There are hard deadlines in government and soft deadlines. Most of Washington's funding fights involve soft deadlines — continuing resolutions, extensions, last-minute deals that kick the can another few months. The 2026 FIFA World Cup is not a soft deadline. It starts in June. Sixteen American cities. Millions of international visitors. And as of today, the Department of Homeland Security has been in a partial shutdown for 28 days — because Senate Democrats blocked the funding bill over a fight about keeping ICE away from polling places, despite insisting illegal aliens don't vote in elections. Here is what that shutdown ...Continue reading

In June of 2022, the United States recorded 9.1 percent inflation — the highest 12-month price increase since November 1981. That number belongs to Joe Biden. It is the economic legacy of his energy policies, his spending policies, and his "transitory" dismissal of the inflation warning signs that economists were raising a full year before the peak. In January of 2026, inflation is running at 2.4 percent. That number belongs to Donald Trump. This is the most powerful economic comparison in American politics right now — and it is being dramatically under-deployed by every Republican who should be making it. ...Continue reading

For years Americans were told the chaos at the southern border was mainly about migrants looking for work or claiming asylum. That story is comforting. Unfortunately, intelligence warnings suggest something far more dangerous may be riding the same smuggling routes. According to multiple security analysts and intelligence sources, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — specifically its notorious Quds Force, the regime’s foreign covert operations arm — may be exploiting cartel-controlled trafficking networks to move operatives into the United States. In other words, the same cartels moving migrants across the border could also be transporting agents working for one of the ...Continue reading

Sixty-six years. That's how long the Cuban people have suffered under the boot of communist tyranny. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump, the Castro regime is finally gasping for air like a guy who just realized his oxygen tank was made by a government-run factory. Somebody get the Castros a flashlight. They're going to need it. Trump dropped the hammer at his "Shield of the Americas" summit in Doral, Florida over the weekend, telling a room full of Latin American leaders that Cuba is "in its last moments of life." His exact words: "They have no money, they have ...Continue reading

Picture this: you're in a courtroom, and the star witness, one Senator Adam Schiff, is about to testify. The prosecutor, played by none other than HBO's Bill Maher, asks a seemingly innocent question. Schiff, smelling blood, pounces on what he thinks is a chance to criticize President Trump for his military action in Iran. But hold your applause, folks, because Maher flips the script, revealing the quote was actually from former President Obama regarding Libya. Oops! Schiff’s verbal gymnastics ensue, and it’s the kind of political contortion act that would make even the Cirque du Soleil jealous. Now, why does ...Continue reading

Democrats have spent the last three months measuring the drapes in the Speaker's office. The media declared the "blue wave" a foregone conclusion back in January. Prediction markets gave Democrats a 71% chance of sweeping the House. There was just one small problem — nobody told the voters. Whoops! A brand-new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll of 1,999 registered voters just found the 2026 midterm generic ballot sitting at a perfect 50-50 dead heat. Republicans. Democrats. Tied. Done. In January, Democrats led that same poll 54% to 46%. That's an eight-point lead that evaporated in a single month — like a puddle ...Continue reading