Something extraordinary happened in the 2024 election. Conservatives, independents, and even former Democrats rose up and delivered a historic rebuke to the far left. The electoral map didn’t show a mere victory for Donald Trump — it was a political bloodbath. Moreover, for the first time in decades, Republicans are poised to take control of nearly every level of government.

This election was an unmistakable message from voters: America is sick, and we demand a cure.

Institutions meant to safeguard our liberties have become vectors for corruption, collusion, and control.

But before we can tackle the disease, we must diagnose it. What, exactly, is the mandate voters handed to Trump and the GOP? What is the problem that we demand they fix?

The answer is as clear as it is uncomfortable: The United States as we knew it no longer exists. Our freedoms — our sovereignty — have been systematically eroded by forces intent on transforming America into something unrecognizable.

Two of Donald Trump’s first promises as president-elect spoke directly to this. He vowed to eliminate the deep state and end censorship. The fact that these issues even need to be addressed shows how far we’ve strayed.

These proposed changes from the Trump administration are promising, but Trump cannot do this alone. The corruption afflicting this country is systemic. It’s a cancer that has spread through every organ of the body politic, from unelected bureaucrats in Washington to powerful corporations and media conglomerates. This rot has metastasized, just as it did in Europe under Fabian socialism and cultural Marxism. It must be excised.

But how did we get here? The left didn’t stumble into control of our institutions by accident. Its dominance over the media, universities, and culture was the result of a decades-long operation to manufacture consent.

The strategy is laid out plainly in a book by leftist thinker Noam Chomsky: “Manufacturing Consent.” Chomsky wasn’t wrong in his analysis — he was just dead wrong in his prescription. Over the decades, the left co-opted his blueprint to manipulate public opinion, consolidate power, and push its progressive agenda.

The proof is in the state of America today. Look at how the media has been consolidated. In the 1980s, 90% of American media was controlled by over 50 companies. Today, six massive conglomerates control the vast majority of what we read, watch, and hear.

They control the flow of information, shaping narratives to keep the public in the dark. They decide what is “normal” and what is “fringe.” They’ve convinced generations of Americans to accept obvious falsehoods as truth.

This media-industrial complex works hand in glove with the government and elite institutions. It has labeled anyone who questions its authority as a “conspiracy theorist” or “extremist,” all while cozying up to Big Tech and using censorship as a tool to silence dissent.

Donald Trump has promised to sign an executive order on day one banning federal agencies from colluding to censor Americans. He plans to fire bureaucrats who’ve participated in these unconstitutional practices and roll back the protections that allow tech giants to act as unaccountable gatekeepers.

But this is only the beginning.

The cancer runs deeper than just Big Tech or biased news outlets. It extends to the very systems meant to serve and protect us. Government agencies like HHS, NIH, and FDA now prioritize profits for Big Pharma and Big Food over the health of Americans. The military-industrial complex wages endless wars without congressional approval — in our name but without our consent. Institutions meant to safeguard our liberties have become vectors for corruption, collusion, and control.

Every organ of our national body has been infected. And the first step in curing this disease is restoring the free flow of information — our eyes and ears.

Without independent media, without honest debate, the cancer will keep coming back. That’s why I call on this incoming administration to prioritize breaking up media monopolies, ending corporate-government partnerships, and empowering alternative platforms.

The stakes couldn’t be higher. We must act now or risk losing the republic altogether. The American people have made their mandate clear: We demand accountability, transparency, and freedom.

It’s time to clean house.

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The US military discharged over 8,000 service members who rejected the COVID-19 shot. Only 43 have rejoined.

The Pentagon's vaccine mandate is no longer in effect, but its repercussions continue to be felt. Of the over 8,000 service members discharged for refusing the shot, only 43 have rejoined over the past eight months.

What's the background?

After first rolling out a vaccination program on a voluntary basis, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the mandate in 2021, penalizing all service members who resisted.

The Military Times indicated that roughly 17,000 service members ultimately refused to take the vaccine.

While around 1,200 secured exemptions, Defense Department records indicate that 3,717 Marines, 1,816 soldiers, and 2,064 sailors were discharged for refusing the vaccine, reported Reuters. Further, 834 Air Force/Space Force service members were apparently also discharged.

Approximately 70% of those ousted for their refusal to take the novel mRNA vaccine reportedly received general discharges.

The mandate and the ousters were roundly criticized.

Twenty governors, in a Nov. 30, 2022, letter demanding the mandate's repeal, stated, "The Biden vaccine mandate on our military creates a national security risk that severely impacts our defense capabilities abroad and our state readiness here at home."

About-face

The mandate remained in effect from August 2021 until January 2023, when Republicans ensured its nullification as part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act.

Republican Sens. Ron Johnson (Wis.), Ted Cruz (Texas), and others also proposed that military members who had been discharged for refusing the vaccine be reinstated, reported CNN. However, this amendment to the defense bill in the Senate did not pass.

Following the passage of the NDAA, Austin wrote in an unapologetic memo, "Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the Armed Forces be vaccinated against COVID-19, issued in my August 24, 2021 memorandum, 'Mandatory Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination of Department of Defense Service Members.' I hereby rescind that memorandum."

Accordingly, troops would no longer have to take the vaccine against their will or undergo segregation "on the basis of their refusal to receive the COVID-19 vaccination if they sought an accommodation on religious, administrative, or medical grounds."

Despite this reversal and the provision of general discharges, thousands of ousted troops have not returned.

Gone for good

Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R) wrote to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, and Army Secretary Christine Wormuth last month demanding answers about how many service members have rejoined as well as about the services' plan "to ensure continued readiness after the mandate went into effect, knowing that thousands of service members would be discharged."

Tuberville said in a corresponding statement, "Joe Biden firing thousands of healthy and dedicated service members made us weaker and never had any basis in science."

"The Senate — and, more importantly, military families — deserve a full accounting of the effects of this policy up and down the chain of command. The Pentagon needs to stop stonewalling and give us the answers we deserve."

CNN reported that, according to data provided by the military branches, since January, only 19 soldiers have rejoined the Army and 12 have rejoined the Marines. As for the Air Force and Navy, only one and two have returned, respectively.

Some analysts have suggested that the lost manpower is a drop in the bucket.

J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CNN the numbers are "minuscule."

"I don't think there was ever any real evidence that it was getting in the way of recruitment or retention," said Morrison. "There was some grumbling, but you know the reality if you enter the military and you submit to a whole battery of different medical measures."

Last year, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger suggested the mandate had in fact impacted recruitment, particularly "in parts of the country [where] there's still myths and misbeliefs about the back story behind it," reported Military.com.

Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said in a House Armed Services Committee hearing in early 2022, "I think if 2,000 are kicked out [of the Army], I think that would hurt."

In addition to having trouble luring back those able-bodied patriots it discharged during the pandemic, the military appears to be struggling with recruitment and retention.

For instance, TheBlaze reported Tuesday that the Army has found itself having to make "sweeping changes" to its recruiting enterprise after struggling to meet its end-strength goal.

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Trump slams Biden's electric vehicle mandate, vowing to eliminate it on day one

Former President Donald Trump skipped the second Republican presidential debate Wednesday, instead making a familiar populist appeal to a crowd of autoworkers in Clinton Township, Michigan. In his remarks — which the Biden campaign deemed "incoherent" despite the worrying standard set by their 80-year-old candidate — Trump condemned the Democratic president's electric vehicle mandates, vowing to eliminate them on day one.

Trump, who leads those Republicans he elected not to debate Wednesday by at least 39 points in the latest Economist/YouGov poll, doubled down on the economic nationalism that helped secure him the White House in 2016, telling autoworkers at Drake Enterprises, a non-unionized automotive parts manufacturer in Macomb County, that the Biden administration was perpetrating a "government assassination" of the American auto industry.

"Joe Biden claims to be the most pro-union president in history," said Trump, referring to the octogenarian Democrat who ratified legislation blocking a U.S. railroad strike last year. "His entire career has been an act of economic treason and union destruction."

"To the striking workers, I support you and your goal of fair wages and greater stability, and I truly hope you get a fair deal for yourselves and your families," said Trump. "But if your union leaders will not demand that crooked Joe repeal his electric vehicle mandate immediately, then it doesn't matter what hourly wage you get."

President Joe Biden, who spoke to striking United Auto Workers members on a picket line nearby a day earlier, has set a target to have 50% of all new vehicle sales be electric by 2030. The Biden administration's update to emission limits for cars means that by 2032, EVs will have to make up two-thirds of all new cars sold.

Besides the commonly discussed disruptions that adoption of electric vehicles poses, such as the incredible strain they will likely place on the electric grid, Yen Chen, principal economist at the Center for Automotive Research, told WBUR-FM that they will be job-killers, at least in Michigan.

"Traditional internal combustion engines, vehicles. You need two major components. That's engine and transmission. Of course, along with the engine and transmission, you have a fuel system and exhaust system that go with it," said Chen. "Those [do not] not exist in the EV. EV has none of them. And in terms of the union and employment, making engine and transmission require a significant amount of the labor to put it together."

Ernst & Young estimated that vehicles with conventional power trains have as many as 2,000 components in their power trains. Tesla's drive train, by way of comparison, reportedly contains only 17 moving parts.

In addition to containing fewer parts, EVs rely on construction techniques that are often more automated, meaning not nearly as many workers will be needed, according to Chen.

Ford and other industry experts prophesied in 2019 that an estimated 30% less labor will be required to build electric cars, reported CNN.

City Journal recently suggested that "the total EV ecosystem involves more labor per vehicle, though most of the increase is found in the manufacturing chain," meaning that while jobs may be lost in America, many will likely be created overseas.

The Financial Times indicated that just as there might be fewer American auto worker jobs, there will also be fewer union jobs in the EV ecosystem.

Trump suggested in his speech Wednesday that a wage bump won't "make a damn bit of difference because in two to three years, [auto workers] will not have one job in this state."

"[Biden is] selling you out to China. He's selling you out to the environmental extremists. All the radical left people have no idea how bad this going to be also for the environment," said Trump. "You can be loyal to American labor or you can be loyal to the environmental lunatics, but you can't really be loyal to both. ... Crooked Joe is siding with the left-wing crazies who will destroy automobile manufacturing and will destroy our country itself."

Trump, who made a show of threatening to eliminate tax credits for EVs while in office, vowed to the crowd in Michigan, "On Day One, I will terminate Joe Biden's electric vehicle mandate and I will cancel every job-killing regulation that is crushing American autoworkers."

The former president vowed also to "unleash a thing called American energy" and "stop the ban on the internal combustion engine."

Axios reported that Trump-voting states are less likely to embrace EVs.

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HERE's what you'll find when you dig up Vivek Ramaswamy's past. Hint: it's not all peaches and cream

Vivek Ramaswamy says everything that conservatives have been waiting to hear. However, Sara Gonzales isn’t convinced — and she has receipts to back it up.

While Ramaswamy recently came out in defense of Donald Trump over his alleged criminal involvement in January 6, he was singing a much different tune in 2022.

In his 2022 book, he wrote: “It was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again.”

In an op-ed he co-authored in 2021, Ramaswamy again sharply condemned Donald Trump for January 6.

Just six days after January 6, 2021, Ramaswamy tweeted, “What Trump did last week was wrong. Downright abhorrent. Plain and simple. I’ve said it before and did so in my piece.”

“Does that sound like the same guy to you that you keep hearing speak positively about January 6?” Gonzales says, skeptical as ever.

Ramaswamy’s campaign also admitted to paying a Wikipedia editor to scrub his Wikipedia page to remove factual information about him that he worried might sink his candidacy, including his receiving the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for new Americans in 2011 during his time as a Yale law student.

“In case you’re wondering, yes, Paul Soros happens to be related to George Soros. This is George Soros’ brother,” Gonzales says.

But it gets worse for Ramaswamy.

His campaign also removed his participation in Ohio’s COVID-19 response team from the Wikipedia page. While on the response team, the presidential candidate stressed the importance of everyone getting vaccinated.

In August 2020 he tweeted, “Wearing a mask = personal responsibility. It’s puzzling when conservatives oppose it. But before deriding them, remember this: CDC and WHO discouraged wearing masks in March - a ‘noble lie’ to save masks for healthcare workers. Institutional lying erodes public trust in science.”

“So, it was puzzling to him why you didn’t want to cover your face with a germ-ridden piece of fabric that didn’t actually do anything except force you and your children to breathe in your own carbon dioxide,” Gonzales responds.

Two weeks after Ramaswamy paid to hide his information on Wikipedia, he announced his candidacy.

Independent reporter Jordan Schachtel also uncovered Vivek’s quest in 2020 to develop a global database for all COVID-related patient health records, including COVID testing with his company Datavant.

This would serve as a registry of private and public patient records, all without the consent of the actual patients.

“Maybe the flip-flops that you just saw don’t bother you, but I’m not sold that this guy isn’t just an incredibly gifted opportunist who wants to benefit from the political climate,” Sara says.

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Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler says it would have been child abuse for parents not to mask 2-year-olds before COVID-19 vaccines were available

Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York unabashedly expressed support for mandatory masking for 2-year-old children, asserting that parents would have been committing child abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic if they opted not to mask their 2-year-old kids because masks were the only option to protect those young people when there was not yet a vaccine available for them.

Nadler, who noted that in the past he had to be vaccinated before going to school, spoke in favor of vaccine mandates. He said vaccinations are necessary "to prevent diseases" as well as "pandemics."

The long-serving left-wing lawmaker who has been in office for over three decades said that a nurse caring for patients could transmit disease and should be required to be vaccinated. Getting vaccinated "not only protects her, it protects against transmission," he claimed, adding that health care workers "certainly" should be required to get vaccinated.

"Your 2-year-old should be forced to be masked. That is what the Ranking Member ... just said," Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas declared, adding that Nadler was saying the federal government should be involved in requiring 2-year-old kids to wear masks.

"Chip having a field day!" TheBlaze's Daniel Horowitz tweeted in response to a clip of Roy's remarks.

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— Daniel Horowitz (@Daniel Horowitz) 1686775520

"Thank you, @chiproytx for your steadfast calling out of the Covid cult!" someone else tweeted.

"When your adversary is losing - let him," Roy tweeted.

"They have no regrets about harming kids in the name of COVID. If given the chance…they'll do it again," the DeSantis War Room Twitter account tweeted.

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Biden admin announces end of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and takes victory lap, claiming its 'broader vaccination campaign has saved millions of lives'

The Biden administration has announced that it will nix the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for international travelers flying into the U.S.

The administration will also end its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, though the administration had already been blocked from enforcing that mandate.

"Today, we are announcing that the Administration will end the COVID-19 vaccine requirements for Federal employees, Federal contractors, and international air travelers at the end of the day on May 11, the same day that the COVID-19 public health emergency ends," the White House declared.

"Additionally, HHS and DHS announced today that they will start the process to end their vaccination requirements for Head Start educators, CMS-certified healthcare facilities, and certain noncitizens at the land border. In the coming days, further details related to ending these requirements will be provided," the press release states.

The announcement comes more than three years after the COVID-19 panic first erupted around the globe.

"On May 1, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its plans to end certain Federal COVID-19 vaccination requirements, including those for Federal employees and Federal contractors, at the end of the day on May 11. In the coming days, President Biden will be issuing an Executive Order rescinding the vaccination requirement for Federal employees and COVID-19 safety protocols for Federal contractors, effective at 12:01 am on May 12, 2023," according to the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force website.

"In the interim, agencies should continue to take no action to implement or enforce the COVID-19 vaccination requirement pursuant to Executive Order 14043 on Requiring Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccination for Federal Employees to ensure compliance with the applicable preliminary nationwide injunction," the site states. "Similarly, with respect to Executive Order 14042 on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, agencies should not take any steps to require covered contractors and subcontractors to come into compliance with previously issued Safer Federal Task Force guidance, or enforce any contract clauses implementing Executive Order 14042."

Many people who received COVID-19 vaccines still caught the illness — but the Biden administration is taking a victory lap, asserting that its vaccination push "saved millions of lives."

"Our COVID-19 vaccine requirements bolstered vaccination across the nation, and our broader vaccination campaign has saved millions of lives. We have successfully marshalled a response to make historic investments in broadly accessible vaccines, tests, and treatments to help us combat COVID-19. While vaccination remains one of the most important tools in advancing the health and safety of employees and promoting the efficiency of workplaces, we are now in a different phase of our response when these measures are no longer necessary," the White House press release claimed.

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Every NFL team now required to hire one minority offensive assistant coach; hire can be 'a female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority'

Every NFL team is now required to hire one minority offensive assistant coach — the hire can be "a female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority" — for the 2022 season, ESPN reported.

What are the details?

NFL owners made the move Monday during their annual Florida meeting and it's part of the league's diversity efforts, the sports network said.

Each coach will receive a one-year contract and “work closely with the head coach and offensive staff to gain experience," Sports Illustrated said, citing a statement obtained by United Press International. Teams will be reimbursed for the minority coaching hires through a league-wide fund that will contribute toward salaries for up to two years, the magazine added.

The long-term goal is increasing minorities among the pool of offensive coaches, as they end up being the most sought-after head coaching candidates, ESPN said, adding that current offensive assistant coaches will count for their teams toward the program.

"It's a recognition that at the moment, when you look at stepping stones for a head coach, they are the coordinator positions," Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II — who's chairman of the NFL Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee — told the sports network. "We clearly have a trend where coaches are coming from the offensive side of the ball in recent years, and we clearly do not have as many minorities in the offensive coordinator [job]."

ESPN, citing league data, said a record 15 minorities are among the NFL's defensive coordinators for 2022, and minority coaches now represent 39% of the league total, an increase from 35% in 2021. In addition, the sports network said there are a record 12 women on coaching staffs.

But there are only five minority head coaches in the league, ESPN said.

Anything else?

Women will be added to the requirements of the Rooney Rule, the sports network said. The Rule — established in 2003 and named after Art Rooney II's father — has mandated interviewing minorities for top coaching positions. The Rule now stipulates that at least two women and/or persons of color will be interviewed to fill vacant coaching spots.

"The truth of the matter is that, as of today at least, there aren't many women in the pool in terms of head coach," Rooney told ESPN. "We hope that is going to change over the years, but for that reason we didn't see it as inhibiting the number of interviews for racial minorities at this point in time. Obviously, we can address that as time goes on, but for now we didn't see that as an issue. Really, we are looking at probably the early stages of women entering the coaching ranks, so we may be a little ways away before that becomes a problem."

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