And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13. Catholic, husband, and father of 3. Hoosier
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“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Well, well, well. Good for @StephenM!
Hey @RepStutzman I guess you can stop clamoring for him to be fired.
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One of the contributing factors in the GOP wipeout this election is the feeling among Americans that the GOP has done nothing to reverse the foreign invasion. Now we have the data to prove their feelings are justified.
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You cannot vote to kill babies then sing “Oh how I love Jesus” on Sunday.
Abortion is murder.
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There was no increased crossover vote.
NBC exit polls showed 5% Republican crossover in 2024 and 6% in 2026.
Republicans stuck to their guns. They voted the same.
20 million new Democrat votes materialized.
That is the story.
I started shopping at Aldi just this year and it definitely saves us money!
A woman spent about $280 a week on groceries at a big supermarket for her family of five.
She’d heard Aldi was cheaper, so one Saturday she finally tried it. She walked up to the carts and couldn’t get one loose they were chained together. Inside, the store was half the size she was used to. Products were sitting in their cardboard shipping boxes. She didn’t recognize most of the brands. At checkout, the cashier scanned everything so fast she couldn’t keep up, there were no free bags, and she had to pack her groceries at a counter by herself.
She almost didn’t go back.
Then she looked at her receipt. Nearly the same groceries. $171.
She told the story to her neighbor a former Aldi store manager who spent 10 years running stores, training staff, and explaining the “weird” Aldi rules to confused first-time shoppers.
The neighbor laughed.
“Everything that felt strange to you is exactly why your receipt was $109 cheaper. The quarter for the cart saves Aldi from paying someone to collect carts. No free bags saves money. Products in shipping boxes save stocking time. A small store with fewer products means lower rent and less waste. The fast cashier is a whole system designed to keep labor costs low. You didn’t shop at a weird grocery store. You shopped at a store that removed every cost you don’t care about and passed the savings to you.”
She walked her through 10 things over coffee.
The woman now saves around $100 a week more than $5,000 a year. She said: “I thought Aldi was cheap because the food was worse. It’s cheap because the store is built differently.”
Here are the 10 things her neighbor told her and how to get the most out of Aldi:🧵
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**“I stand for the flag. I kneel for the Eucharist.”** Fr. Chris Alar delivers a passionate homily about Catholic moral teaching, patriotism, and the responsibility of Christians to remain faithful to their religious convictions. Reacting to a recent election, Fr. Alar
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Interesting
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I get it if you don’t want to listen to republicans about @AbdulElSayed & what far left dems like him stand for. But please, for the love of God, listen to @VanJones68. And then buckle up, bc this is what you voted for.
Top Democrat strategist Van Jones,
One of Obama’s former aides during his presidency
Released this message to #Michigan on #AbdulElSayed
#Midterms
Hey @RepStutzman your plan for amnesty is not popular with your base. It might be popular with your farming friends/business as it is cheap labor. But ICE is NOT the reason Republicans lost.
The crushing midterm wipeout and retirements have eliminated two-thirds of the 15 GOP legislators who cosponsored Rep. Marie Salazar “dignidad” amnesty-and-cheap-labor bill. trib.al/PmDudAO
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Two weeks after Obama won re-election in 2012, Republicans across the country felt defeated. I even remember how defeated the donor class felt.
About 10 days after the November 2012 election, a donor in Palm Beach introduced me to a young 19-year-old man named Charlie Kirk. No one really knew who he was then. He had only started his then-unknown organization a few months earlier.
Over the next 12 years, he built an incredible movement that altered the course of history during that decade.
Unfortunately, he was killed last year, but God sent us Charlie Kirk when we most needed him. I believe God will send us more people to help save this country again. The history of America proves it.
Here's the thing: Charlie did a lot of hard work behind the scenes and had a very humble approach to everything he was doing. He did not seek the spotlight. He just did the work, very hard work, long hours, unappreciated for many years. That's what it's going to take for patriots who want to step up and do the work.
There was only one Charlie Kirk. I don't expect another one to come along, but I do expect God to send us some patriots and some good people of faith to do the work that's required to save this country -- the last remaining hope for mankind.
Most Republicans and Democrats at the political level don't really seem to care about anything but themselves. We need people who care about something bigger than themselves like Charlie did. He gave everything. Even if he had not sacrificed his life on September 10, 2025, he had already made huge sacrifices of his life to work every day to return this country to its first principles.
America is never done if we believe -- and take action.
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I just spoke to @VDHanson about what the midterm results mean for Trump, the Republican Party, MAGA, and 2028.
Here’s what he told me:
The Republican losses were predictable. Since 1900 the White House party has lost House seats in ~90% of midterms (Senate in ~75%). The size of this wave (dozens in House, 7-9 Senate) is the real outlier.
Trump has roughly 70 days to lock in judges, cabinet picks, and nominees before the new Congress arrives.
With a ~45-seat Republican Senate, Trump will have to keep all Republicans in line or face a “veto-proof” Democratic Congress.
Trump can and will act unilaterally on foreign policy and executive orders. Historical precedent is clear. “The imperial presidency operates as they wish,” Hanson says.
The “affordability” story was heavily media-driven. Inflation is roughly one-third of 2022’s 9.1%. Family income is up ~$14k, GDP is stronger, stocks are +20k, poverty is down. The real issue is the 21% cumulative price jump he inherited—and the administration never clearly explained how slower inflation + higher incomes fixes it.
Trump never explained in full why the Iran campaign was necessary. The first 38 days were a historic success; stopping short and endless talk of negotiations let Iran claim they stopped him. The messaging, not the campaign itself, was the biggest problem.
Unlike this Congress, the new Democratic majority will have iron party discipline. That contrast will matter.
2028 starts now. The Vance-Rubio pairing will face immediate pressure—many will want Rubio at the top of the ticket, but Vance can’t run as VP again. Democrats will jump in fast. Their nominee will almost certainly come from the left of the party.
The Republican path to recovery, Hanson argues, runs through results, not rhetoric. A strong economy in 2026-27, a finished Iran campaign, and visible progress on affordability give the next nominee a real chance. Without those, the structural advantages of the new Democratic Congress become decisive.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Gov. Ron DeSantis just BLEW UP and went on an America first RAMPAGE on national TV
"I saw NO INDICATION that Republican senators were interested in doing conservative change! WHY haven't we done immigration, SHUT OFF H1B visas?! WHY haven't we CODIFIED Trump's immigration executive orders?! Why haven't we STRIPPED jurisdiction from the federal courts over deportation cases?! There's SO MANY THINGS we COULD HAVE DONE."
"THEY DIDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT IT."
"They say, 'oh, if only we needed 50 votes we would've done it!' YOU DON'T HAVE 50 VOTES. You NEVER SHOWED you'd do conservative things, even with 50 votes! [RE: filibuster]...I NEVER saw an indication that they'd do it."
"This midterm was a rebuke of the president and Congress...BUT, a LOT of our voters stayed home because they were FRUSTRATED with the LACK of productivity from Republicans in the House and Senate."
A fire was just lit under this man.
Honestly have not seen him get that fired up in a LONG time
We definitely deserved better from our Senate. Now, we need to repair and win in 2028, or Democrats are destroying America!
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If your version of Christianity looks like:
- Be nice
- Tolerate everything
- Never judge anyone
I’m not sure what that is, but it’s not Christianity according to the Bible.
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Every critic of gay marriage said this was the logical outcome; virtually every mainstream proponent of gay marriage assured us it would never happen.
And here we are.
California city makes history allowing throuples, foursomes to legally register as partners trib.al/injZnvo
Wow she’s right, 100%. Let the @SenateGOP have it!
No. You didn’t. You are absolutely 100% wrong. You did nothing of the sort. @NRSC Senate Republicans under YOUR “leadership” did nothing. Nothing.
You had the chance to begin the process of saving our election system from the radical left. By passing the SAVE America Act. But K Street either didn’t care or opposed it. So why bother, right?
Because the GOP Senate only does what can be monetized via those endless lobbyist dinners / fundraisers. If it can’t raise you money? Probably not worth doing.
And you BERATED @BasedMikeLee for trying to get you to work full weeks, to try to pass the SAVE America Act. Or to work a weekend sometime. Or not to recess for weeks in March and then again recess for a month in August. You and your fellow GOP Senators told him that nobody cared about the SAVE America Act. That he needed to sit down and shut up.
And the American people watched you, day after lazy, do-nothing day. And how you literally could not come up with a single idea to manage the Senate rules to get the bill passed. You just could not figure it out. Because you really didn’t and don’t care. And because you just are clueless.
What’s all the fuss, you say. It’s not a big deal to you that our election system has been taken over and manipulated by the left. That aliens by the hundreds of thousands are on our voter rolls, that there are illegal votes by the thousands in the election results…and that it matters. It matters to the USA. But not to you @LeaderJohnThune
So now, you don’t have to worry about it. You don’t have to be in charge of producing meaningful results for the American people. They just sent you to your room without any supper. I’m sure you must be relieved. You and your fellow GOP colleagues who just flat couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to save our elections.
Well done, you. What a waste of space you’ve been as a leader. That term should never be applied to you or to your inner circle.
Utterly disgusted by the lot of you. You did this. Tuesday was the Thune election. You own it. Hope you’re happy.
@EIwatchdogs @seanmdav @EricLDaugh @elonmusk @realDonaldTrump @Bannons_WarRoom @greg_price11 @RealAmVoice
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There’s a reason why Florida was the only state that went darker red.
Florida was the only state “immune” from the blue wave.
That’s not a coincidence.
They were the only state that fully cleansed their election system.
Desantis deserves credit for that.
Mara Lago area even flipped a blue seat.
Florida will eventually become the template.
Here’s how Florida protected it’s election system:
(Brave search)
SB 90 (signed May 2021)
•Required voters to renew their vote-by-mail registration every election cycle(previously valid for four years)
•Restricted ballot drop boxes to early-voting hours and required staffing
•Banned third-party ballot collection("ballot harvesting"); possessing more than two mail ballots became a crime
•Required the last four digits of a Social Security or driver's license number to register or request a mail ballot
•Banned private/outside funding of election administration (the so-called "Zuckerbucks" ban)
•Mandated hourly real-time turnout data on a statewide dashboard
SB 524 (signed April 2022)
•Created the Office of Election Crimes and Security (OECS), a 25-person unit under the Secretary of State, one of the first dedicated election-crime units in the nation
•Made collecting more than two mail ballots a felony (previously a misdemeanor)
•Required annual voter-roll cleanup(previously every two years)
•Banned ranked-choice voting statewide
•Raised fines for voter-registration violations from $1,000 to $50,000
Florida SAVE Act / HB 991 (signed April 2026)
•Expanded citizenship verification at voter registration
•Removed student ID as an acceptable form of voter identification
•Tightened candidate qualification rules
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Did you catch the important “safeguards” that protected against yesterday’s election steal?
They centered around registration integrity, vote counting integrity and ballot integrity.
And “student ID” is not valid to vote.
Citizenship requirement to vote.
This is all coming nationwide.
But first you have to expose and prosecute the fraudulent election system officials to kick off the demand for a nationwide cleansing.
I believe that is incoming.
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If your takeaway from the Texas election results is “it’s because Paxton was a bad candidate,” congrats, you’re retarded.
This is national. Mass migration. Birthright citizenship. Communists in our institutions. A war we didn’t want.
A perfect storm for our enemies within.