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Election Year Politics Cloud Texas Voucher Rollout
Texas’ long-awaited school choice expansion is moving forward but its first year is already colliding with legal uncertainty and election-year politics that could sharply limit how much real “choice” families actually have.

Ballot Blog Staff Writer
2 days ago


After 58 Years and $500 Million Annually, Congressional GOP Finally Pulls the Plug on Public Broadcasting
After nearly six decades and more than half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer support, the federal government has formally exited the public broadcasting business.

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
2 days ago


Trump Wasn’t Crazy About Greenland, America Has Been There for 70 Years
The United States has been deeply involved in Greenland for decades.Not hypothetically. Not rhetorically. Operationally.

Ballot Blog Staff Writer
6 days ago


California Voter ID Initiative Surpasses One Million Signatures, Poised for the 2026 Ballot Showdown
The California Voter ID & Citizenship Verification Initiative has crossed a decisive milestone. Campaign organizers confirmed this week that the measure has surpassed one million raw signatures, placing it well beyond the threshold required to qualify for the November 3, 2026 statewide general election—an election that will also feature high-profile federal and statewide races.

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Jan 5


Christmas Shopping 2025: What the Final Holiday Numbers Tell Us About the U.S. Economy
As the 2025 Christmas season comes to a close, the data paints a clear and consistent picture: Americans are still spending, still shopping in stores, and still embracing the holidays just with a more disciplined, value-driven approach than in years past.

Bill Postmus (Staff Writer)
Dec 27, 2025


🎄 When Politics Meets Christmas: “The Night Trump Saved Christmas” Goes Viral
The five-minute video imagines Donald Trump stepping in to save Christmas after Santa Claus falls ill—delivered in the familiar cadence of “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” a poem deeply rooted in American holiday tradition.

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Dec 24, 2025


America Accelerates: Strong Growth, Cooling Inflation Set the Stage for a Powerful 2026
GDP Surges, Inflation Falls — and the Economy Heads Into the New Year With Momentum

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Dec 24, 2025


“David” Delivers at the Box Office and Reignites a Familiar Hollywood Controversy
After opening in approximately 3,118 theaters nationwide, David generated an estimated $22 million in domestic box office revenue over its full Friday–Sunday opening weekend, placing it among the strongest openings ever for an independently distributed Christian film.

Shanika Johnson - (Staff Analyst)
Dec 22, 2025


The Three-State Red Wall: What Erika Kirk’s Turning Point Speech Signals for the GOP’s Future
The Red Wall Kirk outlined is not a collection of safe states. It is a defensive and offensive firewall — states that must be held, re-earned, and constantly worked every cycle.

Bill Postmus (Staff Writer)
Dec 21, 2025


Trump’s Tariffs Didn’t Break the Economy, Wall Street and the Media Got It Wrong
The experts predicted economic chaos. The data now shows Trump’s tariff strategy wasn’t the disaster Americans were promised. For years, Wall Street economists and much of the national media warned that tariffs imposed during the Trump administration would cripple the U.S. economy and permanently drive inflation higher. Those claims became a central talking point in debates over trade, monetary policy, and interest rates. The latest inflation data tells a different story. New

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Dec 18, 2025


Trump’s Redistricting Plan Fails in Indiana, Setting the Stage for GOP Political Payback
The Indiana State Senate has rejected a proposed mid-decade congressional redistricting plan, delivering a significant setback to President Donald Trump’s national effort to reshape U.S. House maps ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — and setting off a political reckoning within the Indiana Republican Party. Despite holding a commanding supermajority in the chamber, Senate Republicans fractured over the proposal, exposing deep internal divisions over strategy, timing, and po

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Dec 15, 2025


Indiana Redistricting Showdown: State Senate Faces High-Stakes Test as Testimony Surges
Indiana’s political world is on edge today as the State Senate opens formal debate on House Bill 1032 , a sweeping Republican redistricting plan that would eliminate Indiana’s two Democratic-held congressional districts and reshape the state into a 9–0 GOP map ahead of the 2026 midterms. After clearing the House last week, the bill now faces its most difficult hurdle — a State Senate that remains publicly cautious and internally divided. The next several days will determine

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Dec 8, 2025


Supreme Court Opens a Defining Term: Major Cases, Timeline, and the Stakes Ahead
Each October, as tradition holds, the Supreme Court of the United States convenes to begin a new term. This year’s session — running from October through late June , with rulings occasionally trickling into early July — is one of the most consequential dockets the Court has assembled in recent years. The justices have already accepted several nationally significant cases touching immigration, gun rights, presidential trade powers, gender policy in sports, agency authority, an

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Dec 7, 2025


The Trump Newborn Accounts: A New Chapter in American Family Investment
When Congress passed President Donald Trump’s landmark economic package last year, one of its most forward-looking provisions was the creation of the “Trump Newborn Accounts.” Overshadowed by larger tax and regulatory reforms, this quiet but powerful idea may ultimately be one of the bill’s most enduring legacies. A Brief History of the Policy Idea For decades, leaders in both parties have floated the idea that every American child should begin life with a small financial fo

Bill Postmus (Staff Writer)
Dec 6, 2025


Minnesota at a Breaking Point: Somali Fraud Scandals and a Federal Investigation Converge
Minnesota has always prided itself on clean governance and steady leadership. But the past year has cracked that image wide open. A string of fraud scandals inside the state’s social-services network — coupled with a full-scale federal investigation — has forced Minnesotans to confront a hard truth: while the political establishment was assuring the public that everything was fine, some of the largest welfare and food-aid fraud schemes in state history were thriving right und

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Dec 4, 2025


Matt Van Epps Wins Tennessee’s 7th District Special Election as GOP Holds the Seat
epublicans kept control of Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District tonight as Matt Van Epps defeated Democrat Aftyn Behn

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Dec 2, 2025


Democratic Governors Retreat on Costly Climate Policies as Energy Prices Spike
Bill Gates Downplays Climate Doom, Says Wealthy Nations Like the U.S. Are Far Better Positioned Than the Developing World Across America’s bluest states, a notable shift is underway. Governors who once championed some of the most aggressive environmental mandates in the country are quietly recalibrating their approach — not because their values changed, but because their constituents can no longer shoulder the cost. Residents in states like California and New York are confron

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Dec 1, 2025


Tennessee’s 7th District Heads Into a High-Stakes December 2 Showdown: Dueling Monday Night Tele-Rallies and Millions in Outside Spending Tighten a Strong Trump District
Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson join a GOP tele-rally as AOC fronts a competing Democratic event, all while new polls show Republicans holding only a narrow edge in a district long considered safely red. Voters in Middle Tennessee are barreling toward a December 2nd special election that has become one of the most closely watched political fights of the year. What began as a quiet, predictable Republican hold in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District has rapidly escalated into

Thomas J. Smith (Staff Writer)
Nov 29, 2025


Spirit Lake, Idaho: A Century-Old Timber Town With Deep Roots and Deep-Red Politics
Spirit Lake, Idaho is one of northern Kootenai County’s oldest incorporated communities — a former boomtown born out of the early 20th-century logging industry. More than a century later, this small lakefront city remains one of the most traditionally rooted, civic-minded, and overwhelmingly conservative communities in the entire Panhandle. Below is a full overview of Spirit Lake’s history, civic structure, public-safety services, political profile, and its 2024 presidential

Bill Postmus (Staff Writer)
Nov 28, 2025


A Nation Blessed: Thanksgiving Reflections from America’s Founding to Today
From Washington to Lincoln, a Day Shaped by Providence and the American Spirit Thanksgiving has always been more than a date on the calendar. It is one of the oldest national traditions we possess — a reminder that from the very beginning, Americans have been a people who pause, look upward, and give thanks for blessings we know we did not create on our own. Across generations, through prosperity and hardship alike, this day has anchored the nation in gratitude. In 1789 , Pre

W.R Mason (Editor-In-Chief)
Nov 27, 2025
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