Few things keep me up at night more than our catastrophic dependence on China for the critical minerals that power our military, our economy, and our way of life. We are not talking about a minor supply chain inconvenience. We are talking about a strategic vulnerability that Beijing is actively exploiting and Washington has been […]
It used to be that Indiana state Sen. Greg Walker was the one poaching big game inside the GOP. In 2006, he bagged the biggest “RINO” possible, taking out the long-serving state Senate leader, Bob Garton. Walker toured the state Senate district centered on Columbus, Indiana, in a refurbished orange 1970 Slant-6 Plymouth Valiant, encouraging […]
The last time former Rep. and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford went up against President Donald Trump, it didn’t end well for him. By June 2018, the House member had become one of congressional Republicans’ most vocal critics of Trump, during the president’s first nonconsecutive term. Sanford had for months lambasted Trump from the right […]
“What I am is the center of the resistance,” Brian Heywood said in an interview in early April. He is a prominent businessman and the founder of Let’s Go Washington, a direct democracy group. It creates petitions and gathers signatures to put issues on the ballot for a direct vote by Evergreen State residents. One […]
Whatever the outcome of President Donald Trump’s war on Iran, his push, along with Israel’s, to reinvigorate an American-led world order has only just begun. Before what remains of the Iranian dictatorship agreed to a tenuous ceasefire, the White House released its fiscal 2027 budget, which demonstrates the Trump administration’s understanding that securing American hegemony, […]
Congress may be ready to assert its authority more than a month after the United States first bombed Iran, despite the GOP-controlled chambers giving President Donald Trump a wide berth to wage war. Some Republicans want to weigh in on any lasting deal the president strikes with Tehran by using a 2015 Obama-era law that […]
EXCLUSIVE — A new poll of union households in Ohio is offering an early warning sign for Democrats in two of the state’s most closely watched 2026 races, showing Republican candidates with an edge among a voting bloc long considered a core part of the party’s coalition. The survey, conducted by the Coalition to Protect […]
The second round of April Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in five days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born between the 11th and 20th of a month will receive this payment on April 15. The first round went out on April 8 to those born on or before […]
A debate on affirmative action between two liberals has gone viral after the quiet part was finally said out loud. Proponents of the policy don’t seek to end racism — they only want to end racism against certain groups while actively championing it against others. The Argument host Jerusalem Demsas took the affirmative position on […]
The national average price for regular gas decreased slightly on Friday to $4.153 per gallon, according to AAA, bucking the weekslong trend of rising gas prices since February. The one-cent decline in costs marked the first time that gas prices had dropped since the announcement of the two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran. […]
