“We’re saying Merry Christmas again!”
– President Donald J. Trump
“With the insulting attitude Putin continues to have about demanding Ukraine surrender instead of a truce the only realistic strategy is for the United States and its European allies to vastly expand military aid to Ukraine and to approve Ukrainian deep strikes inside Russia to raise the cost of war to Putin until he agrees to a truce.”
– Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”
– Friedrich Hayek
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equility will get a high degree of both.”
– Milton Friedman
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
– George Orwell
“The left moved so far left they now need a telescope to see the center.”
– Elon Musk
Russia vs Ukraine: Putin and the Russian elite have made it very clear that their intention is to take over Ukraine and “russify” it at every level.
If Russia wanted peace, they would stop killing Ukrainians and leave Ukraine.
If the US wanted peace, they would help stop Russia.
Putin: Putin is a war criminal. He should be prosecuted for his crimes against humanity.
Putin is a war criminal, a terrorist, and a murderer.
He ordered the genocide of the Ukrainian people. He is responsible for the kidnapping of thousands of Ukrainian children. Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost because of him. Putin is the Hitler of our time.
For those who say it’s not our war, not our obligation, and not our problem… history has shown that is NOT the case. Whether the Holocaust, the “Captive Nations,” or now genocide in Ukraine… when countries sign an agreement such as the Bucharest Accords, those who signed have an obligation to enforce its terms and, when needed, force peace through strength.
Trump Account & The Dells: Incredible, smart, and generous for Michael & Susan Dell to donate $6.25 BILLION so that 25 MILLION children will get a $250 financial head start on life!
“If there’s one investment that never stops growing, it’s investing in children. They are our future.”
The incentive to grow/compound this investment should have a lasting impact on many who take advantage of the opportunity.
Thanks Again!
Pocket Book Issues – Gas: Here we go. Trump’s policies are starting to work.
National Average Falls Below $3, Hits Lowest Level Since 2021: “A few dozen stations are already offering gas under $2 per gallon, and we could see that number grow as we move further into the holiday season.“
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This Week: Chairman James Comer launches investigation into Minnesota fraud, Andy Biggs schools Democrat during hearing, and Melania Trump works to reunite Ukrainian children abducted by Russia.
Trump working up to 12-hour days, Oval Office logs show — refuting NY Times report on ‘fatigue’ limiting events
President Trump has been working up to 12-hour days this month, according to Oval Office logs the White House provided to The Post after the New York Times claimed there were “signs of fatigue” in his less detailed public schedule.
The previously unpublished “private narrative” documents span 10 weekdays between Nov. 12 and Nov 25 — the day the Times story was published — and show the president worked roughly 50-hour weeks, not counting any official duties that may have been performed on weekends.
The White House made the rare decision to share the logs to counter the narrative that Trump, 79, is slowing with age — with the files instead showing him working longer hours than the average American as he overhauls trade and immigration policies, attempts to end the Russia-Ukraine war and spearheads the most significant construction at the White House in decades.
These Are The Most Important Races To Watch In The 2026 Midterms
From coast to coast, House and Senate, the results of the midterms could make waves through 2028 and beyond.
The 2026 midterms are about as high-stakes as elections can be.
Thirty-five Senate seats are up for grabs next November, as are all 435 House seats. Republicans currently hold slim majorities in both houses of Congress — one that could get even slimmer with the coming resignation of Marjorie Taylor Greene. The results of the elections could shape the final two years of President Donald Trump’s time in the White House. The midterms will also loom over the 2028 presidential election, particularly for Democrats, who do not have an obvious candidate waiting in the wings.
We’re still a ways out, but many of the most crucial races are already heating up. Here are five races to keep an eye on.
Senate rankings: The 5 seats most likely to flip
Less than a year stands between the two parties and future Senate control as Democrats look to build off electoral wins earlier this month and Republicans work to hold on to the chamber.
The road to nabbing back the majority is steep for Democrats, who need to flip four seats. But the party is feeling upbeat, buoyed by a recruiting class that gives them opportunities across the map, key gubernatorial and statewide victories in off-year elections, and the potential of a fertile political environment.
Republicans, meanwhile, are banking on bloody Democratic primaries to give them a leg up in key states.
Here’s a Thanksgiving weekend look at the five Senate seats most likely to flip next year.
Trump: Eric Holder’s Court-Packing Scheme Will ‘Destroy Our Constitution’
President Donald Trump responded to comments by former Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that Democrats are pursuing a Supreme Court expansion plan that could severely harm the Constitution.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump reacted to a recent appearance by Eric Holder in which he floated the possibility of expanding the Supreme Court if Democrats take full control of government in 2028. Trump described Holder as an “Obama sycophant” who “did so much to hurt our Country,” calling him the “former Attorney General of the United States” who “weaponized the Obama Administration against the Republican Party (and ME!).”
Referring to Holder by the nickname “FAST AND FURIOUS,” invoking the Obama-era gun-running scandal, Trump warned that Holder “emphatically stated, above all else, that Democrats will PACK the Supreme Court of the United States if they get the chance.” According to Trump, Holder supports not just a minor expansion, but an increase to “21 Radical Left Activist Judges,” up from “the heretofore 15 that they were seeking.”
Supreme Court rules Texas can use redistricting map during 2026 midterms
The Supreme Court gave Republicans a major victory Thursday by ruling that Texas can use its recently redrawn congressional redistricting map in the 2026 midterms, which could give Republicans another five seats in the red state.
The ruling comes after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito temporarily blocked a lower court order last month that found Texas’ map was likely unconstitutional because it was likely racially gerrymandered.
The Supreme Court determined Thursday that Texas was likely to succeed on the “merits of its claim that the District Court committed at least two serious errors,” including that it “failed to honor the presumption of legislative good faith by construing ambiguous direct and circumstantial evidence against the legislature.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, celebrated the ruling in a statement, declaring that he “protected” the map in front of the Supreme Court.
“In the face of Democrats’ attempt to abuse the judicial system to steal the U.S. House, I have defended Texas’s fundamental right to draw a map that ensures we are represented by Republicans,” he said. “Texas is paving the way as we take our country back, district by district, state by state. This map reflects the political climate of our state.”
Let’s give thanks — for not living under socialism
People are turning to socialism. Two-thirds of Americans ages 18-29 hold a “favorable view” of it.
New York just elected a “proud socialist” mayor. But his ideas would make things worse.
Of course they would — socialism has never worked. Anywhere.
Yet Seattle too just elected a socialist mayor.
“Let’s give socialism a chance,” said a student writing in The Student Life, a college newspaper.
Americans should know we already gave socialism a chance.
The only reason we get to celebrate Thanksgiving with lots of food is because the Pilgrims learned (the hard way) that socialism doesn’t work.
Chicago county to make universal basic income policy of $500 per month permanent after ‘historic success’
“The County determined that the Promise Pilot should prioritize households with low incomes and those in historically disadvantaged communities.”
Cook County in Illinois, which encompasses the Chicago area, has established a permanent universal basic income (UBI) program after the county claimed to have success with doing so. The county is among others around the country that have tried a pilot program of UBI. However, the county has yet to determine what eligibility for the program will look like.
The Illinois county got $42 million in federal Covid-19 relief funding from the American Rescue Plan and that was then used for the UBI program dubbed the “Cook County Promise Guaranteed Income Pilot” program, which gave $500 to 3,250 households for two years starting in 2022 with no strings attached to the funds. The Cook County Board of Commissioners has now voted to extend the program into the 2026 fiscal year, according to Fox 32.
The county has dedicated $7.5 million to the program going into 2026 and will come from the county’s “equity fund.” Sarah Saheb, the director of the Economic Security Project, said in a statement about the program, “With working families struggling to afford their daily lives, Cook County is taking bold action to put money directly back in their pockets. “Cook County’s guaranteed income pilot was a historic success, helping families afford the groceries, childcare, and transportation they need to thrive. We are thrilled to see President Preckwinkle make this program permanent and look forward to partnering on the work ahead to make sure even more families can benefit.”
The county cited a survey that was sent out to those who were enrolled in the program and consented to the survey for its success, saying that 75 percent of those who responded felt more financially secure, 94 percent had a financial emergency or unexpected expense that they used the money for, 73 percent said the payments will benefit them if the program were to end, 56 percent said they had reduced stress, and 70 percent said it had a positive impact on their mental health.
Frustrated Russians Should Drive Putin Into Peace Talks
The late, great U.S. Sen. Everett Dirksen, R–Ill., famously said: “When I feel the heat, I see the light.”
It’s high time that Russian President Vladimir Putin similarly yielded to public pressure. President Donald Trump is just the man to turn Putin’s people against him.
Trump on Oct. 22 slapped fresh sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil. Russia’s two largest energy companies, respectively, produce 40% and 15% of that country’s petroleum output. The previous day, Trump scotched a summit with Putin in Budapest. Trump told journalists that such a meeting “didn’t feel right to me.”
Yes, Mr. President. Here’s what doesn’t “feel right”: Despite Western sanctions, Moscow has swaddled its citizens with subsidies and wartime spending. For many Russians, daily life has grown more comfortable, not less, since Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
As he keeps steering Moscow and Kyiv towards peace, Trump should pursue this truth: Only strength and inconvenience change Putin’s behavior. Indeed, the time is now for Trump to position Russians to inflict pain on their president.
The fall of Ukraine means the end of the post-1945 Western order
Can everyone else not see what is wrong with this? What is it that we are throwing away?
The years since World War II have been the most peaceful in human history. As Steven Pinker showed, we have been proportionately less likely to die in an interstate war over the past 80 years than in any previous era.
That did not happen because human beings suddenly became nicer. It happened because the Good Guys had won. After 1945, the democracies were in the ascendant, and they were determined to prevent a recurrence of the 1930s.
During Auden’s “low, dishonest decade”, dictators had mocked the idea of obeying treaties or rules. All that counted was their national virility, raw power. As Mussolini put it: “The League [of Nations] is very fine when the sparrows twitter; it is worthless when the eagles scream”.
The Germans called it “Machtpolitik,” power politics, and it was that system the Western powers had fought to defeat.
To be a great power: Russia’s quest to destroy the post-1991 order in Europe
• Russia’s long-term objective is to restore itself as a great power in Europe. For policymakers in Moscow, this means that it is entitled to build its system of governance as it chooses; to have a sphere of influence centred on Ukraine and Belarus; to occupy a special place in the wider European order (with a veto over all security issues); and to be recognised as a great power according to these criteria.
• This goal is incompatible with the notion of sovereignty that has guided Western thinking about European security for years. A core component of the Helsinki Final Act and the Charter of Paris, this version of state order champions the principle of the equality of European states and views democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms as essential elements of continental security.
• From 2000 to 2022 Russia failed to reclaim its position as a great power in Europe, on its terms. But while its objective remained constant, its methods changed profoundly, becoming more confrontational, aggressive and violent as its vision of state order clashed with that advocated by Western leaders. The culmination of this escalatory process was Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
• From February 2022 to the end of 2024 Russia sought to restore its ‘place in Europe’ by peeling Europe from the US. Instead, Western unity began to fracture in early 2025 because of a seismic shift in US policy: under Trump, the US is undermining Western unity over Ukraine and the credibility of NATO. Seen from Moscow, this is creating fresh opportunities for Russia to realise its revanchist agenda in Europe.
• The underlying driver of today’s security crisis in Europe is a longstanding conflict between two irreconcilable understandings of state order. The Kremlin is as determined as ever to realise its conception. Europeans will now have to take the lead in defending theirs: the Trump administration is not a reliable partner in this project.
Putin signs decree formalizing Russification of occupied Ukraine through 2036
Document sets 95% “Russian civic identity” target for occupied populations by 2036
Vladimir Putin signed Presidential Decree No. 858 on 25 November 2025, establishing Russia’s “State National Policy Strategy” through 2036—a document that explicitly incorporates four occupied Ukrainian oblasts into Moscow’s long-term ethnic assimilation framework and sets target metrics for erasing Ukrainian identity.
The decree comes as Russia faces mounting pressure on multiple fronts: a war economy showing structural strain, Western allies debating whether to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, and Ukrainian forces continuing drone strikes deep inside Russian territory. For Ukrainians under occupation, the document formalizes what human rights groups have documented as systematic identity erasure—”In fact, it is now illegal to be Ukrainian in the occupied territories,” Zmina Human Rights Center advocacy director Alyona Luneva told Euromaidan Press earlier this year.
While Trump talks peace, Putin is escalating efforts to erase Ukraine
US President Donald Trump has this week declared “tremendous progress” toward ending the war between Russia and Ukraine. This upbeat assessment comes following a sudden flurry of diplomatic activity sparked by a 28-point peace proposal that caught almost everyone by surprise, marking a new twist in Trump’s longstanding efforts to broker a peace deal.
Not everyone shares the US leader’s optimistic outlook. Skeptics note that while the United States and Ukraine have now reportedly agreed upon on the broad outlines of a future settlement, there is very little to suggest that Russia is similarly interested in peace. On the contrary, the Kremlin has responded to Trump’s latest overtures by ruling out any major concessions and signaling that Moscow remains firmly focused on the maximalist goals of the invasion.
As talks between American, Ukrainian, and Russian officials continue, Russian President Vladimir Putin has underlined his true intentions by issuing a presidential decree calling for an escalation in efforts to eradicate all traces of Ukrainian identity from the approximately 20 percent of Ukraine currently under Kremlin control.
The decree, entitled “Russian National Policy Until 2036,” was published on November 25 and is set to come into force in January 2026, Reuters reports. It calls on the Russian authorities in occupied Ukraine to “adopt additional measures to strengthen overall Russian civic identity.” The policy document also praises the invasion of Ukraine for “creating conditions for restoring the unity of the historical territories of the Russian state.”
This bureaucratic language is an attempt to sanitize the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign to erase Ukrainian national identity. Throughout Russian-occupied regions in the south and east of the country, Moscow has instituted a reign of terror against the civilian population while systematically targeting the symbols of Ukrainian statehood, language, heritage, and culture.
EU tells Trump: You can’t pardon Putin for war crimes in Ukraine
Any move to “wipe the slate clean” for Russia in a peace deal would be “a historic mistake of huge proportions,” the EU justice commissioner tells POLITICO.
Donald Trump’s drive to secure peace in Ukraine must not let Vladimir Putin off the hook for war crimes committed by Russian forces, a top EU official has warned, effectively setting a new red line for a deal.
In an interview with POLITICO, Michael McGrath, the European commissioner for justice and democracy, said negotiators must ensure the push for a ceasefire does not result in Russia escaping prosecution.
His comments reflect concerns widely held in European capitals that the original American blueprint for a deal included the promise of a “full amnesty for actions committed during the war,” alongside plans to reintegrate Russia into the world economy.
The Trump team’s push to rehabilitate the Kremlin chief comes despite international condemnation of Russia for alleged crimes including the abduction of 20,000 Ukrainian children and attacks targeting civilians in Bucha, Mariupol and elsewhere.
The two-faced tactics and time-tested tricks of tyrants
The three dictatorships of the last century which diabolically mastered the black arts of political trickery and diplomatic two-faced tactics – Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and Communist China – were often able to deceive their adversaries in the Western world into adopting policies of appeasement.
Today, particularly in the context of rogue regimes such as North Korea, this is euphemistically termed by its misguided advocates as “engagement.”
With the Nazis and the Communists, this has been the case since the beginning. Way back in 1933, Hitler’s right-hand man Herman Goring told foreign journalists it was a “lie” that the Nazi government was persecuting or planning to persecute Jews or indeed was in any way hostile to Jews.
When Lenin was accused of being funded by Imperial Germany after he returned to Russia in 1917 to try and overthrow the democratic government of Alexander Kerensky, he published strong denials using a printing press which his followers bought with funds provided by Germany.
After Mao Zedong announced his “Hundred Flowers” campaign, assuring intellectuals and others that they would be completely free to express criticisms of him and his regime, he then reversed course and mercilessly persecuted and eliminated those who had naively trusted his sincerity.
Texas Rep. Jackson Introduces Bill to Move UN HQ Out of New York
Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson introduced a bill Wednesday, which, if signed into law, would move the headquarters of the United Nations out of New York City.
“This bill sends a clear message: America is done propping up a city that rejects our values while claiming to represent our nation on the world stage,” Jackson said in a statement to The Daily Signal. “Under President [Donald] Trump, strength and security are back, and when the U.N. gathers in America, they should see a city that reflects that strength, not the chaos and weakness we see in New York today.”
In November, New York City elected self-identified Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor.
The bill would direct the secretary of state to formulate a plan to move the United Nations’ headquarters from New York City, where it has resided since construction was completed in 1952.
Specifically, the secretary would seek to negotiate a new headquarters with the United Nations and submit a list of relocation options to the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations committees.
Final Thoughts
