Something is happening in America right now that the media would prefer you not connect.

Acts of domestic violence inspired by radical ideology are piling up. A gunman with a documented history of supporting ISIS opens fire at Old Dominion University, killing one and wounding two before being stopped by courageous ROTC students. A synagogue in Michigan becomes the target of a violent attack after a truck is rammed through the doors and gunfire erupts. Protesters in New York City are targeted with explosives for the crime of publicly opposing the takeover of public spaces for religious demonstrations.

And yet somehow the national media still pretends there is no pattern.

No ideology. No cause. Just isolated “incidents.”

But Americans are not stupid. They can see what is happening. They can also see something else: the ideology behind these attacks is collapsing globally, and that collapse is making its adherents increasingly desperate.

That reality is playing out on two stages simultaneously — abroad and at home.

Despite the endless predictions from the anti-American Left that the United States and Israel would fail, the Islamic Republic of Iran is losing the strategic battle that it spent decades preparing to fight. The Iranian regime’s ability to project power across the region has been severely degraded. Its proxy networks have been weakened. Its leadership has been thrown into chaos.

Even the supposed new “Supreme Leader” in Tehran could not appear publicly to address his own nation. Instead, Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first message through a letter read on state television, vowing revenge and promising that Iran would continue to weaponize the Strait of Hormuz.

When a regime that once projected revolutionary confidence now communicates........

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