American Thought Leaders 🇺🇸 with @JanJekielek

Deep-dive interviews that challenge assumptions 🧐
by @EpochTimes, @EpochTimesCan senior editor @JanJekielek.

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Millions of American women remain unmarried because they cannot find the type of man they’re looking for to raise a family, argues Timothy Goeglein, Vice President of Focus on Family.

“In reliable studies, women say if they're going to be married, they're looking for an economic partner. They're looking for someone… who can be an excellent father.” The demand for such men is presently far larger than the supply, he says. Men especially are facing a deep, spiritual crisis, and millions of prime-aged men are neither working nor looking for work.

@FocusFamily

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Tens of thousands of Americans die from illicit narcotics each year. “It is unrestricted warfare,” says White House “drug czar” Sara Carter.

“Could you imagine if a bomb was dropped every year in the United States, and 100,000 people were just wiped off the planet just every year?”

The equivalent is happening now.

U.S. federal investigators recently discovered a sophisticated tunnel fifty-five feet underground between Mexico and California—among the largest ever to be found—with electricity, a rail system, ventilation, reinforced walls, and a sophisticated hydraulic lift system.

White House “drug czar” Sara Carter estimates that it was used to transport narcotics worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

@ONDCP @SaraCarterDC @DrugCzar47

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

“You can’t experiment anymore.”

President Trump’s Drug Czar, Sara Carter, says Americans need to realize the drug environment has changed.

One mistake can now cost you your life, and drug dealers don’t care if their customers die.

“I'm meeting with a family… their son went to a party after law school in Miami.”

“Made one big, huge mistake.”

“Did a line of cocaine that had fentanyl in it.”

“He seized, had a heart attack, and died in an instant at the party.”

“This is unforgiving.”

“We have adversaries that have contaminated our supply chain.”

“We have cartels that could care less.”

“They do not care because there’s always another customer around the corner.”

@SaraCarterDC

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

Márton Sulyok just told me there are “big political and social movements” against China’s growing economic power within Hungary.

“There’s battery factories all over causing all kinds of environmental trouble.”

“Non-compliance with laws has been an issue.”

“This might actually be a contributing factor to turn down the volume… on the Chinese connection.”

“It will or it might disappear from public discourse as a point of pride, or it will be less emphatic.”

I’ve been following China’s construction of a massive BYD factory in Hungary.

China analysts have described these BYD vehicles as intelligence-gathering tools.

National intelligence law in China requires BYD, or any other company, to spy and provide intelligence to the CCP.

And they’re never allowed to admit that they’re doing it.

Watch my full interview with Sulyok on Hungary’s massive political shake-up below:🧵

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“Only 13% of all American 8th graders can, with basic proficiency, say what the American timeline is.”

“Which is to say less than 15% can accurately say at 8th grade the American Revolution, the Civil War, the First and Second World Wars, etc.”

Timothy Goeglein says America’s education system is failing despite the billions of dollars poured into it every year.

“That to me is really stunning.”

“It’s a lower number than I would have thought.”

“In light of the billions of dollars that our country pours into education of all kinds.”

“I think it’s a real failure.”

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

There are two key pillars behind the Chinese Communist Party’s murder-for-organs industry.

First: dehumanization. Using language reminiscent of Nazi Germany propaganda, the CCP brainwashed the Chinese population into believing Falun Gong practitioners are dangerous and less than human. And now they’re using the same playbook against the Uyghurs.

Second: a massive, incarcerated population. By 2005, the U.S. State Department estimated that half of all people in China’s Reeducation Through Labor camp system were Falun Gong practitioners.

From there, the machinery took shape.

They started blood typing, tissue typing, and organ typing these people and all their vitals—turning them into a living database of “donors.”

And that’s how the CCP were able to build a system that’s the exact reverse of an ethical system.

In the rest of the world, patients wait—hoping for a match.

In China, a match triggers an execution.
When a wealthy buyer or party official needs an organ, a prisoner is killed on demand.

We’ve known about it for 20 years. And we’ve mostly turned a blind eye.

I was honored to be invited to speak about my new book “Killed to Order” at the Women’s National Republican Club in New York City.

Together let’s end this atrocity.

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“In the history of the United States of America, we have never had a lower marriage rate, and we’ve never had a lower fertility rate.”

“We are definitively, with no debate, in a demographic winter.”

Timothy Goeglein says America is facing both a fertility crisis and a spiritual crisis.

“We need to tell a new generation that marriage is a really good thing.”

“Babies are really good things.”

“Children are really good things.”

“If we really want to resolve most of the cultural challenges in 21st century America.”

“It’s impossible, in my view, to have that conversation without an immediate conversation on the future of the American family.”

“What is the biggest single challenge facing America in its 250th year?”

“The biggest challenge facing us is a spiritual crisis of a pretty substantial order.”

“Show me a country with a strong spiritual and religious base, and I’ll show you a strong country.”

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Timothy Goeglein is the co-author of the new book “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family.”

🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET: https://t.co/LhP9JW6a8A

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Millions of American women remain unmarried because they cannot find the type of man they’re looking for to raise a family, argues Timothy Goeglein, Vice President of Focus on Family.

“In reliable studies, women say if they're going to be married, they're looking for an economic partner. They're looking for someone… who can be an excellent father.” The demand for such men is presently far larger than the supply, he says. Men especially are facing a deep, spiritual crisis, and millions of prime-aged men are neither working nor looking for work.

@FocusFamily

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

“The biggest single challenge facing America in its 250th year…is a spiritual crisis of a pretty substantial order,” says Timothy Goeglein, Vice President at Focus on the Family.

“Show me a country with a strong spiritual and religious base, and I'll show you a strong country.”

He’s the co-author of the new book “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family.”

From family dysfunction to high rates of suicide and pornography addiction, what are the root causes of this social malaise?

What we are witnessing are “the practical ramifications of destroying an objective moral code… of saying you can't really define good and evil,” he says.

@FocusFamily

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

🚨This is what the UFC setup at the White House actually looks like:

Octagon dropped on the South Lawn + this gigantic custom “claw” lighting/arena rig towering right in front of the White House.

It's the first pro sporting event in history at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

UFC Freedom 250 is this Sunday, June 14.

Main event: Topuria vs Gaethje for the undisputed lightweight title.

Co-main: Pereira vs Gane for interim heavyweight gold.

(Thanks for the clip @mada7ina!)

#UFCFreedom250 #UFCWhiteHouse

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Viktor Orbán’s landslide election loss may mean massive change for Hungary’s relationship with the US, the EU, and China.

Watch my full interview with constitutional law scholar Márton Sulyok on the new government’s plans below:https://t.co/CxobgYwcSQ

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What if the groups that are considered trustworthy fact checkers are not what they claim to be?

Journalist Jacob Siegel says that’s exactly what’s happening, and most people have no idea.

“By 2015, that apparatus is already beginning to look at the necessity of not only censorship in the overt sense.”

“But also more subtle forms of informational control.”

“The establishment of a new fact-checking apparatus.”

“Who possibly could object to facts, right?”

“There’s a very influential one called the International Fact-Checking Network.”

“Which would later become the kind of in-house fact-checker for Facebook.”

“They have the appearance of neutral civic organizations.”

“They’re actually highly partisan.”

“They’re integral to this whole of society coordination.”

@jacob_siegel

[Jacob Siegel @Jacob__Siegel]

Very happy to be back on @AmThoughtLeader for another great conversation with @JanJekielek discussing The Information State.

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

“We have these emails from social media executives saying, ‘We can’t keep up with the volume of these censorship requests coming from the Biden White House.’”

The Censorship Industrial Complex was in full force under the Biden administration.

Jacob Siegel breaks down the scale of the censorship campaign and how the public eventually began pushing back.

“We now have this trail of emails from top Biden administration officials calling for RFK Jr. to be censored.”

“This is happening as soon as the Biden administration takes office.”

“They’re sending out quote unquote requests, but really orders to the social media companies.”

“The Biden administration’s COVID censorship became so extreme, so overt, and so absurd.”

“You can’t go to a loved one’s funeral.”

“You can’t attend the wedding of your sister.”

“And you’re not even allowed to speak openly about these things.”

“Or to investigate the origins of this disease.”

“The censorship efforts become impossible to deny.”

“This begins the process of a partial undoing of the information state.”

@jacob_siegel

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

The CCP’s killed-to-order organ system that uses prisoners of conscience as a living organ bank is a macabre reality that must end.

Thank you Chairman @RepBrianMast of @HouseForeignGOP for inviting @Eastofethan and me to brief you and @CECCgov Co-chair Rep. Chris Smith on this, especially recent developments and possible cartel connections.

It makes no sense for the US and other free nations to have any ties to this dark industry. [1/2]

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Hungarians just swept Viktor Orbán’s party out of power in a landslide.

Now, the new government is set to pass a constitutional amendment that would block Orbán from running for office again.

Opponents call it a scheme to target Orbán.

Constitutional law scholar Márton Sulyok just broke down this plan and why it may potentially violate rule of law standards:

“The first amendment that they have filed [would mean] that the term of the prime minister will be maximized in two terms, a total of eight years.”

“If it’s adopted, we would have to take into account past terms.”

“It’s retroactive.”

“Of the living prime ministers, it only applies to Orbán.”

“There’s this narrative [that] they want to get rid of Orbán.”

“Retroactive legislation is not something that’s allowed under rule of law standards.”

“And since under the circumstance that it only applies to Orbán, the other argument is that it’s so-called personalized legislation, and personalized legislation is also something that’s not allowed under rule of law standards.”

Watch my full interview with Márton Sulyok below:🧵

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

EXCLUSIVE: Never-Before-Seen 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Photos

→ The @EpochTimes obtained thousands of photos depicting the 1989 pro-democracy student protest movement in China’s Tiananmen Square.

Please be sure to take a look!👇
https://t.co/Evu5DSYegI

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Dr. Wafik El-Deiry @weldeiry, director of Brown University’s Legorreta Cancer Center, said that he has found the spike protein, from both COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination, could reduce the ability to activate genes involved in suppressing cancer.

🚨READ: https://t.co/9oMoLpDhBV

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Malinformation is perhaps the most sinister term of modern information state.

What is it? Factually true information which is perceived to cause harm.

“Climate change skepticism, vaccine skepticism, the war in Ukraine, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan—all of these were potentially subjects that could be policed for allegedly harmful ‘malinformation,’ says @Jacob__Siegel.

In his powerful new book The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control, Siegel traces the origins of modern censorship machinery and where its headed. [1/2]

@tabletmag @PodManifesto

[Jan Jekielek @JanJekielek]

37 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Chinese Communist Party still fears the memory of that night, because it reveals who they truly are.

On June 4 at the Tiananmen Memorial in Washington, DC, I spoke about the slaughter that should have changed everything, the decades of quiet accommodation that followed, and why standing with those who still resist the regime’s demand for total (actual or performative) submission is more urgent than ever.

I also highlighted a remarkable new series of never-before-seen photographs from June 4, 1989, published today on the front page of The Epoch Times. Please take a moment to view them (the link is in the thread below!)

Here are my full remarks 37 years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, at the Victims of Communism (@VoCommunism) Memorial, Washington, DC, June 4, 2026:

Good evening, everybody.

My name is Jan Jekielek. I'm the senior editor at the @EpochTimes and author of a book titled Killed to Order: China's Organ Harvesting Industry and the True Nature of America's Biggest Adversary. And this nature is something that we haven't gotten right, and we should have when Tiananmen Square happened, when the massacre happened.

So, tonight we remember the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre, the students, the workers, and the ordinary citizens murdered on June 4, 1989 for daring to imagine a freer China.

On the front page of The Epoch Times today we are publishing a whole series of never-before-seen photos that were contributed to us recently. They were taken by a state media photographer 37 years ago. These are very powerful images. I encourage you to check it out. The person who put these together, Eva Fu (@EvaSailEast), she's actually here doing an article on this event, so I hope you get a chance to speak with her later today.

It's a striking historical fact that the same day, June 4, 1989, Poland held its first semi-free parliamentary election since the communist era. Solidarity won a landslide victory, and hope began to spread across Eastern Europe, and the Berlin Wall fell. In Poland, people chose freedom, but in China, the regime chose slaughter.

The massacre itself was monstrous, but hope died twice that year, first in the blood of the streets of Beijing, and again when the United States responded not with sustained accountability but with quiet accommodation.

Just weeks after the killings, the administration at the time secretly dispatched the National Security Advisor and the Deputy Secretary of State to Beijing. Their mission was to signal to the Chinese leadership that America would ride out the storm of public outrage and work to restore the strategic relationship. Most Americans never knew about this back-channel.

For decades, we pursued a policy of engagement, telling ourselves the comforting story that trade and money would change China, that economic integration would liberalize the regime and make it a responsible stakeholder. The opposite happened: The Chinese Communist Party changed us.

It turned us, it turned our openness into vulnerability. It captured influence in our institutions. It made us economically dependent on a system built on lies, on repression, and on brutality.

And then, in the year 2000 the regime launched something even darker, a large-scale industrialized forced organ harvesting industry built on the bodies of Falun Gong practitioners, which they had started persecuting the year before.

The crime rested on two pillars, very vicious dehumanizing propaganda, and also a vast system of mass arbitrary detention that eventually ended up serving as the source of the organs.

For 14 or 15 years, the world largely turned away, and emboldened by this, the regime expanded the same machinery of dehumanization and mass incarceration to the Uyghur people, and perhaps even to others.

This is why the memory of Tiananmen remains so urgent. The Chinese Communist Party has never abandoned its core demand, total submission, or at least the appearance of it. Anyone who refuses, whether through faith, through conscience, or simple human dignity, becomes a target.

That is why we must stand with those who still resist:

• Falun Gong practitioners who continue to practice and speak the truth,

• and the millions who have joined the Quit the CCP or the @TuidangMovement to renounce their ties to the communist party, the youth league and the young pioneers,

• the white paper protesters of 2022 including brave young people like Zhang Junjie who stood alone in Beijing holding a blank sheet of paper a silent indictment of censorship and tyranny and paid a terrible price,

• Christians worshiping in underground churches,

• Tibetans demanding their culture and faith,

• and of course Uyghurs and Kazakhs enduring camps and surveillance,

• and every individual across China who chooses conscience over performative or actual loyalty.

Their courage is living proof that the spirit the regime tried to crush in 1989 is not dead today.

We are finally beginning to move in the right direction, I think, recognizing the true nature of the threat and starting to correct the mistakes of all-out engagement, but we must go further by remembering Tiananmen and standing firmly with all those who resist. We honor the dead and keep the flame of hope alive.

Thank you.

@FalunInfoCtr @TuidangMovement @hrichina @ZhouFengSuo @chinaaid @TibetPeople @UyghurCongress @UyghurProject