'Hey, fascist! Catch!' Leftist group apparently recruiting college students with slogan tied to Kirk murder
Left-wing organizers appear to have posted flyers advertising their club at Georgetown University with the same slogans found on bullet casings near where Charlie Kirk was murdered.
The John Brown Gun Club reportedly posted bright red flyers around campus recruiting students with the phrase, "Hey, fascist! Catch!" in bold text. The flyer also brags that the John Brown Gun Club is "the only political group that celebrates when Nazis die," likely referencing Kirk's horrific assassination on September 10.
'There are students at this campus who want to see conservatives dead.'
Shae McInnis, a sophomore at Georgetown University who also serves as the treasurer of the College Republicans Club on campus, found the posters Wednesday morning.
"I read this immediately as a threat, not only for me but for everyone on this campus," McInnis told Fox News Digital. "Every conservative, everyone who just does not subscribe to the prevailing leftist orthodoxy, this is a direct threat against them."
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"It means that there are students at this campus who want to see conservatives dead rather than engaging with their ideas, rather than facilitating a political discourse," McInnis added.
The John Brown Gun Club is a leftist group that originally "sought to militarize the white working class and spur it toward a social-justice revolution," according to the Counter Extremism Project. Although the club claims to simply act as armed security at protests, local chapters have often been associated with other left-wing militant groups like Antifa and have been involved in violent attacks.
Most notably, one chapter member, Willem van Spronsen, was killed by law enforcement in 2019 after he tried to blow up an ICE detention center using a propane tank and Molotov cocktails at the facility.
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Since the flyers were found on campus, a spokesperson for Georgetown University said they have been removed and that the incident is being investigated.
"Georgetown University has no tolerance for calls for violence or threats to the university," the spokesperson said. "The flyers have been removed and the university is investigating this incident and working to ensure the safety of our community."
Georgetown did not respond to a request for further comment by Blaze News.
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How Trump can dismantle far-left extremist networks
Urgency inside the Trump administration is building after the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk. President Donald Trump has vowed to confront what he calls “the radical left lunatics.”
The rhetoric has grown sharper on the right, including within the administration itself. But dismantling the far left’s networks will not be simple. Defeating the forces aligned against the American republic requires more than speeches. It demands a clear understanding of the enemy and a systematic plan to dismantle enemy infrastructure using every tool of national power.
Defining terms
The biggest initial problem the Trump administration faces in confronting the radical left is a refusal by the national security, federal law enforcement, and intelligence apparatuses to even recognize who the president has identified as a threat.
Because these movements are made up of multiple entities that utilize different tactics and are organized in diverse ways, no silver bullet can defeat the far-left extremist movement.
Currently, the U.S. government refers to domestic terrorist threats in only the broadest possible categories, such as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremist, Anti-Government/Anti-Authority Violent Extremist, Animal Rights/Environmentalist Violent Extremist, and Abortion-Related Violent Extremist. In every case, these categories are deliberately constructed to appear content-neutral. This allows the bureaucracy to appear evenhanded while selectively emphasizing preferred political targets and ignoring others.
For example, while Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists theoretically includes both white and black supremacist groups, in practice, the government spends its efforts targeting groups that are perceived as white supremacist and underemphasizes black supremacist groups. Similarly, while the bureaucracy might claim to target Antifa and similar radical-left actors under the Anti-Government/Anti-Authority Violent Extremist category, in practice, it has emphasized investigating parents at school board meetings, “J6ers,” Catholic church attendees, and the like.
While federal law enforcement devoted 12 informants to the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) kidnapping case (which collapsed at trial over questions of how much of the plot was inspired by the government itself), all evidence suggests it completely neglected to investigate the John Brown Gun Clubs, which have conducted numerous armed Antifa attacks on federal officers in multiple cities around the country.
An entirely new category
The president must direct the creation of the Far-Left Violent Extremist category and implement its immediate use across all departments and agencies. While the actual name is up for debate, it must explicitly include “anti-fascist” (Antifa), anarchist, autonomous Marxist, socialist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, and communist extremists and ensure that these distinctions are accurately and correctly defined.
Such an approach is not radical — in fact, it is used by American allies abroad. The German Ministry of the Interior’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution defines far-left extremism in precisely this way and meticulously categorizes each subcategory every year in reports that are openly available to the public.
A Far-Left Violent Extremist category should also include individuals, groups, networks, and movements based on these ideologies that utilize single-issue activism on topics like animal/environmentalist extremism and abortion as cover for their efforts. Often these apparently single-issue organizations are used as a recruiting tool to activate individuals who may be interested in a specific political topic and bring them farther into a movement whose true objective is revolution. This simple tactic alone shows the uselessness of the present set of federal categorizations.
For too long, the government, media, and academia have minimized the extensive threat posed by far-left extremists, treating it as merely examples of single-issue activism. But cases like the Black Lives Matter riots, Defend Atlanta Forest, Jane’s Revenge, and the Palestinian campus encampments have all demonstrated that for far-left extremists, changing names and logos before taking action on behalf of a changing cause is standard operating procedure. By siloing these cases in different categories, federal law enforcement fails to document — and fails to understand — the danger posed by the far left at the strategic level.
Getting the federal government to use new terminology will be a challenge. In 2021, Homeland Security insiders aggressively leaked about the first Trump administration’s attempt to require the Department of Homeland Security to use accurate terminology to describe Antifa by creating the category of Violent Antifa Anarchist Extremist. The bureaucracy vociferously rejected the effort, which effectively limited and derailed this very necessary addition.
This time the Trump administration must not be cowed.
A granular understanding of the far left is necessary to determine the appropriate response. This breakdown is vital, because such groups typically play different roles in the overall movement, largely based on their ideology and doctrine. This has been true for a century. They also organize in different structures and typically receive funding in different ways through different sources.
Anarchist and autonomist Marxists
Anarchist and autonomist Marxist networks dominate what are considered “anti-fascist” or Antifa activities. These include direct action and violent direct action such as sabotage, vandalism, doxxing, and preplanned violence, which encompasses both rioting and terrorism. They label all of American society, both mainstream conservatism and liberalism and all our public, constitutional institutions, as fascist.
Anarchist and autonomous Marxist groups are typically funded by direct crowdsourced funding, mutual aid, and local community-based fundraising. This is taken from Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin’s theory of organizing, which is used by anarchist/socialist groups to describe how voluntary organizing provides unofficial quasi-governmental services.
In some cases, Antifa groups have fundraised by engaging in illegal activities, including the sale of drugs and prostitution. Senior members of the network may serve as protest training consultants or union organizers as part of their “day jobs.”
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These groups are decentralized and non-hierarchical, but heavily networked through local “affinity groups,” collectives, or chapters, which are linked to similar groups primarily by ideological ties. They are not necessarily linked by financing. They also share ideological connections with similar groups and organizations that operate abroad, predominantly but not exclusively in Western Europe and Latin America.
Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Maoist
Marxist, Marxist-Leninist, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, and other communist organizations typically create and proliferate structures as mass-movement organizations. They think and act with greater strategic purpose than the anarchists and autonomous Marxists and maintain systems of command and control. Their networks predominate in the indoctrination and organizational space, creating overlapping networks of community organizations, front groups, and other structures.
Additionally, they co-opt independent entities. Through their controlled organizations and those they infiltrate, they organize large-scale protests and disruptions under a variety of issues and labels. Whether controlled outright or dominated through disciplined infiltrators in key positions of authority, they can range from small, local, and niche to broad-based and national mass organizations. These groups are the most likely of all far-left extremists to have access to fiscal sponsorship organizations through which they can access significant amounts of donor funds from progressive tax-free foundations.
These vertically integrated organizations and networks are also more likely to have operational ties to foreign governments and foreign communist parties. Examples include the much-discussed Party for Socialism and Liberation’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party and groups like the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, which is extensively networked with other communist parties such as those in China and Cuba.
They may also have ties to communist organizations designated as terrorist groups, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas, and the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army. Others may have ties to sanctioned governments, including Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea.
Like the anarchists and autonomous Marxists, these groups have ideological and doctrinal differences. They compete with each other for attention, funds, and recruits. Nonetheless, they effectively interact and coordinate through the use of the concepts of “diversity of tactics” and “popular fronts.” Like an orchestra, these groups play their own separate parts, but they have the effect of coming together as a functioning, cohesive whole. They generally accomplish this despite lacking a single entity that directs and coordinates the operation or campaign.
Defeating far-left extremism
Because these movements are made up of multiple entities that utilize different tactics and are organized in diverse ways, no silver bullet can defeat the far-left extremist movement. Only a whole-of-government — and ultimately a whole-of-society — approach will be successful. Anyone who insists on a single, easy method for stopping this threat is at best ill informed.
Department of Justice
The Department of Justice would presumably serve as the lead agency in any effort. Federal counterterrorism authorities may be needed to address one element of the far-left extremist network. Counterintelligence authorities, working through an entirely different set of statutes, may be necessary to pursue those individuals and groups linked to foreign entities that are facilitating subversion and those advocating, but not actually committing, violent crimes or terrorism.
Legal authorities addressing racketeering, money laundering, charity fraud, and other white-collar crimes may be the best legal instruments in other cases. (Charity fraud investigations against far-left extremist organizations have already played a key role in Georgia and Virginia.) Civil rights enforcement is likely necessary in different situations.
Finally, the implementation of statutes housed under Title 18, Chapter 115 of the U.S. Code that are aimed at groups engaged in seditious conspiracy or direct advocacy of the overthrow of the U.S. government and Constitution may ultimately prove necessary. This option is likely to provoke an aggressive legal challenge, as these statutes have been largely moribund since a series of Supreme Court decisions beginning in 1957, but such a challenge may be desirable. A legal strategy specifically focused on reviving these authorities can select favorable test cases to advance case law.
The Department of Justice should also consider pursuing material support or accessory charges against crowdfunding websites or organizations that flagrantly and negligently assist Antifa groups in raising funds for items or materials used in the commission of terrorist or criminal acts. These may include crowdfunding for potential weapons, armor, shields, face masks, or the cash needed to keep the extremists viable and active.
The Department of Justice should work closely with state and local governments to ensure the toughest convictions possible. State and local jurisdictions may have statutes that are more comprehensive and advanced than the federal government.
A coordinated whole-of-government approach is absolutely necessary to defeat far-left extremism.
The Trump administration should advocate for state governments to extensively cooperate with federal law enforcement and direct federal task force officers to utilize state terrorism, racketeering, sabotage, gang designations, or sedition laws where these might be the most appropriate option.
A coordinated whole-of-government approach is absolutely necessary, preferably directed by a task force at the presidential level, as it would be empowered to utilize any and all appropriate statutes and authorities and properly resourced by representatives from all applicable agencies.
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence should produce classified and unclassified national intelligence products on far-left extremism, at both the national and international levels, that highlight extensive evidence of transnational cooperation. Intelligence authorities need to coordinate to identify foreign ties to domestic far-left extremist groups. ODNI should also investigate, and include in its reporting, the role played by foreign adversaries in supporting U.S.-based far-left extremist groups.
The director of national intelligence should authorize a “Team B” competitive analytical exercise composed of independent, outside experts on far-left extremism to allow independent review of materials and methodology and provide alternative analysis. This approach would force competition within the intelligence community and assist it in reassessing and ameliorating its own shortcomings.
State Department and Treasury Department
The State Department should instruct consular officials to thoroughly investigate visa applicants and strictly enforce inadmissibility under Title 8, Chapter 12, §1182 (a)(3)(B) or (3)(D) of the U.S. Code (overthrow of the U.S. government, terrorist activities, or membership in totalitarian parties).
Participation in any anarchist or Marxist party or organization should be considered de facto grounds for permanent inadmissibility. Current visa holders involved with any far-left extremist group or who demonstrate support for such groups should have their visas revoked.
The State Department should also utilize multilateral fora developed for countering violent extremism to create a far-left extremism working group. It should work with foreign counterparts to identify foreign far-left terrorist groups and associated networks to be designated, specifically including Antifa groups.
One example is Germany’s Hammerbande, which has conducted a number of attacks across international borders but whose members were successfully prosecuted in Germany. Other options for relatively straightforward far-left extremist terrorist designations include several Greek Antifa/anarchist terrorist groups. A more aggressive option might include designating Palestine Action, a group recently banned in the United Kingdom for attacking a Royal Air Force base, as a far-left extremist group.
The United States should utilize diplomatic efforts and leverage where necessary to urge foreign partners that do not recognize far-left extremism to do so. These include the other four members of the Five Eyes: principal U.S. intelligence partners Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, whose intelligence and security services have also faced challenges with politicization.
The Treasury Department should pursue designation of international Antifa structures that provide material support for any such designated organizations, such as Antifa International and the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, and pursue secondary designations where applicable.
While the State and Treasury Departments may pursue a direct foreign terrorism designation for Antifa as a whole, this approach is likely to face significant legal challenges and risk being underutilized. A piecemeal approach will be slower, but it will be more likely to survive strong bureaucratic inertia.
The State and Treasury Departments should also aggressively pursue secondary designation for groups providing material support for the Communist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and its front organization, Samidoun, and front organizations supporting the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army. In some cases, groups facing secondary sanctions may be U.S.-based organizations or include U.S. nationals.
Department of Homeland Security
In consultation with experts on far-left extremism, the Department of Homeland Security should produce intelligence products for all federal, state, local, and tribal partners on identifying far-left extremist individuals and organizations.
The department should conduct an extensive review of information produced by partner fusion centers to determine whether reporting on potential far-left extremism has been appropriately analyzed and acted upon. Anecdotal reports suggest that federal partners have historically disproportionately ignored or disregarded reporting from state fusion centers related to far-left extremism as compared to other types of extremist ideology.
The homeland security secretary should direct the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program to set aside funds specifically to support future research into the threat of far-left extremism. Because of the high number of far-left extremists who are affiliated with academia, the administration must carefully observe this program to ensure that the ultimate recipients of any grant have a demonstrated history of research on far-left extremism — but are not themselves ideologically aligned with the movement.
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Previous recipients of funds under this program have engaged in a strategic minimization, and even outright denial, of the threat of far-left extremism; in some cases, grant recipients appeared to have engaged in Antifa activities themselves. Organizations in which these and like activities occur should see their grants revoked.
The Department of Homeland Security should also conduct a review of its own interactions with individuals who are professed anti-fascists and have been utilized as supposed experts.
Internal Revenue Service
Far-left extremist groups and their benefactors regularly abuse Internal Revenue Service practices related to tax-free nonprofit organizations, including the wide-scale abuse of fiscal sponsorship arrangements. A fiscal sponsor can be held legally responsible for the activities of the entity it sponsors, which has no legal status apart from serving as a project of its sponsor if those are not tax-deductible.
Nonprofit organizations credibly linked to criminal activity should have their tax-free status revoked. The agency should be instructed to review its ruling on the use of fiscal sponsorships to prevent further abuse and should refer individuals for prosecution who are engaged in utilizing tax-deductible funds for far-left extremist activity.
Department of Labor
The Labor Department should be instructed to aggressively enforce Section 540 of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, which prohibits persons who are convicted of certain crimes (including misdemeanors) from serving as a union official, employee, or consultant. This is particularly important, as far-left extremists are often engaged as union organizers or protest training consultants.
The administration may consider seeking an amendment to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act to ban those convicted of specific crimes that are commonly conducted by far-left extremists, including (but not limited to) felony federal rioting. The U.S. must ensure that all federal employee unions are appropriately scrutinized and, if necessary, penalized or prosecuted for any far-left extremist activities by union members and leaders.
As part of the broad Justice Department legal strategy to revisit enforcement of U.S. statutory prohibitions against advocacy for overthrowing the United States, Labor should consider developing a legal strategy to revisit United States v. Brown, where the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that open Communist Party members could not be prohibited from holding positions in labor unions.
Department of War
As has been demonstrated following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, literally thousands of War Department personnel have been identified as countenancing political violence against conservatives. During the department-wide “extremism stand-down” promoted by then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, it failed to educate its personnel on the signs and dangers of far-left extremism, choosing to focus solely on perceived white supremacist and right-wing extremism.
This occurred despite a Rand Corporation survey that showed Antifa with the highest support among military veterans of any extremist ideology other than the conspiracy theory “QAnon.” Antifa had more than five times as much support among veterans as white supremacist ideology. The secretary of war should order a full review of all insider threat materials and extremist training materials, ensuring they accurately reflect the threat posed by far-left extremism.
Finally, national defense universities, military academies, postgraduate schools, and other military education entities and programs should be encouraged to create coursework and hire professors and instructors who are capable of providing warfighters and national security leadership with a quality education in the nature of far-left extremism.
Department of Education
Examples of far-left extremism openly promoted in federally funded institutions of higher education are rife, as well as in public K-12 education. Scores, if not hundreds, of examples of both college and university professors and K-12 public school educators show open promotion of far-left extremism. In many cases, radical teachers' unions produce training and educational materials for use in the classroom.
Some states have attempted to counter this ongoing effort by educating students about the history and crimes of communism, helping them resist indoctrination and radicalization to such ideologies. The Trump administration should require states to promote appropriate educational materials if they wish to receive Department of Education funds.
The department may also investigate the plausibility of creating grants for research into far-left extremism, while carefully vetting to ensure that such grants do not go to extremists themselves.
Whole-of-society approach
In addition to these efforts, the Trump administration will need to utilize rhetoric and the bully pulpit to help rally Americans around our shared political principles. The president should publicly and repeatedly support and praise Democrat officials at any level of government who publicly stand against far-left extremism.
The goal of the far-left extremist network over the past five years has been to encourage mainstream Democrat elected officials and media figures to utilize their rhetoric. Mainstream Democrats increasingly rely upon far-left extremist networks for political organizing and campaign activity.
The president should also urge his supporters and political donors to bolster private-sector efforts to support independent research, study, and action concerning the threat of far-left extremism. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the academic field of “countering violent extremism” has undergone a rapid expansion. Yet in almost no cases do grants, chairs, or departments exist that focus solely on the study of far-left extremism. This leaves law enforcement and intelligence officials under-resourced and with limited access to credentialed experts on these issues.
The Trump administration has demonstrated the political will to take the fight to far-left extremism, but there will be no shortcuts or quick fixes in this fight.
Now, the hard work must begin.
Editor’s note: This article was originally published at the American Mind.
Exclusive: GOP slams Democrat spending plan as 'stale leftovers' riddled with radical left-wing policies
The Republican Study Committee is taking aim at House Democrats for proposing a last-minute funding plan chock-full of "radical left-wing" policy proposals.
House Republicans are set to pass a clean continuing resolution Friday to keep the lights on through November 21 ahead of the September 30 funding deadline. The GOP proposal includes minimal anomalies with the exception of increased security funds in light of Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination.
'Democrats are recklessly threatening a shutdown unless we bend the knee.'
Despite this, Democrats have taken it upon themselves to propose their own funding bill, which RSC Chairman August Pfluger (R-Texas) called "stale leftovers" from former President Joe Biden's administration.
"The Democrats' continuing resolution proposal is nothing more than stale leftovers from the Biden-Harris administration that nobody wanted the first time around, and microwaving them won't make them any more appetizing to the American people," Pfluger told Blaze News.
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In a memo obtained exclusively by Blaze News, the RSC contrasted the Democrats' bloated spending plan that would help fund abortion and illegal aliens with the GOP's straightforward, clean CR.
Democrats put forth a funding plan that would increase spending by nearly $1.5 trillion, including a continuation of $350 billion worth of Biden-era subsidies. The Democrats' spending bill would also continue to funnel millions in benefits to illegal aliens and left-wing media companies like PBS and NPR and would reverse nearly $5 billion in spending cuts.
"While House Republicans offer a responsible plan to keep government open at current funding levels, Democrats are recklessly threatening a shutdown unless we bend the knee to their $1.5 trillion spending spree that provides illegal aliens with access to Medicaid and spends $350 billion on extending Biden COVID credits that subsidize abortion," Pfluger told Blaze News.
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"The American people handed President Trump and congressional Republicans a decisive mandate to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse — not to capitulate to the same leftists who drove our country toward bankruptcy and were soundly rejected at the ballot box," Pfluger said.
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Manhattan is a ‘food desert’: Bernie Sanders defends government grocery stores
If you’re among those pushing back against the idea of government-run grocery stores being peddled by NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders has some words for you.
“What a radical idea to say that working-class families should be able to go into a grocery store, in an area where there are food deserts, and be able to afford decent quality food for their children,” Sanders says, before mocking, “Oh man! What a radical guy he is!”
BlazeTV host Pat Gray is not amused.
“Absolute buffoon!” Gray yells. “This is what they go to, is ‘food deserts.’ They were doing this under Obama, and they’re doing it all over again. All of a sudden, food deserts are back. That was disclaimed and debunked a long time ago.”
“In virtually every hamlet of Manhattan, there are grocery stores. There are restaurants. There are plenty of places,” he continues.
“Pat Gray Unleashed” co-host Jeffy interjects, “At one time, I don’t know if they’ve been arrested and deported, but at one time, you could get a bicyclist just to bring your food right to you. Fresh food. Right there in Manhattan.”
“Manhattan, New York City, that’s not a desert for anything,” executive producer Keith Malinak chimes in. “Anything you want.”
“You can get it in moments,” Gray adds.
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The radical left is poisoning our schools — here's how we fight back
Two hundred and fifty years ago, my great-grandmother’s great-grandfather pledged his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor to help forge this great nation.
In the centuries since, Americans have celebrated triumphs, endured hardships, and mourned tragedies. Our union, like Old Glory herself, bears scars — marks of a nation that is imperfect but resilient.
We must advocate for an education that promotes building and creating, that equips young people with the tools to succeed in a complex world.
While the United States was founded on a bedrock of Enlightenment values and principles, they are under ideological assault — not from external enemies, but from within our own K-12 schools.
In order for us to preserve this constitutional republic for posterity, we must not only expose these destructive far-left, anti-Western-civilization ideologies and their adherents, but we must also counter them by offering a better vision — one rooted in the timeless principles that built this nation and can guide future generations.
We need to fight for a “more perfect union” that is noticeably better today than yesterday. Unfortunately, Wormtongue has the ear of education.
History hijacked
Cloaked under the guise of “culture” and “history,” ethnic studies is a far-left political programming that brings together a “Red-Green Alliance” bent on ending capitalism and overturning stability.
Proponents such as the teachers' unions, Black Lives Matter, the Democratic Socialists of America, and anti-Israel activists are using K-12 schools to advance their agenda by seeding their radical ideology into curriculums and training the youth to be social justice street activists.
Based on cultural Marxist Paulo Freire’s work, ethnic studies teaches children to obsess over their identities, find oppression and racism in every corner of society, and resent those who are perceived to have more “privilege” than them.
It then presents students with a new set of “heroes” and idols such as the Black Panther Party, the Third World Liberation Front, and even Che Guevara.
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Ethnic studies then offers a utopian vision, promising “liberation” through street activism and the relentless critique and dismantling of societal norms — a process eerily reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
This corrosive ideology thrives on destruction, not creation. It fuels resentment and division, teaching children to see themselves and their neighbors as victims or villains in an endless struggle.
Future forged
Despite this, we can do better. We need to do better. We must advocate for an education that promotes building and creating, that equips young people with the tools to succeed in a complex world.
American youth are hungry for meaningful change, lasting self-confidence, and inspirational leadership. They deserve to be taught what it takes to be successful, what it means to be American, and what it requires.
It starts with faith — the belief in things hoped for but not yet seen, like a “more perfect union.” Young people need to trust that their future, and the future of this nation, can be shaped through their efforts. They should be encouraged to dream boldly and believe in their potential to achieve greatness — but to be humble enough to admit their mistakes.
There needs to be a renewal of integrity and an emphasis on valuing a person of his word, someone who means what he says and says what he means. This fosters societal trust, which is a hallmark of a thriving culture.
The sacrifices made today — whether time, comfort, or ease — pave the way for the outcomes we seek tomorrow.
Additionally, high societal trust requires taking on great responsibility. We need to help the youth understand that there is fulfillment in taking ownership over their own actions and the consequences that follow. As much has been given, much is required in return.
Prioritizing effort is also essential. A commitment to hard work and quality repetition forges habits and automaticity, and this leads to competence. Moreover, making the little things matter can be the difference between success and failure.
Finally, we must assist the youth in learning that making proper sacrifices is crucial to stable, long-term successes. The sacrifices made today — whether time, comfort, or ease — pave the way for the outcomes we seek tomorrow. Success is a byproduct of the right sacrifices at the right time.
Republic renewed
Two and a half centuries ago, the founders put everything they had on the line to establish this republic. It is now upon us and our children to keep it.
By teaching faith, integrity, responsibility, effort, and sacrifice, we empower American youth to make today better than yesterday — and to shape a future that honors the sacrifices of those who came before us.
America’s children deserve a vision that uplifts, not one that tears down.
Let’s give them the tools to build a nation that, while scarred, remains a beacon of hope and opportunity for all — a renewed and reinvigorated “shining city upon a hill.”
Gavin Newsom accidentally reveals his REAL goal while daring Trump to arrest him
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) added fire to the already burning city of Los Angeles when he dared President Trump and border czar Tom Homan to arrest him following the deployment of 2,000 National Guard troops to the city to quell violent anti-ICE protests.
In a June 8 MSNBC interview, Newsom, responding to Homan’s threat to arrest officials obstructing ICE immigration raids in L.A., taunted, “Come after me, arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don’t give a damn.”
The illegal aliens ICE was targeting, he claimed, were just “poor people ... trying to live their lives, paying their taxes,” who have “been here 10 years.”
“Who was arrested on Friday?” asks Glenn Beck. “A rapist, a murderer — people who are not here just paying their taxes trying to live a quiet life.”
He’s right. Among the illegal immigrants arrested last weekend were several people with criminal convictions for second-degree murder, rape, burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, and vehicular manslaughter, among others.
In another interview with Fox News, Newsom said that President Trump’s end goal isn’t restoring public safety and national security. It’s “a civil war on the streets of America.” Deploying the National Guard in Los Angeles, he claimed, was just Trump “testing the boundaries.”
Glenn sees through Newsom’s recent comments to the truth the radical governor hoped to keep concealed: It’s the left that’s pining for a civil war. Accusing Trump of trying to start one is yet another example of Democrat self-diagnosis.
“[Democtats] want civil war, and they're testing their boundaries — period,” says Glenn.
Co-host Stu Burguiere brings up a good point: Many of the organizations currently protesting on the streets of L.A. have openly “advocated” for uprising and revolution.
One of those organizations is the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which aims to overthrow capitalism and establish a socialist system. That’s who’s “printing the signs for the people to carry in the streets!” says Glenn.
Another group currently on the streets of L.A. is Unión del Barrio, another Marxist-Leninist political organization that seeks the destruction of imperialism, capitalism, and essentially “all the institutions that make America America.”
One of its leaders, Ron Gochez, who helped organize the L.A. protests against ICE, framed the clashing of protesters and law enforcement in the exact same way Gavin Newsom framed it. He said that because of the “fierce resistance of the community,” “hundreds of workers that were in the factories ... were able to escape” and “go to their cars and go home.”
Even though neither Newsom or Gochez “are saying ‘we want revolution in the streets,’ both of them want revolution in the streets,” says Glenn. “They always tip their hand by telling you what Trump is doing or what the right is doing. It's always projection.”
To hear more of Glenn’s analysis, watch the clip above.
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Beyond politics: NEW survey shows SICKENING trend growing among leftists
The nationwide attack on Tesla has reached a fever pitch. From car bombings to doxxing Tesla owners, the radical leftist stand against Elon Musk is dangerous and getting more so by the day.
A new report from Network Contagion Research Institute, however, is perhaps more indicative of the left’s vitriol for Musk than any singular incident of domestic terrorism against Tesla.
Steve Deace, BlazeTV host of the “Steve Deace Show,” reviews the results of the following poll question: Is murdering Elon Musk and President Trump justified?
The number of left-leaning people who answered yes is grotesque.
Forty-eight percent of people who self-identified as left of center voted yes in varying degrees ranging from somewhat to completely justified for the murder of Elon Musk, while 55% voted yes for President Trump.
Steve is hardly shocked. The left has become the party of violence.
To further illustrate this point, he speaks with Iowa state Representative and Moms for Liberty activist Samantha Fett (R), who is a Christian, about her experience being harassed and threatened by radical leftists.
Fett tells Steve that protesters are “hunting [her] down at [her] church,” displaying signs that read “send her out so we can have our way with her” — a direct reference to Genesis 19, when the men of Sodom demanded Lot overturn the visiting angels so that they could have sex with them.
When Iowa's gender identity bill that sought to remove gender identity protections from the state's civil rights code was being debated, Fett, who played a significant role in the bill’s advancement, had to be accompanied by special security. She was even offered a “soft armor vest to wear” after numerous threats on her life were made.
It’s a “spiritual battle on display,” she says.
Steve argues that so many people don’t understand “how depraved what we're up against really is,” but things like these survey results and Fett’s experiences should be a rallying cry for Christians.
“The level of seething that Samantha has faced is demonstrative of the fact and confirms: This is not about a political ideology; this is a spiritual war,” he says. “Mere political policy differences don’t engender that level of hostility.”
To see more of Steve and Samantha’s conversation, watch the episode above.
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