America's 250th isn't just history to me. It's part of my family's story.
My family was here from the very beginning. They knew that winning independence wasn't the end of the fight. Building and defending this Republic would be the responsibility of every generation that followed. Two hundred and fifty years later, it's our turn.
I've spent my career studying and fighting those who would do this country harm. The greatest lesson that work has taught me is that freedom survives only when ordinary Americans choose to defend it. Every generation inherits that responsibility. This one is ours.
Some answer that call in uniform. Some in intelligence, law enforcement, emergency response, or public service. Others answer it by being informed, engaged citizens who build resilient communities, strengthen those around them, and refuse to look away from the threats we face.
As we celebrate America's 250th Independence Day, I'm grateful for the sacrifices of those who came before us. They entrusted us with a remarkable Republic. What we leave to the next generation depends on what we choose to protect today.
Happy Fourth of July.
God bless America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Two immigrants met on a dark road in California, the day after Christmas.
One of them came to this country legally, from Fiji, and spent years earning his dream: an American police badge. He drove two hours each way to the academy. He practiced his English every day so he could serve a small town better. He had a five-month-old son. Hours before his shift, he took a Christmas photo with his wife and his baby boy.
The other came illegally. He had two drunk-driving arrests. He skipped his court-ordered program. His warrant sat open for four years, and sanctuary law kept his file out of federal hands.
December 26, 2018. Newman, California. A town of ten thousand people and twelve police officers.
At 1 a.m., the corporal pulled over a suspected drunk driver.
The driver shot him. The corporal fired back, defending his town to his last breath. He died at the hospital.
The sheriff who led the manhunt said it in plain English: his deputies had been prohibited from reporting the killer's earlier arrests to immigration. His words: the outcome could have been different.
One man honored everything this country asks of an immigrant.
The other ignored all of it.
Only one of them is gone. The wrong one.
His son is growing up on photographs of the American dream wearing a police uniform.
He should be teaching that boy to fish.
He should be alive.
God bless every immigrant who loves this country the way he did. And God bless every American who refuses to accept which man walked away.
If you believe a foreign government can sail a hospital ship to the edge of US territorial waters, deliver a hundred babies to foreign moms, then promptly sail back to a foreign port, and that every one of those babies is American for life, you don’t believe in nationhood at all.
Republican Senator talking to a friend. "I've got a difficult choice."
Friend: "What is it?"
Repub Senator: "I must decide whether to serve John Thune - or serve the American people."
Friend: "What will you do?"
Senator: "I'll serve John Thune! But make a lot of tweets to look like I am serving the American people."
My mother still cries about it.
Forty years later, she'll be sitting at the table, and her eyes will fill, and she says the same words she's said my whole life: "We had everything. We lost it all. And we couldn't give you children anything."
Mom, I have told you a thousand times — and I will tell you a thousand more. You gave me the greatest gift a parent can ever give a child. You gave me America. Nothing else matters. Nothing else even comes close.
Let me tell you what she means.
In Iran, we did have everything. My father spent thirty years helping build a nation — its cities, its schools, its roads, its hospitals. We belonged to a Jewish community that had lived on Persian soil for 2,700 years. We had a home, a history, a name that meant something.
And then, almost overnight, we had a target on our backs. Bullets cracked over our roof. Cars burned in our street. My father became a hunted man for two unforgivable crimes: he had served his country, and he was a Jew.
So he did the only thing a father can do. He sold everything we owned for whatever he could get, gathered his wife, his mother, and his four little boys, and he ran. Thirty years of a man's life's work — surrendered at the door, in exchange for our lives.
We were the lucky ones. That community was once a hundred thousand souls. Most never got out with what we did. Some never got out at all.
We carried away only what no regime could confiscate — our faith, our language, our poetry, and each other. And after a few years finding our footing, we came here. To America. To the one country on earth that looked at a family fleeing a regime that hated it… and opened its arms anyway.
We arrived with empty hands. And that is the wound my mother has never let go of — that after all they'd had, they gave us nothing.
But Mom, you don't understand what you gave me.
You gave me a country where I could pray out loud without fear. Where I could speak my mind. Where a penniless refugee kid could become a physician, a scientist, an author — where the only ceiling was how hard I was willing to work. You didn't hand me an inheritance. You handed me something no fortune in Iran could ever have bought: the freedom to build a life without looking over my shoulder.
That is a love only an exile understands. Not the calm, comfortable patriotism of someone born into safety — but the fierce, protective, almost desperate love of someone who has watched a homeland turn on its own people and knows, in his bones, how quickly it can all be taken away.
And that is exactly why I will never stay silent.
When you have watched a revolution promise heaven and deliver a prison — when you've seen radical Islamists and the intoxicating lies of socialism hollow out a great nation from the inside until it devours its own children — you do not take a single hour of American freedom for granted. And you carry one holy fear: watching it happen again.
I did not flee that fire to sit quietly while anyone strikes the same match under the country that saved my family. You do not escape the thing that destroyed your first home only to welcome it into your second. I love America too much — and I remember far too much — to let that happen without a fight.
So I spend my life trying to be worthy of the gift. Through medicine. Through science. Through my words. By defending the freedoms that saved us — free speech, free thought, the God-given right to choose — with everything I have. This country once invested in me with no expectation of return, only trust. I have been repaying that trust every day since, and I will until my last breath.
So this is my answer, Mom.
You did not send me into the world with empty hands. You placed in them the freest, most generous, most extraordinary nation in the history of mankind.
You gave me America.
And I will spend the rest of my life proving it was more than enough.
Happy 250th Birthday. 🇺🇸
God bless the United States of America. 🗽
#ModehAni
In one Virginia county, in a single recent year:
An illegal immigrant murdered his own three-month-old daughter.
Another illegal immigrant was charged with stabbing a man to death with a machete.
Another stabbed a single mother to death at a bus stop after the prosecutor dropped his thirty prior arrests.
Two illegal immigrants who beat a man to death in a park were offered a plea deal of just five years.
These were all in ONE county. In ONE recent year.
Three of the four murderers were illegal immigrants.
This is not anecdote.
This is the public record of a single Soros-backed prosecutor's office in Northern Virginia.
The Department of Justice has now opened a civil rights investigation into that office.
God bless every American who is finally counting.
Five children waited for their mother to come home from her morning run.
Say that slowly. Five children. One trail. One morning.
August 2023. Bel Air, Maryland.
A 37-year-old mother of five ran the same hiking trail all the time. People there knew her. It was her place.
She was dragged off that trail and killed. Her body was hidden in a drainage culvert, like something to be disposed of.
The man who did it had fled El Salvador while wanted for killing a woman there.
Now hear this part clearly, because it is the entire story.
In the first months of 2023, our border caught him three times. Three times, he was turned back.
So he tried a fourth time. That time, nobody caught him.
He crossed the whole country. He was linked to a violent home invasion in Los Angeles. And then he found a quiet hiking trail in Maryland.
That trail is 1,800 miles from the border. The border failed her anyway.
He got life without parole. Her five children got a lifetime without their mother.
The arithmetic of this country is broken when a killer's fourth try counts for more than a mother's five kids.
She should be at five more graduations. Five weddings. A houseful of grandchildren.
She should be alive.
God bless every American who counts to five and gets angry.
I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for new wind and solar projects, thanks President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut.
GREAT NEWS! Mamdani has FINALLY cleared all the junkies from the sidewalks around Madison Square Garden
All it took was Taylor Swift getting married, as the junkies were in front of the “celebrity entrance”
They’ll all be back Saturday, I’m sure 🙄
What a joke.
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She survived the war.
She survived the bombs. She survived the shelter under a Ukrainian city, where her family slept while the sky burned.
She came to America because in her story, America was supposed to be the safe chapter.
August 22, 2025. Charlotte, North Carolina.
She gets on a light rail train after work and takes a seat. The security camera shows all of it. She never sees the man sitting behind her.
There was no argument. There were no words at all.
He had been arrested fourteen times before that night. Fourteen.
Earlier that same year, a judge released him without bail on his latest charge. His own mother had begged the system to commit him for psychiatric care. He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
The system knew this man. The system had his file in both hands.
The system sent him home anyway. Onto a train. Into the seat behind a 23-year-old woman who had already outrun a war.
The war could not reach her. A judge's signature did. That is my claim, and I will stand on it.
North Carolina has since passed a law with her name on it. Iryna's Law. It limits no-bail releases and forces mental health evaluations before a man like that rides another train.
It exists because she trusted us with the safe chapter of her story, and we tore it out.
She should be texting her family that America is everything they hoped.
She should be alive.
God bless every American who refuses to call this normal.
Victor Davis Hanson says we’re watching a modern-day French Revolution play out as socialists hijack the Democratic Party.
Once you see it, the similarities are impossible to ignore.
HANSON: “We’re watching a modern-day French Revolutionary-like takeover of the Democratic Party.”
“You can call it the reign of terror or Democratic guillotine.”
“What I mean by that, in 1793 and 94, when the French Revolution was well on its way to fruition, a group of radicals called Jacobins...hijacked that revolution and decided that they were going to far, far to the left of the effort to abolish the monarchy...”
“Go out and attack private property, and execute people.”
“Now, I don’t think the Democratic socialists are going to that, but their takeover is similar to the Jacobin takeover.”
“And what is their agenda?”
“Their agenda is a radical Green New Deal, war on fossil fuels, open borders, no deportations...”
“In addition to that, cut the defense budget, defund the police, institutionalize diversity, equity, inclusion chauvinism...”
🚨Betrayal Alert
@SenRonJohnson , why did you gavel in today instead of demanding Senator Thune cancel recess and bring everyone back to DC to pass the SAVE Act and end birthright citizenship?
Another Senate snake betraying the will of the American people, sitting on his hands while our Republic faces real danger and @POTUS is blocked from making recess appointments.
Patriots, repost and ask Senator Johnson why he continues to obstruct the America First agenda.