Red states get it: Economic freedom beats blue-state gimmicks



After enduring state and local COVID policies that wreaked havoc on the economy, followed by historic inflation that delivered a resounding election victory to Donald Trump, you would think that state and local politicians would learn some economic lessons.

Apparently not. Politicians from blue and red states seem to be getting their lessons from very different schools.

If blue states don’t begin to understand how economics work, they are going to continue to see their power centers dwindle.

In red states, politicians want to enable economic freedom. Property taxes, which impose a heavy, lifelong burden on real estate owners, have been a subject of several politicians looking to improve the opportunity to participate in the American dream of home ownership. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is looking at a state constitutional amendment to potentially eradicate property taxes in the state.

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Cliff Maloney, CEO of the strategic grassroots organization Citizens Alliance, explained to Blaze News the significance of this lesson:

When you think about it, you never truly own your home. If you miss just a few tax payments, they’ll seize your property that you saved for and worked so hard to make a home. That’s not freedom — that’s essentially just rent to the state. Our internal data shows that out of the 510,000 Americans we’ve talked to, more than 82% said property taxes are a major concern. They're infuriated that while they're being forced to cut their own budgets to survive in today's economy, local governments refuse to do the same.

While not going quite as far as DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is also trying to deliver some tax relief to property owners, with others in the state working to figure out how to get rid of property taxes in the long term.

Maloney also mentioned that Citizens Alliance's door-knocking and advocacy efforts in New Hampshire “led to abolishing 14 taxes and fees, which has produced a dramatic influx of businesses moving to the state from other nearby states that have a higher tax burden.”

All of this stems from smart economic lessons. Lessons that very blue states have failed to learn.

Democrats haven’t learned anything

After witnessing the inflationary effects of COVID-era stimulus checks — a result that was highly unpopular politically — one might assume politicians would steer clear of repeating the same mistake.

That’s not the case in New York, where Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) is laughably handing out “inflation refund” checks, a move even other Democrats are calling a political gimmick — not to mention a bad economic move.

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In Virginia, former Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger, now running for governor, has pledged to raise the minimum wage to $15, another form of market intervention that creates barriers to employment and increases costs.

In Minneapolis, city leaders are considering adding a 2% fee to hotel rooms in an effort to boost tourism — because, apparently, making hotels more expensive is always a good way to get more people to your city.

The people have spoken

Given the importance of the economy to Americans, it’s no surprise that Americans are moving from blue states to red ones. Maloney shared:

We've had the unique opportunity to talk to a lot of new residents during our door-knocking campaigns, and in doing so, our data uncovered that 69% of new residents moved for financial reasons. In 41% of these cases, this was because they were no longer able to afford the skyrocketing cost of living in blue states, while 13% were because of new, better-paying job opportunities.

If blue states don’t begin to understand how economics work, they will continue to see their power centers dwindle. Math doesn’t lie. People are taking their capital and spending power to the states where the math works.

The Democratic Party is not dying — it’s evolving



Let’s cut through the wishful thinking.

Contrary to what you may hear on Fox News or from conservative pundits, the Democratic Party isn’t imploding. The happy talk about a collapse may feel good, but it doesn’t reflect political reality. Yes, the party’s popularity has cratered in the polls — down to 27% according to some surveys. Yes, Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Jasmine Crockett of Texas are sideshow acts. And yes, elected officials like Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka allegedly physically assaulted ICE agents at a detention facility in New Jersey.

The sooner the Republican National Committee realizes it’s running from behind in 2026, the better.

But don’t assume any of that will cost Democrats elections.

Democratic voters have shown time and again that they either don’t mind obscene behavior from their leaders or they flat-out enjoy it. Don’t expect outrage over arrests or outbursts to suddenly translate into ballot-box blowback. Polls may show the party in a deep slump, but that doesn’t automatically translate into lost races. Voters often treat parties as abstractions but candidates as individuals.

That distinction matters. Case in point: Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.).

Spanberger, a liberal Democrat, is running away in her race for Virginia governor — despite the Democratic Party’s poor national standing. Unless she commits an unforced error (and even then, the media will likely run interference), she’s on track to succeed Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

Her GOP opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, is a Marine Corps veteran, a devout Christian, and a compelling conservative voice. She’s also black. But in modern Virginia politics, don’t expect her race to break through the stronghold of the overwhelmingly left-wing black vote — or the white, college-educated suburban women who reliably side with Democrats.

Don’t confuse collapsing party approval with electoral collapse. The left may be unpopular, but it’s still powerful — and that matters more than the polls.

Spanberger may not wave the woke banner, but she’s every bit as culturally left as the rest of her party. Unlike the loudest activists, she avoids the firebrand persona and leans hard into buzzwords like “unity” and “bringing people together.” If elected, expect her to govern just like Ralph Northam (D) — minus the public enthusiasm for post-birth abortion.

Spanberger isn’t unique. Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro (D) follows the same playbook. He speaks calmly, claims to support Israel, and talks about “solving problems,” all while quietly pushing a radical social agenda. Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D) has also mastered the performance. His folksy demeanor wins voters in a red state, even though his positions align with the likes of Tampon Tim Walz and Mayor Pete Buttigieg. He talks like Andy Griffith while voting like Bernie Sanders.

Don’t confuse presentation with moderation.

The Democratic Party hasn’t lost its grip on blue America. It hasn’t even flinched.

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Just look at Philadelphia, where radical District Attorney Larry Krasner (D) just won his primary in a landslide — beating a supposedly more moderate Democrat with over two-thirds of the vote. In New York City, Democrat prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s far-left prosecutions and anti-Trump theatrics haven’t dented his popularity.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a Republican breakthrough in the deep-blue states. Democrats still dominate Illinois, hold Minnesota, and likely have an edge in Michigan and Wisconsin.

If the Democratic Party were truly in its death throes, it wouldn’t be holding its ground so confidently in the places that matter most.

Winning elections in the United States means collecting the most officially recognized votes. A national party can lag in overall popularity and still dominate the game. Democrats understand that — and play to win, by hook or by crook. Whether through ballot harvesting, lawfare, or machine politics, they know the courts won’t stop them and the legacy media won’t question them.

Their ground game runs deep. Teachers’ unions, public sector workers, black activists, LGBT groups, and college-educated white women fight for them like their paychecks depend on it — because they often do.

Democrats also enjoy bountiful donations from most of those at the top of the income curve, who don’t confuse the crony capitalism from which they benefit with real socialism. Even if the Democrats claim to be fighting plutocracy, they are being swamped with megabucks from the very rich.

Let’s also stop pretending Democrats lack a unified message. Their priorities are crystal clear: DEI, trans ideology, unlimited abortion, open borders, and tax hikes to fund their coalition. Millions of Americans support all or most of this agenda, or at least don’t mind it enough to vote against it.

Fox News may roll its eyes at the clowns in Congress, but those clowns aren’t trying to impress us — or the Fox All-Stars. They’re mobilizing their base, and the base likes what it hears.

The sooner the Republican National Committee realizes it’s running from behind in 2026, the better. Because that’s exactly what it’s doing.

The next American revolution is happening — will you be part of it?



These are remarks adapted from the closing keynote at the Heritage Foundation’s Annual Leadership Conference, which took place earlier in April in Naples, Florida.

Conservatives have been given a generational opportunity — a once-in-a-lifetime chance to shift our country’s trajectory back toward people and values that Washington has for too long left behind. The five values that Ronald Reagan espoused when he won the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1980 are “family, work, neighborhood, peace, and freedom.” More than any time since Reagan, those values are making a comeback. “Rejoice in hope,” St. Paul tells us in his letter to the Romans. How could we not?

This is our moment to truly shape America’s future.

But this should be our rallying cry, not a victory lap.

Because the left’s counter-fight is coming, and our response will determine whether last November was the high-water mark of the new conservative movement or simply the first triumph in America’s greatest comeback — whether we squander this moment in history, or whether we seize it.

Conservatives have the opportunity, the mandate, and the plans to rise to the occasion. The only question is whether, in these turbulent days, we have the vision to put those plans into action and the grit to see them through despite doubts and adversity.

Mandates from the past

When I think about how the conservative movement should respond to this moment, I look for lessons from our past. And lately, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about one of my heroes from the founding era: Patrick Henry.

Two hundred and fifty years ago last month, Henry stood up at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and delivered one of the great speeches in American history. Everyone remembers its most famous line: “Give me liberty or give me death.” That one always hits home.

But another sequence in that speech resonates even more specifically with us now. Henry’s speech was not just a call to revolution. In his mind, the colonies had already passed that point. “The war is actually begun,” he said, whether Americans realized it or not. He was calling for the courage to see it through — to push past fear in the face of a powerful adversary.

“They tell us, sir, that we are weak,” Henry said, “unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger?”

The question still resonates: When shall we be stronger?

Six months from now, when the left throws everything it has in Virginia and New Jersey, or 18 months from now, when we head into the midterms, shall we gather strength while sitting on our hands? Will we stand by as our president weathers a hurricane of criticism? Shall we watch quietly as our majorities in Congress sidestep the most critical issues facing our country? Will we pass by the working families who wait for Washington to deliver them from a woke culture, a weaponized government, and a rigged economy?

Of course not. We have worked too long and too hard to squander this opportunity. Now is the moment conservatives can enact permanent policy change, not just half-a-loaf compromises: rebuild our economy, our military, and our local communities to answer the challenges of the coming generation.

This is our moment — not just to win elections or temporary 51-49 majorities — but to truly shape the future. This is our generation’s shot to secure a new birth of freedom. To write a new chapter in the American story — one that begins with courage and ends with victory.

The left is regrouping

But as extraordinary as this moment is, it will be just as fleeting. If we do not seize it now, it will slip through our fingers and won’t come back for a long time. And what comes next would be worse than anything we have yet endured.

The left hasn’t changed. Leftists may rewrite their talking points, but the writing on their hearts is the same. They’re still elitists who disdain the Constitution, globalists who scorn national sovereignty, and woke theocrats who reject religious liberty, parental rights, moral truth, and scientific fact.

They are already regrouping, re-funding, and reasserting their power. Their victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race was not a fluke. They still control the media and elite institutions, and they are going to weaponize both for as long as they can.

That is why conservatives cannot sit back. We must stay in the fight — and open new fronts in it.

Will we rise up?

Two hundred and fifty years later, Americans still face Patrick Henry’s question: When shall we be stronger?

At the Heritage Foundation, we have an answer.

We’ll be stronger every time we stand on principle — and for America and Americans. When we act with the urgency and courage this moment demands, when we realize the future is ours to win or to squander, when we understand that neither the left, China, media, nor any other adversary can defeat us, our only downfall is our own timidity and complacency.

Just consider: What do we think the other side wants us to be doing right now? What do Planned Parenthood, the teachers’ unions, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and MSNBC want us to do right now?

Nothing. They want us complacent, fat, and happy — just like good establishment Republicans. They want us to think the last six months are all we need and all we can hope for. They want us basking in the success of 2024, eating popcorn, and watching Fox News while they storm the field.

Well, I’m sorry to disappoint them.

The Heritage Foundation is not sitting this one out. Donald Trump and JD Vance are not sitting this fight out. And I know you won’t either.

We can’t. The moment is too important. The stakes are too high. Last November’s historic victory was only the beginning. The next chapter in America’s history is ours to write. Whether we fight or not will be our generation’s story — what our children and grandchildren learn about us.

A time to act

I can’t help but think that if Patrick Henry were alive today, he would look at President Trump and his entire administration and be convinced that the American dream is still possible to revitalize. And that dream isn’t just about an idea, as noble as that idea is. It’s about a real place — where you were born and are likely to be buried. It’s a place our children and grandchildren and generations after us — God willing — will be born and buried.

This providential moment we’ve been given to save this republic and revitalize America gives honor to all those who came before us — wherever they were from — who, in their last moments, were as grateful as you and I are to call ourselves Americans.

Mark Levin: Here's why the Virginia race was a TRUMP WIN



Throughout his campaign, Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe made the governor's race in Virginia all about former President Donald Trump. And guess what? He lost — and so Trump won, argued BlazeTV host Mark Levin.

On the latest episode of "LevinTV," Mark discussed November's "red wave beatdown" of McAuliffe, which has the Marxist left and liberal media in a tizzy.

Mark shared a clip of CNN's Van Jones calling Glenn Youngkin "the delta variant of Trumpism" to paint the Republican as the equivalent of a dangerous contagion.

"My point is that playing on racial fears by demagoguing CRT furthers dangerous aspects of Trumpism," Jones later added on Twitter.

"The delta variant of Trumpism? He thinks he's so clever," Mark said of Jones' statement. "In other words, from his perspective, [Youngkin is] a racist, a bigot, a divider, you know, a loathsome human being because he ran on this issue of Critical Race Theory. Ladies and gentlemen, we didn't start this fight. The American Marxists started it."

"You see, the left — whether they're in the media, politics, academia — they're very confused about how to deal with this. On the one hand, they say [CRT] doesn't exist. On the other hand, they defend it, and if you don't embrace it you must be a racist. So, they're making two opposite arguments, but we know exactly what they are. In the first case, they're lying. And in the second case, they're reprobates," Mark continued.

Mark went on to continue playing the Van Jones video clip.

"[Youngkin] is playing footsie with the worst of Trumpism," Jones claimed in the clip. "He's putting himself forward as a champion of parents, that this is a referendum on parents' rights. But he's not talking about, but he's using all the Critical Race Theory head-fakes and head-nods, which is a softer version of a very virulent kind of anti-black posture."

"That is unbelievable," Mark responded. "Critical Race Theory is a racist ideology that was developed by a Marxist law professor, among others, and has been pushed by them to take down this country. That's why Black Lives Matter, the founders, they don't make any bones about it, that they are doctrinaire Marxists. ... I don't know why it's so complicated. The people who developed [CRT] said they were Marxists. The people who developed it in the 1970s, that's who they were. That's exactly who they were. But now, if you oppose Critical Race Theory, you're part of this Trump, white supremacy, racism, and so forth."

He later added, "The fact of the matter is that because McAuliffe tried to make this a campaign against Trump and he lost — Trump won."

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AOC says 'wokeness' is a term 'almost exclusively used by older people,' throwing shade at James Carville



Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) blasted the use of the term "wokeness" to describe progressivism, saying those like veteran Democratic strategist James Carville who argue the Democrats lost big in last Tuesday's elections because the party is too "woke" are using language "almost exclusively used by older people."

"How can news outlets even attribute words to me I didn't say," asked Ocasio-Cortez in a tweet linking to a WSET-TV report that claimed she said Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe lost the Virginia gubernatorial race because he wasn't "woke" enough.

"I said there are limits to trying to mobilize a campaign with a 100% moderate strategy without mobilizing the base. Said nothing [about] 'wokeness' which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days [by the way]," she wrote.

How can news outlets even attribute words to me I didn\u2019t say?\n\nI said there are limits to trying to mobilize a campaign with a 100% moderate strategy without mobilizing the base. Said nothing abt \u201cwokeness\u201d which is a term almost exclusively used by older people these days btwhttps://twitter.com/abc13news/status/1456642083524071431\u00a0\u2026

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 1636128175

Continuing, the democratic-socialist lawmaker said the only people using the word "woke" are Carville and "Fox News pundits," implying that term is targeted towards a right-wing audience and Democrats shouldn't be concerned about it.

"And before people disingenuously complain 'woke' is denigrating to older people, it's actually pundits like Carville using terms like 'woke' to insult voters under 45 that's denigrating," Ocasio-Cortez added, disparaging Carville, the lead strategist for the 1992 campaign that put then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton in the White House, as a mere "pundit."

"Don't wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone," she said.

And before people disingenuously complain \u201cwoke\u201d is denigrating to older people, it\u2019s actually pundits like Carville using terms like \u201cwoke\u201d to insult voters under 45 that\u2019s denigrating.\n\nDon\u2019t wonder why youth turnout falls when Dems talk about them like this. We need everyone.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 1636129097

Days ago, Carville spoke to "PBS Newshour" about Tuesday's elections and blamed "stupid wokeness" for Democrats losing in Virginia and progressives severely underperforming elsewhere.

"I mean, this 'defund the police' lunacy, this take Abraham Lincoln's name off of schools. I mean that — people see that," Carville said. "And it really has a suppressive effect on all across the country on Democrats. Some of these people need to go to a woke detox center or something."

Republicans won competitive district attorney races in Long Island, New York and increased a GOP legislative majority in Niagara County. In New York City and in Minneapolis, Minnesota mayoral candidates that rejected the "defund the police" movement claimed victory.

In Seattle, a law-and-order Republican won a race for city attorney, defeating a radical left-wing former public defender who described herself as a police abolitionist.

Carville's point is that the Democratic Party is losing touch with voters by becoming preoccupied with niche racial and social justice politics.

Ocasio-Cortez, on the other hand, argued after the elections that the Democratic Party did not do enough to embrace its far-left element and failed to rally support for a progressive agenda.

"I know that Virginia was a huge bummer," Ocasio-Cortez said in an Instagram video. "And honestly, if anything, I think that the results show the limits of trying to run a fully 100% super moderated campaign that does not excite speak to or energize a progressive base and frankly, we weren't even really invited to contribute on that race."

She nailed it. Take her advice Democrats - McAuliff wasn\u2019t progressive or woke enough. So in the midterms only follow AOC\u2019s model. Run the MOST woke and progressive in the land. And make sure to tell parents they\u2019re racist and shouldn\u2019t be involved in their kids education again.https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1456262697973026825\u00a0\u2026

— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) 1636036027

She accused moderate Democrats of enabling "race-baiting" by Republicans, saying the moderates' strategy "demoralizes the base you're supposed to protect and turn out while also ceding white swing voters to the right w/ inadequate responses or silence."

McConnell says GOP victories show Democrats' 'radical social takeover' is 'the last thing Americans want'



Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Wednesday chastised Democrats, saying that GOP victories in Tuesday's elections show there is no mandate for a "radical social takeover" of the country.

Speaking on the Senate floor the day after Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democratic former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia's gubernatorial race, McConnell said Democrats have overreached after their narrow victory in 2020 and that American voters don't want a far-left progressive agenda.

"Last night was a difficult evening for Democrats. The Democratic Party has wildly misread their mandate and let the radical left run the country. Local Democrats let teachers' unions keep schools shut months longer than necessary and told parents they didn't get a say in what their kids are learning," McConnell said.

The Republican leader blamed Democrats for rising prices of consumer goods before criticizing how President Joe Biden has handled the economy, foreign policy, immigration, and other "government-created crises."

He also took the opportunity to criticize the Democrats' proposed $1.75 trillion spending bill, which was originally a $3.5 trillion bill until moderate Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) forced Democrats to compromise to win his support.

"The American people will not stand for this. That's what voters told Democrats last night. The results from different parts of the country demonstrate this was in large part a referendum on national issues," he said. "But it's not too late. Democrats should listen to the voters, drop this reckless taxing and spending spree, and stop trying to ram through a socialist transformation that the American people never asked for. The radical transformation that Democrats are writing behind closed doors would compound every mistake their party has made."

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"This radical social takeover is the last thing Americans need and the last thing Americans want. The voters of America just gave our colleagues a preview of that fact last night. They should pull back from the brink while they can," McConnell added.

Tuesday night was a rousing success for the Republican Party nationwide.

In addition to Youngkin's victory in the gubernatorial election, Virginia Republicans won the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general for the first time since 2009. Virginia Republicans also reclaimed a majority in the lower house of the state legislature.

In New Jersey, Republican Jack Ciattarelli ran closely with incumbent Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, and the race is too close to call. When Murphy was first elected in 2017, he won handily by 14 points over his Republican opponent.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis, voters rejected a controversial proposal to replace the police department with a "Department of Public Safety," defeating a measure supported by "defund the police" activists.

The National Republican Congressional Committee responded to Tuesday's results by expanding its list of incumbent House Democrats targeted for defeat by 13.

"In a cycle like this, no Democrat is safe," NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer said. "Voters are rejecting Democrat policies that have caused massive price increases, opened our borders, and spurred a nationwide crime wave."

Whitlock: MSNBC’s ‘Three Stooges’ — Maddow, Reid, and Wallace — invite election viewers to hell on social media’s earth



Last night I watched MSNBC's election coverage. It was anchored by Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace, the Mo, Sha'Carri, and Shirley of the Alphabet Mafia.

The three stooges of sexual identity, racial identity, and gender identity presented a portrait of American reality far different from my interpretation.

In their view, critical race theory doesn't exist and certainly isn't being taught in American schools, an investigation into Thomas Jefferson's worldview is a high priority, Jan. 6 was a violent bloodbath that nearly toppled our republic, and Virginia's gubernatorial race was a referendum on re-instituting Jim Crow laws.

The picture painted by Maddow, Reid, and Wallace likely explains why Republican Glenn Youngkin won his race for governor and why he'll be joined in office by Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, the first black woman to win a statewide election in Virginia.

It's difficult to retain and sustain power with lies. The political left and its propagandists in corporate media have been lying nonstop for the past year. A wise con man conceals his lies with occasional truths. Politics attract con men, both left and right.

Big Tech and its social media apps convinced Democrats to be unwise, to abandon truth completely. Big Tech believes its Twitter and Facebook algorithms are in control of truth.

Youngkin and Sears believe in a much higher power, a truth spelled out in the Bible and backed by the blood of Jesus.

Democrats and their pundits will spend the coming days and months trying to figure out how the state of Virginia elected President Joe Biden by a 10-point margin and 12 months later elected Youngkin and Sears. They will, of course, blame racism, Donald Trump, the Proud Boys, and Thomas Jefferson, and eventually they will shred Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe as a horrible candidate.

They will not admit that voters rejected their reliance on lies. They will not admit that Twitter and Facebook baited them into believing that lies supported on the social media matrix could be converted into real-world truths. It's not just comedian Dave Chappelle. Ordinary American citizens are snapping out of the woke coma induced by Twitter.

"Twitter isn't a real place."

Twitter is where the Three Stooges go to have their lies confirmed. On social media, you can earn likes and retweets pretending that January 6 was the modern-day Pearl Harbor. Yesterday, Nicolle Wallace claimed police were "maimed by flag poles" during an insurrection.

The truth is a bunch of frustrated taxpayers, at the behest of FBI informants, staged a mostly peaceful protest inside the Capitol. An incompetent police officer shot and killed a tiny, non-threatening woman, Ashli Babbitt. In comparison to the riots, looting, and arson we witnessed across the country in the Summer of St. George Floyd, January 6 was a 1950s-style sorority panty raid.

On social media, you can garner likes and retweets firing off tweets claiming that 2021 America is no different from 1921 America. Late last night, as it became evident Youngkin would win, Jemele Hill tweeted: "It's not the messaging, folks. This country simply loves white supremacy."

The tweet has 16,000 likes and nearly 5,000 retweets. Hill thinks she's tweeting hard truths to power. She's just running to Twitter to get her insanity and lies confirmed. I'm sure Joy Reid did the same thing after ranting on TV that Republicans are a danger to our national security.

Is Winsome Sears a danger to America? She immigrated to America at age 6. She joined the Marines before she was an American citizen. She's lt. governor-elect of the state of Virginia. She's black. So is her husband. So are her kids. Are they all a danger?

MSNBC's Three Stooges argued that Republicans have constructed a fantasy world, an unfair political terrain that makes it difficult for Democrats to compete. Nicolle Wallace argued that schools are not teaching critical race theory. She backed Terry McAuliffe's lie that the state of Virginia was not implementing critical race theory into schools.

These lies are too easily debunked. While serving as governor in 2015, McAuliffe's department of education explicitly directed public schools to embrace critical race theory. The Virginia Department of Education website recommends CRT. Check out this string of tweets.

The left has abandoned the truth. Men are birthing people. Biden appointee Rachel Levine made history as the first female four-star admiral. Police pose a much greater threat to black men than gang violence. George Floyd is a hero. Biological men should be allowed to compete against women in sports. The only way to survive COVID is with three masks, six vaccines, and in constant isolation.

The world the Three Stooges believe exists is on Twitter. It's a satanic world where the truth is under constant attack. Virginia voters live in a different world, a world that answers to a higher power than Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg.

Marine vet Winsome Sears celebrates win in Virginia lieutenant governor race with 'USA' chant, says she's 'living proof' of American dream in patriotic speech



Winsome Sears, an immigrant, a Marine Corps veteran, and now the first black woman elected lieutenant governor in Virginia, delivered a triumphant and patriotic speech at Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin's victory party early Wednesday, claiming victory in her own right after Tuesday's election.

"I'm telling you that what you are looking at is the American dream," Sears said, with her husband and two daughters standing beside her.

Sears, a Jamaican immigrant and naturalized U.S. citizen, previously made history as the first black Republican woman elected to the Virginia House of Delegates in 2002, defeating a 20-year Democratic incumbent. She served one term before unsuccessfully running for Congress in 2004.

Now, she's made history again by defeating Democrat Hala Ayala in Virginia's lieutenant governor race, winning an estimated 51% of the vote Tuesday.

Prior to entering politics, Sears was the director of a Salvation Army homeless shelter. She also owns an appliance repair store in Virginia and has previously served as vice president of the Virginia Board of Education.

In her speech, Sears celebrated the progress the United States has made on civil rights for non-white Americans and immigrants since her father came to the U.S. in 1963 with just "$1.75" in his pocket.

"I am not even first-generation American," Sears said. "When I joined the Marine Corps, I was still a Jamaican. But this country had done so much for me, I was willing to die for this country."

She then led the jubilant crowd in a "USA" chant before continuing.

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"I say to you, there are some who want to divide us and we must not let that happen. They would like us to believe we are back in 1963 when my father came. We can live where we want. We can eat what we want. We own the water fountains. We've had a black president elected not once, but twice, and here I am, living proof," Sears said, to wild cheers.

"In case you haven't noticed, I am black. And I have been black all my life, but that's not what this is about," she continued.

"What we are going to do is we are going to now be about the business of the Commonwealth," she said. "We have things to tend to. We are going to fully fund our historically black colleges and universities. ... We're going to have safer neighborhoods, safer communities, and our children are going to get a good education. Because education lifted my father out of poverty, education lifted me out of poverty, education will lift us all out of poverty. We must have marketable skills so that our children can not just survive but they will thrive, and they will create generational wealth. That's what this is about."

"I didn't run to make history," Sears said. "I just wanted to leave it better than I found it."

Sears' victory is part of a Republican sweep of Virginia's statewide races, with Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin defeating former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe for governor and Republican Del. Jason Miyares defeating incumbent Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring in that race.

Republicans have not won any of these statewide races since 2009.

As of Wednesday morning, the GOP also appeared to be on track to capture control of the House of Delegates.

CNN's Van Jones, David Axelrod rip fellow Democrats as 'annoying and offensive,' 'out of touch,' 'moralizing' amid big election night loss



Amid the shocking political turnaround in Virginia that culminated with Republican Glenn Youngkin's defeat of far-left Democrat Terry McAuliffe for governor Tuesday night, CNN's Van Jones and David Axelrod reflected on how their own Democratic Party managed to lose so big in a blue state.

'Annoying and offensive'

Jones surmised that Democrats have been living in a political bubble and not paying attention to voters' real day-to-day needs — and paid for it at the ballot box.

"I think that the Democrats are coming across in ways that we don't recognize that are annoying and offensive, and seem out of touch in ways that I don't think show up in our feeds, when we're looking at our kind of echo chamber," Jones said, mimicking someone scrolling through a smartphone. "And I think that this is a message here."

CNN's Van Jones admits Democrats are “annoying and offensive."youtu.be

'Moralizing' messages: 'We will tell you what is right'

Axelrod echoed Jones' take, adding that Democrats also have come across as preachy to the point that they're dictating what voters should believe and how they should behave.

He noted that the Democratic Party has "become a more college-educated, urban party in coalition with minority voters, and the messages tend to be moralizing. It's like, 'We are going to tell you; we will tell you what is right.' And no connection to people who work with their hands, people who work with their backs, rural voters, so that's part of the problem."

Obama Campaign Manager David Axelrod: Democrats Have “No Connection" With Blue-Collar Americansyoutu.be

How are folks reacting?

Twitter users responding to Jones' comments posted on the Republican National Committee Research page couldn't agree more:

  • "Oh honey, it's not that they just come across that way, they are," one commenter said.
  • "Yeah people are tired of all that woke nonsense," another user offered. "We just want to know what is going on and live as peacefully as we can with one another."
  • "YA THINK?" another commenter mockingly asked. "What idiot thought it was a good idea to portray concerned parents as 'domestic terrorists'? 'Defund the Police' wasn't a big enough failure, so Democrats went to war with parents?"
  • "'Seem out of touch'?" another user wondered. "The fact that they don't discuss the border crisis, the Afghanistan fiasco, defunding the police, the crime, the failing public schools are all evidence of that. Those problems do not exist to them."

MSNBC reporter blames lies about critical race theory for Democratic flop in Virginia. But she's the one lying.



MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace argued Tuesday night that GOP propaganda and fake fomentation over the rise of critical race theory in schools is what led to a Republican rout of Democrats in Virginia's statewide elections.

"Critical race theory, which isn't real, turned the suburbs 15 points to the Trump insurrection endorsed Republican," Wallace said on the air while covering Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's shock victory in Virginia's gubernatorial race.

As counting continued late into the night Tuesday, Youngkin maintained a healthy lead over Democratic candidate and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

Republicans also appeared to take the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general in the state, which President Joe Biden won by more than 10 percentage points just one year ago.

During her show on MSNBC, a clearly rattled Wallace blasted Republican attacks on the educational implementation of critical race theory, an ideology that re-examines society through a racial lens and presumes that race is a constructed concept used primarily to exploit people of color.

The "Deadline: White House" host even tried to whitewash the theory by claiming it "isn't real" despite mounds of evidence to the contrary.

"Which isn't real"\n\nA reminder that the Virginia Department of Education website explicitly mentions Critical Race Theory as part of a best practice for establishing a curriculum: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1454470598168510464\u00a0\u2026https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1455693642866298887\u00a0\u2026

— AG (@AGHamilton29) 1635901736

Critics on Twitter quickly charged Wallace with spreading misinformation, citing materials recently obtained by conservative journalist and filmmaker Christopher Rufo.

On Oct. 30, Rufo pointed out that under Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D), public education officials endorsed the explicit use of critical race theory as an "important analytic tool" to "further spur developments in education."

He also noted, "Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends 'Critical Race Theory in Education' as a 'best practice' and derives its definitions of 'racism,' 'white supremacy,' and 'education equity' explicitly from 'critical race theory.'"

Right now, on its website, the Virginia Department of Education recommends "Critical Race Theory in Education" as a "best practice" and derives its definitions of "racism," "white supremacy," and "education equity" explicitly from "critical race theory."pic.twitter.com/QVSJVpju2A

— Christopher F. Rufo \u2694\ufe0f (@realchrisrufo) 1635607788

Radical progressive changes in schools in the state — including the teaching of critical race theory and the adoption of transgender-affirming policies — are believed to have played a large part in the GOP's Tuesday night victories.

Yet McAuliffe, like Wallace, suggested in the final days of his campaign that critical race theory is nothing more than a "racist dog whistle" used to misleadingly rile up Republican voters.

The former governor also claimed that the theory has "never been taught in Virginia," even though in 2015, his very own administration reportedly instructed public schools to embrace it.