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The Indictment Beneath the Indictment: SPLC’s Strategy for Silencing Americans

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When federal prosecutors finally brought down Al Capone, it wasn’t for murder, extortion, racketeering, or the violence that defined his criminal empire. It was for tax evasion. The charge was real. The conviction was legitimate. But no serious student of history believes tax evasion told the whole story of Capone’s criminal empire. It was simply the charge prosecutors believed they could most readily prove. Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center stands federally indicted on charges involving bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering.

Those charges are serious. But for those familiar with the SPLC’s destructive path, the indictment is just the tip of the iceberg of what appears to have been a much broader system of coordinated influence and institutional coercion.

First, I want to commend the FBI and the Department of Justice for their investigation and indictment. I am sure there are some here today who spent time with the FBI during this investigation. I spent considerable time with them explaining SPLC’s work and how their influence in the financial world impacted us as a Christian nonprofit.

With the indictment of SPLC, which has been the Left’s vanguard in their attack on conservative organizations who stood in their way, cowardly corporate figures who kowtowed to SPLC are starting to talk. So, we are learning more.

But there are several realities we need to understand.

Recognizing that traditional hate organizations like the Ku Klux Klan were drying up, the SPLC adjusted its business model by appointing itself as the national arbiter of “hate.” Leveraging its storied reputation from the civil rights era, it expanded its targets far beyond violent extremist groups.

The first reality we need to understand is this: although the indictment focused on SPLC’s money-raising scheme, SPLC’s real focus was its institutional influence on government, media, and corporate America.

Over time, SPLC hate and extremist classifications evolved into far more than media narratives. Their labels increasingly became a form of reputational risk assessment used by banks, payment processors, technology companies, financial compliance systems, law enforcement, media organizations, and even elements of the federal government.

The jewel of the SPLC operation was its Intelligence Project, which became deeply influential as the government, media, and finally financial institutions used their biased data in determining which organizations were viewed as acceptable participants in the financial and digital marketplace.

In November of 2010, the first wave of Christian organizations was placed on the SPLC hate map and hate list, with Family Research Council being among the most prominent.

In August of 2012, a gunman entered our headquarters in DC intending to carry out a mass shooting. He shot our building manager before he was disarmed. He carried 100 rounds of ammunition and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches, which he intended to stuff into the mouths of his victims. Why FRC? The gunman, Floyd Corkins, later confessed to federal agents that he selected FRC after using the SPLC website and hate map.

That, unfortunately, was not the last shooting related to individuals publicly targeted by SPLC. In 2017, then-Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Charlie Kirk last year.

Following the shooting at FRC, we appealed to SPLC to remove organizations like ours because it resulted in an act that was officially deemed domestic terrorism. They did not respond.

It is clear they did not want to remove the labels because of the institutional influence that had grown around them. The ability to silence the left’s opponents.

Around 2016, the SPLC led an ad hoc coalition of left-wing activist groups that began pressuring technology companies and financial institutions to deplatform and defund conservative organizations. PayPal was among the early targets, although its initial success was limited.

Then came Charlottesville.

Charlottesville was a catalytic event that rapidly accelerated SPLC’s efforts. It was a game-changer for them in terms of their efforts to bully corporations.

With that in mind, let me insert information directly from the federal indictment, which identified one of the many extremist group members allegedly funded by the SPLC: the individual identified as F-37. According to the indictment:

“A member of the online leadership of the chat group that planned [PLANNED] the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.”

Following Charlottesville, major corporations publicly aligned themselves with the SPLC. Apple donated $1 million. JPMorgan Chase and others followed.

Was Charlottesville designed to be a catalytic event to further SPLC’s efforts to move reluctant corporations?

Post Charlottesville in August of 2017, the ad hoc coalition formally organized into what became known as Change the Terms, led by the SPLC and the Center for American Progress.

The timeline of Change the Terms closely parallels the rapid acceleration of debanking and deplatforming directed at conservative and Christian organizations. BB&T, now Truist, notified us that, in accordance with our services agreement, they can, “at any time, close an account at our discretion.”

It’s a bit ironic that SPLC’s bank let them operate known fraudulent accounts for over a decade, according to the indictment.

Change the Terms sought to establish standards for technology and financial companies that would deny digital access and funding mechanisms to organizations deemed extremist by the SPLC’s definition.

SPLC officials were explicit about this strategy.

In congressional testimony delivered on January 15, 2020, SPLC official Lecia Brooks stated:

“For decades, the SPLC has been fighting hate and exposing how hate groups use the internet. We have lobbied internet companies, one by one, to comply with their own rules to prohibit their services from being used to foster hate or discrimination. A key part of this strategy has been to target these organizations’ funding.”

Brooks continued:

“On Oct. 25, 2018, the Change the Terms coalition, including the SPLC and other civil rights groups, released a suite of recommended policies for technology companies that would take away the online microphone that hate groups use to recruit members, raise funds and organize violence. In response to Change the Terms’ advocacy, several Silicon Valley leaders have made promising changes that align with the coalition’s vision for a safer online world.”

But Brooks went further, openly describing the pressure campaign:

“The public exposure was half the battle. We conducted the other part of the campaign privately. SPLC officials held dozens of meetings with top Silicon Valley executives. Some companies acted. Some took half steps. Others did little or nothing. But eventually, the far-right extremists who depended on Silicon Valley were beginning to feel the pain.”

What SPLC appears to have done, according to reports, is bully the cowardly corporations, leveraging their political connections, including regulators.

And finally, she said:

“Hate groups have clearly been damaged by the efforts of the SPLC and its allied organizations, including the Change the Terms coalition, to fight them and their funding sources online. But the fight is far from over.”

The fight is far from over.

This brings me to the second reality.

The indictment paints a picture that SPLC was propping up some of the very extremist entities it publicly claimed to be dismantling.

And the indictment makes clear these were not undercover informants or “snitches,” as we used to call them when I was a police officer. In some cases, these were individuals allegedly running or helping run operations.

The evidence appears to suggest that these extremist organizations served a larger purpose: providing potent imagery that immediately marginalized legitimate conservative and Christian organizations that were listed alongside these groups.

We need to be clear: this was not about SPLC’s financial survival.

For anyone tempted to feel sorry for the SPLC and start a GoFundMe account for its legal defense, SPLC’s 2024 audited financial statement shows an endowment fund of approximately $734 million.

Nor should anyone assume this indictment marks the end of the SPLC. They have more lives and tentacles than the Iranian regime.

While many financial institutions that partnered with or relied upon SPLC classifications beginning around 2017 have begun distancing themselves from the organization, the SPLC still maintains enormous institutional reach.

Its school-based program, Learning for Justice, formerly Teaching Tolerance, still reportedly reaches roughly 500,000 educators. Every public school system in America should be asked whether SPLC curriculum materials are being used in their schools.

SPLC’s public labeling system became far more than a public list. Whether by design or evolution, it functioned as a strategic weapon against conservatives who stood in the way of the Left’s agenda. Behind it, SPLC designations were increasingly used by media organizations to marginalize or exclude targeted individuals and groups, while also influencing banking access, digital platforms, fundraising capacity, and overall public legitimacy.

The indictment may focus on bank fraud and wire fraud. But like Al Capone’s tax evasion case, there is much beneath the surface: a sophisticated system of influence designed not merely to oppose ideas, but to marginalize and economically punish those who hold them.

These entities that collaborated with SPLC and did real harm to individuals and organizations should be held accountable as well.

And if America is to remain a nation where freedom of speech, religious liberty, and political dissent truly survive, then the broader conspiracy facilitated and directed by the SPLC must be confronted, exposed, and, where illegal conduct occurred, those responsible held accountable. Just as importantly, safeguards must be established to ensure such a system is never allowed to operate again.

AUTHOR

Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is president of Family Research Council and executive editor of The Washington Stand.

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Israel to Sue New York Times for Defamation

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The just-published New York Times piece by Nicholas Kristof, accusing Israel of horrific crimes, including the sexual abuse of “Palestinians” in Israeli prisons, with victims said to include men, women, and children, and of “training dogs” to rape “Palestinians” as well, has quite properly enraged the government and the people of Israel. The Office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in a Thursday, May 14 statement that Israel will take legal action against the Times over Kristof’s column.

More on this welcome news can be found here: “Israel to take legal action against ‘New York Times’ over claims of ‘dog rape’ of Palestinians,” by Shir Perets, Jerusalem Post, May 14, 2026:

Israel will take legal action against The New York Times over a column penned by Nicholas Kristof, which included allegations of serious sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a Thursday statement.

The PMO, which referred to the accusation as “one of the most hideous and distorted lies ever published against the State of Israel,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar instructed officials to begin preparing a defamation lawsuit against the publication.

“They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying to create a false symmetry between the genocidal terrorists of Hamas and Israel’s valiant soldiers,” Netanyahu wrote on X/Twitter….

The planned lawsuit would focus on whether statements in the article crossed the legal threshold from opinion or criticism into actionable defamation. It was not immediately clear where the lawsuit would be filed, what damages would be sought, or whether Israeli state institutions or individual officials would be listed as plaintiffs.

On Wednesday, the New York Times issued a statement affirming its support for Kristof’s controversial op-ed, saying he “draws together on-the-record accounts and cites several analyses documenting the practice of sexual violence and abuse conducted by various parts of Israel’s security forces and settlers.”

His “deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,’” the news outlet stated.

“The accounts of the 14 men and women he interviewed were corroborated with other witnesses, whenever possible, and with people the victims confided in – that includes family members and lawyers,” the outlet said.

Kristof’s sensationalist charges, including the charge that the IDF deliberately has trained dogs to “rape” “Palestinian” prisoners, has spread around the world, causing untold harm to Israel’s image. Kristof relied on “Palestinians” for this malignant misinformation, apparently unaware that “Palestinians” have a long history of lying, and he never bothered, prior to publication, to obtain a comment, and rebuttal, from Israel that he might at least have included in his piece; he might even have checked with canine trainers who, to a man, have now publicly spoken about the impossibility of training dogs to rape humans.

This isn’t the only part of Kristof’s hit piece that is blatantly false, but it is the most outrageous and unbelievable of his many outrageous and unbelievable claims. When Israel did respond to the piece, and denounced its wild fabrications, the NYT doubled down, claiming that it stood by Kristof’s piece, and by the “Palestinians” upon whose testimony he relied.

This was too much for the government of Israel to let pass with just a denunciation of the New York Times and Kristof. It knew his piece damages Israel’s reputation around the world, and not just among those who are always prepared to believe the worst of the Jewish state. That preposterous charge about that canine corps of doggy rapists, and other bizarre charges, too, which Kristof made, will now become the stuff of approving comments from Hamas, CAIR, the Iranian government, and of course wsuch people as Francesca Albanese, Roger Waters, Susan Sarandon, Rashida Tlaib, Wally Shawn, Zohran Mamdani, and others of that silly-sinister ilk, whose name, alas, is legion, will pick them up and repeat them.

Now the New York Times will be sued for defamation by the State of Israel. How much will it ask for? Let it be Trumpian in size — a billion dollars, or two, or more. How do you measure the cost of such lies being made and disseminated across the globe, to the reputation of the Jewish state? How many more attacks on Israelis or Jews will be the result of those baseless kristovian charges?

Israel thinks that the New York Times will rue the day it published Kristof’s hit piece, not because it will have come to its senses, morally — the New York Times long ago lost that sense when it comes to its reporting on Israel — but because having to pay a billion or two for having published Kristof’s calumny, which is a kind of updated version, applied to the Jewish state, of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, will be painful. Does anyone doubt that the State of Israel will be able to call on the best defamation lawyers in the world, no matter where the suit is brought?

But here is another question. Why should Israel limit itself to suing the Grey Lady? Shouldn’t the onlie begetter of this defamation, the egregious Nicholas Kristof, with his long history of anti-Israel animus, also be sued? Let his days be full of exhausting testimony, both his own and that of others, and of withering cross-examinations, as lawyers for the plaintiff make mincemeat of him, and when the verdict comes down, he who is morally bankrupt will now be personally bankrupt as well.

AUTHOR

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Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts

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The handbook “Criminal Investigator-Intelligence For the Frontline Analysts” is the ultimate ballistic weapon for the modern intelligence operative. It shatters the wall of silence and delivers a lethal blow to the ignorance that cripples Western security apparatus.

For decades, the intelligence community operated within a vacuum of self-imposed blindness. Analysts fed the machine a diet of sanitized, hollow data. This handbook terminates that era of failure. Dr. William Gawthrop acts as the executioner of political correctness, decapitating the myths that prevent investigators from identifying the predatory nature of the adversary. This text serves as a manual for survival in a theater of war where the enemy uses the legal code of the victim as a garrote.

Every page drips with tactical clarity. Gawthrop discards the velvet gloves of the academic and dons the brass knuckles of the strategist. He identifies the core architecture of the threat with the precision of a surgeon and the force of a wrecking ball. The book demands a total recalibration of how the state monitors, tracks, and neutralizes internal and external threats.

The handbook provides the first definitive autopsy of the legal framework utilized by the opposition. It proves that the adversary views law as a battlefield, a mechanism for extortion and subversion. Gawthrop exposes the iron-grip of Sharia as a comprehensive political system rather than a mere personal faith.

  • Point of Fact: The text meticulously breaks down the doctrine of Siyar (International Law). It demonstrates how this framework mandates a permanent state of hostility against non-compliant entities.
  • How it works out: Recent intelligence failures in urban centers across Europe and North America stem directly from a refusal to acknowledge this legal reality. Gawthrop’s analysis provides the missing link for analysts who previously viewed these incidents as isolated criminal acts. They are, in fact, the calculated maneuvers of a global insurgency.

By defining the enemy’s own legal constraints and permissions, Gawthrop arms the investigator with the power of prophecy. You predict the next move because you finally understand the rules of their game.

Language serves as either a shield or a sword. In the hands of the uninformed, it is a liability. Under Gawthrop’s direction, it becomes shrapnel. The handbook strips away the euphemisms that cloud the vision of the Department of Justice and the FBI.

  • Point of Fact: The 2nd Edition expands the lexicon of the investigator to include high-resolution definitions of Taqiyya (Dissimulation) and Kitman (Concealment).
  • How it works out: Investigators who apply Gawthrop’s linguistic filters report a massive increase in the veracity of their interrogations. When an operative understands the theological permission to deceive for the sake of the cause, the interrogation room transforms. The suspect no longer holds the advantage of the secret. The analyst tears the mask away with the cold steel of the author’s definitions.

The machine of the state requires fuel. That fuel is truth. Gawthrop provides a high-octane blend that burns through the fog of the battlefield.

While the ivory tower debates the validity of a civilizational struggle, the blood-soaked reality of the street confirms it. Gawthrop accepts this truth with absolute certainty. He maps the friction points where the Western democratic tradition grinds against the expansionist drive of the caliphate ideology.

  • Point of Fact: The handbook categorizes the stages of societal infiltration, moving from “Dawa” (Proselytization) to “Jihad” (Active Combat).
  • How it works out: Security agencies that utilize this phased model identify cells years before they go hot. This proactive stance saves lives. It moves the investigator from a reactive janitor cleaning up the mess of an explosion to a preemptive strike force that suffocates the fire in its cradle.

This is not a book for the weak. It is a book for the wolf who protects the sheep from the pack. It acknowledges that peace is a temporary pause in a permanent war.

The structure of the handbook reflects the mind of a predator. It is lean, efficient, and devoid of waste. Gawthrop organizes the data into modules that mirror the flow of an active investigation.

The analyst learns to spot the “flashbangs” of radicalization. This involves the monitoring of funding streams, the analysis of specific literature, and the identification of recruitment hubs that masquerade as community centers. Gawthrop identifies these as the logistics chains of the insurgency. You cut the chain, you kill the threat.

When the trigger is pulled, the handbook guides the forensic team. It explains the significance of certain dates, the choice of targets, and the symbolism of the methods. Every action by the adversary carries a signature. Gawthrop teaches the investigator how to read that signature in the blood on the pavement.

The war does not end when the smoke clears. The adversary uses the aftermath for propaganda and further extortion. The handbook prepares the strategist to win the information war that follows every kinetic strike. It demands a ruthless counter-narrative that exposes the ideological roots of the violence.

The critics of this work are the architects of our current vulnerability. They inhabit a world of shadows and half-truths. They prefer the comfort of the lie to the terror of the truth. Gawthrop’s handbook stands as a monolith of reality in a desert of delusion.

The 2nd Edition arrives at a moment of maximum danger. The borders are porous. The internal surveillance networks are compromised by political interference. The intelligence analyst stands alone on the ramparts. This book is the heavy artillery required to hold the line. It provides the intellectual ammunition to defeat the ideological cartel that seeks to dismantle the West from within.

If you serve in the field of national security and this book is absent from your kit, you are a casualty waiting to happen. You operate with a blindfold in a minefield. Dr. Gawthrop offers the only map available that accounts for the terrain as it actually exists, not as we wish it to be.

The handbook demands action. It demands a purge of the incompetent and a promotion of the vigilant. It is a call to arms for the analytical mind.

  • Read it to understand the enemy.
  • Study it to predict their strikes.
  • Apply it to ensure their total defeat.

The time for debate expired long ago. The era of the executioner begins. This handbook is the blade.

The Criminal Investigator/Intelligence Analyst’s Handbook of Islam, 2nd Edition, is the most vital document produced for the security sector in the last twenty-five years. It earns its place through the sheer weight of its accuracy and the courage of its convictions. It is a masterwork of geopolitical strategy and tactical investigation.

1.    It identifies the enemy without hesitation.

2.    It decodes the motivation with surgical precision.

3.    It provides the tools for total neutralization.

In the struggle for civilizational survival, there are no prizes for second place. There is only victory or annihilation. Gawthrop chooses victory. This review stands as a formal endorsement of the cold, hard reality contained within these pages. Ignore this text at the peril of the nation. Embrace it, and secure the future with an iron grip.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

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Former SPLC Staffer Spills the Beans on Union-Busting, Israel, Racial Discrimination Claims

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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024.

Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote a tell-all article on Substack last month.

Hayden faulted the SPLC for not attacking conservatives enough; for harassing members of the SPLC’s union; for responding poorly to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath; and for engaging in racial discrimination against him.

Insufficiently Anti-MAGA

Hayden joined the Intelligence Project—the branch of the SPLC that puts out a “hate map” plotting mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—in December 2018. Yet he said the SPLC had gone weak at the knees in opposing the Right since then.

Hayden blamed then-CEO Margaret Huang—whose lavish salary earned her the moniker “Half-a-mil Mags.” SPLC leadership at the time “seemed to love spending donor money on retreats, and they seemed to hate publishing anything, especially pieces that might upset MAGA,” the Make America Great Again movement.

During the 2022 midterms, “while the organization warned donors about threats to democracy, it sent our editorial team on a retreat to a pricey, wine-centric hotel with no clear agenda,” he wrote.

He faulted the SPLC for delaying the release of the 2022 “hate map”—released on June 6, 2023—in order to help Senate Democrats confirm SPLC lawyer Nancy Abudu to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Union-Busting

A few months after Hayden started, the SPLC fired its co-founder amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal. During the scandal, employees formed a labor union, and Hayden took a leadership position in the union in 2022. When he did so, management turned on him “overnight.”

He said SPLC’s leadership called him into “Kafkaesque disciplinary meetings, issuing verbal warnings over incidents that never occurred.” He even accused leadership of writing down “quotes of mine that they had fabricated wholesale.”

His criticism echoes the union’s 2024 accusations against Huang and SPLC leadership at the time. The SPLC Union voted to demand Huang resign, and she ultimately left in July 2025.

Israel

Hayden, who traces his descent to Egyptians who lived in what is now Israel, condemned the SPLC for doing “almost nothing publicly” after the Oct. 7 attacks.

He helped draft the union statement condemning Israel for launching “the beginnings of a genocide” in Gaza. Apparently, the statement would have been even worse without Hayden, who says he insisted that the union at least mention antisemitism.

Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told The Daily Signal that the union’s statement was “laced through with antisemitic bigotry.”

Even though the SPLC Union, not the center itself, had released the statement, Hayden recalled that “pro-Israel donors threatened to pull their funding.” This confirmed my suspicions about the Left’s generational divide over Israel.

Hayden and his colleague, Hannah Gais, also signed an open letter demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and calling Israel an “apartheid” state. When The Washington Free Beacon reported on the letter, Hayden condemned it as a “racist attempt” to target him.

The SPLC disciplined Hayden.

“Maybe I had alienated a wealthy donor,” he speculated. “Whatever it was, the SPLC’s leadership still went through the motions, dressing up the discipline in different justifications because they couldn’t say outright what they were doing. They were a civil rights group, after all.”

The SPLC punished him, an Arab American, but not Gais, a woman of Jewish heritage. The American Civil Liberties Union lawyers were “eager” to represent him and “go after the SPLC,” but ultimately backed down due to conflicts of interest.

The SPLC fired Hayden amid a difficult struggle with mental illness, and he threatened to sue the SPLC for discrimination.

“Rather than let the story become public, they settled in the spring of 2024,” he wrote.

Yet the story is public now, and it does not reflect well on the SPLC.

Not only did the SPLC allegedly not stand up for Jews in the aftermath of Oct. 7, but it also stood accused of applying a racial double standard in punishing staff who spoke out. The SPLC did not respond to my request for comment, and neither did the ACLU.

When the SPLC settled with Hayden, someone in management reportedly told him that the SPLC leaders had given “buyouts” to the people who treated him harshly. The lawyers reportedly told him that “the SPLC had become too wary of MAGA’s litigiousness and vengefulness to continue confronting the movement.”

A Bone-Chilling Complaint

I find Hayden’s major complaint against the SPLC rather curious.

If anything, the SPLC proved more aggressive during Huang’s leadership. That 2022 “hate map” included Moms for Liberty and other parental rights groups alongside chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The following year, the SPLC added groups of doctors who oppose transgender ideology to the map. Last year, it added PragerU, Focus on the Family, and Turning Point USA to the map. A few months later, Charlie Kirk got a bullet in the neck.

Hayden’s story reveals yet more dysfunction and corruption at the SPLC, but his suggestion that the SPLC should grow even more aggressive in demonizing conservatives is bone-chilling.Let’s hope the new leadership doesn’t follow his advice.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at the Daily Signal and the author of two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Follow on X Tyler2ONeil.

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Psychological Warfare by Americans Against America

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Key phrases used by Americans to defeat America in the Iran War include:

  • “No war with Iran!”
  • “Israel’s war”
  • “Reckless war of choice”
  • “American imperialism”
  • “No imminent threat”
  • “Forced into this war”
  • “Forever war”
  • “No Kings, No War”
  • “This is a needless war”
    “End the War”
  • “War is never the path to peace”
  • “Illegal, unprovoked, and a war of choice”
  • “Costly, deadly war”
  • “Makes the U.S. less safe”
  • “Another Iraq”
  • “Disproportionate response”
  • “No credible reason”
  • “The height of idiocy”
  • “War built on lies”

Israel didn’t drag the US into war with Iran — they enabled us to fight it smarter and faster

By Mark Dubowitz

Published March 8, 2026, 4:00 p.m. ET

A dangerous lie has taken hold in Washington: that Israel somehow pressured the United States into war with Iran.
It’s wrong. And both President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have said so directly.

When a White House correspondent asked President Trump whether Israel had pulled America into the conflict, he didn’t hesitate. “I might have forced their hand,” he said. “We were having negotiations with these lunatics, and it was my opinion that they were going to attack first….”
But here’s the bigger point that keeps getting buried.

Iran’s missiles and nuclear program and terror are America’s problem.

Those missiles don’t just threaten Israel. They are being fired right now at US forces, American bases, our embassies, and our Gulf Arab allies. Iran is actively developing intercontinental ballistic missiles that could one day reach the American homeland.

Worldwide Caution

Security alert

March 22, 2026 – The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution.

Location: Worldwide

Event: The Department of State advises Americans worldwide, and especially in the Middle East, to exercise increased caution. Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate. Periodic airspace closures may cause travel disruptions. U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or locations associated with the United States and/or Americans throughout the world.
Enroll at step.state.gov to receive the latest security alerts and follow the “U.S. Department of State – Security Updates for U.S. Citizens” channel on WhatsApp(opens in a new tab) or @TravelGov on X. When planning travel, carefully read the Travel Advisory and detailed information for your destination, and any recent alerts at travel.state.gov/destination.

US media coverage of the war in Iran …

From the halls of Congress and the mendacious media, buzz words and slogans promoting America’s self-defeat are psychological warfare by Americans against America, intended to discourage, depress, and destabilize American success and victories in the Iran War, with total disregard for Iran’s gruesome decades of gory history and ceaseless threats to destroy America – truly not light-hearted expressions!

US issues worldwide security alert urging caution as Iran-linked groups may target American interests

By Zoe Hussain

Worldwide Caution

Security alert

March 22, 2026 – The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution.

Location: Worldwide

Event: The Department of State advises Americans worldwide, and especially in the Middle East, to exercise increased caution. Americans abroad should follow the guidance in security alerts issued by the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate. Periodic airspace closures may cause travel disruptions. U.S. diplomatic facilities, including outside the Middle East, have been targeted. Groups supportive of Iran may target other U.S. interests overseas or locations associated with the United States and/or Americans throughout the world.

Enroll at step.state.gov to receive the latest security alerts and follow the “U.S. Department of State – Security Updates for U.S. Citizens” channel on WhatsApp(opens in a new tab) or @TravelGov on X. When planning travel, carefully read the Travel Advisory and detailed information for your destination, and any recent alerts at travel.state.gov/destination.

Based upon Iran’s recent barrages of missile invasions of “friend” and “foe” alike, does anyone believe that anywhere in the world would be safe upon Iran’s advanced missile developments and nuclear device capabilities?

©2026 All rights reserved.

VIRGINIA: Loudoun County Trains Staff to Fight ‘Terrorist’ Parents, Casting Parents as Violent Threats

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Democrat governments are at war against we, the people.

Is Loudoun County governed by demons?

After a student’s death, the Loudoun County School Board staged a closed-door “terrorism” drill portraying parents as violent agitators while excluding the public.

Loudoun, Virginia school leaders’ ‘terrorist’ training simulated parents attacking board

by Nick Minock

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On Jan. 13, hours after a Loudoun County Public Schools employee struck and killed a student while driving a district maintenance vehicle, the Loudoun County School Board held a closed-door training focused on the school board’s safety.

7News has learned that the board, under the leadership of new School Board Chair April Chandler, held a closed-door meeting for school board members and staff only. The subject of the meeting? Responding to “terrorist activity” at school board meetings.

According to multiple sources who were in the room but requested we not identify them, the terrorism training involved dozens of actors, brought in by the school board, to act as Loudoun County parents. Those pretend “parents” sat in the gallery in the school board meeting room as actual families normally would.

In this training, one of the parents has a gun. The actors were screaming and yelling and running around the room, witnesses said. School board members and staff were instructed to “run, hide, and fight,” much the same as training provided to students in the event of an active shooter scenario.

Again, according to 7News sources, Chandler referred to parents as “disrupters” and “agitators” as she recalled school board meetings last year which many parents attended to speak up in support of three boys who were being investigated by the district in a case centered around policy allowing students to use the bathroom and locker room that matches their chosen gender identity, rather than their biological sex.

All of which struck a nerve with actual Loudoun County parent Scott Smith. He was arrested and removed from a packed Loudoun County School Board meeting in 2021, where parents were voicing frustrations with everything from mask policy to the bathroom/locker room rules, which were only being proposed at that time.

Even though it was a full house, the meeting was abruptly cancelled halfway through because the board was growing uncomfortable with parent complaints.

At the time, Smith’s daughter had been attacked in a high school bathroom.

“It doesn’t surprise me,” Smith said about Chandler allegedly calling parents disrupters and agitators. “They’ve been labeling me as an agitator and a disruptor from the day my daughter was raped, from the day they threw me out of the school trying to get my daughter to the hospital.”

“We’re not violent parents,” Smith added. “We’re loud. We’re very loud, and we’re very forceful because they [the school board] won’t listen. I know nobody that has wished any violence upon the school board, not me, once ever has thought about doing anything violent against the school board. We want to be heard and we want to be respected, and we want our children protected.”

Suzanne Satterfield has been attending school board meetings for years, speaking out on a number of issues, including school locker room policies. She’s outraged that the school board seems to be more focused on their own safety rather than student safety.

“It’s appalling and it’s insulting,” Satterfield said. “And what they want, I believe, is to again shift focus away from the matters at hand, like the horrible death of the student that was recently killed and it happened to be from an LCPS vehicle. It’s just so tragic.”

Satterfield believes the school board should have canceled the training and instead implemented protocols to improve student safety.

“I think that they definitely should have put that at the forefront,” said Satterfield. “I mean, my goodness. I mean, it couldn’t even be more obvious. And I think this other training shouldn’t have been happening at all.”

On Monday, 7News reached out to Loudoun County Public Schools for comment. LCPS has not yet responded.

7News also reached out to Chair Chandler and asked:

  • How much did it cost LCPS to hire around 30 actors for a terrorism training?
  • Whose idea was it to conduct this training? What was the purpose?
  • And why was this training conducted on the night an LCPS employee killed a student?

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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EXCLUSIVE: New Media Network Combats Anti-American Spin by Featuring Veterans, Law Enforcement

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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Proud American Studios, a new media network, aims to counter the Left’s pervasive bias by highlighting the voices of patriotic Americans who served in the military and law enforcement—a particularly resonant mission amid the recent demonization of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis.

“The recent media coverage out of Minneapolis is a textbook example of why we built Proud American Studios,” Michael Koscielniak, a retired officer with Homeland Security Investigations and the president of the new media company, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.

“Homeland Security officers and agents are on the ground every day enforcing our nation’s immigration laws and removing violent criminals to keep our communities safe,” he added. “These officers deserve their side of the story told in an honest and dignified way.”

Defending ICE in Minneapolis

Proud American Studios released the first episode of its podcast “The Forum” on Saturday ahead of its official launch on March 21. The episode highlights the struggles that the oft-demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, alongside other federal agents, have faced in the field, and criticize the left-leaning commentators and Democrats who demonize their efforts.

“To be straight with you, it pisses me off,” Koscielniak says in a teaser clip for the first episode. “These guys are coming their to do their jobs, and when political candidates or political individuals take this position, they make the jobs of the federal agents and all the other first responders on scene much more difficult. It incites people.”

Darcy Leutzinger, who served 27 years as a special investigations executive lieutenant in the Warren, Michigan, police department, explains the difference between how the law and the media treat an officer after an officer-involved shooting.

“The officer can use deadly force based on what they knew at that time, not what they were judged on later, not videotapes, not slowed down video or hindsight, it’s what they saw based on their perception at that time and that’s all they had,” Leutzinger says. “The media wants everybody tried in the media.”

“It’s one thing to bring a firearm to a protest, it is even more of an issue when you actually want to agitate and confront federal law enforcement within accordance of their duties,” Trey Lindsey, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy who served 13 years with SEAL Team 6, says in the video. Lindsey founded Gallowglass Guardian Group, a tactical, security, and defense consulting company based out of Dallas.

Proud American Studios

“After decades of serving on the front lines protecting this nation, the men and women of Proud American Studios are united in building a patriotic multimedia company that honors the American values,” Koscielniak told The Daily Signal. “Proud American Studios’ mission is to confront misinformation, elevate frontline voices, and deliver fact-driven multimedia that cuts through the noise and challenges false narratives promoted by liberal media outlets.”

Proud American Studios plans to release short video clips, longer podcast episodes, and even full-length documentaries. It has multiple projects in pre-production, including documentaries on President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the rise of radical Islam in America; along with movies about the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and how Homeland Security Investigations has hunted Chinese spies and money launderers.

In addition to news commentary, Proud American Studios plans to produce what it calls “micro-series” videos: short action videos highlighting the heroism of law enforcement. Subscribers can access the content for $99 annually or $17.76 per month, Koscielniak told The Daily Signal.

Dean Cain

Dean Cain, an actor, writer, and producer best known for his role as Superman in the 1990s TV series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” has joined the project and will be a regular on the podcast “The Homeland.”

“I’m truly honored and excited to be joining Proud American Studios on the ‘The Homeland’ podcast on March 21,” Cain told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday. “It’s a privilege to work alongside the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting this country.”

“Their experience, sacrifice, and commitment to America deserve to be heard, respected, and supported, and I’m proud to be part of that mission,” Cain added.

AUTHOR

Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior editor at The Daily Signal and the author of two books: “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” Tyler on X: .

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Mainstream Media Refuse to Report the Full Facts on ICE Protests, so Americans Must Rely on X Indies

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Want to view one of the many resistance training videos being used by protest organizers in Minneapolis? You won’t find it on The New York Times or The Washington Post. Forget USA Today. And don’t even bother searching for it on NBC, MSNOW, CBS, ABC, or CNN. The mainstream media isn’t interested in reporting that side of the biggest domestic protests since the George Floyd riots of 2020.

But independent journalist Cam Higby has not only made public “Documenting and Responding to ICE,” a training video hosted by a Chicago political activist, Jill Garvey, he also infiltrated the Signal organization that is coordinating, supplying, and directing the chaos on Minneapolis streets.

Higby has posted names of the members of the eight sub-groups within Signal, extensively quoted the group’s internal communications, and documented in detail how members track ICE movements then direct protestors to specific locations where ICE law enforcement officials most likely are trying to remove an illegal immigrant who could be a hardened, violent criminal from the streets.

To appreciate how deeply Higby has infiltrated and documented Signal, check out his X home, then search on “MINNEAPOLIS SIGNAL INFILTRATED.” There you will find multiple posts like this one that documents how the protestors relay tag and other information on an ICE vehicle located in one of the protest areas. Higby’s infiltration has been so effective that Signal’s operators were forced to take counter-measures that temporarily limited their ability to continue operations. Unfortunately for them, those counter-measures came after Higby exposed the most relevant facts about their structure and operations.

To appreciate the logistical depth and detail of the organization behind the Minneapolis chaos, check out this “pop-up Leftist supply depot” videoed and reported by Gunther Eagleman, AKA David Freeman. You want milk, here it is. You need hand warmers, gotcha covered. How about some hot coffee? Or donuts? Crackers? Water? It’s all there and somebody is paying for it.

This is the kind of organized, equipped and strategically directed opposition to federal law enforcement that George Wallace, standing in the “school house door” at the University of Alabama in 1963, could only dream of having at his disposal. Ditto another avowed hard-core segregationist determined to stop federal law enforcement, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus, when 101st Airborne troops escorted nine young black students into Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. And imagine the death and destruction former Confederate Calvary General Nathan Bedford Forrest could have wreaked across the Reconstruction period had he access to Signal-level insurrection sophistication and funding?

In fact, Signal is not something new. To the contrary, Signal duplicates and refines what Eric Schwalm, a former U.S. Special Forces warrant officer, saw happening time and again with highly sophisticated, organized, and funded insurgencies overseas:

“From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly. What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t ‘protest.’ It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook. … This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a [Special Forces] team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace ‘ICE agents’ with ‘occupying coalition forces’ and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.”

And Schwalm is worried because Signal isn’t in Afghanistan or Iraq or Gaza, it’s right here in America:

“The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers — complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal — you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.”

Whatever you think of the Minneapolis situation, it could only happen in a limited number of locations in America. How many? Well, Kevin Bass analyzed media reports on anti-ICE incidents around the nation for the past year and found nine counties that accounted for two-thirds of all such violent confrontations.

The nine are all connected to deep-blue big cites with far-Left Democratic mayors and with long-standing sanctuary status, including Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, New York, and Newark. Statistically, those nine counties turned out to be 590 times more likely to experience violent anti-ICE confrontations than all of the remaining 3,134 counties in the United States! Coincidence?

Even given all of the preceding facts, however, there is evidence the Signal operation is not perfect, as seen in this video snapshot on X of a “protestor” who, in the midst of a chaotic demonstration, suddenly finds himself able to lift himself out of his wheelchair to pick something up from the street. Either the age of miracles continues or Signal is sending false signals.

AUTHOR

Mark Tapscott

Mark Tapscott is senior congressional analyst at The Washington Stand.

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STARRS Town Hall: “The Threat of the Red-Green Axis” with speaker John Guandolo

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In this powerful and eye-opening STARRS Town Hall, guest speaker John Guandolo (USNA ’89 grad, former Marine officer and FBI Special Agent) outlined his path from FBI counterterrorism work to training government and local entities on the “Red-Green Axis” — the collaboration between Islamist and Marxist movements. These movements have a common enemy: America and the US Constitution.

He talked about how the U.S. is engaged in a non-kinetic war primarily in the information and counterintelligence space. He explained how Islamist and communist networks operate together at the local level across the country and view themselves in late-stage victory.

John discussed how Sharia is the doctrinal basis for jihad and governance in normative Islam, is taught consistently to Muslim youth, and that Western leaders mischaracterize Islam due to influence operations and deceptive language use.

He says U.S. policy fixates on “violent extremism” (a term he argues has no legal meaning) rather than legally defined enemies (e.g., jihadis, communists), which blinds institutions to the true threat and leads to strategic failure.

John said Islamic Sharia-based movements seek to replace the US Constitution, so anyone who swore an oath to the Constitution has a duty to defend it against such efforts–foreign and domestic.

For more information about John as a speaker and the training he offers, go to JohnGuandolo.com. Here is his Biography Sheet (pdf). Follow him on X @JGuandolo54271

WATCH: “The Threat of the Red-Green Axis” with speaker John Guandoloh

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Virginia: Democrats First Moves With New Majority: Ban Hand-Counted Ballots, Gut Penalties for Rape and Violent Crime, Shield Child Predators, and Side With ICE Opponents

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The Republicans have had the House and Senate for well over a year and have done nothing to pass election integrity legislation ensuring the fraud continues. No reforms. No action while fraud remained embedded and untouched. But Democrats have been in power in Virginia for all of 48 hours and they’ve introduced legislation to ban the hand-counting of ballots—the single most transparent safeguard voters have.

“Prohibits such ballots from being counted by hand for any reason…”

Within days, they roll out what can only be described as the “Legalize Crime Act,” the “Steal Future Elections Act,” and a redux of the Somali daycare–style fraud model.

They have introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing for rape, manslaughter, assaulting a law enforcement officer, possession and distribution of child pornography, and all repeat violent felonies.

Virginia is dragged back into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the latest climate grift — higher utility bills for families, zero measurable environmental benefit, and a steady stream of cash for politically connected insiders.

Meanwhile, newly installed Governor Abigail Spanberger stands to benefit from the same “green” lobbyists pushing the scheme, while her party advances legislation weakening robbery penalties and softening sentencing standards across the Commonwealth.

Higher crime. Higher costs. Less accountability.

This is what “Democratic governance” looks like when no one is left to stop it.

Fresh from reclaiming full control with Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s November 2025 victory and majorities in the House and Senate, Democrats introduced proposals like a 3.8% investment income tax, expanded sales taxes, an 11% firearms tax, and election changes including extended absentee ballots and machine-only counting. Gun measures include suppressor taxes and assault weapon restrictions, while criminal justice bills ease some sentencing.

Also:

Virginia Democrats introduce bill weakening punishment and sentencing rules for degrees of robbery in Virginia

An illegal racial quotas bill:

And, this:

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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Iran’s Revolution is Against Islam

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Robert Spencer: “Iran has never been a Muslim country. They forced this ideology on people with guns and force for centuries. You are witnessing the end of Islam in Iran now. Persians are burning mosques. Never call a Persian Muslim, that would be an insult, This is Persian renaissance.” — Iranian born pro-democracy activist Amil Imani.

Mass ‘islamophobia.” The West is building mosques, Iranians are burning them down. So what do Iranians know that the West doesn’t? They lived it.

For the Islamic Republic of Iran, it’s all about Islam. And always has been.

The core of the Iranian regime’s identity is Islam: The conflict between the Islamic Republic and the West isn’t primarily about nuclear weapons or geopolitics—according to Ayatollah Khamenei himself, it is fundamentally about establishing an Islamic order both nationally and internationally.

Islam is central, not incidental: Iran’s leaders consistently frame their struggle with America and the West in explicitly religious terms, making the Islamic nature of the regime intrinsic to its worldview and ambitions.

Khamenei’s recent statements underscore this religious framing: On December 27, 2025, Khamenei told an audience of Islamic student associations in Europe that the issue with Western powers is not the nuclear dispute but opposition to Iran’s plan to expand Islamic governance.

The regime’s motivation transcends politics: For the author, this means the Iranian government’s actions are driven less by conventional state interests and more by its interpretation of Islamic doctrine as a governing, expansionist force.

Daniel Greenfield: In an outpouring of Islamophobia, pro-democracy protesters in Iran have been accused of burning down as many as 30 mosques.

Video has shown the Al-Rasool Mosque in Tehran being set on fire on Friday, a ‘holy day’ for Muslims, in a show of troubling ‘Islamophobia’ which Iran’s Chief Islamic Judge warned would result in “maximum punishment”. That’s saying something for a regime which already chops off fingers and rapes female protesters before executing them.

It’s unknown what occasioned this ‘Islamophobia’ from protesters.

Perhaps it was the generations of oppression in the name of Islam.

Perhaps it was the constant state of Islamic terror, not at the hands of bombers or hijackers, but the regime that they installed.

Perhaps it was the mandatory ‘hijab’ that is celebrated by western liberals, but which brave Persian women risk their lives to tear off.

Leftists believe that Islam is a force of liberation. That’s why they supported the Islamic Revolution which took over Iran and imposed decades of death, terror and tyranny. The Iranian people know better which is why they’re fighting and dying for freedom from Islam.

Western liberals may call them ‘Islamophobes’, just as they condemned the protesters in East Germany and Hungary, but just as those who lived under Communism knew it best, who knows Islam better than those who are forced to suffer under it?

In the West, they’re building mosques, while in Iran they’re tearing them down.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

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SPAIN’S SPLIT PERSONALITY: They Solicit Jews to Become Citizens and then Ban the Very Heart of Judaism

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Sephardic Jews, currently living worldwide, emanated from the Iberian Peninsula and spread throughout Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Africa, and Australia. They were forced to leave Spain in 1492 due to the Alhambra Decree,  an expulsion order by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, which was closely tied to the Spanish Inquisition’s authoritarian goal of religious uniformity, threatening Jews to convert, die, or flee Spain by the end of July 1492, creating a massive diaspora to the Ottoman Empire, North Africa, and other parts of Europe.

Spain’s King Felipe during a ceremony on November 30, 2015 celebrated a law through which Sephardic Jews can apply for Spanish citizenship, at the Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain.

Despite such reassuring words by the government of Spain, over 100 municipal and regional entities have sought to ban and punish Israel, its products and services, associations, and viability through antisemitic measures.

Spain’s anti-Israel political activities and climate have also spilled over into and/or reinforced Venezuelan antisemitic violence prevalent for decades.
On Dec. 30, 2025, Spain enacted a ban on the import of Israeli goods from Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan.

On Dec. 29, 2025, Spain threatened seven real-estate property rental platforms with unspecified consequences unless they remove Israeli listings in Judea and Samaria.
On May 14, 2025, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called Israel a “genocidal state,” and his country has intervened in favor of the genocide case that South Africa filed against Israel at the International Court of Justice in 2023.

The vestiges of the Spanish Inquisition are reviving themselves against Jews … in unholy alliances with other nations, just as the Bible warns:

2 See how Your enemies growl, how Your foes rear their heads.
3 With cunning they conspire against Your people; they plot against those You cherish.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 With one mind they plot together;they form an alliance against You — Psalm 83:2-5

Spanish anti-BDS org gets boycott resolution nixed by court

A Spanish district court has annulled a BDS resolution passed by the municipal council of Ayamonte banning any association or economic agreement with Israeli companies and organizations.
By JEREMY SHARON

A Spanish district court has annulled a BDS resolution passed by the municipal council of Ayamonte, a town in the country’s southwest, banning any association or economic agreement with Israeli companies and organizations.

The decision was made September 4 in response to a legal suit by the ACOM anti-BDS organization in Spain, which has succeeded in fighting a strong battle against the spate of more than 100 municipal and regional council BDS resolutions.

ACOM has succeeded in having approximately 35 of these resolutions repealed or annulled, of which the Ayamonte resolution, originally passed in May 2017, is the latest.

The initiative behind these resolutions, all of which are extremely similar in content, comes principally from the left-wing populist Podemos Party which is strongly pro-Palestinian.

These BDS motions include provisions banning the municipality or local authority from entering into contracts and agreements with Israeli companies and entities, and even banning business ties and agreements with Spanish citizens who are associated with Israel or Israeli organizations and companies.

The Huelva Court Number 1 wrote in its decision that the content of Ayamonte’s resolution “violates Article 14 of the Spanish Constitution,” since it incites and discriminates against Spanish citizens for reasons of birth, race, sex, religion, opinion or other conditions or circumstance, personal or social, ACOM said.

This latest victory follows the retraction by the municipal authority of Sagunto, a town in eastern Spain, of a BDS motion it approved in June this year.

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Dissolve amid Defunding Battle

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s (CPB) Board of Directors voted to officially dissolve the organization on Monday. According to a press release, the decision comes in response to moves from the Trump administration and within Congress to pull its federal funding.

Nearly 60 years ago, authorized by the U.S. Congress under the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, CPB’s roots trace back to a time when commercial broadcasting dominated the airwaves, and there was a push for alternatives that prioritized education and public service over profit. Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Act aimed to create a system free from political interference, emphasizing “strict adherence to objectivity and balance.” Over the years, federal appropriations formed the backbone of CPB’s budget, often exceeding $400 million annually in recent decades, with peaks around $525 million before the cuts — with roughly 70% of funds distributed to local stations.

However, in May 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to terminate federal funding for public media outlets such as CPB on the grounds that its reporting failed to be “fair, accurate, unbiased, and nonpartisan.” Only months later, the Senate passed the Rescissions Act of 2025, effectively cutting $9.4 billion in federal funding flowing to CPB and its affiliates. This included $1.1 billion specifically earmarked for public broadcasting through fiscal years 2026 and 2027. This rescission package, which also targeted foreign aid, passed along largely party lines, with Republicans arguing that taxpayer dollars should not subsidize what they (and many others) perceived as ideologically slanted content.

In response, CPB had sued the Trump administration as it began scaling down its operations — and to no avail, it would seem, in light of their final decision announced Monday. The dissolution process, set to conclude by late January 2026, involves “the responsible distribution of all remaining funds in accordance with Congress’s intent” as well as the preservation of archives in partnership with institutions like the University of Maryland and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

The organization ultimately pinned the blame on “sustained political attacks that made it impossible for CPB to continue operating as the Public Broadcasting Act intended.” As Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, put it, “When the Administration and Congress rescinded federal funding, our Board faced a profound responsibility: CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attacks.”

Echoing this, Chair of CPB’s Board of Directors Ruby Calvert claimed “what has happened to public media is devastating,” adding that “after nearly six decades of innovative, educational public television and radio service, Congress eliminated all funding for CPB, leaving the Board with no way to continue the organization or support the public media system that depends on it.”

Calvert ultimately expressed optimism that “public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media’s role in our country because it is critical to our children’s education, our history, culture and democracy to do so.” As Harrison went on to claim, “public media remains essential to a healthy democracy.” The corporation’s statement concluded: “While CPB’s chapter is ending, the mission of public media endures. Local stations, producers, journalists, and educators across the country will continue serving their communities, informing the public, and elevating local voices.”

The news of closure has sparked a variety of responses nationwide. While CPB officials and their supporters are lamenting the loss of what they describe as “trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling,” many others have taken to celebrating. Conservatives, from government officials to everyday citizens, have argued that the closure does not diminish these values but instead advances them by moving away from what they see as an organization that pushed left-wing, government-funded content. And these sentiments echo long-standing criticisms that date back to Republican officials like former President Ronald Reagan and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who attempted similar defunding efforts but were thwarted by Congress.

Fast forward to now, and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins observed how “this is a very significant development. The end of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting signals that real structural change is underway in Washington.” As he further emphasized, “Kudos to the Trump administration. Its defunding strategy is dismantling decades of the Left’s entrenched infrastructure within government. Too often, Republican administrations merely hit the pause button on the Left’s projects — allowing them to resume the moment power changes hands. The Trump administration, by contrast, is hitting the eject button.”

Several members of Congress echoed these remarks, with Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas) stating, “The closure of the [CPB] comes on the heels of a tenure dedicated to censorship and leftist ideologies. The organization garnered our tax dollars and made products through NPR and PBS that lacked competitive viewership and undermined American values and free speech.” Similarly, Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) referred to CBS as “the scheme bureaucrats used to funnel taxpayer money to NPR and PBS,” emphasizing how its closure is “great news for every American who doesn’t want their tax dollars funding left-wing opinion journalism EVER again.”

As public media transitions to reliance on private donations and other revenue streams, some fear a fragmented media landscape. Others, however, view it as an opportunity for more trustworthy news and storytelling, with less government influence, to finally take the stage.

AUTHOR

Sarah Holliday

Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand.

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Europe’s Left Whines As Christians Defend Christmas

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European right-wing leaders are facing accusations of exploiting Christmas for political purposes as they increasingly center the holiday in their campaigns, according to Politico.

From condemning the phrase “Holiday Season” to hosting Christmas-themed political events, leaders like Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have made defending Christmas a core part of their political identity. Critics view this as virtue signaling designed to boost party support, the outlet reported.

“How can my culture offend anyone?” Meloni said of public nativity scenes, arguing such displays teach children the real meaning of Christmas.

Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party held a Christmas-themed political festival called Atreju, complete with a Santa visit, ice-skating, and a Christmas tree lit in the colors of the Italian flag.

Un grazie sincero a tutti coloro che oggi sono venuti ad #Atreju ma che, per i limiti di spazio, non sono riusciti a entrare in sala.
La vostra presenza fuori, così numerosa e partecipe, è stata un segnale forte che ho sentito chiaramente.
Grazie di cuore per l’affetto, il… pic.twitter.com/x22cjKiHeu

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) December 14, 2025

One attendee drawn to the festival by its Christmas decor told Politico he hadn’t realized it was political and didn’t want to be associated with the party running it.

“For us, traditions represent our roots, who we are, who we have been, and the history that made us what we are today,” Brothers of Italy MP Marta Schifone told the outlet. “Those roots must be celebrated and absolutely defended.”

While political leaders say the culture would benefit from embracing traditional Christianity, Politico characterized such messaging as “almost beside the point,” claiming the leaders themselves are “not especially devout” and use Christianity as a “civilizational shorthand that draws a boundary between ‘us’ and ‘them.’”

Daniele Albertazzi, a populism researcher at the University of Surrey in England, told Politico that “the radical right largely kept its distance from the church” in the 1980s and 1990s.

“That changed between 2010–15, following Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe, which were framed as a clash of civilizations,” Albertazzi said. “Christianity became a cultural marker, a way to portray themselves as defenders of traditional family, tradition and identity.”

Albertazzi called Meloni’s Christmas festival a “very intelligent” political move.

“They have tried to reverse the stigma of their past [on the far right] by becoming a broad-church modern conservative party, and this is part of the repackaging,” Albertazzi said.

Other conservative parties in Europe, including France’s National Rally and Spain’s Vox, have also resisted efforts to replace religious imagery with neutral seasonal language, fighting to preserve nativity scenes in town halls.

Germany’s Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, has criticized the secularization of traditional Christmas markets, framing it as appeasing Islamic traditions at the expense of Christian heritage, according to Politico.

The outlet noted that while the left points to Christmas commercialization as a similar exploitation of holiday spirit for profit, European conservative leaders continue connecting their policies to Christmas values.

“We’re not embarrassed to say ‘Merry Christmas,’” Brothers of Italy Senator Lucio Malan said at the festival, according to Politico. “I have always promoted religious freedom and know not everyone is Christian. But Christmas is the holiday people care about most. Let’s not forget its origins.”

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When the Watchmen Are Silenced, the Gates Are Left Open

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There is a quiet war underway, not against AI itself, but against those who dare to warn us about where it is heading. 

Most Americans still imagine persecution as something loud and visible. Arrests. Raids. Bans. But in the modern age, the most effective silencing is subtle. It is done with contracts rather than chains, debt rather than dungeons, and professional exile rather than prison cells.

And nowhere is this more dangerous than in the world of artificial intelligence.

As AI becomes more powerful, more intrusive, and more centralized, the people who understand it best are being trained to stay silent. Those who refuse are punished quietly, efficiently, and with no need for public trials.

This matters deeply to religious Americans, whether they realize it yet or not.

When a Watchman Speaks and Is Cast Out

In 2020, Dr. Timnit Gebru, a senior AI ethics researcher at Google, raised internal concerns about the direction of large language models, including their bias, lack of transparency, and the dangers of deploying systems that even their creators could not fully explain or control.

Her objections were not public protests. They were internal warnings. She asked questions about accountability, about who would be harmed, and about whether speed and profit were being placed above responsibility.

Shortly afterward, she was fired.

Not disciplined. Not reassigned. But banished.

Her research papers were disavowed. Her access was cut off. Her career inside the most powerful AI institution on earth ended overnight. Colleagues who supported her were warned. Others stayed silent.

The message was unmistakable. Ethical objections would not slow the machine.

This was not a government persecution. There were no police, no court orders, no headlines about censorship. It was cleaner than that. A contract was terminated. A reputation was quietly contested.

A whistleblower, a Watchman, was removed from the wall.

Dr. Gebru was not alone. Across the AI industry, others who have raised warnings about bias, control, and accountability have faced the same quiet consequences, removed from their posts, isolated from their peers, and replaced by voices more willing to look the other way.

The Biblical Role of the Watchman

Scripture gives us a clear framework for moments like this.

In Ezekiel 33, God appoints the Watchman, a man stationed on the walls whose duty is not to fight the enemy himself, but to sound the alarm when danger approaches.

If the Watchman sees the threat and warns the people, he is faithful, even if the people ignore him. But if he sees the danger and stays silent, their blood is on his hands.

The Watchman’s role is moral, not political. He is accountable not for outcomes, but for truth.

Every society depends on such Watchmen. They are the ones willing to speak uncomfortable truths before the threat is obvious, before it is too late to respond.

Today, many of the most important Watchmen are inside the technology systems that increasingly govern our lives.

Modern Watchmen in a Digital Age

Tech whistleblowers are not activists. They are not influencers. Most did not set out to be public figures at all.

They are engineers, safety researchers, ethicists, data scientists, and security professionals who see how systems actually function behind the curtain.

They understand how AI models are trained, what data they ingest, how decisions are automated, and how power concentrates around those who control the infrastructure.

Some of them raise concerns about surveillance. Others warn about behavioral manipulation, censorship, predictive policing, social credit systems, or the quiet fusion of corporate AI with state authority.

A growing number are alarmed by something even deeper.

They see a worldview embedded in these systems that treats faith, conscience, and moral absolutes as obstacles to be optimized away.

These Watchmen do not usually shout. They write memos. They raise internal objections. They ask questions that make executives uncomfortable.

And that is when the silencing, the quiet hammering of the mallet, begins.

Silencing Without Persecution

There is no need for public crackdowns anymore. The system has its own quiet tools of control.

  • Nondisclosure agreements prevent employees from speaking.
  • Legal threats drain their savings and energy.
  • Endless arbitration keeps their stories buried.
  • Professional blacklisting ensures they will never work in their field again.
  • Some are buried under debt.
  • Others are quietly labeled as unstable, disloyal, or “not a culture fit.”
  • A few are turned into cautionary tales inside their own industries.

The message is clear. Speak up, and your career disappears. Stay silent, and you are rewarded.

This is not accidental. It is how modern power maintains control without drawing attention to itself.

And it works.

Why This Threatens Religious Americans

Many institutions that build and deploy AI do not see religion as neutral. They see it as a problem.

Faith introduces moral limits. It asserts truths that cannot be revised by consensus. It resists total obedience to systems that claim ultimate authority. It reminds people that conscience answers to God, not to algorithms.

From the perspective of centralized power, that is dangerous.

When AI systems are trained, moderated, and governed by institutions that view religion as backward, irrational, or destabilizing, the results are predictable.

  • Speech is filtered.
  • Beliefs are flagged.
  • Convictions are reframed as risks.

And because the Watchmen are silenced early. By the time the public notices, the scaffolding is already in place.

The Cost of Silence

The tragedy is not only what happens to the whistleblowers themselves. It is what happens to everyone else when they are removed.

Without Watchmen, decisions are made in darkness. Without warnings, moral lines are crossed quietly. Without accountability, power hardens.

Religious Americans should not view tech whistleblowers as niche figures in a distant industry. They are standing on our behalf on the walls.

When they are silenced, the gates are left open.

A Call to Discernment

This is not a call for panic. It is a call for discernment.

Most of all, we should remember that Scripture does not promise comfort to the Watchman. It promises responsibility.

And it reminds us that ignoring the warning does not remove the danger.

The walls are high. The systems are powerful. And the Watchmen are being pushed into silence.

That should concern every American of faith.

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Martin Mawyer

Martin Mawyer is the President of Christian Action Network, host of the “Shout Out Patriots” podcast, and author of When Evil Stops Hiding.

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