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The Right champions citizens first. The Left fumes at the idea.
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The Right champions citizens first. The Left fumes at the idea.

By Elle Purnell | Commentary, The Federalist At Tuesday’s State of the Union, Democrats set themselves up as angry foils to basic civics and feel-good American patriotism. In the most made-for-TV of many made-for-TV moments in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, President Donald Trump urged every member of Congress to “stand up and show your support” for the statement: “The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.” Cameras panned to show nearly the entire left-hand side of the chamber awkwardly remaining in their seats. After two minutes of Republican cheering and Democrat scowling, Trump suggested that Democrats should “be ashamed of yourselves,” and the cameras showed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Mogadishu, shouting an...
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Why a voter ID filibuster could become a 24/7 GOP campaign ad
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Why a voter ID filibuster could become a 24/7 GOP campaign ad

By Rachel Bovard | Commentary, The Federalist What if I told you Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has the power and the votes — right now — to save Republicans’ congressional majorities, President Trump’s second-term agenda, and may be the republic itself, all while poleaxing Democrats on the short side of an 84-15 issue? It sounds like fantasy. But like the Lady of the Lake from Arthurian legend, 2026 is offering up to the GOP a political weapon almost as powerful as Excalibur itself: an extended Democrat talking filibuster of national voter ID legislation. Popular Idea, Toxic Opposition Requiring voters to prove their citizenship is one of the most popular ideas in the country, with 84 percent of Americans supporting and only 15 percent opposed....
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Tulsi Gabbard Says Church Attack Shows Democrats’ Disdain For Religious Freedom
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Tulsi Gabbard Says Church Attack Shows Democrats’ Disdain For Religious Freedom

By: M.D. Kittle | The Federalist The anti‑ICE mob ‘protest’ inside a St. Paul church ‘is the latest example of their disrespect for religious freedom,’ Gabbard wrote on X. When Tulsi Gabbard announced in 2022 that she was leaving the Democratic Party, she made her departure, in part, a matter of faith.  “The Democrats of today are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,” the former Hawaii congresswoman said in a video statement at the time.  More than three years later, Gabbard, who now serves as President Donald Trump’s Director of National Security and as a thorn in the side of the deep state, suggests things haven’t improved any on the leftist front.  Gabbard blasted her old party on X Tuesday, doing what so many of...
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From Obstruction to Oppression: How the Media Rewrites ICE Enforcement
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From Obstruction to Oppression: How the Media Rewrites ICE Enforcement

By: M.D. Kittle | Commentary, The Federalist Corporate media outlets have covered the Minneapolis ICE story like they’ve covered much of Homeland Security’s efforts to secure the homeland: dishonestly. Aliya Rahman says she feels “lucky to be alive,” that the days since federal law enforcement officials dragged her out of her car have been “traumatizing and overwhelming.”  Corporate media outlets will tell you that, too. All of them. The same story, the same narrative. The “disabled woman” was just trying to get to her doctor’s appointment, they report, pushing the left’s message that Rahman is another victim of President Donald Trump’s Immigration & Customs Enforcement agents and their roundup of poor “undocumented” immigrants. What they wo...
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Supreme Court Affirms Candidates’ Right To Challenge Election Rules
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Supreme Court Affirms Candidates’ Right To Challenge Election Rules

By: Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist ‘Candidates have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections,’ wrote Chief Justice John Roberts. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that federal candidates have standing to challenge rules governing their elections. In Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, the high court affirmed that candidates running for public office “have a concrete and particularized interest in the rules that govern the counting of votes in their elections, regardless [of] whether those rules harm their electoral prospects or increase the cost of their campaigns.” “Their interest,” the court determined, “extends to the integrity of the election — and the democratic process ...
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Media Reports Omit Key Detail As ICE Agents Targeted By Vehicle Attack
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Media Reports Omit Key Detail As ICE Agents Targeted By Vehicle Attack

By: Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist It didn’t take long, but America’s propaganda media have (unsurprisingly) already begun to whitewash the anti-ICE violence at the heart of a shooting involving U.S. immigration officials. On Wednesday, a U.S. immigration official reportedly fired upon and killed a woman who was allegedly antagonizing agents during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The most pertinent detail about this story, however, is that video of the incident appears to show the suspect in question attempting to run down an agent with her vehicle. Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin provided further information about the incident, writing on X, “Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targe...
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The Top Lies of 2025
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The Top Lies of 2025

By: M.D. Kittle | The Federalist From the ‘Maryland man’ to that ‘misleading edit,’ liberals flooded the zone with falsities aimed again at stopping Trump. They failed. If it felt like 2025 was just one big psyop orchestrated by the Democrat Party and its accomplice media stooges, that’s because in many ways, it was.  Learning nothing from the political and ratings beatings they took in 2024, the left and its corporate media allies doubled down on twisting the truth during the first year of Trump 2.0. Here are the top 25 lies of 2025:  1. The ‘Maryland Man’ Illegal immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia has allegedly made a career out of smuggling fellow illegal aliens. Law enforcement officials in 2019 found him with “rolls of cas...
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Noncitizen Testifies She Voted Repeatedly In Georgia Elections
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Noncitizen Testifies She Voted Repeatedly In Georgia Elections

By: Brianna Lyman | The Federalist A woman who moved to Georgia from the Bahamas 30 years ago and is not a citizen admitted during a Dec. 9 State Election Board (SEB) hearing that she has voted multiple times. It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Clayton County resident Melanie Pickett is a Bahamian native but has lived in the Peach State for approximately 30 years. According to Pickett, she does not “know” “how it happened.” “I got a driver’s license … and then I started getting” voting-related information “in the mail, and I said, ‘Oh, OK.’ And then I got a jury duty [summons]. So I went to jury duty, and at the end of the information [sheet] you had to fill out, it said, ‘Are you a U.S. citizen,’ and I said, ‘no’ and they told...
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Boulder Climate Case Risks Imposing Local Agendas on the Entire Nation
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Boulder Climate Case Risks Imposing Local Agendas on the Entire Nation

By Christopher Mills | Commentary, The Federalist This week, the U.S. Supreme Court should consider a basic constitutional reality: county officials from Boulder, Colorado, cannot force their preferred climate policies on the rest of the nation. Obvious as it seems, that is what’s at stake in Suncor Energy Inc. v. Boulder County, a climate change case the court will weigh for review on Dec. 12. Like the other thirty-odd copycat climate lawsuits filed by states and localities from Honolulu to my hometown of Charleston, Boulder’s suit weaponizes tort law to try to transform state courts into vehicles for deploying sweeping climate mandates. If Boulder gets its way, the casualties won’t be confined to the energy companies it endeavors to bankrupt; American consumers an...
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Media Frenzy Over Hegseth Exposed as Another Political Operation
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Media Frenzy Over Hegseth Exposed as Another Political Operation

By: M.D. Kittle | Commentary, The Federalist ‘And for their next act? – They want him tried for war crimes …They intend to prosecute another political opponent,’ said Sen. Schmitt. Garbage in, garbage out.  GIGO, as computer geeks commonly call it, is the principle that if a system receives inadequate or bad data, the results will surely be flawed.  Same goes with news reporting.  The garbage leaks that went into the Washington Post’s latest “Get Trump” hoax was so bad that even the Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering New York Times could smell the stink. As my colleague Brianna Lyman wrote this week, the Post’s Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima claimed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “gave a spoken directive” to...
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