When insurance costs more than survival, coverage is just a word.

Obamacare didn’t protect families, it priced them into submission.

A system that only works for the rich or the dependent is not a safety net.

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BRIEFING

It’s been just over a decade since Obamacare was implemented, and for a majority of Americans, it’s done jack diddly squat for them. As a matter of fact, one American family sat down, did the Obamacare math honestly, and realized that working, paying premiums, and playing by the rules still left them staring at a literal dead end. Let’s break it down.

One woman with five kids recently made a video where she lays out her income, her family size, and her insurance options, and what she was given were literally laughable. First option is $1,100 a month through an employer plan, and the second is a staggering $1,600 a month through the ACA, with a deductible so high it turns coverage into a technicality instead of protection.

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American family has 5 kids. She makes $2,600 per month after taxes

The cheapest option she could get for health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace is $1,700 per month with a $17,000 deductible

Barack Obama destroyed our healthcare system

“$1,600 a month for a $17,000 deductible and they will only pay 50% after I meet that deductible So I’m thinking we’re just gonna go die”

American family has 5 kids. She makes $2,600 per month after taxes

The cheapest option she could get for health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace is $1,700 per month with a $17,000 deductible

Barack Obama destroyed our healthcare system

“$1,600 a month for a… pic.twitter.com/hEbeR8B6Ye— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) December 16, 2025

This is the stark reality of Obamacare for your average American family. Honestly, to benefit at all from this program, you either have to be earning well over $300k a year or be destitute. But for those in the middle who can’t afford the monthly premium or receive the subsidies that make ACA affordable, they’re literally left to fend for themselves.

Which, speaking of those subsidies, those are close to being on their way out. The enhanced premium tax credits — which made ACA plans more affordable — are slated to expire at the end of 2025, potentially forcing millions to pay much more or lose coverage entirely.

It’s hard to imagine that after the subsidies go away that anyone besides the extremely wealthy will be able to afford Obamacare.

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Should the enhanced ACA premium tax credits expire on December 31, the roughly 22.4 million people relying on these subsidies would be hit with steep increases in their health insurance premiums starting in 2026.

Their premiums could more than double next year, per a preview of the available plans released by the Trump administration.

Millions more would lose subsidized ACA marketplace coverage, and roughly 3.8 million people are projected to lose health insurance coverage entirely and become uninsured each year from 2026 to 2034 due to high costs, per the Congressional Budget Office.

Around 47% of American adults reported fears that they would not be able to cover the cost of necessary health care should the tax credits expire, per a West Health-Gallup poll from last month.

DEBRIEFING

So folks, this is what Obamacare really looks like once you strip away slogans and subsidies and force it to operate in the real world. A working family does the math, and the math clearly tells them there is no version of the program that actually offers them security. The premiums eat income, deductibles make coverage downright theoretical, and care is postponed not because people are irresponsible, but because the entire system prices it out of reach.

But keep in mind, this entire outcome is not accidental. Obamacare at its core only functions smoothly inside narrow income bands. Make very little, and subsidies soften the blow, but if you’re someone who makes a great deal, the costs become inconvenient but still manageable. While everyone in between has the literal life squeezed out of them.

Then the whole issue of expiring subsidies exposes this design flaw of Obamacare completely. Democrats sold those tax credits as proof the system worked, but they were never a real long-term solution. Instead, they were simply a stabilizer, propping up a structure that cannot stand on its own. And make no mistake, once they disappear, the entire grand illusion goes with them.

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Obamacare doesn’t fail families. It prices them out.

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In a TSA announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, “You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings.”

European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev.

They’re pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to nearly everything you do.

Spain’s prime minister promises “an end to anonymity” online!

Britain’s prime minister warns, “You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.”

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands enthusiastically told the World Economic Forum that digital IDs are good for knowing “who actually got a vaccination or not.”

Many American tech leaders also like digital IDs.

The second richest man in the world, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, says, “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything.”

That’s a good thing?

“That is a recipe for disaster and totalitarianism!” says privacy specialist Naomi Brockwell. “Privacy is not about hiding. It’s about an individual’s right to decide for themselves who gets access to their data. A digital ID will strip individuals of that choice.”

“I already have a government-issued ID,” says Tokarev. “Why is a digital one worse?”

“It connects everything,” says Brockwell. “Your financial decisions, social media posts, your likes, things that you’re watching, places you’re going. You won’t be able to voice things anonymously online anymore. Everything you say will be tied back to who you are.”

Digital ID backers say the new ID will make life easier.

“You can access your own money, make payments so much more easily,” says the U.K.’s prime minister.

Yes, says Brockwell, “until those services start saying, ‘No, you can’t use our system.'”

Even without a digital ID, Canada froze the bank accounts of truckers who protested COVID vaccine mandates.

With a digital ID, politicians could do that much more easily.

“You’re essentially putting a giant target on every aspect of your life,” warns Brockwell, “wrapping it up in a nice bow and saying, ‘Here, if you want to control me, just untie this.'”

In the U.S., many states are passing age verification laws that require you to identify yourself and prove your age before accessing certain websites.

Proponents say this will protect kids from dangerous content.

“Unfortunately, politicians just can’t promise that it will only ever be used for that,” says Brockwell. “You always have governments with these great-sounding bills called the ‘Let’s-Stop-All-the-Bad-People-Doing-All-the-Bad-Things’ Bill. … But what they’re voting for is a system of control and oppression. … You’ll be ranked based on past activities and choices that you’ve made.”

China does that.

People with low social credit scores may be denied entry into schools or find they cannot buy a train ticket.

“It makes you super easy to target!” says Brockwell, “easy to silence if suddenly you become ‘problematic.’ Whoever controls that data has a lot of power. We’re simply handing it to them. People need to be aware that they have no control over who will get access to this tool and who will control this tool in the future.”

Tokarev points out that companies like Facebook, Google, and Chase Bank already have her data. “Shouldn’t I trust my government more?”

“Governments, unlike companies, can throw you in jail,” Brockwell replies.

“This is America,” says Tokarev. “We’re not going to become China.”

“We are skyrocketing towards that direction!” insists Brockwell. “The surveillance infrastructure we’re trying to put in place in the United States is heading directly towards where China currently is.”

What can we do about it?

“People need to be reminded that they’re empowered to actually affect that change,” says Brockwell. “They can reach out to representatives; they can push back. Protect themselves and not build this infrastructure in the first place.”

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”

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The following is by David Harriman (physicist and author):

“Politics is divided like it was during the Civil War, when the slave-owners in the South hated Lincoln. But even that is surpassed by the statist’s hatred of Trump.

The hatred is most obvious in the far Left of the Democratic Party. This faction of the Party advocates communism and militant Islam. They can’t even speak without descending into incoherent screaming. Trump is fighting their anti-American ideology. Other politicians, somewhat more moderate, are threatened by Trump stopping their gravy-train. Trump is attempting to eliminate the corruption; many politicians have become rich by means of that corruption. Pelosi and AOC are the best stock investors in history. Politicians receive kickbacks from the defense and pharmaceutical industries, so they love war and pandemics.

Notice that Trump did not enter politics for money. In fact, he lost money, suffered legal prosecution on fabricated charges, and managed to survive assassination attempts.

What did he do to deserve this vitriolic hatred? He freed the energy industry and said we should not try to run the country on windmills; he said that the government should not attack free speech and political opponents; he stopped many wars and pledged that the U.S. would not engage in senseless, endless wars; he adopted a stronger policy against crime, which is out of control in many cities run by Democrats; he stopped the invasion of millions of unvetted illegal immigrants; he announced a policy that the government should not promote racism and child-sexual mutilation.

In the universities, nearly every professor hates Trump and they teach their students to hate him. “He is worse than Hitler!” they scream, with no explanation.

Many so-called “free market” intellectuals have enthusiastically joined the chorus of Trump hatred. They say: “Oh, it’s horrible, tariffs!” Oh, it’s horrible, what about due process for illegal aliens?” Notice what they are not saying: communism is horrible, militant Islam is horrible, violent crime is horrible, senseless wars that last 20 years are horrible, destroying the energy industry is horrible, government control of the media is horrible, rigging elections is horrible, destroying people’s lives with pandemics is horrible; child-sexual mutilation and child sex-trafficking is horrible.

Some say: “I am an advocate of individual rights. Trump and the Left violate individual rights. So they are both equally bad.” But notice that such people don’t treat them as equal. They scream their hatred of Trump, while giving the Left a free pass. This is the height of evasion and hypocrisy. Some of these people say: “It’s not a choice between Trump and the Left. I’m for somebody else.” Who else? Blankout. How would they get elected? Blankout. What is the plan for defeating corruption, the deep state, domestic crime and foreign enemies? Blankout.

I don’t want anybody to misinterpret my view. I am not saying that Trump is the lesser of two evils. I am saying that he is one of the best Presidents in U.S. history.” (David Harriman)

It’s the Dawn of Perpetual Scarcity and a New Monetary Era”

Silver has experienced three spectacular bull runs over the past century, each driven by distinct macroeconomic, geopolitical, and supply-demand dynamics. Yet the present cycle is fundamentally different—a convergence of global mining stagnation and surging multi-sector demand threatens to ignite a much more consequential and potentially prolonged price explosion.

The Three Major Bull Runs

1970s Bull Run (1971–1980)

$1.30 → $50.00 → +3,746 % (≈ 37×) over 9 years

1970s run: final ~1.5 years = 80–90% of gains

The first great silver bull began in 1971, triggered by the collapse of the Bretton Woods gold standard, runaway inflation, and geopolitical crisis. Silver meandered for years, trading below $6 until late 1978. Then, within just 18 months, momentum exploded—rallying from $6 to nearly $50 per ounce as Hunt brothers’ speculation, a weakening dollar, and global instability coalesced. Roughly 80–90% of gains occurred in that brief parabolic period, revealing how silver can trade sideways for years before breaking upward in a frantic melt-up.

2000s Bull Run (2001–2011)

$4.00 → $49.80 → +1,145 % (≈ 11.5×) over 10 years

2000s run: final ~2 years = 80–90% of gains

Silver’s next major ascent began around 2001, with the metal languishing between $4 and $8 for several years. Gradual climbs followed, especially as de-dollarization themes and the 2008 global financial crisis fueled safe-haven demand. Yet it was only in the final two years, 2009–2011, when silver shot from $9 to $49.80—again, 80–90% of total gains happened fast, as central bank interventions and monetary debasement sent investors scrambling for tangible assets.

Current Bull Run (2020–2025)

$11.60 → $52.00 → +348 % (≈ 4.5×) so far over 5 years This run is unlikely to peak because it will likely just keep going up (given supply demand fundamentals and growing monetary use.)

Silver’s recent run arguably began at its COVID panic low in March 2020, bottoming near $11.60. Over five years, it has risen to about $52, a gain of roughly 348%, but only a fraction of previous blow-off moves. Importantly, this surge so far has been steadier, not yet having delivered the classic parabolic spike characteristic of prior bull runs. WARNING, we are not very close to the time we will see the 80% to 90% gains kick in and it is better to be early than late. This is something none of us can time.

Why This Time Is Different

Stagnating Global Mining Output

Globally, silver mine production is essentially flat, hovering around 820 million ounces per year—despite rising prices and technology. Large deposits are depleting, grades are declining, and new discoveries are increasingly rare. Meanwhile the Trump regime is poking at Mexico threatening to send in troops while the Morena party is moving closer to seizing control of their valuable silver deposits.

Unlike the 1970s and 2000s, the world’s geological bounty is failing to keep pace with demand, as capex and exploration remain subdued due to resource depletion then compounded by so called “sustainable” pressures, resource nationalism, and capital constraints.

Structural Deficit: Demand Far Outstrips Supply

Current supply-demand estimates suggest annual demand for silver is now running near 1.2 billion ounces, a deficit of roughly 400 million ounces versus new mining output. Secondary recovery (recycling) and stockpile drawdowns can only bridge this gap temporarily. The resulting shortfall is historically unprecedented, and, if sustained, threatens to exhaust above-ground inventories in the next two to three years—forcing a dramatic repricing regime as buyers scramble for scarce physical metal.

Technology-Driven Industrial Demand Shock

Unlike prior cycles, silver’s demand profile today is broader, more diverse, and less cyclical. New uses dominate:

Military and defense: Smart weapons, silver zinc batteries, silver-ion batteries, communications, surveillance. Electric vehicles: Silver is critical for contacts, sensors, wiring, and battery tech. Green energy: Photovoltaic solar (where silver is irreplaceable), wind, and grid modernization. Electronics, batteries, drones, robotics, AI data centers, 5G: All are rapidly scaling operations and need ultra-conductive silver material. Nuclear: Requiring silver for neutron absorbers and specialized electronics. This secular demand wave isn’t tied to traditional jewelry, coins, or speculative investment—meaning much of the new demand is price-insensitive, non-negotiable, and likely to accelerate regardless of financial market conditions.

Silver wasn’t Monetized in the 1970s and 2000s like today

During the 1970s and 2000s silver bull runs, the metal was not widely recognized or utilized as a monetary asset by governments or global financial institutions—its narrative was largely inflation hedge and industrial demand. Today, however, silver’s monetary role is rapidly resurging: Russia is reportedly considering adding silver to its central bank reserves, sovereign wealth funds are rotating capital into silver allocations, and India has begun permitting silver as collateral for loans—unprecedented moves that elevate silver’s official financial status and encourage institutional accumulation on a global scale. This marks a profound break from previous cycles.

Parabolic Phase: Are We There Yet?

History suggests that silver bull runs spend years ranging and climbing gradually, followed by a wild, compressed parabolic phase that drives the bulk of total returns in just 1.5–2 years. If the 2020 bottom marks the beginning of the current run, we are about five years in, but the recent move to $52—while impressive—is not yet the vertical explosion seen in past cycles’ final acts.

Given the scale of current deficits, mining stagnation, rapid technological adoption, monetary use and breadth of global demand, there is strong reason to believe the most dramatic leg of this bull run still lies ahead. In fact, this cycle could break historical patterns entirely, with persistent structural shortages forcing a “higher-for-longer” price regime and periodic price spikes as physical availability dries up.

More Thoughts

Silver’s prior booms were mostly about monetary crisis and speculative fervor; today’s run has fundamentals never seen before—chronic supply collapse, relentless new industrial uses, and a looming global inventory squeeze. While the next parabolic phase may mirror history’s final melt-ups, the underlying shortage and irreversible demand expansion mean this time really is different—and potentially much more consequential.

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According to the document, NATO “no longer aligns with current US national security interests”

WASHINGTON, December 10. /TASS/. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky representative, introduced a bill calling for the United States to withdraw from NATO.

“NATO is a Cold War relic,” the Republican Congressman wrote on the X social network. “We should withdraw from NATO and use that money to defend our own country, not socialist countries,” the legislator said, referring to the US expenditures in the military alliance.

The lawmaker added that he had submitted a bill to remove the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The document says that European NATO members have sufficient economic and military capacity to provide for their own defense. The bill also states that the alliance began its large-scale expansion to the east in 1999, despite the loss of its relevance and statements to the contrary.

According to the document, NATO “no longer aligns with current US national security interests.”

It is not clear yet when the US House of Representatives may consider the bill. Before its review, the document should get approval from the relevant House committees.

Republican Massie has previously opposed US interference in the affairs of other countries and Washington’s use of force. In particular, he criticized US strikes on Iranian facilities on June 22 as a breach of the American Constitution. US President Donald Trump lashed out at Massie over these statements. He also said that he would support Massie’s rival in the Republican Party’s primary election contest.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established in 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington, DC on April 4, 1949 by the foreign ministers of 12 countries: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.

NATO has had 10 waves of enlargement, including three in the Cold War period (1952, 1955 and 1982) and seven after its end (1999, 2004, 2009, 2017, 2020, 2023 and 2024). Today NATO comprises 32 member states.

Dear friends, on the 45th anniversary of John Lennon’s murder, I was thinking about John Lennon’s legacy and identity. Dear friends, I grew up in the world for 24 years before I came to Christ, so I know its thinking and ways because I once was saturated in it, lived it, and walked its course (Eph. 2:1-14). As I was at work today, people were remembering John Lennon and praising him in many ways, and as the Christmas music was playing; they were playing many of this world’s Christmas carols which have a secular and demonic mood to it of utopia dreams through relativism and bankrupt human love which excludes RIGHTEOUSNESS and Almighty God, man’s ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS Creator (Rom. 1:18-32). One song that was played today was John Lennon’s, So This Is X-mas (War is Over). I had to laugh as I listened to the words and praised the Lord from what He saved me from! This John Lennon song is a total swipe and dig at the TRUE biblical Christmas message and the rejection thereof. Mr. “Peace” (John Lennon himself), seeks to encourage all through moral relativism and lawlessness to seek world peace, to end war and “love” one another as a fallen humanity (Isa. 48:22; 49:1; 57:21, Rom. 3, Jude 1:10). Hey world, how has that idiocy and delusion worked out for humanity since the fall (Psalm 14, Rom. 3, James 4:1-4)?

I see Lennon’s global utopian vision EXPONENTIALLY farther away than it was 45 years ago; for the Day of the Lord is at hand, in which He will judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Today in 2025, I see John Lennon’s global utopian vision EXPONENTIALLY farther away than it was some 45 years ago; for the Day of the Lord is at hand, in which Almighty God will judge the world in RIGHTEOUSNESS (Rev. 6-19). The tragedy of the vain lawless utopian dream and its dreamer is that it can NEVER EVER come true without RIGHTEOUSNESS and Almighty God (Matt. 6:33; Rev. 21; 22:1-5)! My dear friends, I used to think just like the world, for John Lennon was a hero of mine in the days of my vanity. That demonic mindset is a TOTAL DELUSION, and how mankind loves to drink it in, especially during the Christmas holiday season! Satan’s subtle counter Christmas message is alive and well on planet Earth, and because of global unbelief, it is received yearly. Tragically, as John Lennon goes, he is probably the world’s leading musician advocate for “peace”; however, in the reprobate world of John Lennon, he NEVER found “peace” in this world and in the end was murdered by one of his fans.

This song is a total swipe and dig at the TRUE biblical Christmas message and the rejection thereof. Lennon seeks to encourage all through moral relativism and lawlessness to seek world peace, to end war, and to “love” one another as fallen humanity.

There is absolutely no way that TRUE PEACE and PERFECT HARMONY can EVER be brought about WITHOUT the ETERNAL established RIGHTEOUSNESS of ALMIGHTY GOD (Isa. 32:17, 48:18,22). Almighty God’s whole ETERNITY and physical universe were established based on the ETERNAL RIGHTEOUS PERSON of the TRIUNE GOD! How deceived are we as humans and totally delusional to think that we, as Adam’s fallen race, could establish a PERFECT world and enter into ETERNITY without the required RIGHTEOUSNESS that Almighty God demands (1 Cor. 6:8-11, Gal. 5:19-21, Rev. 21:8, 22:14-15). We are a smashed glass or broken egg with absolutely no way our repairing ourselves. 6000 years of human history testify to the fact that we are a violent and lawless race with death as our future and destiny (Rom. 3:23), and on our way to total destruction. If it had not been for Almighty God’s outside intervention holding back the full accumulation of violence of mankind, we would have been extinct a long time ago (Matt. 24:21-22, 2 Thess. 2:6-8). Isn’t it amazing that as American’s listen to our leaders in Washington D.C., the media (conservative and liberal), Hollywood and the music culture and industry preach utopian ideals unto them that the majority of the world sincerely believe that lie from hell, which is if we just keep working at “peace” (give peace a chance) that we will one day finally achieve it.

How deceived are we as humans and totally delusional to think that we, as Adam’s fallen race, could establish a PERFECT world and enter into ETERNITY without the required RIGHTEOUSNESS that Almighty God demands.

My friend, let’s wake up and get real! There is NO WAY that a smashed egg can EVER again be put perfectly back together, and there is NO WAY that this broken world can EVER fix itself. This vain utopian pursuit is the ultimate delusional chasing of the devil’s cattle. At the end of this vain delusional chase, the world will tragically finally find out the REALITIES of time and ETERNITY that they have REJECTED their whole lives (Luke 16:22-31, Heb. 9:27, Rev. 20:11-15). It will be on that Day that these will be fully AWAKENED from their self-induced godless hypnotic delusion and will FULLY understand that their lawless self-willed existence here in time has led them straight into the slaughter house of the ETERNAL Divine Judgment and wrath of Almighty God (Rom. 1:18-32, 2 Thess. 2; 8-12, Rev.20:11-15).

He sent His Son 2000 years ago, born of a virgin, so you might LIVE FOREVER with Him and to enjoy Him in RIGHTEOUS PERFECTION and BLISS FOREVERMORE!

My dear friend, this is not Almighty God’s desire for you, to die in your transgressions. He sent His Son 2000 years ago born of a virgin so you might LIVE FOREVER with Him and to enjoy Him in RIGHTEOUS PERFECTION and BLISS FOREVERMORE (1 Cor. 2:9, Rev 21-22:1-5)! This was Almighty God’s grand desire at the beginning of creation for mankind, not what man has horrifically reaped upon himself. We as a world do not know divine PEACE, let alone the temporal peace that fallen man can barely manufacture (Isa. 32:17, 48:18, 22, 53, John 1:10-11, Rom. 3, Rev.6-16).

A Savior was born and is soon coming again in great glory to establish His 1000-year reign of PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS!

This season may we truly – with all our being – want to know, possess and exercise the wondrous peace of Almighty God which He has brought to us by the shed blood of His dear Son (Eph. 2:14). As we walk in time may we seek to enjoy our redemptive benefits which have been given to us by our God and Savior (Eph. 1:3, 2:1-19, Phil. 4:17, Col. 3:1-4) and the heavenly peace of heart that comes with the fact and reality that our sins and trespasses are removed FOREVER (Psalm 103:12, Rom. 7:24-25, 10:4, Gal 1:4). That my friends is what “peace on earth is all about! Rejoice GREATLY (Phil. 4:4)! A Savior was born and is soon coming again in great glory to establish His 1000-year reign of PEACE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS (Isa. 2:1-4, 9:6-7, 11:1-9, 32:1 Jer. 23:5, 33:15-16, Dan. 2:44-45, 7:7:13-14, Micah 4:1-4)!!!

The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand! Maranatha ☁️👇☁️

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The Ignorant Fisherman

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles revealed that President Donald Trump will get out and “campaign like it’s 2024 again” for the 2026 midterm elections.

During an interview on The Mom View, Wiles spoke about the 2026 celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, the 2026 Winter Olympics, and the FIFA World Cup. Wiles also referenced how, instead of focusing on localizing the midterm elections, the Trump administration would turn that approach “on its head.”

This is such a great time for him to be in office,” Wiles said. “He’s such a patriot. He loves it so much. He’s going to have a fun next year, but, we’re going to put him on the campaign trail, too. Typically — just a little bit of campaign speak, if I may.”

Wiles went on to explain that “in the midterms, it’s not about who’s sitting at the White House,” but about localizing the election and keeping “the federal officials out of it.”

“We’re actually going to turn that on its head,” Wiles shared. “And, put him on the ballot because so many of those low propensity voters are Trump voters. And, we saw, a week ago Tuesday, what happens when he’s not on the ballot and not active. So, I haven’t quite broken it to him yet, but he’s going to campaign like it’s 2024 again.”

Wiles’s comment comes a week after Rep. Matt Van Epps (R-TN) won a special election for Tennessee’s 7th congressional district.

While Van Epps’s win helped Republicans keep control of a “reliably conservative U.S. House district,” the election “contributed to a gloomy outlook for the party going into the 2026 midterms,” according to the Associated Press (AP).

Jason Roe, a Republican strategist, stated that there were “danger signs” and noted that Republicans “shouldn’t have had to spend that kind of money to hold that kind of seat,” according to the outlet.

For all these people he helps — he doesn’t help everybody, but for those he does, he’s a difference-maker, and he certainly is a turnout machine, so the midterms will be very important to us,” Wiles added.

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They Called It ‘Compassion’ — But it was Child Trafficking

By Kevin Finn

In the history of American governance, few chapters will stain the pages as darkly as the utter failure of the Biden-Harris administration to safeguard unaccompanied migrant children. I must ask this question: If their goal was to intentionally traffic children into sexual slavery and forced labor, how would their actions have been any different?

For four catastrophic years, vulnerable minors poured across the Rio Grande and were funneled into a system riddled with incompetence, willful blindness, and flat-out negligence. A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) landed like a bomb and exposed the tragedy: the administration lost track of over 320,000 of these children, releasing them to unvetted sponsors without so much as a whisper of accountability. These were terrified kids, fleeing poverty or violence, only to vanish into the shadows of sex trafficking, forced labor, and unimaginable abuse.

I must also ask this question: Why would parents send unaccompanied minor children on a trip across hundreds or thousands of miles, knowing the likelihood that they would be raped, otherwise abused, and forced into slavery? Were they greasing the skids for chain migration?

The human cost defies comprehension. Young girls, 16 years old or younger, drugged and pimped out by alleged “brothers” or “uncles.”  This was the very definition of dereliction of duty that prioritized open borders over innocent lives.

HHS stripped away rigorous vetting at the onset of Biden’s “reign of error,” opting for phone calls instead of in-person checks, permitting non-family sponsors — many hosting multiple children — to whisk away minors unchecked. Addresses provided to ICE were wrong 80% of the time, incomplete for over 31,000 kids, or downright fictional. 34 children were dumped at two nonexistent locations by one field office alone. Even worse, a 2021 interagency pact handcuffed information-sharing, blocking DHS from sponsor biometrics to shield potential criminals from scrutiny.

Law enforcement officers likened prying data from HHS to “pulling teeth,” as bureaucrats fretted over deporting sponsors with rap sheets or immigration status because… racism. The result? Over 233,000 children unenrolled in immigration proceedings since January 2021, plus 43,000 no-shows in court — prime targets for cartels surging in trafficking.

Whistleblowers like Tara Rodas, a former HHS recruit, exposed the horror: handing kids to “traffickers, members of transnational criminal organizations, bad, bad, bad people.”

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In a final insult, the administration’s vaunted safety hotline for these kids ignored 65,000 desperate calls from August 2023 to January 2025 — pleas that spanned complaints about “stale bread” to nightly assaults by adult men in bedrooms. Of course, it was hard to answer all those calls when there was only a single staffer assigned to the task! One boy’s unanswered cries for help were finally reviewed after Trump took office and led to his rescue and his sponsor’s arrest.

As with so many Democrat-run operations, fraud was rampant. Over $6 billion flowed to NGOs like Endeavors and Southwest Key, whose revenues exploded from $52 million to $1.18 billion in two years, with CEO pay doubling. These “nonprofits”, 97-99% federally funded, became enablers: hiring staff without background checks, letting men roam female dorms, and even staging sexually explicit “twerking” lessons for teen girls.

They shuttled minors to flights like unwitting and unwilling cargo, while 80% of sheltered women bore scars of cartel rapes en route. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley hammered home the point: Biden’s crew chose “speed and optics” over safety, releasing 24,100 kids to high-risk distant relatives or strangers in gang-infested motels. His referrals sparked 102 investigations and pierced the veil of secrecy.

Meanwhile, the Democrats maintained a stunning silence — a void where outrage should have thundered. No fiery speeches for the lost; no knees taken in Emancipation Hall, no demands for reform. Instead, they doubled down on the very policies that unleashed this nightmare, shielding illegal aliens and the criminal networks that preyed on these innocents. Their “compassion” rings hollow when it excuses the traffickers and the NGOs fattening off federal largesse. Even as Grassley’s probes exposed the firewall of secrecy, the Left blocked bills to protect these children from sexual harm. The Left’s new agenda: empathy for invaders and indifference to the victims they devour.

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The NGOs were the shadowy middlemen in this tragedy, flush with taxpayer dollars yet entangled in political webs that may explain the hush. From 2021 to 2024, the federal government funneled over $10 billion in grants to immigration nonprofits for UAC services — Catholic Charities alone pocketed $2 billion, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) $221 million in FY2023, and HIAS $40.9 million.

The quid pro quo whispers grow louder when you follow the money to campaigns. OpenSecrets data shows Catholic Charities affiliates and employees donated over $141,000 in the 2024 cycle, 95% to Democrats — $22,305 across 40 blue lawmakers versus a pittance to Republicans.

As a Catholic, I am disgusted and scandalized.

Broader “professional Catholic” networks skewed 99% Democratic, per a 2024 Lepanto Institute analysis, fueling PACs like Immigrants’ List that poured millions into pro-open-border candidates. Even ostensibly neutral groups like US Immigration Fund funneled $272,400 in 2024, with chunks to Democratic leaders like Hakeem Jeffries ($15,000).

This financial symbiosis breeds silence: Lawmakers reliant on NGO lobbying ($730 million spent on immigration issues since 2008) hesitate to bite the hand that funds their reelection. Between January 2023 and April 2024, U.S. political campaigns collected around $8.6 billion

Democrats, the primary beneficiaries, shield the system that sustains their base’s priorities; Republicans grandstand but lacked the votes for reform until now. Children are lost not just to traffickers, but to a political machine greased by grants and gratitude.

Enter President Trump and his unyielding Border Czar, Tom Homan — a Hercules for our time, slaying the bureaucratic dragons Biden left in his wake. Since Inauguration Day, Trump’s iron-fisted enforcement has sealed the border: zero releases in seven months, 579,000 removals, and 2.2 million total departures — the most secure frontier in history. But the real miracle? Over 62,400 missing children — Biden’s castoffs, ignored and untracked — now found and freed.

Homan, eyes glued to daily tallies, revealed on Fox News: “Over 62,000 children, found by the Trump administration. Children that weren’t even being looked for under the Biden administration. President Trump saved over 62,000 children’s lives.” Sex trafficking rings dismantled, forced labor camps raided, horrors too vile for airwaves unearthed. On X, Homan hailed the unsung heroes of HHS, ICE, and FBI: “They will not stop until we run down every lead on every missing child.” Trump’s no-nonsense leadership — requiring no new laws, just resolve — has slashed crossings to zero, starving the cartels and reclaiming the innocent.

This is redemption in action: from Biden’s abyss of nearly a half million ghosts to Trump’s tally of triumphs. Yet the scars linger, a grim testament to leftist priorities. As Homan put it, Trump proves daily “why he’s the greatest president in my lifetime.”

American laws changed after the murders of Amber Hagerman and Megan Kanka. Shouldn’t there be a response for these 300,000 souls? The silence must end — not with hearings, but with handcuffs on the enablers. All of them.

Until then, America’s moral compass spins in the dark.

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A few years ago, I penned a piece titled “Democratic Party Platform 2020,” which was viewed many times on several different “platforms,” including this one. (American Thinker always comes first.)

As we approach the 2026 and 2028 elections, I thought it might be a good time to update said piece, especially given current events.

Though Democrats don’t usually say much other than “Trump bad,” “Republicans fascists,” and “no one should ever have the right to disagree with anything we are — and aren’t — saying,” here is what the Democrats’ updated platform appears to be, in a casual format:

*We reserve the right to ban cigarettes, cigars, and pipe and chewing tobacco, while legalizing marijuana and khat sales nationwide, with supply — and demand — spurred by government subsidy.

*We will place additional common-sense restrictions on the sale and manufacture of firearms while simultaneously providing subsidies to our Muslim illegal alien community to help them purchase the knives and swords they so desperately need.

*We will place common-sense restrictions on the practice of Christianity — and its possibly even more evil cohort, nationalism — while providing the welcoming environment that our peaceful and burgeoning Muslim community needs to continue to thrive. We will strive to aid CAIR and other organizations — foreign and domestic — that assist Muslims in continuing to insert — and assert — themselves into Western society.

*We vow to starve ideologically driven faux media outlets like Fox News and the New York Post of all funding, while shutting down any and all platforms they have to reach their audience, while at the same time lavishly funding and supporting unbiased outlets such as MSNBC, CNN, Slate, Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, and the New York Times, to name a few. Only by utterly eradicating the enemy conservative press can we make sure people get factual information that they can trust to help us protect our beloved democracy and keep Democrats in power for 

We will strive to make it illegal for anyone to sport a Christian or Jewish symbol on their body.

*We will encourage, support — and lavishly fund — the transitioning of one sex or gender to another, regardless of age, parental desire, or overall physical or mental health.  

*We promise also to eradicate any borders or barriers to this great nation filled with bigots, racists, homophobes, transphobes, and deplorable rubes, so that anyone who wishes to come here can do so without fear of deportation. We will do this by taxing the rich at unprecedented levels and diverting much of their income to provide free aid and succor, food, clothing, shelter, healthcare — and a few grand in spending money every month — to those amazing non-citizens (and mostly peaceful non-criminals) who enter this country illegally. The rest will go to erect a stout, 30-foot-high permanent (and electrified) wall around the Capitol so that when Democrats once again control all three branches of government—and we will, very soon, as it is our right — another Jan. 6 can never again occur.

*We will work tirelessly to advance the cause of a Palestinian state while we also work to destroy the state of Israel, Allahu Akhbar! God willing. Who do these uppity Jews think they are, anyway?

*Diversity is our greatest value. Therefore we will stand with those in our Pakistani, Somali, and other non-assimilating undocumented migrant communities, regardless of their proclivity to rape, gang-rape, stab, or otherwise confront their white supremacist oppressors. We will work to overturn the Crapitalist — oops, we mean Capitalist system (giggle), that, though some say has lifted billions out of poverty, has never guaranteed an equal outcome for everybody regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, talent, or effort. We will make sure no one — no one — has more than anyone else. Of anything. No matter what. Will this necessarily disincentivize hard work, effort, employment, competition, excellence, and entrepreneurship? Yes, but equity trumps all. Diversity is to be desired in all things except thought and income. Period!

*As progressives, today we know that someone’s “good” is another’s “evil,” and vice versa. And who are we to judge? Therefore, we vow to promote the new progressive concept of “transmorality,” the ethos that “morality” (such a judgmental word) is not absolute or even knowable, but fluid, just like the Constitution — and everything else. We vow to support, aid, and abet transmoralists everywhere. Trans pride.

If you keep up with current events at all, it is unlikely that you have missed in the past week the explosion of the Minnesota Somali welfare fraud scandal into the national, and even international, news.

Not that the enormous Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota is something new. The bloggers at Powerline, who are based in Minnesota, have been covering the subject since at least 2018. Here is a May 2018 City Journal piece by Scott Johnson (of Powerline), reporting on an investigation of Somali-owned daycare centers in Minneapolis suspected of stealing millions by billing the government for inflated number of enrollees. But things really got going when the pandemic hit in 2020-21. Minnesota became ground zero for Somali fraudsters setting up sites supposedly to feed hungry children, and collecting millions for meals that were never prepared or served. Federal indictments for this fraud — including 47 people charged in the first indictment — began to issue in 2022. Dozens of articles at Powerline have traced the scandal since that time, as the revealed scope of the fraud has gradually gone from the millions to the hundreds of millions, and most recently into the billions of dollars.

Yet somehow the scandal didn’t make it into the national press in a big way until the New York Times finally jumped in on November 29, 2025, with a long article headlined “How Fraud Swamped Minnesota’s Social Services System on Tim Walz’s Watch.” Excerpt:

The fraud scandal that rattled Minnesota was staggering in its scale and brazenness. Federal prosecutors charged dozens of people with felonies, accusing them of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, many in the state saw the case as a one-off abuse during a health emergency. But as new schemes targeting the state’s generous safety net programs came to light, state and federal officials began to grapple with a jarring reality. Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say, fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota’s Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that billed state agencies for millions of dollars’ worth of social services that were never provided.

The Times piece appears to have given the cue to the rest of the liberal establishment that it was now OK to break the omertà previously in effect against covering the Minnesota scandal. Suddenly the story is everywhere.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Minnesota story has been the revelation of total abdication by the state’s Governor (Tim Walz) and Attorney General (Keith Ellison) of any role in catching or prosecuting the fraudsters. The frauds occurred in programs largely funded by the federal government, but administered by the State of Minnesota. The State is the one that actually paid the checks to the crooks. Yet all of the investigations and prosecutions have been done by the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s office. It appears that Walz and Ellison could not have been less interested in prosecuting.

One might ask whether allowing fraud like this to fester is actually part of the business model of Walz and Ellison, and of the Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party (as the Democratic Party is known in Minnesota). Somalis are a key voting bloc for Minnesota’s DFL. Of the billion plus dollars of government money going to the fraudsters, might any of it have been diverted to fund DFL electoral activities? Although I haven’t seen specific reporting on this aspect, it is hard to imagine that none of it did.

And the same question can be posed around the country. Yesterday station KTLA in Los Angeles broke the story of a new scandal there, where eleven LA County employees have been charged with collecting pandemic unemployment benefits even while working full time for the government. Peachy Keenan commented on X: “All blue cities are run by the same kleptocracy.”

Before commenting, I’ll provide one further, and rather large, example, from the early days of this blog. In 2013 here in New York a scandal rocked something called the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. At the time, the Met Council (as it was and still is known) was headed by a guy named Bill Rapfogel, who was the spouse of Judy Rapfogel, who was the Chief of Staff to the Speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver. The Met Council was receiving about $90 million annually in funds from New York State, out of a total budget for the organization of around $110 million.

I covered the Met Council scandal in a piece here at MC on October 10, 2013. Here is the gist, from a complaint filed by the Attorney General (then Eric Schneiderman):

The allegation in the AG complaint against Rapfogel is that, as the Times describes it, he “conspire[d] with someone at the insurance brokerage . . . to pad the charity’s insurance payments by several hundred thousand dollars a year. . . . Mr. Rapfogel . . . pocketed some of the money and was involved in getting the rest to politicians who supply the government grants to the nonprofit organization. . . .”

The State funds a supposed “anti-poverty” program to the tune of tens of millions, and some of that money, deeply buried, makes it back to the political campaigns of the politicians who pass out the taxpayer money. And then, of course, the final and also critical part of the scam is that the anti-poverty program must never actually raise anyone out of poverty. That would defeat the whole purpose. From my 2013 piece:

Absolutely the last thing they want is for the “poverty” population to shrink. Then the funding would go down! The basic idea is in-kind handouts of one sort or another. As readers here know, those do not count at all in the official measures of “poverty”and therefore will never remove anyone from the rolls. Look at their list of programs: “providing quality housing,” “providing clothing, furniture, and help with home repairs,” “assisting seniors with essential living tasks,” “helping families recover from domestic violence,” “enrolling New Yorkers in low and no-cost health care and food stamps,” etc., etc. There is no risk at all that these kind of things will decrease the poverty count by a single soul.

If you are interested, the Met Council continues to survive on a much reduced budget, having lost most of its State funding. Sheldon Silver was convicted on unrelated charges in 2018, and died in a federal prison hospital while serving his sentence.

I suspect that it is completely pervasive that organizations that receive large amounts of government funds for welfare programs then are expected to and do provide political support back to the politicians that arranged for the funding. The “political support” could be campaign contributions, or campaign workers, or door knockers, or phone banks, or advocacy. The teachers’ unions are undoubtedly the ones who have perfected these techniques beyond the level of anyone else. The handout state is inherently corrupt.

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian