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What Is An American? The Civic Nationalists Have No Idea

A football game in Texas last week exposed the emptiness of ‘civic nationalism’ as a durable source of American identity.

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9/11 Exposed The Weakness Of A Post-Christian West

We didn’t just get the Muslim world wrong. We got America wrong too.

11.09.2026 7

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9/11 Was The Beginning Of A Religious War That We Lost

We thought religion had no real influence on peoples and cultures, so we failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict.

10.09.2026 8

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Opposition To Data Centers Isn’t What The Tech Right Thinks It Is

It’s not the data centers themselves that people fear, it’s the AI revolution they will enable. That’s what no one wants to talk about.

28.08.2026 10

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The Senate Race In Alaska Is What A Rigged Election Looks Like

The Democrats' 'Decoy Dan' plot to oust Sen. Dan Sullivan would be hilarious if it weren’t actually happening.

24.08.2026 10

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The NeverTrumpers Are Back. This Time Their Target Is J.D. Vance

The same people who attacked Trump in 2016 are now attacking the vice president. They want the GOP back after Trump is gone.

19.08.2026 10

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The Problem With DSA Democrats Isn’t Socialism, It’s Third-Worldism

Decades of immigration from Muslim-majority Third World countries has turned the Democrats into the party of militant anti-Americanism.

12.08.2026 20

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Surrogacy Is A Form Of Slavery. It Should Be Abolished

A complex legal dispute over an unborn child has exposed the inhumanity and cruelty of commercial surrogacy.

05.08.2026 10

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Dems’ Open Border Policy Is A Form Of Hybrid Warfare—Against The American People

The invasion of Ceuta, Spain, by Moroccans was a state-on-state conflict. In America, the enemy is within.

03.08.2026 10

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Unless Fauci Is Held Accountable, America Will Never Recover From His Lies

Because of Fauci, the U.S. government’s disastrous pandemic response was based on a tangled web of lies and subterfuge.

29.07.2026 10

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Our Transhumanist, Sci-Fi Future Has Arrived. But You’re Not Going To Like It

Technological progress isn’t ushering in an era of prosperity and bliss. It’s inaugurating an era of demonic, inhuman evils.

23.07.2026 20

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We Are Living Through An Era Of Cultural Destruction

Turning beloved stories woke or repurposing destroyed monuments is the beginning of a process that ends with real violence.

20.07.2026 20

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Birthplace Citizenship Is Incompatible With Mass Immigration

Under conditions of mass immigration, legal or illegal, birthplace citizenship means the destruction of the nation.

01.07.2026 10

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TPS Has Always Been A Giant Scam

Nothing better demonstrates that TPS was a scam than the Haitians who left South America to file bogus asylum claims in the U.S.

30.06.2026 20

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After 250 Years, Our American Republic Is Coming Apart

The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country.

25.06.2026 10

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‘Sophie Of Dundee’ Has Been Vindicated, But It Won’t Change Anything In Britain

The hatchet-wielding Scottish girl was right, and her detractors were wrong. But there’ll be no apologies from the British elite.

13.06.2026 30

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The Hype About Aliens, UAPs, And ‘Disclosure’ Isn’t What It Appears To Be

What if UAP sightings and alien abduction accounts aren’t evidence of extraterrestrial life, but of supernatural life?

11.06.2026 20

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Henry Nowak’s Murder Is The Logical Conclusion Of Black Lives Matter

Racial hierarchy is embedded in the logic of Black Lives Matter. What it looks like in practice is the murder of Henry Nowak.

03.06.2026 20

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Canada Needs A Real Reckoning For The ‘Mass Graves’ Hoax

Five years after Canadian liberals incited a moral panic about “mass graves” of indigenous schoolchildren, almost no one will admit it happened.

02.06.2026 20

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America Is A Nation Of Settlers, Not Immigrants

It’s not crazy to suggest that if immigrants will not assimilate then they shouldn’t be allowed to serve in Congress.

22.05.2026 20

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Data Center Animosity Reflects Legit Concerns AI-Mongers Don’t Care About Humanity’s Interests

The question at the heart of the AI debate is whether the human person can survive in a world dominated by mass artificial intelligence.

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It’s Long Past Time To Scrap Hart-Celler And Insist That Immigrants Assimilate

Our immigration regime is a relic of 1960s liberalism, based on the fatuous notion that anyone from anywhere can become an American.

15.05.2026 30

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Why Britain’s Elections Portend Trouble For America

Britain is fracturing along ethnic lines, steadily marching toward civil war along with the entire western world — including the United States.

13.05.2026 20

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Neil Gorsuch Is Wrong, America Isn’t A ‘Creedal Nation’

America is based on English culture and Christian civilization — a heritage that came before our civic creed and upon which our ideals rest.

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The American Left Is In Thrall To Political Violence. It Has To Be Destroyed

Left-wing political violence won’t end unless it’s actively stopped. We are not going to argue our way to peace.

28.04.2026 30

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Authorities In Britain Are Trying To Criminalize Christian Street Preaching

As Christianity declines in the West, we should expect Christians to be persecuted. It’s already happening in Britain.

24.04.2026 30

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Amazon Didn’t Ban The Camp Of The Saints Because It’s ‘Offensive’ But Because It Resonates

Jean Raspail’s ‘The Camp of the Saints’ isn’t a racist screed, it’s a story about how civilizations die.

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Catholics And Protestants Are Going To Need Each Other For What’s Coming

Whatever our theological differences, our common enemy is the radical left, which seeks to persecute Christians of all kinds.

16.04.2026 30

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Trump’s Hyperbolic Annihilationist Rhetoric Comes With A Moral Cost

The ceasefire with Iran doesn’t vindicate Trump’s morally questionable threat to wipe an entire civilization off the map.

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America’s Catholic Renewal Is A Rejection Of Liberal Modernity

Record numbers of Americans are converting to Catholicism this Easter. Why?

03.04.2026 20

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Should Trump Just Declare Victory In Iran And End The War?

As the war with Iran enters its fifth week, President Trump has no good options for winning quickly.

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Hollywood Is Still Trying To Corrupt J. R. R. Tolkien’s Work

Under the pen of someone like Colbert, the upcoming Lord of the Rings spinoff will almost certainly corrupt Tolkien’s work and reduce it to nothing...

27.03.2026 30

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Victory In Iran Depends On More Than U.S. Military Dominance

American strategic power has always been a question not just of battlefield prowess but also of public opinion.

19.03.2026 30

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Trump Needs To Prepare Americans For What Comes Next In Iran

With oil traffic in the Persian Gulf brought to a standstill, Trump isn’t going to be able to simply declare victory and walk away.

13.03.2026 30

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Four Questions About The Iran War That Deserve Clear, Consistent Answers

We’re more than a week into the Iran war and yet we have no clear or consistent objectives, no theory of victory.

10.03.2026 30

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How Israel ‘Chain-Ganged’ The Trump Administration Into War Against Iran

It appears that President Trump allowed Israel, our purported ally, to drag the United States into war against Iran.

03.03.2026 40

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Trump Said We ‘Obliterated’ Iran’s Nuclear Program Last June. So Why Are We About To Go War?

The administration’s justifications for action against Iran keep shifting. Why can’t we get a straight answer?

27.02.2026 40

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Nigel Farage Isn’t Serious About Saving Britain

Any leader on the British right unwilling to consider mass deportations and denaturalization is just controlled opposition.

25.02.2026 40

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Turns Out The Irishman Detained By ICE Was Facing Drug Charges Back Home

The arrest of Irishman Seamus Culleton fueled a false media narrative that ICE is grabbing law-abiding people who have done nothing wrong.

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Eileen Gu Is The Poster Child For The Post-Nationalist Olympics

The American skier enjoys all the benefits of being an American, born and raised, but competes for the communist dictatorship of China.

11.02.2026 20

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Mass Amnesty In Spain Heralds The End Of Nationhood

In Spain and across Europe, the ruling elite are turning to imperial methods of governance to erase their own people.

06.02.2026 40

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Minnesota Democrats Are Creating A Nullification Crisis Over Immigration

States are not allowed simply to thwart or undermine federal laws they don’t like. It’s treasonous, and should be treated as such.

21.01.2026 40

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Top Democrats Are Agitating For Insurrection And Political Vigilantism

Democrats seem to think that laws and policies they don’t like can be thwarted by an angry mob or an insurrectionist governor.

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The Venezuela Raid Was A Win For America First Anti-Interventionism

American military power should be used to secure and safeguard American interests. That’s what happened in Caracas.

06.01.2026 30

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Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong About American Identity And Wrong About America

A disembodied notion of American identity means that America is really nothing at all, and no one is really an American.

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‘Birthright Citizenship’ Is A Feudal Relic That Has No Place In America

We used to base citizenship on consent, not birth. In an era of mass immigration, it’s time to get back to that older understanding.

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Democrats Would Like To Suppress Free Speech The Way Britain Does

The American left doesn’t look at the United Kingdom and see a cautionary tale, it sees a template to follow.

04.12.2025 100

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The Pilgrims Were English Ethno-Nationalists

America wasn't 'founded by immigrants' but by English settlers who carried their culture across the Atlantic and established a new nation.

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It’s Impossible To Keep Up With The Fall Of Britain

The United Kingdom is now in a rolling crisis that its leaders can neither manage nor control. We should pay attention.

12.11.2025 30

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The Attacks On Heritage And Kevin Roberts Are Really About Foreign Policy And J.D. Vance

Genuine concern about antisemitism on the right is being hijacked by neocons to attack J.D. Vance in hopes of re-taking control of the GOP.

04.11.2025 30

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