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If Jack Smith’s Goons Don’t Pay For Their Crimes, Innocent Americans Will

All Americans will bear the brunt of elected officials' failure to justly punish Jack Smith and others who weaponized the federal government against...

07.10.2026 3

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Landmark Lawsuit Pits The Sharia Regime Against The Constitution

A lawsuit alleges that the Muslim-majority suburb of Dearborn, Michigan, has systematically discriminated against Christians and Jews.

01.10.2026 30

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Even Democrats Oppose John Roberts Letting Foreign Citizens Tilt The House Of Representatives

Americans overwhelmingly believe congressional seats should be distributed solely based on the number of U.S. citizens in each state.

30.09.2026 10

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Why Trump’s Plan To Stop Noncitizens From Rigging The Census Might Work This Time

The Trump administration just proposed the rule change that could finally deliver on 'one man, one vote.'

17.09.2026 10

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Democrats Give A Warm Welcome To The Hasan Piker Faction In Their Party

Calls for El-Sayed and other Democrats to distance themselves from Piker enable the Democrat Party to dodge accountability on a darker issue.

10.09.2026 10

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Counting Noncitizens In The Census Undermines American Democracy

The Trump administration should take all necessary action to ensure that the next Census is carried out to benefit the American people.

29.07.2026 10

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John Roberts Again Undermines SCOTUS Legitimacy With Irreconcilable Slaughter And Cook Opinions

In one ruling, SCOTUS affirmed the president's power to fire independent agency officials. On the same day, it invented a fourth branch of government...

06.07.2026 30

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DOJ Takes On Leftist Attempt To Punish Any Lawyer Who Disagrees With Democrats

A new DOJ lawsuit represents a vital step toward ending an un-American war on disfavored attorneys and defenders of disfavored causes — a war that...

26.05.2026 20

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Don’t Overlook Justice Clarence Thomas’ Concurrence In Racial Gerrymandering Case

In Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court struck a major blow against race-based policymaking, holding that the law protects voters from...

06.05.2026 30

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If SCOTUS Values Free Speech, It Will Stop California’s Persecution Of John Eastman

In the eyes of the bar and California court, Eastman's thoughtcrime, punishable with professional destruction, was 'lawyering for MAGA.'

23.04.2026 50

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With Missouri V. Biden Settled, It’s Time For Censorship Reparations

The resolution to the case in favor of those the government had censored represents a dramatic turnaround of potentially outsize impact.

30.03.2026 30

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Ed Martin Challenged The D.C. Bar’s Political Vendetta. Then They Charged Him

The charges against Ed Martin didn't emerge in a vacuum. They came from the very disciplinary authority he had publicly accused of bias.

19.03.2026 40

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Trump DOJ Is Finally Taking On The Corrupt DC Bar Association

Federal lawyers cannot be held hostage by a lawfare apparatus that threatens their destruction for daring to represent GOP administrations.

12.03.2026 30

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Striking Down Tariffs, SCOTUS Gives Congress Permission To Be Useless

The judges let Congress off the hook, further incentivizing the legislature’s dereliction while effectively usurping power from the political...

26.02.2026 40

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Trump Admin Fights To Keep Illegal Immigrants From Distorting Census

The Census Bureau recently announced its plan to administer a survey that includes the query 'Is this person a citizen of the United States?'

17.02.2026 800

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If SCOTUS Bans Illegals From The Census, Dems Could Lose Power For Years

Census figures used for congressional apportionment, redistricting, and redistributing federal funds have historically counted illegal aliens.

09.02.2026 150

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‘ICE Watch’ Activists Aren’t ‘Legal Observers,’ They’re Criminal Obstructors

Those emphasizing Renee Nicole Good’s 'legal observer' status are shamefully trying to blind the American people to these nefarious insurgent...

19.01.2026 40

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It’s Not A Minnesota Problem, It’s A Blue State Problem

The left’s dodges and diversions distract from the fact that the fraud is a feature of what we might call The Blue Model of government.

14.01.2026 100

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While Congress Sits On Election Integrity Bill, Trump Admin Takes Action On Noncitizen Voting

With states unable to verify citizenship under the current system, the Trump administration is trying to help states ensure clean voter rolls.

09.12.2025 30

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The Biggest Obstacle To Trump’s Israel-Hamas Peace Deal Is Jihadi Ideology

Despite a new plan, the president’s ultimate ambitions could be threatened by the many challenges inherent to the Gaza conflict.

13.10.2025 50

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Jeff Clark ‘Barfare’ Exposes Another Leftist Attempt To Target Trump Allies In The Courts

'State legislatures and State Bar associations must reform themselves and commit to political neutrality or they will destroy themselves and the...

03.10.2025 60

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Did Democrats’ ‘Nonpartisan’ Voter Outreach Violate IRS Rules?

Putatively nonpartisan charitable voter registration and mobilization organizations are thinly veiled Democrat vote-generation vehicles.

25.08.2025 40

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The Supreme Court Killed Universal Injunctions In Name Only

While the Court’s 6-3 opinion in Trump v. CASA appeared to disarm Trump’s opponents of perhaps their most potent legal weapon, his adversaries...

11.08.2025 40

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Why Raining Justice On The Russia Hoaxers Is So Tricky — And So Important

Absent justice for the Russia hoax, the lesson to the conspirators is that they should go even bigger next time.

06.08.2025 40

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Who Counts? Trump Poised to Try to Remove Noncitizens From Census

Following a years-long surge in illegal immigration, the President Donald Trump administration is poised to challenge a longstanding but legally...

20.07.2025 30

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