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The Democrat Party Correctly Rejects Its Useless 2024 Post-Mortem

This is what consultant-driven politics looks like, and it's stale enough to bundle off to the landfill.

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The Federalist

Chris Bray

The Media Can’t See The Populist Vote Clearly To Save Their Lives

If you're looking for an explanation of Massie's defeat in a Republican primary election, consider the extraordinary possibility that Republican...

previous day 3

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Paxton Scores A $10 Million Victory In The Fight Against The ‘Trans Kids’ Industrial Complex

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday a significant settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston over that hospital’s long...

15.05.2026 7

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Chris Bray

Trump Flies Home From China With Hints Of Outlines Of Chinese Promises

"China needs crude. We have it. It will cost them more than they have been paying. But they have to get it somewhere."

15.05.2026 6

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Trump Flies Homes Home From China With Hints Of Outlines Of Chinese Promises

"China needs crude. We have it. It will cost them more than they have been paying. But they have to get it somewhere."

15.05.2026 6

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Chris Bray

Gavin Newsom’s Former Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty, And The Plea Agreement Is Kind Of Amazing

A plea deal in California shines a remarkable light on the lives of the leftist nomenklatura. Dana Williamson is the former chief of staff to...

14.05.2026 6

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Chris Bray

Nanny State Faces A Defeat In Its War On Food Freedom As PRIME Act Advances

'You would have local accountability, back to the farmer,' Massie told The Federalist.

13.05.2026 3

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Chris Bray

The Iran War Is Piling Up A List Of Surprises

We keep learning new things about the war with Iran. The new revelations haven’t added up to a clear picture yet, but they suggest the...

13.05.2026 5

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Chris Bray

The SPLC’s Drama Queen Media Defense Swings And Misses

On May 6, the day after the government filed its response, Pate denied the SPLC's motion as moot: The government isn't lying, and there's no evidence...

11.05.2026 8

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Europeans Are Also Tired Of Dumb Leftists Ruining Everything They Touch

After years of ugly institutional decline, mass immigration from unvetted Islamist refugees who are eroding British culture, and a long period of...

08.05.2026 9

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Chris Bray

When California Republicans Run Against Democrats, They’re Running Against The Government

Non-governmental organizations frequently aren't non-governmental. Instead, they're government cut-outs, state funding moved to private bank accounts...

07.05.2026 10

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Chris Bray

After Decades Of Democrat Decline, Republican Spencer Pratt Has A Shot At Winning In LA

As predictably as the sunrise, California’s Democratic political machine is responding to the threat of Pratt’s candidacy by trying to paint him...

05.05.2026 7

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Chris Bray

Trump Goes All In On Regime Change In Cuba

'Serious economic reforms are impossible with these people in charge.' Rubio said. 'It can't happen.'

04.05.2026 6

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Chris Bray

The California Primary Election Season Is Screaming A Warning For The Nation

Democrats do not moderate. They will not moderate. They will not 'move to the center.' There will be no course correction.

30.04.2026 10

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California’s Political Commissars Surrender To Elon Musk’s Lawyers

'The Commission agrees that it may not consider irrelevant factors in performing its function and specifically agrees that it will not take into...

29.04.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Alito Warned Us The Left Would Welcome The Latest Trump Assassination Attempt

Leftists are minimizing the latest assassination attempt directed against Donald Trump, but a Supreme Court bio warned us they would.

29.04.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Analysts: SPLC Fraud, Money Laundering Charges Could Be The Tip Of The Iceberg

'That’s certainly an admission of fraud against the bank,' Byrnes told The Federalist.

28.04.2026 7

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Exclusive: New Bill Would Ban All Trans Disfigurements For Kids And Let Victims Sue Over ‘Child Abuse’

'These are not medical treatments — they are child abuse.'

24.04.2026 8

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Chris Bray

Mourning The Loss Of USAID, The New York Times Makes A Clear Case For Its Death

They're a non-governmental organization that lives on government, period. They're an almost purely governmental non-governmental organization.

24.04.2026 8

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Chris Bray

The SPLC Is A Hedge Fund With A Dumb Anti-Racism Newsletter

At the SPLC, Moser wrote, staff joked that they would keep at their work 'Until justice rolls down like dollars.'

23.04.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Fraud Is Costing Taxpayers Up To Half A Trillion Dollars A Year, And We’re Not Doing Enough To Stop It

The Trump administration has taken a series of significant steps against fraud, but so far they're mostly going it alone.

22.04.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Democrats’ Theater Kid Politics Is A National Sinkhole

The total absence of seriousness, reality, decency, or anything resembling a thought is rapidly becoming the Democrat norm, as we culturally collapse...

21.04.2026 10

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Chris Bray

The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Is America’s Most Pathetic Display Of Privileged Whining

It's a place where a couple thousand of Ted Baxters get to preen.

21.04.2026 9

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Chris Bray

Why Disastrous Blue Model Failure Isn’t Producing A Red Shift

Democratic Party extremists, meaning pretty much all of them, are losing support. But Republicans aren't gaining support.

17.04.2026 4

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Chris Bray

The New York Times Tries To Gin Up A Hit Piece On The Texas Rangers, But Nobody Cares

Blum quotes precisely one fan from the stadium, who says, actual quote, “I think it’s a good thing." See all the CONTROVERSY!?!?!?!?

16.04.2026 5

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Democrats Can’t Update Their Script On The Iran War To Incorporate New Realities

1 Trending: Democrats Turned On Eric Swalwell Because He Was In The Way, Not Because They Have Morals 2 Trending: Appeals Court Torches Boasberg For...

15.04.2026 7

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Chris Bray

The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Is A Pathetic Joke

The actual text of the bill is about allowing people to submit a half a ton of paperwork to a state program so the state can tell people not to be...

15.04.2026 5

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Chris Bray

Another Disastrous California Rail Project Shows Why Blue States Always Trend Toward Going Broke

Name the private sector business that survives with a $30 million payroll and $2.3 million in receipts from customers.

15.04.2026 8

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Chris Bray

The Hysterical Media Are Lying About The Forest Service Reorganization

The reorganization is debatable, and its effects have yet to be seen, but the Forest Service isn't being 'gutted.' It's being reorganized.

09.04.2026 5

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Chris Bray

Republicans Debate The Way Democrats Want Them To

Should we use a scalpel to turn boys into girls? That's not a value judgment or a debate, because it's just a clinical decision to be made by trained...

09.04.2026 9

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Chris Bray

California Is Trying To Save The Pediatric Trans Industry Because It’s Dying

A niche identity is returning to its niche, and the California legislature is tacitly acknowledging that even the niche dies without regular infusions...

07.04.2026 5

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Chris Bray

60 Minutes Undersold The Madness of California’s Train-Building Disaster

It works at something; just don't expect it to work when it comes to carrying people from one place to another place.

06.04.2026 10

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New Study: Trans Kids Are Much More Likely To Suffer Crisis After Transition

'Among adolescents who underwent medical gender reassignment, psychiatric morbidity increased markedly during follow-up.'

06.04.2026 8

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Chris Bray

The Fight Against Blue State Fraud Is Probably Going Better Than It Seems

If you’ve been following the news this week, it might look like we’re losing the fight against the kind of fraud you remember from Nick...

02.04.2026 6

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Chris Bray

Media Suck Their Widdle Thumbs Over Trump ‘Intimidation’ At SCOTUS

Not explained: What can Trump do to the Supreme Court? Overturn birthright citizenship or else (fill in blank). If you can't fill in the blank, the...

01.04.2026 7

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The Iran War Is Splintering

The war Trump intends may not be the war that's actually underway, and America may de-escalate in the face of regional escalation.

01.04.2026 10

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The Latest ‘No Kings’ Protest Is The Sound Of A Tired Old Thing Trying To Not Die

They speak in a vernacular of protest out of habit and as a cultural identity, but they have no idea what they're protesting. They're very angry about...

30.03.2026 8

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Illegal Immigration Is Way Down, So Naturally The Media Are Freaking Out

'These shifts were largely due to lower levels of net international migration, which declined nationwide.'

26.03.2026 8

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‘Trans Kids’ Is A Dying Trend

Almost 90 percent just ... stopped.

25.03.2026 10

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James Talarico Is Just The Latest Of The Media’s Pathetic Cardboard Heroes

Brilliant new Democrats emerge seasonally, like pumpkins.

24.03.2026 10

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Democrats Have Nothing To Offer But Fear And Misery

See, you can't go to the airport this week, because the government will probably just slaughter you.

23.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

MAGA Isn’t Dying Because Of The Iran War

What force, movement, or personality is rising in American politics, or anywhere, that becomes dominant and shoves Trumpism aside?

19.03.2026 10

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Transgender Skepticism Is The Ultimate Bipartisan Issue

A pro-LGB culture is deeply disturbed by the T. People you mostly wouldn't agree with agree with you on this.

18.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

California Fights To Screen Men For Cervical Cancer

If you don't have a uterus or ovaries but still want to be tested for pregnancy, the health care industry won't be allowed to be mean to you.

16.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Senate Will Only Pass SAVE America Act If Trump And Thune Impose Consequences For Opposing It

The 'Johnson Treatment' was 'an incredible, potent mixture of persuasion, badgering, flattery, threats, reminders of past favors and future...

16.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

The Crisis In The Strait Of Hormuz Is Worse Because Of Dems’ Disastrous Energy Policy

'If your energy supplies depend on a foreign choke point, that's a national security issue.'

13.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

It’s Not An Accident That James Talarico Is Single And Childless

Unmarried people are significantly more likely to vote for Democrats, and people are becoming significantly more likely to stay unmarried.

11.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico

If you remember in Anchorman when Brick says he loves lamp, and Ron Burgundy asks him if he's just calling out the names of things he sees in the...

09.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Blue State Failure Is Destroying Federalism And The Constitution

Washington, D.C., is now in charge of making sure that dogs in Los Angeles aren't mistreated.

06.03.2026 10

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Chris Bray

Senate Debate On Iran War Turns Into Senile Men Shouting At Sky

If the United States Senate can figure out who's responsible for all these unfortunate wars over the last couple of decades, somebody's really gonna...

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