Instead of celebrating America’s 250th birthday this summer, we may end up engraving its tombstone if we don’t alter our current course.The chaos is winning, both because of the persistent evil of the Democrats and the growing confusion in defining the Trump administration’s balance between foreign and domestic concerns.While I agree that Iran is a legitimate security issue for us as Americans, the fundamental and systemic breakdowns in our own cultural back yard are far more dangerous right now. We must be plain about the true nature of the enemy. If Democrats were made an offer to secure nationalized health care at the cost of permanently excluding illegal aliens, they wouldn’t take the deal. A Republican Party not run by the likes of John Thune — which increasingly seems like an impossibility — should be forcing votes to expose this reality on the regular instead of going on vacation. Here is the key to understanding Democrats and exposing them to the average American voter: They simply want to destroy the foundations of this country, no matter the current policy argument. Therefore, the last thing they will ever allow to exist is a country primarily for Americans and by Americans. After President Trump’s State of the Union speech in February, I talked about what a great job he did highlighting this ugly reality. Remember how he asked members of Congress to stand up if they thought the lives of Americans should be prioritized over illegal aliens, and not a single Democrat stood up? I walked away from that thinking the right was back on message and unity was locked in for the midterm elections ahead.No one was talking about invading Iran and how many more weeks it is going to take — unlike this week’s presidential address to the nation. And no one was talking about it because the majority of Trump’s base — including the Joe Rogan bros and the MAHA world that pushed Trump to victory in 2024 — had a war with Iran anywhere near the top of their Trump 2.0 priority list.None of which means this proud child of the '80s doesn’t hope we kill every single member of the Iranian high command and every single member of the Iranian revolutionary guard. I think the world will be a better place and that God is glorified if they all die per the biblical dictates of Romans 13. They made their choice.But that's a separate issue from the one that is really bothering potential Republican voters: Why did we run away from a domestic communist like Tim Walz on the streets of Minneapolis only to run to the possibility of boots on the ground in Iran?I'm looking at polling from Scott Rasmussen showing that support for the war in Iran is plummeting. That’s because we simply can't be seen fighting for other countries harder than we are willing to fight for our own. It's not 1987. The American voter is a different animal now with a different set of concerns and problems.RELATED: The SAVE America Act won’t be enough to save the GOP from a midterm bloodbath Kayla Bartkowski/Getty ImagesI was in North Dakota to address that state's GOP convention just a week ago, and I cannot tell you how many people I heard from who lamented that they can’t find a good husband for their daughter or a good wife for their son. Not in Oregon or Massachusetts. In North Dakota, a state Trump won by 36 points in 2024. No one was enthusiastically cheering on the war in Iran. While I agree that Iran is a legitimate security issue for us as Americans, the fundamental and systemic breakdowns in our own cultural back yard are far more dangerous right now. While I support Israel and call myself a Zionist without reservation, I also don’t live there. I'm an American. It's a little bit like when your favorite cousin wins the lottery, but your wife is gravely ill and you're not sure when she's going to get better. You'd love the luxury of celebrating your cousin's success — like Iran's threat to Israel being greatly diminished — but you have a very serious concern in your own house.When you're on an airplane, the flight attendants always instruct you that if there's a problem and the cabin loses air pressure, the safety masks will drop down, and your priority must be to make sure that yours is secure before you help the person next to you. Because if you’re not safe, how can you effectively help anyone else? See where I'm going with this?We are seeing this argument play out right now in the Supreme Court birthright citizenship case. Chief Justice John Roberts is clearly already signaling that he thinks it's totally fine if a billion foreigners come here. Meanwhile, average Americans are still fighting to make sure their kids and grandkids are at least as secure from drag queen story hour as Israel is from Iran. The center of that situation simply cannot hold. We are running off an existential cliff.Thankfully, before that time comes, we now have Easter. We, with our Lord as our strength and our salvation, can rise again. Pray it be so.

Yesterday, Christians across the globe celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday.Nonbelievers and skeptics reject this central claim, believing the bodily resurrection to be impossible or made up.But the evidence for Christ’s supernatural arising from the dead goes well beyond the millions of people who celebrate it as the cornerstone of their faith. Historical evidence paints a compelling picture.On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie Beth Stuckey speaks with Christian apologist Wes Huff about the strongest reasons to believe Jesus really rose from the dead. Huff begins with the reliability of the Gospel accounts.“It seems that the gospel authors get the details right — the small details, things like geography and name correlation and even plant life in some instances,” he notes, “and so if they get the small details right, I don't think it's that big of a leap to say that they get the big details right.”He argues that the Gospels rest on early eyewitness testimony. The disciples were either "deceived," “deceivers,” or “telling the truth.” Given the evidence, Huff believes they were telling the truth because what they experienced radically transformed them.“When you start to stack up the evidence of what's going on, I don't think they were deceivers. I don't think they were deceived. And I do think that everything points to their life radically changing in a powerful way because they encountered their rabbi getting murdered and then rising from the dead,” he tells Allie.The disciples were so profoundly transformed by what they had experienced, in fact, that they returned boldly to Jerusalem — the very city where Jesus was crucified — to proclaim the gospel, fully aware of the deadly risks they faced. Even after the martyrdom of Stephen served as a “warning shot,” they went back to “ground zero” and kept preaching.“Jesus truly died. That's a historical fact. … And then he appears to his disciples alive again. That's a historical question: Dead, buried ... seen alive. What do we do with that? How do we answer that historically? And I think there needs to be given an account for the disciples’ actions afterwards. They saw something, and it completely, radically changed their world,” says Huff.He then addresses the “swoon theory” skeptics, who argue that Jesus was placed in the tomb badly wounded but not actually dead.“If there's one thing that the Romans were really good at. It was crucifixion — and making sure that people suffer and die,” Allie says.“Every Roman guard, centurion, soldier who was responsible for Jesus' death would have been on the hook if he did not die, and their lives would have been forfeit," Huff agrees.To hear more, watch the video above.Want more from Allie Beth Stuckey?To enjoy more of Allie’s upbeat and in-depth coverage of culture, news, and theology from a Christian, conservative perspective, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

CNN polling analyst Harry Enten says new polling data shows that Democrats are likely to fail to regain control of the U.S. Senate if trends don't reverse.Enten showed Monday that although Democrats are still slightly favored in the generic congressional ballot, it is not enough to retake the Senate from Republican control.'You’d make the argument Democrats should be way ahead, and they’re just only sort of slightly ahead.'While polling shows Democrats with a five-point net favorability rating for the 2026 election, that is well below their net rating in the 2018 midterms, which was eight points, and 2006 midterms, which was 11 points. Those were the last two midterms with a Republican president for comparison."Democrats are, just simply put, running behind their previous benchmark, and they need to be running well ahead of them if they want to take back the United States Senate, given that map," Enten said.He added that although President Donald Trump's favorability rating has taken a beating recently, Democrats appear to be unable to take advantage of it enough to take both chambers of Congress."Democrats are ahead, but they’re only ahead by five with a president whose net approval rating is bordering on minus 20 to minus 30, depending on what polls you look at,” Enten said. “You’d make the argument Democrats should be way ahead, and they’re just only sort of slightly ahead."CNN anchor John Berman pointed out that they may take the U.S. House of Representatives despite the low rating because the gap is so close."I think five points is enough to take back the House, but in the Senate, five points is almost certainly not enough if you apply it to the Senate map," Enten responded."Why do I say that? Because let’s just take a look. GOP would win the Senate with this map. Let’s say Republicans only hold on to the states that Trump won by greater than 10 points. That would, in fact, give them the Senate, 51 to 49," he explained.RELATED: CNN analyst has really bad news for liberals hoping for MAGA collapse: 'Ain't going nowhere' Under those conditions, Democrats would take seats in North Carolina and Maine, but Republicans would hold on to seats in Ohio, Texas, and Alaska, according to his analysis.NBC News analyst Steve Kornacki had nearly the same conclusion for Democrats about their chances to retake control of Congress.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Trump White House has proposed that Congress increase the Pentagon's budget by nearly 44% compared to last year to roughly $1.5 trillion and reduce non-defense spending by $73 billion, or 10%."This is a $441 billion or 44-percent increase from the 2026 enacted level in combination with the $151.5 billion in mandatory funding provided through the Working Families Tax Cut Act," the budget request says.While nearly $1.2 trillion of the total would reportedly come from the regular appropriations process, $350 billion would alternatively come through a budget reconciliation bill.'I'm very wary.'This request is in addition to the $200 billion supplemental package requested by the Department of War to sustain the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran.According to the White House, the requested sum — which would reportedly raise U.S. military spending to its highest level in modern history — would help restore "the readiness and lethality of the force by ensuring America's warfighters are trained, equipped, and medically ready to fight and win."In addition to funding a pay raise of 7% for all Pentagon military personnel ranked E-5 and below, of 6% for E-6 to O-3, and of 5% for O-4 and above, the requested budget would help:Fund the "next-generation missile defense shield" outlined in President Donald Trump's executive order titled "The Iron Dome for America";"Secure and defend America's vital national and economic security interests in, from, and to space";Fund the procurement of 18 battle force ships and 16 non-battle force ships;Fund the procurement of 12 unspecified "critical" munitions at a time of dwindling stores of Patriot missiles, Standard Missile-3s, and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptors;"Fix longstanding shortfalls in the National Defense Stockpile" of critical minerals;Secure 85 F-35 jets;Prioritize the development and production of the F-47, a sixth-generation combat aircraft Boeing won the contract to develop last year;Boost America's drone manufacturing base; andScale the Armed Forces' "AI ecosystem," among other initiatives.The White House further proposed that Congress continue to "eliminate millions of wasteful and egregious spending related to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and other 'woke' policies" at the Pentagon.RELATED: America First means taking care of our own, not another war Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesNumerous Democratic lawmakers rushed to criticize the White House's budget request.Rep. Mike Thompson (Calif.), for instance, stated, "Trump wants $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon while eliminating the programs that help you pay your heating bill, fund your child's education, and keep your family healthy. This isn't a budget. It's a betrayal of the American people."Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) said that "the only responsible thing to do with a budget this morally bankrupt is to toss it in the trash."There may also be some resistance on the right."I'm very wary of voting for excessive spending in defense," said Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett (R), Politico reported.'It is the most robust increase in defense spending in many years.'Sen. John Curtis (R-Utah) said in an op-ed on Friday that while he supports maintaining America's stockpiles, strengthening the defense industrial base, and maintaining "the capabilities needed to deter China," he "cannot support funding for further military operations without a formal declaration of war."The budget request has, however, found a number of staunch supporters in the GOP.Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a joint statement, "This funding will ensure our military remains the most advanced in the world, supporting an unparalleled force capable of defending our interests in the 21st century.""America is facing the most dangerous global environment since World War II. Growing threats from adversaries such as China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Islamic radicals, and narco-terrorists require decisive action and renewed urgency to reinvest in our defenses," the duo continued. "This bold commitment provides the resources needed to rebuild American military capability and confront those challenges head-on."South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R.) celebrated the budget request, stating, "It is the most robust increase in defense spending in many years, and it is more than justified by the threats we face throughout the world."Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a note to Congress appended to the budget request, "President Trump promised to reinvest in America's national security infrastructure, to make sure our Nation is safe in a dangerous world. The 2027 Budget upholds this promise and would ensure that the United States continues to maintain the world's most powerful and capable military."Like Blaze News? 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