One year ago today—Jan. 20, 2025—President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Freezing winds and biting cold forced the ceremony indoors, echoing President Ronald Reagan‘s second inauguration in 1985, when temperatures plunged to 7 degrees Fahrenheit and the event moved to the same historic space. During both inaugurations, winter’s fury became a powerful symbol of American resilience and unyielding resolve. Just as Reagan initially launched his revolution in 1980, Trump has, in one transformative year, taken bold strides to renew his promise to “Make America Great Again” and deliver real results for the American people. Under Trump’s bold leadership, American sovereignty has been restored. The days of mass migration, open borders, and chaos are over. The administration has driven record removals—over 2.5 million illegal aliens have departed the country through deportations and a surge in voluntary self-departures—while border crossings are essentially non-existent. For eight consecutive months, zero illegal aliens have been released into the country, and the U.S. has achieved net negative migration for the first time in at least five decades. Native-born Americans are finally seeing historic employment gains, no longer displaced by cheap foreign labor or jobs shipped overseas. The deadly fentanyl flow has been curtailed significantly, saving countless lives, communities are safer, and American jobs are returning to the homeland—right where they belong. Like Reagan, Trump has rebuilt U.S. credibility on the world stage with a clear doctrine of peace through strength. Through decisive trade policies, targeted military actions like Operation Midnight Hammer—which struck key Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025—and broader efforts to project resolve, America is once again a force for good, protecting our citizens and allies, national security, and vital interests, all without endless wars. At home, Trump and congressional Republicans secured historic tax relief through the Working Families Tax Cuts Act (also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill). Trump also made the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act permanent while adding new wins for working families: no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime pay, and meaningful relief for seniors, including provisions that effectively eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits for most recipients. Families in states like Texas stand to see average tax cuts in the thousands of dollars annually starting this year. The act also eliminated more than $1.5 trillion in wasteful spending and ended reckless Green New Deal-style policies that burdened the grid with unreliable energy. Instead, we’ve unleashed proven sources: oil, gas, coal, and nuclear. The payoff is clear—gas prices have dropped to their lowest levels in nearly five years, putting billions back in Americans’ pockets and making everyday life more affordable. One year in, Trump’s decisive leadership has transformed promises into progress: borders fortified and sovereignty reclaimed, American strength and respect restored on the global stage, energy dominance unleashed, and hardworking families rightfully keeping more of what they earn through historic tax relief. While certain results—such as fully eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse, lowering inflation and mortgage rates even further, and completing the full identification and removal of all remaining illegal aliens—will take additional time, the proactive leadership driving these changes is already delivering clear, tangible gains across the board. Forty-five years after Reagan first declared it, Trump is making America great again—stronger, safer, and more prosperous. The foundation is firm, the momentum is unstoppable, and America’s greatest chapter is just beginning. The post 45 Years Later, President Trump Is Delivering on Reagan’s Promise appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Last week, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem issued a joint statement asserting their exclusive authority over the Christian flock in the Holy Land. The letter condemned “Christian Zionism” as a damaging ideology that harms Christian unity and serves political agendas. This prompted a sharp rebuttal from U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee and an extensive deconstruction from evangelical circles. The original statement claimed that the historic Apostolic Churches are the sole representatives of the Christian faith in the region. It accused “local individuals” of advancing ideologies that mislead the public and interfere with the internal life of the church. The Patriarchs expressed concern that these individuals—likely referring to a massive delegation of 1,000 U.S. pastors that visited in December 2025—were being welcomed at official levels by the Israeli government, which they viewed as a threat to the indigenous Christian presence. U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee responded by rejecting the notion of “exclusivity” in representing the Christian faith. His response focused on several key points. Huckabee argued that no single sect should claim a monopoly on the Christian viewpoint, noting that the evangelical tradition is a “global and growing” force. He asserted that the foundation of Christianity is Judaism. He argued that if God could break His covenant with the Jewish people, Christians would have no assurance that He would keep His covenant with them. “The thought that God is even capable of breaking a covenant is anathema to those of us who embrace Holy Scripture as the authority of the church. If God can or would break His covenant with the Jews, then what hope would Christians have that He would keep His covenant with us?” he stated. Huckabee redefined the term, stating that a Zionist is simply someone who believes the Jewish people have a right to live in their ancestral homeland. He expressed confusion as to why anyone claiming the “moniker ‘Christian'” would not also be a Zionist. He urged the Patriarchs to focus on shared truths—such as the sanctity of life and marriage—rather than jurisdictional disputes. In response to the statement of non-evangelical churches in Israel, I issued the following. I hope you will read prayerfully. I love my brothers and sisters in Christ from traditional, liturgical churches and respect their views, but I do not feel any sect of the Christian… pic.twitter.com/jqohEWk0xJ — Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) January 20, 2026 A viral social media post by an Evangelical Christian further deconstructed the Patriarchs’ letter, arguing it was an “institutional-political statement” rather than a theological one. The critique followed several lines of reasoning. The post noted a “critical omission”: the Patriarchs’ letter cited only one verse (Romans 12:5) regarding unity, but failed to address the numerous scriptures regarding God’s covenant with Israel. The critique highlighted that the letter ignored Romans 11:29, which states God’s calling is “irrevocable,” and Jeremiah 31:35-37, which ties Israel’s existence to the permanence of the sun and stars. The deconstruction argued that the decline of the Christian population in the Holy Land is not caused by Christian Zionism. It provided statistics to shift the focus: In Bethlehem, the Christian population was 86% in 1950, but dropped to approximately 12% by 2026. The post cited economic collapse, Islamist intimidation, and property disputes under Palestinian Authority control—factors unrelated to Evangelical theology—as the primary causes of emigration. The post argued the letter was a response to “anxiety over loss of control.” By bypassing traditional hierarchies to meet with Israeli officials, external Christian groups threatened the Patriarchs’ “monopoly on the Christian voice.” The critique labeled the Patriarchs’ claim of “exclusive representation” as a “category error,” asserting that theological beliefs do not require ecclesiastical permission. The critique slammed the letter for being strategically vague. By not naming the “local individuals” or specific “activities,” the Patriarchs created an “ambient guilt” that allowed them to signal disapproval without having to engage in a documented theological debate. https://t.co/k9dJ8q9HYB — Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) January 19, 2026 While the Patriarchs appealed to historic institutional authority, Huckabee and the Evangelical response appealed to the literal interpretation of Biblical covenants, suggesting that the “unity” requested by the Jerusalem leaders was actually a demand for institutional submission.

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a day celebrating the legacy of a man who is famous in the United States for saying that we ought to judge people based on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. The story of the Civil Rights Act is one of Southern Democrats largely opposing the Civil Rights Movement. Ever since then, Democrats have been searching for the next Civil Rights Movement. We’ve seen many iterations of this over the course of the subsequent decades. We saw a quasi-civil rights movement pushed by the Left with regard to gender and sexuality, the idea that women had to be freed from the predations of the patriarchy, similar to the way that black people required freeing from the predations of Jim Crow. That, of course, was a bad analogy. Then we heard the same thing with regard to LGBTQ+-, that this was the new civil rights movement. But now, Democrats seem to have hit upon the idea that the new civil rights movement is illegal immigration. They believe illegal immigrants must be allowed to stay in the United States, and enforcement of the laws against illegal immigration is itself a form of white supremacy. The Democrats are stretching on this one because they’re running out of examples of true policy-driven widespread American racism. The demand is higher than the supply. Here’s one example: Eric Holder, the former attorney general of the United States, suggested on Monday that the Voting Rights Act is under a serious and abiding threat. Not only that, he suggested that there was the threat that America was about to be resegregated by the Trump administration, saying, “We are experiencing unprecedented mid-decade gerrymandering attempts designed to disproportionately disenfranchise black and brown voters. As the president desperately clings to power like an insecure dictator, there is a concerted effort to resegregate America.” There is not a “concerted effort to segregate America.” No one who is sentient in America believes that there is. No one is worried that black Americans are now going to be forced to drink out of different water fountains, or be forced to go to different schools, or that we are going to resegregate restaurants or anything like that. This is a wild overstatement. The reality is that the story of the post-Jim Crow racial situation in America was one of increasing good relations between the races. That was true all the way up to 2013, according to the polling data. A vast majority of both black Americans and white Americans, up until roughly 2013, thought that American race relations were improving steadily, and that they had improved markedly since the 1960s. Then we slipped into the BLM era and the late stages of the Obama presidency. That sank Americans’ perceptions of race relations. But that does not mean that black Americans are being held underfoot by white Americans, that white supremacy rules the roost these days. Thus, Democrats are looking for their new civil rights movement. They need another excuse for why they ought to be in charge, why they have the moral high ground. That’s a hard case to make. The Democratic Party has lost the moral high ground on a wide variety of issues: It has become not only the abortion-on-demand party, but the Celebrate Your Abortion party. The Democratic Party has become a party that cannot explain to you why a woman isn’t a man and a man isn’t a woman. It has become the party of full-scale open borders, and so now they are going to attempt to cram the illegal immigration issue into the civil rights discussion. And it won’t work.