Democrats across the country are opposing President Donald Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, arguably recreating the nullification crisis that helped spark the Civil War—and this neo-Confederate trend just received a major boost from an influential union.
The American Federation of Teachers, a union that bankrolls Democrat candidates and left-leaning causes, approved a resolution opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement at its annual convention in July, and that radical resolution encourages further opposition to immigration law, pitting state and local authorities against the federal government.
Minnesota Democrat Gov. Tim Walz has threatened to deploy his state’s National Guard troops against federal agents. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claimed federal immigration enforcement was an “occupying force.” Virginia Democrat Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed laws attempting to dictate how federal agents enforce the law in the Old Dominion.
Governors like JB Pritzker of Illinois, or Gavin Newsom of California, or Tina Kotek of Oregon, openly say that immigration law should not be enforced in their jurisdictions. Many states and cities have directed state and local law enforcement not to cooperate with ICE when it comes to removing illegal aliens.
These arguments echo the doctrine of nullification, the theory that states can refuse to cooperate with—or even actively obstruct—the enforcement of federal law. South Carolina advanced this theory in the Nullification Crisis of 1832, and it formed part of the bedrock for the South’s secession movements leading up to the Civil War. Today’s “sanctuary” movement differs in many respects, but it also aims to frustrate federal enforcement by mobilizing state and local power against national policy.
The AFT’s Institutional Support for Neo-Confederate Opposition
The union adopted a resolution on July 18 stating that it supports “efforts by governors, attorneys general, mayors, and other state and local leaders across the nation to protect residents from ICE.”
The resolution also pledges to call on elected leaders to “use every tool in their toolbox” to: ban ICE from sensitive locations, ban ICE from conducting immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant, prevent local and state law enforcement coordination with ICE, and provide resources and training for “state employees” to “properly defend against and respond to unlawful actions from ICE agents.”
In a particularly brazen suggestion, the resolution calls on officials to “safeguard public school districts against enrollment declines… through state intervention and financial assistance.”
While the union suggests that ICE is breaking the law, immigration enforcement is a civil matter, not a criminal one, so ICE agents do not need to acquire judicial warrants to carry out raids—administrative warrants are sufficient.
The resolution aligns America’s second-largest teachers union with a campaign to obstruct federal immigration enforcement.
Why AFT Matters
Americans can disagree on immigration policy, but many of us wonder why a teachers union is devoting convention time to opposing federal immigration enforcement rather than addressing reading scores, absenteeism, classroom discipline, or teacher recruitment.
The American Federation of Teachers has long supported Democrats and leftist causes. Many prominent Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, addressed its annual convention in July.
The union’s political action arm has contributed to a wide swath of Democrat candidates in races across the country, according to public records analyzed by the parental rights group Defending Education. It contributed $500,000 to Democrat Abigail Spanberger’s 2025 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia, for example.
The American Federation of Teachers “functions as nothing more than a money-laundering operation for the Democrat Party,” Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow for education policy at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal. “Year after year, 99% of the contributions from Randi Weingarten’s union go to Democrats. She herself held an at-large position at the DNC for decades.”
“The AFT isn’t a labor organization focused on classrooms,” he added. “It’s an arm of the Democratic Party that uses teachers’ dues to advance partisan priorities, fund activist groups, and push policies that have nothing to do with improving education. This ICE resolution is just the latest example.”
Lora Ries, director of Heritage’s border security and immigration center, noted that “the Left has a long list of ‘sensitive areas’ where they claim ICE shouldn’t operate in or near, which would render ICE unable to do its job—and that is the point.”
The union gives Democrats support for the neo-Confederate opposition to Trump’s enforcement of immigration law. So long as influential leftist groups like the American Federation of Teachers encourage this divisive lawlessness, the tension will only get worse.
Tarek Hussein was one of three Muslim delegates to the 2026 Texas GOP convention in Houston on June 12, 2026. According to a number of media reports, Hussein and his fellow Muslims were not generally well received. As the Texas Monthly reported in a June 16th article with a lengthy title of “They’re Conservative, Vote Republican, and Love America. The Texas GOP Wants Them to Leave”:[1]
To stroll through the exhibit hall of a Texas GOP convention is to learn in real time what animates the most hard-line members of the state’s ruling party…It was there last week…that three Muslim Republican delegates found themselves surrounded by fellow party members who believe Islam is a threat to America and Christianity. For nearly a half hour, a short woman in hijab begged state lawmakers to treat her religion with respect as her husband reminded them that Muslims widely condemn violence and consider Jesus a prophet[[2]]… The scene was a microcosm of the three-day event, at which fears of Islam were front and center, and the handful of Muslim delegates there were routinely subjected to bigotries and indignities subtle and overt… For Tarek Hussein, a Muslim delegate from Houston, it was a terrifying sign of where his once-beloved party is heading. By most measures, Hussein should be considered an exemplar of assimilation and the American dream…
The tone of the article, and others like it, was that many of the GOP delegates believed Hussein and the other two Muslims were not there to assimilate but rather to implement Sharia Law and spread Islam.
I thought this was interesting, given the fact that in August 2025 Hussein had presented a paper at The Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America 21st Annual Imams’ Conference in Dallas, TX, titled “Cooperation and Participation in Pluralistic Societies.” In this paper he boldly wrote:
While the United States citizens hold many different believes [sic], we all should abide by the U. S. Constitution.[3]
His endorsement of our Constitution made me think of my Muslim Oath Project,[4] in which I sent four questions to Muslim political candidates and office holders. Each question required a choice between the U.S. Constitution/American Law or Islamic Doctrine. Since Hussein had endorsed abiding by our Constitution less than a year before the Texas GOP Convention, I thought that I would send him those four question, get his clear endorsement of our Constitution, and write an article showing his fellow Texans where he really stood.
So on July 18, I sent the email below to Hussein’s business email address:
Mr. Hussein,
I read about the experience you and two other Muslim Americans had at the 2026 Texas Republican State Convention. It appeared that many of the folks at that convention were concerned about Shariah Law and believed that, as a Muslim, you would give priority to Sharia Law over laws in the United States.
With that in mind, you could address the concerns of your fellow Texans by responding to the following four questions:
No. 1: Will you go on record now and state that our 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech gives the right to anyone in the United States to criticize or disagree with your prophet Muhammad, and will you also go on record now and state that you support and defend anyone’s right to criticize or disagree with your prophet Muhammad, and that you condemn anyone who threatens death or physical harm to another person who is exercising that right?
No. 2: Our 1st Amendment guarantees freedom of religion in the United States. As part of that freedom, anyone in the United States has the right to join or leave any religion, or have no religion at all. Will you go on record now and state that you support and defend the idea that in the United States a Muslim has not only the freedom to leave Islam, but to do so without fear of physical harm, and will you also go on record now and state that you condemn anyone who threatens physical harm to a Muslim who is exercising that freedom?
No. 3: According to the words of Allah found in Koran 5:38 and the teachings of your prophet Muhammad, amputation of a hand is an acceptable punishment for theft. But our U.S. Constitution, which consists of man-made laws, has the 8th Amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment such as this. Do you agree with Allah and your prophet Muhammad that amputation of a hand is an acceptable punishment for theft in the United States, or do you believe that our man-made laws prohibiting such punishments are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th Century command of Allah and teaching of Muhammad?
No. 4: According to the words of Allah found in Koran 4:3, Muslim men are allowed, but not required, to be married to up to four wives. Being married to more than one wife in the United States is illegal according to our man-made bigamy laws. Do you agree with Allah that it is legal for a Muslim man in the United States to be married to more than one woman, or do you believe that our man-made laws prohibiting bigamy are true laws and are to be followed instead of this 7th Century command of Allah?
I look forward to your responses.
Stephen M. Kirby, PhD
Having received no reply, on July 23, I sent the email again to Hussein’s business email address. As of July 31, I have received no reply from Hussein.
Considering Hussein’s bold statement about abiding by our Constitution in his paper presented at the Imams’ Conference less than a year before, one would have thought that the response from Hussein would have been prompt and simple for each question: the U.S Constitution over Islamic Doctrine.
However, in his paper for the Imams’ Conference he had also written (p. 9):
For Muslims, solidarity with Palestine and the Muslim world is an overarching Islamic and ethical imperative. This imperative has influenced American Muslim politics for decades.
Solidarity with the Muslim world precludes the idea of assimilating into our Judeo-Christian based society and abiding by our Constitution, which is in direct conflict with many core tenets of Islamic Doctrine. It appears that following this “overarching Islamic and ethical imperative” is where Tarek Hussein really stands.
Dr. Stephen M. Kirby is the author of six books and numerous articles about Islam. His latest book is Islamic Doctrine versus the U.S. Constitution: The Dilemma for Muslim Public Officials.
[2] Muslims do consider Jesus to be only a prophet. Islam teaches that Jesus was not crucified, it was actually a person Allah made to look like Jesus who was crucified in his place. No Crucifixion, no Resurrection. So, Islam teaches that Christianity is a false religion based on a fraud. And Muhammad said that Jesus, a prophet, would return to earth to destroy Christianity, call all people to Islam, rule by the Koran for 40 years and then die.
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A hadith in which Muhammad prescribed camel urine as medicine continues to drive the practice in some Muslim communities, prompting more than a decade of WHO warnings against it as a transmission route for the deadly MERS-CoV virus that first emerged in 2012.
In 2012, a new coronavirus surfaced in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Within a few years, epidemiologists working on the outbreak had identified the animal reservoir: dromedary camels. They had also identified one specific human behavior that spread it from camel to person. It wasn’t petting camels at a market. It was drinking their urine.
That is not a coincidence of modern hygiene habits. It is a direct continuation of a medical instruction attributed to Muhammad himself, recorded in the two most authenticated hadith collections in Sunni Islam, and still cited today, by name, as the reason people keep doing it.
What the World Health Organization Actually Said
In June 2015, as a MERS-CoV (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) outbreak in South Korea killed five people and infected dozens more, the World Health Organization issued a public warning. As reported by U.S. News & World Report at the time, WHO advised people to “avoid drinking raw camel milk or camel urine,” and to steer clear of close contact with camels generally, particularly in markets, farms, and barns where the virus was known to circulate.
The U.S. News piece noted, almost in passing, why this warning was necessary in the first place: “some people in Muslim countries believe drinking camel urine will cure ailments.”
This was not WHO inventing an eccentric new hygiene rule. It was public health investigators tracing a real transmission pathway back to its source, and finding that the source was a religious practice.
The warning did not expire when the 2015 outbreak faded from headlines. It is still there. WHO’s current MERS-CoV fact sheet, last updated in December 2025, a full decade after the South Korea outbreak, repeats the same instruction almost word for word: individuals at greater risk of severe disease should avoid “handling or drinking raw camel milk or camel urine, or eating meat that has not been properly cooked.” MERS-CoV has by now been reported to WHO from 27 countries, with a case fatality ratio of roughly 37 percent among confirmed cases.
The Instruction Behind the Practice
The belief that camel urine, especially mixed with camel milk, has curative properties is not folk superstition floating free of any religious source. It is anchored directly in an authenticated hadith, appearing in nearly identical form in Sahih al-Bukhari (widely regarded as the single most authoritative hadith collection in Sunni Islam) and in Sahih Muslim, the second most authoritative.
Sahih al-Bukhari 233 (Book of Ablutions), narrated by Anas ibn Malik:
“Some people of ‘Ukl or ‘Uraina tribe came to Medina and its climate did not suit them. So the Prophet ordered them to go to the herd of (Milch) camels and to drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they went as directed and after they became healthy, they killed the shepherd of the Prophet and drove away all the camels.”
Sahih al-Bukhari 5686, filed under a chapter heading that leaves no ambiguity about the subject, “To treat with the urine of camels”:
“The climate of Medina did not suit some people, so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd, i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine). So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their milk and urine till their bodies became healthy.”
Sahih Muslim 1671a confirms the same event, with Muhammad specifying the animals as the camels of the sadaqa (charity/alms herd):
“Allah’s Messenger said to them: ‘If you so like, you may go to the camels of Sadaqa and drink their milk and urine.’ They did so and were all right.”
All three narrations agree on the essential fact: Muhammad personally ordered a group of sick people to drink camel urine as medicine, and it is presented as having worked. What follows in the hadith, the group’s subsequent murder of the shepherd, theft of the herd, and brutal punishment, is a separate legal episode about apostasy and banditry. It has nothing to do with the medical instruction itself, and conflating the two would blur what is actually being documented here: an authenticated prophetic recommendation to drink animal urine as a remedy.
Scholars Disagree on the Ruling, Not on the Event
It’s worth noting, in fairness, that Islamic jurisprudence is split on what this hadith means for camel urine’s ritual status. The Maliki and Hanbali schools generally hold that the urine of animals whose meat is lawful to eat, including camels, is ritually pure and therefore permissible to consume. The Shafi’i and Hanafi schools take the opposite view, treating camel urine as impure, and read the hadith’s instruction as a case of necessity (darura), a specific emergency remedy given because no other treatment was available at the time, not a general religious prescription for all Muslims at all times. Either way, the drinking of camel urine is recommended. It just depends on the circumstance.
The Belief Is Still Active, and It Is Still Killing People
The clearest evidence that this isn’t a dead historical curiosity comes from WHO’s own published research. A 2023 study in the WHO’s Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, titled “Use of camel urine is of no benefit to cancer patients,” followed 20 Saudi cancer patients (15 men, 5 women) between September 2020 and January 2022 who refused conventional chemotherapy in favor of drinking camel urine mixed with camel milk.
Below, a 2020 video of an Iranian doctor advising drinking camel urine for Covid, and leading by example:
The study’s authors state plainly what was driving the decision: “All of the patients believed that camel urine was a religious treatment and the advice came mainly from their community.” In their discussion section, the researchers explicitly trace the belief back to the same hadith cited above, citing Sahih al-Bukhari and Sahih Muslim by book and hadith number as the origin of the practice.
The results were not good. None of the 20 patients showed any clinical benefit. All had disease progression, documented by imaging and tumor markers. Two developed brucellosis, a bacterial infection contracted from animals. One of those two was treated and returned to chemotherapy; the other died of respiratory failure with clinical features the researchers say were consistent with MERS-CoV pneumonia, though no autopsy was performed to confirm it.
Eleven patients eventually changed their minds and returned to conventional treatment. Seven were too weak by then to receive further care, and died of the disease they had been trying to treat with camel urine.
The study’s conclusion does not hedge: “The promotion of camel urine as a traditional medicine should be stopped because there is no scientific evidence to support it.”
The Timeline
Put the three data points next to each other, and the pattern is hard to miss:
2012: MERS-CoV identified in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Camels confirmed as the reservoir host.
2015: WHO issues a public warning during the South Korea outbreak, explicitly naming raw camel urine and milk as a risk to avoid, with contemporary reporting noting the religious belief behind the practice.
2020-2022: Saudi cancer patients, citing religious belief, choose camel urine over chemotherapy. Two develop brucellosis. Seven die after switching back to treatment too late.
2023: WHO publishes the clinical findings, tracing the belief directly to the hadith and calling for the practice to stop.
2025: WHO’s standing MERS-CoV fact sheet still carries the same warning against raw camel urine and milk, more than a decade after the original outbreak.
This is not a single overcautious health notice from a decade ago. It is a warning that has had to remain in force, unchanged, for more than ten years, because the underlying belief driving the exposure has never gone away. That belief has a specific, identifiable, textual source, and it is not ambiguous.
Camel urine as medicine is not a slur invented by critics of Islam. It is an authenticated instruction from Muhammad, preserved in Bukhari and Muslim. People still follow it today. Global health authorities are still investigating it. And according to the WHO’s own published research, it is still costing lives.
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Yet annual inflation during former President Joe Biden’s four years averaged almost 5%. It peaked at over 9%, while prices for some key staples rose by 30% over his tenure—all to silence from the Left. (By contrast, annual inflation during Trump’s first term averaged 1.9%. In his second term, it averaged 2.6% in 2025—and may rise to 4.5% in 2026, given the war with Iran.)
The socialists were not just quiet during Biden’s four years; they were themselves responsible for the rampant Biden inflation. They had implemented an inflationary de facto third Obama term, ramming through the most radical and costly agenda in decades under the veneer of that cognitively challenged waxen effigy, good ol’ Joe Biden from Scranton.
So the current Jacobin takeover of the Democratic Party was not sparked by concerns about “affordability”—or at least not if by “affordability” we mean the middle-class struggle to buy a house, a car, or groceries.
Instead, the socialist moment was merely the logical culmination of years of boutique radicalism within the Democrat aristocracy—the ossified leadership of Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Hakeem Jeffries, along with the aging Black Caucus, the incoherent Squad, the DEI crowd, the open-border zealots, and the radical greens.
The grandees of the party also normalized the crazy mobs of BLM and Antifa long ago.
Democrats as Dr. Frankenstein
Almost every weaponized scam and national hysteria in the last two decades was amplified and spread by mainstream Democrats: the farcical claim that the Wuhan-lab-hatched COVID-19 virus came from pangolins or bats; the Duke Lacrosse and Covington Kids hoaxes; the Jussie Smollett scam, the “Hands up, don’t shoot” lie; the deification of George Floyd, often portrayed with wings and a halo; Fauxcahontas Liz Warren, touted as the first Native American Harvard law professor (thanks to her grandfather’s high cheekbones); the radical diminution of in-person voting; the canonization of Trayvon Martin and Karmelo Anthony as blameless model children; and the mythology of a 1619 national founding.
Who allowed not just one, two, three, or four million border-jumpers into the country, but over ten million—illegal, unvetted, viewed as an assumed new political constituency, and instantaneously dependent on the welfare state?
Who gave us three, four, five, or even more genders and biological males showering with teenage girls or female prisoners? Who sloganeered about “defund the police” and “no cash bail”?
All this was about as radical as it gets.
The Democrat establishment’s unhinged hatred of Donald Trump mainstreamed radicalism even further and helped birth the socialist-cum-communist Frankensteinian monster that is now devouring its mad-scientist creators.
“By any means necessary” was a Democrat mantra over a decade ago. By 2016, the Democrat leadership and the Clinton campaign were hatching the Steele-dossier farce to warp an election.
In 2020, the Democrat deep state—Antony Blinken, Mike Morell, John Brennan, James Clapper, Leon Panetta, and others—had fabricated the farcical claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, a hoax that, this time around, likely did alter an election.
The Democrat establishment, working with its appendages in Silicon Valley, had censored news attesting to the authenticity of Hunter’s embarrassing laptop contents. (For an account of what the establishment was doing in 2020, read Molly Ball’s Time essay describing the “conspiracies” and “cabals” that worked behind the scenes to change voting rules and ensure a Biden victory through mail-in, no-ID balloting.)
Then came four unhinged years of lawfare: special counsel Jack Smith’s seizure of the communications of senators and congressmen, the Mar-a-Lago raid on Trump’s home, the effort to de-ballot Trump, and the five civil and criminal circuses that resulted in half a billion dollars in fines.
All those perversions of the legal system were accompanied by a host of mainstream Democrats, retired generals, politicos, and athletes shouting that Trump was a Nazi, a fascist, a Mussolini, a traitor, or a Putin asset. Meanwhile, a host of loudmouth actors, Democrat activists, and celebrities competed with each other about how best to kill him—whether by shooting, stabbing, poisoning, beheading, burning him alive, or blowing him up.
Trump supporters were libeled over the years by establishment Democrats as irredeemables, deplorables, chumps, dregs, and garbage.
Even an establishment figure like Rosa Brooks, a former Obama-appointed Pentagon lawyer, called for a military coup in Foreign Policy just 10 days after Trump first took office in 2017.
Three would-be assassins got close enough to killing Trump to draw return fire from the Secret Service—near-death encounters that elicited both unapologetic applause for the attempts and lamentations that the shooters had failed from the now truly deranged social-media Left. Murderers themselves were normalized as leftist icons, as seen in the canonization of Luigi Mangione and the glee that followed in many Democrat social media circles after the murder of Charlie Kirk.
Yet did the establishment Democrat apparat calm these waters? Or did it set them boiling?
It was Chuck Schumer who threatened conservative Supreme Court justices, screaming in front of a mob outside the court’s doors, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.” Schumer sounded more like a pink-haired anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement street protester than a U.S. senator.
No surprise, then, that two years later a left-wing would-be assassin turned up at Kavanaugh’s home, along with crowds of enthusiastic protestors.
Does anyone recall Maxine Waters urging the public to bird-dog Trump administration officials and harass them whenever they were seen in public? “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out, and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
Does anyone also remember Nancy Pelosi, then-Democrat House Minority leader, greenlighting “uprisings” over ICE deportations? “I just don’t know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. Maybe there will be.” So spoke the radical owner of two mansions, who entered Congress with little net worth and will leave it worth over $100 million. A Tip O’Neill she wasn’t.
Then there was soon-to-be Vice President Kamala Harris egging on the George Floyd demonstrations, which, weeks earlier, had already turned violent and indeed deadly (despite what the “fact-checkers” asserted):
“This is a movement, I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop. And everyone beware, because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they’re not going to stop after Election Day. And that should be—everyone should take note of that, on both levels, that they’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”
After four months of rioting in 2020—which left 25 people dead and 1,500 law enforcement officers injured, inflicted $2 billion in damage, and saw a police precinct, a federal courthouse, and an iconic church set ablaze—who gave the perpetrators a pass, with 14,000 arrests followed by few convictions and fewer jailings?
What happened during the violence against ICE in 2025-26? Did the Democrat apparat at least pretend to deplore the violence, or did it instead egg it on?
And who, as sore losers in 2016 and 2024, normalized the idea of dismantling the constitutional order—first by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College and later by planning to pack the court, end the filibuster, and admit two new left-wing states?
The Frankenstein Monster Awakens
So the socialists and communists did not really hijack the party. Rather, these youthful radicals were spawned and nurtured by aged Democrats. They became irate over their impotence and loss of influence—and simply upgraded the methods and message of their elders.
The upper-middle-class Mamdanis, Pikers, and AOCs did not storm the party parapets but were invited in by a party that had already radicalized itself—amid its hatred of Trump, its growing estrangement from the majority of the American people, and its fury at becoming increasingly powerless without the White House, Congress, or the Supreme Court.
Socialists did not lower the bar for extremism; establishment Democrats had already destroyed that standard altogether.
Given all that, the Democratic Socialists of America scarcely had to be invented.
After a decade of establishment Democrats destroying norms and traditions, deliberately dividing us by race, seeking to eliminate life-giving fossil fuels, and trying to implement dangerous crackpot ideas like critical race theory, critical legal theory, no cash bail, and defunding the police, the only change is that the now-electrified socialist monsters have awakened. They have mocked their stagnant creators, reenergized the old messages, and simply sought to replace the messengers.
Gone or going soon were the old white people like Pelosi and Schumer—despite their pathetic efforts to appease the Jacobins. In their place arose a cohort of upper-middle-class, degreed but otherwise poorly educated white urbanites, furious that their empty university certificates, student debt, inflated sense of self, and precious titles and jobs—but low salaries—had not delivered the affluent lifestyles enjoyed by lawyers, doctors, stockbrokers, and other professionals in their urban circles who had real jobs.
The downwardly mobile whites who formed 85% of the official ranks of the Democratic Socialists of America were joined by first- and second-generation immigrants, many from failed socialist states.
These were ingrates who, once safe and prospering in America, learned that boutique radicalism and identity chauvinism won cultural acceptance and conferred DEI leverage in their blue-state urban circles—and so sought to dismantle the very host nation that had saved them.
For both groups, anger was fed by envy of others with more stuff and by furor at a Middle America that plowed ahead, ignoring both their supposed talents and their hyped plight. And the Democratic Party provided the radical model—which, in their youthful ignorance, the new socialists pledged to enhance and exceed.
No longer, they thought, would hardcore leftists have to hide their agendas for fear of losing elections. In their folly, they attributed Harris’s 2024 implosion not to her clumsy efforts to disown and disguise her radical past (including the most left-wing voting record in the Senate), but to her not being left-wing enough.
In other words, a milquetoast socialist had lost in 2024 not because she was too radical for America, but because she was not socialist—or indeed, communist—enough.
The crazed new socialists bragged that they could win by loudly and brazenly broadcasting the old agendas: open borders, mass amnesties, defunding the police, ending fossil fuels, attacking—and now seeking to destroy—the Senate and Supreme Court, and scapegoating whites and white “privilege.” To this old mainstream Democrat farrago, they added one new element: openly embracing anti-Zionism and indeed antisemitism.
America will soon see how this insanity works out.
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In The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (2021) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exposes the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (1984-2022) as an agent of a “vaccine cartel” who advanced the interests of Big Pharma and himself at the expense of American and world public health. The book reads like a legal brief and begins with these introductory words:
I wrote this book to help Americans––and citizens across the globe––understand the historical underpinnings of the bewildering cataclysm that began in 2020. In that single annus horribles …, liberal democracy effectively collapsed worldwide. The very governmental health regulators, social media eminences, and media companies that idealistic populations relied upon as champions of freedom, health, democracy, civil rights, and evidence-based public policy seemed to collectively pivot in a lockstep assault against free speech and personal freedoms.
Suddenly, those trusted institutions seemed to be acting in concert to generate fear, promote obedience, discourage critical thinking, and herd seven billion people to march to a single tune, culminating in mass public health experiments with a novel, shoddily tested and improperly licensed technology so risky that manufacturers refused to produce it unless every government on Earth shielded them from liability. …
Standing at the center of all the mayhem, with his confident hand on the helm, was one dominating figure. As the trusted public face of the United States government response to COVID, Dr. Anthony Fauci set this perilous course and sold the American public on a new destination for our democracy. …
In this book, I track the rise of Anthony Fauci from his start as a young public health researcher and physician through his metamorphosis into the powerful technocrat who helped orchestrate and execute 2020’s historic coup d’état against Western democracy. I explore the carefully planned, militarization and monetization of medicine that left American health ailing and its democracy shattered. I chronicle the troubling role of the dangerous concentrated mainstream media, Big Tech robber barons, the military and intelligence communities and their deep historical alliances with Big Pharma and public health agencies. The disturbing story that unfolds here has never been told, and many in power have worked hard to prevent the public from learning it. The main character is Anthony Fauci (pp. xiv-xvi).
Skyhorse Publishing provides a clarifying summary on the book’s jacket:
The Real Anthony Fauci reveals how “America’s Doctor” launched his career during the early AIDS crisis by partnering with pharmaceutical companies to sabotage safe and effective off-patent therapeutic treatments for AIDS. Fauci orchestrated fraudulent studies, and then pressured US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators into approving a deadly chemotherapy treatment he had good reason to know was worthless against AIDS. Fauci repeatedly violated federal laws to allow his pharma partners to use impoverished and dark-skinned children as lab rats in deadly experiments with toxic AIDS and cancer chemotherapies.
In early 2000, Fauci shook hands with Bill Gates in the library of Gates’ $147 million Seattle mansion, cementing a partnership that would aim to control an increasingly profitable $60 billion global vaccine enterprise with unlimited growth potential. Through funding leverage and carefully cultivated personal relationships with heads of state and leading media and social media institutions, the Pharma-Fauci-Gates alliance exercises dominion over global health policy.
The Real Anthony Fauci details how Fauci, Gates, and their cohorts use their control of media outlets, scientific journals, key government and quasi-governmental agencies, global intelligence agencies, and influential scientists and physicians to flood the public with fearful propaganda about COVID-19 virulence and pathogenesis, and to muzzle debate and ruthlessly censor dissent.
On February 13, 2025, President Donald J. Trump appointed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). On July 27, 2026, RFK Jr. revealed that his office had discovered Fauci’s personal diaries that had been “sequestered and secreted” on government property across eleven servers at HHS. He turned the diaries over to Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) who had been investigating the origins of COVID-19 and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On July 29, 2026, Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to testify about his role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Committee chairman Senator Rand Paul focused on entries from Fauci’s personal diaries between December 2019 and December 2022, which the senator had released to the public in advance of the hearing. Sen. Paul asked Fauci questions about the origins of COVID-19, US funding for gain-of-function research in China, Fauci’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the glaring inconsistencies between Fauci’s private comments in his diaries and statements he made to the American public.
After the diaries were released, RFK Jr. noted that these are not personal journals. They are government records created on a government computer by a federal employee during one of the most consequential public health emergencies in history, and under federal law the documents belong to the American people.
The world watched as the infamous Anthony Fauci, architect and spokesman for the most colossal humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in world history, sat in silence and, on advice of counsel, pleaded the 5th Amendment 111 times to protect himself against self-incrimination. Fauci refused to answer all questions posed by all Republican senators who questioned him. The Democrat senators did not ask questions, instead they offered obsequious statements in support of Fauci. The political theater on July 29, 2026, was a spectacular visual display of an orchestrated crime of omission. But why? Fauci had already been granted full immunity for the years 2014-2022 by former president Democrat Joe Biden just before he left office.
Let’s review the actual text of the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution. I have bolded the text most relevant to this discussion:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
We are a world at war: Globalism vs. Nation-states. The below opening paragraph of all forty-five chapters of my 2024 release, Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is, documents the nature of globalism and its existential threat to our constitutional republic.
Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses asymmetric psychological and informational warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. America’s children are the primary target of the globalist predators.
In June 2020 I published The Book of Humanitarian Hoaxes: Killing America with ‘Kindness’. The humanitarian hoax is the deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.
Humanitarian hoaxes are tactical weapons in the globalist war on nation-states that rely on public incredulity. It is extremely difficult for the civilized mind to process the malevolence and deceit of a eugenicist’s mind, particularly during times of war.
In Nazi Germany the strategic goal was to create the perfect Aryan race to rule the world. So, Josef Mengele, Hitler’s sadistic Angel of Death, had tactical license to do horrific experiments on living human beings even without anesthesia. Mengele’s particular interest was identical twins––one twin was the subject and the other the control––all were inmates at Auschwitz and most of the twins studied were between ages two and sixteen. German incredulity denied the existence of such barbarity.
Specifically, Mengele studied heterochromia iridium (eyes of two different colors) by introducing chemicals or hormones into the children’s eyes. According to Wikipedia Mengele’s research was done on behalf of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology and the German Research Foundation, and grant funds were used to build a pathology Laboratory attached to Crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Mengele kept personal diaries and records of his experiments at Auschwitz that included measurements, notes, and documentation about his work with twins which he took with him when he fled. Most of what is known about Mengele’s experiments comes from survivor testimony.
Bioethicist Dr. Dianne Irving did her senior thesis on Josef Mengele and offers extraordinary insights in her reflections on ethics, eugenics, and the chilling descriptions of Mengele’s work which are documented in her personal essay published, October 18, 2003, Me and Mengele. Dr. Irving’s concerns regarding eugenics are chronicled in her extensive and broad-ranging body of work that is archived and available to read on LifeIssues.net/Dianne N. Irving Library.
The financial connections between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) under Anthony Fauci are well-documented and public. In 2003 The Gates Foundation provided $200 million in grant money for Initiatives like Grand Challenges in Global Health in which Fauci served on the scientific board. In 2010 The Gates Foundation partnered with NIAID and the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on a global vaccine action plan in which Fauci served on the scientific board.
In a now infamous 2010 Ted Talk, Bill Gates stated unapologetically, “The world today has about 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about nine billion. If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps ten or fifteen percent.” Ten or fifteen percent of 6.8 billion people eliminates 680 million to 1.02 billion people!
The globalist elite who funded and fomented Fauci’s work, like Bill Gates, are unapologetic eugenicists whose overarching goal is to reduce the overall human population in preparation for their global totalitarian Unistate––the Great Reset where you will own nothing and be happy––an absurdity described by Klaus Schwab, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum from its inception until his resignation in 2025.
Curiously, the entire COVID-19 debacle had been rehearsed years before at a tabletop exercise––Event 201––conducted on October 18, 2019, at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in New York City in partnership with the World Economic Forum and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Self-described as a high-level pandemic exercise, “The exercise illustrated areas where public/private partnerships will be necessary during the response to a severe pandemic in order to diminish large-scale economic and societal consequences.” Event 201 simulated a fictional pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus that came from pigs rather than bats and spread globally.
Event 201 was conducted by men and women who represent the arrogant, self-serving, supremacist, globalist perspective that is void of any moral compass or regard for anyone’s life but their own. COVID-19 was and continues to be the greatest humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in the history of the world––and Anthony Fauci is its huckster-in-chief.
Think of it––millions of people were deliberately lied to and deliberately experimented on with COVID mRNA “vaccines” that are NOT vaccines––they do not prevent transmission or provide immunity. Under Fauci the definition of a vaccine was changed to “reduce symptoms” to perpetrate the hoax, and every batch of the experimental injections was numbered for identification. American incredulity rejected the reasons for the change.
The “lockstep assault against free speech and personal freedoms” that RFK Jr. describes in his introductory remarks is a reference to one of the four fictional scenarios presented in a 2010 Rockefeller Foundation scenario-planning report, “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development.” The scenario referenced is called “Lock Step” and describes a future of strict top-down controls that remain after a severe pandemic. The importance of the lockstep approach is that it represents the public/private collusion that is the infrastructure of globalism’s planetary Unistate to be administered by the lethally corrupt United Nations and its equally corrupt associated internationalized agencies.
The introduction to Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier––Reality Is is subtitled: Freedom Is an Adult Enterprise.
The purpose of this book is the defense of America’s children. …
The future of America lies in the ability of our nation’s children to become rational, autonomous, psychological adults with the critical-thinking skills required to preserve our constitutional republic. …
As I look back over the last several years, it is clear to me that Dr. Anthony Fauci’s COVID-19 political medicine protocols and the Biden regime’s lawless anti-American policies are both orchestrated, coordinated tactical operations in globalism’s War on America. Their interrelated domestic policies have been instrumental in weakening the national economy, national security, national defense, public health, and military readiness, while simultaneously strengthening America’s commitment to globalism’s internationalized mandates that comport with the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Goals and Agenda 2030, and the World Health Organization’s centralized international control.
Consider Voltaire’s famous remark, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Now consider some of the absurdities Americans accepted as facts during the COVID-19 madness: the necessity for lockdowns, masking, social distancing, school closures, business closures, church closures, social isolation, and especially acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccines that are not vaccines. In fact, COVID-19 jabs are experimental gene-altering mRNA treatments that were never properly tested for safety, require continuous boosters, and are now being given to babies!
Anthony Fauci and Josef Mengel have much in common. Both knowingly, actively, and sadistically facilitated the dangerous and deceitful political medicine of their time. Anthony Fauci is a sociopath without compassion or feelings of responsibility for what he has done, and, like sociopath Josef Mengele, there is no punishment that can possibly match the depth and breadth of his depravity and crimes against humanity. Yet Fauci sat at the hearing, a free man with full immunity, claiming 5th Amendment protection, and refusing to answer questions he was subpoenaed to answer. Anthony Fauci is a criminal who cannot be allowed to escape responsibility for his role as humanitarian huckster-in-chief for the most colossal humanitarian hoax ever perpetrated in world history.
There have been numerous recent takedowns of Dr. Fauci based on his own very revealing diary (e.g., here, here, here, and here), and then his uncooperative Senate hearing (e.g., here, here, and here).
I’m not here to pile on, but rather to bring into focus what I feel are the four (4) most appalling — yet rarely addressed — outcomes from his unscientific actions.. It seems like these have gotten lost in the jungle of the many problems he contributed to. Part 1 will outline two of these, and Part 2 will spell out the other two.
1 — Unnecessary American Deaths
Two (of many) examples of Dr. Fauci’s malfeasance are that he misrepresented the COVID-19 vaccine’s safety and efficacy (e.g., see here), and he aggressively attacked the legitimacy of scientifically proven COVID-19 treatments (e.g., Ivermectin, Vitamin D, etc. — see here).
To see the broader picture, please re-read what I wrote two years ago, which outlined six (6) failures of our COVID policies. These detrimental policies are largely attributed to the inept, self-serving leadership of Dr. Fauci.
Due to the combination of those horrifically irresponsible, unscientific positions, 600,000± Americans died unnecessarily (e.g., see here).
Let me repeat: some 600,000 Americans died UNNECESSARILY…
To put that in perspective, that is more Americans than died in World War IplusWorld War II!
One man had the medical training and had a position of power to have been able to have saved 600,000± American lives. Yet he chose not to…
2 — Unnecessary American Costs
The economic impact on just America from costs that were substantially preventable (i.e., if Dr.Fauci and his acolytes actually followed real Science protocols) is in the neighborhood of $25 TRILLION!
Here is a sample study that was done early on (2020), but it does a good job of explaining some of the extensive COVID-19-related economic impacts. Of course we can not put a realistic financial evaluation on the 600,000± unnecessary deaths, and in 2020 we didn’t know the final death count… Here is AlterAI’s more detailed cost assessment.
Just think of what $25 Trillion could have done if used productively…
Eliminate 100% of poverty in the U.S… Cure several major diseases (cancer, Parkinson’s, etc.)… Complete national infrastructure overhaul (repair every bridge, road, etc.)… Total energy independence (reliable, safe, and free electricity for every citizen)… Genuine complete education reform… Substantially reduce income taxes for all citizens… Completely fix the Social Security system… Significantly reduce our debt, Etc., etc.
The Bottom Line (Part 1)
Forget the business of where the COVID-19 virus started, etc., and let’s focus on the REALLY MAJOR harms caused by Dr. Fauci and others of his ilk.
Watch this revealing video of Dr. Scott Atlas (who was there) to see how quickly and easily most “top-level” people capitulated to unscientific behavior.
How can we shrug our shoulders at 600,000± Americans being murdered due to incompetence, greed, arrogance, etc.?
How can we shrug our shoulders at a $25± Trillion cost to Americans again due to incompetence, greed, arrogance, etc.?
Where are the Nuremberg trials for these crimes against humanity?
As a minimum, the mug shots of the main culprits should be on Wanted posters in every post office in the country.
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https://drrichswier.com/wp-content/uploads/Critically-Thinking-about-Dr.-Fauci.jpg360640John Droz, Jr.http://drrich.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/logo_264x69.pngJohn Droz, Jr.2026-07-31 15:36:292026-07-31 15:38:56Critically Thinking about Dr. Fauci — Part 1
The former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, as early as January 2020 did not believe that COVID-19 originated in a Chinese wet market. He later publicly insisted that a wet market was the likely origin of the virus while dismissing a theory that the virus had a man-made origin.
That was among the many revelations uncovered by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who on Saturday released portions of Fauci’s diary from the pandemic. The diary posts occurred between December 2019 and December 2022.
In his diary entries, Fauci also took credit for lockdowns, blasted his critics, fixated on COVID-19 death tallies, and reveled in his sudden fame.
Early in the outbreak, Fauci wrote that “we know” the wet market—which was widely claimed as the origin of the outbreak of the virus—was not the original source.
“Remember, early on the Chinese were saying that there is no human to human transmission and all the original 27 cases were from the market,” Fauci wrote on Jan. 26, 2020. “Now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. Having said that, somewhere the virus jumped from animals to humans.”
Publicly, Fauci later dismissed a man-made origin of COVID-19 and insisted that animal-to-human transmission at a Wuhan wet market was the likely origin of the virus.
Shortly after writing that the wet market was likely not the source of the pandemic Fauci wrote about a meeting he had with twelve prominent scientists about the origin of COVID-19 and noted that only two thought it was natural. He added that “the rest felt that deliberate insertion was possible.”
Despite the testimony of the majority of those scientists, Fauci later pushed the natural or so-called Proximal Origin theory of the virus and dismissed the lab leak theory.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what’s out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,” he said in an interview with National Geographic in May 2020.
Several social media platforms admitted they suppressed the idea that COVID-19 had “man-made” origins well into 2021.
“I spoke with Bill de Blasio (Mayor – NYC) and convinced him based on what I was saying publicly and my conversation tonight to close the NYC schools (he had already decided based on what I was saying on TV),” Fauci wrote on March 15, 2020. “I went on to tell him he should close the bars and restaurants in NYC. He said that he would base this on my recommendation.”
Fauci wrote that he had a similar call with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff Ann O’Leary.
“Ann said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the Governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants,” he wrote.
In many diary entries, Fauci noted and celebrated the media attention he was getting.
“Amazing profile of me today on Nightline,” he wrote on April 15, 2020. “Multiple editorials (print news Washington Post, etc.) and opinion pieces (Newsweek) written about me. Cannot keep up or even read all of them. Country needs someone to look up to in the face of Trump presidency. Interesting psychodynamics.”
He noted in the diary the media profiles and their interest in his relationship with President Donald Trump.
“Press is going wild with me,” he wrote on March 22, 2020. “Front page in Washintgton [sic] Post yesterday and Op Ed by Maureen Dowd in NY Times today about me and my relationship with the POTUS. Profile by Peter Nicholas on me in The Atlantic.”
Fauci called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis a “disgrace” on August 7, 2021 for, among other things “blocking the local authorities from mandating masks in various locations including schools.” He concluded that the criticism he received from conservatives in the media and some Republicans, including Paul, was a “calculated plan of disparaging me and any other scientists (but focusing heavily on me).”
DeSantis commented on the diary document release on X and concluded that Fauci’s “increasingly hysterical approach to Covid fueled this adulatory coverage — which in turn fueled his vanity. Vicious cycle.”
Fauci is set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. Paul is the chairman of the committee.
On Monday, New York’s Department of Finance published a searchable database of properties that could fall under New York’s new so-called pied-à-terre tax on second homes in the city.
The New York Post ran a very New York Post headline, “Pied-A-Terror,” and noted that the database is a “comprehensive list—which purports to cover all unoccupied, non-primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of $1 million—including the full names and addresses of every property owner.”
Some of the names on this list were big time Mamdani cheerleaders like actress Cynthia Nixon and fashion icon Anna Wintour. There are many, many other celebrities on the list too.
They have only themselves to blame for the price they’ll pay for their support. More on that in a bit.
But it wasn’t just obnoxious celebrities and the uber wealthy who made the cut.
“Citywide, The Post counted over 960,000 residences and individuals listed as potentially in line to be hit with Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax, even though just 31,000 homes were supposed to be subjected to the new levy as he and [New York Gov. Kathy] Hochul initially sold it to the public,” the New York Post reported.
The Mamdani administration insists that they’ve done nothing out of the ordinary and are only following New York State law on transparency.
“As per State law, a property roll was released for public inspection. From this list, [Department of Finance] will identify properties that may be subject to the new non-primary residence property surcharge,” an administration spokesperson said to Fox News.
Yet, as a Fox News report also noted, “critics argue the database goes well beyond traditional public records by compiling the names and addresses of affluent property owners into a single, easily searchable location, potentially creating new privacy and security risks.”
It’s a little hard to believe that this database was just created for the purpose of easy compliance.
After all, Mamdani already ran with a creepy Tax Day ad in which he not only cheered the taxing of the rich but personally called out Citadel CEO Ken Griffin in front of the billionaire’s New York home.
“What really upset me about [Mamdani’s] video was the fact that he put me in harm’s way,” Griffin said on CNBC following the ad’s release. “You know, he seems to have forgotten that the CEO of another American company was assassinated just blocks from where I live in New York. And to put any citizen in harm’s way is just inappropriate for one of our political leaders.”
Griffin was referring to the slaying of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. His alleged killer, Luigi Mangione, is a hero to more than a few activists and even some journalists in the city.
We live in a time when the assassination of politicians and public figures is becoming commonplace.
Is it a stretch to think that public information about where wealthy people live won’t make some of them a target for vicious fanatics looking to make a name for themselves?
As some have noted, Mamdani’s governance may prompt many to move away or at the very least sell their second property.
This will likely be a problem for Mamdani’s agenda in the long run as wealthier residents leave the city because they are tired of the tax burden or feel threatened.
But in the short run, this is clearly what the young, socialist mayor wants.
He’s willing to let the city go broke to secure power and create the image that he’s “delivering” on his promises even if that means long-term ruin.
We’ve seen this game play out before in plenty of socialist countries. The groups he’s targeting may take their taxpayer dollars with them, but they’ll play the part he wants them to in his grand narrative.
It’s not enough to just extract wealth from the “billionaires,” who may not actually be billionaires or even millionaires. He needs these “enemies” to act as a foil in his ruthless politics of resentment.
Mamdani’s whole message revolves around the idea that he’s going to shake down the privileged few and give to the many.
He’s going to squeeze the pied-a-terres to support his “working class” constituents who are often just underemployed aspiring-elites with a postgraduate degree, underwhelming job prospects, and a lot of student debt.
Does that little inconsistency bother them? It’s doubtful.
People who think they are just temporarily embarrassed, “downtrodden” elites with a bone to pick with reality tend to be the leaders of most revolutionary movements.
And it couldn’t be clearer that they intend to grab hold of this moment to carry out their wider ideological agenda while they have momentum. The celebrities and wealthy who were foolish enough to back this movement will soon get a rude awakening that the revolutionary forces they helped unleash are coming for them too.
They don’t even care if you’ve been a good leftist.
If you are one of the rich, are Jewish… er a “Zionist,” or are one of the white oppressors you are an enemy of the people and on notice.
If you are one of those wealthy celebrities foolish enough to support them, they’ll accept your contribution then maybe they’ll eat you last.
And if you are just a regular guy or gal with a small business trying to make your way, well you’ll have to pay too.
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Sami Winc: Let’s turn to California, and California seems to be a petri dish of all those ideas that the Democrats have going. I’ll read a few of the things that are happening this week in California, and you can provide us with commentary.
The first thing that I think is very interesting is that the federal Congress, the House, has passed a bill for the defense budget of $1.15 trillion. In it, Donald Trump has the ability to seize property in California for an oil pipeline. The property they’re looking at is down near Santa Barbara.
Victor Davis Hanson: I think it’s on federal land.
Sami Winc: Yeah. And if it’s not, they have the right to buy it up, is what the bill says.
Victor Davis Hanson: Well, basically, he’s saying to Californians, and I think I’m correct, that we have the fourth or fifth largest oil and gas reserves of any state: Monterey Shale offshore, the Elk Reserve, Naval Reserve near Bakersfield.
So he said, “You people have the highest gas prices in the nation, and it’s kind of a drag on the rest of the nation because you have the tech sector, and you’re driving everybody out, and you’re losing your competitiveness. Part of the reason is your fuel is so expensive, your gasoline and diesel fuel, and your electricity.
“You’re trying to get rid of nuclear. Your wind and solar don’t work much, and you’re importing a lot of energy from the Middle East that we don’t like. So we would like to go in and take our federal leases and put them up. There’s a lot of oil out there. Get Chevron and Exxon to pump.
“And there are other areas that have rare earth minerals in the desert you’re not fully utilizing.”
That’s what he’s trying to do.
Sami Winc: All right, let’s look at another story.
There’s a homeless group that works at 17 different homeless facilities in San Francisco, and they just recently lost their funding.
They were being funded at about $26,000 per inhabitant they were taking care of, and their facilities were rife with understaffing, sexual abuse, a dead and decaying body in one case, vermin infestation, broken elevators—the perfect example of how the government is not taking good care.
Victor Davis Hanson: So what happens is the government doesn’t want to deal with it, so it just takes these block grants. Then somebody says, “You know what? They’re paying $26,000, $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 per person. So I’ll just create a little nonprofit, and I’ll say that I’m taking care of people on the street. For maybe six weeks I’ll do a good job.
“But then I don’t want to get around those people. They don’t bathe. They defecate on the street. They’re violent. They’re mentally ill. I’m just gonna pay me and my family and my staff a lot of money and rip off the government.”
That’s what they’re doing.
And they’re not…
Gavin said if they gave him $10 billion, I think, he could solve the homeless problem.
And they did, and it’s worse than ever.
Sami Winc: It’s worse than ever.
Victor Davis Hanson: We know what the only answer for it is to do one of two things, or both: Have everybody come in for a diagnostic test and cut off the drugs so they can’t get fentanyl, and then either do one of two things. If they are mentally unsound, open up state hospitals where they can get care.
And if they’re not, have some kind of little village on the outskirts of town where they have, you know, 200- or 300-square-foot little rooms with a bed and a dresser, and then they have a big group facility with showers and toilets, and make it humane.
And they won’t do that.
Mamdani said, “We’re not gonna take people off the street.”
So he’s got a huge homeless problem in New York.
And Los Angeles—I never believed two things about L.A. I grew up in California, and from when I was a little boy, there was no such thing, really, as downtown L.A. It had the police station and a couple of government buildings, but it wasn’t like San Francisco with high-rises.
Then in the ’90s, as we came on the eve of globalization, it was a window onto China and Japan. You wouldn’t believe it. You’d go down to L.A. in ’93, ’95, ’98, 2002, 2003, and there were like 20 cranes in the sky at any one time. The city was really clean, you know what I mean? It was immaculate. And they had a downtown.
So you couldn’t believe that.
And now you can’t believe it.
When you go down there, the cantinas have taken over everything, and the street merchants, and these beautiful buildings that were just built 30 years ago have graffiti on them. There’s plywood on a lot of the windows where nobody wants to go.
You have to step over people, and it’s deserted. It’s kind of like Santa Monica.
Anything that leftism touches has the anti-Midas touch. It destroys.
And it’s costing a fortune to destroy L.A.
Sami Winc: Yeah.
Victor Davis Hanson: I mean, it’s very expensive to pay homeless people to destroy things.
Sami Winc: Yeah, it is.
It took me a second there, Victor. I’m like, “What?”
Victor Davis Hanson: It is. It was very expensive to tell BLM and Antifa, “Do you want to destroy the country for four months? Well, we won’t arrest you, and we’ll give you a grant. Go ahead and do it.”
Sami Winc: All right.
So California voters have put Proposition 39 on the upcoming ballot, and the state is doing everything to subvert that.
There’s a new story on how they’ve written into the voter ballots a negative summary of it, and then the informational part of it is also negative.
Victor Davis Hanson: Which proposition are you talking about?
Sami Winc: It’s called Proposition 39. It’s a voter ID proposition. So the state’s trying to undermine it, in other words, by subtle means.
Victor Davis Hanson: What usually happens in California is, whether it was Three Strikes, ending affirmative action, or gay marriage—even in its demented state now, after we’ve lost 12 million conservatives to out-of-state immigration—the people still poll that they want it.
But by the time the SEIU and the California Teachers Association get done funding against it, and then all of these Bay Area and L.A. wealthy donors, they’ll probably defeat it.
And if they don’t defeat it, some Ninth District left-wing judge who hasn’t been in the news for two months and thinks he’s Socrates wants to be considered cutting-edge and controversial, so he’ll probably throw it out if it were to pass, like they did with gay marriage.
We passed a proposition that said marriage was only between a man and a woman, and you could have a legal relationship, but it wouldn’t be called marriage.
And it passed overwhelmingly.
Then they libeled it and said it was because of the Mormons and Christians.
But actually, the post-election data showed it was mostly Black and Hispanic people, and then they shut up.
The moment that passed, they sent it to a U.S. federal judge, and he threw it out.
At the time, he was living with another man, so you’d think he would have…
And when people said he had a conflict of interest, they said, “That is the worst thing you could say. That is so homophobic.”
So he threw it out, and the people’s will went up in smoke.
That’ll happen with the voter ID initiative unless it gets to the Supreme Court, if it should pass.
Sami Winc: Yeah.
Victor Davis Hanson: I don’t like to be cynical about California, but I’m 72, and I’ve lived here, and I’ve watched it deteriorate. You want to cry when you see what’s happened to it.
Sami Winc: Well, I’m not gonna cheer you up anymore with these last two stories.
One is that California Pizza Kitchen—for anybody who does not live in California, it’s pretty much an institution here. There are 185 stores. The owners have left California, and they also said it’s almost an impossible business environment to operate in. That’s a big business.
The second story is that in the small seaside town of Capitola, a deranged man—I don’t know if he was homeless, actually—Tyler Liljedahl…
Victor Davis Hanson: He was up on felony charges. He’d been let out.
Sami Winc: Yes, he had been let out of jail.
The state also knew that he talked about hearing voices and having homicidal fantasies, and he stabbed to death a woman in a small seaside village that has about 1% of the population in it.
Victor Davis Hanson: If you were to describe the case in Californese, their language, it would be something like this:
“Well, a poor African American young man was only 19, and he made a few errors. He had some violent periods in his life, 19, and we decided not to incarcerate him. We convicted him of a felony, and he’s out now, and for all practical purposes he’s making something of himself.”
But, Mr. Parole Officer, he went to the Capitola Mall to kill somebody, and he saw an elderly Asian male, whom he wanted to kill.
I think he was also a racist, by the way. He didn’t go after other Black people.
But he was afraid the elderly Asian man might put up a fight. So then he found a woman crossing the street, and he thought, ‘Ah, she’s looking at cars, and I’ll just follow her.’”
She was 73.
It was just the classic California dichotomy.
Here was a woman living by herself with a cat. Everybody believed she was beloved. She devoted all of her time to the arts, was an artist, just a wonderful person minding her own business.
Before he followed her, he went to a sporting goods store and bought two—not one, two—knives, because he said he liked to stab with both hands at the same time.
Sami Winc: Yeah, so he bought two knives.
Victor Davis Hanson: Two knives. He goes out, and he stabs her 11 times in the back and chest, through the heart, and he kills her.
And then what will happen?
He’ll be out in three or four years.
This is just…
There are so many things about California.
If I can tell you that if he was a young white guy whose parents came out from Oklahoma, and there was a wonderful, beloved Black artist, and he went out there and stabbed him twice, the whole state right now would be in an uproar about its racist policies.
But they don’t really are.
There’s been no big outrage. It’s just collateral damage.
It’s like the Sikh truck drivers who ran over three people—or whatever they did in California. They rear-ended them.
Oh, they paralyzed that one girl, and he only got five years.
California is really, I think people should understand, a very sick society.
It’s the sickest society of all the states that we have.
And Gavin Newsom has been an accelerant of that sickness.
And it’s a racist state. Twenty-seven percent of the population was foreign-born, and it does not want to acculturate, assimilate, or integrate them.
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There’s a slow-motion tragedy unfolding in many California cities, and no doubt in other cities across our nation.
And for my subscribers who are wondering why I haven’t been writing new articles of late, here’s my overdue explanation: My own tranquil suburb of Menlo Park, a bedroom community tucked away in a quiet corner of Silicon Valley, has been targeted for suburb-wrecking urbanization, and I’ve chosen to don my activist hat in the David vs. Goliath battle to save our downtown from an unwanted dystopian transformation. In some ways, it’s been as time-consuming as a full-time job.
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Santa Cruz Avenue in downtown Menlo Park
SOME BACKGROUND
In a nutshell, to fulfill California’s various weaponized social engineering tactics, our City Council has decided we should fill our heavily used downtown parking lots with 7, 8 and 9-story “affordable housing projects:” i.e. subsidized housing. This would almost certainly result in more than half of our downtown small businesses closing due to the loss of their convenient parking lots, with more closures to follow during the 3-4 years of construction our small downtown would be subjected to.
The “parking-lot housing” plan that would do all this damage and more, targets three of our eight parking lots, all on the north side of our main shopping street of Santa Cruz Avenue. But the City Council isn’t stopping there. They’ve earmarked the five remaining lots on the south side of Santa Cruz Avenue for more high-rise, high-density apartment towers as well.
If this sounds surreal to you, as it should, imagine what it’s like for those of us who live here, for those who own downtown stores, salons or restaurants and their employees, as well as for those living in our neighboring suburbs without business districts of their own who shop in our town. Menlo Park’s City Council sprang this outrage on us in January 2025, and life has not been the same since.
Another view of Santa Cruz Avenue
THE GOOD, THE BAD, & THE UGLY
The one bright spot is that a bunch of us got together and decided the only way to fight back was through the initiative process, and we spent a year hard at work on that, eventually collecting enough signatures to qualify our initiative for this November’s ballot: Save Downtown Menlo’s ballot measure.
The bad news in our case is that 4 of our 5 Council members are progressives who, in one way or another, derive benefit from pushing this plan—if only through virtue-signaling. Even worse, multimillionaire Intel heiress Karen Grove lives in Menlo Park, and her dream is to convert it into a version of a “15-minute city” with no cars, and apparently, no viable business district. She has generously supported a number of Council members, as well as funding NGOs that advocate for “affordable housing,” in addition to having created her own organization, Menlo Together, and a new activist one—Menlo Park Neighbors and Small Business Owners for Affordable Homes—all of which support the parking-lot high-density housing plan. In fact, she’d already spent $90,000 on a campaign against Save Downtown Menlo’s ballot measure by mid-March: $40,000 in her own name, and $50,000 via the Housing Leadership Action of San Mateo County Issues Committee, the political action arm of an NGO she funds (see below), while also sitting on the Issues Committee’s board in the role of…wait for it…treasurer.
Speaking of big monied interests pushing the Council’s plan, there are three Big Developers vying for the privilege of leasing prime Silicon Valley land, even though it’s currently in the form of parking lots, for $1/year for 55 years. NGOs, i.e. non-governmental “non-profit” agencies including the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County, one of several generously funded by Karen Grove, also profit from their work to sabotage the will of residents in cities like ours.
One of three high-density development proposals the city is seriously considering
Below you’ll see an op-ed I wrote in January of 2025 for the local paper The San Mateo Daily Journal. Since that paper’s coverage area doesn’t include Menlo Park, I could only touch on the issue in my city, but was free to paint the larger picture.
But first a refresher on the largely ignored or forgotten history of this issue.
A QUICK REVIEW OF THE ESSENTIAL BACKGROUND
While the attack on our suburbs is often portrayed as if it were simply disagreements over zoning issues or housing demands, in reality it’s none other than the physical rollout of the globalists’ cherished U.N. Agenda 21/Agenda 2030.
For all the good that Trump has done and continues to do to combat globalism and its kissing cousin, communism, the conversion of our suburbs into communist-style stack-and-pack dystopian housing projects is happening on the state and municipal levels where the powers of the federal government are strictly limited.
This grand plan has deep roots, going back to then-President George H.W. Bush signing our nation on to the “soft law” Agenda 21 “action plan” during the “Earth Summit” held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Subsequently, during Clinton’s administration, this globalist agenda was tucked into the newly formed “President’s Council on Sustainable Development.”
Here’s what J. Gary Lawrence, an advisor on the “President’s Council on Sustainable Development,” had to say in 1998:
Participating in a U.N. advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy-fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a U.N. invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking Local Agenda 21. So we will call our process something else, such as ‘comprehensive planning,’ ‘growth management,’ or ‘smart growth.’
The rest, as they say, is history.
My op-ed from the Daily Journal, Jan 28, 2025
Though we’re told we’re facing a “housing crisis,” when you come right down to it, we’re experiencing more of a “legislation crisis” since Sacramento has robbed our cities of local control over zoning, insisting we squeeze hundreds of “affordable housing” units into our mostly built-out downtowns.
These monolithic apartment complexes tower over a number of our suburban cities of mostly one- and two-story buildings. Such high-density high-rises have sprouted up all along El Camino Real as if overnight, often with little or no setback and, to put it kindly, are utterly devoid of architectural beauty.
Many city councils are now running scared about penalties such as “builder’s remedy” if they don’t do Sacramento’s bidding and fill their cities with such incongruous, massive housing projects, though at the expense of the quality of life for the residents they represent.
Yet, if you think about it, legislation can change with a stroke of a pen, and often does. But mammoth high-density stack-and-pack housing projects, once built, will be with us for the foreseeable future. And when they are placed in our suburbs, especially the smaller ones, they permanently alter and disrupt the tranquil character of those cities.
In fact, there’s an unspoken but very real attack on our suburbs and suburban way of life, including a frontal attack on cars and our freedom to drive where we please — though driving is by far the most convenient form of local transportation, whether for business or pleasure.
Nevertheless, most new multistory housing projects intentionally provide insufficient parking for the number of units, and cities are encouraged to remove car lanes as part of “road diets,” ostensibly to make room for bicycles.
There’s even a plan to remove parking on El Camino Real, which would be fatal to many businesses on that thoroughfare. And in desperation, some cities, including Menlo Park, consider doing away with their downtown parking lots altogether, so they can put required affordable housing quotas there, in spite of the dire consequences for business owners, their employees, residents and shoppers from nearby cities.
Along similar lines, Redwood City recently faced a controversy over a seven-story affordable housing development on Vera Avenue with 178 units and, shockingly, only six dedicated parking spaces. A Redwood City official admitted this is intentional, as the state actively seeks to discourage driving. Using climate change as a convenient excuse to get us out of our cars, officials have been refusing to require adequate parking for both residential and commercial projects. They figure people can, and should, take Caltrain — or the bus.
That’s the problem.
It’s a utopian concept that ignores the reality that we all have cars and greatly prefer them — therefore, we need parking spaces. Perhaps people can do without cars in New York City, since cabs are plentiful, and buses and subways traverse the city 24/7. But we’re here in the suburbs in sprawling California, and the necessity for driving goes with the territory.
Pondering that plan to build nearly 200 units with a measly six parking spaces — and those for the management only — a Redwood City resident wrote to her City Council lamenting the egregious lack of parking for some 500 adults with cars. She finds it “incomprehensible,” and she’s not alone. In fact, similar incomprehensibility, in one form or another, is plaguing residents up and down the Peninsula as we scratch our heads while normal suburban life is incrementally being turned upside down.
The genesis of the problem stems from a long-range blueprint no one talks about any more: Plan Bay Area — a one-size-fits-all program created by ABAG, the Association of Bay Area Governments, and adopted in 2013 in spite of massive pushback from residents all over the Bay Area. It’s a template for all of our cities to follow regarding transportation and vital land-use issues that impact the quality of life in our cities. And Sacramento seems to enjoy upping the ante.
But “one size” never fits all. What may work in one city may prove disastrous in another. After all, we take pride in our towns and their uniqueness. Each one has a particular history and character. What a loss it will be to us all if ill-conceived legislation were to obliterate the special qualities and individuality of our cities and leave us not only carless, but the victims of overcrowded, urbanized and dispiriting homogeneity.
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Cutting fraud, USAID — their ill gotten gains — and vast sums to far left ‘non-profits’ has left the Democrat party of treason without funds.
NOTUS: The Democratic National Committee is so short on funds that it mortgaged its headquarters in Washington, D.C. to raise cash for off-year election spending. NOTUS: The Democratic National Committee put its physical headquarters up for collateral last year in order to obtain a $15 million line of credit to help invest in off-year elections, according to D.C. deed records not previously reported. The building, located in Southeast Washington and partially owned by the DNC, has been used as collateral in the past, including in other election cycles. That the DNC had to do so again ahead of the 2026 elections to obtain its biggest-ever off-year loan raised concerns among some members that it was further evidence of its intensifying financial strain. The DNC did not explicitly declare the building as its collateral in its monthly or loan-related filings to the Federal Election Commission. “Ken gaslighting us about the DNC’s finances and not being transparent about the financial situation makes us doubt if he can oversee the DNC during the most important primary of our lifetime,” said a DNC member, granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly.
This is not the first time the DNC has borrowed against its assets to bulk up its war chest in election years, but it takes place as DNC Chair Ken Martin is campaigning to save his position after a disastrous election year in 2024 and amid very poor fundraising.
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Protests in NYC call for the removal of Mayor Mamdani.
Hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers and their allies poured into the streets to express their anger at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who they say is not only not protecting the Jews of New York but is also fanning the flames of hatred with his obsession with the Jews.
‘REMOVE MAMDANI’: Hundreds Flood NYC Streets After Jewish Stabbing
By: Dinah Bucholz, Jewish Breaking News, July 26, 2026:
A protest organized by End Jew Hatred took place in New York City Sunday, as hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers and their allies poured into the streets to express their anger at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who they say is not only not protecting the Jews of New York but is also fanning the flames of hatred with his obsession with Israel and statements about AIPAC, such as calling its members “monsters,” that are perceived by many to be antisemitic.
But the straw that may have broken the proverbial camel’s back was last week’s stabbing of a Jewish man and an Asian man by a crazed individual shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
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At a press conference Friday, Jewish leaders slammed the mayor.
“Today, every time the mayor speaks, we need the police to protect us,” Rabbi Yosie Levine of the Jewish Center said.
“Mayor Mamdani, stop fanning the flames of hatred and division,” said Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA-Federation of New York. “The consequences are not abstract. They’re playing out on our streets.”
As Sunday’s protesters gathered in the streets of New York, chants of “Remove Mamdani” filled the air, along with calls for Mamdani to be fired.
A non-Jewish ally told Newsmax why she thought it was important to attend the rally.
“I feel like we have to stand up for the United States of America,” she said. “I don’t want it to get so far gone that we’re like, why was I silent? We can’t be silent. This man [Mamdani] is a danger. He is a charismatic man. We got to give him that, and he’s appealing to people that are not naturally born Americans, people that don’t really have a connection to this country.”
“I think Jewish people are part of the fabric of our country,” she added. “I’m Catholic, and I believe that our country is first and foremost in everything we do.”
Another protester called for Mamdani to be arrested, turning the tables on the mayor who said he would arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then conceded that that exceeded his legal authority.
“I’m strong to support Israel and be there for America and Israel, for the freedom and for the sake of freedom,” she shouted into a microphone. “That’s what we stand for, not for terrorism. You got it, Mamdani? You should be arrested. You and your disgraceful, ugly wife.”
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Is Mayor Mamdani that foolish not to see the indirect destruction he is causing to his city, what a blind fool a secular high academic man can be. What can the wold expect but, Mayor Mamdani seems to be part of the 80% terrorist destructive Islam community.
Speaking to the rise of socialist candidates within the Democratic Party, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned that “the barbarians are inside the gate.” He went on to explain, “We are fighting right now in Congress over whether we’re going to maintain our status as a constitutional republic… or go down this dark road of death to communism.”
The Speaker isn’t crying wolf; the threat is real. But the battle to preserve the Republic will not ultimately be won in Congress. There will be legislative fights. There will be elections where your vote could determine the balance of power and whether socialist policies further undermine our freedoms. But if the barbarians are already inside the gate, we need to ask: How did they get in? And how do we get them out?
Congress reflects culture more than it creates it. Laws can restrain evil, but they cannot create virtue. A constitutional republic depends on citizens with the moral character to govern themselves and families that instill virtue in the next generation. Culture is ultimately shaped by what people believe about God, truth, and morality. When those foundations erode, political institutions follow.
To understand how this ideological and spiritual challenge gained traction in America, we have to look beyond politics to the forces that shape a nation’s character.
In his 1983 book “The Gravedigger File,” author and social critic Os Guinness warned that secularization was hollowing out the institution that had long guided Western civilization: the church. As biblical faith weakened, society’s moral foundations weakened, creating a vacuum secular ideologies would inevitably fill.
A little more than a decade later, Judge Robert Bork approached the same crisis from a different direction. In “Slouching Toward Gomorrah,” he argued that America’s moral and cultural foundations were being eroded by radical individualism and radical egalitarianism, weakening the institutions upon which constitutional government depends. Nominated to the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan in 1987, Bork was rejected because of his originalist view of the Constitution. Though writing as a constitutional scholar rather than a theologian, he arrived at a remarkably similar conclusion.
After coming to Washington, I hoped to meet Robert Bork. I invited him to lunch, and he graciously accepted. During our conversation, I asked for his prognosis of America’s future.
He replied, “The culture is too far gone for the country to turn around.”
For a moment, I thought there was no hope.
Then he added, “There is one thing that could save the country, a genuine renewal of religion in America. But unfortunately, the church has been, and continues to be, in decline.”
So how did the barbarians get inside the gate? Through the church’s loss of its preserving influence as the salt of the earth. And how do we secure the gate once again?
Jesus said, “You are the salt of the earth.” Salt preserves what would otherwise decay. History has confirmed what Christ taught. The decisive battle for America’s future will not ultimately be won in Congress, but in the church as it once again shapes the nation’s moral character. Change the nation’s character, and its politics will follow.
“In God We Trust” cannot remain merely a motto etched in stone. It must once again become the conviction written upon our hearts and reflected in how we live.
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I first understood the connection between Communists, Islamists during my tour in Germany from 1970 to 1973. At that time I was a U.S. Army Captain commanding a nuclear capable field artillary battery in Neu-Ulm, Germany. I was, for 23 years, a Cold War warrior fighting against the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Communism globally.
While I was in Germany there were two terrorist orgainizations that I came in contact with. The first was the Baader-Meinhof Group. The Red Army Faction (RAF), originally known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, was a West German far-left militant organization active from 1970 until its official disbandment in 1998. The Baader-Meinhof Group was responsible for kidnapping the children of U.S. military families, assassinations, and the bombing of a night club frequented by U.S. soldiers.
The second was The Black September Organization (BSO). BSO was responsible for the Munich Massacre in 1972. BSO infiltrated the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, taking 11 Israeli athletes and coaches hostage.All 11 hostages and a West German police officer were killed.
Both the Red Army Faction/Baader-Meinhof Group and the Black September Organization were trained by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (Harakat al-Jihād al-Islāmi fi Filastīn) a Sunni Islamist Palestinian militant group active primarily in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Fast forward to 2026 and now we have in America two Communist and one Hamas linked Islamic Jihad organization.
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) is a political party in the United States founded in 1919 following a split in the Socialist Party of America after the Russian Revolution.
Key Historical & Ideological Overview
Origins & Soviet Ties:Founded as a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Communist International (Comintern), the CPUSA maintained close financial and ideological ties with the Soviet Union through much of the 20th century.
Peak Influence (1930s–1940s): During the Great Depression and the “Popular Front” era, membership peaked at around 75,000 to 85,000. The party played a prominent role in labor organizing with the CIO, civil rights campaigns against segregation, and anti-fascist initiatives.
Post-WWII & Cold War Decline:Confronted by the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and federal anti-communist statutes (such as the Smith Act), key leaders were prosecuted and CPUSA-led unions were expelled from national labor federations. Support further eroded following revelations about Soviet atrocities under Stalin and the Soviet invasions of Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968).
Modern Platform:Today, the CPUSA operates primarily as a small political group advocating what it calls “Bill of Rights Socialism,” emphasizing labor rights, environmental protection, and social justice activism under the slogan “People and Planet Before Profits.”
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a socialist political organization in the United States and the largest socialist group in modern U.S. history.
Key Historical & Ideological Overview
Origins & Founding:Formed in 1982 through the merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC, founded by socialist author Michael Harrington) and the New American Movement (NAM).
Structure & Electoral Strategy:Unlike traditional third parties, the DSA is not a registered political party with its own ballot line.Instead, it operates as a multi-tendency membership organization whose members frequently run in local, state, and national elections under the Democratic Party banner or as independents.
Resurgence & Growth:Historically operating as a small advocacy group, the DSA experienced rapid membership expansion starting in 2016 following Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign.The organization grew to over 100,000 members nationwide.
Policy Platform:The organization opposes capitalism and advocates for democratic control of the economy.Its core national priority campaigns focus on universal healthcare (Medicare for All), Green New Deal initiatives, labor union organizing, tenant rights, and anti-imperialist foreign policy platform stances.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, headquartered in Washington, D.C.Founded in 1994 by Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, it is the largest Muslim civil liberties group in the country.
Core Operations & Advocacy
Civil Rights & Legal Representation:Provides legal assistance and files lawsuits on behalf of individuals facing anti-Muslim discrimination, workplace bias, hate crimes, or civil liberties violations.
Civic & Political Engagement:Conducts voter registration drives, organizes advocacy days on Capitol Hill, and lobbies federal and state legislatures on issues affecting American Muslims.
Media & Public Education:Engages with media outlets to counter Islamophobia, challenge stereotypes, and promote public awareness of Islamic culture and American Muslim perspectives.
Controversies & Scrutiny
Holy Land Foundation Trial (2007–2008): Federal prosecutors listed CAIR among hundreds of unindicted co-conspirators in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for sending funds to Hamas. CAIR disputed the designation, stating it had never engaged in illegal activity or supported terrorism.
Government & Organizational Ties:Over its history, critics have scrutinized CAIR over alleged historical links to figures associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Association of Palestine (IAP).CAIR has consistently rejected these allegations as debunked, maintaining that it is an independent American non-profit dedicated strictly to civil rights.
The Bottom Line
TheCommunist Party USA (CPUSA), The Democratic Socialists of America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations are inextricably linked at the hip.
All three are anti-American. All three want to destroy our Constitutional Republican form of government.
All three are supporting candidates for public office. From local school boards, to city councils, to county commissions, to the halls of congress.
They all are members of or support the Democrat Party.
They all have the legacy media on their side.
They all hate America and the MAGA movement.
They all use violent protests and support the enemies of the United States.
They all are silent about attempts to kill President Donald J. Trump, his family, the Vice President and his family, and cabinet members.
They are all anti-Christian and anti-Semites.
They all hate Israel.
They all hate the traditional family of one man, one woman, and their children.
They want to create Union of American Socialist Republics (UASR).
As each of these groups gain power the less freedoms we have at the local, state and national levels.
It is critical that we the people vote against these enemies of the state.
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This was quite a strange weather week which we are getting used to up here in the Panhandle. In addition we had no internet for 2 days. Aside from putting me behind in my work it was actually nice some quiet time.
Monday was the first budget meeting in Jackson County. It was quite interesting. Debbie and I went. It seems as though because we have a balanced budget for the years of 26-27 there will be no more budget meetings until the end of July. I would send you a copy of the agenda but it is not on the website yet.
From my recollection the Commissioners are looking to keep the millage rate of 7.945 the same They expect the new property tax to pass and if it does pass that is when tightening the belt for the Jackson county will be in order. There were several ideas for saving money thrown around. Hopefully you will come up with ideas as well. According to Florida CFO Blaze Ingigola, the counties have plenty of money. They just don’t spend it properly. It will be up to us to help the commissioners live within our means.
When grant and matching grant money comes into a County as revenue we have to read the grants to see what is expected of us. We have to make sure that we are taking advantage of the grants that the state is offering. But if we don’t monitor them we could end up spend more for thing we don’t need paying for things that we can’t afford.
We made the right decision regarding AI Data centers in Florida. Every day more states and counties are saying no. Last week one of the AI platforms went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face. Remember AI is only as good as its programmer. AI can be biased and give you the wrong information.
Budgets are extensive but you can help reading the budget and finding places that you can make reductions specially for next year. Example what is the actual cost of the Flock cameras? Lease? Maintenance? How does the ticket money get split? What about tolls from toll roads? What NGO’s get tax money?
Jackson County: We will have a budget Zoom meeting on Monday July 27th at 8:00 p.m. the zoom link for that budget meeting is below. Please be prompt.
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