Jonathan Duke

Data & media analytics @DeepRootX | Once more unto the breach | Duck Hunter & Kentuckian | Galatians 3:28

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

I will not comply (my neighbor) #cutyourhydrangeas

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

4,218,094

That’s the total vote for the 2020 amendment that passed by 66% and established an independent redistricting commission.

[Governor Abigail Spanberger @GovernorVA]

More than three million Virginians cast their ballots in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and the majority of Virginia voters voted to push back against a President who said he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress with a temporary and responsive referendum. They made their voices heard.

I am disappointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling, but my focus as Governor will be on ensuring that all voters have the information necessary to make their voices heard this November in the midterm elections because in those elections we — the voters — will have the final say.

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Dude’s calling for genocide and doesn’t even update the district lines. The inherent laziness of our opponents should bring you great hope

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

Allowing the confederates and their lineage to survive was a mistake

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

@greg_price11 @DavidAsmanfox Bad week for “weed grandma” Louis Lucas

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Oh are we not letting the zoomer staffer write the clapback tweets anymore? What happened?

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Vile

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Beautifully written and very important.

I host waterfowl hunts every year for friends / clients. Every year there are men I’ve never met (friends of friends) who heard about it and show up. Happy to have them! What I watch happen over the course of a day in a blind can’t be purchased or scrolled to.

The deer camp described here (or the duck blind) does something for men that modern life has almost entirely stopped doing: it gives them an arena of genuine consequence.

We have built a world of extraordinary comfort and delivered it to men who were not made for comfort alone. The hunger doesn’t go away. It just goes unmet.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The American deer camp was, between approximately 1880 and 1990, the autumn ritual of every rural family in the upper Midwest, the Northeast, and the Appalachians.

A cabin in the woods. Three or four men, three generations sometimes, who got there on the Friday before opening day, lit the wood stove, drank coffee that had been on the burner since 4am, played cards, told the same stories they had told the year before, and went out at first light on Saturday with rifles their grandfathers had owned.

A buck taken cleanly with one shot. Field-dressed in the snow. Hung in the woodshed. Butchered the next weekend in the garage with the family. Forty pounds of venison in the chest freezer. Steaks for the winter. Sausage made by the grandfather with a recipe nobody had written down. A roast for Thanksgiving. The hide tanned and turned into mittens for the youngest grandson.

The deer was free. The freezer was full. The boys learned to shoot, to clean a rifle, to gut an animal, to butcher it, to thank the woods for the deer, to be quiet for hours at dawn in the cold and notice things.

Roughly 14 million Americans hunted in 1980. By 2020 that number was 11.5 million, and the average hunter age had risen from 35 to 51. The next generation is not coming up.

Suburbanization removed the woods from the back door. Liability fears closed private lands. Public hunting access shrank. Time pressure on working families killed the long weekend at camp. The cultural drift made hunting socially suspect, then unfashionable, then, in some quarters, taboo.

The number of American teenagers who have ever fired a rifle, gutted an animal, or watched their grandfather butcher a deer in the garage on a November Sunday afternoon is, in 2026, statistically vanishing.

The freezer that used to be full of free, lean, grass-fed wild protein is full of ground beef from a Smithfield CAFO in Iowa.

The skill is one generation deep. If the grandfather did not pass it to the father, and the father did not pass it to the son, the chain is broken. YouTube is, at the moment, where the few remaining young hunters are getting most of their training.

A small American tradition that fed families for a century, taught a sequence of practical and moral lessons no textbook can replace, and connected three generations to the land their ancestors lived on, is closing down quietly, camp by camp, season by season.

The cabin is still there. The stove still works. The buck is still in the woods.

The grandfather is in the cemetery on the hill above the cabin. He cannot take the boy himself.

Somebody else has to.

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Cool idea. Red states have ~195M people. At 85K per ‘state’ that’s 2,300 states and 4,600 Republican Senators. Enjoy your +16!

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

If Democrats actually want to fight back after the VRA ruling, they should split DC into 8 wards and admit them as states. +16 Senators to codify voting rights reform into the Constitution. No more half-measures.

[Nick Minock @NickMinock]

NEW: During a floor debate on gerrymandering, Virginia State Senator Lamont Bagby (D) says he knows a little bit about rural America because he watched Dukes of Hazzard.

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

Scott Presler's playbook:

1. Post pics of himself pretending to do voter outreach in a high-profile election.

2. Get thousands in donations from gullible saps.

3. If GOP wins, claim credit. If Dems win, obviously they need to send him more money.

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Process check: resident pos Neera Tanden rt’s fake news

[Neil Patel @NeilPatelTDC]

The worst part about this dramatic time in our history is the constant character assassination.

@ambermarieduke is a great American, an amazing journalist and, most importantly, a good person. We are lucky to have her as Editor-in-Chief at the Daily Caller.

For the crime of conducting a fair interview with Joe Kent (watch for yourself; anyone but a rabid partisan will agree) she's now being smeared by the very worst actors for bad jokes she shared as a high school kid with her Jewish boyfriend.

It's disgusting. The good news is that this cancelation playbook doesn't work any more.

[Palmetto State Armory @palmettoarmory]

Politicians in Virginia are racing to pass an "assault weapons" ban that could take effect July 1st, and we're doing something about it. At Palmetto State Armory, we're not just building firearms, we're maximizing freedom. 🇺🇸

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

@HVNYrefugee Please don’t promote people to move to Kentucky. It’s the best place on earth - the last thing I want is east and west coasters ruining it like they have so many other places

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

Good man & happy warrior - exceptional leader.

[Steve Daines @SteveDaines]

An announcement👇

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

Can't wait for the Paxton people to start whining about people who break their promises and don't remain loyal and faithful and . . . . um. #txlege

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

But Ken Paxton’s office is!

[FOX 4 NEWS @FOX4]

"Texas is not for sale"

@KenPaxtonTX speaks as he advances to a runoff against @JohnCornyn.

[Deep Root Analytics @DeepRootX]

Congratulations to Senator John Cornyn and the entire @TeamCornyn crew on a very well deserved 1st place finish in last night's TX GOP Senate Primary election! 🇺🇸

[Tim Scott @votetimscott]

This race was always headed to a runoff, and Senator @JohnCornyn is positioned to win it. Tonight proved it.

As the campaign moves forward, voters will see a proven conservative who wins tough fights and delivers results for Texas.

[Jonathan Duke @DukeGOP]

I can’t think of anyone better to carry the responsibility of the Caller’s tone, standards, mission, and direction. You’ve earned this

[Amber Duke @ambermarieduke]

I’m honored to announce I’ve stepped into the role of Editor-in-Chief at @DailyCaller.

After five years away, I returned to the Caller last January because I couldn’t ignore the mission any longer.

Our readers are regular Americans who’ve been let down by elite institutions and the legacy media. They deserve a newsroom that covers the stories that affect their lives, drives the conversation on the issues that matter, and actually cares about what happens beyond the Beltway.

I was raised by blue-collar parents in small-town America. I know what it’s like to be constantly bombarded with narratives that don’t match your everyday reality — and to watch talking heads refuse to say what used to be obvious.

That’s why last year we adopted a new masthead: Your Rebels in the Swamp.

We’re not in D.C. to serve the entrenched interests of the ruling class. We’re here to tell the truth and be a voice for forgotten America.

I’m grateful for the chance to recommit to — and help advance — that mission as EIC.

And I’m lucky to do it alongside a fantastic team that consistently breaks news and produces incisive commentary. We’re expanding video production and we’ve also launched @stateofthedayus on Substack.

Our potential is enormous, our future is bright, and I’m incredibly proud to be part of this next chapter. 🇺🇸