Take a break from watching the news and election results! We are giving away four $50 gift certificates for our family’s handcrafted #dreamware! To enter:
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Winners will be announced tomorrow November 4th!
Thanks for being here!
American Made Giveaway 🇺🇸
Christmas is in 67 days! We’re excited give away over $1,500 in American Made goods from small businesses across Vermont, Idaho, Virginia, Indiana, and Alabama. We’ve teamed up to give away a handcrafted leather rifle stock cover, set of hand carved Dreamware utensils, a beautiful wool pillow encased with organic American-grown cotton, an elegant Farmhouse Pottery taper candle holder, and a box of pasture-raised chicken or pork (your choice).
To enter for a chance to win something from one of these amazing small businesses:
1. Follow @thewoolshire, @OldHollowTree, @FrontPorchGoods, @Mathew_Winters1, and @polderfamily
2. Like and share this post
3. Comment and tell us what you’d be most excited to win from this incredible lineup
The purpose of this giveaway is to spread some cheer (there will be 5 winners!) and also to help each of you give quality, American Made gifts this year! It’s convenient to go shop at big box stores, but we all know how disappointing that usually turns out to be. Shop small and support real families; we know you’ll be thrilled with your purchases.
Bookmark this post so you can easily come back and shop with the small businesses that brought you this giveaway. The link to each of their websites is in their bio.
Open to the 48 contiguous states. Giveaway ends at 11:59pm EST on October 24, 2026.
Come, Holy Spirit,
fill the hearts of Thy faithful and
enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
Send forth Thy Spirit and
they shall be created.
And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
Father,
We thank You tonight for blessing us with this sovereign Christian nation and we lift up America to You, asking for protection over our land, our people, our families, and our leaders.
Lord,
Guard our borders, our cities, and especially our children against every form of terror and moral decay and bless this nation, our military, our President, and every soul reading this prayer.
In Jesus' name
There is so much that could be said about this week's giveaway.
I will simply hit the main points:
A man, Jordan Salinas, who seems to dig Splinter Cell went from live action role play to live action and likely saved many lives in Twin Falls, Idaho at the @innoutburger in doing so.
We celebrate that in today's litigious culture this man chose to risk his life and his liberty by doing the righteous thing. He held to his convictions by going armed and by running towards the direction of gunfire, of imminent danger. Reports are that he rendered medical aid after the gunfire ceased, as well.
In honor of this man and that masculine sacrificial heroic American spirit that runs, not away from conflict, but that fights for the opportunity to get between evil and goodness, and effectively, Rascal is proud to do a little LARPing himself.
Today, dressed as Jordan, Rascal offers up an FN Five-seveN 5.7x28mm pistol with fde frame and black slide!
We thank @SummRidge for sponsoring yet another giveaway!
TO ENTER this week's festivities: FOLLOW us and @SummRidge , REPOST or QUOTE POST this post, and REPLY to this post.
Let's share this one far and wide, my friends!
Good Luck
Godspeed
Keep Going
and Go Armed!
Here is what the left expected to happen during the World Cup: Europeans were supposed to smirk at us. They were supposed to mock our religion and our guns. They were supposed to turn away in righteous disgust at our abundance and free refills and buffet lines and big trucks and big houses. They were supposed to shake their heads at our supposed lack of culture. They were supposed to see a racist behind every tree and under every rock. They were supposed to catch a glimpse of discord and poverty and hate and perpetual ignorance. And they were supposed to leave here hating this country even more so than when they arrived.
But they didn’t.
They fell in love with us. And by “us,” I mean the real, everyday America. They didn’t go to the Met Gala; they went to Walmart. They didn’t dine at the French Laundry; they ate at Waffle House. They didn’t scoff at bigger portions; they consumed them with glee. They weren’t impressed by Priuses; they were impressed by Ford F-150s. They didn’t sniffily order some 25-syllabled cup of pretention from the local fair trade cafe; they drank American beer, listened to American country music, and ate American bar food. They don’t marvel at inner-city legal drug zones; they marvel at the wide open expanses of American beauty.
They love ranch dressing. They love the military flyovers. They love the gas stations. They love the 24/7 business hours. They love the huge American flags.
In short, everything our visitors love about America is everything the left hates about America. The leftists watch this in paralyzing horror. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Foreigners were supposed to return to their homelands and report that America is exactly what Barack Obama, Michael Moore, and Sasha Baron Cohen told them it was.
But that’s not going to happen now. Because our foreign guests realize that everything their "elites" told them about us has been a disgusting lie. Just like everything our "elites" tell us about ourselves is a disgusting lie.
But the most important lesson I hope the Europeans take home with them is this. Patriotism is a moral virtue. It’s good to be proud of your country. And despite what the government, the public schools, the universities, Hollywood, social media, the elite globalists, and both the domestic and foreign media tell us, Americans are proud of their country. And if visiting Europeans can see through the lie they’ve been sold about America, I hope they can see the lie they’ve been told about themselves.
(Source: A.J. Christopher, PJ Media)
Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.
The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.
Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”
One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.
Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.
Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.
They took until there was nothing left to take.
America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.
And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.
Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”
Not almost unprecedented.
It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.
The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.
Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.
Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.
Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.
Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.
Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.
That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.
Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.
No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.
Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”
Every nation on earth has blood in its history.
But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.
It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.
When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.
You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.
By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.
Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.
The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.
They shaped the modern world.
AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.
1945 was the first test.
AI is the last.
That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.
The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.
It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.
The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.