Jeff Swan

Free Market + Secure Private Property Rights = Liberty . Republic of Texas. Sinner, saved, husband, dad.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

I love this guy

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

For two centuries, the Ottoman Empire had pushed westward, swallowing kingdoms whole.

Vienna was on the brink of collapse, the gate to all of Europe was about to fall open.

Then, over the ridge of the Kahlenberg hill, came the largest cavalry charge in recorded history.

🔸By 1683, the Ottoman Empire was the most powerful military force on earth. Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa marched with more than 150,000 soldiers toward Vienna, pulling with him over 300 cannons and a supply chain that stretched back to Constantinople.

🔸On July 14th, the Ottomans surrounded Vienna and began digging. They ran tunnels beneath the city walls, packed them with gunpowder, and detonated them one by one. The city's 12,000 - 15,000 defenders watched their walls crumble from the inside out.

🔸After two months under siege, Vienna was dying. Food had run out, disease was spreading through the streets, and the garrison had lost a third of its men. The city's commander, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, sent desperate messengers through enemy lines begging for relief.

🔸Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I had spent weeks negotiating one of the most unlikely alliances in European history. Catholic Austria, Protestant German princes, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth agreed to set aside their rivalries and march together. King Jan III Sobieski of Poland would lead them.

🔸Jan Sobieski was already a legend before Vienna. He had spent his career fighting the Ottomans on Poland's eastern frontier, and the Turks called him the "Lion of Lechistan." When the Pope personally wrote to him asking for help, Sobieski mobilized 74,000 men and began the march south.

🔸On the evening of September 11th, the allied commanders gathered on the Kahlenberg hill overlooking Vienna. Below them, the Ottoman camp stretched across the plain like a city of its own, with silk tents, horse herds, and cooking fires as far as the eye could see. Sobieski turned to his son and said: "Tomorrow we fight."

🔸The battle opened at dawn on September 12th with infantry clashing in the woods and ravines below the hill. For eight hours the fighting ground on, neither side breaking. Then, at around four in the afternoon, Sobieski ordered his cavalry to the ridge.

🔸The Polish Winged Hussars were the most feared heavy cavalry in the world. They rode massive warhorses, carried 16-foot lances, and wore wooden frames on their backs that held enormous eagle and ostrich feathers. At full gallop, the wings created a roaring sound that witnesses said was unlike anything they had ever heard.

🔸18,000 horsemen crested the hill and began riding downhill toward the Ottoman camp. Sobieski led from the front with 3,000 of his Polish Winged Hussars.

The ground shook. The Ottoman lines, which had held all day, looked up to see a wall of horses, lances, and screaming wings descending on them at full speed. The formation collapsed almost immediately.

🔸The battle raged for 15 hours after which the Ottoman army was in full retreat. Kara Mustafa abandoned his command tent, his treasury, his artillery, and the green banner of the Prophet Muhammad. The Poles captured so much coffee from the Ottoman camp that it is credited with introducing the coffeehouse culture to Vienna.

🔸Kara Mustafa fled to Belgrade, where he was executed by order of the Sultan three months later. The Ottoman Empire never again threatened central Europe with the same force. The siege of Vienna is now considered the high-water mark of Ottoman expansion into the West.

🔸On the evening of the victory, Sobieski wrote a letter to the Pope. In it, he borrowed the words of Julius Caesar and wrote: "I came, I saw, God conquered." He had just saved Western Europe. He sent the letter before the bodies were even cleared from the field.

🔸The Winged Hussars charged for the last time at Vienna, and they won the most consequential cavalry battle in modern history. Within a generation, the age of mounted shock warfare would be over forever.

Most people have never heard of the Battle of Vienna or of Jan Sobieski (he will receive his own card in due time). I believe it is vital you are now part of the group that does.

History has a way of burying the moments that changed everything. Europe was about to fall. These men ensured it didn't.

Thanks for sticking with me. Tomorrow I've got another fantastic story lined up for you.

[Todd Erzen @DeaceOnline]

Amazing. Who had Bill Maher making Christian humanism great again on their bingo card? We are in your debt for this, Bill.

[Eric Matheny 🎙️ @ericmmatheny]

Why can’t we multiply this guy by 200?

[Jennifer Lawrence @JenLawrence21]

If you are outraged at Trumps photo and not outraged at this, then you might want to do some soul searching. Especially if you don’t see anything wrong with this.

[DC_Draino @DC_Draino]

We need Brandon Gill as the next Governor of Texas.

Not want.

Need.

[Amy Mek @AmyMek]

🚨 ACTION ALERT PATRIOTS

Muslim Brotherhood-Linked CAIR & USCMO Invading Capitol Hill – TELL YOUR REPS TO REFUSE THESE TRAITORS!

Concerned Americans: Contact your members of Congress RIGHT NOW and DEMAND they REFUSE ALL MEETINGS with the terror-tied Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella group USCMO at their 11th Annual National Muslim Advocacy Day on April 20–21, 2026.

These Muslim Brotherhood operatives are flooding Capitol Hill to push their takeover agenda.

Their own video invitation lays it all out in black and white:

🚨Their Own Video Invitation Reveals the Real Priorities:

🔺Fighting “anti-Sharia” legislation and the so-called Sharia Free America caucus, which is essentially helping Islam take over America

🔥(Thank you to heroes Chip Roy and Keith Self for standing up to them and fighting to have them stopped) 🔥

🔺 Blocking immigration enforcement (“No one should be arrested by ICE just for walking the streets”), aka helping illegals, aka criminals, from sucking America dry and terrorizing America

🔺 Expanding their political influence while labeling any national security concerns as “Islamophobia” to silence critics, helping jihadis destroy our country from within
CAIR boss Nihad Awad has already bragged about using America’s 4,000 mosques as a launchpad to train thousands of operatives to dominate journalism, law, policy, and politics by 2050.

This isn’t “civic engagement” - it’s a full-scale infiltration to ram Sharia demands down our throats and gut our sovereignty.

Lawmakers who meet with these groups are legitimizing enemies of the United States.

TAKE ACTION NOW – CALL AND FLOOD THEIR OFFICES:

House: [phone]
Senate: [phone]

Say it loud and clear:

“Do NOT meet with CAIR or USCMO during their April 20-21 Muslim Advocacy Day. These Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups are helping jihadis and illegals destroy America from within. Refuse every single meeting and publicly reject these terror-tied networks!”

Email them too. Overwhelm their inboxes. No more playing nice.

READ THE FULL STORY: https://t.co/aW9QA02RtS

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In Nazaré, Portugal, surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a 26.2-meter wave, setting a new world record for big wave surfing.

An unbelievable feat!

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

How did @nayibbukele “flip the switch” and make El Salvador the safest country on the continent?

The short answer: he didn’t. There was no “switch.”

Bukele only declared the War on Gangs once he knew he could win it within weeks. But to get there, it took years.

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Exactly

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: Incredible sight as President Nayib Bukele's El Salvador goes full HOLY WEEK vacation mode

This is what a beacon of the Americas looks like.

Bukele destroyed criminal organizations, homicides plummeted, he removed the corrupt judges, and the people prosper! 🇺🇸🇸🇻🙏🏻

📽️ @JorgeManzaSV

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Jamie Dimon: "Immigration - What the hell are we doing? The bottom 20% of our population, their wages didn't go up for 20 years. They're dying 7 years younger… Their schools don't work… [Americans] should be getting sick of it."

[@amuse @amuse]

ISLAMIFICATION: Houston refuses to recognize Good Friday & Easter to avoid offending Islamic residents while city leaders celebrate Eid Mubarak & praise Muslim leaders for supporting the city. Christianity is being erased from American civic life one city hall at a time.

h/t @CollinsforTX

[Dale Partridge @dalepartridge]

More church bells. Less savages.

[Winston Marshall @MrWinMarshall]

Here in Hagia Sophia, on May 29th 1453, after 900 years of being a Christian cathedral, in the final hours of the Fall of Constantinople, a large number of Christian men, women, children, nuns, monks, priests, and others sought refuge from the Muslim invaders.

The Ottomans surged inside and massacred them.

On its holy altars they enacted “perversions with our women, virgins and children” including “the Grand Duke’s daughter who was quite beautiful” and forced to “lie on the great altar of Hagia Sophia with a crucifix under her head and then raped”

Those who were not murdered were enslaved.

Hagia Sophia resembled a “public brothel” before it was turned into a “stable for their horses”, with toppled altars used as troughs.

The Hagia Sophia’s main Crucifix was then paraded “in mocking procession” with “spitting and blasphemies and curses”.

“Behold the god of the Christians!” They jeered

[Rep. Andy Ogles @RepOgles]

Read More Here: https://t.co/Urtq9eMqqB

[Jeff Swan @JeffreyMSwan]

@RepOgles Please keep pushing! Repeal Hart-Celler.

[Rep. Keith Self @RepKeithSelf]

It’s clear our immigration system is broken. Repeating the same failed policies and expecting a different result isn’t governance—it’s insanity.

We cannot allow people into our country who reject our laws, our values, and our way of life.

It’s time to PAUSE all immigration until we restore order.

@RepChipRoy

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I don't want to be conquered and have to bow down to Islam

Does that cause offence to Muslims ?

[Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX]

The state of Texas will not observe the Cesar Chavez Day holiday. I am directing all Texas state agency heads to comply. In the upcoming legislative session, I will work with Texas lawmakers to remove Cesar Chavez Day from state law altogether.

Reports of the horrific and widely acknowledged sexual assault allegations against Cesar Chavez rightfully dismantle the myth of this progressive hero and undermine the narrative that elevated Chavez as a figure worthy of official state celebration.