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If you have struggled to find any reason to support the Democratic Party, you are by no means alone. A new Quinnipiac poll revealed last week that 73 percent of voters disapprove of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job. Yet, somehow, the party’s candidates managed to overperform its 2024 margins in all five House special elections this year. How did they work this miracle? One clue can perhaps be found in the recent revelations about election “irregularities” in Fulton County, Georgia. During a recent hearing of the Georgia State Election Board (SEB), an attorney for the county admitted that 315,000 illegally certified votes were included in the final results of the 2020 election. Inevitably, the Democrats and their corporate media mouthpieces would denounce such a law as an attack on democracy. The gory details of this skullduggery were first reported by Brianna Lyman in the Federalist last week on the same day the Quinnipiac poll was released. The facts, which are now no longer in dispute, throw a white hot spotlight on the urgent need for Republicans in Congress to pass a national election integrity law — even if that means killing the filibuster — that the President can sign into law well before the 2026 midterms. The facts also vindicate Trump’s assertion, during his frequently misrepresented telephone call with Georgia’s feckless Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, that an audit of Fulton County’s ballots would easily disqualify far more than the 11,779 votes that decided the state’s election. This is what Trump said: In Fulton, where they dumped ballots, you will find that you have many that aren’t even signed and you have many that are forgeries. OK? You know that. You know that. You have no doubt about that. And you will find you will be at eleven-thousand seven-seventy-nine within minutes, because Fulton County is totally corrupt and so is she totally corrupt. And they’re going around playing you and laughing at you behind your back, Brad. Whether you know it or not they’re laughing at you. And you’ve taken a state that’s a Republican state and you’ve made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating, because they cheated like no one’s ever cheated before. Raffensperger ignored the President. As Georgia’s chief election official, it was his duty to ensure that Trump’s concerns about Fulton County’s ballots were investigated. When the latest revelations came to light last week, Raffensperger issued this tin-eared statement: “Georgia has the most secure elections in the country and all voters were verified with photo ID and lawfully cast their ballots. A clerical error at the end of the day does not erase valid, legal votes.” Wrong. As 11ALIVE reports, “Ultimately the SEB voted 3-0 to refer the case to the Georgia Attorney General’s Office for possible sanctions against Fulton County, as well as requesting a $5,000 fine for each of the missing tabulator tapes — possibly totaling $670,000 or more.” This could be interesting considering that Georgia’s Attorney General, Chris Carr, will be running against Raffensperger for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. He may see the SEB referral as an opportunity to highlight Raffensperger’s failure to follow through on Fulton County’s election practices. However, Carr has also been reluctant to get involved in the ongoing turmoil created in that county. That reluctance prompted President Trump to endorse Lt. Gov. Burt Jones for the 2026 GOP gubernatorial nomination. That the resolution of election irregularities rides on the personal ambitions of local politicians is yet another reason for Congress to pass a national election integrity statute based on President Trump’s March 25th EO: Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing … Under the Constitution, State governments must safeguard American elections in compliance with Federal laws that protect Americans’ voting rights and guard against dilution by illegal voting, discrimination, fraud, and other forms of malfeasance and error. Yet the United States has not adequately enforced Federal election requirements that, for example, prohibit States from counting ballots received after Election Day or prohibit non-citizens from registering to vote. Inevitably, the Democrats and their corporate media mouthpieces would denounce such a law as an attack on democracy. But the Constitution gives Congress the last word on how we conduct elections: “The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations.” Well, now is the time. In addition to restoring Election Day as the final deadline for receiving ballots and prohibiting non-citizens from registering to vote, Congress must eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting as well as ballot harvesting. Finally, early voting must be limited to a maximum of two weeks prior to Election Day. If the Republicans are serious about restoring trust and integrity in our elections, the above restrictions must be included in any election integrity law. Moreover, the statute must include severe penalties for noncompliance and a robust enforcement mechanism. Democrat-dominated cities, counties, and states routinely flout federal election law. Fulton County is certainly not an outlier. Indeed, if the above-referenced Quinnipiac poll is remotely accurate, the kind of election integrity reform discussed here would constitute an existential threat to the Democratic Party. How can a party with a 73 percent disapproval rate hold on in an electoral environment without the ability to cheat? Election fraud, for them, is a necessary survival strategy. READ MORE from David Catron: The Democrats Decide to Lose EU Censorship Metastasizes The Filibuster Must Be Euthanized Now

Even in a deeply cynical time, Christmas remains the most joyous holiday of the year for most people, despite the communistic conspiracy against it — the Democratic Party, academia, the legacy news media, and the entertainment media. Because the concept of a Godsent male Savior come to Earth to save Man from sin demolishes their unsacred cows — the State as the supreme judge of morality, truth as a personal interpretation. “Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” gushed Kamala Harris in 2020. This godless philosophy has destroyed Western Europe. The Christian faith that built its civilization and sustained it through a thousand years of darkness has been abandoned, hollowed. Consequently, the two forces Europe soundly defeated — Islam and Marxism — are now conquering it with little resistance, enabled by the nations’ leaders. All over the continent, charming Yuletide traditions are being canceled for fear of Muslim-induced violence. In Germany, for instance, the beloved Christmas markets, the Weihnachtsmärkte, were scrubbed this year. Evil feeds on fear, and removing a spiritual counter to it only hastens its advance. Many Christmases ago, I took my first weeklong vacation from USA Today to visit a girlfriend, Jenny, in Dijon, France, where she was studying at the Centre International d’Études Françaises. One chilly night, we left her dorm to take a stroll around the town. Bypassing a small vintage church, we heard the most beautiful violin version of Arcangelo Corelli’s Christmas Concerto (Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 [1714]) emanating from within. The door was unlocked, and we went inside. The pews were empty. But on the stage stood nine young musicians in angelic white — six girls on string instruments, three men on horns, and their conductor — obviously rehearsing for a special event. On this night, however, Jenny and I were the whole audience, and we sat there for maybe an hour, enchanted and enthralled, aware we were enjoying something special. Jenny died of cancer around eight years ago. Her sister Caroline gave me the sad news,  adding one tidbit. For many years before she passed, Jenny often brought up that magical night in a little French church as the most wonderful of her life. That made me happy, if now melancholic. For a memory such as Jenny and I enjoyed will be shared by no one else ever again. Odds are no church in France today would be trumpeting classical Christian music out to the night for fear of the Moors. The church door would be locked, perhaps permanently. That is if it were not now one of the dozen new mosques built this century in Dijon, where only one stood in 1990. The Islamists alone did not crush Christmas in Western Europe. They had plenty of help from the secular Left. From people the Muslims would toss off rooftops or veil once they took full power. But only together can they accomplish their great common goal — the elimination of good family-raising society-building Christians who repel their delusions, perversions, and atrocities against babies and children. Christians who point out evil where it lurks, even when protected by its governmental vassals in Britain and Europe. It could have happened to this country, and still might. But here there is resistance, mounted by the true believers of an old yet eternal story recorded 2,000 years ago: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1:14). And His glorious Nativity repels all the fantasy and fanaticism shoved on the weak-minded by the leftist-Islamic alliance. Here, unlike Europe, Christians are winning the War on Christmas, much to the demonic shrieking of the Left. Because we have devout Christian leaders — even though a leftist killed one of the most influential, Charlie Kirk. Progressives scoff when President Trump celebrates “Merry Christmas” over “Happy Holidays.” They mocked the official White House X account photo of Trump beside a Christmas tree with the caption: “We’re saying MERRY CHRISTMAS again!” But it sticks in their craw, because it exposes their agenda to devalue this most sacred day as a secularist holiday — or a fake one like Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa was fabricated by an anti-Christian black nationalist, Maulana Karenga, who said, “Jesus was psychotic,” and called Judeo-Christianity “spookism.” Which has not kept prominent Democrats from proclaiming their reverence for the sham Christmas substitute. “Our Kwanzaa celebrations are one of my favorite childhood memories,” gushed Kamala Harris in 2020. “The whole family would gather around across multiple generations and we’d tell stories and light the candles.” That’s a story all right. Kwanzaa was created in 1966, Harris in 1964, and the Kwanzaa con didn’t catch on till the 1980s. Christmas doesn’t need phony endorsement to thrive. On its side it has history — confirming Christ’s Baptism and Crucifixion. Music — some of the most beautiful songs ever composed, like Joy to the World (1719), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (1739), O Come, All Ye Faithful (1744). Literature — Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous, late 14th Century), A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843), The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry, 1905), The Christmas Spirit (Lou Aguilar, 2020). To quote the most famous line from the most famous Christmas story of all time — though it may soon be deemed hate speech in Europe — “God bless us, every one!” READ MORE from Lou Aguilar: Hollywood Horror: The Murder of Rob Reiner Trouble on the Right How Are the Mighty Fallen: The End of Europe and Hollywood

A week ago Saturday, three Americans — two members of the Iowa National Guard and an interpreter — were killed by an Islamic State fighter who was part of the Syrian security services. In retaliation, U.S. forces struck over seventy ISIS targets on Friday. Jordanian air forces reportedly aided in those strikes. As long as we don’t respond by condemning that ideology and proving that it is false, this war will go on. ISIS — the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria — is also known by several other names. In the Middle East it’s also known as the Islamic State in the Levant. It appeared in Afghanistan as ISIS-K in that country’s Khorasan province. It is also known as “DAESH,” its acronymic name in Arabic. ISIS began as an al-Qaida offshoot funded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 2004. Al-Zarqawi, with Usama bin Laden, were the founders of al-Qaida. The group changed its name to ISIS and launched terrorist attacks in Iraq and Syria. It’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced a caliphate, claiming it ruled territory from Aleppo in Syria to Diyala in Iraq. It carried out terrorist attacks as far away as Paris and New York City. Beginning in 2014 the U.S. led a coalition of nations (including the United Kingdom, France, Jordan, Turkey, Canada, and Australia) to attack the caliphate. By December 2017, the caliphate had lost about 95 percent of its territory including Mosul in Iraq and in December 2019, President Trump announced that ISIS was defeated. It wasn’t. ISIS still lives and “inspires” terrorism. It may or may not be linked to various acts of terrorism but its ideology — which requires the killing of Jews and Americans — is alive and well. The massacre of Jews at Bondi Beach in Australia was reportedly carried out by a father-son team of gunmen who were “ISIS-inspired.” When President Trump announced in 2014 that he was keeping U.S. forces in Syria his supposed aim was to protect that nation’s oil fields. The Pentagon promptly said our forces were aimed, instead, to fight ISIS. As of this month, there are about 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria which is down from about 2,000 a year earlier. This year Trump has made a “peace” of sorts with Syria’s new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. But al-Sharaa is a former al-Qaida leader who once had a U.S. bounty of $10 million on his head. This isn’t someone to trust in any respect and certainly not to fight terrorism. We are apparently playing “whack-a-mole” in Syria as we did for twenty years in Afghanistan. We are apparently having the same level of success in Syria which is to say little or none. We fought the Taliban for 20 years until former president Joe Biden created a debacle that suddenly withdrew our forces in August 2021. He then admitted about 70,000 Afghans to the U.S. without any real vetting to distinguish between friend and foe. We have begun to pay the price in lives with an Afghan killing one U.S. national guard troop in Washington, DC and severely wounding another. The question boils down to how, whether and for how long we should keep troops in Syria. We have a vital national security interest in suppressing terrorism everywhere, but we cannot maintain troops everywhere and forever. We and the Israelis have struck at Houthi terrorism but the Houthis are now apparently sponsoring Somali pirates to raid shipping in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Al-Qaida terrorists reportedly now govern in Mali, a nation in western Africa. And so it goes. U.S. forces were obviously aware of the 70-plus ISIS targets in Syria but we ignored them until three Americans were killed. Why did we wait to attack those sites? How effective do we think that a mere 1,000 troops will be in suppressing ISIS? Having a token force in Syria is probably worse than having no force at all. Do we want to make a concerted effort to suppress ISIS in Syria? That would take thousands of special operations men and the intelligence they need to take out ISIS leaders and members. President Trump can’t do that and maintain his wish to go down in history as a peacemaker. The problem that stops Trump from doing that is the Islamo-fascist ideology. It pops up regularly around the world in various terrorist attacks. As long as we don’t respond by condemning that ideology and proving that it is false, this war will go on. The late Donald Rumsfeld understood that. So did former UK prime minister Tony Blair who wrote about it in his memoir of the Iraq war. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump’s first national security adviser, understood. Neither former president George W. Bush nor his vice president, the late Richard Cheney, understood it. Former president Obama surrendered that war. Does President Trump understand this? He has given no sign that he does. As I have written since 2006, we cannot win the war against Islamic terrorism unless and until we fight and win the ideological war. READ MORE from Jed Babbin: The ‘Donroe’ Doctrine at Sea Trump Could Win on Birthright Citizenship Erasing Old Joe

The year 2025 embodied horror for both political parties and the world at large. It started when Democrats became the minority party in Washinton, D.C., ensuring their agenda was dead. Similarly, Republicans became Washington’s majority party, ensuring most of their agenda was dead. Misery overshadowed whatever bright spots beamed in 2025. Here are a few highlights sprinkled in with a majority of lowlights. Highlights and Low Points From the Longest Year on Record Democracy officially ended on Jan. 20, 2025, when, with the help of Russian collusion (again), Donald Trump became the 47th president of the United States. Several Democrat-appointed U.S. District Court judges issued preliminary injunctions to prevent Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts from administering the oath of office, but Roberts literally overruled them, saying, “Are you crazy?” while Trump’s hand was on the Bible. Trump also deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to fight crime. Democrats took to the streets to protest the move while simultaneously ducking bullets fired by rival gang members. February fared worse. The U.S. Senate confirmed anti-vaccination zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy immediately banned all vaccinations and ordered people to remedy themselves by applying leeches. In entertainment news, Saturday Night Live celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special broadcast watched by approximately 12 people. Trump delivered an address to the Congress in March. He swore in his special guest, cancer survivor D.J. Daniel, 13, to become a Secret Service agent. Daniel received a rousing standing ovation from everyone except the Democrats; however, Democrats sprang to their feet and applauded when their special guest, “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, entered the chamber. Months earlier, law enforcement arrested Garcia, who was minding his own business while trafficking humans, for being in the country illegally. Michelle Obama gave the world what it never wanted but got anyway when she and her brother Craig launched their podcast, In My Opinion. Obama connected with everyday Americans by complaining about how difficult life was living rent-free in a 55,000-square-foot mansion for eight years and realizing she had to pay for her own groceries. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-NJ, on April 1 delivered a 25-hour speech on the senate floor, breaking the record held by Strom Thurmond, by not saying anything of importance. In environmental news, 5,000 people needed to be evacuated from the New Jersey Pine Barrens as wildfires destroyed 12,500 acres of woodland. Wildfire rescuers would’ve gotten there 12 hours earlier had they not first flown to California out of habit. In May, intrepid newsmen Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson released their book, Original Sin, breaking the story of the century: The White House had covered up that President Joe Biden was a physical and mental vegetable during his term in office. Tapper and Thompson wrote there was no possible way anyone, reporters especially, could’ve known this prior to the book’s release. “Nothing indicated President Biden was a stumbling, mumbling avatar of incoherence with a stutter,” Tapper said. In educational news, Faizan Zaki won the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word “éclaircissement,” which means “obscure word used only in spelling bees.” June 2025 wasn’t the best month for Iran, as Israel and the United States worked in concert to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities, destroying a $1.7 billion investment the Obama administration made in the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism. Iran didn’t take the destruction of its nuclear program lightly, and attacked a U.S. base in Qatar with peashooters, spitballs, and slingshots, with a keffiyeh- and bowtie-wearing Tucker Carlson leading the charge. President Trump signed his One Big, Beautiful Bill into law on July 4, permanently keeping tax cuts for billionaires. Bastard! Good luck paying off that $38 trillion national debt now. Even worse, CBS inexplicably canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert despite the show constantly earning $40 million a year. Wait, it loses $40 million a year? Surely Colbert’s brand of hijinks and hilarity aimed at lampooning conservatives couldn’t have cost the network that much money. It might be $50 million? Let’s move on. In August, in perhaps the biggest event in human history, singer Taylor Swift announced her engagement to the more-annoying Kelce brother who plays football, making the pair even more insufferable. President Trump met his puppet master, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. Trump praised Putin’s kabuki mask. Trump also deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to fight crime. Democrats took to the streets to protest the move while simultaneously ducking bullets fired by rival gang members. September began with President Trump authorizing missile strikes on suspected Venezuelan drug boats. Outraged that the people responsible for trafficking lethal narcotics into the United States were blown to smithereens, Democrats Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, and Hillary Clinton sailed their yachts to Venezuela, pledging to safely escort future drug runners to American shores. Someone murdered Charlie Kirk in Utah. Reasonable, clear-thinking people understood that evidence overwhelmingly pointed to left-wing furry Tyler Robinson being the shooter. Conspiratorial lunatics like Candace Owens blamed the murder on Kirk’s friends, family, and Jews. Angry televangelist Jimmy Kimmel blamed an unnamed MAGA Republican. Speaking of repulsive anti-Semites, in October, Tucker Carlson thought it would be a swell idea to widen the Republican tent by platforming a Joseph Stalin-loving, avowed neo-Nazi named Nick Fuentes. Carlson insisted he was just asking questions, except for the obvious one: “Nick, why do you love Stalin?” President Trump helped broker a peace deal that released the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza. Unwashed Columbia University students who wouldn’t shut up about supposed Israeli atrocities against innocent Palestinians opposed the peace deal and were suspiciously silent when Hamas began murdering innocent Palestinians to ensure continued rule. New York City voters in November handed the keys to the financial center of the world to a capitalist-hating communist. Zohran Kwame Mamdani won the mayoral election on a platform of “free everything by taxing white people.” Shortly thereafter, U-Haul stock skyrocketed. Virginia voters legalized murdering one’s political opponents by electing Democrat Jay Jones as attorney general. Jones’s texts to a colleague hoping former Republican House Speaker Todd Gilbert’s children would die so long as it advanced Jones’s politics played well in Virginia’s sociopath and ghoul communities. A rag-tag gang of Somali pirates forwent sailing the ocean blue and instead commandeered Medicaid to pillage the Minnesota treasury of $9 billion dollars. December was anything but festive. Nick Reiner allegedly murdered his mother and famous father, Michele and Rob Reiner, respectively. Unlike when countless Democrats rejoiced over Charlie Kirk’s killing, Reiner’s murder triggered a near-universal outpouring of grief and anger — with the notable exception of President Donald Trump, who managed to connect the allegedly patricidal murder of the filmmaker to his status as an Trump avenger and Russia-collusion activist. A radical Islamist father-and-son duo murdered 15 people during an Australian Hanukkah festival. Australian officials immediately stated that Islamophobia has no place in the island nation and would not be tolerated. Somewhere in heaven, Norm MacDonald said, “Called it!” With 2026 on the horizon, it’s a miracle our sacred democracy hasn’t already fallen into a fascist dictatorship the way the pundit Nicolle Wallace said would happen in 2017-2021, and beginning in 2025. Let’s hope she’s never right about anything next year. So far, so good. READ MORE from Matt Manochio: The Disastrous KJP New Yorker Interview Hegseth Military Fitness ‘Hey! It’s Enrico Pallazzo!’: The Fall of Comedy