terror sympathizers. Under the shadow of Hamas flags, radicals are now openly calling for mass murder on American streets, promising that their next move will be even louder than the October 7th massacre…

Washington Examiner: Sorry, Xi, China hasn’t suddenly gained a lever over Trump – During his March trip, he has a plethora of tariff statutes at his disposal that are not subject to the recent Supreme Court ruling. – Under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, the U.S. can use tariffs to combat “unreasonable and discriminatory” foreign trade practices, such as intellectual property theft or forced technology transfers.

Gatestone Institute: The Middle East Situation Equates To A Stack of Fake Narratives, An Attempted Fake ‘Palestinian State’ and the Real Threat to the West – UN High Commissioner Volker Türk spoke of the “unspeakable atrocities” suffered by millions of Jews, but added they were not alone. – UN Secretary-General António Guterres also trivialized the Holocaust…

American Thinker: Is America a Country for Americans? – The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Citizenship must involve complete loyalty to the U.S. or else there is no sovereignty. – If the Supreme Court upholds Executive Order 14160, thereby clarifying the Fourteenth Amendment, the decision will resonate far beyond immigration policy. It will affirm that citizenship is defined by constitutional principle, not by gaming the system…

Just The Facts: On Birthright Citizenship – Facts shown here and elsewhere prove that: 1. The Constitution doesn’t grant birthright citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants, temporary residents, visitors, or tourists. – 2. The oft-cited 1898 Supreme Court ruling in Wong Kim Ark applied to the child of legal immigrants, not illegal immigrants. – 3. Durbin’s doctrine of citizenship by birth location was rejected by the founders…

Newsmax: Pete Hegseth, “Scouting America Is Complying With Trump’s DEI Order.” – “Now, members are to use their “biological sex at birth and not gender identity.” – “Applications will list only male and female as options, and the selection must match the applicant’s birth certificate.”…

American Thinker: Keeping the SCOTUS Bench Conservative – Justice Samuel Alito and other senior-eligible judges have spent many years serving the Constitution. So it should be ensured that defense continues through a worthy successor, while the opportunity still remains. – It should be remembered that not all judges or justices step down in time…

American Thinker: Moscow’s ‘Russification’ Shadow War In Ukraine – Working with displaced Ukrainian children gave me new insight into Russian warfare. – Almost immediately after invading Ukraine, Russia quietly retrieved Ukrainian orphanage children. – Its grooming function basically focuses on “Russifying” the children to have allegiance to Russia…

American Thinker: The Democrat Party Represents Everybody, Except Americans – Barack Obama used the IRS to harass conservatives, and his “wingman” Eric Holder used the Patriot Act to spy on political opponents. – Susan Rice weaponized the Intelligence Community – Democrat members of Congress showed they’re all in for criminal illegal aliens who commit fraud or hurt or kill Americans…

American Thinker: Netflix, Fire Susan Rice – It is a relief for those who don’t trust Netflix’s subliminal mind control and more overt woke programming that they just ditched their offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. – Now they must ditch board member Susan Rice, as her recent comments about what the Dems plan to do if and when they regain power are incredibly disturbing…

Western Journal: Hillary Clinton Reportedly Started ‘Screaming’ and Became ‘Unhinged’ During Her Epstein Deposition That Is Set Be Fully Aired on C-SPAN – Typical of the lying Clintons, Hillary cleverly thought she could make the photo of Ghislaine Maxwell front and center at her daughter’s wedding go away by claiming she was just the ‘+1’ of a guest and didn’t know she’d be there…

Breitbart: Bill Clinton Feigns Ignorance of Epstein Crimes During His Testimony – Clinton pointed out that “as someone who grew up in a home with domestic abuse,” he would not have flown on Epstein’s plane if he “had any inkling of what he was doing. – “I know what I saw, and more importantly, what I didn’t see.” – “I know what I did, and more importantly, what I didn’t do.”

Western Journal: Bill Clinton Dropped A Bombshell Statement in Epstein Testimony That Helps Exonerate Trump Completely – In a video posted to X, House Oversight chairman James Comer said that Clinton said that President Trump never said anything to him to make him think Trump was involved with Epstein…

Epoch Times: The DOJ Is Suing 5 More States for Refusing to Provide Voter Rolls – In total, the department has filed lawsuits against 29 states and the District of Columbia over voter roll access. – “The Attorney General is uniquely charged by Congress with broad authority to request election records under the Civil Rights Act of 1960,” the DOJ said…

General Michael T. Flynn: The Most Protected Secret in American Power – A deliberate, organized, protected system designed to compromise politicians, financiers, intelligence figures, and media executives. – It was designed to keep them loyal, complicit, and controllable and silence their victims. – This isn’t about one man. – Who built him, funded him, and made sure the investigations kept getting buried?

FAR: What Trump & Musk Would Look Like, IF… – These two guys are my heroes, BIG TIME! – These short AI videos show what they would probably look like if they were of different national origins.

Daily Signal: Dozens More Have Been Arrested in The ‘Cities Church’ Invasion Case – A total of 39 people now face charges in the anti-ICE church invasion. – Attorney General Pam Bondi, “YOU CANNOT ATTACK A HOUSE OF WORSHIP.” – “If you do so, you cannot hide from us, as we will find you, arrest you, and prosecute you.”

Just The Facts: Systematic Racism, NOT – Minnesota Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib claims high rates of black unemployment and low rates of black homeownership are due to codified “systemic racism.” – Actually, substandard educational outcomes, poverty, violence, incarceration, and poor health are all associated with leftist public policies and mindsets, like these6 things. – Instilling a victim mentality in people…

Slay News: A senior DOJ official signaled that renewed scrutiny may be coming for Representative Ilhan Omar over what was described as “serious questions” surrounding the Somali-born Democrat congresswoman’s naturalized U.S. citizenship. – Denaturalization is a legitimate legal remedy where fraud is proven, as citizenship is a privilege that must be protected from abuse.

Townhall: Steve Hilton’s Cal-DOGE Operation Says It Uncovered Over $900M in California State Fraud in a Second Major Report – Of the $1 billion in gas taxes and electric bill surcharges intended for solar panels on low-income households, only $72 million was spent. – $928 million was siphoned off for Democrat activism and voter registration…

California Globe: Los Angeles Democrats Advance A Charter Reform to Abolish The City Controller’s Office Amid Massive Fraud Scandals – The majority approved language would replace the elected Controller’s role with an appointed CFO, potentially stripping away independent oversight…

California Globe: Brandeis Center Filed A First-Ever Antisemitism Lawsuit Against a U.S. State, and It’s California – Some teachers have abandoned approved curricula and are actually replacing them with anti-Semitic materials of their own choosing. – “Sadly, these actions are not the only sign that California’s schools echo dark chapters of history…

February 26, 2026

Daily Signal: The US and Iran Hold Third Round of Negotiations, but There’s a ‘Big Problem’ – Rubio, “we hope progress can be made” in negotiations, “because that’s the president’s preference, but it’s also important to remember that Iran refuses—refuses—to talk about ballistic missiles to us or to anyone, and that’s a big problem.”…

American Spectator: As Iran’s regime wages war on its own, the U.S. now faces a test that is both moral and strategic. – During the Biden administration, I attended a small dinner with Iranian dissidents living in the US, where I asked what they wanted most from American leadership. “We do not want you to fight for us. – We just want to know you will not abandon us when the time comes.”…

Breitbart: Kristi Noem, Deep State Operatives Bugged My Phone And Computer – “Elon Musk’s deputies helped me identify [the Deep State allies who] downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, and to record our meetings.” – I wasn’t the only one. – “I always believed when people talked about the deep state before that it existed, but I never would have dreamed that it was as bad as it is.”…

Victor Davis Hanson: What Susan Rice Really Meant by Her Retribution Threat – Her interview was one of the strangest interviews because she flat out, candidly, with no reservations, sent a message to people who were conservative, Republican, or Trump supporters, and she used “Game of Thrones” imagery…

Just The News: More evidence that the Biden administration and Fulton County DA Willis coordinated to ensnare Trump in prosecutions – A Georgia open records lawsuit provided the most extensive evidence to date that the Fulton County prosecutor coordinated extensively with Biden’s DOJ, the White House, and Democrats on the House Jan. 6th committee…

Trending Politics: Trump Kept His Promise To A Grieving Mom After Learning Her Daughter Was Murdered By an Illegal – “I talked to Trump for 20 seconds, 30 seconds, maybe. – And in that amount of time, he knew exactly what I needed, and then he did it.” – Jose Luis Mendoza-Gonzalez, 52, killed her daughter, and the state of Illinois was going to do absolutely nothing about it…

Western Journal: Bill Gates Confesses to A Russian Connection Like Trump Was Falsely Accused of for Years – One of the most powerful and influential men in the US has had two separate affairs with Russian women. – Wasn’t this something we were told to condemn President Donald Trump for supposedly doing?

City Journal: The Formerly Golden State of California Is Turning Grey – Its wealthy boomers are staying put, but young families are fleeing its anti-growth politics that make it increasingly unaffordable. – It once epitomized opportunity for the middle and working classes. – Today, it ranks at the bottom in creating jobs that pay above average, while it excels at creating below average wage and low-paying jobs…

Post Millennial: Paramount Bought Warner Bros for $110 BILLION after Netflix Bailed – “Netflix had the legal right to match the PSKY offer, but decided not to, which resulted in a signed agreement this morning. – After news of the merger broke, some staffers frantically wrote messages on internal channels such as “We are doomed,” and “We are f*cked.”…

National Pulse: The SS numbers of at least 26 million Americans were exposed in a major data breach involving Conduent. – The company manages data for corporations, healthcare providers, and state agencies. – The breach occurred between 10/21/2024 and 1/13/2025, affecting individuals in Texas, Oregon, Delaware, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

Breitbart: Mortgage rates fell below 6% this week, the lowest since September 2022. – The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage this week was 5.98 percent, the first time the average rate has dropped this low in nearly three years. – Mortgage rates peaked at 7.79% in October 2023. – When Trump took office in January, rates were around 7%…

Geller Report: Consumer Confidence Is Up, Beating Forecasts – After a dip in January, the Consumer Confidence Index rose to 91.2, beating forecasts. – The Expectations Index, how Americans view the next six months, also posted a solid gain. – History shows that expectations improve before spending accelerates…

American Thinker: It’s time for Chief Justice Roberts to resign – He appears to have repeatedly crossed the line from being a judge to being a political servant. – Along-time U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, recently wrote a surprisingly candid description of how U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts added “gratuitous” language into his opinion on the recent tariff case, personally criticizing the president on record…

Western Journal: The Clintons Will Testify Separately Thursday and Friday in The House Epstein Probe – Hillary Clinton is scheduled to appear before the committee on Thursday, and Bill Clinton on Friday. – They will testify under oath, behind closed doors. – Reportedly, much of the attention is expected to focus on Bill Clinton, who flew with Epstein routinely…

Washington Examiner: The House Oversight Committee paused the deposition of Hillary Clinton on Thursday after political commentator Benny Johnson shared a photo of her during the closed-door hearing on social media. – Apparently, Representative Lauren Boebert provided the photo. – Closed-door hearings do not allow unauthorized photography, as it could violate House rules and confidentiality agreements.

Slay News: Hillary Clinton used her opening remarks before the House Oversight Committee to accuse Republicans of dragging her into the Jeffrey Epstein probe to “distract” from President Trump. – Clinton’s deposition began Thursday morning in Chappaqua, New York, where both Democrat and Republican committee members traveled for two days of testimony…

Epoch Times: Hillary Clinton Says She Knew Nothing About Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes – “I had no idea about their criminal activities. – I do not recall ever encountering Mr. Epstein. I never flew on his plane or visited his island, homes, or offices.” Clinton said she was horrified to learn about the crimes and was disappointed Epstein only received 13 months in prison…

Slay News: World Economic Forum CEO and President Børge Brende has abruptly stepped down after newly exposed emails revealed troubling communications with Jeffrey Epstein, including discussions about a plot with the convicted child predator to establish global governance. – The resignation adds yet another powerful name to the widening Epstein scandal…

American Thinker: Why liberals hate the Olympic US men’s hockey team, let me count the ways. – They were overwhelmingly white and toxically masculine, with no diversity to be found. – They also failed to follow the equally successful U.S. women’s hockey team’s lead by snubbing President Trump’s invite. – Then the players dared to publicly show love for the USA…

USA Today: Foreign spies are using sex and ‘gutter-level’ tactics to infiltrate the US – Adversaries like China and Russia use espionage tactics, including “honeypots,” to steal U.S. secrets. – Foreign agents are infiltrating colleges, think tanks, and corporations. – The concept is simple: the promise of sex for secrets. – It can also be prosecutable under the Espionage Act of 1917…

Western Journal: It appears that Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is in deep trouble with the feds. – The question then, is why? – The list of properties that were raided and searched includes his home in San Pedro, LAUSD’s downtown headquarters, and a property in Miami linked to Carvalho. – The raid began early Wednesday…

Los Angeles Times: The FBI raids of the LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s home and office appear tied to an AI chatbot probe. – Authorities have not provided any details about the investigation. But one source with knowledge of the matter said it involved AllHere, a failed AI company whose founder was charged with fraud in 2024…

Breitbart: The far-left Washington Post lost more than $100 million in 2025. – This came after reported losses in the vicinity of $80 million in 2023 and 2024. – Unsurprisingly, that’s what happens when your product sucks, and no one trusts you. – Jeff Bezos finally grew tired of playing sugar daddy, with massive layoffs of 350 to 375 supposed journalists, about 45% of the newsroom staff…

American Thinker: Teachers Unions and ‘ICE Out’ Day – Government school systems, including teachers’ associations, do not have the best interests of their children as their focus. – Teachers’ unions are increasingly urging educators to take public political positions, even during the school day. – These unions should champion professionalism, academic excellence, and respect for families…

Newsmax: Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left the latest round of nuclear talks with Iran expressing “disappointment” over Tehran’s positions. – Tehran has insisted it will not abandon what it calls its right to pursue nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. – Talks continued Thursday evening, but the mood appeared to have shifted as U.S. officials weighed Iran’s latest positions…

Zero Hedge: The EPA Will Reform The $5 Billion ‘Clean School Bus’ Program That Focused on Electric Buses – The overhauled program will focus on providing “increased choice and affordable options” for school buses. – The Trump EPA will seek public input on the availability, cost, and performance of alternative fuels and technologies…

American Thinker: Islam, America’s Survival, and Popper’s Paradox – Does America have a duty to tolerate something that ultimately threatens it?. – Islam may be a religion, but is alarmingly something else. – It is a theology of conquest and subjugation. – From its very beginning, Islam was about conquering and conquest, through any means necessary, including deception. – Europe is seeing what happens when Muslims reach just 5% of the population...

FAR: The Growth Of Islam In Key American Cities – All this data on the Muslim population comes from surveys by groups like Pew Research Center, PRRI, and independent demographers. – Since Mamdani was elected as Mayor of New York City, disturbing additions to his administration are reminding me of what has happened in London…

The Federalist: CBS Set Out to Debunk Trump, But Ended Up Proving Him Right – The ’60 Minutes’ report fixated on a semantic issue while conceding the underlying reality of violence against white farmers in South Africa. – In response to Cooper’s question, the farmer explained the crosses were memorials, then recounted how his father was brutally attacked and how three of his closest friends were murdered on their farms…

California Globe: California Governor Gavin Newsom Once Again Proves He’s Unfit to Lead – Newsom, mere minutes after the Supreme Court ruling, rushed to microphones to deliver what can only be described as a masterclass in performative outrage. – He scolded Trump, branded the tariffs an “illegal cash grab,” and demanded immediate refunds with interest for every overcharged American…

February 25, 2026

Trending Politics: The US Sent Elite F-22 Stealth Fighters To Israel As Trump Demands Iran End Nuclear Program – A dozen of the world’s most advanced fighter jets touched down in Israel this week, signaling a sharp escalation in America’s military posture as President Donald Trump warned Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions or face consequences…

One America News: In his SOTU, President Trump highlighted two prominent legislative proposals: the “Dalilah Law” to ban states from issuing CDLs to illegal aliens, and the “SAVE America Act” for an “America-First” push on election integrity, including voter ID, proof of citizenship for federal voter registration, and limits on mail-in ballots. – Karoline reinforced these priorities with this detailed statement on X…

American Spectator: Why Iranians Have Unified Around Reza Pahlavi – Iranians are clearly fed up with the Islamic Republic. – Reza Pahlavi’s name is being chanted across Iran, alongside the names and images of his father and grandfather, and other pre-Islamic Iranian symbols, including the Pahlavi-era flag. – They are spray-painted on walls, raised at protests, and even tattooed onto bodies…

Gateway Pundit: On Wednesday, the Cuban military fired on a US-registered boat that entered Cuban waters, killing 4 passengers and injuring 6 others. – The Cuban government claims the passengers on the Florida-registered boat opened fire on the Cuban soldiers first and injured a Cuban officer. – It was initially unclear if any Americans were aboard the vessel…

Epoch Times: Vice President Vance Announced A New Phase of Fraud Investigations and is Withholding $259 Million in Medicaid Funds From Minnesota – Vance is chairing the White House anti-fraud task force investigating illegitimate uses of federal funds. – Governor Tim Walz has 60 days to respond.

Red State: 10 FBI Agents Have Been Fired After Revelations That Bureau Spied on Kash Patel and Susie Wiles During The Biden Administration- We’ve long been covering Biden’s DOJ, run by the TDS-riddled former AG Merrick Garland, and their banana republic-style effort to bring down Trump at any cost…

Post Millennial: A trans nonbinary suspect accused of shooting a US Border Patrol agent in New Hampshire on Sunday has been charged with attempted murder and assault of a federal officer. – Blu Zeke Daly, 26, previously known as “Cullen Zeke Daly,” reportedly pulled a vehicle up to a closed gate at the US-Canadian Pittsburgh Port of Entry and fired gunshots at a Border Patrol agent when approached…

Daily Signal: Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy revoked the Trump administration’s policy of deporting illegal immigrants to places other than their country of origin. – If the administration appeals the ruling, it will go to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico…

The Defender: ‘A Publicity Stunt Dressed Up as a Lawsuit’ – 15 States Are Suing HHS Over The New Vaccine Guidance – The lawsuit, filed late Tuesday, is an attempt to nullify the January decision by HHS to reduce, from 17 to 11, the recommended number of diseases children are routinely vaccinated against. – “By law, HHS has clear authority to make determinations on the CDC immunization schedule.”

Epoch Times: 8 Takeaways From Trump’s State of the Union Address – A New Retirement Program Proposal – The Data Center Energy Deal With Big Tech – Medal Highlights – Democrats Withholding Applause At Revealing Moments – Guests Spotlighting His Economic Agenda – Trump Striking A Softer Tariff Tone AND TeasING AN Income Tax Replacement – JD Vance to Lead New Fraud Task Force – Trump BackING A Bill Banning Congressional Stock Trading…

Slay News: A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices were absent from President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union address Tuesday night, a notable development that came just days after the high court struck down his global tariff policy. – Only Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Associate Justices Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett attended the speech…

Red State: Will Wonders Will Never Cease – Mainstream Outlet Fact Checks Trump’s Reduced Murder Rate Claim, and Realizes He’s Right – CBS News, incredibly, flat-out rated Trump’s assertion at the State of the Union speech Tuesday night that the murder rate decline under his watch was the largest in history as “true”…

American Thinker: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, The un-American representatives for Somalia and the Palestinians – Their SOTU behavior should give the House good cause to expel them. – It began when Tlaib walked into the chamber wearing a “Fuck ICE.” – Later Omar and Tlaib unravel into screeching rage as Trump declared the US government should put Americans first before illegals…

Western Journal: Black Intellectual Dr. Cornel West Attached Newsom to the 2 Words Democrats Fear Most, ‘White Supremacy’ – Brother Newsom could’ve taken a humanistic approach! – He could’ve said, “I’m just like you. I was born of a woman. I’ll face loss, pain, and death just like anyone else.” – But instead, when he thinks of Black people, he brings up low SAT scores…

American Thinker: There is something terribly, horribly wrong with the current crop of Democrats – Who are these people, heckling Trump, and refusing to stand for America’s heroes? – No matter what the issue, even the protection of American citizens over illegal aliens, they sat on their hands, demonstrating they fervently disagree with any of the successful and positive policies Trump has implemented…

The Federalist: The Right’s Brand Is ‘America First,’ While The Left’s Is Getting Mad About It – Democrats fail to show basic civics and feel-good American patriotism at the SOTU. – Trump’s “Stand Up If You Put Americans First” request was a spectacular gift to GOP midterm campaign ads everywhere, and it wasn’t the only point in the speech where Democrats set themselves up as foils…

Trending Politics: A New Poll Reveals America’s Reaction To Trump’s SOTU Address – Before the speech, 54% of viewers said they believed his policies would move the country in the right direction. – Afterward, that number jumped to 64%. – The share who said Trump has the right priorities rose from 44% before the address to 54% immediately following it.

Western Journal: The Democrats’ Protests Event To Trump’s SOTU – Bad Singing, Radical Giraffe Furries, Fake Tears, Pro-Trump Crashers, and Almost Zero Audience – There was all kinds of weirdness, but one common thread was that not many people showed up, aside from reporters or counter-protesters. – There were also unhinged conspiracy theories like this one from Representative Goldman…

Zero Hedge: Among the most important foreign policy statements of President Trump’s during his annual State of the Union address came when discussing his Iran red lines. – “We are in negotiations with them. They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.'”

Daily Wire: HUD Director Sean Duffy Torched Jake Tapper With A Quick, Brutal SOTU Reminder – TAPPER, “He said, ‘these people are crazy, I’m telling you, they’re crazy.’ – That’s not something we ever heard from Obama or Biden from that stage.” – DUFFY, “We’ve never had a Speaker rip up a SOTU speech either” – This is why Trump likes people with TV experience in his cabinet…

America First Report: President Trump called on lawmakers to pass the SAVE America Act during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, noting that “cheating is rampant in our elections.” – Democrats are expected to use the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to overcome, to block the passage of the bill in the Senate…

Daily Caller: The Democrat Response To The SOTU – Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger blasted President Trump over the U.S.’ cost of living, despite leading a state party that proposed roughly 50 different new taxes in the past few weeks. – Included were levies on food delivery, concerts, ride-sharing services, fantasy sports, dog walking, dry cleaning, and electric leaf blowers…

Post Millennial: A high-profile immigration enforcement operation targeting various construction sites in El Paso, Texas, and Santa Teresa, New Mexico, resulted in the rescue of migrant children who were illegally forced into work. – The nine-day operation, which netted the arrests of 38 illegal immigrants, was spearheaded by ICE Enforcement Removal Operations.

American Thinker: Trump Was Right About Mexico – The narco-state runs deep in Mexico, and now it’s obvious. – Who knew that beautiful Puerto Vallarta would put the cartels on the front pages in Mexico? – “El Mencho,” or the big narco in the middle of this, is the poster child for chaotic borders and sanctuary cities. – Here is some information about how he rose to the top of one of the country’s most powerful cartels…

American Thinker: When Capitalism Lost Its Way – The productive side of the economy does not require newly created money to function. – It requires signal integrity and the ability to distinguish between viable and nonviable uses of capital. – Quantitative Easing overrides that distinction. – Anyone who has had to deploy capital in real time understands this instinctively…

American Thinker: Donald Trump Is A Disruptive Reformer – He is not a traditional status quo conservative or liberal, but a force who upends stagnant systems, introduces irreversible shifts in the political marketplace, and delivers lasting transformation even when the immediate outcome appears mixed, contested, or even initially unsuccessful…

American Thinker: Why All the Jew-Hatred? – People and pundits and politicians and even countries worldwide have revealed to the entire world how invested emotionally they are in the historically incurable, 5,000 years, anyone?  – It is interesting that most people who hate Jews and Israel have never met a Jew or been to Israel. – Because They Are Emotionally Invested…

Liberty Daily: A Report Reveals How Much Space Is Still Being Wasted by the Agriculture Department Even After Its “Return to Work” Mandate – The Agriculture Department is still only using 1/3 of the space in its D.C. headquarters. – These other departments also are using little of their office space…

Slay News: CNN’s Data Guru Says The Democrats’ 2028 Lineup Is a ‘Downright Clown Car,’ and ‘It Is a Total Mess’ – Citing early polling data, CNN anchor John Berman noted that Newsom sits at 19%, barely ahead of former Vice President Kamala Harris at 18%. – Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg registers at 13%, while AOC trails at 12%…

Newsmax: Kamala Harris said she has not decided whether to make another bid for the White House, telling podcaster and author Sharon McMahon, “I haven’t decided, I might.” – The brief but pointed statement is likely to intensify speculation about a potential 2028 campaign and keep Harris in conversations about the Democratic Party’s future leadership…

Zero Hedge: Horrific New Data Reveals Thousands Of Children Were Mutilated During The Biden Regime – The “Stop The Harm” database exposed a grim reality! – Between 2019 and 2023, thousands of American children were subjected to life-altering surgeries, hormone treatments, and puberty blockers in the name of transgender ideology. – Here is a breakdown…

Zero Hedge: 20% Of California Home Sales End Up Canceled Due To The Unavailability Of Affordable Insurance – More than a year after infernos tore through Los Angeles County, millions of Californians are suffering through a home-insurance crisis that has rolled on for years with eye-watering rate increases, canceled policies, and rejected claims…

February 24, 2026

Western Journal: Chaos Broke Out at The SOTU After President Trump Asked Everyone in Favor of Putting US Citizens Before Illegals to Rise – Democrats’ refusal to stand during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday extended to a direct question as to whether they cared more about the U.S. citizens they were elected to represent or illegal immigrants…

PJ Media: This SOTU That Lost the Democrats the Midterms – Illegal immigration was one of the defining issues of the 2024 election. – Yet with the whole country watching, Democrats couldn’t bring themselves to affirm that the government’s first job is to protect their own constituents over illegal immigrants. – This wasn’t a political miscalculation; it was a confession…

Western Journal: Schumer’s 7 Second Press Comments After The Iran Briefing – “This is serious!” – “The administration has to make its case to the American people.” – Given the virulent anti-Trump mannerisms that flow from Democrats, seeing a top leader completely drop the “Orange man bad” facade is both jarring and sobering…

Western Journal: Mayor Mamdani Was Filmed Praising a Group of Muslims Who Glorify Killing Christians and Jews – After touting himself as the city’s first Muslim mayor, Mamdani then delivered a Ramadan-friendly plea for the “warmth of collectivism.” – “I ask Allah to send blessings upon Muhammad and the family of Muhammad,” a translated version of the prayer read…

Just The News: The Fani Files reveal that the Georgia prosecutor plotted her Trump case closely with Biden’s DOJ and January 6th committee members – Our legal win provided access to 8,000 pages of documents after extensive open records litigation. – The memos include revelations on how Joe Biden waived Trump’s executive privilege specifically to aid Georgia prosecutors…

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom Will Regret His Book Launch – On Tuesday, Newsom put out his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry. – He is terrified of all of the baggage he is carrying from his past, and so he thought that now, before the election really began, was the time to share all of that baggage with the American public. – Newsom is using up his political capital way too soon…

American Spectator: EPA Overreach Exposed – Trump goes after the climate-industrial complex, reminding Americans that Congress, not bureaucrats, writes the law. – Facts such as these surely suggest the need for greater caution on the part of politicians like Newsom and Al Gore. – Under the Obama and Biden administrations, a series of increasingly restrictive rules regarding motor vehicle and industrial emissions were enacted…

One America News: Judge Tony Graf of the 4th District Court in Provo, Utah, rejected the defense’ bid to disqualify prosecutors in Charlie Kirk murder case – Defense attorneys argued that because Chad Grunander’s daughter was present at Utah Valley University during the Turning Point USA event when Kirk was fatally shot, the entire Utah County Attorney’s Office should be dismissed from the case…

Epoch Times: 5 Things to Watch at Trump’s State of the Union – The address is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET and will be Trump’s second to Congress since returning to office. – ‘It’s going to be a long speech, because we have so much to talk about,’ the president said. – Midterms Messaging – Foreign Policy Questions – Guests in the Gallery – Reaction – Defending the Record – Where to Watch…

USA Facts: The 2026 State of the Union in Numbers – Article II of the Constitution requires that the president periodically update Congress about the “state of the union,” including a budget report, legislative proposals, and national priorities. – We expect positive data like this will be reported tonight…

Washington Free Beacon: New York Times ‘Fact-Checks’ Trump’s State of the Union—Before He Delivers the Address – Progress on inflation, immigration, crime, and jobs are all imaginary, the Times insists – What’s more than slightly exaggerated is any pretension remaining at the Times that the newspaper is nonpartisan rather than totally in the tank for the Democrats…

Breitbart: Homes See Smallest Annual Price Hike Since 2009 – Home prices rose just 1.3% in 2025, the slowest pace of appreciation in over 15 years, according to data released Tuesday by S&P Dow Jones Indices. – This represents a sharp reversal from the Biden-era inflationary housing price surge, when annual price gains regularly exceeded 10% in 2021 and 2022…

Trending Politics: President Trump Scores Momentous Legal VictoryThe D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major win for Trump’s immigration crackdown this week, ruling that the IRS can share certain taxpayer information with the Department of Homeland Security to help identify and deport illegal immigrants…

Breitbart: NPR, a far-left propaganda outlet, decided that the day of President Trump’s State of the Union was a good day to drop an Epstein hoax on him. – And on and on it goes, but only at the bottom of the article do they admit FBI agents noted the picture they referenced was a “widely distributed photograph” of Epstein with Trump…

Geller Report: After Keir Starmer stabbed the United States in the back by declaring that the US could not launch air strikes against Iran from the UK or Diego Garcia, Greece stepped in and stepped up to help with basing for an Iran strike. – Greece offered its support for the US, as US F-16 and F-22 fighters, as well as A-10s and other aircraft, are now deployed on Crete’s Souda Bay base in the Mediterranean.

Zero Hedge: Panama published a Supreme Court decision, issued in late January, that voided key port operations held by Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison. – The ruling stated that the Panama Maritime Authority will occupy both ports for “reasons of urgent social interest” and take control of all cranes, vehicles, computer systems, and software.

Discern Money: Netflix Plays With Fire by Backing Susan Rice as Investors Flee – Rice’s rhetoric plays very differently from a standard partisan jab. – She framed her position as a warning that media companies, law firms, universities, and corporate interests that sided with Trump for short-term gain will be “held accountable” when Democrats regain power…

Breitbart: Senate Battleground Voters Are Less Likely to Back Democrat Candidates that Shut Down DHS Funding – Plymouth Union Public Research’s survey of swing state voters in George, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas found that, although the current environment favors Democrats, the Democrat shutdown of DHS could “backfire significantly and lead to an erosion of their support.”

New York Post: ‘The Mayor Set The Tone’ – Mamdani is blasted after an unruly mob launched a ‘disgusting’ snowball attack on NYPD officers – Agitators hurled huge chunks of snow at police in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park on Monday afternoon. – Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and ex-Mayor Eric Adams quickly pointed the finger at Mamdani for his history of anti-police rhetoric…

Gateway Pundit: Federal Authorities Have Arrested The Individual Accused of An Attempted Arson Attack on a DHS/ICE Office in Idaho After Ambulance Ramming – 43-year-old Sarah Elizabeth George of Boise was taken into custody Monday evening after Meridian Police, the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives executed a search warrant at her Boise residence…

Washington Free Beacon: The Marxist-Leninist Group That Organized Anti-Israel Encampments Now Teaches High School Students To Walk Out of Class To Protest ICE – The Party for Socialism and Liberation held a webinar for Georgia high school students, offering to connect those arrested with bail funds…

Gatestone Institute: China’s Biological Weapons Labs in America – A Declaration of Arrest Report, issued by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in connection with the detention of Ori Solomon on January 31, states that there is a “deeper conspiracy” between an illegal biological lab in Reedley, California, and a residence containing apparently dangerous substances in Nevada…

American Thinker: Is Time Running Out For Our Democracy ‘Experiment?’ – The communist Chinese have had their eye on us for a long time, and their plans are coming to fruition. – The WEF doesn’t care whether the West “wins” or “loses” to the CCP. – Those globalists will realize their dreams of control regardless (and, more likely, if the CCP overcomes the USA). – And the U.N. doesn’t care much, either…

American Thinker: Why Democrats fight so hard for their illegals – At first, some of us wondered why Somalis (for instance) were being dumped, en masse, in places like Minneapolis or Portland, Maine, but now we know why. – You almost have to admire it, it’s so cynically perfect. – They needed warm bodies for votes (and money-laundering)…

American Thinker: The Trump Administration Is Looking At Excluding Noncitizens In The Next Census – Today’s apportionment rules effectively reward a dysfunctional immigration system.- The Census is more than an administrative headcount; it is the key input for congressional apportionment and, by extension, the Electoral College, and also drives the allocation of vast federal resources…

American Thinker: With Liberalism, Anything Goes – When the “rule of law” is applied by amoral men and women in power, it, in one way or another, becomes a virtual rule of “might makes right.” – This utter indifference to morality generates misery, not well-being for the people affected. – Self-certified “authorities” have a long history of meddling with reality…

American Thinker: What Happened to Australia? – Yet another English-speaking country is exposed to blatant expressions of antisemitism, civilizational anxiety, and the prospect of fragmentation. – When geopolitical struggles in the Middle East are reenacted on Australian streets with uncompromising fervor, it raises questions about the depth of civic integration…

Breitbart: Trans Shooters Commit ‘Disproportionate Shares of Mass Public and Active Shooting Attacks’ – Crime Prevention Research Center studied data from 2018 to 2024, and found that attacks by transgender shooters were “at least 12 times their share of the population” in 2024. – They noted that other studies did not “adjust for transgender individuals’ share of the population.”…

American Thinker: The Taliban passed a new law establishing ‘humane’ parameters for wife-beating. – The law notes that a husband may strike his wife freely, but only provided the violence does not leave visible bone fractures or open wounds, with emphasis on visible. – Talk about progress!…

American Thinker: Who Really Pays Import Tariffs? – To be honest, we must acknowledge that the importer pays all the costs of importing foreign products. – There are exceptions, as when importers buy on a “delivered” basis (known as DDP), either directly from the foreign vendor or through a middleman who may pay the import clearance costs for them. – Ultimately, just as with every tax, the buyer pays whatever is not absorbed earlier in the chain of importation…

American Thinker: Mass Psychosis And Left-Wing Groupthink – Real truth doesn’t need a shield from questions, only mass psychosis does.Joost Meerloo was a Dutch-American M.D. and psychoanalyst. – In his 1961 classic, The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing, he laid out how mass delusions can be engineered on purpose…

Trending Politics: A Democrat’s Anti-Trump SOTU Stunt Backfired – California Representative Ro Khanna announced Haley Robson as his guest for President Trump’s address, a selection already fueling chatter on Capitol Hill. – Robson has publicly described herself as a former teenage “recruiter” for Jeffrey Epstein and later shared her story in Netflix’s “Jeffrey Epstein, Filthy Rich.”…

California Globe: Governor Newsom Is Facing Calls to Resign Over His Release of A ‘Monster’ Convicted Serial Child Abuser – Thousands of California’s convicted pedophiles have been released from prison. – David Funston terrorized Sacramento neighborhoods in 1995. – Sheriff Cooper said Funston is 64 years old; Cooper is 62, and in no way “elderly.”

Slay News: California Governor Newsom announced the release of $35 million in taxpayer funds to support illegal aliens with “free” handouts. – The funds will go toward “philanthropic partners” to provide illegals with “free” food assistance and other resources. – The funds were previously set aside by the Democrat-controlled legislature.

Epoch Times: Savannah Guthrie Is Offering A $1 Million Reward for Information on Mother’s Disappearance – The reward is being offered in conjunction with the FBI’s $100,000 reward, the bureau says. – “We still believe in a miracle and that she can come home.” – “We also know she may be lost.” – “She may already be gone.”…

Western Journal: The office of Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has decided against pursuing a criminal case against Senators Mark Kelly of Arizona, Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, and other members of the so-called “Seditious Six.” – It would have to make a second attempt to win a grand jury indictment to proceed with the case has evidently declined to do so…

February 23, 2026

Washington Free Beacon: Iran Producing Ballistic Missiles with ‘Chemical and Biological’ Warheads – Israel’s defense establishment is ‘providing targets and discussing the different capabilities that need to be dealt with’ in a potential strike. – “This is why we want to be sure any attack on this regime assures these capabilities are dealt with,” according to Israeli military adviser Amir Avivi…

Daily Caller: President Trump was the target of a third assassination attempt Sunday when an armed intruder entered his Mar-a-Lago residence. – The left-wing media’s rapid dismissal of the story exposes a further desire to prevent any narrative that might humanize Trump or Republicans. – By Monday morning, the story had all but vanished from the headlines…

Gateway Pundit: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria recently had a moment of clarity, admitting that one-party rule by the far left is ruining American cities. – He devoted an entire monologue to it and sounded more like someone on FOX News than CNN. – He kicked it off by focusing on Zohran Mamdani, but eventually got around to mentioning Chicago and Los Angeles as examples as well…

American Spectator: Meet Neppo Marx, the Democrats’ Great White 2028 Hope – Gavin Newsom’s latest slapstick comedy act. It’s like the Marx Brothers are reborn, except there’s only him, and he’s Neppo. – Given his weird string of self-disqualifying statements, he probably wouldn’t have made it in politics beyond a city council or county commission somewhere. – It helps to come from big money and big connections…

Trending Politics: RINOs Panic As An Establishment Senator Faces An Uphill Primary Battle – Senator John Cornyn finds himself locked in a competitive three-way battle against Texas AG Ken Paxton and Representative Wesley Hunt.- With no candidate currently polling above 50%, most analysts expect the March 3 primary to head to a May 26 runoff…

Washington Examiner: FedEx sues the Trump administration for a tariff refund following the Supreme Court decision – FedEx wants a complete refund, with interest, arguing it should be awarded for the financial losses it incurred. – FedEx did not specify the amount of money lost over the past year due to the trade duties…

Washington Examiner: House Speaker Mike Johnson tempered expectations that Congress would step in to codify President Trump‘s tariffs after the Supreme Court decision on Friday. – Johnson said he thinks it would be difficult to do, as the speaker navigates a razor-thin majority, and several House Republicans already proved they will vote with Democrats to repeal some of Trump’s tariffs…

Daily Caller: The potent nor’easter that’s currently hammering the Northeast region has officially developed into a bomb cyclone after meeting the meteorological criteria. – In terms of weather impacts, a nor’easter organizing into a bomb cyclone is a life-threatening escalation. – At this time, there are more than 200,000 power outages in the Northeast due to Winter Storm Hernando.

Just The News: The State Department ordered non-emergency personnel to evacuate the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. – But the department did not provide details for the reason behind the evacuation. – The order comes as President Trump has ordered a large buildup of U.S. military forces in the Middle East and made threats against the Iranian regime amid nuclear talks.

Breitbart: President Trump warned Monday that countries attempting to exploit the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling to escape trade agreements will face steeper tariffs than those they originally negotiated with his administration. – The legal setback has emboldened U.S. trading partners to reconsider agreements they negotiated while facing Trump’s original tariff threat…

Western Journal: Trump Called the US Men’s Hockey Team After Their Historic Win and Made an Offer They Couldn’t Refuse – Now they’re headed to the State of the Union address and the White House this coming week. – While Jack Hughes may have been the eventual hero for scoring the winning goal, the real MVP of the day was goalie Connor Hellebuyck, blocking 41 of 42 Canadian shots on his way to gold…

Breitbart: President Trump declared February 22 “Angel Family Day” as he honored families on Monday who lost loved ones to illegal alien crime. – His declaration honors two survivors and 62 individuals killed by illegals, among them Laken Riley, the young nursing student who was attacked and killed during a morning jog on the University of Georgia campus…

Daily Caller: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and other White House staffers slammed CNN and MSNOW on Monday for not airing an event honoring families who lost loved ones in crimes committed by illegal immigrants. – Trump declared Feb. 23 “Angel Families Day”…

American Thinker: Iran’s Tragic Illusion of Victory – Iran is encircled, yet its mullahs cannot accept this reality. – They are witnessing an underlying conflict between modern rationalism and effective medievalism. – Russia and China are not going to rescue Iran, as the payoff doesn’t pass muster, as they have other priorities. – Nature itself will root things out as a matter of adaptation and survival…

Gatestone Institute: Who Will Become the Biggest Beneficiary of the Billions of Dollars About To Be Invested in the Gaza Strip? – The Terrorist Group Hamas – “There is a prevailing sense within the committee and other parties that Hamas is determined, by all means, to keep its members within the new administrative framework overseeing the Gaza Strip.”

American Thinker: Joshua Harris’s Gigantic Optics Failure In Baghdad – Our interim US chargé d’affaires’ very friendly greeting of Aqeel Mefeten, followed by sitting next to him and visibly smiling during the soccer match. – This episode comes at a sensitive moment in US–Iraq–Iran relations. For that reason, the administration should move decisively to replace Harris and restore clarity to the American diplomatic posture in Baghdad…

Geller Report: Muslim Children In Philadelphia Sing About Chopping Off Heads and Martyrdom – “We will chop off their heads, liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and lead the army of Allah, fulfilling His promise, and we will subject them to eternal torture, as the blood of martyrs protects us.” – Isn’t ‘peaceful’ Islam beautiful?. – And then there are these…

Daily Caller: Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by IARPA have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units, and nuclear weapons development institutions. – Such ties to adversarial nations, like China, should be prohibited from collaborating on U.S. intelligence and defense research…

American Thinker: The Supreme Court’s Political Attack Masquerading as a Judicial Decision – When SCOTUS goes against all precedent to apply an inapplicable judicial standard to a case, hamstringing the president, that’s political. – Strictly applying the major questions doctrine in the context of foreign affairs will be costly in the long run, but will have minimal impact on Trump’s Presidency…

American Thinker: China’s ‘Magic Weapon’ Reaches Deep Into America and the West – China has seeded the West with thousands of agents pushing propaganda, engaging in espionage, fomenting protests, and silencing domestic dissent. – A 2024 report from the House China Select Committee notes that United Front work is a distinct combination of “engagement, influence activities, and intelligence operations.”…

Western Journal: Trump’s ICE Built A Nationwide Police Alliance Right Under The Democrats’ Noses: – ICE dramatically expanded a little-known program allowing local law enforcement to assist deportation operations even in liberal states, documents show. – Since 2019, more than 1,350 local agencies have penned agreements with ICE, including 68 from Democrat states and 88 in swing states…

Liberty Daily: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Is Accused of Stonewalling A Key Probe as Somali Fraud Sweeps His State – Walz’s administration is actively stonewalling a congressional probe into welfare fraud. – Walz’s staff has not turned over documents the committee subpoenaed for in September of 2024 concerning fraud amid a scandal over Feeding Our Future, a Somali-led nonprofit that defrauded the government…

American Thinker: Obama’s Consumer Financial ‘Protection’ Bureau Is Costing Us, BIG Time – According to the February 17th report from the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, the “improperly named” Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has imposed a total net cost to U.S. consumers of between $237 billion and $369 billion from 2011 through 2024, measured in 2025 dollars…

Zero Hedge: U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday barred the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.  – Cannon said that Smith wrongly forged ahead with investigating Trump and others for allegedly violating federal law by gathering and retaining sensitive documents even after she ruled his appointment was unconstitutional and threw out the case…

New York Post: The infamous photo of ex-Prince Andrew after his arrest that was hung in the Louvre by activists stunned visitors. – Underneath was a title card that read “He’s Sweating Now.” – The three-word caption refers to the former prince’s claim in an interview that he cannot sweat due to a medical condition…

Townhall: Gavin Newsom’s Attempt to Connect With Black Voters Was Incredibly Racist – Over the weekend, Trailing Kamala in the polls, Newsom was in Georgia speaking to a crowd of Black voters, where he had his own Joe Biden-type of moment, telling the crowd he’s just like them: unable to read and with a low SAT score…

California Globe: San Diego Superior Court Judge Matthew Braner Forces Children’s Hospital to Continue Trans Care With A Temporary Restraining Order – This is a battle that pits state ideology against common-sense child protection, and the potential loss of federal funding. – As previously reported, California AG Bonta filed suit against Rady Children’s on January 30, 2026…

Geller Report: The Minnesota State Legislature is in session and is considering a bill to age-restrict access to pornography. – However, State Representative Leigh Finke, a transgender Democrat, argued in committee that restricting access to pornography would limit kids’ ability to get educated about gender issues if they are queer…

Slay News: A chilling email exchange has emerged from the latest Jeffrey Epstein files release in which the convicted predator gloats about trafficking children to his private island to be abused. – These emails are raising fresh alarm as they show Epstein proudly boasting about trafficking and raping children on Little Saint James, his private “Pedophile Island” in the Caribbean.

California Globe: Governor Newsom Pardoned A Convicted Attempted Murder Illegal Alien and Shielded Him From Deportation – The Cambodian national and illegal alien was convicted of attempted murder and assault with a firearm – Since January 2026, sanctuary policies under Newsom have led to the release of 4,561 criminal illegal aliens into California communities…

The Federalist: California Democrats held their annual convention over the weekend. – There was plenty to talk about. – But instead, they climbed out of their “Clown Car” and didn’t talk about any of it. – So here’s what they did talk about, and yes, there is vulgarity in this short clip, as the mere appearance of Far-Left Katie Porter should serve as a fair warning…

Slay News: Trump’s Department of Labor Has Deployed A ‘Strike Team’ to California As $ Billions in Taxpayer Fraud Emerges – The move comes after California borrowed $21 billion in federal taxpayer funds to sustain its unemployment system. – California received approximately $290 billion in pandemic relief funds, but despite that influx, the state’s unemployment insurance trust fund was depleted…

Slay News: Illinois Agencies Have Blocked FOIA Requests for Chicago’s Obama Presidential Center Tax Dollar Spending – Public infrastructure spending on the Chicago structure has risen significantly beyond initial projections, and not a single government agency has provided a comprehensive accounting of how taxpayer dollars were spent…

Zero Hedge: As US carriers deploy in the Mideast region and with tense nuclear talks inching forward in Geneva, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly taking Washington’s threats of assassination very seriously. – According to the NYT, Khamenei quietly established detailed succession plans and emergency chains of command in the event he, or other top regime figures, are killed…

Zero Hedge: Iran Strike Debate Erupts As Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine Allegedly Resists On An Iran Attack and Trump Fires Back – According to the WSJ, Caine raised five relevant issues regarding casualties that included exhaustion of stockpiles and stretching the military thin.  Within hours after the WSJ published their report, President Trump slammed it as fake news…

February 22, 2026

General Michael T. Flynn: A Decision Which Could Change Our World – President Trump has not made a final decision on invading Iran, so I want to offer ten questions in the hope they will help him decide. – 1. Do we have the legal justification to go to war under the historically understood standards? – 2. Has the war been authorized? under Article I of the Constitution?…

Washington Free Beacon: Anti-Regime Protests Reignite in Iran as Trump Prepares Strike Options Targeting Islamic Republic Officials. – The protests, which erupted as students returned to campus for the first time since the regime killed more than 20,000 demonstrators in January, quickly turned violent when regime security forces and government allies attacked the crowd…

American Spectator: The Board of Peace and the Illusion of Gaza – $Billions have been pledged, and troops promised, but without disarming Hamas, reconstruction is pure fantasy. – Hamas appears to be violating the agreement in at least two important ways. – First, Hamas is not disarming. – Second, Hamas is trying, so far successfully, to reassert its control over the Gaza Strip…

American Thinker: A Cartel kingpin Was Taken Out An All Hell Broke Out In Mexico, Amid Shouts of ‘Viva Trump.’ – My source in Mexico right now tells me there are shouts of ‘Viva Trump’ across Mexico in ferocious approval of President Trump’s pressure on this cowardly Mexican government to force them to take action against these ruthless, brutal, criminals, rubbing them out…

Trending Politics: The Latest Would-Be Trump Assassin Was Obsessed With False Allegations In The ‘Epstein Files’ – The shooter’s family had reported him missing the day before the shooting. – Reportedly, 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin was obsessed with conspiracies surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein investigation that thoroughly debunked allegations that Trump was involved with Epstein’s crimes…

American Spectator: Who Cares If Democrats Boycott Trump’s State of The Union? – Whether they sit in silence or grandstand outside, the President’s address will go on without them. – Several Democrats plan to participate in competing public events during the speech. – And to top things off, Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger will recite the Democrats’ response after Trump concludes his remarks…

American Thinker: The time To End The Filibuster Is NOW! – There’s still time to do it with minimal risk to the conservative movement. – Ending the filibuster in February 2026 would give Republicans eight months to pass critical legislation promised to the American people, which could greatly enhance their prospects in the mid-term elections…

Red State: The LAFD’s Secret Plan to Protect Karen Bass and the Department From Fire Report Fallout – The 13-page memo on LAFD letterhead aimed to shape media coverage of the Palisades fire after-action report. – The memo detailed plans to protect Mayor Karen Bass and others from “reputational harm” in connection with the city’s handling of the catastrophic blaze…

American Thinker: Democrat gubernatorial election-rigging in California is starting to backfire on them – Spiders caught in a web of their own making. – California Democrat Party leaders, liberal activists, and loyal power brokers are openly expressing fear that their crowded field of gubernatorial candidates may splinter the vote and open the door to a surprise Republican victory in November…

Western Journal: Stephen A. Smith’s Blistering Answer to Which Current Contenders Can Beat Vance and Rubio in 2028 – Short Answer: ‘Not a Damn Soul.’ – Smith has been getting more and more involved with political discourse lately and seems all but assured to at least attempt a run in the 2028 presidential election…

Western Journal: An Armed Man Was Shot And Killed While Breaking Into Mar-A-Lago Carrying A Fuel Can And Shotgun – The incident took place at about 1:30 a.m. – Secret Service agents and a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputy shot the man. – Trump was not there at the time. – He was hosting a meeting of the nation’s governors at the White House.

Daily Wire: LIVE UPDATES: Anti-Regime Protests Resume In Iran Amid U.S. Military Buildup – President Trump is curious why Iran hasn’t yet “capitulated,” Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday. – Students at Amir Kabir University in Tehran resisted an attempt by Basij members to stop their rally against the Islamic Republic on Sunday…

Slay News: A Public-Funded German Broadcaster Used A Fake AI-Generated Video of ICE Arresting Women and Children for an Anti-Trump Report. – The February 15 segment triggered immediate backlash on social media after viewers spotted an OpenAI “Sora” watermark embedded at the end of the footage, making it unmistakably clear that the scenes were synthetic…

Slay News: Google Sounds An Alarm, Warning That The U.S Defense Industrial Base Is Under Sustained Cyber Assault from China, Russia, and North Korea – The new report from Google Threat Intelligence found that the U.S. defense industrial base, the vast network of public and private entities that develop and maintain military weapons systems, has been targeted in recent months…

American Thinker: SCOTUS Ruled The IEEPA Cannot Be Used For Tariffs – Is the decision momentous or of little consequence? – Plan B, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quickly announced that the administration was prepared for this eventuality and would be leveraging Section 232 and Section 301 tariff authorities that have been validated through thousands of legal challenges.

American Thinker: Vice President Vance’s recent visit to Armenia and Azerbaijan was more than diplomatic choreography. – It was a strategic re-entry into a region Washington neglected for too long, and one that now sits squarely inside the map of great-power competition. – Trade routes always shape influence. – Whoever helps build the corridor often shapes its political orientation.

Resist The Mainstream: Bill and Hillary Clinton will be deposed next week in connection with the House Oversight Committee’s probe into Jeffrey Epstein. – The depositions will take place in Chappaqua, New York, where the Clintons reside, rather than in Washington, D.C. – Hillary is scheduled to testify under oath on Feb. 26th, with Bill set to appear on Feb. 27th.

American Thinker: NASA Admits It Nearly Killed Two Astronauts – Elon Musk can do its job more cheaply, reliably, and safely. – NASA admitted only to some vague “thruster problems” and eventually sent the capsule back to Earth empty out of an abundance of caution.- Now we’re learning they came within a hairsbreadth of being lost in space, and the Boeing capsule has not flown again and likely won’t…

American Thinker: The Return Of The Reds – Is it the 1950s all over again! – The House Un-American Activities Committee interrogated large numbers of people, leading to blacklists that destroyed careers in entertainment and academia. – Fast-forward to the 2020s. – Rather than fearing covert communist infiltration, voters have increasingly embraced politicians who openly identify with Marxist Socialist principles…

American Thinker: The Obama Monument Gets Uglier -And taxpayers are indeed paying for it. – Now they’ve put Obama’s words on one quarter of each of two sides of the squat brutalist cement edifice, with the letters all jammed together as if to ersatz-imitate immortal hieroglyphics and are nearly impossible to read. – And things get worse when details about its financing come out…

Breitbart: NYC Democrats Require ID to Shovel Snow But Oppose It for Voting – The NYC Department of Sanitation’s website features a page where residents can apply to become paid “Emergency Snow Shovelers” as a winter storm bears down on the area. – However, the page said applicants must present two photos, “Two original forms of ID, plus copies,” and their Social Security card.

February 21, 2026

Red State: POTUS and FLOTUS Attended The White House Governors Dinner, But Note Who Didn’t Show Up – Reporters on the scene noted that no Democrats appear to be in attendance. – The people who were there, however, seemed to be getting on just fine without them. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth opened the ceremonies…

One America News: President Trump announced he is raising the existing 10% global tariff to 15% to make up for the Supreme Court ruling that blocked other tariffs. – “During the next short number of months, the Trump Administration will determine and issue the new and legally permissible Tariffs, which will continue our extraordinarily successful process of Making America Great Again,” he explained. “GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!!!”

Gateway Pundit: Former VP Mike Pence just reminded the MAGA movement what a duplicitous traitor he is, and always has been. – Following the recent Supreme Court Ruling on Tariffs, Pence took to the X platform to celebrate the decision: “Today’s 6-3 ruling by the Supreme Court is a Victory for the American People and a Win for the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution.”…

One America News: President Trump Will Visit China In Late March – The White House confirmed the meeting on Friday, stating President Trump’s meeting has long been expected and is set to focus on an extension to the Sino-American trade truce, which has kept both countries from further raising tariffs…

Discern Report: California Taxpayers Have Been Funding the Protests Against Them and the Amount Is Shocking – New research published Friday reveals that California’s state government has funneled more than $115 million in taxpayer dollars to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles…

Sharyl Attkisson: Senator Marsha Blackburn sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, pressing him on reporting that Apple News has systematically suppressed news articles from right-leaning publications while amplifying articles from left-leaning publications. – Blackburn requested all internal data on the distribution of stories from outlets across the political spectrum featured on the platform over the last year.

Just The News: House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan suggests Minnesota officials ‘assisted’ in billions of welfare fraud – The Trump administration called widespread welfare fraud in Minnesota “the single greatest theft of taxpayer dollars through welfare fraud in American history.” – “They knew there was fraud because whistleblowers came forward, and they just ignored it.”

Victor Davis Hanson: The Current Version Of The Democrat Socialist Party Is a ‘Graveyard of Bad Ideas’ – But before we write off the Republicans, and I’m very confident, I think they’re gonna do well in the midterms, for reasons I’ve outlined before. – But how can some people actually want the alternative?

American Spectator: The Virus in the Faculty Lounge – Woke Intersectionalism and the assault on merit, family, and the West. – The woke virus is now widespread, doing its best to break down Western civilization into a constant war of groups exclusively identified by inherited and unchangeable traits. – This new cultural acceptance of this identitarianism is a new form of tribalism…

Geller Report: Tehran Students Take to the Streets in Escalating Anti-Regime Protests. – Massive student crowds are openly denouncing leftism and chanting “Javid Shah,” signaling a dramatic ideological turn. – When their intellectual youth explicitly rejects the clerical regime and invokes Iran’s pre-revolutionary past, it reshapes the political landscape and is a profound evolution…

Geller Report: Iran regime forces are gang-raping imprisoned female protesters and then cutting out their uteruses to cover up the horrific torture. – This is not new. – During the last freedom uprising quashed by Obama in support of the mullahs, women (and men) were raped to death en masse in Iran’s notorious prisons, most notably Evin, as the world feigned ignorance…

Breitbart: Ukrainian drones struck an industrial site deep inside Russia on Saturday, which a Russian news channel said was a key state-owned missile factory. – The attack took place in Russia’s Udmurt Republic, leaving 11 hurt, three of whom were hospitalized, according to a Telegram post by Sergei Bagin, the local health minister…

American Thinker: California Dreamin’ – Newsom Turned His State’s Wreckage into Stepping Stones – At some point, its voters might pose a truly radical question: What if leadership isn’t meant to work like a hot-air balloon ride, scenic for the pilot, but utterly untethered to reality? – Radio host Larry Elder once summed up Newsom’s career in four succinct words: He keeps failing upward…

American Thinker: One Chip To Rule Them All – Digital IDs offer undeniable benefits, but they come with risks that strike at the heart of conservative values: privacy, individual autonomy, and skepticism of centralized authority. – A digital ID system gives the government unprecedented visibility, enabling tracking, profiling, and monitoring on an unprecedented scale…

American Thinker: Transgenderism And The Perils of Pretending – Since humans first set foot on earth, there have been only men and women. – The modern Democrat party, however, is the party of make-believe, and all to garner votes.- These poor souls have been bamboozled into thinking pills and scalpels could somehow make them into what they’re not…

Zero Hedge: John Cleese Declares “I’m Afraid They Are Going To Have To Arrest Me” – In a recent interview, Cleese observed that the government’s new speech standards would classify many citizens, including himself, as presumptive criminals for criticizing certain policies. – ”As I am an Islam sceptic, I’m now worried that the Labour government may categorize me as a terrorist…”

Brownstone Institute: What the Polls Say about the Pharmaceutical Industry and Vaccines – Gallup has measured confidence in the industry for a quarter of a century, and it has only fallen. – It now rates second-to-last of 25 industries, with only 28% expressing some confidence, just above the government. – Then there’s the question regarding childhood vaccines…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Game of Stones Edition – It was a big week in the news. – Marco Rubio went to Munich and mounted an eloquent defense of Western civilization, while Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tagged along and proved herself not very bright for a cocktail waitress…

February 20, 2026

Breitbart: U.S. military planning for potential strikes on Iran has entered what officials describe as an “advanced” phase. – Options are reportedly expanding beyond nuclear and missile infrastructure to include targeted decapitation strikes against senior regime figures. – President Trump is said to be able to make a strike decision “at any moment.”…

The War Zone: F-16s Heading To Middle East Equipped With Angry Kitten Electronic Warfare Pods – The Angry Kitten pods provide the fourth-generation fighters often tasked with the Wild Weasel missions much-needed extra protection. – The new electronic warfare system helps defend against anti-air threats…

Gateway Pundit: Mitch McConnell Blocks Save Act from Being Brought to a Vote on the Senate Floor – McConnell is 84 and is failing fast. He has no idea what is going on. – But he does know he hates Trump, as do his handlers, and that keeps him getting out of bed in the morning to screw the people of Kentucky and the US…

Townhall: Susan Rice’s Terrifying Vow If Democrats Take Back Power – Rice, “If these corporations think that the Democrats are going to play by the old rules…they’ve got another thing coming.” – “There will be an accountability agenda.” – “This is not going to be an instance of forgive and forget.” “Democrats will punish those who ‘bent the knee’ to President Trump.”

Western Journal: An FCC regulation effectively defined by Democrats and was used by a Democrat to platform a white Democrat over a black Democrat is now bemoaned by Democrats because of, YES, Donald Trump. – In the wake of the Stephen Colbert/James Talarico pseudo-scandal, The Hollywood Reporter is bemoaning the disappearances by political candidates on daytime and late-night talk shows…

Gateway Pundit: IT WAS ALL A SETUP – FBI Internal Emails Reveal That The Biden White House Coordinated with The DOJ on The Mar-a-Lago Raid – More than 3 dozen machine-gun-toting agents descended on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. – Court documents revealed that Biden’s FBI authorized the use of deadly force during their raid…

National Pulse: A GOP Lawmaker Demands Congress Codify Trump Tariffs To Reverse SCOTUS Decision. – Senator Bernie Moreno, “This betrayal must be reversed, and Republicans must get to work immediately on a reconciliation bill to codify the tariffs that had made our country the hottest country on earth!”

Daily Caller: Jasmine Crockett Drops Race Card On Liberals – During remarks at a campaign event in Richardson, Texas, Crockett said that she was campaigning on her “credentials,” before claiming liberals were attacking her because she is a black woman. – “The thing that’s not normal is for me to be attacked from the left.”…

Western Journal: A Gargantuan Bomb Was Found at a DHS Office in Idaho – An Ambulance Was Stolen, Packed with Gasoline Cans, and Was Almost Ready to Detonate – At about 12:30 a.m., the attacker rammed the vehicle into the building, smashing through glass doors and coming to a halt in the lobby. – The driver tried to ignite it “before being scared off by responding agencies.”

American Spectator: Seven Women Who Will Haunt Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Campaign – These women from his romantic past do not make him look good. – 1. Kelley Phleger, Gordon Getty’s pseudo-daughter. – 2. Pop Star Jewel dated him because he was the personification of San Francisco’s elite. – 3. Kimberly Guilfoyle, a prominent member of society. – 4. Ruby Rippey-Tourk, Oh dear, this is a bad one. – 5. Sofia Milos…

One America News: In a stunning reversal, California Governor Newsom and state officials have agreed to enforce longstanding federal regulations requiring commercial drivers to demonstrate English-language proficiency. – The requirement applies exclusively to commercial drivers who hold a CDL. It does not affect standard Class C licenses used for regular passenger vehicles…

Post Millennial: A new bombshell report from the WSJ revealed that employees at OpenAI flagged the ChatGPT writings and queries of Canadian ice rink trans school shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar and wanted to alert Canadian authorities, but management said no. – Van Rootselaar described scenarios involving gun violence over the course of several days…

Epoch Times: The Supreme Court held on Feb. 20 that some of President Trump’s tariffs exceeded an emergency powers law passed by Congress. – This decision could have major implications for the nation’s economy. – Trump’s tariffs have targeted a broad range of activities, but the ones in this case focused on combating drug trafficking and correcting trade imbalances with other countries.

Epoch Times: President Trump to Impose 10% Global Tariffs Under Other Authority After Supreme Court Ruling – Trump, “The good news is that there are methods, practices, statutes, and authorities, as recognized by the entire court in this terrible decision, and also recognized by Congress, which they refer to, that are even stronger than the IEEPA tariffs available to me as president of the United States.”

Breitbart: President Trump Held A Press Conference on Supreme Court Ruling on Tariffs – Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Gorsuch and Barrett joined the liberal wing of Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson,  to rule against the president, with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh dissenting. – Here’s what Trump had to say…

Daily Wire: Justice Kavanaugh Laid Out How Trump Could Recreate Tariffs Through Other Laws – Other federal statutes authorize the President to impose tariffs and might justify most (if not all) of the tariffs at issue in this case, albeit perhaps with a few additional procedural steps that IEEPA, as an emergency statute, does not require.” – Kavanaugh pointed specifically to the Trade Expansion Act of 1962…

Western Journal: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Issues Blistering Dissent in Tariff Case Following Trump Loss – Thomas insisted that the high court’s majority got it wrong – Assuming one could even imagine a broader delegation of emergency powers, one wonders if human language could express it. – Indeed, both Thomas and Justice Brett Kavanaugh placed proper emphasis on the words “regulate” and “importation.”

Epoch Times: 5 Things to Know About How Supreme Court Ruling Could Shake Up Trump’s Tariffs – The president said he will reimpose new tariffs using other legal authorities available to the executive branch. – 1. Presidential Power: This may affect Trump’s future decisions to use emergency powers for many economic measures. – 2. Government Revenue – 3. Impact on The Markets – 4. Importers and Businesses – 5. ‘America First’ Trade Policy…

Breitbart: The Day Before The SCOTUS Decision, The President Of Georgia’s Full-Line Steel Service Center Said Trump’s Tariffs Saved His Business – Coosa Steel president Andrew Saville said that he began seeing a massive influx of orders for tire racks in July 2025 after the tire rack industry began “really dropping off around 2010.”…

Washington Free Beacon: Iran Is Rebuilding and Fortifying Its Remaining Nuclear Sites To Defend Against A Potential US Strike – The construction projects suggest Tehran has no intention of ending its nuclear program. – The activity around its new Taleghan 2 facility has continued through February, with crews “visibly pouring fresh concrete” around the area and piling soil on top of a structure that likely contains sensitive equipment…

Geller Report: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Blocks The US From Using RAF Bases for Possible Strikes on Iran. – Winston Churchill must be projectile vomiting in his grave. – This is not a minor diplomatic gesture, but rather a civilization-shifting turning point. – Britain’s decision will be debated in terms of strategy, but should also be examined in terms of moral resolve…

Epoch Times: A Virginia County Judge issued an emergency restraining order on Feb. 19, pausing a Democratic-backed referendum to redraw the state’s congressional maps. – Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley issued the order following a Feb. 18 motion by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) that sought to challenge House Bill 1384.

Powerline: Ten  Years of Democrats Calling Trump A Racist – Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked, “When does the president believe he has been falsely called a racist?” – Leavitt quickly responded: “You’re kidding, right?” – So, Sasha Stone compiled this 25-minute video of mainstream zombies and Democrat politicians doing what they constantly do…

Breitbart: House Oversight Committee Chairman Representative James Comer, “Given Trump’s tenuous relationship with the Biden DOJ, any ‘dirt’ regarding Trump would have leaked.” – “For all the talk about Donald Trump 25 years ago or around 25 years ago, he threw this guy out of the Mar-a-Lago Club…

Breitbart: Joe Rogan called Democratic Socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “a fucking psychopath” after examining the details of his recently announced budget proposal for the city. – “He’s a fucking psychopath,” Rogan said of Mamdani, adding, “The amount for migrants is crazy. – There should be zero dollars for illegal immigrants.”…

Geller Report: A Foiled Democrat Terror Attack Plot Against DHS In Idaho – This was not a protest; this was a planned terrorist attack. – Authorities are searching for a suspect who stole an ambulance, loaded it with gas cans, and rammed it into a federal office building housing Department of Homeland Security offices in an attempted arson attack and domestic terrorism incident…

Washington Free Beacon: Inside The Al Jazeera Style Guide, Which Forbids Reporters From Calling ISIS a ‘Terrorist’ Organization – The guide also bans the word ‘Islamist’ and stipulates that Taiwan ‘is not a country.’ – The “2023-2024 Edition” appears to have been updated to reference more recent events such as President Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, with the outlet telling reporters to use Gulf of Mexico…

American Thinker: Could The War in Ukraine Go Nuclear? – As the war heads into its fifth year, dangers mount for Europe. – While President Trump wants to end the bloodshed before the violent conflict transforms into something even more catastrophic, too many parties seem committed to ratcheting up the butcher’s bill a while longer…

American Thinker: What’s the Best Course of Action for Iran? – Approaching known terrorists with diplomacy is a fool’s errand. – Citizens, tired of a currency collapse, high inflation, 47 years of repression, etc., have been courageously rioting in the streets. – The government has been brutally putting them down. – Despite our goal to bring the massacre to an end, Iranian leaders insist the talks be limited to but one issue…

American Thinker: Syria officially requests that Germany keep Syrian nationals, because sending them home would make Syria ‘unsafe.’ – Even an Al-Qaeda terrorist doesn’t want these people. – The new Syrian government has made a formal request to Germany, asking the European state to retain all the Syrians they have there, because sending them home would make Syria “unsafe” and invite instability…

Slay News: A buried FBI report released in the latest Epstein Files dump contains horrifying allegations that Ghislaine Maxwell tortured a young child while Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the disgraced former British prince, allegedly stood and watched. – The document, reportedly dated July 2020, was included in materials recently released by the DOJ…

Slay News: New Mexico prosecutors have officially launched a formal investigation into chilling allegations that Jeffrey Epstein murdered two young victims and buried their bodies at his sprawling Zorro Ranch estate. – The bombshell claims surfaced in previously sealed emails included in the latest tranche of Epstein Files released by the DOJ. – This suggests his ranch may have played a far darker role than previously known…

American Thinker: Debunking The Democrats’ Blue Wave Fraud – Their “Blue Wave” was less a tide of progress and more a flood of fraud. What we’re witnessing as a result of the above actions is the MAGA administration diving deep into the controversial dealings of the previous regime, exposing rot at a pace that suggests there’s plenty more…

Slay News: A University of New Hampshire Survey Center Poll Shows AOC, Buttigieg & Newsom With an Early Lead In The 2028 Democrat Presidential Field – If the 2028 nomination contest were held today, 20% would support Buttigieg, with Newsom and AOC tied for second at 15%. – Avoiding direct 2028 speculation, Buttigieg said he would consider what he brings “to the table” regarding a future White House bid…

City Journal: Californication Contaminated Colorado – Migration from California helped turn Colorado from a libertarian reddish state into a solid-blue one, transforming this once-booming state into an economic and demographic laggard. – Recent Census numbers show Colorado losing more than 12,000 residents to other states last year, with population growth being anemic…

American Thinker: Republicans Must Preach The Good News About Trump’s America – The media have been convincing Americans that things are going badly, even though the opposite is true. – It’s up to us to know and speak the truth. – There is a flood of economic good news, such ascooling inflation, record‑high markets, solid earnings, and continued job growth in key sectors, as well as…

American Thinker: A video that’s a metaphor for the decline of the UK and the West – There’s almost no context for the video, but it’s sufficiently clear that there won’t always be an England, and it’s not about race; it’s about culture. – An older white woman tries to get off a bus, only to be utterly defeated by a surge of immigrants streaming onto the bus.

Slay News: Republican Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) revealed that Congress and federal law enforcement are preparing what he described as a “two-front fight” against organizations accused of funding Antifa-linked activity. – The congressman specifically cited organizations run and funded by billionaire George Soros and his radical family.

California Globe: The Ninth Circuit Blocked California’s Entire ‘No Secret Police Act’ in A Major Win for Trump DOJ – This means Sacramento Democrat politicians cannot enact laws to regulate, harass, or endanger federal officers carrying out their lawful duties. – California’s radical experiment in nullification has failed, yet again.

Daily Wire: ‘Never Forgotten’, Trump Provides $10M To The Devastated East Palestine Community ‘Betrayed’ By Biden – Trump’s move on Thursday came just after the third anniversary of the disaster, which forced some residents of the small Ohio community to leave their homes for months after toxic chemicals leaked into the ground and air.

Resist The Mainstream: 21-year-old Alexander Lamar Banks Jr., Of Delta Township, Michigan, Has Been Charged With First-Degree Murder After Killing a 3-Year-Old by Driving Into The Family, Then Opening Fire on The Adults. – After driving a gray sedan into the family, he exited the vehicle, retrieved a 12-gauge shotgun from a backpack, and fired multiple rounds at the victims…

February 19, 2026

American Spectator: It’s Now or Never in Iran – Because the longer the wait the more likely the Mullahs will rely on China to save them. – America’s current overwhelming air superiority, combined with Israel’s extensive intelligence penetration of Iran, could break the power of its murderous Mullahs and help control the ensuing chaos if an attack is launched before a probable rearming by China.

Just The News: Prosecutors zero in on former CIA Director John Brennan with a secret request for years-old evidence from the U.S. Senate. – The request to the Senate signals a possible longer-term conspiracy case, seeking contacts with the Senate that stretch back nearly a decade. – Is long overdue justice for collusion, false statements, and consequences coming?…

The Blaze: President Trump said that former President Barack Obama revealed classified information when he made comments that appeared to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial aliens. – Obama made the comments during an interview with Bryan Tyler Cohen, and they quickly went viral on social media…

News Max: Trump to Order Release of Government Files on UFOs and UAPs – “Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, UAPs, and UFOs…

Red State: CBS and NBC Are Caught in A Fake News Narrative About FBI Director Patel’s Trip to Winter Olympics On an FBI Gulfstream – If legacy media “journalists” wonder why many conservatives don’t return their calls or emails, the stories by CBS News and MSNOW about FBI Director Kash Patel’s long ago planned trip to Milan, Italy are a great example to point them to…

Daily Signal: President Trump Removes Barriers to Building Infrastructure – The states opted in to the “FAST-41 process,” syncing state and federal limits to make building faster. – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed memorandums of understanding with Permitting Council Executive Director Emily Domenech at the Department of the Interior…

One America News: The City of Malibu is suing both the City of Los Angeles and the State of California, alleging that the catastrophic Palisades Fire was the direct result of systemic negligence. – The lawsuit contends that a critical failure to implement robust fire prevention measures, compounded by a series of operational lapses, allowed the blaze to escalate into the historic disaster…

Western Journal: The Wokesters Have Finally Come for Carrie Underwood – Carrie revealed that the woke idiots in American Idol’s Hollywood audience regularly boo her on account of what they perceive as her support for President Donald Trump, just because she sang at his inauguration. – Aside from that, Underwood has hardly aligned herself with the president…

American Wire News: Dr. Ira Savetsky, a plastic surgeon who trained at NYU Langone Health, offered his apologies for failing to “speak up” after witnessing minor children undergo “irreversible” gender surgeries, before praising President Trump for his clarity on the issue. – Savetsky commented on the culture that dominates elite medical programs, suggesting dissent from the politically correct status quo is not tolerated…

California Globe: The Trump DOJ Moves to End LAUSD’s Outdated Race-Based “Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Other Non-Anglo” scheme. – The program labels roughly 90% of LAUSD schools as PHBAO, then punishes schools with higher percentages of White students by giving them larger class sizes, fewer resources, and lower priority for magnet programs…

2026 Winter Olympics Website – Here is the current medal count, by country. – If you click on the country’s name, it shows the events they medaled in. – This table is updated continuously. – Norway, 16 – Italy, 9 – USA, 8 – France, 6 – Netherlands, 6 – Sweden, 6 – Germany, 5 – Austria, 5 – Japan, 5 – Canada, 4 – China, 3 – Austria, 3 – Great Britain, 3 – South Korea, 2…

Daily Wire: President Trump Called Them Terrorists Years Ago And Now The World Stage Is Catching Up – Effective tomorrow, all funds, financial assets, and economic resources belonging to the IRGC within EU member states will be frozen. – The decision follows a preliminary political agreement reached by the Foreign Affairs Council in late January…

Newsmax: President Trump Presses Iran for A Nuclear Deal, Signaling A 10-Day Deadline – Trump warned Iran on Thursday that it must reach a deal over its nuclear program or “bad things” will happen, and appeared to set a 10-day deadline before the U.S. might take action…

Townhall: Lindsey Graham Hints About What The Trump Administration Plans to Do About Iran – According to a top advisor within the Trump administration, the president is losing patience with the Iranian regime, telling Axios that Trump “is getting fed up” and that he believes “there is 90% chance we see kinetic action in the next few weeks.”

American Conservative: The U.S. to Withdraw From Syria – The United States is currently withdrawing roughly 1,000 troops from Syria, ending a decade-long military mission. – The Trump administration concluded a military presence is no longer necessary following the near-total disbandment of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces…

Gatestone Institute: It Is Time To Listen To What Hamas Says in Arabic – Anyone who believes that Hamas would “keep their word” is grotesquely misguided.Before the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, many people seemed to believe Hamas when its leaders used to say that they were interested in maintaining their ceasefire with Israel…

National Pulse: President Trump Announces Tariffs Have Slashed The U.S. Trade Deficit by 78%. – Trump, “The United States trade deficit has been reduced by 78 percent because of the tariffs being charged to other companies and countries. It will go into positive territory during this year, for the first time in many decades. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

Daily Caller: Despite Opposition From The Left, the US Commission of Fine Arts approved the final designs of the White House East Wing Modernization project. – Trump plans to kick off construction in April. – A final vote was not expected until the CFA’s March meeting, but Trump-appointed CFA Chairman Rodney Mims Cook Jr. accelerated the federal design review panel’s approval process…

One America News: President Trump held his first Board of Peace meeting in D.C., calling it ‘one of the most important and consequential things’ he’s done. – The board began as part of the Trump administration’s 20-point peace plan to end the war in Gaza, though his vision for the board is far greater, believing it will help to resolve conflicts around the world…

Daily Wire: Ilhan Omar Calls For Abolishing ICE, Saying DHS ‘Dismantlement’ Is Being Discussed – DHS was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. – DHS employs about 260,000 people. While it was created in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, its mission has expanded to include cybersecurity as well as responsibilities related to election integrity.

Resist The Mainstream: A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper intercepted a human-smuggling operation on U.S. 90 in Kinney County, arresting a San Antonio woman and securing the safe recovery of two young children during what began as a routine traffic stop. – The vehicle contained four illegal aliens being transported to stash houses in Texas and Florida…

Breitbart: President Trump said giving away the British Indian Ocean Territory, which contains one of the world’s most valuable military bases, would be a “blight” on Britain that endangers national security and should not be permitted, and Britain should reconsider.- The UK Is Now ‘Pausing For Thought’ on giving away a strategic Indian Ocean Base…

Western Journal: According to multiple reports, the former Prince Andrew has been arrested by authorities in the United Kingdom for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. – France24 noted that, before the man now known as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was reportedly taken into custody Thursday for suspicion of misconduct in public office…

Slay News: Bill Gates Withdrew From A Major Keynote Appearance At A High-Profile India AI Summit as Epstein Fallout Intensifies – His sudden withdrawal comes as newly released Epstein Files continue exposing links between the convicted sex trafficker and influential political, financial, and technology figures across the world.

Slay News: The UN Declares The Epstein Files Expose ‘Crimes Against Humanity’- In a formal statement, independent UN experts described the alleged conduct revealed in the Epstein documents as potentially meeting the legal threshold for the most serious of international crimes. – The files reveal instances of “sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman degrading treatment, and even femicide.”…

Ann Coulter: Without Victory, There Is No Survival – How long will it take for liberal elites to get the message about illegal immigration? – The open borders crowd has two counter-arguments: virtue signaling and lying. – Apparently, it’s especially heinous for ICE to arrest them if they engaged in some “homey” activity, like “taking their dog to the vet,” or “working on their car”…

Center For Immigration Studies: A True Comparison of ICE Arrests Under Trump II and Biden – What CBS News didn’t tell you is that 90.7% of all ‘at-large’ illegal alien arrests in FY 2022 involved those without any criminal histories. – So where was the outrage then? – Two key metrics define DHS’s effectiveness in reducing the population of illegal aliens present in the US…

Victor Davis Hanson: So Why Exactly Did The Democrats Destroy the Border? –Biden’s border chaos wasn’t accidental. – It was a political strategy to reshape America’s electorate and expand left-wing power. – They lie about it, but for years, Democrats and leftists themselves wrote triumphalist books with titles like The Emerging Democratic Majority, and often crowed that “Demography is Destiny.”…

Daily Signal: This Is How Many Guns the Trump Administration Kept From The Mexican Cartels – ATF, announced that since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, it seized 4,359 guns bound for Mexico to be used by cartels and gangs. – It estimates that it kept about 1,600 rounds of ammunition per day away from drug gangs…

Breitbart: Republican California Governor Candidate Chad Bianco Vows to Support ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegal Aliens if Elected – During two recent interviews circulating online, Bianco announced his support for providing naturalized American citizenship to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S., so long as they have not been convicted of a crime…

Breitbart: The Hollywood Reporter Accidentally Admits Network Talk Shows Blacklist Conservatives – The news that Republicans are blacklisted from network talk shows, such as The View, Kimmel, Fallon, and Colbert, is something we already knew. What’s fascinating is the lack of self-awareness in this Hollywood Reporter story, an outlet so bubbled it has no idea what it just revealed…

Gateway Pundit: Trump Stunned A White House Crowd With A Major Announcement About Dr. Ben Carson – He revealed that Carson is going to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honor he certainly deserves. – You could tell that the crowd approved of this news when Trump told them it was going to happen…

Breitbart: 47 Countries Are Expected to Join The First Trump Board of Peace Meeting In Washington On Thursday – Attendees will include representatives from France, Germany, the UK, and the EU. Also, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. – Canada will attend, nor will BRIC members Brazil, Russia, China, and India…

American Thinker: Trading Cash for a Government Digital Leash, Via Central Bank Digital Currencies. – CBDCs are one of the most significant proposed shifts in modern currency. – Like those ubiquitous pharmaceutical commercials showing joyful scenes before rushing through a litany of terrifying side effects due to the COVID vaccines, the push for CBDCs tends to gloss over their profound risks…

American Thinker: The Many Faces of Hillary Clinton – Is this an issue of multiple personalities, or just your average politician?. – I’ve watched this lady for a long time, and she has taken a lot of positions over the years. – For instance, she once said, “All Americans … are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. – The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants.”

American Thinker: More on that anti-ICE activist who cares nothing about the victims of illegal aliens – A Minnesota sheriff weighs in on what’s happening in his state, who the real victims are, and the impossibility of reasoning with irrational people. – His message is a reminder that, outside of the oppressive weight of Minneapolis, most of Minnesota is still a nice, normal state…

Slay News: A Minnesota Somali daycare operator, Fahima Egeh Mahamud, accused of siphoning millions in taxpayer dollars through fraudulent schemes, was arrested as she attempted to flee to the UK. – She is now the 79th defendant charged in connection with the sprawling ‘Feeding Our Future’ Federal fraud investigation…

American Thinker: No one is asking the communities most affected by crime what they think. – Let me ask you this question. – When was the last time you witnessed a news team visit a neighborhood that has been experiencing criminal activity by illegal aliens and interview the residents about their thoughts on ICE?

Resist The Mainstream: Kansas lawmakers enacted sweeping restrictions on bathroom access and gender marker changes after overriding Democrat Governor Laura Kelly’s veto. – This marks a significant win for Republican leaders who argued the measure protects privacy and safety in government spaces…

Post Millennial: The FBI seeks to take over Nancy Guthrie’s case as Pima County Sheriff accused of letting ego get in the way of investigation – But the Guthrie family must request it. – In his spate of interviews with journalists and briefings, there have been conflicting reports as well as a feeling that the sheriff has been doing “damage control.”

Gateway Pundit: OBAMACARE FRAUD EXPOSED – Two Executives Were Sentenced to 20 YEARS For Their $233M Scam — They Used a Taxpayer-Funded Scheme to Buy an 80-Foot Yacht, Luxury Cars, and a Florida Keys Oceanfront Mansion. – Cory Lloyd of Stuart, Florida, and Steven Strong of Mansfield, Texas, were found guilty of running a years-long operation that preyed on tens of thousands of vulnerable Americans…

American Thinker: Here Is A Modest Proposal, “We’ll keep our dogs, beer, and bacon, and Islamists can leave.” – Islamists try to show dominance, and the left is going along, except that they picked the wrong issue. – One of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Islamist allies decided to assert dominance over our culture by calling for a ban on dogs.- The pushback was immediate, so they tried to play it off as a ‘joke.’…

Townhall: Seattle’s Socialist Barista Mayor Katie Wilson Showed Her Cards – Instead of focusing on governing, taxes, or cleaning up the city, she moved to classify the investigation of Somali fraudsters as “hate crimes,” vowed to ban grocery stores from leaving Seattle, and proposed a tax on companies with empty office buildings…

American Thinker: Structural Shifts in a Still-Dollarized World – The current state of de-dollarization resembles a long-term structural drift rather than a financial rupture; danger is not imminent, and the dollar remains at the center of global payments, funding, and trade. – More consequential than bilateral exchange rates are the structural changes occurring in financial infrastructure…

City Journal: Is Gender Medicine Diminishing Trust in Doctors? – A new poll confirms growing public skepticism of these practices, even “when deemed medically necessary.” – Its reported critical views on gender medicine are consistent with other recent polling. – Opposition to gender surgeries for minors (62% opposed versus 27% in support).- Puberty blockers (56% versus 33%)..

American Thinker: President Trump Is Not an Outlier on Climate — Green activists may be appalled by the Trump administration’s prioritizing economic growth, national security, and energy affordability over fighting climate change — but they don’t have the final word. – “COP30 ended with a whimper.” This was shown by Secretary-General Guterres when, in his late plea to the conference, he asked, “How much more must we suffer?” …

New York Times: How California Is Damaging Faith in Government – California’s go-slow approach to vote counting – California (supposedly) established its rules with the intention of maximizing voting access, but its system has failed. – Its benefits are close to nil, and turnout in California has fallen further behind the national average since the state changed its rules…

California Globe: What Will California Gas Prices Do in 2026? – When it comes to how much gasoline is going to cost in California this year, there are two not-so-encouraging conclusions we can reach. – 1. Price increases may not be as extreme as some have predicted, but they will be on top of what are already the highest prices in the continental United States…

Townhall: Gavin Newsom’s White House Dreams Take a Poll Dive – While he was off in Munich making boondoggle energy deals with foreign countries, Californians are signaling that he might want to pay more attention to what’s going on at home. – More California voters are now unhappy with Governor Gavin Newsom than at any point since 2024, according to a new poll. – This does not spell success for a future nationwide campaign.

American Thinker: A Firsthand Look at Maxine Waters, Up Close with Her Constituents – Congresswoman has been referred to by many names: Kerosene Maxine, Aunty Maxine, The Queen of South L.A., the Crazy Black Lady… – She lives it up in a ritzy mansion in Hancock Park, and she must have plenty of money, since she gives away hundreds of thousands at a time to her daughter, the campaign consultant…

February 18, 2026

Center Square: Congressional scrutiny is intensifying over alleged billions of dollars in welfare fraud in Minnesota, with House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan accusing state officials of assisting the scheme. – “They knew there was fraud because whistleblowers came forward and they just ignored it. In fact, it looks like they retaliated against them.”…

Post Millennial: Portland Antifa extremist Robert Jacob Hoopes has pleaded GUILTY to a brutal attack against an ICE agent. – On June 14, 2025, Hoopes breached the front door of the ICE facility on Macadam Avenue and threw a large rock at an ICE Special Response Team officer’s head within close range. – Hoopes, 25, faces up to 20 years in federal prison.

Western Journal: The Trump Administration Cancelled Visas for 100,000 Foreign Nationals With Criminal Backgrounds Since The President Took Office. – The figure is an all-time record. – Some of the criminals who got ejected from the United States had been arrested for pedophilia, repeated drunk driving, and assault…

The Federalist: Federalist’s CEO and cofounder Sean Davis, “Republicans worried about losing in the upcoming November midterms can bolster turnout by delivering on the promises they made to voters, including passing the SAVE America Act.”-“They can’t just show up, pass one bill, and play possum,” he continued. – “They need to actually start moving and passing laws to deliver on what they promised they would do.”

Fox News: The Democrats’ DHS shutdown halts the ICE oversight they demanded – A spokesperson for the DHS office of the inspector general said on Wednesday that most of its audits and inspections have had to be paused during the partial government shutdown, including many dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Gateway Pundit: “You’re Kidding Right?” – Karoline Leavitt Shreds CBS Reporter Suggesting Trump has Never Falsely Been Called Racist – The Democratic Party’s playbook for years has been to call Trump a racist. – Just this week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer claimed Trump and the GOP were trying to implement “Jim Crow 2.0” by trying to require voter ID and proof of citizenship…

Fox News: Colbert claimed that CBS’s Jasmine Crockett interview decline was motivated by Trump. – FCC Chair Carr noted the situation was a move to get more attention to Talarico, the outcome that the equal-time rule is designed to prevent. – “This was all about a political candidate trying to get attention and clicks, and the news media ran with it like lemmings.” – “They just ate it up.”

Red State: Democrats Are Plotting to Make a Circus Out of Trump’s State of the Union Address, Because of Course That’s What They Do – Expect a carnival-like atmosphere later this month, and bring some popcorn. Trump, however, will have the last laugh, because it will be him standing at the podium and not one of them…

Townhall: Some Democrats plan to boycott President Trump’s State of the Union address on February 24th. – Instead, they will stage a counter-rally on the National Mall, called the “People’s State of the Union,” where they intend to criticize Trump, his administration, and his record in office…

Washington Free Beacon: NYT Columnist Tom Friedman Plays His Readers for Fools, Yet Again – Friedman cited a phony Soros-PLO poll to smear Israel as an apartheid pariah state. – In not a single one of the columns reliant on Olmert does Friedman mention his source spent 16 months in prison after being convicted in a bribery and corruption scandal related to a Jerusalem construction project…

Fox News: A Grandmother tells Trump critics to ‘get off the man’s back’ during the White House Black History Month event. – After Trump invited Cook to say a few words at the event, she used the moment to defend him, urging critics to “get off the man’s back.” – “I love him, I don’t want to hear nothing you got to say about that racist stuff,” she said.

Washington Free Beacon: Mamdani Hires Three Founders of Muslim Group that Blamed Oct. 7 on ‘Israeli Apartheid Regime’ – The fourth founder of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York, anti-Semitic activist Linda Sarsour, took credit for Mamdani’s electoral victory. – Also this month, Mamdani replaced the executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism with a left-wing activist who has bashed Israel…

Sharyl Attkisson: James Comer and Clay Higgins House Committees are examining the FBI’s capabilities to track and apprehend those associated with the violent online network known as “764.” – “764 grooms, manipulates, and blackmails minors and is a serious and continuously evolving threat to children and families across the US…

Real Clear Markets: Inside the Black Box of Prescription Drug Pricing – In a new proposed PBM transparency rule, the Department of Labor has taken historic action to shine a light on PBM practices that inflate drug costs. – PBMs are now massive conglomerates, often vertically integrated with health plans, insurers, group purchasing organizations, retail pharmacy chains, and so on…

Geller Report: Iran Closes the Strait of Hormuz By Conducting Military Exercises With China and Russia – They are slaughtering their own people, and now we have this. – Witkoff and Kushner are being played. – It was not immediately clear whether Russian and Chinese ships had already joined the ongoing Iranian drill or were expected to participate in the coming days…

Townhall: President Trump Is Losing Patience With Iran, So the Regime Better Take Notice – A top advisor says Trump is reportedly close to ordering a military intervention against the Iranian regime. – Trump has threatened military action against Tehran multiple times over the past two months amid the regime’s brutal slaughter of protesters and shaky nuclear negotiations…

Breitbart: Zelensky Says Trump’s Approach to Negotiations ‘Is Not Fair,’ as Talks End in Switzerland – The two-day Ukraine War peace talks broke abruptly and apparently early on Wednesday morning, the second day’s session having lasted just two hours, amid remarks from both sides about how arduous progress had been so far…

Slay News: The U.S. Air Force is repainting Air Force One and other aircraft in the executive fleet using President Trump’s preferred red, white, and dark blue color palette. – The new scheme is replacing the light blue and white design that has defined the aircraft for more than six decades. – The updated scheme will also include a gold stripe, adding a fourth color to the new look…

Slay News: President Trump issued a sharp warning to British leaders this week after California Newsom signed a clean-energy memorandum with the U.K. during a high-profile European tour. – Trump called the partnership “inappropriate,” adding a blunt assessment of the arrangement: “The U.K.’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum.”…

Gateway Pundit: A New York City Board of Elections Worker Was Caught on Hidden Camera Admitting Non-Citizens REGISTER TO VOTE — “We Accept Anything That Comes Over the Counter” and “That’s Not My Job to Report – Conservative investigative journalist Muckraker just dropped a bombshell undercover video that should terrify every American concerned about election integrity…

American Conservative: The Trump Administration Is Serious About Western Civilization – Marco Rubio’s Munich speech reiterated and elaborated on a new paradigm for U.S.–European relations. – One aim was to reiterate that the White House is operating within a new, civilizational paradigm of U.S.–Europe relations, and to elaborate that paradigm…

Townhall: A Bloomberg Reporter Was Caught Giving Marco Rubio the Finger During His Presser With The Hungarian Prime Minister – They’re not meant to have a side, right? – Isn’t the media supposed to be impartial? – But we know that’s hogwash and ancient history at this point. – It’s not a shocking development, but it adds to the fact that the establishment media is a dying industry.

American Thinker: Is Marco Rubio eclipsing JD Vance? – Vance’s seemingly diminished role amid Rubio’s omnipresence seems to presage a change in their relative status. – I keep thinking of the relative status of JD Vance and Rubio today, versus their status during the presidential campaign and the beginning of Trump’s presidency. – Lately, the guy getting all the headlines isn’t JD Vance, but rather Marco Rubio…

National Pulse: The New Trump Task Force Captured Over 500 in The War on ‘ISIS of the Western Hemisphere.’ – The January 2026 operation spanned locations across the U.S., including border towns and cities such as San Diego, Miami, and Las Cruces. – The operation led to 507 arrests, 16 indictments, the seizure of over 1,100 pounds of narcotics, and the identification of 257 victims, including 27 children.

American Thinker: There is Ample Evidence to enact the SAVE Act – If there is a way to cheat, can there be any doubt that they will take it? – The issue comes down to this question: Regarding registering to vote, is the risk of vote fraud by illegal migrants sufficient to require proof of citizenship? If we answer this question incorrectly, what are the comparative consequences?

Post Millennial: The DOJ sues Harvard for withholding race-related admissions documents – The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, accuses Harvard of repeatedly delaying and narrowing its responses to federal documentation requests. – AG Pamela Bondi, “Under President Trump’s leadership, this department is demanding better from our nation’s educational institutions.”

Newsmax: Some GOP-Led States Are Following Trump in Targeting Environmental Regulations – The Alabama Legislature on Tuesday approved legislation backed by business groups that would prevent state agencies from setting restrictions on pollutants and hazardous substances exceeding those set by the federal government. – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and business groups supported the legislation…

Zero Hedge: Trump’s DOJ Blocked The Largest Copper, Gold, And Silver Extraction Site In The US Over Salmon, Sending Stock Tumbling – The DOJ argued yesterday that the EPA under Biden had correctly found that discharges from the mining operation would cause unacceptable adverse effects on salmon fisheries.

Slay News: New evidence emerged revealing that convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein operated as a power broker for the World Economic Forum to connect globalist elites and set up meetings. – Epstein publicly claimed to “hate” the WEF, but privately, he leveraged it, according to recently unsealed emails.

Slay News: Officials have launched a sweeping new investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s remote New Mexico compound after new allegations emerged in files released by the DOJ that suggested murdered victims may have been buried on land surrounding the property. – The probe into Epstein’s Zorro Ranch could expose some of the darkest allegations yet tied to the disgraced financier’s criminal network.

Cypher News: It May Be An Unpopular Opinion, But I’m Sick And Tired Of All The Epstein Drama – Clearly, Epstein was a dirtbag. – Women and minors were victimized an powerful creeps moved in his orbit. – But if your name appears in this powerful, rich guy’s files, that alone doesn’t make you a criminal or a pervert. – Wealthy people have massive networks, right, and attend events, fundraisers, conferences, and parties all the time…

American Wire News: Activist Defense attorney MarQuetta Clayton, with aspirations for higher office, wound up triggering a mistrial for alleged Antifa terrorists in Texas over her t-shirt. – Judge Pittman became aware of the images on the shirt, depicting Shirley Chisolm, Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights movement-related images, after Clayton had been questioning the panel for over 20 minutes…

Resist The Mainstream: A Teen Miraculously Survives An Unprovoked Valentine’s Day Daytona Beach Boardwalk Attack – Authorities arrested Jermaine Lynn Long on felony aggravated battery charges, who had been released from jail just four days before the incident, following separate charges in January for aggravated assault involving two men…

New York Post: The hero bystander who stopped the trans dad ice rink shooter, Robert Dorgan, described the miracle moment that spared lives. – “As soon as I saw a clear path, I got on the third-level step, and he was on the one and a half, and I just jumped across and went for the gun. – “And what happened was, my hand got caught in the sliding chamber, effectively jamming the weapon…

Geller Report: ISLAM IN AMERICA – You cannot peacefully coexist with those who openly seek your destruction. – Muslim daily prayer in Dearmorn, Michigan: “Oh Allah, kill every Jew, Christian, and American.” – American Imams tell their congregants what to do; “As we’re here living in the U.S., what is our role now? Make Jihad against them. – It is our physical Jihad duty to fight the entire earth.”

Daily Wire: This Manhattan Hospital Shuttered Its Youth Gender Procedure Clinic After Trump Moved To Pull Funding – Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, which has offered gender procedures for children since at least 2020, cited the “current regulatory environment,” along with the “recent departure” of its medical director, for its “difficult decision to discontinue its Transgender Youth Health Program…

Gateway Pundit: A Republican County Commissioner Candidate’s Home in Charlotte Was Targeted in Horrific Drive-By Shooting – According to early reports, 7–10 shots were fired toward the Huntersville residence of Mecklenburg County Commission candidate Aaron Marin while he was inside with his wife and their two young sons. – Marin’s young children had been playing out in the driveway just a short time before the gunfire erupted…

American Thinker: The New Republic’s Editor, Michael Tomasky, Advice To His Party Is Completely Disconnected From Reality – My mind was blown reading it. – The cognitive dissonance was dizzying. – He really does think Dems are pure as the driven snow with nothing but good intentions, and gosh darn it, they’re just not fighting hard enough, nor have they fought hard enough in the past.

American Thinker: Is That Insane, Or Us That Just California? – US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country, traveling thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending up in California, because, according to Newsom, oil is bad. – Shipments on the circuitous route are increasing. – California imported more gasoline in November than ever before and the lengthy journey adds another layer of cost to California’s already expensive gasoline market…

Townhall: Detroit Police Officers That Reached Out to Border Patrol for Help Could Lose Their Badges. – In a Board of Police Commissioners’ meeting on Thursday, Feb. 12, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison said that under policy, officers are prohibited from contacting federal agents for translation services. – Bettison says the calls resulted in the individuals being detained by federal agents.

American Thinker: Europe’s Civilizational War Will Be Bloody – It seems as if every month, a new story comes out of Britain warning about the likelihood of future civil war. Retired colonel Richard Kemp recently gave a television interview during which he warned that the “Islamification” of the United Kingdom would lead to “inevitable conflict.” – Several British academics have argued the same point…

Powerline: A Man In Bull – The Washington Free Beacon published two intensely reported investigative stories on Maryland Governor Wes Moore’s background. They expose Moore as a BS artist in the first degree. – We already knew this much, as Kerr mentioned in the first story, where Moore claimed to have been inducted into the Maryland College Football Hall of Fame…

Epoch Times: California Plans to Sue the Trump Administration Over the Revised Child Vaccine Guidelines, according to AG Bonta – Connecticut Attorney General William Tong indicated his state may join California in the filing. – Bonta did not specify when the state might file or whether it would be a multi-state filing…

Zero Hedge: Big Tech Turns To Uranium Generated PowerAs Data Center Power Demand Soars – “It’s coming. You’ve seen it with automakers. These tech companies are under an obligation to ensure the hundreds of billions that they are investing in the data centres are going to be powered,” NexGen Energy’s CEO Leigh Curyer said at a Melbourne Mining Club luncheon on Wednesday…

Zero Hedge: The US threatens, once again, to quit the International Energy Agency, created in the aftermath of the 1970s Arab oil embargo, if it doesn’t return to forecasting energy demand without strongly promoting green energy. – “It was a fabulous international data recording agency focused on big energy issues, and we’re all in on that,” U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said ahead of an IEA ministerial meeting this week.

Truth Based Media: The U.S. Beef Industry Is In Crisis – Despite soaring beef prices, many cattle producers say their profits remain razor-thin due to skyrocketing expenses for feed, labor, equipment, and land. – The U.S. cattle herd has plummeted to 2 million head, the lowest level since 1952, driving ground beef prices to a record $6.10 per pound, a 50% increase since 2014.

Breitbart: Stephen Colbert Trashed CBS’s Response on The Pulled Talarico Interview, Saying ‘I Don’t Even Know What to Do With This Crap’ – CBS Dunked on Colbert – It Didn’t Pull Interview, But Just Said He Would Need to Have Crockett Too – This Lame-Duck Host Just Can’t Stop Whining…

One America News: Bayer’s Monsanto proposes $7.25B settlement to resolve decades of lawsuits related to its Roundup weedkiller, causing non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer. – Bayer is attempting to find a “path out of litigation that has plagued the company since its $63 billion acquisition of Roundup in 2018. – If approved, the settlement would establish a long-term claims program with several defining features…

Zero Hedge: The Vatican will not be joining President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.” – The Vatican’s top diplomat argued Tuesday that the United Nations should be left to handle crises, and not a ‘private’ board with a one billion dollar buy-in…

February 17, 2026

Western Journal: President Trump Will Mark 250 Years of America with A Faith-Centered Jubilee on the National Mall – Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month, President Donald Trump said, “We’re inviting Americans from all across the country to come together on our National Mall to pray, to give thanks on Sunday, May 17th.”…

One America News: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has declined President Trump’s invitation to join President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” – Sheinbaum explained, saying, “Mexico recognizes Palestine as a state and maintains that any plan for the Middle East must include formal recognition of a Palestinian state.” – However, Sheinbaum will attend the meeting as an observer…

Trending Politics: The U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday arrested an 18-year-old man who was carrying a loaded shotgun and running toward the Capitol building. – He was wearing a tactical vest and had multiple rounds of ammunition on his person, police said. – The incident occurred just after noon at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, prompting a temporary closure of nearby streets and a heightened security response…

Zero Hedge: China’s Unprecedented Oil Stockpiling Sparks Questions If Beijing Is Preparing For War. – Almost four years ago, while the world was still busy recovering from the covid Pandemic and suffering under soaring inflation, as seemingly everything was suddenly in short supply and prices were soaring, China was busy stockpiling pretty much everything at an unprecedented pace…

American Spectator: Save the SAVE Act, Sunset the Filibuster – Stop being naïve Republicans! This parliamentary procedure is already doomed. – According to Pew Research, 76 percent of blacks and 82 percent of Hispanics spurn Schumer’s racial slurs and historical revisionism. Instead, they favor photo ID. So do 83 percent of Americans, 95 percent of Republicans, and even 71 percent of Democrats…

Just The News: Mamdani considering NYC property tax hike to plug budget gaps unless state leaders cooperate – NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani has issued an ultimatum to Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers: approve his plan to tax the rich to plug gaps in the city’s budget, or he’ll be forced to increase property taxes across the board.

Trending Politics: A Missouri judge ruled last week that Governor Mike Kehoe acted within his constitutional authority when he called the special legislative session that produced Missouri’s new congressional map. – Lawmakers used the August session to redraw district lines in a move designed to benefit Republicans…

Center Square: The House Committee on Education and Workforce launched an inquiry into California’s main public pension fund after it was exposed that it may have prioritized ESG goals at the expense of its fiduciary duty. – It involves CalPERS’ loss of 71% of the $468 million it invested in its “Clean Energy and Technology Fund” as the impetus for its action.

Trending Politics: Rumors are swirling that Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito may be weighing retirement, a move that could hand President Trump another opportunity to reshape SCOTUS. – Justice Alito will mark two decades on the bench this year. – Appointed in 2006, Alito is now the court’s second-oldest member and one of its most reliably conservative voices…

Daily Signal: AOC Exposes the Left’s Attack on Western Culture – This weekend, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed her contempt for the rich heritage of Western culture, and why the Right is correct to oppose her Marxist politics. – “Culture always changes,” AOC argued. “Culture, for the entire history of human civilization, has been a fluid, evolving thing that is a response to the conditions that we live in.”

California Globe: Representative Kevin Kiley Requests The GAO Report on Staggering Fraud in California – Here’s a short list of California’s fraud that the Globe has covered: Cannabis tax Fraud – $450 Million spent on a “Next Generation” 911 system that didn’t work – $55 billion in unemployment fraud – $37 billion spent homelessness with 337,000 homeless now living on California streets – $16 billion on the High Speed Rail train to nowhere – $8.6 billion in fraud in COVID-era relief…

California Globe: Why is Governor Newsom Giving $90 Million in Taxpayer Funds to Planned Parenthood? – The gals in pink and their payola made sure that it paid off handsomely. – The party-like atmosphere was memorialized on the Governor’s website, where lawmakers and Planned Parenthood representatives all wore pink, the color celebrating the birth of baby girls, ironically…

Daily Caller: Washington DC’s Water CEO David L. Gadis Oversaw $520 Million In DEI Contracts, Resulting In The Biggest Sewage Spill In US History – While hundreds of millions of gallons of raw sewage accumulated in its pipes, the DC’s Water and Sewer Authority focused on DEI and other left-wing priorities, resulting in this catastrophe…

American Spectator: AOC’s Big Comedy Show in Europe – Sold-out tickets, astonishment, and plenty of memes. – There are extensive studies on how to deal with stupidity. – Some argue that it’s best to keep idiots hidden to minimize their destructive capacity, while others maintain that it’s better to expose them so everyone understands what they are…

One America News: President Trump posted a tribute on Truth Social honoring the late Reverend Jesse Jackson, the renowned civil rights leader who passed away on Tuesday at age 84. – In the message, Trump described him as “a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts.’”

Epoch Times: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, is becoming the new acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. – Jim O’Neill recently left the government, leaving the CDC position vacant. – The NIH and CDC are both part of the Department of Health and Human Services, which is led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

New York Post: American and Iranian negotiators have hashed out “guiding principles” for an agreement during the second round of talks on Tehran’s nuclear program, according to Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. – “This does not mean that we can quickly reach a final agreement, but at least the path has begun.”

Breitbart: Iran Fired Live Missiles into the Vital Strait of Hormuz Oil Corridor and Disrupted Traffic as High-Stakes Nuclear Talks in Geneva Talks Begin — Rear Adm. Alireza Tangsiri, commander of the IRGC Navy, said Iran stands ready to shut down the waterway if ordered by senior leadership. – Khamenei escalated the rhetoric on Tuesday as talks proceeded…

Red State: New Yorkers awoke to the amplified Islamic Call to Prayer at 5 AM, and projected over neighborhoods that still carry the scars of September 11, 2001. – Many understand that culture never collapses all at once. It erodes. Quietly at first. Then loudly. – We all saw this coming. – Because we understand history, symbolism, and that culture never collapses all at once. It erodes. Quietly at first. Then loudly.

Zero Hedge: Democrats are scrambling to condemn Florida Rep. Randy Fine for his unapologetic defense of American pet ownership against radical Islamic demands to ban dogs as “unclean.” – The firestorm erupted after NY Muslim activist Nerdeen Kiswani declared, “Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets, they are unclean [“najis”].”

Newmax: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged the state to raise taxes on New York’s wealthiest residents and largest corporations, warning that his city is facing what he described as a looming fiscal crisis. – Calling higher taxes the preferred solution, Mamdani added, “The first path matches a structural crisis with a sustainable and fair solution.”…

Slay News: The U.S. military carried out a series of targeted airstrikes against vessels linked to drug-trafficking terrorist networks, eliminating 11 suspected narco-terrorists in an operation announced Tuesday by SOUTHCOM. – The strikes targeted three vessels operated by “designated terrorist organizations.” – Intelligence determined that they were actively engaged in narcotics trafficking along known smuggling routes…

One America News: Schumer hustles bill to put ‘Pride’ flag on same status level as U.S., military, POW/MIA flags. – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) can’t be troubled to negotiate in good faith to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), but when it comes to protecting the sanctimony of the LGBTQ+ “Pride” flag, it’s his top priority.

American Thinker: Poland’s Policy For Prosperity Equals Border Walls and ‘Not Welcome’ Prayer Mats – By fiercely defending its borders, Christian culture, and love for God, Poland has become an economic powerhouse with surging growth and near-full employment. – Their approach proves that national sovereignty and cultural preservation deliver both security and prosperity…

American Thinker: The Stalling of the SAVE America Act is Actually a Gift – If voted into law, it will put an end to most vote fraud and election irregularities in America. – The impasse on the SAVE America Act is a timely catalyst for ending the filibuster now. – The Democrat party is an obstructionist party, a lawless extraconstitutional party that is committed to sabotaging President Trump and his America First agenda…

Real Clear Politics: Virtually All Countries Support Voter Photo ID, So Why The Need For A Filibuster? – Voter ID is not controversial in this country, nor is it controversial in virtually any other country in the world. – If banning voter IDs is a hallmark of democracy, Democrats will need to start castigating virtually all the other countries in the world as anti-democratic nations…

Breitbart: Benjamin Hanil Song, the accused Antifa organizer behind the July 4, 2025, armed assault on the Prairieland ICE Detention Center, is expected to testify Tuesday. – Nine defendants stand trial in Fort Worth on federal charges ranging from attempted murder of a federal officer to providing material support to terrorists…

American Thinker: Kill The TV Drug Ads! – The NYT brought the issue of direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising back into the public square with its article, “Should Drug Companies Be Advertising to Consumers,” pointing out how misleading the ads can be. – Big Pharma spends “more than $10 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising, with the U.S. and New Zealand being the only countries that permit it…

American Thinker: Trump is scrapping Biden’s mileage mandates, which he correctly identified as “[harmful to] American consumers and business owners, along with finishing a regulatory cleanup – By the nature of the beast, Trump’s first year back in the White House required his administration to spend an inordinate amount of time identifying and undoing the damage left behind by the Biden administration…

American Thinker: The Trump Administration Stood Up So White Men Can Earn Green – From entertainment to academia to technology to medicine, the share of white men in key white-collar pathways fell dramatically between the early 2010s and mid-2020s due to a Woke, DEI agenda. – Trump responded on January 21, 2025, by signing an EO titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”

American Thinker: Homeowners need relief from oppressive capital gains taxes. – There clearly is a housing crisis, and government policy is primarily to blame. Restrictive zoning and land-use regulations, costly environmental reviews, rent controls, distortionary tax code subsidies, and plenty more federal, state, and local policies all play a part. – Nevertheless, a simple update to a neglected tax provision could make a big difference…

Western Journal: AOC’s Wealth Tax Proposal Gets Dismantled During The Munich Conference – Argentinian lawmaker Daiana Fernández Molero countered AOC’s belief that a wealth tax is a good thing. – “You have the recipe that many Latin American countries applied, many, many times, that is some relief for the short term, but ended up being a tragedy for the future,” she said…

Gatestone Institute: Have Certain Terrorists Been Getting a Pass In Germany? – So Germany, which intensely surveils citizens’ every word on the internet, does not have the faintest clue who might be behind their terrorist attacks. – German authorities appear to be hyper-focused on eliminating what they seem to see as political threats to their power instead of catching terrorists from the “left.”

One America News: Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old man convicted of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf course in September 2024, has filed an appeal challenging his conviction and his life sentence. – Routh filed the appeal in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, seeking a review by the U.S Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.

Daily Wire: The War Department’s civilian workforce decreased from 794,538 to 712,677 employees last year, resulting in a net reduction of 81,861 employees, about 10.3%. – “The goal was straightforward: eliminate redundancies and ensure the Department operates as a well-oiled machine for our warfighters,” a War Department official shared.

American Thinker: Elite Betrayal of the British People – Eight governments in a row have methodically restricted the British people’s ancient freedoms, above all, freedom of expression. – Speech codes, hate-crime legislation, and online regulation have created a climate of fear in which candid discussion of demographic change or cultural incompatibility is treated as “extremism.”…

Townhall: Did You See How the Left Is Spinning the Death of a Georgia Woman Hit by a Car Driven by an Illegal? – Oscar Vasquez Lopez, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, was pulled over by ICE. – Instead of complying, Lopez fled and crashed into the vehicle that Savannah teacher Linda Davis was driving, killing her. – That’s sad, of course, but it’s not the fault of ICE…

The Blaze: Newly revealed documents back Tucker Carlson, Roger Stone’s take that Nixon was undone by a ‘coup.’ – Shocking testimony reveals military leaders spied on Nixon to sabotage his efforts to end the Vietnam War. – This fills an important gap in the record of the Nixon era, and carries significance for our own.’ – Nixon believed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff opposed his foreign policy, including his goal of ending the Vietnam War…

Center Square: An investigation found that 70% of Shreveport’s accused killers have prior arrest records. – A deep dive into 2024-2025 cases finds repeat offenders running rampant on NW Louisiana streets. – The two men charged with the murder of Karter Martin had a long history of convictions, including kidnapping, narcotics, and weapons counts. Despite their criminal records, they were not in prison…

Resist The Mainstream, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, an Obama appointee, on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from re-detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national and alleged MS-13 gang member, citing the expiration of his 90-day detention period and the government’s lack of a viable deportation plan. – He was returned to the U.S. in June to face human smuggling charges in Tennessee…

American Thinker: What Can California Teach Us about Election Fraud? – First, I looked at the California Election Code: 1. To register to vote, a person fills out a registration form and signs that the information is accurate, with no actual proof of accuracy or citizenship. 2. If the voter does not list a place of birth on the registration form, the registration is still considered valid. – 3…

Geller Report: CALIFORNIA VOTER FRAUD A New Nick Shirley Report Highlights Dogs Voting, Dead Voters, 125-Year-Old Registrations, and 100+ Voters Registered At One Home – Shirley argues that California’s lack of voter ID requirements, extended voting periods, and outdated voter rolls create conditions ripe for fraud. – State officials, however, have consistently maintained that its safeguards are adequate…

Amac US: Will No DemocratS Appear On The November Ballot for California Governor? – 16 years ago, the state exchanged its partisan primaries for a single June “jungle” primary with every candidate appearing on the same ballot. – The two candidates with the most votes then compete against one another in the November general election. – There are 12 in the race, 9 Democrats and 3 Republicans, with most of the polls showing the two GOP candidates leading the pack…

Washington Free Beacon: A Biden Official Who Created ‘Disinformation’ Board Appointed as FISA Court Adviser, Sparking Concern From Republican Senators – Jennifer Daskal helped select the board’s controversial director, Nina Jankowicz, and will now advise judges on foreign surveillance legal issues…

Daily Wire: “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert is furious that CBS decided not to air an interview he did with Texas representative James Talarico (D) due to “equal time” laws, which require broadcast networks and radio stations to give equal time to all candidates in an election. – Colbert’s show is canceled and will air its last episode in May.

Liberty Daily: The Ozone Fix That Backfired – More than 335,000 tons of TFA have fallen to Earth since 2000. – This “forever chemical” pollution stems from ozone-friendly refrigerant replacements. – The substitutes that healed the ozone layer have been quietly creating a new, pervasive pollution problem with no easy fix. – This is the chemical crisis nobody predicted…

USA Today: The NASA Mars rover found new clues pointing to probable past life on Mars – Nearly a year ago, Curiosity came across a rock that contained signs of organic material known as fatty acids that on Earth are most often produced by living organisms…

February 16, 2026

Fox News: Senate Majority Leader John Thune guarantees voter ID bill will hit the Senate despite Schumer and Democrat opposition, saying. ‘We will have a vote.’ – Thune says Republicans will make Democrats ‘defend’ opposition to citizenship requirements as midterms approach. – But nothing was said of a Standing Filibuster…

New York Post: President Trump slammed AOC and Newsom on Monday for speaking at the Munich Security Conference, describing their appearances at the high-profile European forum as a “bad look” for the US. – “I watched AOC answering questions in Munich.” – “This was not a good look for the United States,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One…

American Spectator: Certain Democrat politicians seeking their party’s presidential nomination wandered abroad to pay obeisance to European elites and spout bile at their domestic political enemies. – Those various climate summits at whatever posh digs the Euros could situate have attracted Democrat politicians for years. – AOC is being ruthlessly mocked after claiming action can’t be taken against Venezuela because it’s “below the equator.”

Red State: Police Identified The Pawtucket Hockey Game Shooter as A Transgender Father of Three Who Went by ‘Roberta’ – This seems to be the latest in a disturbing trend of mass shootings being committed by transgender individuals. – Three people, including the shooter, have died, and three more were hospitalized.

Western Journal: ICE agents are detaining and arresting supposed “legal observers” who use their vehicles to follow agents during federal immigration enforcement operations. – ICE is reportedly detaining and arresting thousands of Minnesota protestors under Title 18, Section 111 of the US Code, which prohibits citizens from interfering with a federal officer conducting official duties…

Just The News: Trump’s team is bolstering security to neutralize drone attacks – Sebastian Gorka, the Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, has been presiding over a task force designed to create a counter-drone strategy to protect the homeland based on an executive order Trump signed earlier in his second presidency. – It includes an “America-first” approach to contracting…

American Spectator: Go South, Young Man, Go South – The blue state exodus marches on. – People voted with their feet, fleeing Big Government states to ones where government, relatively speaking, leaves you alone, largely manifested in lower taxation. – I compared the three largest very liberal states, California, New York, and Illinois, with three large states considered generally conservative, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina…

Rick de la Torre: California is walking down the same path Cuba did. – Cuba gutted its refining capacity and never recovered. – California is making it nearly impossible for oil and gas companies to operate. – They require a gas blend no other state makes, charge the nation’s highest gas taxes, and impose crushing regulations like cap and trade and the Low Carbon Fuel Standard…

California Globe: Governor Newsom’s 2026 Budget has New Homeless Agencies & Increases Homeless Spending – Wasn’t $37 Billion Enough? – Newsom vetoed two bills in 2024 that would have created actual transparency and auditing for the tens of billions that was spent and lost on homeless programs. One bill would have required annual reporting on state-run homelessness programs, and the other…

New York Post: Tehran’s deputy foreign minister said they are ready to discuss the nuclear program if the US is prepared to ease sanctions. – Takht-Ravanchi didn’t specify how much relief Iran would expect to make concessions on its atomic program. – Trump has refused to rule out military force if a deal is not reached…

Geller Report: OVER A MILLION People March in Solidarity with Iran Protesters – The largest gatherings took place in Toronto, Los Angeles, and Munich, the three cities highlighted in exiled prince Prince Reza Pahlavi’s calls for solidarity rallies, where almost one million demonstrated. – The Munich crowd was estimated to be around 250,000 people, while the Toronto and Los Angeles rallies each drew 350,000 people…

Zero Hedge: Ukraine’s Former Energy Minister Charged With Money Laundering – Months after Ukraine was shaken by a sweeping corruption probe into state nuclear giant Energoatom, former Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko has now been formally charged. – Authorities detained him while he was allegedly attempting to leave the country…

Slay News: Eleven individuals have been charged in a marriage fraud conspiracy tied to a Chinese transnational criminal organization that allegedly recruited U.S. Navy service members to enter sham marriages with Chinese nationals, securing immigration benefits and gaining physical access to American military installations. – The three-count indictment describes a scheme operating from March 2024 through February 2025.

PJ Media: The Trump Administration Officially Kills DEI at the FAA – Last year’s deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport, which killed all 67 people, was a wake-up call that many on the left refused to hear. – ATC whistleblowers confirmed that the FAA’s obsession with DEI initiatives led to a shortage of qualified personnel. – These disastrous policies began under Obama, were reversed during Trump’s first term, but roared back under Biden…

Slay News: The Trump Admin Now Denying 80% of Asylum Claims as Immigration Courts Clear The Massive Backlog – Deportations have exceeded 30,000 per month since Trump returned to office, including 38,215 removals in December, nearly double the 19,265 deported in December 2023. – Border encounters have also dropped sharply…

Regarding Presidents’ Day: George Washington was the first American to be honored with a national holiday. – Unfortunately, February 22 was last observed as a holiday in honor of Washington in 1970. – By law, the holiday honoring Washington’s birthday was moved to the third Monday of February and is now observed as Presidents’ Day. – As Seinfeld was a show about nothing, Presidents Day is a holiday about nothing, with the possible exception of retail shopping…

American Thinker: The Crisis Is That Nobody Trusts Elections – The issue is whether Americans trust the legitimacy of the system itself. – It’s not about any specific election, but about the electoral process as a whole. – At its core, the SAVE America Act affirms a principle that should be uncontroversial: only U.S. citizens should vote in U.S. elections, and states should take reasonable steps to verify eligibility…

American Thinker: A Tipping Point Is Upon Us – If the Senate GOP caves, and the SAVE Act goes down in flames, so does America, because it will determine whether or not Americans have any say in their government in the future. – Simply put, the SAVE Act, if it passes and is signed into law, ensures honest elections and vote tallies that the citizenry can believe in and accept…

America First Report: Chuck Schumer Vows to Fight The Supposed ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Bill That 83% of Americans Support – During an appearance on “State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash,” Schumer stressed his caucus will “not let” the legislation reach President Donald Trump’s desk and suggested Republicans only support it because they do not want poor people and minorities to vote…

Just The News: Border Czar Tom Homan on Monday confirmed that a small federal security force would remain in Minnesota after he announced a drawdown of federal operations in the state. – A key development for the drawdown was Homan’s negotiations of agreements with local law enforcement to cooperate with immigration authorities, especially on the detention of violent illegal aliens…

Slay News: Former President Barack Obama delivered his most direct public endorsement yet of demonstrations opposing federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis and St. Paul during a Saturday interview with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen. – He framed the protests as a patriotic defense of American values while condemning federal operations in Minnesota as unlawful and unaccountable…

Center For Immigration Studies: Trump Has the Tools He Needs to Control Illegal Immigration – Workplace audits, not street arrests, will have the most effect. – When Congress offered amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens in 1986, it also made it a crime for employers to knowingly hire aliens who were either here illegally or lacked work authorization. To enforce that mandate, Congress required employers to review the identification documents of new hires…

American Thinker: Democrats go on the offensive amid Trump’s de-escalation moves – Trump extended courtesy by de-escalating to preserve peace, so Democrats mistake it for weakness, doubling down on disruption. – This incident isn’t isolated; it spotlights one of the most glaring traits of modern progressives: their unyielding hypocrisy.- By mid-February 2026, the Trump administration is proving it listens to the people and delivers results…

American Thinker: Yes, Leftists are ‘Evil.’ – Here’s How They Got That Way and Why You’ll Never Change Them – Soviet defector and ex-KGB man Yuri Bezmenov warned decades ago about the ideologues we call “leftists.” “You cannot change their mind, because they are programmed that way.” – Psychologist Nicolai Sennels, who worked with delinquents, explained that what’s instilled into a kid during his first seven years can become almost unchangeable…

Daily Wire: The Anti-ICE Slideshow That Was Given To A Minnesota Middle School Geography Class – Students were taught that ICE agents engage in “tricky & violent tactics.” – Materials obtained by Defending Education show that the students at Hermantown Community School were given a highly politicized lesson on illegal immigration and ICE operations. – The materials included a PowerPoint that adopted left-wing talking points…

New York Post: President Trump said Monday that those responsible for kidnapping Nancy Guthrie must release her unharmed or they will face the “most severe” federal penalties. – In a brief phone interview, Trump said he would want the Justice Department to seek the death penalty if the 84-year-old mother of NBC “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie is killed.

Fox News: President Trump says US helicopter pilots were ‘hit pretty bad in the legs’ when they landed during the Maduro capture mission – Trump visited Fort Bragg on Friday to honor special operations forces involved in Operation Absolute Resolve that captured Venezuelan leader. – Despite the injuries, Trump portrayed the raid as a stunning display of U.S. military dominance, showing what the U.S. military is capable of…

California Globe: ‘Gavin Newsom the Arrogant’ is also ‘Newsom the Destructive.’ – His scandals are a part of a ‘broader trend’ in Sacramento – The California Governor who blew $450 Million on a “Next Generation” 911 system that didn’t work thinks he can magically produce a laughingstock high speed rail system, build an unnecessary and impossible Delta tunnel water conveyance system, solve elusive climate change, and house California’s drug-addicted homeless population…

Zero Hedge: Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison said Thursday that officers purportedly collaborating with federal immigration agents will be held “accountable,” as the city defends its so-called “welcoming” status. – Bettison made the comments during a hearing with the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners regarding two incidents, one on Dec. 16th and another on Feb. 9th…

American Thinker: The Shallow AOC Lost It In Munich – She demonstrates the concerning fact that the entire Democrat party is no longer a serious political organization made up of serious people. – This is a member of the House, and she couldn’t utter a thoughtful idea about Taiwan, which has been talked about as a potential presidential candidate, and was unable to discuss an important foreign policy issue…

The Federalist: Rooting Against Anti-American Olympians Is The Patriotic Thing To Do – U.S. athletes who use the Olympics as a platform to thumb their noses at America deserve nothing but scorn and defeat. – Team USA skiers Hunter Hess and Chris Lillis talked about how “hard” it is to watch federal law be enforced as they play games at an event surrounded by maximum security…

Post Millennial: Spokane Mayor Lisa Brown proposed redirecting $100,000 from the Spokane PD’s public outreach budget to fund assistance programs for immigrant/refugee families when someone is arrested, detained, or deported by federal immigration agencies. – The funding would go to the Spokane Immigrant Rights Coalition, a network of nearly a dozen local leftist immigrant and refugee organizations…

I&I/TIPP Poll: Who Leads In 2028 Presidential Race And In 2026 Midterm Elections? – The decider in the coming election will likely be independents: They lean 37% to Democratic control, and 32% to Republican control. – But a whopping 31% of independents still haven’t made up their minds, so Republicans have their work cut out for them…

InfoWars: In its first public update for more than a month, DOGE declared that over the previous four weeks, federal agencies had “terminated or descoped” 273 contracts with a value of $5.1 billion and savings of $1.4 billion. – The DOGE website has not been updated this year, but its efforts are claimed to have led to savings of $215 billion, or $1,335 per taxpayer.

American Thinker: There’s Only One Greenhouse Gas, And It Isn’t CO2 – Technically speaking, there is no such thing as a greenhouse gas at all, although there is one reflective surface in the sky.- The real problem is reflectivity, and CO2 is not reflective. – There are no greenhouse gases because gases do not create reflective surfaces. – It’s time to change the language because the left is very good at perverting words…

Economic Collapse Report: America’s richest citizens are quietly transforming their estates into military-grade compounds equipped with underground bunkers, biometric security systems, and private armed forces. – So what are they preparing for? – They are not hoping for catastrophe, but simply refusing to be vulnerable. We would be wise to pay attention to what their actions reveal about the future they see coming.

February 15, 2026

Daily Wire: President Trump announced Sunday that member states of his recently formed Board of Peace have pledged more than $5 billion toward humanitarian and reconstruction efforts in Gaza. – In addition to financial pledges, participating nations have committed personnel to both an International Stabilization Force and local police units. – Trump ratified the board’s charter during a ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos…

Breitbart: Representative Barry Moore, the Trump-endorsed candidate for Alabama’s opening U.S. Senate seat, blasted Democrat senators for fighting the SAVE America Act, accusing them of needing “outsiders” to maintain their power. – He referenced a Pew survey showing that voter ID is overwhelmingly popular amongst all Americans of different ethnic backgrounds. – He noted that even CNN shared those statistics…

Just The News: Democrat presidential hopefuls turn the decades-old Munich Security Conference into an anti-Trump soapbox – Those attending included: California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego. – They fanned out across panels, workshops, private meetings, and side events. – None have officially declared, but their goal was clear…

Daily Wire: Hillary Clinton Admits Immigration Has Been ‘Disruptive And Destabilizing’ – Hillary says migration “went too far” and now calls for “secure borders” after a decade of attacks on President Trump’s border policy. – Her remarks show a notable shift from many of Clinton’s recent positions on immigration…

Resist The Mainstream: A partial government shutdown is now directly affecting air travelers after funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expired at midnight Saturday, forcing thousands of Transportation Security Administration agents to work without pay. – Unlike last year’s 43-day government shutdown, this one is limited to DHS.

New York Post: AG Pam Bondi released a list of 300 politicians and prominent people named in the Epstein files, telling Congress that all of the documents the DOJ was required to reveal have been made public. – Among the names are President Trump, Barack and Michelle Obama, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Bill Cosby, Robert De Niro, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jay Z, and Kim Kardashian…

American Greatness: How Deep Is the Deep State? – The deep state resists exposure, but not forever. – Patience, persistence, and power may yet cauterize the Leviathan. – I suspect that the difficulty in surveying the deep state is not its depth but its extent. That is, I suspect that its roots are shallow while its area is both indefinitely large and protean…

American Thinker: Truth Bombs In Munich – We are fortunate in America to have stalwarts like V.P. Vance and Secretary Rubio. – These two articulate, fearless figures took to the stage at the Munich Security Conference in 2025 and 2026 to challenge the complacency of global elites and expose the flaws in the Western alliance and international institutions…

Daily Wire: Secretary of State Marco Rubio called “troubling” a report by five European allies blaming Russia for killing late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny using a toxin from poison dart frogs. – “We obviously are aware of the report. It’s a troubling report. We’re aware of that case of Mr. Navalny and certainly… we don’t have any reason to question it.”

Zero Hedge: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Soberly Acknowledged The Challenges Posed By Trump 2.0 – “It’s now more difficult for Russia to advance its foreign policy goals due to the US’ renewed attempt to dominate the global economy through coercion and force, but I still believe that BRICS will play a pivotal role in furthering the global systemic transition to multipolarity.”

Discern Report: Most Americans Want Voter ID, But Democrats Don’t Care – Pew and Gallup surveys found that, regardless of party or ethnicity, American citizens want elections to be protected from manipulation through mass illegal immigration. – A Pew survey from August 2025 found that 83% of Americans favor requiring all voters to show government-issued photo ID to vote…

Zero Hedge: Senator John Fetterman has once again set himself apart from the radical elements in his party by admitting that his own parents support President Trump, and using that as a reason to reject the Democrats’ over-the-top attacks on MAGA voters. – Fetterman, “I’m not defending the president, but I will say he hasn’t defied a single court order yet…

American Thinker: We Are Watching The Founding Fathers’ Fatal Oversight Playing Itself Out Right In Front of Us – The Republican weakness on the SAVE Act, which a huge majority of Americans support, shows how the Founders’ failure to require term limits is killing America. – A critical element of the Roman Republic’s success was term limits, adopted specifically to prevent an individual from accumulating too much power…

American Thinker: European censorship is a threat to American free speech, and it’s about time we in America did something about this. – The findings by the Judiciary Committee clearly show that EU leaders have been pressuring American Big Tech platforms like Google, Meta, TikTok, Twitter, and LinkedIn to censor content, including content they knew to be true, since at least 2015…

California Globe: California’s High Gas Prices and Refinery Closures Have Real Consequences – While Gavin Newsom is playing International Man of Mystery in Germany at a ‘high-profile European gathering.’ – Gasoline prices in California climbed approximately 40 cents per gallon in the past 14 days. In the Northern part of the state, farmers and ranchers are feeling the increase in gas and diesel…

February 14, 2026

Washington Examiner: Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Munich, Germany, on Saturday to rally against Iran‘s regime and urge President Trump to intervene militarily. – Protesters congregated in Munich as a security conference featuring top Trump administration officials and European leaders takes place in the city this weekend…

Breitbart: Reaching an Iran Deal ‘Difficult to Impossible,’ Negotiators Tell Trump as He Calls Regime Change The ‘Best Outcome’ – Trump asked envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner the odds of reaching an agreement with the Islamic Republic. – They said “history shows the West has never been able to secure a durable, positive deal with Iran’s rulers, but pledged to continue negotiations while holding a firm line…

One America News: President Trump is sending the world’s largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East as he remarked that regime change might be “the best thing” amid rising tensions with Iran. – The USS Gerald R. Ford will be joining the USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group, including missile-guided destroyers that have been in the U.S. Central Command area for two weeks…

Breitbart: Marco Rubio Urges Europe to Save Itself with a High-Tech, Low-Migration Strategy – “We want allies who are proud of their culture and can defend it,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a meeting of European politicians, generals, media, and influencers in Germany on Valentine’s Day…

One America News: DHS enters a partial shutdown as Congress failed to agree on a funding bill before the weekend. – Thursday’s Senate vote was largely split along party lines in a 52-47 vote, with Senator John Fetterman (D-Penn.) being the only Democrat to back the bill with Republicans.

Patriot TV: ICE to Build Eight Mega-Centers to House Tens of Thousands of Illegals Being Prepared for Deportation – This ambitious infrastructure overhaul could nearly triple its detention capacity as the Trump administration accelerates enforcement operations against illegal aliens with final deportation orders…

One America News: Secretary of State Marco Rubio reassured European allies at a national security conference in Munich, Germany, that the U.S. cares “deeply” about the transatlantic alliance, emphasizing shared Western values. – Rubio, “The US’s destiny is and always will be intertwined” with Europe’s, because the fate of Europe will never be irrelevant to our own.”

Daily Wire: The U.S. military conducted another lethal strike on Friday against a suspected drug‑smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, killing three. – This is the latest in a concerted campaign under Operation Southern Spear to disrupt narcotics trafficking networks that transport deadly drugs toward the United States and marks the fourth publicly disclosed operation in 2026.

Slay News: A doctor who was present during Jeffrey Epstein’s post-mortem declared that the child predator did not die of “suicide” because he was “strangled.” – Dr. Michael Baden, the former New York City chief medical examiner who observed the autopsy on behalf of Epstein’s family, is renewing calls for a full investigation into the convicted sex offender’s death…

Daily Wire: A Study Shows The Big Four News Apps Still Love Left-Wing Media – Research from the Media Research Center examining the “Big 4 News Apps” found that left-leaning outlets Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN, and Yahoo News dominate coverage, while right-leaning outlets are routinely sidelined or completely buried. – Looking at 106 days of data since Halloween…

Slay News: Japan has resumed operations at the world’s largest nuclear power facility, marking a pivotal step in the nation’s return to nuclear energy. – The restart occurred at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata Prefecture, a seven-reactor site with a total generating capacity of 8.2 gigawatts, enough electricity to power millions of homes…

Zero Hedge: Which US States Are Seeing Incomes Rise The Fastest, And The Slowest? – States like Colorado posted outsized gains, while Georgia’s expanding EV industry brought billions in investment and rising paychecks. – From Top To Bottom, Colorado +46.9% – Georgia +43.4% – Maine +36.3% – Montana +36.1% – Tennessee +34.0% – Rhode Island +31.6%…

Zero Hedge: “A Billion Dollar Movie In One Prompt” As The AI Disruption Crosshairs Hone In On Hollywood Studios – On Friday, Axios reported that the Walt Disney Company sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging that the Chinese tech firm has been infringing on its films to develop Seedance 2.0 without compensation. – “We believe these clips are just the tip of the iceberg, shocking, considering Seedance has only been available for a few days.”

Jonathan Turley: Democrats Reverse Gold Rush – From boondoggle projects to reparations, California politicians continue to rack up new spending projects despite a soaring deficit and shrinking tax base. – Rather than exercising fiscal restraint, they are pushing through a tax that takes 5% of the wealth of any billionaires left in the state. – Some suggest the stat has already cost over a $trillion in lost investments and business…

Epoch Times: Automakers Pump The Brakes on EV Investment as Federal Subsidies Stop – Executives from GM, Ford, Volkswagen, Mercedes, and Volvo pledged that their fleets would be 100% electric within a decade. – Energy analyst Robert Bryce, “EVs will only grow very slowly from here on out due to a saturated market and lack of consumer demand.”…

The Federalist: Here Are The Worst People Of The Week – Chuck ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Schumer – RINO on the Loose Murkowski – ‘Money and Power’ Mitch – Andy Beshear’s Trans Gospel – Shri Law – Eric Swalwell’s Lie-Ridden Anti-ICE Lecture – AOC on Foreign Policy (Yes, I Laughed, Too) – ‘Bi-Person’ Breezy Johnson…

Breitbart: Secretary of State, Marco Rubio Threw Down on The Globalists at Munich Security Conference – Rubio rejected the idea that mass migration is a “fringe concern of little consequence,” saying it represents a “crisis. – “Controlling who and how many people enter our countries, this is not an expression of xenophobia, it is not hate, it is a fundamental act of national sovereignty…

Trending Politics: WATCH, Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a standing ovation at the Munich Security Conference following a forceful speech that focused on the dangers of illegal immigration, Christian revival, and maintaining strong ties between the US and Europe. – Rubio began by recalling the Berlin Wall’s erection and the Cuban Missile Crisis…

Gatestone Institute: Iran’s Strategy – Iran’s regime has refined its tactics, learned its opponents’ weaknesses, and mastered the art of procedural diplomacy. – If Iran can drag negotiations across months and years, it no doubt hopes to reach a moment when U.S. pressure weakens, priorities shift, or its leadership changes.

American Thinker: Trump didn’t declare defeat in Minneapolis, he just switched to a smarter strategy – He took a pragmatic look at the current board and adjusted the pieces so that he can win the midterm. – Significantly, Trump understands that the most powerful force in America today isn’t the government; it’s the media. – This is true even though several outlets are in financial trouble and the public despises them all…

American Thinker: An ABC News online headline falsely suggested that Trump called Lindsey Vonn ‘a loser.’ – You can’t hate the media enough – This is repulsive, indeed breathtaking misdirection and malfeasance, even for the Satanic fake news media to which we have become accustomed and inured. – Trump did not denigrate Lindsey; he was referring to young freestyle halfpipe skier Hunter Hess, who recently stated that, due to ICE actions, etc., he is not particularly proud to represent the U.S…

American Thinker: Why haven’t there been protests at Mayorkas’s house? – After all, he was the architect of the immigration disaster plaguing America, and he implemented his plan during both Obama’s and Biden’s terms. – Mayorkas got caught in July of 2010, when he was in charge of Obama’s USCIS, because of a memo on how to do an end-run around Congress. – And the press just went along with it…

Just The News: Christopher Wray’s FBI opened 1,200 ‘assessments’ of sensitive figures like politicians, journalists, and clergy – “Assessments” were created in 2008 as a special investigative tool for the FBI that required no factual predicate to launch and permitted agents to use a wide range of investigative techniques…

Slay News: New research suggests that the relationship between personality and political beliefs in the United States varies significantly by age, with higher levels of neuroticism associated with liberal ideology among younger Americans but not among older generations. – The findings come as neuroticism, a personality trait linked to anxiety, sadness, and irritability, appears to be on the rise…

Zero Hedge: California Governor Gavin Newsom spoke at the Munich Security Conference earlier on Friday, telling European elites that President Trump is “temporary” and will be gone within three years. – Newsom, noticeably angered by Trump’s push for deregulation and the rollback of climate policy, lashed out at the president…

Slay News: North Korean authorities executed teenagers for watching South Korea’s hit television series “Squid Game” and listening to K-pop music, a chilling new report has revealed. – The executions were revealed in testimony cited by human rights researchers at Amnesty International…

Powerline: The Week in Pictures, Bugs Bunny Halftime Edition – I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of all Super Bowl halftime shows until we can figure out what the hell is going on. – Trump needs to appoint a bipartisan commission of inquiry chaired by Bugs Bunny, with full subpoena power over Bad Bunny, Good Bunny, and Okay Bunny…

Post Millennial: Pima County Sheriff says no arrests were made after 3 were detained after a search warrant was executed in the Nancy Guthrie case – The New York Post reported that the detainees are two men and one of their mothers. – This comes hours after it was revealed that DNA collected from the Guthrie home was able to be identified as belonging neither to Guthrie nor those close to her…

Epoch Times: Trump said he plans to sign an executive order requiring voter ID for midterm elections this year, as the SAVE Act remained on life support in the Senate.- “Even Democrat Voters agree, 85 percent, that there should be Voter I.D.” – If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted…

Slay News: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is again sounding the alarm over America’s growing national debt, warning that the US faces inevitable financial collapse unless AI and robotics dramatically transform the economy. – Musk said his concern centered on government waste and fraud, even as some reports indicated that broad staffing cuts affected critical personnel who later had to be rehired.

February 13, 2026

Gateway Pundit: Senator Susan Collins Backs SAVE Act With ONE CONDITION — The GOP Now Secures 51 Senate Votes with JD Vance On Board – Collins was concerned about provisions requiring voters to present proof of citizenship, such as passports or birth certificates, each time they cast a ballot. – However, the current House-passed version removed that requirement, instead allowing state-issued identification to suffice…

American Thinker: The SAVE America Act closes in on victory in the Senate – It’s already passed in the House, so if it passes in the Senate, much election-stealing will be a thing of the past. – Not surprisingly, 80% of the public, including a majority of Democrats, supports it. – After all, when you’ve got Sen. Susan Collins onboard, who could be opposed?…

Washington Free Beacon: Lower Inflation Keeps Surprising the Clueless Mainstream Media – Surveys show partisan divide on price expectations, so guess which side the press is on. – The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed annualized inflation dropping to 2.4% for the 12 months ending in January, down from 2.7% for the 12 months ending in December. – The press wrote it up as if it were a big surprise…

New York Post: 3 people were detained after a SWAT team descended on a home near Nancy Guthrie’s house – Acting on a tip, law enforcement executed a search warrant at a home about 2 miles from the missing grandma’s house and took two men, along with one of their mothers, into custody, according to a local police source. – A statement is expected, but there is no further information now…

Western Journal: Ultra High-Res Image of Bondi’s Notes Shows Deadly Dirt on Democrats Epstein Document Searches She Walked Into Hearing Ready to Use if Necessary – Bondi came prepared for a stunt show, particularly when the predictably obnoxious Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington got some of Epstein’s victims to show up for a photo op…

Zero Hedge: The Unsettling Truths The Epstein Files Reveal About Power And Privilege – What the Epstein files expose, above all, is the social and moral estrangement of American elites from the people they claim to govern. – Epstein was not merely a predator who gained access to power. – He was a node within a closed world of wealth, influence, and immunity…

PJ Media: Even CNN Admits That Democrats Are in Big Trouble – Back in 1999, conservative Democrats made up a sizable portion of the party, 26%, while just 5% called themselves “very liberal.” – Today, 21% of Democrats identify as very liberal, while conservative Democrats have nearly vanished, dropping to just 8%…

City Journal: Melania, Behind Closed Doors – This new film offers a window into the world of the First Lady. – Melania follows the First Lady through the 20 days before the second inauguration of her husband, President Trump. Within this narrow yet consequential window, the film offers both a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for Inauguration Day and a glimpse into Melania’s world. – A natural curator with an exacting eye, Melania was one of the film’s producers…

Slay News: Electricity Bills Skyrocketed in California Under the Weight of Democrat Policies – Average household bills rose 39% over the past six years, according to research from UC Berkeley’s Haas Energy Institute. – Researchers attributed the surge to long-standing policy decisions that shifted more costs directly onto consumers…

Epoch Times: Lawmakers Depart Washington as DHS Stands on Verge of Shutdown And Won’t Return Until February 23rd – Senate Majority Leader John Thune said a deal is “not close.” – That sets the stage for, at minimum, a 10-day shutdown affecting the U.S. Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), and others.

Western Journal: – Senator Fetterman Pulls Rug Out from Under His Entire Party by Exposing Their ICE Funding Lie. – “Shutting DHS down has zero impact and zero changes for ICE. – ICE already has $75B in funding from the BBB that I did not vote for. – But it will hit FEMA, Coast Guard, TSA, and our Cybersecurity Agency. – As a Democrat, I can’t vote to shut down critical parts of our government…

Discern Report: Trump Gives Iran a Deadline for War That Roughly Corresponds With the End of Ramadan. – It appears that a showdown with Iran is coming. – The flow of military transport aircraft also remains high and covers several directions at once. – On top of everything else, the WSJ reports another aircraft carrier strike group will soon go to the Middle East…

Daily Caller: DHS Strips Deportation Protections From Yemenis, And Orders Them To Return Home – DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced Friday that Yemen no longer meets the statutory requirements for Temporary Protected Status. – “Allowing TPS Yemen beneficiaries to remain temporarily in the United States is contrary to our national interest.”…

Zero Hedge: The ~$9 billion Minnesota nonprofit fraud scandal is being dismissed by many as an isolated failure. – This is far from the case, and writing it off as such would be a colossal mistake. – It revealed is a broader problem in the Swamp—that institutions claiming to represent others often operate with little accountability and then quietly drift away…

Resist The Mainstream: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem Announces Record-Breaking Drug Seizures — Enough Fentanyl and Cocaine to Kill Every American Multiple Times Over – Inside the vault, Noem detailed the scope of the inventory: approximately 100,000 pounds of methamphetamine, 59,000 pounds of cocaine, and 7,400 pounds of fentanyl were confiscated in the San Diego sector.

Resist The Mainstream: Four illegal aliens with violent criminal histories were released from ICE custody this week after Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge John deGravelles ruled their detention unconstitutional. – DHS said the men, all with standing deportation orders, were freed because their home countries were unlikely to accept their return…

Geller Report: Thirty Years, and $10 Trillion Spent, With Absolutely Zero Impact on the Climate – The Trump Administration Dismantled The Obama-Era Climate Grift With A Sweeping Deregulation. – Trump Just Gave the Most Effective Answer in History to the Left’s ‘We Have to Spend Money on Climate Change’ Narrative – “This was all a scam, a giant scam.”

Geller Report: Drug tents are now popping up across Zohran Mamdani’s NYC, with drugs being sold openly, prices boldly displayed, and police doing nothing. – NYC streets are a mess. Trash piling up, rats everywhere, snow barely cleared. Residents are fed up. – This is what happens when communist city leaders fail to plan ahead.

Slay News: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has upheld Texas’s ban on paid ballot harvesting, reversing a lower court decision that had struck down the election-integrity safeguard. – The ruling stems from a long-running legal battle over Texas Senate Bill 1, the state’s 2021 election reform law.

Just Facts Daily: 21 Explosive Facts About The Jeffrey Epstein Case That Have Received Scant Attention – 1. Bill Clinton claims that he “never visited” Epstein’s private island, but at least three people have stated that they saw Clinton on the island – 2. Maria Farmer, who reported Jeffrey Epstein and his associates to the FBI for molesting children 3 decades ago, said Epstein’s mansion in New York was loaded with hidden cameras. – 3. Two days after Epstein’s arrest in 2019…

Gateway Pundit: The Trump Admin Threatens to Pull MASSIVE Federal Contract From 7-Eleven For Denying Service to The US Border Patrol – The refusal allegedly included both in-store purchases and fuel transactions. – Michael Lynch, Deputy Administrator of the GSA, contacted 7-Eleven COO Doug Rosencrans, requesting information about any internal investigation into the now-viral January 21 incident…

Breitbart: Promises Kept, 71 Prices That Fell in January and Kept Inflation Low – All numbers are seasonally adjusted. – Tax return preparation and other accounting fees—Down 13.8% – Eggs—Down 7.0% – Fuel oil—Down 5.7% – Pork chops—Down 4.1% – Other motor fuels—Down 3.6% – Gasoline, unleaded regular—Down 3.4% – Men’s suits, sport coats, and outerwear—Down 3.3% – Lettuce—Down 2.8%…

Breitbart: “Today’s expectation-beating CPI report proves that President Trump has defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis: overall inflation fell, and real wages grew by $1,400 in President Trump’s first year in office,” White House deputy press secretary Kush Desai said in a statement. – “The U.S. economy is set to turbocharge even further through long-overdue interest rate cuts from the Fed.”

American Thinker: Does anyone realize that Mexico wants to reconquer the United States? – The name they give this new direction in foreign policy is “Reconquista.” Their strategy is comprehensive and, as was obvious, involves the migrant invasion – They very much mean transforming America into something resembling Mexican civilization…

Breitbart: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted “no one is clinging to power” and he is ready to hold national elections. – But he insists there will be no vote without a ceasefire and solid security guarantees from the U.S. – This makes a vote any time soon unlikely.

Breitbart: Tim Walz Says Americans Should Compensate Minnesota Companies that Hired Illegal Migrants – Walz said he will give $10 million in Minnesotans’ tax money to the companies that built their businesses on illegal migrants in his “Sanctuary City Economy.” – Walz continually praised migrants without differentiating between legal immigrants and illegal migrants.

Daily Wire: ‘Safe Harbor Hideouts’ Shielding Doctors Who Perform Gender Surgeries Are Being Exposed – Current limitations are not meant to give safe harbor hideouts for medical professionals whose ideology causes egregious harm. – The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case surrounding a statute that could impact how gender medical malpractice lawsuits are handled across the country…

Cal Matters: How Newsom’s spending binge outstripped revenues, creating California’s chronic deficit – An array of charts buried in the fine print of the state budget, unknown to all but a few fiscal nerds, details what California has collected in revenues and spent over the last half-century. – These deficits are concerning for three reasons…

February 12, 2026

Gateway Pundit: The GOP Is Now Just ONE Vote Away from The 50-Vote Threshold Needed For A Standing Filibuster – If the GOP reaches 50 votes, Vice President Vance can cast the decisive 51st vote to send the legislation to President Trump’s desk. – Under a standing filibuster, senators who want to delay a bill must actually stand, speak, and debate. – Once the debate ends, only 50 votes are needed for passage.

Epoch Times: The EPA Officially Rescinded an Obama-Era Finding That Served as Basis for Climate Regulations – The Trump administration eliminated a 2009 finding that six greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. – Vehicle costs increased by approximately 22 percent under the Biden administration, “without achieving any meaningful impact on the environment but making the car worse,” Trump said.

Western Journal: Trump Economic Adviser Reveals How Much the Administration Cut the Deficit in Year One – Kevin Hassett, “We were in a fiscal situation that was completely out of control when [Trump] came into office, and now we’ve reduced the deficit by about $600 billion this year, because of high growth, tariff revenue, and reducing the federal workforce.”

Red State: Border Czar Tom Homan made one thing unmistakably clear about the ICE drawdown in Minneapolis, Minnesota: this is not the end, and federal agents can return at scale if necessary. – Yes, ICE is ending its surge posture in Minneapolis. No, that does not mean enforcement is stopping.

American Spectator: Three Cheers for Attorney General Pam Bondi, A GOP star on the rise. – This week, Bondi went toe-to-toe with House Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee, and she hit it out of the park. – It was crystal clear from the get-go that Democrats were out to get Bondi, but she literally made fools of them with her scathing responses…

Gateway Pundit: Gail Slater, the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, was ousted on Thursday. – According to CBS News, DOJ officials such as AG Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche lost trust in Slater. – Trump DOJ officials believed Slater undermined pending cases…

Washington Examiner: AI’s energy demands are fueling a nuclear comeback – As it continues to expand its horizons, its evolution demands a single necessity: the consistent production of massive amounts of energy. – Nuclear is the answer to the high-maintenance nature that it possesses. – It just so happens that nuclear is setting new records in electric generation.

Center Square: California Assemblyman David Tangipa demands reform of $30B in-home care program after a TCS investigation. – Last week, TCS exposed that the program is responsible for 41% of net job growth since Governor Newsom took office, and found that state protocols explicitly do not allow randomized, unannounced visits that would detect unreported fraud.

American Thinker: Apple News’s popularity may explain Americans’ cognitive dissonance about the accomplishments of the Trump presidency. – According to the Media Research Center, Apple News is how 140 million Americans get their news, and it’s extremely biased. – Three weeks ago, the Trump administration published “365 Wins in 365 Days,” but Apple News readers wouldn’t be aware of them…

Epoch Times: Infographic, Behind Las Vegas Suspected Biolab, Same Chinese National as California Lab – Jia Bei Zhu, a Chinese national with a string of aliases, is in jail over an illegal biolab uncovered in California in 2022, has ties to a recently discovered Las Vegas lab. – The FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police discovered more than 1,000 pieces of evidence…

Daily Caller: California Governor Gavin Newsom surrounded himself with a gaggle of women dressed in pink for a press conference on Wednesday, signing a bill granting $90 million in “one-time emergency funds” for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers. – While he was speaking, his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, brushed him aside and spoke to reporters herself. – Was it a planned stunt, or was Newsom silently simmering?…

Zero Hedge: President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday issued a statement demanding that the European Union lock in a “specific date” for Ukraine’s formal entry into the bloc. – “Ukraine will do everything to be technically ready for accession by 2027,” Zelensky said. – But this is a tall order, given Ukraine remains among the world’s most corrupt countries, study after study has shown…

Daily Wire: Trump Boosted Protests In Iran With Starlink – Secret Starlink deliveries kept Iranians online amid the anti-regime protests. – The Trump administration quietly sent thousands of Starlink terminals to Iran in an effort to keep civilians connected to the outside world as the Islamic Republic brutally cracked down on anti-regime protests…

Daily Wire: Acting Venezuela President Said Maduro Is ‘Innocent,’ And Still The Country’s ‘Legitimate’ Leader – Energy Secretary Chris Wright, “The Venezuelans are in charge here, but the United States has enormous leverage because the largest revenue source that funds the government of Venezuela is now controlled by the United States.”…

Zero Hedge: The Russian Embassy in Havana told Izvestia that “as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future,” amid the island’s worst energy crunch in years. – President Trump’s latest Executive Order “imposes a new tariff system that allows the United States to impose additional tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly provides oil to Cuba.”

Geller Report: Joe Biden Awarded A Massive Half-Billion-Dollar No-Bid Contract to A Biden Official’s Nonprofit – A new inspector general’s report released Thursday morning accuses the former Biden administration of bypassing federal rules when issuing a more than half-a-billion dollar “sole source contract” to a nonprofit led by a former Biden official to deal with the Biden-created unaccompanied minor crisis.

Issues & Insights: As the FBI scrambles to find Nancy Guthrie’s abductors, Democrats in Congress are preparing their own kind of kidnapping. Except, instead of one victim, they want to hold the entire country hostage. – It plans to hold funding for the Department of Homeland Security hostage if it can’t convince Republicans to agree to the ICE “reforms” it demands…

Zero Hedge: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman forecasted that within the next two years, a vast swath of desk-bound tasks will be eliminated by AI. – Mustafa warned that the overwhelming majority of white-collar professional work could vanish to automation far sooner than most business and policy leaders are willing to admit…

Powerline: Border czar Tom Homan had a lot more to say than that he is concluding Operation Metro Surge in the Twin Cities. – His prepared remarks are mostly devoted to rebutting the hostility and hysteria expressed by the Star Tribune and the local media every day the operation has been in effect. – The video is worth watching to the end.

Post Millennial: Border czar Tom Homan announced on Thursday that as part of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, immigration agents have located over 3,000 unaccompanied migrant children who went missing under the Biden administration. – Holman, “These are children that the last administration lost and weren’t even looking for.”…

Zero Hedge: Yet Again, The Numbers Don’t Lie – Once again, the hard data expose the success of President Trump’s relentless crackdown on crime. – Violent offenses plunged to historic lows across major U.S. cities, proving that backing the blue and securing borders delivers real results where Democrat failures once bred anarchy…

Geller Report: A Congressional Hearing WitnessTestified That $60 Million in Soros Dark Money Network Funded Anti-ICE Riots in Minnesota – The funds are believed to be linked to fourteen organizations, including groups described as part of the Soros network. – Lawmakers called for greater transparency, demanding to know where the money originated and whether it was used to coordinate or sustain protest activity.

American Thinker: The Morality and Pragmatism of Immigration Laws – The mass overrunning of our borders warrants a Watergate-style investigation. – Most Americans strongly agree that our immigration laws should be enforced. – Yet when they are, it evokes ritualistic indignation all the way up to big Democrat city mayors, governors, and U.S. senators…

Post Millennial: ICE Director Todd Lyons, “1.6 MILLION illegal immigrants have final orders of removal, 800,000 are convicted criminals.” – Senator James Lankford noted that under the Biden administration, 10,000 illegal immigrants were coming over the border every day, and that in 2024, there were 70,000 people who were “special interest aliens…

Just The News: A Federal Judge releases four illegal immigrants convicted of murder, child sex crimes from ICE custody – U.S. District Judge John deGravelles for the Middle District Court of Louisiana, an Obama appointee, on Friday granted the defendants release from ICE custody, the Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday…

Gateway Pundit: Corrupt Judge Boasberg Has Ordered The Trump Admin to Return Venezuelan Illegals Deported Under Alien Enemies Act – “The Government shall file a Status Report by March 13, 2026, explaining how and when it will transport any Plaintiff seeking return to the United States from a third country. – The Government shall also inform the Court as to the feasibility of returning Plaintiffs still in Venezuela…

New York Post: Josh Hawley erupts at Minnesota’s AG over the fraud scandal during fiery exchange, declaring, ‘You should be in jail.’ – “You helped fraudsters defraud your state and this government of $9 billion — and you got a campaign contribution out of it,” Hawley erupted at Ellison. “You ought to be indicted.”…

American Thinker: Trump Is Ruining The Left’s Favorite Headlines! – America, under the supposedly questionable leadership of President Trump, is experiencing an alarming streak of stability and prosperity. – Ever vigilant in highlighting true hardships, the legacy media has expectedly pointed out how these “achievements” are actually terrible news…

Epoch Times: The FBI Alleges 2020 Election Irregularities Are at the Center of the Georgia Investigation – An affidavit released by a Georgia-based federal court lists the FBI findings that preceded the Jan. 28 raid on the Fulton County Elections Board office…

Ann Coulter: Epstein Revelations You Won’t Read in the New York Times – Dirty Democrat deeds are on display in the latest dump. – 1. Criminal defense lawyer David Schoen sent an informative email to Epstein, saying no one would ever take the Russia investigation seriously because… – 2. The media may want to ignore Barry Krischer, but the Epstein files don’t…

Epoch Times: Trump Tightens Eligibility Requirements for SBA Loans, Barring Ownership by Green Card Holders – The new policy, which takes effect in March, limits small business loan eligibility to U.S. citizen-owned firms.

Red State: Trump Signs The Kennedy Bill Ending Government Payments to Deceased Americans – The Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act permanently closes a loophole that allowed taxpayer dollars to be sent to people who had already died.

Breitbart: Ford announced significant financial losses for 2025 driven by its struggling EV division, with the automaker projecting continued losses in the segment for at least three more years. – This marks a dramatic reversal for Ford, which positioned itself as a leader among traditional automakers by rapidly introducing three electric vehicle models…

American Thinker: The Woke Smithsonian Disrespects Our Nation’s 250th Anniversary – It receives over 1 billion taxpayer dollars per year but celebrates mosques and gay meccas while ignoring some of the most pivotal moments in our founding history. – Today, many people know nothing about either our history or the rights our Founding documents secured…

City Journal: DEI Activism Could Be Pushing Donors Away – For a good example of the activists’ successful capture of nonprofits, look to a recent story in the Chronicle of Philanthropy about the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. With $13 billion in assets, it’s one of the nation’s largest philanthropies. – Like many large foundations, it promotes various progressive causes…

Gatestone Institute: The Palestinians’ Other Big Lie – That a large number of Muslims can pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem shows that Hamas’s claim that the Jews are desecrating the mosque and plotting to control it is another big lie. – It is worth noting that Jews do have a right to visit the Temple Mount because it is also the holiest site in Judaism…

American Thinker: In Defense of Civilization – With Britain on the brink of civil war, engulfed in growing anarchy, it is encouraging to hear three voices exposing the enemies of civilization and attempting to reverse the current decline by appealing to morality and reason. – Natasha Hausdorff’s contribution is distinguished by its precision and moral clarity…

The Federalist: The Anti-Truth Media Bends Over Backward To Call The Canadian Trans School Shooter By His Preferred Pronouns – Innocent civilians are dead at the hands of another alleged trans-identifying killer. – And as per usual, media propagandists’ biggest concern is whether they’re referring to him with the correct pronouns…

The Telegraph: Are cross-sex drugs driving trans shooters to kill? – News that the Canada school attacker was transitioning raises concerns about the role of medication in other recent killings. – Trans killers were responsible for less than 0.1 per cent of all mass shootings in the US between 2013 and 2025. – But of around 220 US/Canada school shootings since 2019, four have involved trans shooters…

Washington Examiner: Judge blocks Pentagon attempt to reduce Mark Kelly’s retired military rank – U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued a preliminary ruling that set back the Trump administration’s attempt to punish Kelly for saying military personnel should “refuse illegal orders.”

California Globe: Another COVID Case and Another Warning – A California Court Backed Power Over Law – Palicke v. Placentia/Yorba Linda USD is really about whether legal guardrails still exist when officials invoke “public health.” – The court disposed of the case using a familiar COVID-era formula: mootness, immunity, and summary judgment.

Washington Free Beacon: Mamdani’s Health Czar Founded A Left-Wing Nonprofit That Registered Patients in Mental Hospitals to Vote – Alister Martin launched Vot-ER in 2019, a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic. – Dr. Jane Rosenthal, a psychiatrist and medical ethicist, “Oftentimes these patients do not have the capacity to make a decision early on in an acute hospitalization.”…

Sharyl Attkisson: The Babylon Bee wins a federal case against a Hawaiin law criminalizing political satire – Just days before the law was set to take effect, US District Judge Shanlyn Park issued a permanent injunction blocking enforcement of the law. In her ruling, Judge Park found the statute discriminated based on content and restricted constitutionally protected political speech.

February 11, 2026

New York Post: The House passed legislation Wednesday that would require Americans to show proof of citizenship before registering to vote and provide photo identification before casting a ballot. – The SAVE Act cleared the lower chamber in a 218-213 vote. – Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) was the only Democrat to join Republicans and vote yes.

American Spectator: Why Is Nancy Guthrie’s Case America’s Only Story? – What other news is obscured by its one-track coverage? – When it is transformed into a serialized drama, it becomes entertainment, with viewers invited to play detective. – In the absence of concrete information, narratives take shape anyway, often untethered from reality…

Media ITE: Nancy Mace Tells Piers Morgan the Names on the Unredacted Epstein Client List Would ‘Shock’ Him – She claims the DOJ was protecting “people in power, prime ministers, former prime ministers, former presidents,” and even “media personalities.” – Mace called the redaction of these names “one of the greatest cover-ups in American history…

American Thinker: So What Happened To All The Somali Fraud? – Where did it go? – Did I dream about this, or has it been memory-holed? – Are we really going to let “ICE OUT” chaos take our eyes off the proverbial ball permanently? – Are we going to let one form of outrageous behavior cover for another scandalous behavior? – My checkbook and I are both feeling used and abused…

Western Journal: Representative Jerry Nadler Makes The Mistake of Insulting Pam Bondi, Triggering a Scorched Earth Response Where She Brings the Receipts on His Hypocrisy and ‘Gutter’ Behavior – Too much here to summarize, but definitely worth reading…

Red State: AG Bondi Is Not Finished Reminding Americans What Democrats Are Trying to Distract Them From – First, she shared that the Trump administration is overseeing a rallying Wall Street in the wake of its economic policies. – Next, Bondi whipped California’s Ted Lieu soundly over the slew of failures Democrats have wrought on the citizens there. – Then…

Washington Examiner: Seven takeaways from Bondi’s fiery House testimony – The DOJ is investigating possible Epstein conspirators. – Bondi took on a combative Epstein strategy. – Ted Lieu accused Bondi of lying under oath – Bondi said Maxwell “hopefully will die in prison” – A rare bipartisan moment on threats to Eric Swalwell – Bondi acknowledged John Brennan criminal referral…

Judicial Watch: “America’s Most Unwanted” Exposes Atrocious Criminal Aliens who Arrived Under Biden – Among the throngs of violent criminals that entered the US illegally under the Biden administration are terrorists from two Islamic countries in Africa who targeted American Jews, as well as murderers, rapists, child sexual predators, and drunk drivers from Latin America…

Washington Examiner: A bipartisan measure repealing President Trump’s tariffs against Canada passed the House on Wednesday. – In a 219-211 vote, the House moved to end the national emergency Trump declared on America’s northern neighbor last year. – The emergency declaration allowed the president to impose tariffs on Canadian goods and imports…

Daily Wire: President Trump warned that Republicans who vote against his tariffs would face severe opposition in their upcoming re-election campaigns. – Trump commented as the House voted on Wednesday evening to pass a resolution overturning the president’s tariffs on Canada…

American Spectator: Olympic Athletes Are Failing To Show Patriotism. – This is where men and women patriotically do their best to represent the rest of us well (and to prove that all that money spent on their training was worth it). – The Olympic field is one where skill and expertise are rewarded, where countries are celebrated, and patriotism is praised while the whole world watches.

Gateway Pundit: You Won’t Believe How Much Money Disney Lost on Their Awful WOKE ‘Snow White’ Remake – Disney Lost $170 Million On ‘Snow White’ As The Studio Reveals Movie Blew Its Budget – With the possible exception of 2023’s THE MARVELS, that number makes SNOW WHITE the biggest box office flop of all-time without adjusting for inflation.

Just The News: Russia says it will continue following nuclear arms limits if the US does – “The moratorium declared by the president will remain as long as the U.S. doesn’t exceed these limits,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.- The treaty expired Thursday, leaving no restrictions on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than 50 years…

Daily Wire: The White House Responds After Taking Out Mexican Cartel Drones In El Paso Airspace – The reversal is related to “Mexican cartel drones breaching U.S. airspace. – “The FAA and DOW have determined there is no longer any threat to commercial travel.” – Up to 1000 flights could have been impacted.

American Thinker: What’s going on in El Paso? – Early this morning, the FAA put a complete ground stop on all flights in and out of El Paso for ten days. – And now it’s their roads! – Texas Department of Public Safety announces closures of all highways leading to El Paso, Texas, for 10 days. – The NYT reported that the closure has been lifted, and “was related to a test of counter-drone technology at a nearby military base.” But, why?…

Epoch Times: The US Has Seized 134 Acres near Rio Grande City, Texas, Texas Used by a Mexican Cartel – It’s the latest seizure authorized by Treasury sanctions. – “We took the land, and everything on it.” – A video shared with the post showed law enforcement officers arresting several people. – ‘They Thought They Were Untouchable.’

Zero Hedge: President Trump met with Netanyahu for a reported 3-hours at the White House on Wednesday, away from the cameras and with no press briefings either before or after. – Trump later indicated that nothing definitive was reached on the Iran matter other than “I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue.”

Sharyl Attkisson: The Muslim Brotherhood is a controversial group that seeks to establish an Islamic state. – Their motto states that Holy War is their way, Islamic scripture is their law, and dying in Holy War as a martyr is their highest hope. – Texas Senator Ted Cruz addressed a Senate hearing last year on measures in Congress to take a range of action against the Muslim Brotherhood…

Zero Hedge: The State Department Hones In On Left-Wing NGOs As Vectors Of Chinese Influence Operations – Alarmingly, these same nonprofits appear to sit at the center of the protest industrial complex and are actively amplified and promoted by prominent members of the Democrat Party. – Don’t be surprised that the State Department has taken an interest in the Singham NGO network.

Zero Hedge: President Trump instructed the CIA and other spy agencies to hand over intelligence related to the 2020 election, a bunch of (presumably panicked) US intelligence officials told Politico and NBC News. – The records are to be handed over to Kurt Olsen, who, four years ago, was involved in the “Stop the Steal” campaign to determine whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election via cheating.

Zero Hedge: Three Key Takeaways From Tuesday’s Senate Hearing On Somali Fraud – The magnitude of Minnesota’s Somali welfare-fraud problem has only begun to surface – 1. It’s The ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ – 2. Illegal Immigration Is Tied to Less-Obvious Fraud – 3. There Are Low-Tech and High-Tech Solutions…

Zero Hedge: Elon Musk Vows To Establish A Moon City Within 10 Years – They are prioritizing a thriving city on the Moon to shield civilization from earthly perils like natural disasters or geopolitical chaos. – SpaceX’s announcement comes amid a renewed push for lunar exploration, where private enterprise is outpacing sluggish international efforts…

Business Insider: The US added 130,000 jobs in January, far surpassing the forecast of 65,000. – Also, Unemployment unexpectedly fell from 4.4% in December to 4.3%, just below the forecast of 4.4%. – Jordan Rizzuto, chief investment officer at GammaRoad Capital Partners. – “This week’s jobs report has the potential to meaningfully shift expectations for a rate cut at the Fed’s next policy meeting in March.”…

Washington Free Beacon: Democrat Demands For ICE To Obtain Judicial Warrants Could Bring Immigration Enforcement to a Near ‘Halt,’ Experts Say – The agency’s enforcement capacity could drop by 90%, one scholar estimates. – The policy would restrict ICE’s ability to rely on administrative warrants, which are authorized under the Immigration and Nationality Act and issued by senior agency officials after determining probable cause…

American Thinker: People who make the anti-ICE mob their hero have made a heck of a choice. – During rare moments on camera, when one of their heroes is isolated from his hive and challenged to explain his/her rationale, they offer a smug, mute smile or spit vitriol or slink away back to the safety of the nameless mob.

California Globe: Amid escalating tensions between local sanctuary policies and federal immigration enforcement, Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive directive on Tuesday prohibiting ICE from using city-owned property for staging operations. – It targets public areas such as parking lots and garages, where ICE has reportedly gathered for enforcement raids…

Townhall: Democrats have indicated that any ICE reforms that crack down on sanctuary cities are a non-starter. – Several Democrat senators say the federal government should not have the authority to target local governments that do not wish to aid in the White House’s immigration enforcement efforts…

Washington Examiner: Is Communist Cuba on its last legs? – Communist Cuba is running out of fuel, and with it, time. – Already under great economic pressure, Cuba’s situation has worsened greatly since the United States seized Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro in Caracas last month. – Since Castro died in 2016, it has been unclear who truly runs Cuba…

Townhall: Antifa Is Now Targeting Moderate Congressional Democrats in Washington State – The Left always eat their own, and it was almost inevitable that the radical Leftists that comprise the base of the Democrat Party would start turning on Democrats who don’t support their radical progressive positions.

American Thinker: The NFL Has Become A Disgrace – The great American game of football now puts politics first, and Americans last. – It’s pretty difficult to ignore the intended message of “entertainers” singing in a foreign language, waving foreign flags, and simulating raunchy sex while promoting open borders and endless immigration…

American Thinker: Keep Out Sharia, and Radical Islam – Representative Self warns of a gradual takeover through the formation of enclaves. “First, it would just be ‘We want a community.’ Then, the police can’t enter. – While the centuries-old Islamic principles of jihad, taqiyya, and da’wah are well known, many people unwisely believe they are no longer actively practiced…

American Thinker: The New European Surveillance State – The EU is increasingly abandoning a civilized approach to dissenting opinions. – The raid on the Paris offices of Elon Musk’s company X appears to be just the tip of the iceberg. – The Europeans’ vector of attack is clearly politically motivated. The detention of Telegram founder Pavel Durov in France last year points in the same direction…

National Pulse: The Trump Administration Unveils A Plan to Cut Healthcare Costs Even More. – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has proposed new regulations for 2027 aimed at cutting health care costs, expanding consumer options, and cracking down on fraud.

California Globe: Sen. Scott Weiner’s SB 79, signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2025, forces single-family neighborhoods to accept high-rise apartment buildings. – And it’s already happening. – The caveat justifying building apartment housing on single-family streets is if a bus stop is within half a mile of the proposed apartment building.

Townhall: Republican, Steve Hilton Promises a ‘Political Revolution’ in California, and He’s Leading in the Polls – Hilton has laid out an ambitious vision to overhaul the state and upend the progressive policies that have defined it for years. – On the Democrat side, the race remains fractured, with more than a dozen potential contenders splitting the vote…

Geller Report: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating a “potentially illegal” development backed by a Dubai-based company in rural Kaufman County, just months after filing a lawsuit against a Muslim development outside of Dallas. –Paxton, “There will be no ‘Sharia city’ in Texas under my watch.”…

Powerline: Another Trans Mass Shooting? – A murderer initially described as a “woman in a dress” attacked a secondary school in a small town in British Columbia, killing seven and wounding many more. – Two additional people were killed in a nearby house, and “police believe the shootings are connected.” – Some media outlets have identified the perpetrator as Jesse Strang, age 18…

Washington Examiner: Virginia Democrats agree to new congressional map that gives Republicans just one seat – They previously debated a similar Democrat-favoring map that had a 9-2 split. – The official map will be released on Friday, but it still needs voter approval in an April referendum…

Slay News: The Democrat-controlled city of Evanston, Illinois, has begun distributing $25,000 “Reparations” payments to 44 residents as part of its taxpayer-funded reparations initiative to cover housing-related expenses. – The reparations fund recently received $276,588 from Evanston’s real estate transfer tax, and officials have discussed additional revenue sources…

Slay News: The Trump administration has secured a federal consent decree declaring one of former President Joe Biden’s mass-migrant parole programs unlawful and preventing any future administration from reviving a similar system for the next 15 years. – The settlement emerged from a lawsuit filed by the state of Florida in 2023…

February 10, 2026

Washington Times: Trump has reversed the manufacturing decline caused by the Biden administration. – Democrats say that President Trump’s tariffs are hurting, rather than stimulating, a manufacturing revival for blue-collar America. – The latest manufacturing data obliterates that lie. – In January, the ISM Manufacturing Index jumped 4.7 points to 52.6. – That was a blowout, and an important one…

One America News: Trump puts ‘America first,’ demanding fairness in Canada-Michigan bridge negotiations – “President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them (Canada) a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel. – Now, the Canadian Government expects me to PERMIT them to just “take advantage of America!”…

Breitbart: Democrat State Leaders Say Sanctuary Cities Must Be Exempted from Civil Rights Laws – The treasurers of Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, Minnesota, and nine other states are asking the federal government to exempt them from national laws that protect Americans’ rights via civil rights, labor, housing, and anti-fraud laws…

Just The News: The FBI has ‘substantiated’ irregularities in Georgia’s 2020 vote counts. – It is now probing to determine if they were intentional – FBI identified to the court in a search warrant five categories of confirmed irregularities in Fulton County voting in an unsealed affidavit.

Center Square: Ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, Republicans in Congress are pushing forward multiple bills that would standardize election security requirements nationwide. – The SAVE Act, the SAVE America Act, and the MEGA Act would mandate that states require photo ID and verify the citizenship status of potential voters.

Breitbart: WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared feedback from Americans on President Donald Trump’s “Working Families Tax Cuts,” including people who said they’ve saved thousands of dollars. – The House Ways and Means Committee predicted in November that filers could see “an extra $1,000 bump to their tax refund.”

Blaze Media: Democratic strategists are warning that fundraising might make the difference in the midterms. – A new report in the New York Times finds that the Republican Party is overwhelmingly beating Democrats in the fundraising race and that Democrats are panicking ahead of the midterm elections.

Daily Signal: Democrats’ Demographic Doom Spiral Has No Exit – President Trump isn’t just deporting illegal immigrants. – He’s deporting the people Democrats need to offset their state demographic challenges. – Red states, like South Carolina, Idaho, and Texas, grew significantly. – Blue states like California, Illinois, and New York can’t keep up…

New York Post: A blockbuster lawsuit alleging California and the City of Los Angeles failed to properly extinguish the Lachman Fire, which led to the Palisades Fire, causing 12 deaths and billions of dollars in damages, is officially allowed to move forward. – The court’s ruling means the state and city could be found liable for tens of billions of dollars…

Daily Signal: There Have Been 10 Threats Against Trump Administration Officials in 2026 – 1. Threat to JD Vance – 2. Vandalizing Vance’s Home – 3. Another Vance Threat – 4. Threat to Russel Vought – 5. Antifa Member Threatening ICE Agents – 6. Threats to Federal Agents – 7. Threats to FBI Director Kash Patel – 8. Threatening Trump and ICE Agents – 9. Threatening Trump on Shotgun Shells – 10. Threatening to Kill ICE Agents…

Washington Examiner: Grand jury rejects DOJ attempt to indict ‘Seditious Six’ lawmakers – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, under Jeanine Pirro, sought an indictment related to a video featuring six U.S. lawmakers. – It was not immediately clear which of the lawmakers were targeted in the failed indictment…

American Spectator: The Growing Liberal Backlash Against Newsom – As Gavin Newsom works to project inevitability as the Democrats’ presidential frontrunner, progressives are coalescing behind a single conclusion: He is not their man. – In addition to these, Newsom faced another political attack article from his party’s progressive wing on Tuesday when Salon’s Norman Solomon wrote an article headlined “Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think.”

Breitbart: President Trump dismissed sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as “disgusting” and decried his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, as “evil” back in 2006, a now-retired cop informed FBI agents in 2019. – The revelation is contained in a newly unsealed court document released Monday by the Department of Justice…

Zero Hedge: New Epstein’s Records Destroy Official Narratives – Files confirm that an FBI agent physically removed a hard drive from the jail’s video recording system, wiping all footage from the period surrounding Epstein’s death. – Not Corrupted. – Not Malfunctioning. – But Removed. – The one camera system watching the most high-profile inmate in the country just happened to lose everything at the exact moment it mattered most…

Resist The Mainstream: Internal Meta Docs Reveal Executives Knew 500k Children Were Targeted Daily, on Facebook and Instagram, Yet Failed to Act – AG Raul Torrez will argue that the social media giant exposed minors to “sexual exploitation and mental health harm” through predatory messaging, “sextortion” schemes, and human trafficking networks…

One America News: JD Vance visited Armenia as part of ongoing efforts to help end the nearly 40-year conflict with Azerbaijan. – The US has issued several export licenses for the sale of high-powered Nvidia computing chips. Vance and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan also signed a nuclear partnership to allow American and Armenian companies to work together on civil nuclear projects…

Just The News: President Trump is set to repeal an Obama-era climate finding that was the basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation that justified trillions in greenhouse gas regulations covering new vehicles and engines.” – Repealing the finding would remove the legal basis for greenhouse gas regulations…

Western Journal: Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Pass Bipartisan Bill Dealing with Top Trump Campaign Promise – The House passed a bipartisan bill aimed at making affording homes easier for Americans. – The proposal encourages more multifamily construction by allowing taller buildings on smaller pieces of land. – It also pushes states and local governments to loosen permitting rules that often slow or block new projects…

America Wire News: Democrats are now flip-flopping on the ICE bodycams they recently demanded – Things have now changed amid concerns that the push for bodycams could backfire. – Schumer and company are walking it back, insisting that restrictions be placed on their use, which some fear will be used to enhance the surveillance capability of federal immigration enforcement.

American Thinker: Democrats are Desperate to Win the Midterms Because They’re Losing Power – As the U.S. advances toward the 2030 Census, a structural political realignment is taking shape. – It is not being driven by campaign slogans or cable news theatrics, but by population movement, economic performance, and policy outcomes that are increasingly difficult to ignore…

Geller Report: California is bleeding $BILLIONS – Some of its most powerful economic players are heading for the exits. – Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are the latest to decamp to South Florida, joining Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel—moves widely attributed to California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax and a hostile regulatory…

Daily Wire: The RNC has filed a final brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted up to five days after Election Day.- The case centers on whether federal law requires voter ballots to be physically received by officials on the designated election day to count…

Townhall: The FBI Has Released Images of The Masked Suspect in The Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping – The FBI has now released images of the alleged kidnapper. – The images came from Guthrie’s Nest camera, which was located by her front door. – The new images show an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the front door camera the morning of her disappearance…

American Thinker: Defeating the Deep State’s Inversion Matrix – There should be no surprise that Judeo-Christian Western civilization is under attack. – The inversion matrix, like Marxism and derivatives such as Leninism, Maoism, Critical Race Theory, and DEI, has its origin in spiritual depravity. – It’s a kind of mass psychological engineering, also known as “gaslighting.”…

American Thinker: Trump’s immigration win in Fifth Circuit on mandatory detention – The Fifth Circuit on Feb. 6, 2026, sided with the Trump administration on the issue of detention without bond for certain noncitizens arrested in the U.S. interior. – The decision comes after hundreds of lower-court rulings nationwide declared mandatory detention unlawful…

Resist The Mainstream: The Liberal Ninth Circuit Freezes A Lower Court Ruling, Enabling Trump to End TPS for Migrants From Three Countries – The San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit paused a lower court decision that had blocked Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from ending Temporary Protected Status for nationals of Honduras, Nepal, and Nicaragua.

Breitbart: Nearly half of the households that watched the Super Bowl tuned out halftime performer Bad Bunny, per Samba TV. – Nielsen measures viewers, while Samba TV measures households. – So here did all those halftime viewers go? – There was an alternative, and the TPUSA’s All America Halftime Show definitely made a ripple in the culture…

Washington Examiner: The Smithsonian is betraying the American people – The Trump administration has repeatedly asked Secretary Lonnie Bunch III to furnish several materials to execute an audit to ensure the Smithsonian is not pushing a woke agenda. – So far, Bunch has given Trump bupkis, if not the middle finger.

Daily Wire: Docs Reveal How California Teachers Were Trained To Fight Back Against ICE – The United Teachers Los Angeles union gave a presentation last year on “Preparing for ICE at your school” that pushed its members to engage in political activism and suggested utilizing school resources to thwart ICE operations…

American Thinker: Parents, Not Schools, Should Raise Our Kids – Across the country, parents are discovering that public school systems increasingly claim authority over deeply personal decisions that were once understood to belong to families. – Schools are hiding controversial lessons from parents, not informing them about critical mental health concerns involving their kids, and retaliating against parents when they speak out.

Gateway Pundit: Republicans Introduce The OMAR Act to Deal With Campaign Fund Corruption in Congress – The OMAR Act would prevent campaign funds from benefiting spouses of lawmakers and require that candidates disclose any payments made to immediate family…

Slay News: A federal judge has ordered the government to unseal key documents tied to the FBI’s warrant-authorized seizure of 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County, Georgia, election facility, forcing long-withheld details into public view. – Judge J.P. Boulee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia gave the government until Tuesday to file the search-warrant affidavit, allowing only limited redactions for the names of nongovernmental witnesses.

Hot Air Fulton County Is Suing to Prevent The FBI’s Examination of Ballots, and 40+ Supposedly Missing Boxes – Now that the ballots are in the FBI’s hands due to a search warrant, Fulton County is trying to keep them from being examined, and will have a heck of a time explaining why the 40 boxes they claimed existed do not appear to be in FBI hands…

American Conservative: The Only Question About Immigration That Matters – Minneapolis is once again the epicenter of the radical effort to impose a left-wing ideology on the country. – Whose side would you be on? – Let’s face facts: America evolved organically over centuries, firmly rooted in the English language, common law, and Christianity…

Moonbattery: Daniel Huff analyzed every US commercial flight crash with onboard fatalities attributed to pilot error since 2000. – Women and minorities represented less than 10% of pilots, yet were factors in 50% of the crashes. – This is because, in practice, pressure for affirmative action too often leads airlines to lower their standards to meet designated quotas...

February 9, 2026

Center For Immigration Studies: It Is Impossible to Fully Vet Immigrants When a Culture of Corruption Exists. – There is no assurance that their documents are valid or accurate. – One of Trump’s first acts was to sign EO 14161, “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats”. – See the lists…

America First Report: Democrats Are Set to Shut Down the Government Over ICE, and Republicans Must Not Budge – Democrats, emboldened by their minority status but wielding outsized leverage, are digging in their heels with a list of demands aimed at reshaping Immigration and Customs Enforcement. – They aren’t minor tweaks, they’re fundamental changes…

American Spectator: Iran Has Already Doomed Talks – In advance of round two talks, Iran has already indicated an unwillingness to negotiate. – First, while the U.S. wants Iran to curb its ballistic missile program, Iran’s foreign minister just stated that the ballistic missile program is “off the table” in the negotiations. – Second, Iran has also made direct statements in support of terrorism…

Washington Free Beacon: Hamas Is Working To Replenish Its Military Arsenal as The Trump Administration Demands It Disarm – Israeli forces have discovered explosives hidden near the ceasefire line and faced renewed attacks from Hamas terrorists over the past several days…

Gatestone Institute: Hamas’s Secret Plan to Maintain Control of Gaza – Hamas wants Trump’s Board of Peace and the technocratic committee to focus on reconstruction, economic projects, and paying salaries to Palestinian civil servants while it continues, through a shadow government, to effectively rule the Gaza Strip, manufacture stockpile weaponry and prepare for a new attack on Israel…

American Conservative: Japan’s Ruling Conservatives Win Supermajority – State of the Union: Sanae Takaichi’s victory represents the largest electoral landslide in postwar Japan. – The LDP’s landslide win gives it over a two-thirds majority in Japan’s lower house, paving the way for a constitutional amendment. Takaichi is seeking to expand the scope of the nation’s self-defense forces…

Blaze Media: The Trump admin draws a line in the sand, signaling noncompliance with Judge Boasberg’s order in the Tren de Aragua case. – DOJ lawyers noted in a filing last week that Boasberg’s demands were unworkable. – There is “no legal basis for holding remote habeas hearings without custody. – The U.S. cannot enforce perjury or other procedural rules in Venezuela…

Epoch Times: The US Military Boards Oil Tanker in the Indian Ocean After Pursuing It From the Caribbean – The War DOW stated that “military forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Aquila II” in the Indian Ocean after tracking it in response to the Trump administration’s “established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean.

Gateway Pundit: A GOP Lawmaker Is Calling on The FCC to Take Action After Bad Bunny’s Shocking and Vulgar Halftime Show Lyrics are Translated to English. – During one scene, you can see two men simulating sex with each other. – Bad Bunny’s Spanish lyrics were translated to English, and they were much worse than previously thought…

Townhall: TMZ’s Halftime Show Poll Isn’t Going the Way They Hoped – Current estimates show that over 20 million watched the alternative TPUSA halftime show. – This translates to millions lost, and a new tradition is born. – Rather than a one-time occurrence, it is likely that the new alternative halftime show just gets bigger and better every year.”

Townhall: AG Pam Bondi, “Following our arguments, a district court in California BLOCKED the enforcement of a law that would have banned federal agents from wearing masks to protect their identities.” – “These federal agents are harassed, doxxed, obstructed, and attacked regularly just for doing their jobs, and we have no tolerance for it.”

Redstate: The Left’s Story That Tulsi Gabbard Was Covering Up a Damning “Whistleblower” Complaint Just Completely Fell Apart – The story was amended on February 7th to clarify that the phone call was between two people associated with foreign intelligence who discussed someone close to Donald Trump, not between someone and a person close to Trump…

Fox News: The House Oversight Committee’s deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell ended less than an hour after it began on Monday morning, when she pleaded the Fifth Amendment. – Her attorney apparently told lawmakers, however, that she could not implicate either President Donald Trump or former President Bill Clinton in any wrongdoing…

Just The News: Congress members go to the DOJ on Monday to review unredacted versions of released Epstein files – During their review of the unredacted documents, Congress members will be allowed to take notes but not bring in any electronic devices. – Rep. Jamie Raskin wrote a letter to the DOJ saying, “We seek to ensure that your redactions comply with the act’s requirement that…”

Daily Caller: Some Schools Are Teaching Kids To Hate ICE Before Even Teaching Them To Spell ICE – Michigan state Representative Matt Maddock shared images of signs, apparently made by kids at Mitchell Elementary School in Ann Arbor, that call for ICE agents to leave the city…

American Thinker: Leftism Alone Doesn’t Destroy Public Schools. – Garden-Variety Corruption Does Too. – Jose Fernandez made national headlines because his compensation surpassed $600,000 a year for a school district with just 6,000 students. – He also made headlines because of the criminal allegations against him for massive corruption. Unfortunately, he died before justice could be served…

California Globe: The Democratic Socialists of America’s Socialist Takeover Plot for Los Angeles to Seize Homes, Defund Cops, and Turn the City into a Marxist Experiment – The DSA LA chapter’s 40-page, 9,000-word manifesto lays out an aggressive, six-to-eight-year plan to seize control of the nation’s second-largest city and impose full-blown socialism…

February 8, 2026

America First Report: How Exposing Zohran Mamdani’s Failures in NYC Can Save the Country From Islamo-Marxism – His early missteps aren’t isolated; they stem from Mamdani’s ideological roots in the Democratic Socialists of America and what some observers describe as the “Red-Green Alliance,” a fusion of Marxist-inspired socialism and Islamist influences…

Western Journal: Tom Homan Reveals How Many Anti-ICE Agitators Have Been Arrested, With Many Paying the Price – Tom Homan told reporters that over 150 people were arrested for trying to thwart ICE officers. – “The Trump administration has taken violations of 18 USC 111, which is assaulting, impeding, interfering, we’re taking that seriously,” Homan continued…

Fox Business: Super Bowl LX players will lose thousands to California’s ‘jock tax’ on athlete income – Players on the winning team will each have a $178,000 pay day while players on the losing team will get $103,000. – Consequently, winning team member take-home pay will be approximately $86,000, and those on the losing side will take-home about $49,800…

Epoch Times: Nancy Guthrie’s Disappearance – What We Know a Week After Savannah Guthrie’s Mother Went Missing On January 31st – The FBI confirmed it was examining two ransom notes that could be tied to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. – On Feb. 7, police were spotted at the home of Annie Guthrie. – On Feb. 8, reporters saw police searching a septic tank behind her home…

Gatestone Institute: Why Some of Trump’s Muslim ‘Allies’ Fear a Loss of Iran More Than They Fear Iran – For several of these regimes, the real danger is not Iran’s collapse, but an ideological exposure that could follow decisive American action, as well as concern about Israel becoming more prominent in the region…

American Thinker: A Complicated Week – Another sterling week for the Trump administration, and another interval of agony for his opponents. – he attention of those less politically minded is focused on the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy. – Cuba is teetering rapidly toward an end. – Various political leaders are on shaky ground…

American Thinker:Conservatism In Post-MAGA America – The future of American conservatism in a post-MAGA world will not be a ‘return to normal,’ because the bell cannot be un-rung. – The most significant shift in the conservative landscape is the death of the “consensus” around free markets and limited government…

American Thinker: So You Wanna Be a Democrat? – Things potential Democrats must support to fit in with their fellow donkeys. – Killing People – Hating Whitey – Hating Masculinity – Allowing Men to Play Women’s Sports – Loving Criminals – Hating America – Electoral Cheating – Lie, Lie, Lie…

American Thinker: Disrupting church isn’t journalism – There is no right to protest on private property, nor to be present there, journalist or not. – It’s looking even worse for Lemon. – Don Lemon didn’t”t just happen to be there, he was part of the planning…

Breitbart: The FCC Is Investigating ‘The View’ for Violating Equal Time Rules for Political Candidates – The FCC’s investigation comes after Texas State Rep. and Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) appeared on The View.

American Spectator: American Tech Is Under Siege in Europe – The House Judiciary Committee is probing the EU’s €120 million fine of X. – Regulators in Brussels claim that expansive tech regulations (that suppress free speech) will ensure transparency, protect consumers, and level the competitive playing field.

February 7, 2026

Epoch Times: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth say the Pentagon Is Cutting Academic Ties With Harvard. – Hegseth Says the Ivy League school promotes ideology misaligned with military values.

Epoch Times: Trump Orders Creation of An “America First Arms Transfer Strategy” – The executive order seeks to use U.S. arms sales to push foreign policy objectives. – “This strategy will advance a technologically superior, ready, and resilient national security industrial enterprise,” the order states.

Townhall: The WaPo CEO Resigns Days After Laying Off 300 Employees – Some at the Post, including their union, slammed Lewis after he turned tail on the organization he just gutted. – Just moments after news broke of Lewis’s departure, the outlet announced that WaPo CFO and ex-Tumblr CEO Jeff D’Onofrio would serve as the acting CEO and publisher.

Newsman: Netanyahu to Meet Trump Wednesday for Crucial Iran Talks – This comes after Iranian and U.S. officials held indirect nuclear talks in Oman on Friday. – Netanyahu believes that all negotiations must include limiting the ballistic missiles and ending support for the Iranian axis…

Breitbart: Volodymyr Zelensky says the U.S. wants to end the nearly four-year Ukraine/Russia war by June, and has offered to host talks between the two sides in Florida next week. – US-led efforts to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II have stepped up a gear in recent weeks, but Moscow and Kyiv remain at odds over the key issue of territory…

American Wire News: DEI Is On Its Deathbed – A federal appeals court cleared the way for President Trump’s executive orders banning discriminatory DEI initiatives in the government to go into effect. – The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, unanimously smacked down Biden-appointed lower court judge Adam Abelson’s injunction…

INFO Wars: An appeals court has upheld the DHS’s mandatory-detention policy, providing another big win for the Trump administration. – Courthouse News reports, “A divided Fifth Circuit panel ruled Friday that the Trump administration can lawfully deny bond hearings for many people in deportation proceedings, despite over 300 federal judges having ruled to the contrary…

American Thinker: Democrats Are Undermining the American Experiment – People must support the President as he faithfully enforces U.S. laws. – In 2021, Democrats introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act, which “establishes a path to citizenship.” – They wanted citizenship for the tens of millions of aliens in the country illegally and the millions who would follow and vote Democrat…

Geller Report: NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT? – A new briefing delivers a devastating indictment of Rashida Tlaib, warning that her conduct poses serious ethical and national security risks. – The report documents a persistent pattern: sharing platforms with convicted terrorists, echoing extremist rhetoric, and routing hundreds of thousands of campaign dollars to activists and groups tied to Hamas and PFLP-aligned networks.

American Thinker: Peaceful Protesters, or Fifth Column Insurrectionists? – If Minnesota agitators are merely protesting the removal of criminal illegal aliens, doesn’t it seem odd that BreakThrough News, an arm of the People’s Forum, would circulate a video showing the struggle between federal agents and an armed Alex Pretti, alongside a call to support the People’s Republic of China?…

American Thinker: Democrats want to get you killed – Politicians and other Democrats desperate to keep untold millions of illegals in the country at any cost have gone beyond trying to provoke violence against Normal Americans and immigration agents. – They’re plainly telling their dim-witted and easily enraged followers to kill Normal Americans and ICE agents. – Vice President Vance explains it…

Zero Hedge: An Irish Comedy Writer Testifies Before US Congress On UK’s Chilling Free Speech Crackdown – Graham Linehan, detailed how Britain’s authorities hounded him over online posts challenging trans ideology, exposing the chilling grip of censorship under Keir Starmer’s government…

Cypher News: Gen Z Just Broke The IQ Wheel – For more than a hundred years, IQ scores have climbed steadily across the world. – Then, right as smartphones, social media feeds, and the “always-on digital” life became the norm, that upward trend flatlined with Gen Z. – Let’s break it down…

Powerline: The Week In Pictures, Get Off My Land Edition – It is not momentous events that are the most meme-worthy. Rather, it is moments when liberals show their true colors and embarrass themselves, often in relatively trivial ways, that set meme-creators to work…

February 6, 2026

American Thinker: Don’t worry, Trump did not intentionally post a racist video about the Obamas – You can be certain that he reposted it without watching it to the complete end. – After 58 seconds of a serious video about a serious topic, there are two seconds of an automatically played meme showing Michelle and Barack Obama’s heads attached to the cartoon bodies of simian creatures…

Trending Politics: Don Lemon’s Defense Implodes After A Student Admits To Helping Him Plan The Church Storming – Jerome Richardson, a senior political science major at Temple University, surrendered to federal authorities this week on charges tied to the Jan. 18 disruption at Cities Church in St. Paul. – The incident also led to the arrest of Lemon…

American Spectator: Crime and Chaos Pays, For the People at the Top – Money flows into the cities with the most chaos because of disorder. – Their politicians virtue-signal, undermine law enforcement, and sell decarceration as empathy. – So these demonstrations aren’t random. – They’re funded. – And this has been building since 2016. – In Minneapolis, anti-ICE protests weren’t spontaneous…

California Globe: DHS Urges Governor Newsom to Halt The Release of Over 33,000 Criminal Illegal Aliens into California Communities – California’s refusal to cooperate with federal immigration authorities has resulted in the release of 4,561 criminal illegal aliens in just over two weeks…

Daily Signal: Americans Voting With Their Feet – The latest Census Bureau report shows people are moving from anti-growth blue states to pro-growth red states. – The top 5 in population growth from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025: South Carolina, Idaho, North Carolina, Delaware, and Tennessee. – Top five in population loss: New York, Hawaii, Alaska, the District of Columbia, and California.

American Spectator: Gavin Newsom Practically Demands to Be the Democrats’ Candidate For President – Newsom’s PR team has been planning this week for months. – This is the week that Vogue, The New Yorker, and The New York Times were given the go-ahead to publish splashy profiles of Newsom that reveal details from his memoir, which is set to be published later this month. – Another example of backroom manipulation…

Daily Caller: Squad Member Representative Ayanna Pressley Doesn’t Want To Discuss Her $8 Million Wealth Jump Since Entering Congress – Pressley entered Congress after upsetting incumbent Democrat Rep. Michael Capuano in a 2018 primary election, and her initial financial disclosure led some to conclude her net worth was in the negatives…

Daily Signal: Who’s Leading the Race to Replace McConnell? – The first two independent polls of the Republican Senate primary in Kentucky show Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., in the lead against businessman Nate Morris and former Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron. – The Kentucky Senate seat is open because Senator Mitch McConnell, the long-time Republican leader in the Senate, is retiring.

Daily Signal: 5 Egregious Examples of Leftist Earmarks in The Shutdown-Ending Funding Bill – 1. Funding For Health Centers Performing Transgender ‘Treatments’ – 2. Funding for Health Centers That Perform Abortions – 3. $Millions For Immigration Groups – 4. $Millions For AFL-CIO – 5. Union Activist Group NDWA that supported California’s AB5…

Zero Hedge: The World’s 12 Largest Impact Craters – A single asteroid strike can reshape a planet, and Earth’s history is marked by several cataclysmic impacts. – This map by Julie Peasley for Visual Capitalist uses data from the Earth Impact Database to showcase the 12 largest confirmed impact craters on Earth, ranging from massive basin-forming events to relatively recent collisions…

Epoch Times: The Dow Hits 50,000 for First Time Ever –The Dow spiked more than 1,000 points, totaling about 2.3%, while the tech-heavy NASDAQ climbed approximately 1.9%, slightly higher than the S&P 500’s 1.75% gain. – The moves follow three days of heavy selling across markets amid a cryptocurrency crash and heavy pressure on technology stocks.

Daily Wire: Rubio Warns China’s ‘Rapid’ Nuclear Buildup Is Making U.S. ‘Less Safe’ – The Secretary of State said the Cold War model of arms control is obsolete. – Rubio’s comments come a day after the New START Treaty expired. He argued that any replacement framework should address a new era beyond the Cold War model for nuclear arms control…

Daily Wire: LIVE UPDATES: The State Department Urges Americans In Iran To Leave By Land – The last time it issued this alert was on January 13th. – Vice President Vance, “We know the history. The President has no interest in repeating the history of Iraq, but you don’t let crazy people get nuclear weapons.”

Western Journal: The FBI Arrests ‘A Key Participant Behind the Benghazi. Libya Consulate Attack’ – AG Pam Bondi said Al-Bakoush arrived in the U.S. early Friday morning and will be tried on murder, terrorism, and arson charges. – U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Al-Bakoush was charged 11 years ago, but the case remained sealed until his arrest. – FBI Director Patel, “the FBI has now captured six people from its Most Wanted list in a single calendar year.”

American Thinker: Trump’s Biggest Concerns In Negotiations With Iran Are Not Just Nuclear – The answer may be simpler and more obvious than most think: Iran’s ballistic missile program. – Iran’s ballistic missile program is not Washington’s only worry. Beyond missiles, the United States continues to push for strict limits on Iran’s nuclear program. – Then there is the Iraq situation…

Geller Report: Senator Josh Hawley revealed the Biden Admin secretly funneled $millions to CAIR into states like California and Washington. – It was used to bring in Muslims, even terrorists. – Hawley, “We found over 30,000 that did not have formal identification, and I believe the number is actually 36,000, which is astounding.”

Geller Report: A Muslim woman speaks plainly about the reality in the UK: Muslims now wield real power, British culture is disappearing, and political leaders have betrayed their own people. – Any non-Muslim who said this now would be stigmatized as an “Islamophobe.” – In Keir Starmer’s shattered, staggering, dhimmi Britain, they would likely get a visit from the police…

Washington Free Beacon: The Palestinian Authority Is Set To Pay $315 Million to Terrorists and Their Families Across the Middle East in 2026 – This report confirms the State Department’s determination last week that the PA has not ended its ‘pay-to-slay’ program as promised. – The PA has concealed these payments by channeling them through alternate budgets controlled by the PASF and its pension office…

California Globe: Friday morning, the Small Business Administration announced it has uncovered $8.6 billion in suspected fraud tied to COVID-era relief lending in California and has suspended more than 111,000 borrowers in the state. – They are accused of collecting money under the paycheck protection and economic injury disaster loans from the federal government…

American Thinker: For The Left, The Revolution Has Already Begun – While conservatives worry about a future revolution, the endless stream of lies from leftists shows that, for them, the revolution is already here. – Like the Muslim practice of taqiyah, their lies are justified if they further their cause. – It is from this starting point that the never-ending examples of left-wing taqiyah come into sharp focus…

The Federalist: Checkpoints And Street-Corner Sentries Abound As Minneapolis, ICE-Hating Anarchists Have Become An Occupying Force – Minneapolis’ de facto militia occupation is not some organic outgrowth from a self-righteous people. – Rather, it is a highly technical, well-strategized force that is entirely self-aware of its political power and how to escalate tensions or surge forces…

Slay News: The White House and Republican leaders are sharply criticizing Democrat New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill after she announced plans to create a public portal designed to monitor ICE activity and alert residents to the presence of federal agents. – Sherrill urged residents to record immigration enforcement operations if they encounter them.

Center For Immigration Studies: The High Cost of Immigrant Welfare – Analysis of the U.S. government’s Survey of Income and Program Participation in Minnesota shows that more than half of immigrant-headed households use at least one welfare program today. – By their consumption of scarce public resources, immigrants make it more difficult to assist the poor who were born here…

Slay News: An Investigation Exposes Ilhan Omar’s Supposed ‘Winery’ as a ‘Shell Business Used to Launder Funds’ – Angela Rose traveled to its listed address in Santa Rosa, California. – “No business license exists for ESTRCRU [Ilhan Omar’s Winery] at this address. – The listed address, 1160 Hopper Ave Apt B in Santa Rosa, hosts more than 40 wineries, yet the property owner reportedly confirmed ESTCRU is not among them.

American Thinker: Trust, but verify is the perfect rhetorical wisdom for dealing with Democrats complaining about the SAVE Act. – Democrats fear their voter numbers will sag if voter fraud is curtailed. – The SAVE Act would ensure the integrity of our electoral system, which is the foundation upon which our representative form of government stands…

City Journal: An Anti-ICE Movement Increasingly Run by Revolutionaries – Two leading anti-ICE groups are Centro Community Service Organization and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Both have been subjected to federal scrutiny, including raids by the FBI. – They work through local chapters and affiliate networks to push militancy into what were once nonviolent protests…

American Thinker: A Leftist Anti-ICE Fantasy – Do liberals yearning to join the anti-ICE supposedly peaceful protests in Minneapolis realize who they are defending? – Rapists, sex predators, child molesters, pedophiles, the sodomizer of a young girl, murderers, muggers, sexual exploiters of minors. – I could bring a Sig Sauer handgun with me, because what says peaceful protest more than bringing a loaded gun?…

Washington Examiner: Rents fell again in January, the sixth month in a row, leaving them 1.4% lower than a year ago, the first decline in decades. – President Trump’s mass deportation policies are not the only reason for the decline, but they are a big contributing factor. – Many homes are becoming available due to permitting reforms that have made construction easier and less expensive.

American Thinker: The Leftist Bureaucracy Saps America’s Can-Do Spirit – Without the spirit that once landed us on the moon, we are a nation of risk-averse milquetoasts, ready for a complete socialist takeover. – Program managers understand that they’ll be pilloried for delays and overruns, so they spread responsibility to minimize risk. – NASA’s Artemis program – New York MTA East Side Access – The Boston “Big Dig” – The Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier…

February 5, 2026

Center Square: Republicans reject the Democrats’ Ten ‘Ridiculous’ demands for DHS reform – U.S. lawmakers have eight days to broker a deal on the Department of Homeland Security’s annual budget. – Senator Lindsey Graham, “The Democrats’ proposal is ridiculous because it would stop our ability to deport illegal immigrant criminals who present a danger to America.”…

Blaze Media: Police have arrested a Maryland man who allegedly plotted to kill the Office of Management and Budget director, Russell Vought. – Police said that 26-year-old Colin Demarco of Rockville was seen wearing rubber gloves and a surgical mask on Aug. 10 when a witness on the porch of the victim spotted him. – He appeared to be concealing a firearm and carried a backpack…

Daily Signal: The Media’s Double Standard Toward Obama and Trump on Deportations – 1. During the Obama administration, the ‘sanctuary cities’ cooperated fully with ICE and Homeland… So, this, in fact, is the politicians’ fault because they pick and choose who they want to cooperate with. – 2. The media and Democrats loved Obama, so they looked the other way. – 3. There was no “ICE Watch”…

American Spectator: Left-Wing “WOKE” Activists Ran Off the Normal People Who Knew How to Do Their Jobs – So now we are paying the price. – People with the knowledge and skills to keep things running smoothly either get forced out or leave in disgust. Take, for instance, the electrical outage in Nashville, the Palisades Fire in Los Angeles, the public water system in Jackson, Mississippi, and the Art Institute of Chicago…

Gateway Pundit: Kamala Harris Continues To Show How Out of Touch She Is – The HQ account she used during the campaign will now be called Headquarters67 – My children have informed me that “67” is already old, tired, and cringe, so once again, Kamala is coming up short.

Breitbart: Top Democrats issued more than 40 demands for amnesty-like curbs on ICE operations late on Wednesday, amid negotiations over the 2026 budget for the Department of Homeland Security. – The demands add up to a very unpopular stealth amnesty for tens of millions of illegal migrants because they would entangle ICE officers in bureaucratic handcuffs and enable personal threats to their families…

Zero Hedge: Democrats Just Gave Away The Real Reason They’re Fighting Immigration Enforcement – Buried in their long list of demands is this. – Prohibit funds from being used to conduct immigration enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc...

Zero Hedge: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem shares that another leaker has been identified and removed. – Additionally, she is referring their conduct to the Dept of Justice for criminal prosecution. – The good news is that the process to identify the subversive agents inside the various offices of the administration continues to yield results…

Study Finds: America’s Political Divide Surged 64% Between 2008 And 2020, But Only One Side Grew More Extreme – The Left shifted substantially further left while the Right barely moved. – Every issue became tribal: Abortion, healthcare, racial justice, and family values all became tightly bundled, knowing someone’s position on one issue now predicts their stance on everything else…

Gateway Pundit: Donald Trump Signaled A Shift on Deportation Efforts, With The Feds Only Entering Sanctuary Cities If Mayors Explicitly “Ask” For Help And “Invite” Them In – Trump, “We have five cities that we’re looking at very strongly, but we want to be invited.” – “We will sometimes call the governors and say, “Are you going to invite us?”

American Thinker: Moral Universalism and the Minnesota Lesson – Modern Western liberalism rests on a deceptively simple premise: that human beings, regardless of origin or creed, will respond to freedom, generosity, and equality with reciprocal goodwill. From this assumption flows an expansive immigration regime, and a political culture that treats skepticism as prejudice…

American Thinker: Demonizing ICE Is A Losing Strategy – With nothing else to run on, Democrats appear to think that demonizing ICE officers will be enough to win them control of Congress come November. – There are many reasons why it likely won’t work. – First, November is a long way off. – Second, deportations aren’t necessarily a winning issue for Democrats…

Slay News: The FBI announced that authorities arrested 55 individuals in a sweeping takedown of a Georgia-based drug trafficking network accused of distributing dangerous narcotics, including deadly fentanyl, across the United States. – The organization is tied to a supplier in Communist China. – The arrests come as federal authorities intensify efforts to curb the flow of fentanyl.

Live Mint: The Trump administration is making it easier to fire 50,000 federal workers – The Office of Personnel Management is creating a new category of worker for high-ranking career employees whose work focuses on executing the administration’s policies. – Workers that fall under the new category won’t be able to appeal firings, suspensions, or disciplinary action to an independent board.

The Federalist: The WSJ’s Tulsi Gabbard Hoax Is Straight From The Russia-Collusion Playbook – The real story is the relentless recycling of the same hoax playbook and the media’s grotesque complicity. – A complaint against her was reviewed and closed because it lacked credibility. – But secrecy surrounding the complaint was repackaged as proof that something terrible must have occurred…

Gatestone Institute: UN Secretary-General António Guterres is still pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. – There are only three ways to read Guterres’s position: he is completely clueless; he wants to see Israel eradicated; or he is happy to oblige his constituents at the UN, who would apparently like to see Israel eradicated…

American Thinker: Schools should teach science, not climate propaganda – Climate change propaganda has taken the place of serious science education in U.S. schools. – The infusion of climate alarmism into the public school curriculum has occurred in earnest for more than a decade, beginning with the 2013 launch of the Next Generation Science Standards…

Washington Free Beacon: Newsom’s Failures Are Exposed During The California Gubernatorial Debate – During this week’s debate, the moderator asked a question from “Henry in San Bernardino” that created an awkward situation for the Democrats on stage. -His fellow Democrats responded by denouncing the state’s high crime rate, poverty, homelessness, and high prices…

Center Square: The five largest cities in the US, all led by Democrats, didn’t have enough money to pay their bills in 2024. – The Truth in Accounting Financial State of the Cities 2026 report examined the fiscal health of the cities of Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York City, with NYC again leading the U.S. with the greatest taxpayer burden.

Resist The Mainstream: Politico Reports Democrats are Done With the Clintons – The shift toward progressive politics appears to be leaving behind two of its most prominent figures from recent decades. – Their situation became starkly apparent following a Jan. 21 vote by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to hold both of them in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with a subpoena…

Resist The Mainstream: Mamdani Faces Criticism for His Hospital Visit and Mental Health Approach Following The Police Shooting of a Knife-Wielding Suspect – Officers attempted to isolate him behind a glass door and de-escalate the situation, but body camera footage shows he continued advancing on officers, prompting officers to open fire. – He survived and remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition.

Washington Free Beacon: How a Homeless Encampment and Drug Dealers Are Destroying a Local Condominium Complex and Turning Its Residents’ Lives Upside Down – Prince George’s County, Md, is going to court to evict legal residents over damage allegedly caused by the camp. – Tenants must navigate needles and feces, as addicts nap half-naked outside residents’ doors…

February 4, 2026

American Thinker: Trump Must Prevent The UK From Handing Over Diego Garcia To Mauritius – Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic fear that this move could give China a strategic advantage across the East African coast, the Middle East, the Indian Ocean, and all the way to Australia’s western coast. – Diego Garcia is critically important to the U.S. and its allies for deploying naval and air power…

Epoch Times: Three US Warships Were Dispatched to Haiti as Part of Campaign Against Drug Traffickers – The U.S. embassy said the deployment shows Washington’s ‘unwavering commitment to Haiti’s security, stability, and brighter future.’ – The U.S. Embassy, “The U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard reaffirm their partnership and support to ensure a safer and more prosperous Haiti.”

American Spectator: After Iran, the Masks Come Off. – As it appears more and more likely that Iran’s mullahs will fall, dramatic realignments have been occurring in the Middle East.Saudi Arabia previously felt threatened by Qatar due to its support of the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamic movements, but they are both Sunni Muslim states, whereas Iran is Shia. – Welcome to the great Muslim Sunni-Shia divide…

American Thinker: Were the Chinese ‘practicing’ on Americans at that illegal biological lab discovered in Las Vegas? – The story of that illegal Chinese biological lab found in Las Vegas keeps getting creepier. – The lab, which was located inside an Airbnb house that accommodated paying guests, apparently left at least some guests “deathly ill,” according to this local television report…

Sharyl Attkisson: President Trump is delivering real, immediate relief to American families struggling with high housing costs. – The national median rent fell to its lowest level since 2022. – According to new data, rents posted their sixth straight monthly decline in January, with the largest annual drop in more than two years, down 6.2% from their Biden-era peak.

Western Journal: Trump Set to Revive Presidential Super Bowl Pre-Game Interview Tradition That Biden Ditched – The tradition began in 2004 when former President George W. Bush sat down with CBS. – Biden did not participate in 2023 and 2024. – Last year, Trump jabbed Biden for not showing up. – “They ask a question, and you give them an answer.” – “It’s not that hard.”

One America News: Independent journalist Nick Shirley wins The $100K X-sponsored writing award, celebrating his viral Minnesota fraud exposé. – The six-figure prize spotlights Shirley’s in-depth exposé into ongoing Minnesota daycare fraud schemes, a report he published directly on the X platform to bypass traditional media gatekeepers and bring the scandal to light.

American Spectator: California Doubles Down On Its Infamous Boondoggle – Governor Gavin Newsom touted the high-speed rail during his visit this week to the Central Valley. – The premise of the rail line was to quickly connect the Bay Area to Southern California. – But thanks to politics and cost factors, the current plan is to connect the small cities of Merced and Bakersfield, which don’t need it…

Breitbart: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ordered the watering down of the after-action report following the crippling wildfires of January 2025. – As previously reported, an initial report from the LA Times noted that the famed after-action report released by the LAFD showed it had multiple deletions and redactions to provide a smoother picture than what actually happened…

Daily Wire: Canada’s Massive And Supposedly ‘Voluntary’ Gun Buyback Program Comes With Prison Time – Gun owners who refuse to comply with Ottawa’s ban could face up to five years in prison. – Since May 2020, the Canadian government has attempted to institute a massive “assault-style firearms compensation program” that will purportedly trade cash for prohibited guns.

Daily Wire: Another Major Medical Group Reverses Course On Trans Surgeries For Minors – The American Medical Association, which wields major influence as the nation’s largest medical association, has reversed course on its position concerning transgender surgical procedures for minors.

Daily Wire: Several Ransom Notes, Yet No Suspects As The Search For Savannah Guthrie’s Mom Continues – Authorities indicate they are taking all tips and leads very seriously. – The search for the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie enters day four, and as each new twist emerges, the case seems to get even more disturbing…

Post Millennial: BREAKING, Ryan Routh is sentenced to life in prison for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on September 15, 2024. – He was later found guilty of attempting to assassinate then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, but was not sentenced at that time. – Judge Aileen Cannon just sentenced Routh to life in prison plus 84 months.

Just The News: A new report warns of “infiltration” of America’s colleges and universities by Chinese students with links to the CCP and blacklisted Chinese companies. – Chinese students working at some of America’s top colleges, often receiving U.S. federal funding to conduct research into advanced technologies, have troubling backgrounds that could pose a risk to U.S. security…

Slay News: The CCP Pushes The Yuan as The Global Reserve Currency in A Direct Challenge to The Dollar-Dominated System – While China has spent years promoting wider use of the renminbi, Xi Jinping’s recent remarks expose his most explicit articulation to date of a strategy aimed at elevating the yuan into the top tier of global currencies…

Geller Report: Thune Refuses to Force the Vote on SAVE Act – He knows that his spineless, gutless RINO allies would kill voter ID to protect their careers. – So instead of honoring the deal to use a standing filibuster and force a real vote, Thune is ducking, weaving, and stalling — He’s just another Mitch McConnell, but in a cheaper suit…

Daily Wire: 55 Million Views Prove Nicki Minaj Was Right About Voter ID – “The American people are with Nicki Minaj.” – She decried the efforts of leftists to quash the idea of voter ID, which would require voters to show a photo identification to vote in national elections. – A CNN poll showed 95% of Republicans and 71% of Democrats favor photo ID to vote…

Cypher News: Hollywood Celebrities Are ‘Dancing Monkeys’ With Zero Power – Most people think celebrities run Hollywood, which is a big laugh. – They don’t, and it’s not even close. – They just work there. – Once you understand that, a lot of their strange behavior suddenly makes sense. Let’s get into it. – Studios, labels, financiers, and distributors decide who works, who disappears, and who gets replaced…

Slay News: Kristi Noem Mandates The Use Of Body Cameras for All Minneapolis Federal Officers IMMEDIATELY – This decision emerges amid heightened tensions over immigration enforcement in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area. – Ongoing unrest, specifically tied to Operation Metro Surge, has hindered law enforcement efforts.

Slay News: Minneapolis ‘Anti-ICE’ Protests Exposed as Astroturf Operation Funded by Democrat Donor Networks – What was billed as a “grassroots” uprising against immigration enforcement in Minnesota is now facing serious scrutiny after new research suggested the movement was anything but organic. – Investigators say the operation bears all the hallmarks of a professionally coordinated, donor-funded activist campaign…

American Wire: It’s always the race card with these jokers! – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed against a bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote in elections, throwing down the race card by likening the SAVE Act to segregation-era Jim Crow laws. – Schumer calls mandatory voter ID ‘modern-day Jim Crow,’ yet it was Democrats who originally enacted Jim Crow laws…

Newmax: The White House is creating a new anti-fraud task force to crack down on abuse of government-funded programs in California and other states. – Vice President JD Vance will lead the initiative, which is expected to focus on rooting out fraud schemes that exploit taxpayer-backed benefits and public assistance programs…

American Thinker: Ground Zero Minnesota As The US Embraces the Culture War – These rallies are orchestrated, and the escalation of conflict and violence against ICE is deliberate and professionally organized. – Indivisible, founded in 2016 in resistance to Donald Trump, or the 50501 Movement, regularly conducts training, coordinates operations, and keeps these protest actions alive…

Daily Wire: Hegseth’s War Department Says Scouting America, Formerly Known As The Boy Scouts of America, Must Roll Back Its Woke Policies Or Lose Military Support. – Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell shared in a statement posted to X. He went on to say that the department had been “reviewing its relationship” with the Boy Scouts after the organization had “lost its way.”

Real Clear Politics: One afternoon in January, President Trump sent the stocks of the military-industrial complex stumbling. – He did so by complaining that defense contractors are paying dividends too generously, buying back their own stock too aggressively, and compensating executives too lavishly. – Trump loves a booming market, but has grown frustrated with prime defense contractors…

Western Journal: Amazon Scrambles to Get ‘Melania’ Into Hundreds of New Theaters After Monday Numbers Blow Away Expectations. – The divide between ordinary Americans and the elitist gatekeepers in every industry has never appeared more stark. – “Melania” raked in more than $7 million on its opening weekend and added another $1 million on Monday…

Daily Wire: Elon Musk’s Wild Space Gamble Could Decide Who Controls AI’s Future – The power generated from his planned orbital data centers could satisfy the enormous energy demands of xAI. – Musk, “Given that you could harness roughly 100,000 times more energy than Earth and still be using less than a millionth of the Sun’s energy by creating power grids in orbit.”…

Daily Wire: A Heroic Teen Swam For Hours To Save His Family Stranded At Sea Due To Weather Changes – 13-year-old Austin Appelbee’s story has gone viral for his “superhuman” rescue efforts. – He swam 2.5 miles back to shore and alerted authorities, who performed a helicopter rescue of his family members still adrift off the coast of Quindalup Beach in Western Australia.

American Thinker: The Democrats who cry ‘Wolf!’ – People question Ilhan Omar’s story because if you repeatedly lie to and about people, you shouldn’t be surprised if, eventually, no one believes you. – Then there is the leftist narrative that Renee Good was a secular saint, ignoring that she actively participated in organized anti-ICE activities through ICE Watch. – Another leftist narrative is that Alex Pretti was a saint, too…

American Thinker: Leftists are inciting a civil war for their survival – Changing demographics are working against them. – They desperately need open borders and illegal voters who don’t need to show ID. – Recently, CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten noted that Democrats may struggle to win the Electoral College in the upcoming presidential elections as more people move to red states. – We have to be eternally vigilant…

Zero Hedge: The U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 4 allowed California to use its newly redrawn congressional map in the upcoming midterm elections over the objections of Republicans who filed to block it. – The decision in Tangipa v. Newsom came in an unsigned order. No justices dissented. The court did not explain its ruling…

California Globe: How Governor Newsom Destroyed California in Two Terms – Cut water off to rural areas in the state. – Removed dams and hydroelectric plants. – Limited water deliveries to farmers and ranchers, forcing them to shut down. – Created a housing shortage. – Raised the minimum wage so high that restaurant owners were forced to lay off employees. – Policies killing manufacturing. – Vilify first, then destroy the petroleum industry. – And the list goes on…

New York Post: Border czar Tom Homan, “As a result of the need for fewer law enforcement officers to do this work in a safer environment, I have announced, effective immediately, we will draw down 700 people.” – Homan announced plans last week to draw down personnel but didn’t disclose a specific number.

American Thinker: We Needed That Punch From The Democrat Donkey To Get Republicans To The Polls. – The Democrat victory in Tarrant County, Texas, was a blessing in disguise. – Rehmet won’t impact the GOP majority and won’t even get to serve, because the next session will be in 2027, or after the November election. – He won’t win the November election with Governor Abbott on the ballot seeking reelection…

Breitbart: Representative Brandon Gill introduced legislation Tuesday to impose a 25-year moratorium on immigration from Somalia. – He cited a failure to assimilate in the United States as well as the rampant abuse of federal benefits programs and fraud. – “Mass Somali immigration makes the United States weaker, poorer, and erodes social trust,” Gill said…

Post Millennial: The Washington Post is laying off around 30% of its staff, including over 300 of the around 800 reporters in the newsroom, as well as people on the business side. – The Post’s executive editor, Matt Murray, told newsroom employees that the paper had been losing too much money for too long and had not been meeting the needs of its readers.

Zero Hedge: Black Market Baby Farms, The Darkest Allegation From The Epstein Files Yet – The acts of Epstein and his accomplices are so horrid that even the DOJ’s best attempt at a limited hangout cannot fully shield their depravity from public perception. – Epstein and his accomplices were breeding undocumented children to sell on the black market as infants…

Zero Hedge: The EV Bloodbath – Carmakers Are Suffering Face-Melting Losses As Buyers Flee and Credits End – EVs appear to be one of the costliest strategic blunders in modern automotive history. – Major brands, including Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen, have collectively burned through nearly a staggering $114 billion on EV ventures between 2022 and late 2025…

February 3, 2026

Blaze Media: The latest Epstein files release EXPOSES Bill Gates, but mainstream media is silent – Unless it’s President Trump or a conservative on the chopping block, the media is likely to be silent about it, which is being vividly demonstrated now with the latest Epstein files revelations regarding Bill Gates sexual escapades…

Epoch Times: President Donald Trump signed a bill on Feb. 3 to end the four-day partial government shutdown. – This comes just hours after the House passed the package in a 217–214 vote. Twenty-one Republicans voted against the Senate-passed package, while 21 Democrats voted for it.

American Spectator: The Productivity Boom Economists Didn’t See Coming – Surging productivity is the latest Trump-era reality economists can’t explain away. – The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that productivity rose at an annualized rate of 4.9% in Q3 of last year and 4.1% in Q2, consistent with earlier estimates. – The numbers actually understate the remarkable upward shift in productivity…

Daily Caller: Democrats are happy that the focus on immigration enforcement is distracting from the state’s rampant fraud. – National attention surrounding the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti has put the issue of social services fraud in Minnesota on the “back burner,” according to Mark Ross, president of the St. Paul Police Federation…

Daily Signal: Speaker Johnson, ICE does not need a judicial warrant to arrest an illegal immigrant who already has an administrative warrant and decides to hide from the law in a private residence. – “When ICE executes a warrant, it’s an administrative warrant, and it’s issued by an immigration judge, which is sufficient legal authority.”

Daily Signal: The Trump administration will ask the Supreme Court to take up its case aimed at ending the protected immigration status of about 350,000 Haitians living in the US. – The protections from deportation were set to expire Tuesday, but District Judge Ana C. Reyes of the District of Columbia halted the administration’s move to end the status…

Daily Signal: 6 Things About Biden-Appointed U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, Who Blocked Trump’s Deportation of Haitian Immigrants – 1. ‘Transgender’ Military Service Ruling – 2. Litigating Against Trump – 3. Democrat Donor And Fundraiser – 4. ‘Much-Needed Diversity’ – 5. Applying the Rules to Biden DOJ – 6. Sentencing for Trump Tax Leaker…

Epoch Times: Why Skyrocketing Premiums Were Inevitable Under Obamacare’s Design – Premiums have more than doubled since Obamacare in 2014. – Insurance companies must insure any applicant, regardless of preexisting illness. – Community rating based on community demographics, limiting increases based on age and tobacco use. – Certain health benefits must be included in every plan. – Most adults are required to buy health insurance or pay a fine…

California Globe: Gavin Newsom’s Claims of a Poor Childhood Conflict with Reality – His father, William Newsom, was the attorney for the billionaire Getty Oil family, and managed their assets. – Gavin Newsom is a pretender. – For those unfamiliar with his devious ways, Sparkle Beach Ken might win them over. – He’s a master chameleon and tells whomever he is speaking to exactly what they want to hear. – It’s performative, devilish, diabolical, calculated, and wicked…

American Wire: James Woods 5-word response to Vogue’s Gavin Newsom love-fest article. – Vogue, “Let’s get this out of the way. He is embarrassingly handsome.” -Woods, “Vogue Magazine Newsom fluffer…Yeah, so was Ted Bundy. – Senator Rick Scott, “Fraud is rampant in California, the state is running huge deficits, and victims of the Palisades fires are still waiting for answers over a year later.

Cal Matters: California’s planned instant EV rebates would require automakers to match state funds – New budget language lays out how Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to structure a $200 million electric vehicle rebate program, including price caps, automaker matching funds, and a focus on first-time buyers.

Breitbart: The First Major Medical Group Opposes Sex Mutilating Surgeries for Minors – The American Society of Plastic Surgeons issued a position statement on Tuesday advising against sex change surgeries for minors. – The statement went to the group’s 11,000 members, recommending surgeons delay transgender-related chest, genital, and facial surgeries until a patient is at least 19 years old…

Townhall: A US Fighter Jet Shot Down An Iranian Drone Headed for an U.S. Aircraft Carrier – The drone “was flying towards the carrier and was shot down by a F-35 U.S. fighter jet.” – The U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was operating in the Arabian Sea, approximately 500 miles from Iran’s southern coast, when an Iranian Shahed-139 drone unnecessarily maneuvered toward the ship.”

Breitbart: Russia fired around 450 long-range drones and 70 missiles of various types at Ukraine in a major attack overnight. – The barrage came as NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Kyiv in a show of support. – Private power company DTEK said it was the heaviest barrage on the electricity network this year…

CNBC: The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a package of bills to reopen most of the government, which shut down Saturday morning. – The package next heads to President Trump’s desk for his signature, which he said he would sign immediately. – Now, Congress will turn to thorny negotiations over new guardrails on immigration enforcement in the DHS funding bill.

Zero Hedge: The European Union plans to propose a new critical-minerals partnership with the United States, aimed at limiting China’s influence and strengthening shared supply chains. – The EU is ready to sign a memorandum of understanding to create a “Strategic Partnership Roadmap” within three months to coordinate efforts to secure key minerals needed for modern technologies and reduce reliance on China’s low-cost supplies…

Zero Hedge: Homebuilders Are Working On A Massive Program To Build Up To 1 Million “Trump Homes” To Boost Affordability – Analysts estimate a gap of about 4.7 million to nearly 5 million housing units currently exists in the US. – Builders, Lennar and Taylor Morrison are among the firms that have worked on the proposal, which calls for builders to sell entry-level homes into a pathway-to-ownership program funded by private investors.

Zero Hedge: This viral video compilation circulating on social media lays bare Democrats’ dramatic reversal on immigration. – It showcases top party figures advocating for robust border security measures that they now vehemently oppose. – Their shift comes amid growing public demand for deportations and exposes their calculated pivot away from a majority of Americans.

Slay News: New Evidence Supports Witness Claim That Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself – The witness said that Epstein was “switched out” of the facility in a van and that his death was later staged to appear as a suicide. – One crucial detail is impossible to ignore: his post appeared roughly one hour before Epstein’s death was publicly reported, strongly suggesting inside knowledge of unfolding events at the jail. – That anonymous witness has now been identified…

Slay News: Explosive new documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice have thrown disgraced former U.K. Cabinet minister Peter Mandelson back into the spotlight. – Newly revealed emails show he secretly funneled market-sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein during the height of the global financial crisis…

Townhall: Tulsi Gabbard Vows to Protect Election Integrity in Scathing Letter to Congress – Buried deep in the WSJ hit piece was this tidbit that blew up the entire complaint against Gabbard: “A representative for the inspector general said the office had determined specific allegations against Gabbard were not credible.” – So it’s no coincidence that the piece dropped after Gabbard was present at the recent FBI raid of Fulton County, GA.

Just The News: The whistleblower complaint on DNI Gabbard bears hallmarks of past attempts at anti-Trump controversies – Gabbard’s spokeswoman said the whistleblower complaint has the indicators of a “politically motivated weaponization” designed to contrive a narrative damaging to Gabbard, mirroring past intelligence community complaints against President Donald Trump…

Newsmax: The Dates Are Set for The Clintons to Testify in The House Epstein Probe – Hillary Clinton will testify before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Feb. 26, and Bill Clinton will appear on Feb. 27. – It will mark the first time that lawmakers have compelled a former president to testify.

Daily Wire: The Warmth Of Collectivism A Month Into Mamdani’s Term and NYC Is Covered In Massive Piles Of Trash – “Eight-foot piles of rat-infested trash are choking the streets around Gracie Mansion.” – However, the sidewalks outside Mamdani’s home “are squeaky clean. – Less than a month into his term, his aspirational rhetoric has collided with brutal reality…

Breitbart: Chief Jim McDonnell made clear that the Los Angeles Police Department will not enforce California’s mask ban for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. – The ban, titled the “No Secret Police Act,” went into effect at the beginning of 2026.

The Federalist: On Monday, Indiana lawmakers upgraded an immigration bill to require sheriffs to honor immigration detainers, require hospitals to identify illegal aliens using Medicaid, and penalize employers that hire illegal labor. – State Representative J.D. Prescott, ” We are doing everything we can to honor detainer requests, and assist ICE in getting these illegal immigrants out of our state.”…

Daily Wire: Federal prosecutors in Chicago say illegal immigrants exploited U.S. Medicare and supplemental insurance systems on a massive scale. – They filed more than $1 billion in fraudulent claims for medical equipment and diagnostic tests that were never delivered. – And in some cases, they were never authorized by patients or doctors…

American Thinker: Democrats Vote For ‘Confidence’ Candidates Instead Of Competent Ones – Today’s Democrats have elevated the confidence man to an art form, prioritizing swagger and ideological purity over competence and truth. – They vote not for leaders who can deliver results, but for those who confidently spew falsehoods while stoking hatred against conservatives…

American Thinker: Social Psychosis In Minneapolis – When protesters start to believe they’re bulletproof, we have a problem. – It appears that we are in the midst of another moral panic, one emerging from the demonization of Donald Trump, his supporters, and anyone who carries out his policies, including law enforcement officers…

American Thinker: Hiding behind the Fourth Amendment – Leftists can’t ‘plead the Fourth’ to hide illegal aliens in your home. – The Fourth Amendment was created to assert a citizen’s private property exclusion from government or other military occupation, turning your home into an army barracks for transient soldiers, and to assert a citizen’s privilege over private papers and records, among other property.

American Thinker: The European Union’s decision to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization is a major turning point in the relationship between Brussels and Tehran. – After years of debate, hesitation, and internal divisions, the EU’s decision shows a clear shift away from decades of appeasement toward a policy of accountability…

Daily Wire: Trump’s Energy Policy Just Fueled A $1B Investment In American Power And Jobs – Siemens Energy is scaling up U.S. production of grid and gas turbine equipment, supporting strong growth in the U.S. market. – Their investments will create more than 1,500 highly skilled jobs in the U.S. – Siemens will also expand their apprenticeship program and promote training throughout the energy Industry…

Washington Examiner: Senate Majority Leader John Thune denies promising that Senate Republicans would weaken the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act, saying that he only agreed to speak with the rest of his conference about it. – “We haven’t made any commitments,” Thune said, rebuffing suggestions from Representative Anna Paulina Luna that he was prepared to embrace the talking filibuster…

February 2, 2026

Gateway Pundit: After a meeting with President Trump, John Thune signaled the Senate is prepared to bring the SAVE Act to the floor without the modern, abuse-ridden 60-vote blockade by using a “STANDING FILIBUSTER.” – Under a standing filibuster, senators who want to delay a bill must actually stand, speak, and debate. – Once the debate ends, only 50 votes are needed for passage…

American Conservative: White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi are expected to meet this Friday in Istanbul to discuss a possible nuclear deal. – The meeting would mark the first direct contact between U.S. and Iranian officials since last June, when negotiations collapsed, and the U.S. joined the Israeli bombing operation against Tehran…

Epoch Times: Trump Says The UN Has Tremendous Potential, And Can Settle Wars After He Has Gone – ‘The U.N. is not leaving New York, and it’s not leaving the US, because the U.N. has tremendous potential.’ – The NYT reported that the U.N. might run out of money by July and be forced to close its headquarters by August due to dues owed by several member countries, including the US.

One America News: President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., has coincided with the capital recording its lowest homicide levels in a decade at the start of 2026. – The district marked its first three-week stretch without a single murder in nearly 30 years, with the first homicide of 2026 not occurring until January 21st…

Newsmax: Pete Hegseth, “President Trump Is Unleashing US Space Power.” – “The Department of War is partnering with the greatest companies in America to ensure the U.S. maintains superiority in the ultimate high ground.” – “Private industry innovation is essential to equipping warfighters “at the tip of the spear” with cutting-edge capabilities.”

City Journal: Inside Minneapolis’s ICE Watch Network – A key organizer of these activities is “Defend the 612.” – The group, whose membership apparently included Renee Good, oversees a massive network of Signal chats dedicated to monitoring and protesting ICE activity. It has become the beating heart of the city’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement…

Daily Caller: Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have agreed to comply with the House’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation. – For months, the Clintons refused to honor subpoenas from the Republican-led House Oversight Committee, arguing the demands were invalid and politically motivated…

New York Post: Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX acquired his artificial intelligence firm xAI on Monday. – The deal gave the companies a whopping combined valuation of $1.25 trillion, according to Bloomberg. – Musk has said he wants to launch AI data centers into space, an expensive plan that would require SpaceX’s capabilities and a significant cash infusion…

Breitbart: In just one weekend, Melania’s $7 million, three-day weekend haul has already out-grossed the entire domestic run of five 2025 movies nominated for Academy Awards this year, including two Best Picture nominees. – The Secret Agent: $3.25 million – Sentimental Value: $4.57 – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: $1.09 million – Blue Moon: $2.11 million — It Was Just an Accident: $1.78 million…

Epoch Times: US and India to Slash Tariffs Under New Trade Deal, Trump Says – The deal will result in India charging a zero percent levy on American goods entering the country, and will cease buying oil from Russia. – As part of the deal, the United States will cut its reciprocal tariff rate from 25 percent to 18 percent…

Trending Politics: A Sanctioned Russian Plane Lands In Cuba After Trump Declared A National Emergency – Flight records indicate the plane made multiple stops, including St. Petersburg, Sochi, Mauritania, and the Dominican Republic, before continuing to Cuba. This provides a rare glimpse into which countries continue to allow Russian military-linked aircraft to operate internationally despite Western sanctions…

Epoch Times: The FAA Accepts Its Systematic Failures Led to Fatal Midair Collision Near Reagan National Airport. – The NTSB revealed the probable cause of the crash on Jan. 27, citing the FAA’s decision to allow a helicopter route to operate close to a runway approach path at Reagan National, along with multiple other “systemic failures” at the agency…

Slay News: The latest release of the Jeffrey Epstein Files detonated an explosive political firestorm in the UK. – The newly disclosed emails exposed disturbing conversations between Epstein and the UK’s former Ambassador to the United States, Lord Peter Mandelson, one of Britain’s most powerful Labour Party figures and a longtime anti-Trump operative…

Daily Caller: Masked Anti-ICE Thugs Assaulted A Reporter At An Illegal Minneapolis Roadblock – A band of masked individuals used traffic cones, wooden materials, furniture, and other objects to regulate traffic on 32nd and Cedar Ave., checking vehicles’ license plates with a database to see if they belonged to ICE, footage shows…

Zero Hedge: A Conservative Hardliner Was Just Elected President Of Costa Rica. – High on the minds of Costa Rican voters as they went to the polls on Sunday was undoubtedly the surge in drug-related violence across the otherwise stable Central American country, which has been a trend for the region generally.- Laura Fernandez quickly declared victory Monday morning…

Zero Hedge: Clinton Appointed U.S. District Judge Fred Biery Went On An Unhinged Rant In His Order Releasing Illegals – A few examples: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.” – “The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas…

Daily Wire: Turning Point USA Unveils A Star-Studded ‘All-American Halftime Show’ To Rival Super Bowl’s Bad Bunny Halftime – “We’re approaching this show like David and Goliath,” Kid Rock said in a statement. – Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice, and Gabby Barrett will take the stage in a show TPUSA says will celebrate faith, family, and freedom…

Townhall: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is taking Tim Walz’s route and vowing to block New York law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. – We all saw how that played out in Minneapolis, but Democrats seem eager to spread the chaos across the country. – Apparently, Hochul doesn’t actually want to keep New York safe…

Townhall: Democrats Are in for a Rude Awakening on Immigration. – A new Cygnal poll shows Trump’s deportation agenda is growing more popular with the American people despite Democrat and media best efforts to malign the administration. – 73% say coming here illegally is breaking the law. – 61% support deporting illegals. – 58% oppose defunding ICE. – 54% support ICE enforcing our immigration laws…

Gateway Pundit: President Trump, Eric Trump, Don Jr., and the Trump Org filed a lawsuit against the IRS for leaking their tax returns. – They are seeking $10 billion in damages. – President Donald J. Trump is preparing to settle his massive $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury Department, and he says he will donate the entire payout to reputable charities rather than keep a penny for himself.

The Federalist: The Senate GOP Can Fix Elections, Boost Trump, And Wreck Democrats With The SAVE Act – A voter ID filibuster would be a 24/7 GOP campaign ad. – What if I told you Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has the power and the votes — right now — to save Republicans’ congressional majorities, President Trump’s second-term agenda, and maybe the republic itself, all while poleaxing Democrats on the short side of an 84-15 issue?…

American Thinker: Trump’s First Year Was A Triumph, But Republicans Aren’t Acting Like It – On immigration, Trump achieved negative net migration for the first time in fifty years, removing over 2.6 million illegal aliens, including 400,000 convicted or charged criminals. – Crime rates plummeted, and homicides fell by the largest margin in U.S. history. – Gas prices fell…

American Conservative: Trump Sets Course for Regime Change in Cuba – With Maduro out, the U.S. is tightening the noose around the island nation. – Cuba lived, for many years, on large amounts of OIL and MONEY from Venezuela. In return, Cuba provided “Security Services” for the last two Venezuelan dictators, BUT NOT ANYMORE! – The electrical grid on the island is collapsing and rolling blackouts are now common…

American Thinker: Dr. Oz Takes Down Gavin Newsom – How many smears, scandals, and charges of gross incompetence can a single politician absorb before the facade starts to crack? – Dr. Mehmet Oz is in Newsom’s backyard, uncovering, yet again, another industrial-scale fraud as the powerful administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, as he arrives with an army of auditors…

Breitbart: Ambassador Laura Dogu has arrived in Caracas with diplomatic personnel to reopen the U.S. embassy in the Venezuelan capital after a seven-year pause. – Dogu was welcomed by Foreign Minister Yván Gil, who indicated that the American diplomat’s arrival is part of a working agenda between both countries “aimed at establishing a roadmap for work on matters of bilateral interest…

Daily Caller: New Jersey Governor, Mikie Sherrill, Who Ran On ‘transparency,’ Reportedly Used A Loophole To Host A Secret Ritzy Dinner With Donors. – Sherrill recently hosted a dinner for executives, lobbyists, unionists, and anyone else who could afford a $100,000 minimum entry donation. – A loophole enabled donors to give well over $250,000, despite a state capping inaugural contributions at $500…

American Thinker: Nurses, Heal Thyself, TDS Has Entered Hospitals – A failure of medical ethics that seems to be spreading. – Based on recent events, the following question is unavoidable. – Why are some nurses now publicly calling for the torture, abuse, and death of people whose political views they dislike?. – Consider the case of a nurse who was fired after posting TikTok videos suggesting ways to harm ICE agents. – Or the nurse…

American Thinker: Remembering The Presidency – After last week, nothing remains of the argument that 2020 was “the cleanest election on record.” – Now that the great coverup has failed and the facts about 2020 election fraud are exploding far and wide, what do we do about the historical record?. – In sports, when a question exists concerning a matter of record, an asterisk is often added with a brief explanation in a footnote…

Geller Report: STAGGERING CALIF-FRAUD – Almost 20% of ALL U.S. Home Health Activity Comes From Just One Place: Los Angeles – That single county now has more hospice agencies than 36 states combined. – One doctor alone was caught fraudulently billing taxpayers $120 MILLION. – Investigators uncovered a surreal scam hub of 287 hospice providers packed into a two-mile radius…

California Globe: California’s Auditor Proves The State’s Government is Too BIG and Unaccountable – Waste, inefficiency, improper hiring, and other improper governmental activities are to blame. – There are some real doozies here: The Employment Development Department – The California Air Resources Board – California’s Department of Veterans Affairs – The Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control…

American Thinker: If You Drive A Car, I’ll Tax The Street – Someone must enjoy leading the nation in gas prices way out west.- The latest tax will drive more taxpayers out of the state. – California drivers and Republican legislators are furious over a Democrat-led proposal that could see motorists taxed for each mile they drive. – Californians pay the second-highest gas price in the nation behind only Hawaii…

Center Square: Medi-Cal pays an estimated $608 million per month for cooking, shopping, cleaning, and laundry services for elderly and disabled low-income California residents, including illegal immigrants, at their homes. – This is mostly paid to their relatives, state records show. – The program has grown so rapidly that it is responsible for 41% of job gains in California since January 2019…

Western Journal: Texas’ Extensive Wind and Solar Facilities Failed During This Week’s Winter Storm, And The Grid Was Powered by ‘Natural Gas and Coal’ – “Wind, solar, and batteries fell from briefly supplying ~63% of generation to ~7% within roughly 48 hours.” – By the early morning hours of Jan. 26, natural gas, goal, and nuclear were providing 89% of all the state’s power.

Washington Free Beacon: Mainstream Media Breathlessly Covered an Alleged Hate Crime in Which White Kids Forced a Black Classmate To Drink Urine. – But it was a Giant Hoax. – A Texas judge ordered a $3.2 million judgment against a black mother and the attorney who falsely alleged her son was ‘tortured’ by a white friend…

Study Finds: A Canadian Study Shows – 1. Psychosis diagnoses among 14- to 20-year-olds surged 60% between 1997 and 2023, while rates in older adults stayed flat or declined. – 2. Teens born in the early 2000s face more than double the risk of psychosis diagnosis by age 20 compared to those born in the late 1970s – 3. The increases could stem from multiple modern exposures, including…

Daily Wire: The Grammys Didn’t Expose ICE, It Exposed Hollywood Hypocrisy. – Real Americans are tired of being lectured by people who will never pay the price for the policies they promote. – Celebrities like Billie Eilish, Teddy Swims, and Justin Bieber donned “ICE Out” pins and used their acceptance speeches to condemn ICE and lecture Americans about justice, compassion, and humanity…

February 1, 2026

American Spectator: The Abigail Spanberger Bait-and-Switch – Virginia voted for a ‘moderate,’ but got a sanctuary state, tax-and-spend ideologue. – Spanberger quickly revealed her far-left ideological governing philosophy when she reversed her predecessor’s policy to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and moved to bring Virginia back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative…

Epoch Times: The Trump–Kennedy Center Will Close for 2 Years for Renovations – The reconstruction will ‘turn it into a World Class Bastion of Arts, Music, and Entertainment,’ President Trump says. – Renovations will start once the center closes in July, with financing already “fully in place,” according to the president. He did not specify how much the renovation will cost.

American Thinker: We know the identity of the Border Guards behind Pretti’s shooting, and it matters that they’re Hispanic – Hispanic illegal aliens, with all their criminal pathologies and economic pressures, go to Hispanic neighborhoods—and legal Hispanics don’t like it. – Latin Americans account for the majority of illegal aliens in America. In 2017, it was estimated that 78% of illegal aliens came from Latin America…

New York Post: California’s ‘drag weight’ laws are drowning restaurants — Here are 10 of the worst examples: 1. The Private Attorneys General Act has a nuclear option that enables a single technical violation to turn into a statewide-style litigation risk, with penalties stacked per employee per pay period, and years of legal expense. 2. AB 1228, The Fast Food $20/hour Minimum Wage law $20/hour starting April 1, 2024) and a standard set a pricing/labor expectation that blead into the whole market….

American Thinker: Sicko, California AG Rob Bonta sues a San Diego hospital for ending ‘gender-affirming care’ for kids – Rady Children’s Hospital made a wise choice to end experimental treatment on children. – The woke AG doesn’t do medicine, but he sure does politics. – His suit is preposterous. – If the community really needed it, gender-affirming care clinics would be saturating the area…

American Thinker: Will New Election Evidence Damage the Supreme Court? – What happened in the 2020 election may turn out to be the biggest electoral scandal in U.S. history. – Rather than ensuring that the election represented the will of the people by hearing the evidence and taking appropriate action, the courts refused to hear the cases, claiming that the plaintiffs lacked “standing.”…

Washington Free Beacon: China Is Stealing Our Tech. And It’s Partly Our Fault. – The so-called miracle of China going from impoverished to one of two superpowers was accomplished by a level of thievery whose scope and scale are nothing short of breathtaking. – In 1986, the CCP created a national High-Tech R&D Program that marked China’s first formalized, state-sponsored initiative to compete with the West in emerging technologies…

New York Post: Trump threatens to sue author Michael Wolff and the Epstein estate, insisting the recent document dump absolves him. – Trump accused Wolff, who wrote an unauthorized biography of the president, of “conspiring” with Epstein to try to destroy his political career. – Wolff was featured in many of the Epstein documents published during last November’s release…

Geller Report: An Obama-appointed Radical Judge Has Released an Illegal MS-13 Gang Member Convicted of Murder – U.S. District Judge Richard F. Boulware II ruled that the government improperly attempted to deport Harvey Laureano-Rosales without due process. – Federal prosecutors strongly objected, noting that Laureano-Rosales has a final order of removal and is required by law to remain in immigration custody…

America First Report: President Donald Trump on Saturday announced federal authorities will not intervene in protests in Democrat-led jurisdictions, but will continue to forcefully protect federal property. – There will be no spitting in the faces of our Officers, there will be no punching or kicking the headlights of our cars, and there will be no rock or brick throwing at our vehicles.”…

America First Report: Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees. – U.S. Senator Rand Paul introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees, and illegal immigrants earlier this week…

American Thinker: Leftist Censors Cry about Censorship – We may speak the same language, but our words don’t mean the same things. – When society can’t agree upon the difference between “protest” and “terrorism,” we have a serious problem. We have seen this dilemma play out all over the Minneapolis area recently. – Since Obama’s presidency, that cancerous viewpoint discrimination metastasized in many directions…

Kayleigh McEnany: Ilhan Omar Isn’t the Only Squad Member with Skyrocketing Wealth – When Ayanna Pressley was elected to Congress back in 2018, she had a negative net worth. – Fast forward to today, she’s worth $1.3 million with assets worth up to 8 million. – That’s a massive increase in just six years…

Townhall: Agitators have taken to the streets of Los Angeles for the second night in a row to demonstrate against ICE and Homeland Security operations in the city. – Well over 1,000 individuals participate in what has been labeled as an “ICE Out” rally…

Slay News: DHS Has Arrested Hundreds of Illegal Aliens in Minnesota Convicted of Crimes Against Children, and Violent Offenses – The operation included individuals convicted of serious offenses such as sexual abuse of a minor, aggravated sexual assault, domestic assault, and narcotics possession for sale…

Geller Report: Outrage After Portland Teachers March Kindergarteners In An Anti-ICE Demonstration – This triggered widespread calls for the revocation of any licenses the Montessori School holds. – Critics say the footage raises serious questions about professional boundaries, parental consent, and the politicization of early childhood education…

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