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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.

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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 8

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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 750

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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 100

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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 10

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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 70

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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 4

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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 10

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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 10

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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 3

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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 4

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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 7

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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 2

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SCOTUS Ruling Against Universal Injunctions Didn’t Go Far Enough

Unless the Supreme Court reins in lower-court judges or Congress asserts its power over the courts it established, judicial tyranny may persist.

07.07.2025 5

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Trump’s Effort To Remove Noncitizens From Census Would Affect Elections

If the second Trump administration fails to win court approval of its expected effort to exclude illegal migrants from the census, this time around,...

30.06.2025 7

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80 Percent Of Anti-Trump Lawsuits Are Filed In Courts Ruled By Democrat Appointees

An analysis of 350 cases lends credence to claims that anti-Trump litigants may be strategically filing in courts where they are most likely to...

18.06.2025 4

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SCOTUS Must Rein In Rogue Judges Threatening To Enable Violent Rioters

Over and over again, the court seems fit to allow injustice to persist when it comes to halting the policies of President Trump.

16.06.2025 7

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State Department Protects Americans’ Speech By Restricting Visas For Foreign Censors

The Trump administration’s targeting of foreign censors marks a significant departure from a Biden administration that coordinated global speech...

06.06.2025 6

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Here’s What Would Happen If The Trump Administration Used The Comey Standard Against Comey

Comey's latest post would no doubt be pursued as incitement to violence — something Comey himself would seem to advocate were he not the subject of...

17.05.2025 7

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Do Senate Republicans Want Far-Left D.C. Judges To Appoint The Country’s No. 2 Prosecutor?

A nay vote from Sen. Thom Tillis would prevent Ed Martin from securing the majority needed to be voted out of committee and come to the Senate floor...

08.05.2025 10

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Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security

Against fierce resistance, the Donald Trump administration is enlisting the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration in its...

28.04.2025 7

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Trump’s Next Target In Dismantling The Censorship Complex Is CISA

The legislative branch must codify the administration’s policies to ensure a speech policing apparatus does return under a future president.

23.04.2025 5

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Tariff Critics Have No Answer To Trump’s National Security Arguments About Chinese Manufacturing

The onus is on those whose favored policies have left us imperiled to present a better plan than Trump’s to defend America’s interests.

16.04.2025 10

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Ben Weingarten

John Roberts’ Obsession With SCOTUS Legitimacy Has Severely Delegitimized It

Ending universal injunctions once and for all is the least the chief justice can do to defend not only the judiciary, but our country.

20.03.2025 4

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Trump Gives SCOTUS A Chance To Make ‘Independent’ Agencies Accountable Again

The Trump administration is targeting court interpretations that have stripped the president of full control over personnel, and policy, within...

25.02.2025 6

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Kash Patel Is Perfect For FBI Director Because He Already Fought The Deep State And Won

Kash Patel has been targeted not due to a lack of qualifications but because he has the qualifications required to challenge the deep state.

19.02.2025 4

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Whistleblowers: FBI Weaponization Is Real, And Here’s Proof

'Ensuring that they no longer work at the FBI is not retribution; it’s responsible leadership.'

19.02.2025 6

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Trump’s J6 Pardons Signal The End Of The War On Wrongthink

The Capitol riot fueled the war on wrongthink. Clemency for Capitol rioters should represent the start of the end of that war.

29.01.2025 6

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Trump’s Fight Against Online Censorship Goes Global

Flanked by some of the Big Tech executives whose companies had suppressed the views of his supporters throughout his predecessor’s term, President...

29.01.2025 6

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Mark Zuckerberg Confirmed The Supreme Court Ignored Direct Evidence Of Massive Federal Censorship Scheme

The courts simply cannot be seen as a reliable backstop for protecting our First Amendment rights against the censorship-industrial complex.

22.01.2025 8

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GOP Senators Can Prove They Know What Time It Is By Confirming Trump’s Nominees Stat

By fending off left-wing attacks, putting Democrats on the defensive, and confirming Trump’s nominees, Senate Republicans will show they know what...

13.01.2025 3

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Supreme Court Chief Roberts Just Defended The Censorship-Industrial Complex

If John Roberts really wants to protect the Supreme Court's independence, he should start by disarming the administrative state.

09.01.2025 7

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IG Report Reveals FBI Could Still Be Spying On Congress And Leaking To Help Democrats

One need not think hard about how a corrupt national security apparatus could use the predicate of an illegal leak to spy on political foes.

19.12.2024 8

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