Zero Sympathy for the Democrats’ Political Death March

After years of empowering the fringe, Democrat insiders are discovering that the monsters they cultivated are now consuming them.

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"Forget about the fact that they screwed Sanders out of the nomination both times. They should never have given him ballot access. He wasn’t a Democrat. He still isn’t. But his little wannabe commissar clown-car minions all are."

Socialism In Action – GrrrGraphics

"Primary season is just about over in advance of the 2026 midterms, and it looks like the old-time party faithful on the Democrat side are awfully disappointed with how things sit.

"PJ Media’s Matt Margolis noted that the big midterm wave they’ve been insisting was coming is… not inevitable.

On the surface, it looks like Democrats should be able to win easily. Aside from precedent, Donald Trump’s polling gives them even more room to work with. Yet recent surveys suggest Democrats are underperforming badly enough that the wave they were counting on might not materialize.

That underperformance could cost them control of the House.

If Republicans hold the House this November, the reasons will be obvious: a socialist insurgency reshaping the party from within, and a singular obsession with opposing Trump that has crowded out everything else voters actually care about.

The evidence is already sitting in the polling.

On the generic congressional ballot, Republicans are either tied with Democrats or ahead by three to four points, nowhere near the margin Democrats need to flip the House. A recent Washington Post/Ipsos poll put Democrats up just 48 percent to 45 percent on that same generic ballot question. Asked which party they agree with more on the issues that matter to them, voters split 41 percent Republican to 40 percent Democrat. Asked which party they trust more to handle the economy, the gap widened: 39 percent for Republicans to 35 percent for Democrats.

"Along with that rather underwhelming showing thus far comes what comes off as pre-recriminations. For example, here’s Van Jones…"  Van Jones on X: "I'm tired of being told that, to be a progressive, I now must swear allegiance to crazy ideas.Supporting Hamas is not progressive. "No police, no prisons, no borders" is not progressive. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is not progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE . . .

"Liberal comedian Bill Maher says he’s “out” on the Democrat party: "Democrats are cowardly… their party is being taken over now. Every day I hear about a new radical...when we're cheering for the intifada, I'm out.” . . . More...

Did Zohran Mamdani call for an insurrection?

Expect the usual angry demonstrations with Hamas scarves, professionally-printed signs, and instigations to violent police reactions. TD

Andrea Widburg  

"Given that Bibi will be in the U.S. as an invited, and therefore protected, guest of the United States government, it’s almost as if Mamdani is trying to stir up...dare I say it?...an insurrection."

. . . "The Democrats later tried to imprison Trump and ban him from the presidency forever over language they contended was tantamount to a call for insurrection against the federal government. Interestingly, they don’t have the same standard for a mayor who’s issuing a similar call for people to protest a visiting head of state. Apparently, only some (i.e., Democrat) politicians are allowed to call for citizens to speak out.

"Mamdani’s call, of course, came in the context of his conceding that he lacked the power to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s wanted in the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) for alleged war crimes. A few points about that:

"First, neither the United States nor Israel is a party to the Rome Statute, the treaty that established the ICC. This means that the ICC has no authority over them, and they have no obligation to abide by its demands.

"Second, Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor who sought the arrest warrants against Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant, seems to be a dirty actor.

"Yesterday (July 24), based upon sexual misconduct allegations against him, the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties, by an 82-to-13 vote (with 15 abstentions), voted to remove him from office after he had committed “serious misconduct” and a “serious breach of duty.” I’m shocked that a British Muslim man of Pakistani descent would be accused of this type of wrongdoing. Shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

"Third, of course, the entire charge is laughable. As many have pointed out repeatedly, it’s not genocide if you wage a traditional war against an enemy that has deliberately embedded itself among a civilian population; if you send food to enemy civilians only to have their military steal that food; and if you offer escape corridors to enemy civilians only to have their own military shoot at them. It’s also not a genocide if the enemy civilian population has dramatically grown both while under your aegis and after you pulled out from their territory." . . .

Gun, knife, or hammer control?  . . . "A group called ‘Palestine Action’ is apparently promoting this barbaric method of assault as a promising new means of employing “direct action.”

Journalist Andy Ngo recently posted on ‘X’: “Palestine Action is advertising ‘direct action’ training for people who want to take up militant action using hammers.” 

78-year-old Ann Widdecombe was bashed on the head repeatedly with a hammer until she died.
Palestine Action is advertising "direct action" training for people who want to take up militant action using hammers. pic.twitter.com/JOIQrZYiBj

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2026

How the Left Naturalizes Sedition

Many Americans see that law enforcement and the justice system in America have devolved into a state resembling the procedures and protocols of banana republics. 

Scott S. Powell - American Thinker 

 "Americans became further destabilized when they realized government authorities were unable or unwilling to do anything about the destruction in big cities across America."

"Yuri Bezmenov decided he wanted out of the KGB and the Soviet system some 56 years ago while serving in New Delhi, India. Disguising himself as an American hippie, he defected to the U.S. Embassy and debriefed with the CIA.

"It was decided that Bezmenov should settle in Canada under a new name for a while. Bezmenov came back to the U.S. in 1980 with a mission to educate people about Soviet "ideological subversion," which is the basic systematic methodology communists use to take down countries and establish Marxist-Leninist socialist-type states.

"More recently, a Chinese defector immigrant, Xi Van Fleet, has been on a crusade to warn Americans about the parallels between what is happening in America today and what Mao did in the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

"The systematic plan Bezmenov revealed involves four fluid stages of communist subversion: 1) Demoralization, 2) Destabilization, 3) Crisis, and 4) Normalization. In Mao’s America, Xi Van Fleet explains how Mao’s destruction of the “Four Olds” (old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits) is being replicated by today’s leftist cancel culture in the U.S., which, she says, will end what is left of freedom in America if not stopped.

Demoralization

"In Bezmenov’s analysis, the first stage, demoralization, can take a generation or more. One of its main thrusts is to undermine the Judeo-Christian beliefs, customs, habits, and traditions that have been foundational to America; these parallel the “Four Olds” that Mao destroyed in China.

"Included in customs and traditions is the destruction of the family, which communists want to replace with the state. Xi Van Fleet points out that just as the Chinese Cultural Revolution turned children against their parents, American families are under increasing attack." . . . More...

Scott S Powell is senior fellow at the Discovery Institute. His book, Rediscovering America -- a previous #1 new release in history at Amazon for eight straight weeks -- captures the essence of this year’s Quarter Millennium 250th anniversary of America’s founding Declaration document. 

What Happened to Tucker Carlson? The Rise, Fall, and Reinvention of America’s Most Polarizing Broadcaster

Political.org  . . . 

"The circumstances surrounding Carlson’s Fox News departure remain only partially understood by the public. The Dominion lawsuit discovery process unearthed private text messages in which Carlson expressed views sharply at odds with his on-air persona, including personal criticism of Donald Trump and colleagues. Legal analysts noted the internal communications created significant discomfort for Fox’s leadership and advertisers alike. Reports also indicated ongoing tension between Carlson and Fox Corp. executive Lachlan Murdoch over editorial direction. Whatever the specific chain of events, the split was mutual in its acrimony — Carlson later described feeling liberated by his exit and leveled public criticism at what he characterized as constraints on his speech within corporate media. His departure was part of a broader shakeup at Fox that same week, which also included the exit of longtime host Dan Bongino, raising questions about internal realignment at the network following the Dominion settlement." . . .

Tucker Carlson officially dumps the Republican party - though he’s not becoming a Democrat

Nuremberg Trial For Trump?

Power Line, by John Hinderaker Original Article

Posted by Dreadnought — 7/25/2026 1:42:13 AM Post Reply

We have followed the sad descent of Tucker Carlson into madness. Here, he accuses President Trump and the entire Republican Party (except for Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, now gone from the party) of treason. He wants them subjected to Nuremberg-style show trials. Why? It has something to do with Israel. As best I can reconstruct it, some tinfoil hat types are saying that the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2027 provides for a merger of U.S. and Israeli intelligence. That seems to be what Carlson is talking about, as he refers to “merge them formally.” . . . 

Nancy Guthrie's Ransom Notes Were A 'Con,' Crime Investigator Claims

OK; TRUE CRIME NEWS

A crime scene investigator alleged that the ransom notes involved in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance are more than likely totally fabricated.

"The namesake host of NewsNation's Jesse Webber Live sat down with true crime expert Sheryl McCollum after more information was released on Savannah Guthrie's mom's alleged ransom notes.

""Nothing about that note rings true for me," Sheryl said of the first message received in the investigation.

"Nancy went missing in the middle of the night on February 1 after a mysterious figure appeared on the doorbell camera of her Tucson, Ariz., home. The 84-year-old has been missing ever since, with investigators believing she was forcibly taken.

"The family received alleged ransom notes at the beginning of the search that claimed Nancy was "safe, but scared."

" . . .“Hello, Savannah. We have your mother, Nancy. She is safe but scared. She will be held for ransom, and once payment is received, she will be released unharmed. We will be holding her for a maximum of seven days,” the note read.

"“Once payment is received to the Bitcoin address below, she will be released within 12 hours of deposit to a safe drop-off location back in Tucson,” the note continued. “If the payment is not received by the last deadline on Monday, the 9th at 5 p.m., she will be killed. Your mother is aware of this, and her life is in your hands. It is in the best interest of everyone to have this completed as soon as possible. You will not be able to contact me from here on out. There will be no negotiation. Do not play games. Law enforcement will not be able to help you."

"Sheryl criticized the note for explaining “things that are obvious.”

""Of course, she’s scared. Everybody’s scared," she said. "The whole family’s scared. But if this was a demand for money, that doesn’t even play into what you’re saying.” . . . More...

Nancy Guthrie's First Ransom Note Revealed: 'Hello Savannah'

H/T Revolver News

Trump Roasts the Media at WHCA Dinner, Then Trolls Them With a ‘Trump 2028’ Hat

Ben Smith – RedState

"Trump mixed a tribute to law enforcement with an extended roast of the press, Democrats, and celebrities. He capped it by pulling out a red “Trump 2028” hat and joking that he planned to run for a fourth term."

. . . "I hope that everyone finally got to enjoy their entire, very delicious beef tenderloin, very special beef. And I want you all to know that Bobby Kennedy, who’s right here, personally ran over the cow with his car. And he cut it up, and he brought it here for you to eat tonight. So it’s very fresh. Bobby also suggested an appetizer featuring his favorite cut of male raccoon roadkill, but we drew the line at that."

"That drew one of the night’s biggest laughs.

"One of Trump’s prepared jokes did not go over quite as well. Rather than simply move on, he turned on the speech itself.

Does anybody get that? I thought that was actually pretty good. That was actually the only thing I thought was good in this whole freaking stupid speech. The only good one, and that went down with not exactly great laughter.

"Trump briefly shifted away from the jokes to discuss Iran, claiming the country’s military had been devastated and that Tehran was now talking with the United States about a possible deal. He said any agreement would require Iran to remain without a nuclear weapon.

"The president later recalled being roasted by former President Barack Obama during the 2011 dinner, an appearance that has long been linked to Trump’s eventual decision to enter politics." . . .

UPDATED: You can watch the full speech, starting at 2:27:13, in the video below:

President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at Waldorf Astoria at 8:55 p.m. ET on July 24. https://t.co/p2ACHI53JA

— NTD News (@NTDNews) July 24, 2026

The Texas odd couple; Jasmine Crockett may be out of the Democrat Texas Senate primary, but her presence still haunts James Talarico.

Silvio Canto, Jr.   

"Last, but not least, it may be that blacks think Talarico is a strange dude with all of his obsessions about six genders and a non-binary God. He may remind them of Mayor Pete, who never caught on with black voters."

"There is a crazy thing going on in Texas: James vs. Jasmine. As you may remember, James Talarico defeated Jasmine Crockett for the Democrat nomination last March. It’s not been pretty since that election, with charges of racism in the air,

"Let’s check out the story:

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico is now endorsing reparations for slavery to black people as the Democrat continues to be haunted by allegations of racism first hurled against him during the final weeks of his primary campaign against Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas).

Claiming Texas still suffers from the “reverberations of slavery,” Talarico threw his support behind reparations for black people during a town hall event, saying he would enact tuition relief, homeownership, and baby bonds for black people to help build generational wealth. The move comes at a fraught time for the Texas Democrat as recent polling shows he’s struggling to shore up support from the black community and comes one day after he was dressed down by an angry voter who declared that black people don’t trust him.

“Reparations, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. It’s part of the values I was raised with,” Talarico told an audience of mostly black people on Monday. “Until we, as a society, are committed to restoring those past wrongs, of restoring our black communities, we’re never going to be able to get this country back on track … if we win Texas with a room that looks like this, that is going to be an earthquake in American politics. It will transform the politics of this country and allow us to build the political will to repair those past harms.”

"Talk about pandering. Furthermore, does Talarico understand how badly this is going to play with Hispanic voters? Does he seriously think that Hispanic, or any other voters, believe that we fix our past problems by giving money to people in 2026?" . . .  More

Blue State Governor Issues Warning to Democrats About Rising Danger of Socialism

While the Left Tells Us Communism Is Great, 250,000 People Fled Cuba in 2025 – RedState

 "In 2016, at the World Economic Forum, Danish politician Ida Auken made a prediction about life in 2030. She made the now-infamous statement, “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy..." Apparently, Ida Auken has never been to the island "paradise" of Cuba. The people of Cuba own nothing, and they are far from happy. In fact, Cubans are so unhappy that the Cuban government recently admitted to some grim statistics.

"JUST IN: Cuba’s population has reportedly fallen 16% in a decade as births plunge & emigration surges." Polymarket

"A recent bleak admission from the Castro regime confirmed the ongoing population collapse in Cuba continued unabated in 2025, with a perfect storm of record-low birth rates and a quarter of a million Cubans fleeing the island. Also thrown into the mix is the fact that Cuba's population is the oldest in Latin America and the Caribbean, with 26 percent of the population aged 60 or older. That affects not only the birth rate, but also means that Cuba has lost 1.25 million working-age people." . . .

Who can trust a member of Congress who fakes her arrest?; Leftists bought it!

RedState

"Politicians who hate everything America stands for are taking over the Democratic Party. And several mainstream Democrats are coming forward to sound the alarms.

"America has seen the polls. Young people are embracing socialism with a fervor unseen since the radical 1960s. The Democratic Party’s left-wing base is championing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the standard bearer heading into the 2028 election." . . .Behind a paywall: More...

The Anti-Communist Counterattack Begins on Screen

 The American Spectator   

"But it’s not the artistry of these films that counts for Hollywood. It’s the propaganda value, even on a small audience. Joseph Stalin understood the mind-influencing power of cinema* . . ."

 

"Still, Wayne was the recipient of several other attempted assassinations in the future, most notably in 1966, when a sniper was caught attempting to shoot the actor in Vietnam. The sniper alleged that Chairman Mao Zedong ordered the shooting. Again, whether this is true or not remains speculation."

"Last week, conservative writer Mark Judge officially announced the first annual Anti-Communist Film Festival — October 1-4 at the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. With open or quasi communists taking over the Democratic Party and several American blue cities and states, the festival’s timing is perfect. I know which movie would win the top prize if it had been made already — Operation Cowboy: The Assassination of John Wayne, my Day of the Jackal-style thriller about a real 1950 Stalin plot to murder John Wayne because of his success flushing out Hollywood communists. As more genuine historical sources rip through the cobweb of leftist media lies, two commie-exposing heroes have found new respect as framed victims — Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. To requote The Daily Wire star Matt Walsh in his recent X post, “McCarthy was right and fully justified.”

"For over 60 years, progressive filmmakers have depicted the communist investigations as the Hollywood Holocaust, wherein fascist officials and their studio-mogul acolytes silenced and persecuted Socratic screen artists. It began subtly enough in blacklisted genius screenwriter Carl Foreman’s High Noon. The classic 1952 Western depicted ex-Marshal Gary Cooper forsaken by the townspeople he protected ahead of four outlaws coming to kill him. It was clearly Foreman’s analogy for his abandonment by his peers during the blacklist.

"But when the Democrats took control of Congress in Eisenhower’s second term, and as studio power waned, liberal Hollywood filmmakers and the media got their revenge. They used all their propagandic powers to demean the anti-communist patriots inside and outside the entertainment industry. This included then-congressman Richard Nixon, whom they never forgave for exposing FDR State Department darling Alger Hiss as a Soviet spy.

"And Hollywood led the charge." . . . More...

*as did his two main nemeses in Hollywood, John Wayne and Ronald Reagan, which is why he wanted John Wayne dead."

Mail-In-Voting: Appeals Court Hands Trump Big Win

"The court ruled that the USPS may require states to turn over voter rolls before mailing out ballots."

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"The critics of this rule complain that all of this would significantly expand the USPS role in elections. This is nonsense. As Palmer points out, “USPS is already significantly involved in elections because of its handling of millions of ballots." 

"In March of 2026 President Trump issued Executive Order 14399, “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” directing the U.S. Postal Service to create a rule whereby any state that intends to send mail-in ballots to voters must provide a list of those eligible to participate in federal elections or the USPS “shall not transmit” those ballots. The obvious goal of the EO is to keep ballots from reaching people who are not eligible to vote. This predictably produced several lawsuits. On Friday, however, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay on a lower court injunction that had the effect of permitting the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with the proposed mail-in ballot rule.

"The court’s order does not resolve the underlying lawsuits but permits the USPS to move forward while the case is reviewed. “This ruling is a win for election integrity and would have significant implications for states like California that refuse to submit their voter rolls to verify compliance with federal election laws,” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli. California is not the only state that refuses to allow its voter rolls to be audited. Every “blue” state in the nation is actively flouting the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) and the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), both of which require all states to conduct voter roll maintenance.

"Curiously, most states with GOP governing trifectas — those with Republican governors and legislatures — have been transparent with the Department of Justice concerning their voter rolls. An NBC report grudgingly admits that Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, Indiana, Texas, Alaska, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Kansas and Montana are all cooperating. Meanwhile, the remaining red states are negotiating with the DOJ. The Democrat-controlled states are all fighting to hide their voter rolls. California is leading the resistance, and it is little wonder. Its management of mail-in ballots in the 2022 midterms was utterly chaotic. As the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) phrases it: 

 After accounting for polling place votes and rejected ballots in November 2022, there were more than 10 million ballots left outstanding, meaning election officials do not know what happened to them. It is fair to assume that the bulk of these were ignored or ultimately thrown out by the intended recipients. But, under mass mail elections, we can only assume what happened. Mail voting practices have an insurmountable information gap. The public cannot know how many ballots were disregarded, delivered to wrong mailboxes, or even withheld from the proper recipient.  . . .More...

German Engineers Tested a Captured Sherman — What They Discovered Stunned Them

Yet for years, the main selling point for any delicate equipment has been the phrase, "German-engineered".

D – News   

"That was the reason a generation of German engineers after the war quietly stopped building tanks the way they used to build them and started building them the way the Americans had." 

"In the spring of 1943, the finest tank engineers in Nazi Germany were handed an American tank captured in the deserts of Tunisia. They spent the next two years trying to understand it. What they wrote in their private reports, in the technical language of men who could not afford to lie to themselves, was something Berlin did not want to hear, and something the American soldiers who had built these tanks and bled inside them would never live to know.

"This is the story of one Sherman and what it did to the engineers of the Third Reich when they finally took it apart. The wind came off the Dorsale Mountains at dusk, carrying grit and the smell of burnt oil. Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, mid-February 1943. The battle was over. What remained was a landscape of dead machines.

American tanks lay everywhere. Some were burned black, hatches thrown open, turrets twisted at angles no factory ever intended. Others sat almost peaceful in the dust, engines silent, tracks intact, as if their crews had simply walked away. Which, in many cases, they had. At Sidi Bouzid and in the days that followed at Kasserine Pass, the US Second Corps had learned what the Afrika Korps already knew, that the desert punished mistakes without mercy, and that green troops paid the highest price. But among the wrecks, a different discovery was being made. German recovery teams moved between the hulks in the early mornings, before the sun turned the metal too hot to touch. They were looking for intelligence, for maps, for anything the retreating Americans had left behind. What they found was a tank, an M4 Sherman, standing upright on its tracks, undamaged, its engine cold, but its interior almost untouched. The crew had bailed out in a panic and run. The machine itself was intact. The men who found it climbed inside. They ran gloved hands over the seats, over the controls, over the strange American labels stamped in English on every gauge. And then, because that was their job, they tried to start it. The engine caught on the first attempt. For a long moment, no one spoke.". . . More...

Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: M4A1 Sherman part 1

Part 2

Luigi Mangione and the Madness of Modern America

 Courage. Media  

"Richardson shows how Mangione’s mugshot became iconography, his manifesto fragments became memes, and his crime a kind of collective confession." 

"Luigi Mangione was once the sort of young man about success stories were written: sharp, disciplined, and quietly ambitious. A programmer with promise, he preferred patterns to platitudes, structure to sentiment. Then, last December, he shot United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, and the country cracked along familiar fault lines. To many, the then-26-year-old was a cold, calculating killer; to others, a kind of crusader — disenchanted, disillusioned, and reflecting what America has become. He embodied what more and more young Americans feel and now openly confess: they were promised everything, yet are left with nothing.

John H. Richardson’s Luigi: The Making and the Meaning arrives with unsettling urgency. The veteran journalist doesn’t merely recount events, but exposes how a killing became content, how a mind came undone, and how America turned the aftermath into ritual. The book’s most arresting passages trace Mangione’s psychic breakdown: a gifted student who begins by questioning the world and ends by waging war against it. His early journals burn with idealism, but the flame soon dims. What begins as frustration deepens into fury; curiosity stiffens into conviction. Before long, Mangione is reading the Unabomber’s manifesto and echoing it with eerie precision.

The parallels to Ted Kaczynski are particularly striking. Both were obsessive intellects drawn to the purity of logic and the promise of order. Kaczynski wrote from a Montana cabin; Mangione coded from a rented loft. Richardson knew Kaczynski personally — corresponding with him for years — and draws on those letters like confessionals. The author shows the cost of obsession, and what happens when the search for meaning becomes the road to madness." . . .  More...