November 22, 2024
Dear Patriot,
We told you this transition would be hard and frustrating. It is especially hard when we can not count on a bunch of so-called Republican Senators.
Keep praying for President Trump and Vice President-Elect Vance and the entire team as they work to organize a new government. The Deep State will not go down without an historic battle. We are only just beginning.
Have a joyful weekend!
MSDNC is likely to be shut down.
Hollywood stars are finally moving away and checking into clinics to recover.
1- Finally, Democrat Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey has conceded the Pennsylvania Senate election race to Dave McCormick. After two weeks of ballot manufacturing, evil, leftist attorney Marc Elias has been defeated. Now, Republicans must hold the Democrat officials in Bucks County to account for mockingly breaking the law.
2- This is a good start. Thank you, Texas!
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan Says Trump Admin Will Use 1,400 Acres Offered by Texas for Mass Deportation Operation
QUOTE: The state of Texas has offered President-elect Donald Trump over 1,400 acres to conduct its mass deportation operation — and incoming Border Czar Tom Homan says they “absolutely” accept.
The land is available to be used for “processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history,” according to the Texas Land Commissioner.
According to a report from Fox News, “Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has written to President-elect Donald Trump offering him the land in Starr County, which the state purchased from a ranch owner in October. The 1,402 acres are in the Rio Grande Valley sector near the border.”
The letter said that the land commissioner is “fully prepared to enter into an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the United States Border Patrol to allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination of the largest deportation of violent criminals in the nation’s history.”
“What I care about is that we have safe communities, and there is no doubt that we are losing too many of our children to these violent criminals that are coming across the border,” Buckingham told Fox News. “I am 100% on board with the Trump administration’s pledge to get these criminals out of our country, and we are more than happy to offer our resources to facilitate those deportations of these violent criminals.”
“Right now, it’s essentially farmland, so it’s flat, it’s easy to build on. We could very easily put a detention center on there, a holding place as we get these criminals out of our country,” she said. “It’s accessible to international airports as well as a major crossing over the river. And so we’re just happy to get help, do anything we can to get these violent criminals off of our soil.”
3- We strongly advocate for the end of all persecution thorough lawfare. There is no place for it in the United States of America. If governments and businesses are forced to pay maybe they will stop, but, the guidance needs to come from the Justice Department.
Colorado To Pay $1.5 Million For Violating Christian Resident’s Religious Freedoms
QUOTE: On Tuesday, Colorado officials agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in legal fees to Christian resident Lorie Smith for violating her First Amendment right to religious freedom.
The court-approved settlement comes after seven years of legal attacks waged by left-wing activists against Smith and her design studio, 303 Creative. As The Federalist’s Jordan Boyd reported, despite being willing to work with any customer regardless of background, the Christian designer was targeted for declining to make “wedding websites celebrating same-sex couples because it would violate her constitutional right to exercise her Christian belief that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
Colorado officials attempted to force Smith to violate her Christian beliefs by citing a so-called “anti-discrimination” act, ignoring her First Amendment rights in the process.
The case ultimately made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which in a 2022 decision, ruled (6-3) that the government cannot mandate Smith to betray her religious convictions. Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that the “First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands.”
Responding to Tuesday’s agreement, Smith thanked Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys for representing her in the case and celebrated the settlement as a victory for “all Americans.”
“As the Supreme Court said, I’m free to create art consistent with my beliefs without fear of Colorado punishing me anymore,” she said in a statement. “This is a win not just for me but for all Americans — for those who share my beliefs and for those who hold different views.”
Smith is hardly the only Christian targeted by left-wing activists and Centennial State officials for her religious beliefs.
Since 2012, Colorado cake artist Jack Phillips has been the victim of never-ending lawfare for his Christian beliefs regarding marriage and sex. Unhinged LGBT radicals have filed numerous suits over the years seeking to weaponize the government to force Phillips to abandon core tenets of his faith.
4- There are many avenues used by the left to intimidate and destroy those offering a conservative opinion. This conspiracy to deny financial support through advertising is one way they do this.
Office of the Attorney General
Attorney General Ken Paxton Opens Investigation Into Possible Conspiracy by Advertising Companies to Boycott Certain Social Media Platforms
QUOTE: Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a civil investigative demand to the World Federation of Advertisers (“WFA”) as part of an ongoing investigation into a potential anticompetitive scheme to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms.
Attorney General Paxton is investigating a possible coordinated plan or conspiracy to withhold advertising dollars from certain social media platforms by pressuring advertisers not to purchase online advertising space. Although companies are free to choose when and where they want to advertise, a conspiracy among companies along these lines can result in harm to competition and may violate the Texas Free Enterprise and Antitrust Act of 1983. The civil investigative demand requests documents and information related to WFA and its sub-organization known as the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (“GARM”) organizing their membership to potentially boycott social media platforms that are deemed to violate their “Brand Safety Standards.”
“It is completely unacceptable and un-American that the Department of Justice under the Biden Administration failed to enforce antitrust laws against its perceived political allies,” said Attorney General Paxton. “Trade organizations and companies cannot collude to block advertising revenue from entities they wish to undermine. Today’s document request is part of an ongoing investigation to hold WFA and its members accountable for any attempt to rig the system to harm organizations they might disagree with.”
5- We have had college woman BOYcotting males in their sport, now a high school team is stepping up. Pray for these young warriors.
High School Volleyball Team Cites the Bible as it Forfeits Playoff Game Against Opponent with Trans Player
QUOTE: The diabolical madness that has consumed the Western world in recent years has once again stolen young girls’ dreams.
Fortunately, these particular girls, though criminally betrayed by dishonest adults, care more for truth than for their own earthly glory.
On Friday, the girls volleyball team at Stone Ridge Christian High in Merced, California, cited the Book of Genesis in announcing via news release that it would forfeit Saturday’s playoff game against San Francisco Waldorf, which boasts a male player posing as female.
“At SRC, we believe God’s Word is authoritative and infallible. It is Truth,” the school explained in a statement posted to the social media platform X. “And as Genesis makes clear, God wonderfully and immutably created each person as male or female,” the statement continued.
With that in mind, SRC students and the adults who support them made a “heartbreaking” decision to end their season.
“We do not believe sex is changeable and we do not intend to participate in events that send a different message. We also have a duty and responsibility to care for the health and safety of our athletes. So after consulting with our students, coaches, and staff, we have made the difficult decision to forfeit Saturday’s game. Standing for Biblical truth means more than the outcome of a game,” the statement read.
Meanwhile, those young people have paid a terrible price for doing what misguided or malevolent adults ought to have done.
In fact, not only have the girls of the SRC volleyball team suffered a kind of brutalization at the hands of those who promote what X owner Elon Musk has called the “woke mind virus,” but so too have the girls of San Francisco Waldorf and every other school where administrators, in a grotesque parody of moral virtue, have insisted that allowing males to compete in female sports or otherwise invade female spaces qualifies as compassionate.
In other words, students who have gone along with this madness have had their compassion manipulated and weaponized against them.
6- The wonderful Victor Davis Hanson boils it down. Sanity is back. And it looks great!
Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness
The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
QUOTE: We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.
The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned—from the trivial to the existential.
Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.
Yet all the initiatives he advanced and won on polled landslide public approval.
Despite being the target of Democrat lawfare for years, a defiant Trump promised to end an open border, massive illegal immigration, rising crime, and soaring prices. He pledged to slash government and its administrative state, terminate racial and gender identity politics, and restore deterrence abroad.
The people overwhelmingly wanted those messages but were waiting for an unorthodox messenger who would actually deliver them.
The Trump messenger reassured weary citizens that they were not crazy.
Instead, they had good cause to be sick of being talked down to by a media, academic, bureaucratic, and political elite that never earned nor deserved such self-appointed status. The FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ, not the massive crowds at rallies, were the ones truly out of control.
It is not a thought crime to believe there are two sexes—not three or four or more. No one should be forced to buy an electric vehicle, disconnect their natural gas stove, or submit to racial or gender indoctrination sessions.
Americans should speak their minds and write what they wish without worry of being censored, blacklisted, ostracized, doxxed, or shadow-banned—or jailed.
For Trump, party identification, titles, and traditional prestige matter less as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan.
The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on—content that it need not be perfect to be better than all the alternatives.
The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting anti-Semitic venom is passing.
So, another name for the Trump counterrevolution is a simple return to sanity.
7- If you want a deep dive into the workings of the Administrative State, this conversation between Tucker and Russ Vought should be on your weekend To Do List. You may hear more about Russ Vought in the next week or so.
The Tucker Carlson Show
Tucker Carlson and Russ Vought Break Down DOGE and All of Trump’s Cabinet Picks So Far
Russ Vought ran OMB under Trump the first time, and hopefully will again. Here’s what he learned about how the deep state actually works.
8- What a wonderful little lesson and one seldom taught.
The truth of the free market, and power it has, when operated correctly, to be good for all mankind and society in general.
Learn all you need to know about economics from the story of the pencil by Milton Friedman.
9- Get the tissues ready for this one. What a wonderful ad. We have often bemoaned the lack of compelling advertising in these days of wall-to-wall drug ads. But, this ad is lovely. It tells the beautiful story of family.
PRAY for divine intervention.
PRAY for President Trump.
PRAY for our country.
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