Today I finally understood something about Donald Trump that I had been missing this entire time. And when it hit me — it hit me completely. Because, look at who this man chose to surround himself with.
Not billionaires.
Not people born into power.
Not people who had everything handed to them.
Karoline Leavitt — 27 years old. Ice cream shop girl from New Hampshire.
Trump looked at her and saw something the entire world missed.
Made her the youngest Press Secretary in American history.
Susie Wiles — a woman who has spent her whole life quietly strategizing from the background.
No fame. No spotlight. Just pure brilliance.
Trump looked at her and said — you will be my Chief of Staff. First female Chief of Staff in American history.
JD Vance — a soldier. A boy from Appalachia who served his country in uniform before he ever served it in office.
Trump looked at him and said — you will stand beside me.
Pete Hegseth — a soldier who gave everything on the battlefield. Two Bronze Stars.
Trump looked at him and said — you will lead our military.
Marco Rubio — the son of a bartender and a hotel maid. Two immigrants who came to America with nothing.
Trump looked at their son and made him the first Latino Secretary of State in American history.
Do you understand what Trump actually did?
He did not build a powerful administration.
He built an unbreakable one."
Because every single person in it knows what it feels like to have nothing. And people who came from nothing never take anything for granted.
Tonight, say one prayer for this entire administration. And say a bigger one for the man who chose them.
Then pass this to every American who needs to understand why this administration hits different from every single one that came before it."🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Republicans want to
1) keep our borders closed
2) keep our people safe from drugs and bad illegal aliens
3) support the family
4) protect our Christian rights
5) support women in their sports
6) save our nation!!!!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸Please get out and vote
Republican!!! We are NOT perfect by any means, but we want the best for everyone in our State and Nation!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Republicans are going to WIN the midterms.
Not because of the polls. The polls say we're losing.
Not because of the prediction markets. They say we're losing too.
We're going to win because of something no model can measure.
Let's be honest about the scoreboard:
Democrats lead the generic ballot. The early vote is breaking their way. The forecasters have us losing the House.
But here's what the models can't measure: an election is not a poll. A poll samples opinions. An election counts the people who show up. And Republicans win when Republicans vote.
Losing hope is un-American. It has never been who we are.
Not at Valley Forge.
Not on D-Day.
Not a single time this country was counted out. This nation was built by people who refused the odds.
November 25, 1863. Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.
Union soldiers charged a fortified ridge, uphill, into dug-in guns. The 24th Wisconsin's flag bearers went down one after another: one shot, the next bayoneted, a third killed carrying the colors.
Then an 18-year-old adjutant named Arthur MacArthur Jr. picked up the flag. He shouted "On Wisconsin!" and charged up the ridge. He was shot twice. He kept climbing, and planted that flag on the crest.
And the Confederate army holding every advantage (the high ground, the trenches, the numbers) broke and ran. The siege of Chattanooga was lifted. The road to Atlanta opened.
Nobody polled Missionary Ridge that morning.
The flag never advances itself. Somebody has to pick it up. In 1863, it was an 18-year-old with two bullets in him. In 2026, it's you, at a polling place, starting today.
Democrats are banking their votes early. Right now. Every single day. We cannot spot them a two-week head start and pray Election Day saves us.
Bank yours too. A vote cast early can't be stopped by a sick kid, a flat tire, or a two-hour line. And it frees you up to bring five more Republicans with you.
So no, I don't believe we win because a model says so. We win because we refuse to lose. Because hope is the most American thing there is.
Republicans keep this country the day Republican voters decide it's theirs to take.
Early voting is open right now.
In North Carolina, it runs through Saturday, October 31 at 3 PM.
Don't wait. Don't hope. Vote early, then bring somebody with you.
Reply TURNOUT if you've banked your vote, or you're doing it this week.
I genuinely need to know. How do illegals actually function in this country?
How do they open bank accounts? How do they buy cars? Rent apartments? Get credit cards?
Meanwhile I've got a whole folder just to renew a car registration: Social Security card, birth certificate, two forms of photo ID, proof of address, title, registration, smog test.
Every time I need to do anything that actually matters, it's a stack of paperwork and a trip somewhere to prove I am who I say I am.
How does someone with none of that documentation just... operate? Bank accounts. Credit cards. Cars in their name. Leases.
I genuinely don't get how the math works.
Consider this Democracy Files 3.5.
Note in the video that they are pretty confident that a "breakthrough" will happen that gets rid of Trump sometime between now and January 3rd, and Mike Smith allegedly acknowledges RAD's role in writing the government that comes after.
Another drop coming later this morning.
This is what America has become: a Somali activist can stand inside the Minnesota Capitol, next to American flags, and openly call for jihad, bombings, and fighting “until the last man” without consequence.
Calling for violent jihad and mass death from U.S. soil is not protected speech. Non-citizens who do so should be investigated, arrested if laws are broken, and deported.
If you're having a temper tantrum over gas prices
But are ignoring the $100 BILLION PER YEAR that it costs taxpayers for the illegal aliens in our country
YOU are a f*cking idiot!!
I just caught up on some of the recent posts from @DataRepublican, and they’re chilling—not primarily because they outline a violent uprising, but because they reveal a strategy of manufacturing a constitutional crisis in which states declare the federal government illegitimate. What’s alarming is the sheer ignorance and hubris of the people treating this as a workable path. They appear to believe such a rupture can be contained or directed, yet they show little understanding of either American history or the practical consequences of delegitimizing the federal order.
The people driving this approach are largely led by academics who have never borne responsibility for real-world outcomes, military officers who couldn’t produce a coherent strategy to win a twenty-year war, and former intelligence officials whose records inspire little confidence. They seem prepared to sacrifice institutional stability—and the young idealists who would be drawn into the resulting chaos—while remaining safely removed from the fallout themselves.
What they fail to grasp is that the Constitution is not merely a set of rules that can be voided by state declaration. It is bound to the oaths of those sworn to defend it and to the habits of a population raised on the Bill of Rights. America is not Europe, China, or any other society in which a central authority can be nullified with limited resistance. Attempts to engineer a crisis of legitimacy will not remain a matter of legal posturing. They will collide with people who take their oaths seriously, and the resulting contest over authority is unlikely to stay bloodless.
The American Civil War remains the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. Roughly 2% of the population died—men, women, and children—in what was, by historical standards, a relatively conventional war fought between uniformed armies. Scaled to today’s population, that figure approaches 7.5 million dead. A modern breakdown in which states and the federal government treat one another as illegitimate would almost certainly be worse: a grinding conflict fought in neighborhoods, towns, and cities, where the line between friend and enemy would be unclear and ordinary life would become impossible. Anyone of consequence would carry a target, and trust would collapse.
This is not a call for violence. It is a plea to avoid the conditions that make violence probable. Many of us have seen what war actually does, and we understand the cost that would be imposed on the next generation because some believe their preferred political outcome can be forced by creating a crisis of legitimacy. Trump leaves office in two years. If the goal is to alter the constitutional order, the Framers already provided the mechanism for doing so. Use it. Do not manufacture a crisis that invites states to treat the federal government as illegitimate while others pay the price.
As Sherman put it: “It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.”
According to the WNBA, it’s perfectly ok to wear pro-trans shirts.
But, if you wear a pro-woman shirt like @EnesFreedom, you get kicked out of the game.
This league is a joke.