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PODCAST: Democrat House Staffer Arrested for Allegedly Stealing 240 Government Phones

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A former staffer for the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee was arrested last week for allegedly stealing hundreds of government-issued cellphones and selling them for personal profit, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Monday. The devices, intended for official committee use, reportedly ended up in a Maryland pawn shop, with an estimated total value of approximately $150,000.

Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, served as a systems administrator for the committee from April 2020 through July 2023. In that role, he was responsible for ordering, distributing and managing mobile devices for committee staff.

Prosecutors allege that between January and May 2023, Southerland had 240 new phones shipped directly to his home—far exceeding the roughly 80 staffers assigned to the committee at the time.

According to an indictment unsealed last week, Southerland instructed a pawn shop employee to sell the phones in parts to bypass the committee’s mobile device management software, which allows devices to be remotely secured and monitored. The alleged scheme came to light when one of the stolen phones was sold intact on eBay.

The buyer noticed the device displayed the House Technology Service Desk phone number, prompting staff to investigate and uncover the missing devices, the Washington Examiner reports.“Stealing taxpayer-funded devices is a betrayal of public trust,” Pirro said in a statement. “These phones are intended to support the work of the House, not line someone’s pockets. Accountability matters—no one is above the law.”

Southerland faces federal charges of theft of government property. If convicted, prosecutors have indicated they will seek monetary restitution for the stolen devices.

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MINNESOTA INSURRECTION: DHS Agents Engage, Shoot Armed Keffiyeh-Clad Rioter in Enforcement Action Against Violent Illegal

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The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that federal agents were in the area executing a lawful operation to apprehend an illegal alien wanted for violent assault when they encountered armed rioter Alex Pretti.

DHS stated that Pretti was armed with a loaded nine-millimeter semi-automatic handgun and two magazines, posing an immediate and lethal threat to federal officers and the public. The agency later released a photograph of the weapon recovered at the scene.

According to federal officials, agents attempted to secure and disarm Pretti, but he violently resisted, escalating the encounter into a life-or-death struggle. With an armed suspect refusing to comply and officers in close proximity, a Border Patrol agent fired a fatal shot in defense of life.

Pretti was pronounced dead at the scene. DHS reported that he had no identification at the time of the incident.

Video footage shows agents actively struggling to restrain an armed suspect, bringing him to the ground in a final effort to neutralize the threat — underscoring that lethal force was used only after physical control measures failed.

Watch the armed rioter confront the federal agents:

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the Daily Mail that the deceased was armed with two magazines, and the gun has since been recovered by federal authorities.

At least two Democrat Minnesota state officials and a campaign adviser to Tim Walz, Amanda Koehler, have been identified as “admins” and “dispatchers” in a now-leaked Signal group chat used to stalk and impede federal immigration operations in the state.

Minnesota burning Chaotic moment agent reached for gun revealed in close-up analysis of Minneapolis armed anti-ICE protester shooting

By Anna Young, NY Post, Jan. 24, 2026, 8:50 p.m. ET

Close-up videos of the fatal Minneapolis shooting showed protester Alex Jeffrey Pretti was armed with a gun — with the agent who fired the more than a dozen shots clearly reacting to something that alarmed him amid the chaos.

It’s unclear if Pretti had drawn the weapon and was immediately disarmed, if an officer had pulled it from his clothing or if he was in the process of pulling it out when a separate federal officer was seen taking it from the 37-year-old as he was pinned to the ground.

Videos of the incident show officers shouting “he’s got a gun,” as the unidentified agent reached into Pretti’s waistband to retrieve the weapon.

At one point an officer in gray coat is seen emerging from the melee with the gun, which officials said was a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. According to close up video of that moment, as the officer holds the gun, the gun’s slide moves, meaning it may have fired, causing a loud noise of a gunshot shortly before other officer fired at Pretti.

In various videos,the agent who fired the fatal shots could be seen shooting the armed protester at close range, then pumping at least 9 more rounds into his body as Pretti lay motionless on the ground.

The Department of Homeland Security said Pretti had approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun as they were conducting a “targeted” arrest.

“The officers attempted to disarm this individual, but the armed suspect reacted violently,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said at a press conference Saturday night.

“Fearing for his life and for the lives of his fellow officers around him, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics were on the scene immediately and attempted to deliver medical aid to the subject, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.”

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Organized and well-funded:

The people on the streets of Minneapolis tonight aren’t “concerned citizens.” They are a Paid Operation.
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The reporter confirms it:

  • Comms: They have radios and a command structure.
  • ​Logistics: They have supply lines and food drops.
  • ​Organization: They move like a unit, not a mob.
  • We know this playbook. The Democrats do this every time.
  • They bus them in. They fund the supplies. They give the orders.
  • This is the NGO Industrial Complex at work.

The Border Patrol union released a statement, saying agents are “trained extremely well to protect themselves, their fellow agents, and innocent third parties.”

The union called for lowering anti-ICE rhetoric.

“When a supposed ‘peaceful’ protester brings a weapon (such as a loaded handgun) and brandishes it, there are going to severe consequences and repercussions,” they said.

“We have pleaded with and warned the media and the politicians that their irresponsible, hate-filled and false rhetoric is going to get people unnecessarily hurt, or worse, killed when they portray our agents and officers as the aggressors. They have encouraged these reckless confrontations and attacks on our agents and officers who are performing their lawful duties and enforcing the laws that Congress has put on the books,” they added.

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Democrats Just As Godless As You’d Imagine, Study Shows

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The religious gap between Republicans and Democrats is bigger than ever, with two-thirds of Kamala Harris voters “seldom” or “never” attending church, an analysis of a new study found.

The “God gap,” the difference in worship between the parties, was determined using data collected by the Cooperative Election Study, according to political scientist Ryan Burge.

The study found that by the 2024 election, a majority of Trump voters had attended a religious service at least yearly, with 43% of Republicans reporting at least monthly attendance at a religious service.

In contrast, 44% of Harris voters reported “never” attending church, with another 21% reporting “seldom” attendance at religious services.

“For every Harris voter who attended church weekly in 2024, there were about four Harris voters who attended less than once a year,” Burge summarized. “If that’s not the God gap, I don’t know what is.”

However, Democrats and Republicans are both more removed from religious services than ever, according to the data.

Since 2008, the percentage of Republicans reporting at least yearly attendance at a religious service has dropped from 71% to 57%, with most of the difference attributed to an 11-point increase in those who “never” attend religious services and a 7-point decline in those who attend a religious service more than once a week.

“The other thing worth noting is that the share of Republican voters who attend weekly hasn’t really changed much; it’s the more-than-once-a-week people who have started to disappear,” Burge said, pointing out that Republicans are twice as likely to not go to church at present than in 2008.

Although GOP religiosity is at an all-time low, the “God gap” between the parties has never been greater.

In 2008, only 24% of Democrats “never” attended church, but that figure rose to 44% in 2024, with sharp declines in all other categories of religious service attendance.

Burge also broke down the Cooperative Election Study’s reported religious makeup of the parties.

Since 2008, the Republican Party has seen a slight drop in support from mainline Christians, white Catholics and Latter-day Saints. During the same time frame, the party has gained increased support from white and nonwhite evangelicals, Black Protestants, Orthodox Christians, Jews, atheists, agnostics and those identifying as “nothing in particular.”

Burge found that 42% of Trump’s votes came from the evangelical community. There is no more important voting bloc in the country than evangelicals if you are Republican. It’s basically impossible to win any race without their support,” he wrote.

“The only other group that really registers much at all are the ‘nothing in particular’ people,” Burge continued, citing that category’s growth in GOP representation from 8% to 12%.

Atheists and agnostics now make up only 5% of all GOP voters, with approximately 80% of Trump voters being Christian.

“To be even more specific, 70% came from white Christians,” Burge said. “The GOP is the party of white Christianity.”

Since 2008, the Democratic Party has lost support from white evangelicals, mainline Christians and Catholics. The party has received a small increase in support from nonwhite evangelicals and Jews, with most of its growth coming from those who identify as religious “nones.”

Burge concluded that the only reason Democrats are not getting “blown out in every election” is due to their support from atheists, agnostics and those who identify as “nones.”

“The GOP vote is 80% Christian and 17% nonreligious. The Democratic vote is 48% Christian and 45% nonreligious,” Burge summarized the current “God Gap,” adding that future elections will go the way of whatever party can “build a slightly bigger coalition without alienating their base.”

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Derek VanBuskirk

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Gay Furry Socialist Who Loves 9/11 Might Be The Most Batsh*t Democratic Candidate Yet

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A candidate for the Democratic nomination in a competitive congressional district celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk and said the United States deserved the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack.

Samuel Smeltzer, an IT specialist who identifies as a honey badger and goes by the name “Elyon Badger,” has a history of violent posts on BlueSky, a left-leaning competitor to X, formerly known as Twitter, the Washington Free Beacon reported. He is running for the House of Representatives in Michigan’s Seventh Congressional District, currently represented by Republican Rep. Tom Barrett, according to the outlet.

Smeltzer, who has also praised the assassinations of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) founder Charlie Kirk and United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, once posted to BlueSky about being banned from X for saying the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks carried out by the radical Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda.

“Well that’s gone for good I think,” Smeltzer posted on BlueSky on Oct. 25, 2024, showing a screenshot of the notice he had been banned from X for saying “America deserved 9/11 I agree.”

On the day Kirk was assassinated, Smeltzer posted an image of a skeleton wearing a Nazi hat.

“I for one, celebrate the death of every Nazi,” he said.

Smeltzer also said that Thompson’s killing was helping to “cure my depression.”

He also appeared to call for using the guillotine to execute very wealthy people.

“We need to find their mansions, yachts and jets and they all need to be burned,” he posted Friday in a thread about the $1 trillion compensation package Tesla shareholders offered CEO Elon Musk. “Then we can drop the guillotine on them.”

Smeltzer also targeted United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, on multiple posts on the social media site, vowing to send them to “gulags.”

ICE facilities in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have been the scene of multiple riots as opposition to the agency’s operations targeting illegal immigrants has intensified. Some of the rioters in Chicago called for the ICE agents to be arrested or shot in a video posted online during one of the riots.

Two people were killed during a shooting at the ICE office in Dallas on Sept. 24, with the gunman taking his own life. In Texas, there were two previous incidents where shots were fired at ICE or Border Patrol facilities since July 4, with ten people being charged with attempted murder in connection with the former incident.

A person fired at ICE agents with a pistol when ICE raided a California marijuana farm in July after obtaining a warrant, with the FBI offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the suspect’s identification, arrest and conviction.

“What’s inappropriate is billionaires existing,” Smeltzer told DCNF in an email. “Elon musk lives off of government tax dollars (38 billion to date) and when users on twitter proved Elon could singlehandedly end world hunger, he decided to become the worlds first trillionaire, while his DOGE wreaked havoc on the systems that keep poor Americans alive.”

Smeltzer added that billionaires “violated the social contract” while claiming they were in “solidarity with one another.” He added that the “proletariat are waking up to that fact.”

“Brian Thompson made money by denying people healthcare, Brian Thompson is a DEATH PANELIST because when you are DENIED DEFENDED and DEPOSED you are condemned to death by a billionaire,” Smeltzer continued.

This article has been updated with a response from Smeltzer.

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Harold Hutchison

Media Reporter

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Democrat: The Party of the Shutdown, by the Shutdown and for the Shutdown

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A senior Democratic aide said they will not reopen the government short of “planes falling out of the sky,” as long as public perception is in their favor, according to CNN. 

WATCH: This video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is playing in airports across the country

TORRE in a column titled US Democrats won’t end shutdown unless ‘planes fall out of the sky’ – CNN. reports:

Over 9,000 flights have already been canceled or delayed due to a shortage of air traffic controllers across the country

Democrats have said they will not agree to end the US government shutdown unless Republicans meet their demands, with one senior aide telling CNN it would take an airline catastrophe for the party to back down.

The federal government shut down on October 1 after Republicans and Democrats failed to agree on a spending bill in the Senate. The impasse has left hundreds of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay as the standoff enters its second week.

The shutdown has also disrupted air travel across the country. According to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) data, more than 9,000 flights have been delayed or canceled amid a shortage of air traffic controllers.

Air traffic controllers are classified as essential workers and must continue working without pay, which has led to widespread absences and temporary closures at several major airports.

Nevertheless, Democratic leaders have told CNN they will hold their position until Republicans agree to extend Affordable Care Act healthcare subsidies. One anonymous senior Democratic aide told the outlet that as long as public perception remains in their favor, the party “will not concede short of planes falling out of the sky” – a remark that has drawn widespread criticism.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson has also condemned Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for reportedly saying that “every day of the shutdown makes it better for us,” accusing the Democrat of forcing Americans to suffer for political gain.

Schumer has accused the Republicans of “risking America’s healthcare” and refusing to negotiate in good faith.

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The Party of the Shutdown, by the Shutdown and for the Shutdown

Key Impacts of the 2025 Government Shutdown:

  1. Essential Services: Critical services like air traffic control, Social Security, and veterans’ healthcare will continue, but many federal agencies are operating with reduced staff. For instance, the CDC, NIH, and FDA will have fewer personnel available to monitor health issues and conduct inspections, potentially impacting public health and safety.
  2. Public Services: National parks remain open but with minimal staffing, leading to fewer services for visitors, such as trail maintenance and ranger programs. Passport and visa processing will slow down, affecting international travel plans. 
  3. Economic Consequences: The shutdown could cost the economy billions, particularly affecting local economies where federal workers reside. While federal employees typically receive back pay after a shutdown, contractors and businesses reliant on government contracts may not receive compensation, leading to broader economic repercussions. 
  4. Political Context: The shutdown stems from a partisan dispute over healthcare funding, with Democrats advocating for the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies, while Republicans seek to separate these discussions from government funding. This political stalemate has led to the current funding impasse. 

Conclusion

The ongoing government shutdown in 2025 is having widespread effects on federal operations, employee livelihoods, and public services.

The longer the shutdown persists, the more pronounced these impacts will become.

Affecting not only government functions but also the daily lives of citizens and the overall economy.

The 2026 midterm elections will be held on November 3, 2026.

Remember that the Republican Party is of the people, by the people and for the people.

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Texas GOP Unleashes Hellfire on Democrat Deserters

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Texas is under siege, not by invaders, but by gutless Democrats who fled like rats from a sinking ship, abandoning their posts to sabotage a righteous redistricting mission.

More than 50 Democrat lawmakers bolted the state, cowering in Illinois and New York to block a Republican-led congressional map that would cement the will of Texas voters — 56% of whom roared for Donald Trump in 2024.

Governor Greg Abbott, a titan of resolve, has drawn his sword, vowing to hammer these traitors with “special session after special session after special session” until they’re crushed under the weight of their own cowardice.

This is war, and the Texas GOP is a strike force that will not yield.

These Democrat cowards, led by the spineless Gene Wu, think they can paralyze the state House by denying it a quorum.

Their flight is a betrayal of every Texan who expects their elected officials to stand and fight, not scurry to safe havens like roaches dodging sunlight.

Abbott’s response is a thunderclap: civil arrest warrants are ready to be issued, prepared to bring these deserters back to face justice.

Attorney General Ken Paxton, a fierce advocate himself, has launched a legal assault, filing a lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court to remove Wu and his allies from their seats for breaking their oaths.

Paxton’s X post on August 8, 2025, labeled these runaways “rogue legislators,” calling for their immediate arrest and initiating an investigation into potential bribery by shadowy groups like Texas Majority PAC.

The GOP’s iron grip is tight, and it will crush this rebellion.

The redistricting plan is no mere map — it’s a battle standard for Texas Republicans. It will secure 30 of the state’s 38 congressional districts, up from 25, ensuring the voice of Trump’s legion resonates in Washington.

Abbott’s justification is ironclad: a federal appeals court ruling and the 2024 election results demand this correction. Republican voters, trapped in Democrat-drawn districts, will finally be liberated.

This isn’t gerrymandering — it’s justice, aligning the map with the raw will of the people.

Democrats scream “corruption,” but their words are hollow, drowned out by their own hypocrisy. After all, they did flee to Illinois.

Blue states like Illinois, with its 14-3 Democrat stranglehold, and Massachusetts, with zero Republican voices, have gerrymandered their maps into fortresses of liberal dominance.

Abbott called them out, exposing their sham outrage as a desperate ploy to deflect from their own sins.

The Democrats’ exodus isn’t just a political stunt — it’s a knife in the back of flood-ravaged Texans.

The special session, meant to deliver critical relief to central Texas victims, is frozen because these quitters chose self-preservation over service.

Abbott’s righteous fury burns bright:

“These Democrats are denying aid to their constituents,” he thundered, branding them derelict and unfit.

Their absence stalls not just redistricting but the very lifeline their voters need.

This is treason against the people, and Texans will not forgive their betrayal.

Nationally, this fight is a powder keg. Trump’s endorsement propels the GOP’s effort, positioning Texas as the leader in a redistricting battle to secure the House for 2026. Democrat governors like Gavin Newsom threaten to respond with their own maps, but their words are ineffective.

Their states’ redistricting processes are limited by committees and commissions, unlike Texas, where Abbott uses executive power decisively.

Illinois’s map, a distorted image of fairness, exposes the Democrats’ strategy: rig the game, then cry foul when the GOP fights back.

Texas will not yield to its double standards.

The Texas Supreme Court looms as the final battlefield. Abbott’s lawsuit against Wu argues that quorum-breaking hands a third of House Democrats the power to dictate law for all Texans — an abomination that must be crushed.

Wu’s pathetic defense, claiming his flight fulfills his oath, is a lie spat in the face of every Texan.

The court will see through this charade, and when it rules, these deserters will face the reckoning they’ve earned.

Their seats will be vacated, their influence obliterated, and their names etched in infamy as the cowards who fled when duty called.

This is the Texas GOP’s finest hour.

Abbott and Paxton are not just leaders — they’re avengers, using every tool at their disposal to restore order.

The Democrats’ flight is a desperate gasp from a struggling opposition, clutching to obstruction as their last resort.

But Texas is built in fire, not fear.

These runaways will be tracked down, their plans uncovered, and their power taken away.

The redistricting map will be approved, flood relief will arrive, and the GOP will push forward, strong and steady. Texans want fighters, not cowardly whisperers, and the Republican machine will deliver.

The Democrats’ surrender is near — they can run, but they can’t escape the fury of a state united under the banner of strength, loyalty, and victory.

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ROOKE: Democrats Roll Out Sneaky Playbook Year After Year. Now They’ve Met Their Match As Governor Lays Out Threat

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As the 2026 midterms quickly approach, Democrats and Republicans are searching for ways to increase their chances of winning control of Congress, making the addition of House seats through redistricting a top priority.

The Texas state legislature announced that it will introduce a bill to redistrict its U.S. Congressional districts, adding six House seats that would seemingly benefit Republican candidates.

Democrats across the country, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, criticized the move, claiming that Republicans were canceling Democratic voters by gerrymandering their district map. Democrat Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett claimed that Republicans were harming minority voters with the move.

Despite criticism and threats from blue states to redistrict their congressional districts, Texas state Republicans plan to move forward with their redistricting bill. That’s when all the drama started. News spread Saturday that state Democrats had once again fled the state to avoid giving the Texas state House a quorum to vote on the bill.

This is not new from Texas Democrats. Since 2020, state Democrats have made the same move three times. On May 30, 2021, Democrats walked out of the House at midnight to break the quorum and avoid voting on Texas SB 7, which focused on election integrity and security.

In response, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called a special session to force Democrats back into the chamber. However, when the bill came up for another House floor vote, state Democrats broke quorum again by jumping on a chartered flight to Washington, D.C., on July 12, 2021. It took over a month before Democrats were forced to give Republicans a quorum in the Texas House.

Democrats are trying to do this again. On Aug. 3, at least 51 Democrats flew to Illinois to prevent the Texas House from reaching a quorum to vote on the new redistricting bill.

But this time is different. Abbott doesn’t seem willing to allow state Democrats the month-long publicity stunt before requiring them to come back to work. Instead, on Sunday, the Texas governor released a fiery statement notifying delinquent Democrats of the consequences should they refuse to attend the House vote at 3:00 p.m. Monday.

“This truancy ends now. The derelict Democrat House members must return to Texas and be in attendance when the House reconvenes at 3:00 PM on Monday, August 4, 2025. For any member who fails to do so, I will invoke Texas Attorney General Opinion No. KP-0382 to remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House,” Abbott warned, adding that he has the power to “swiftly fill” their empty seats.

“In addition to abandoning their offices, these legislators may also have committed felonies. Many absentee Democrats are soliciting funds to evade the fines they will incur under House rules. Any Democrat who ‘solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept’ such funds to assist in the violation of legislative duties or for purposes of skipping a vote may have violated bribery laws. See TEX. PENAL CODE § 36.02,” Abbott stated.

The Texas governor didn’t end with threatening state Democrats with felonies and removal from office. He added that any person who funds this charade will also be subjected to felony charges and promises to use his “full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas of any potential out-of-state felons.”

There is no reported claim that Abbott received a call from the White House or U.S. House Republican leadership to end this Democrat power play immediately. Last time, it took over a month for Abbott and Texas Republicans to get their Democrat counterparts back to work.

Whatever the cause, Republicans seem to have found their backbone and have no issue using the power given to them by the voters to get important legislative work done.

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Former Democrat Staffer Arrested For Abducting, Assaulting Women On The Loose After Posting Bond

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A former Democratic Hill staffer and official for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Jeffrey Gary, is out on bond after being accused of abducting and sexually assaulting two women.

Gary, a now former assistant division chief FCC was taken into custody and charged with assault and battery, sexual battery, and two counts of abduction involving the use of force, stemming from incidents reported on May 30, according to an ALXnow report.

Court records show he was released on June 13 after posting four bonds totaling $14,000. 

Gary is a graduate of  Georgetown Law where he was a global law scholar and was employed as assistant division chief at the Federal Communications Commission, according to ALXnow. He remained in his position until his arrest on June 1.

“Upon hearing of this disturbing incident we took immediate action against this employee. His employment with the agency has been terminated,” the FCC told the Caller in a statement.

Before joining the FCC, Gary briefly worked as a staff assistant for Democrat Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell in 2015. He later served as a law clerk for Democrat Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden during parts of 2017 and 2018, according to a Legistorm profile that also lists his tenure at the FCC.

Jeffrey Gary Legistorm Profile (Daily Caller Screenshot)

Jeffrey Gary Legistorm Profile (Daily Caller Screenshot)

He later opened his own consulting firm “Gary Consulting,” according to records from OpenSecrets.

The City of Alexandria announced the arrest of the Fairfax County man in connection with a violent assault near the Braddock Metro Station.

In a press release, officials stated, “The Alexandria Police Department (APD), in collaboration with the Metro Transit Police Department (MTPD), has arrested 35-year-old Jeffrey Gary, a resident of Fairfax County, in connection with assaulting a woman on Friday evening near the Braddock Metro Station.”

The incident occurred around 9:41 p.m. Friday. According to the city, “a woman in her mid-30s was walking in the 1100 block of Madison Street after exiting the Braddock Metro Station when she was approached from behind by the suspect.”

“He grabbed her and wrestled her to the ground, attempting to restrain her,” the statement continued. “The victim bravely resisted, shoved the suspect away, and ran to safety before calling 911. No weapon was used in the assault.”

Police say Alexandria officers responded quickly and began working with Metro Transit Police.

Authorities credited their success to surveillance and teamwork. “Through the strategic use of technology, including APD Public Safety cameras, and close coordination with regional law enforcement partners, detectives were able to identify the suspect.”

Finally, with support from Fairfax County Police, an arrest was made. “With the assistance of Fairfax County Police, an early morning search warrant was executed, and Gary was taken into custody.

Alexandria Circuit Court Judge Katie Uston approved bail for Jeffrey Gary under several conditions.

He must remain under house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor, undergo both mental health and substance abuse evaluations, and is prohibited from going near the Braddock Road and Potomac Yard Metro stations, according to the report.

Alexandria Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter stated that his office strongly objected to Gary’s release and is currently pursuing an appeal of the court’s decision.

“We do not agree with the court’s ruling on bail and are appealing it to the Court of Appeals,” Porter told ALXnow. “While the defendant is presumed innocent and a charge is not proof of guilt, we are limited in what we can publicly say while the case is ongoing.”

Gary is set to appear in court again on July 7 and is being represented by a public defender. 

The Daily Caller reached out both Cantwell and Wyden’s offices for comment but did not receive a response from either prior to publication.

The Caller also reached out to the Alexandria Public Defender’s office and did not receive a response prior to publication.

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The Democrat Masculinity Crisis

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THE DEMOCRAT MASCULINITY CRISIS

Let’s start this week’s newsletter with a multiple choice question:

Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan 

Does the above title refer to:

A: A guide for missionaries from Nepal trying to convert American men to Hinduism

B: A Big Tech company’s computer program to help AI sexbots seduce lonely men online

C: A research study from Havard’s Linguistics department on code switching

D: An extraterrestrial handbook for recruiting men to join the plot to take over Earth

E: None of the above

If you answered ‘E’ … Congratulations! You’re correct.

Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan (or “SAM”) is the name of the $20 million project Democrats are launching to “study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces.”

Leave it to the Democrats to spend millions of dollars trying to relate to their fellow Americans and making things incredibly weird in the process. Even The New York Times was forced to admit that Democrats’ plans to court voters sound like “anthropological studies of people from faraway places.”

The average Democrat, it seems, is more in touch with the desires and concerns of “Palestinian freedom fighters” (Hamas) and “asylum seekers” (illegal immigrant Home Depot loiterers and gangbangers) than their fellow Americans — particularly men.

“Men make up roughly half the population. You’d never know if you spoke to a Democrat. They approach men as though inquiring into the habits of an exotic Galapagos species,” my colleague Natalie Sandoval summarized.

Among the new liberal “man sherpas” are Democratic National Committee (DNC) Vice Chair David Hogg and influencers Olivia Julianna — an obese Latinx from Texas — and Micah Erfan, a UVA law student who speaks through his nasal cavity.

All three suggested in recent media appearances that what men really want is cheap housing, government-run healthcare, and limitless abortions so they can focus on quick dopamine hits through one night stands, pornography, sports gambling, and video games. Nowhere in the messaging are masculine virtues like responsibility, purpose, strength, the pursuit of excellence, and courage. Keep ‘em zombified slaves to the government — easier to control that way.

The Democrats do have a male messaging problem. The spokespeople they elevate for the party are decidedly not masculine. They advocate for a greater focus on weird subgroup politics, like Erfan’s insistence in a college op-ed that “the English language needs gender-neutral pronouns.” They don’t understand the appeal of long-form independent podcasts, why they no longer have “a Joe Rogan” (they want to buy one of those, too). And they love to police language and cancel people for holding un-woke opinions, expressing pure disgust at the things you might hear during a typical Saturday golf round while aligning themselves politically with people who self-immolate for Palestine and want to genocide white people.

The problem is less the messaging, though, than the policies. Julianna, in her roundly mocked video with Erfan, insisted that men don’t really care about immigration. Instead, she alleged, they care about scarcity in housing and jobs. Sure, that’s part of the issue, but that’s inseparable from Biden’s illegal immigration crisis. They also care about crime, law and order, social cohesion and basic fairness.

Julianna also claims most men she talks to on college campuses support Black Lives Matter and abortion. The Democrats are apparently completely unaware that people just tell them what they want to hear out of self-preservation — or, in Julianna’s case, to get her to leave them the hell alone. There’s no appetite among men for defunding the police, DEI, ESG, transgender ideology, abolishing ICE, or any of the other wacky schemes cooked up by the left.

It’s pure lunacy for Democrats to think they can spend their way out of two decades of decrying the “patriarchy,” calling masculine ideals “toxic,” and implementing openly discriminatory policies that disfavor white men. It’s the Democrat way, though, to throw money at a problem and consider it solved. Just look at the Inflation Reduction Act and the public education system.

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Amber Duke

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Republicans Finally Release Draft of Tax Bill—Read It!

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Limping along. Barely.

Our GOP controlled House and Senate sent fewer bills to President Trump than any Congress in 70 years.

They sent five bills to President Trump’s desk to sign in his first 100 days. That’s the least out of any President since the 1950s.

It is inconceivable that these quislings think the majority of Americans voted for Republicans. Wrong.

They voted for Trump despite the impotent and feckless treachery of Republican (uniparty) chicanery. These quisling clowns better get with the program.

Read it: House Republicans release text for highly anticipated tax cut bill

By Zach Halaschak

Republican taxwriters have released the text of the slate of tax proposals that they want to go into the massive fiscal bill that would enact much of President Donald Trump‘s agenda.

The legislative text released Monday includes extending and making permanent various expiring provisions from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, as well as other Trump priorities, such as eliminating taxes on tips, ending taxes on overtime, and increasing the cap on state and local tax deductions.

House leadership released the 389-page document on Monday afternoon, a day before the House Ways and Means Committee is set to hold its markup on the tax provisions. During that process, the various tax proposals will be debated and amendments to the legislation offered.

The document is the most substantial chunk of legislative text yet for the legislation that Republicans hope to pass through the reconciliation process, which involves several committees and markups. Reconciliation is a legislative process that allows bills to bypass the filibuster and pass with only a simple majority in the Senate.

While some of the tax proposals in the “one big beautiful bill” are uncontroversial and will likely garner universal Republican support, others could end up being changed to satisfy certain members who might threaten to withhold support for the overall legislation.

Continue reading.

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Pamela Geller

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‘Looked Like a Fool’: GOP Roasts Van Hollen Over Meeting with Illegal Alien

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GOP lawmakers expressed outrage on social media after Maryland Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen met with a deported illegal alien in El Salvador on Thursday.

“Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the fake news media, or anyone,” President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to demand the release from prison of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who the senator claims was “illegally abducted” from Maryland. Abrego Garcia entered the U.S. illegally in 2012, has ties to MS-13, and the Department of Homeland Security claims he has been involved in human trafficking activity.

“Find someone who looks at you the way Democrat senators look at illegal alien MS-13 gang members,” Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, wrote sarcastically on X with a photo of the two men talking.

Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., called Van Hollen’s actions “traitorous,” and Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., bashed his fellow Maryland lawmaker for showing more support to an illegal alien than the family of slain Maryland mother Rachel Morin, who was raped and murdered by an illegal alien in 2023.

“Imagine if Sen. Van Hollen cared as much about the families of Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton,” Harris wrote on X. An illegal alien MS-13 gang member killed Hamilton, a 20-year-old Maryland woman, in 2023.

“Leftist politicians only want to talk about bringing illegal immigrants back to Maryland,” Harris added.

After more Democrats expressed an interest in visiting Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, Rep. Mark Green, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, issued a statement saying his colleagues on the Left “can use their own personal credit cards—not taxpayers’ money—to virtue-signal to their radical base.”

GOP politicians were not the only ones criticizing Van Hollen after his meeting with Abrego Garcia. The Libs of TikTok X account, which has over 4 million followers, shared a blank photo on social media with the caption, “Here’s an image of Democrat Sen. Chris Van Hollen meeting with Rachel Morin’s family who was murdered by an illegal in his state.”

Ahead of Van Vollen’s meeting with Abrego Garcia, The Daily Wire political commentator Michael Knowles made a meme of Van Hollen looking into the eyes of a man intended to represent an illegal alien gang member.

After the meeting in El Salvador, Knowles shared the image of Van Hollen and Abrego Garcia seated at a table together talking with the tongue-in-cheek caption, “He … he did. He actually did it. [Van Hollen] did my meme.”

Despite Van Hollen’s calls for Abrego Garcia to be returned to America, and U.S. courts ordering the Trump administration to “facilitate” his return, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele says the deported illegal alien has the “honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody.”

AUTHOR

Virginia Allen

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Obama Defends Hamas-Supporting Students

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Not exactly a surprise to anyone.

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Obama did more than any president to turn his party and the country against Israel. You never had to guess which side of the debate between campus Hamas supporters and Jewish students and faculty he would be on. But, in typically dishonest fashion, Obama also sticks to generalities and provides no actual context.

“I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech,” Obama said at one point in his college convo.

Obama’s talking about students advocating for Hamas and the murder of Jews, but he refuses to say, hiding behind the false claim that this is about “freedom of speech”. As usual, he knows what he’s doing and is once again spinning the worst anti-American policies as embodying American values.

And so foreign students calling for “Death to America” and the “destruction of western civilization”  are the real heroes, according to Obama, but that is what he always stood for.

Then Obama urged colleges to defy the Trump administration. “If you are a university, you may have to figure out, are we in fact doing things right? Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion? If not, and you’re just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, that’s why we got this big endowment.”

“It has been easy during most of our lifetimes to say you are a progressive or say you are for social justice or say you’re for free speech and not have to pay a price for it. Now we’re at one of those moments where, you know what? It’s not enough just to say you’re for something; you may actually have to do something and possibly sacrifice a little bit.”

What’s Obama sacrificing? Hush. No need to ask that question. Or any details about what the actual issues at stake are.

AUTHOR

Daniel Greenfield

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The Party of Men Who Think They’re Women Decides to Stay the Course

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What could possibly go wrong for the party of blue-haired, angry Marxists? They know they’re right. They know they’re righteous. They know their opponents are evil, racist fascists. So what if they’ve lost an election or two? They’re on the side of history, you benighted fools! To change course now would be to jump to the wrong side of history, and history hates when you do that! And so the Democrats have decided, after the American electorate decisively rejected the noxious stew they’re selling, to serve up more of the same.

Politico reported Friday that the Democratic National Committee held a major meeting not long after the Convicted Felon, the Emmanuel Goldstein of 2015-2025 (and counting), the focus of evil in the modern world, Orange Man Bad himself, took office again. The ostensible reason for the meeting was to vet candidates for the DNC leadership position, but it was really an opportunity for Democrat top dogs to do some soul-searching and decide which way their party would turn next.

The Democrat Party, whatever else it was, used to be adaptable to circumstances. In 1968, it went down to defeat with presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, who supported the war in Vietnam. As the war grew increasingly unpopular, the Democrats moved farther to the left (which is always easy for them) and nominated the antiwar Sen. George McGovern in 1972. When McGovern’s far-left candidacy went down in flames, the party moved back toward the center by going with southern Democrat Jimmy Carter in 1976.

All that, however, was a long, long time ago. Now the party of Andrew Jackson and FDR is in the grip of hardline leftist ideologues who seem to care more about adherence to the far-left line than about electoral viability. All the party’s old ability to adapt has been lost; to change course now would apparently make one a class traitor, or a racist, or a fascist, or whatever the left’s favorite term for those it fears and hates is these days.

Even Politico’s Holly Otterbein was disgusted, stating with startling frankness that the Democrats have become a parody of themselves, likening a moment early in the meeting when one DNC leadership candidate broke into song to “a scene from ‘Portlandia,’ a comedy satirizing ultra-liberals — and it was a punchline that was clipped and replayed across social media in the days ahead. Things only got more surreal, and viral, from there.”

The aspiring DNC leaders, Otterbein wrote, “inadvertently showcased the party’s self-absorbed tendencies that strategists argue have driven away swing voters, by turns fixating on identity politics, displaying scorn for large swaths of the electorate and failing to focus on the pocketbook concerns of ordinary Americans.” They never dared approach the topic of whether Kamala Harris had not run a perfect campaign. They likewise ignored the open border, skyrocketing inflation, and all the other issues that made voters want to throw the Dems out in the first place.

As is generally true at Marxist and neo-Marxist gatherings, ideological purity was strictly enforced. MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked the leadership candidates: “How many of you believe that racism and misogyny played a role in Vice President Harris’ defeat?” Each candidate raised his or her or xis hand, whereupon Capehart passed up an opportunity to call them all crazy and tell them that they needed to remove their ideological blinkers. Instead, he stated magisterially: “That’s good. You all pass.” Whew!

A DNC member asked the candidates: “Will you pledge to appoint more than one transgender person to an at-large seat?” Seven of the eight candidates readily affirmed that they would do so, and the eighth was condemned as a heretic and burned at the stake. Okay, I’m exaggerating about that last part. But only a little.

The aspiring Democrat leaders also described Trump as a “fascist who espoused white supremacist conspiracies.” Telling half the country’s population that they’re evil people is hardly a winning strategy, and Politico climbed up onto a ledge of its own, despondently surveying the DNC leadership candidates and alleging that “the spectacle appalled many dyed-in-the-wool Democrats — and deepened the sense that party leaders were not up for the moment.”

Politico even quoted an anonymous “Democratic strategist” saying: “I don’t know if Dems realize how f**ked they are right now as a brand. It was a bunch of people politely discussing how many deck chairs on the Titanic should be reserved for transgender people.” For the sake of the continuing health of America as a free society, all free people must hope that this particular Titanic will continue to sink.

AUTHOR

Robert Spencer

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Nancy Pelosi Demands Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Resign, Israel should permanently ban her from entering the Holy Land

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Communist bottom feeding parasite Democrat Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) the former Speaker of the House kept her groupies under control in the Congress by forcing them to all wear virgin white outfits. Go figure right? The U.S. Virgin Islands probably should also be renamed just the “Islands” after Bill Clinton’s last visit there.

She, as in comrade Pelosi ran a tight ship and used her large political pectoral muscles adored in the past by her secret lover of 7 years President John F. Kennedy to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach President Trump twice.

Now this screaming harpy who should get royalty payments from the movie “Jason and the Argonauts” is calling on Israel’s brave and honorable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign.

Don’t forget, Pelosi is part of the Military Industrial Complex and she blaming Netanyahu for blocking a two party state. Who in their right mind wants a terrorist state sitting next to Israel other than Pelosi?

Now Israel has been the land owner of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank plus its other territories since before the birth of Christ. So there is only one Israel with Muslim occupiers and squatters in these locals.

The Gaza Strip is gifted land by Israel to the so called Palestinians so the answer to this problem is to deport these Muslims back to where they originally came from like Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

Nancy Pelosi is the one who needs to resign for being President Kennedy’s alleged longest running mistress starting at age 15 and who was supposedly witnessed tiptoeing into Kennedy’s bedroom as the sun was setting.

She needs to resign for impeaching President Trump twice for no apparent reason other than for making a constitutionally protected phone call to the corrupt President of Ukraine and for telling his supporters to go home peacefully.

His second impeachment was adjudicated by the cockroach Pelosi while Trump was no longer president of the United States. Totally unconstitutional. The only President in history to be impeached from office when he was no longer in office.

She should also resign for her insider trading successes including her husbands investment of millions of dollars in computer-chip stocks while Pelosi and members of Congress were preparing to vote on legislation to subsidize the chip- manufacturing industry.

She should resign for providing aid and comfort to our enemies by voting for and providing them aid and comfort through Sanctuary city policies including the fecal capital of the world, her district San Francisco funded by U.S. citizen tax dollars.

She should resign for refusing to protect the American people by refusing to fund our Border Patrol and the much needed border wall, leaving our borders open and unsafe.

Stay strong folks November 5th 2024 will return a real American with a backbone back to the White House. He will restore global security and will be in office to continue his legacy. Much to the chagrin of Nancy Pelosi.

That man is Donald Trump.

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‘It’s a New Day’: Mike Johnson Brings Principles and Purpose to Speakership

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While D.C. politicos scramble to figure out who House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is, here at Family Research Council, we needed no introduction. To most of us, the young-looking Louisiana lawyer represents the best the movement has to offer. “He’s a social conservative’s conservative,” Politico pointed out in a lengthy piece about his relationship with FRC. But more than that, he’s a man who deeply loves God and this country. So as senators like Susan Collins (R-Maine) turn to Google to find out who the new speaker is, we can tell you simply: he’s the real deal.

My boss, FRC President Tony Perkins, met Mike more than two decades ago when the future speaker was just an up-and-coming law student at LSU. During Tony’s days in the Louisiana legislature, the two crossed paths a lot, eventually working together on a blockbuster bill that became one of the first abortion clinic regulation laws in the country.

“You mentioned how far back we go,” Johnson said in an interview on “Washington Watch” a couple years ago. “I saw you as a young state legislator, and I remember that your banner and your motto when you ran for office was ‘raising the standard.’ And that resonated with me, because I felt that same call on my life. And in so many ways, Tony, you were a huge influence on my life. I saw that you could do it. … [Other] people that I knew [also] did it right and did it well, and they followed the Lord first. And it showed in all their work and their life and their family. And that was a great encouragement to me.”

As Johnson alluded to in his speech before the House chamber Wednesday, the road to Congress was paved by his God-fearing parents. “I was blessed,” he emphasized to Tony. “I was raised in a Christian household, and my parents — I was actually the conception of a teenage pregnancy my parents’ junior year in high school. And they dropped out, decided to have me, and keep me. And that’s why I’m so pro-life today. I’m a living example of faithfulness. … They just trusted God.”

And made sacrifices. “My dad went to work early. They didn’t finish high school. Then he went back later, got his GED, but I don’t have any memory of not being a Christian,” Mike said. “I got saved when I was seven years old. I got baptized in a horse trough out behind our old country church in northwest Louisiana. And I was just raised to know and understand and believe that faith is very real. And it was just part of the fabric of our family, and who we are.”

But the fabric of that family was tested when Mike was just 12. His dad, an assistant chief for the Shreveport, Louisiana fire department, was a training officer. “And on September 17th, 1984,” he remembers, “he went into work on a hazardous materials leak in a cold storage plant. And the building blew up. He was burned 80% of his body, third-degree burns — and given a 5% chance to live. His co-captain died in the fire, so it was a terrible tragedy. [But] God miraculously saved my dad’s life.”

“He had a long journey back,” Mike said. “He lived another 30 years. And he was in pain every day — but he survived. … I was the oldest of four kids in my family,” he pointed out. “[And I learned that] our faith was real. … God saved my dad’s life … and I just knew that prayer worked. So that’s never left me. It’s been with me my whole life.”

When Tony asked Mike what surprised him most about his time in Congress, he replied that his answer was “kind of a sad one.” “I was surprised to see that many members of Congress are elected to serve, and they don’t truly have a fully formed philosophy of government. Some of them are not even crystal clear on what their worldview is, you know? And so it has an effect on their work and the decisions they make. … If you don’t have a fully formed philosophy of government, if you don’t have your principles set in stone … before you get there, then you’re going to be easy prey for all the influences that are out there.”

That’s why, he says, he’s been trying to encourage his colleagues to think about what it means to be a Christian in public service. “The only seedbed of virtue,” Johnson insisted, “is in religious faith. I mean, men have to understand that they owe an allegiance to a higher power, and they have a judge that is above all others. And that is what has guided our country since its founding. And that’s what’s going to continue to guide it. So we shouldn’t make apology for it. We should go out and live that boldly and encourage others to do the same.”

He owes that strength of conviction to a number of people who encouraged him along the way. “I had a mentor when I was really young, [and he] told me one time — he said, ‘Mike, you know what? Always remember this: What is popular isn’t always right, and what is right isn’t always popular.’ And we have to remember that even in politics, you know, highest levels of elected office in the country, that’s a pretty simple axiom that everybody needs to follow.”

Now, Johnson is passing that advice along to his four children — and all of the young leaders he meets. At the time, his son, Jack, was just starting high school, and he wanted to make sure that his son was firmly rooted in truth. “I said, ‘Listen, I want you to be real intentional about this. You know, the calling of a Christian young man or young woman is that you are not called to be a thermometer. You’re called to be a thermostat. What does that mean, Jack? You know, what does a thermometer do? Well, a thermometer goes into a new environment, takes a temperature, and adjusts to it. That’s not what we do. The Christian young man or woman is called to be an atmosphere changer, to be a thermostat. So you walk in, and you hold that standard, raise the standard.’”

At the end of the day, Mike said, “You live according to that truth that you know, and it will change the atmosphere you’re in. And people will look to you. … [They’re] dying for truth and authenticity. They want to know that there really is an absolute … that there’s a standard.” He pointed to Chronicles 6:9. “The eyes of the Lord range throughout the whole earth, seeking those whose hearts are holy, committed. There’s only a few in every generation, but if you’ll do that, God will give you His blessing. He’ll give you His platform. His promotion principles will set in place, and He’ll give you things that will amaze everyone.”

They were prophetic words for a man whose heart is holy, whose God has just given him that enormous platform he spoke of. And yet, back in January, Mike would have been the last to guess that when he and a handful of Republicans knelt in the House chamber to pray for the speakership, they would ultimately be paving the road to him.

As Tony said in a Newsmax interview Wednesday, America can be proud to have a man of substance at the helm. “That’s why he’s the first speaker, I think since 2011, to have unanimous support from his colleagues on the Republican side. … I’ve known Mike for 25 years, and he is going to be an excellent speaker for the times in which we live.”

Looking back on the arc of their long friendship, he said with pride, “He has a sense of purpose, and that comes from his faith. … And this is what’s important, because in politics this has gotten lost. It’s really about people. And he cares about people,” Tony insisted. “… He told me this morning, I was talking to him as he was working on his speech, and he said, ‘It’s a new day. They’re going to see a new thing in this Congress.’”

And those of us who admire him believe it.

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Suzanne Bowdey

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer at The Washington Stand.

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