Researchers at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development are facing criticism after launching a website claiming that America is suffering from a “Whiteness Pandemic.”
The <a href="https://innovation.umn.edu/culture-and-family-life-lab/whiteness-pandemic">website</a>, created by the institute&#8217;s Culture and Family Lab, is titled, “Whiteness Pandemic Resources for Parents, Educators, and other Caregivers,” and states:
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Racism is an epidemic that can also be considered a pandemic given its large cross-national proportion and spread (APA, 2020). However, there is another pandemic lurking behind and driving the racism pandemic – the Whiteness Pandemic. Whiteness refers to culture not biology: the centuries-old culture of Whiteness features colorblindness, passivity, and White fragility, which are all covert expressions of racism common in the United States. &#8230; At birth, young children growing up in White families begin to be socialized into the culture of Whiteness, making the family system one of the most powerful systems involved in systemic racism.
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It continues, “If you were born or raised in the United States, you have grown up in the Whiteness Pandemic.”
The nonprofit group Parents Defending Education, which monitors political activism in schools, blasted the website as “far-left programming” reflective of a deeply entrenched diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Rhyen Staley, the group’s research director, told Fox News that the project shows how pervasive DEI remains in taxpayer-funded institutions.
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The “Whiteness Pandemic” initiative is based on a 2021 study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and written by lab director Dr. Gail Ferguson. The abstract for the paper, which won an award from the Society for General Psychology, <a href="https://experts.umn.edu/en/publications/the-whiteness-pandemic-behind-the-racism-pandemic-familial-whiten/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reads</a>, “Family socialization into the centuries-old culture of Whiteness—involving colorblindness, passivity, and fragility—perpetrates and perpetuates U.S. racism, reflecting an insidious Whiteness pandemic.”
The study concluded that parents’ attitudes toward race correlated with their level of “racial identity development,” suggesting that silence on racial events like George Floyd’s death reflected lower progress in “antiracism.”
Critics argue that the framing is both unscientific and overtly accusatory. The study surveyed a highly specific demographic: predominantly liberal, educated, upper-middle-class white mothers in Minnesota, raising serious questions about the generalizability of the conclusions. By defining an entire race’s culture as inherently problematic and framing all white people as contributors to systemic racism, the university is effectively assigning collective guilt based on skin color.

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Far-Left Programming: University Of Minnesota Labels ‘Whiteness’ A ‘Pandemic’

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The Regents of the Texas A&amp;M University System voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt a policy requiring college presidents to sign off on any course that could be interpreted as pushing “race and gender ideology or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.”
The new policy seeks to prevent another controversy like the one that erupted at Texas A&amp;M earlier this year when an English professor was filmed pushing pro-LGBT talking points during a children’s literature course. The policy approved by regents defines race ideology as “attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity” or anything that “promotes activism on issues related to race or ethnicity rather than academic instruction,” The Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/13/texas-am-regents-race-gender-ideology-course-audit/">reported</a>. Gender ideology is defined under the policy as “a concept of self-assessed gender identity replacing, and disconnected from, the biological category of sex.”
The policy also prohibits professors from teaching any material that is not consistent with the approved syllabus. Enforcement of the policy is set to begin at all 12 colleges in the Texas A&amp;M University System in the spring 2026 semester.
“What we’re doing is pretty simple,” regent Sam Torn told The Texas Tribune. “It’s not as complex. We’re simply making sure that we do educate, and we’re simply making sure that we teach what the course syllabus specifies that we teach.”
Videos obtained and shared by Republican Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-texas-am-student-booted-from-lecture-after-objecting-to-professor-pushing-radical-gender-theory?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=WATCH%3A+Texas+A%26M+Student+Booted+From+Lecture+After+Objecting+To+Professor+Pushing+Radical+Gender+Theory">first reported</a> by The Daily Wire in September showed children’s literature professor Dr. Melissa McCoul advocating for leftist views on race and gender and asking one student who pushed back on her arguments to leave a lecture. The children’s literature course included material that advocated for introducing leftist gender ideas to children. One of the slides in the class was titled “Let’s talk gender in children’s lit!” and argued that “Childhood is the time for figuring out how to be a boy, girl, man, woman, or another gender.”
In a phone call with the student who publicly opposed the leftism espoused in the literature course, then-Texas A&amp;M President Mark Welsh said, “There’s not a problem” with teaching LGBT literature as long as the university makes it clear it will be part of a class. When the student asked Welsh if any more changes would be made, such as firing McCoul, Welsh accused the student of attempting to “pick a fight,” adding that the university would not punish the professor.
Welsh <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-am-president-to-resign-after-leftist-politics-infiltrated-university-childrens-lit-course">stepped down</a> as Texas A&amp;M president less than two weeks after the videos and details of the children’s literature class were made public. A rule implemented in September requires that all course content at each of the Texas A&amp;M System’s 12 schools be audited.
“It’s a serious system-wide review of every course, every syllabus,” Torn said on Thursday. “We are examining the body of knowledge behind each degree, low-producing programs, workforce relevance and financial stewardship.”
Rep. Harrison <a href="https://x.com/brianeharrison/status/1989310142291100113">celebrated</a> after the regents approved the new policy on race and gender ideology, saying that his use of social media to highlight the issue at Texas A&amp;M “has done more this year to combat woke indoctrination than the entire Texas House and Texas Senate… combined.”
Some professors are concerned that the policy will only add confusion.
Geography professor Andrew Klein told the board of regents, “The vagueness of the language is problematic. Faculty are now assuming that all instructions in the topic of concern will be prohibited. Will subjects like medicine, public health and law, where such content is required to prepare professionals for the Texas workforce, be disallowed?”
Philosophy professor Martin Peterson added that academics must “seek the truth,” arguing, “When we seek the truth, we sometimes have to explore ideas that touch on controversial issues.”
“It is not always clear what counts as advocating for an ideology in those contexts,” Peterson said.
European history professor Miranda Sachs argued that the new rule would prevent her from addressing certain historical topics, such as the Holocaust. Regent John Bellinger responded to Sachs’s comment, saying, “There’s got to be some common sense in this.”
“I think we’re taking it a little bit too far when [we say] that we’re not going to teach about what happened in world wars,” Bellinger said.

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Texas A&M Restricts ‘Race And Gender Ideology’ After Leftist Literature Course Exposed

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The Department of Justice launched a &#8220;full investigation&#8221; into the leftist demonstrations that took place outside of a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday.
Bondi said that Antifa was behind &#8220;violent riots&#8221; at UC Berkeley on Monday after leftist agitators showed up at the venue hours before the TPUSA event began on campus, harassing conservative attendees as they lined up for the event. The investigation is being led by the FBI&#8217;s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which focuses on international and domestic terrorism.
&#8220;Antifa is an existential threat to our nation. The violent riots at UC Berkeley last night are under full investigation by the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force. We will continue to spare no expense unmasking all who commit and orchestrate acts of political violence,&#8221; Bondi <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1988339354754769099">wrote</a> in a post on X. &#8220;Under President Trump’s leadership, and pursuant to his Executive Order designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, the Department of Justice and our law-enforcement partners are dismantling violent networks that seek to intimidate Americans and suppress their free expression and First Amendment rights.&#8221;
Two people were arrested after a fistfight broke out between one of the agitators and a man wearing a red Turning Point USA t-shirt. One person was charged with battery, but it&#8217;s unclear if the person who was charged was one of the two men who were seen fighting.
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At least two people detained after violence breaks out at a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TurningPointUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TurningPointUSA</a> event at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ucberkeley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ucberkeley</a> Our crews say tensions are growing as the number of protesters grow <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ktvu?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ktvu</a> <a href="https://t.co/r8YuYvcqgr">pic.twitter.com/r8YuYvcqgr</a>
— Claudine Wong (@ClaudineKTVU) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClaudineKTVU/status/1988059428340592641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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UC Berkeley currently looks like a war zone.
An ANTIFA member just lit off a flare resulting in TPUSA event attendees being rushed inside.
A car then comes and starts backfiring visibly scaring multiple attendees who feared they were hearing gunshots. <a href="https://twitter.com/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TPUSA</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/Savsays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Savsays</a> <a href="https://t.co/u3mG8rJDSx">pic.twitter.com/u3mG8rJDSx</a>
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrontlinesTPUSA/status/1988063048825970850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Two more people were arrested for attempting to get past a barrier police had set up to separate protesters from attendees. Some of the agitators lit flares and shouted at the conservative attendees as they waited to enter the building, and when they left after the TPUSA event ended.
The event, which was the last stop on the &#8220;This is the Turning Point” tour, went on as planned, capping off a tour that was started by TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10 at Utah Valley University, when he was assassinated while speaking to college students.
The DOJ&#8217;s Civil Rights division is also probing the leftist demonstrations at UC Berkeley, according to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
&#8220;We saw all of this at Berkeley back in 2017. @UCBerkeley was sued, and settled the case. The @CivilRights will investigate what happened here, and I see several issues of serious concern regarding campus and local security and Antifa’s ability to operate with impunity in CA,&#8221; Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/1988272046741111268">wrote</a> on X.
UC Berkeley, which has long been one of the most liberal universities in the United States, was at the center of violent demonstrations when leftist groups protested right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned speech in 2017. Dhillon brought some of the legal challenges against the university that same year over the free speech case.
&#8220;In America, we do not allow citizens to be attacked by violent thugs and shrug and turn our backs,&#8221; Dhillon <a href="https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/1988293108686352875">added</a>. &#8220;Been there, done that, not on our watch.&#8221;
President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-antifa-as-a-domestic-terrorist-organization/">designated</a> Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in September, calling it &#8220;a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.&#8221;

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FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force Investigating ‘Violent Riots’ That Erupted Outside Of TPUSA Event

FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force Investigating 'Violent Riots' That Erupted Outside Of TPUSA Event

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Students at Michigan State University hoping to become the educators of the next generation are forced to take a race-centered course that follows &#8220;the guiding principles of the Black Lives Matter&#8221; movement and requires students to read from a book condemning &#8220;whiteness.&#8221;
Course materials obtained by the <a href="https://yaf.org/news/race-obsessed-course-forced-on-future-educators-at-michigan-state/">Young America&#8217;s Foundation</a> group on MSU&#8217;s campus and shared with The Daily Wire show that one class for future teachers pushes leftist theories on race. The introductory three-credit class, &#8220;<a href="https://reg.msu.edu/Courses/Search.aspx?CourseID=342088#Results">TE 101: Social Foundations of Justice and Equity in Education</a>,&#8221; is required for all Secondary Education majors at MSU and is typically taken before their junior year. TE 101&#8217;s course description states that it emphasizes &#8220;racial justice, equity, and social identity markers.&#8221;
The syllabus for TE 101 states that the class is &#8220;committed to the Guiding Principles of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards, and the principles of the Abolitionist Teaching Network.&#8221;
One Michigan State education major, who wished to remain anonymous, told The Daily Wire that 90-100% of the class is focused on race.
&#8220;This class is an indoctrination of modern racial ideology,&#8221; the student said.
Asked if sitting through hours of leftist ideology becomes discouraging, the student replied, &#8220;No, it actually makes me want to pursue this degree more. It makes me want to be able to teach children instead of these other people.&#8221;
&#8220;Because I feel like there is a lack of conservatives in education,&#8221; the student added. &#8220;We see how the other side has done with these students.&#8221;
The only book TE 101 students are required to read for the semester includes a section that condemns &#8220;whiteness&#8221; as a privilege that &#8220;will never allow true solidarity to take place.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Want-More-Than-Survive-Abolitionist/dp/0807069159">book</a>, &#8220;We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom,&#8221; by Bettina Love, &#8220;argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color.&#8221; The author writes that for education reform to take place, leaders must &#8220;approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist.&#8221;
One excerpt from the book focuses on how &#8220;whiteness&#8221; cannot be included in the fight for education reform.
<blockquote>“Whiteness cannot enter spaces focused on abolitionist teaching. Whiteness is addicted to centering itself, addicted to attention, and making everyone feel guilty for working toward its elimination. Whiteness will never allow true solidarity to take place. Those who cling to their Whiteness cannot participate in abolitionist teaching because they are a distraction, are unproductive, and will undermine freedom at every step, sometimes in the name of social justice. Being an abolitionist means you are ready to lose something, you are ready to let go of your privilege, you are ready to be in solidarity with dark people by recognizing your Whiteness in dark spaces, recognizing how it can take up space if unchecked, using your Whiteness in White spaces to advocate for and with dark people. And you understand that your White privilege allows you to take risks that dark people cannot take in the fight for educational justice.”</blockquote>
Each of the three groups mentioned as being pivotal to the class has a history of advocating for radical leftist ideas. The course syllabus links to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/black-lives-matter/13-guiding-principles">Guiding Principles</a>&#8221; of the BLM movement, which include radical leftist ideas on race and gender. Among the 13 BLM movement principles listed on the website for &#8220;D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice&#8221; are commitments to be &#8220;queer affirming&#8221; and &#8220;trans affirming.&#8221; The &#8220;Guiding Principle&#8221; under transgender affirmation vows to &#8220;dismantle cis-gender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.&#8221;
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<a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/about">Learning for Justice</a>, the second group listed on the syllabus, is part of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which aims to be &#8220;a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.&#8221; The SPLC has been condemned for placing Christian and conservative organizations on its &#8220;Hate Map&#8221; that publicly tracks groups and individuals that it deems radical and hateful. Learning for Justice&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/LFJ-Social-Justice-Standards-September-2022-09292022.pdf">Social Justice Standards</a>&#8221; seek to teach children as young as five years old about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
The Abolitionist Teaching Network, another group that guides the MSU education class, encourages teachers to become activists.
&#8220;Abolitionist Teaching Network leverages teachers&#8217; and workers&#8217; power by offering resources for agitators and activists,&#8221; the group <a href="https://www.ewlhub.org/professional-development-resource-guide/abolitionist-teaching-network-">states</a>.
Another MSU education student who previously took TE 101 and spoke to The Daily Wire on condition of anonymity, said that the hyper-focus on race continues in courses beyond TE 101, especially in &#8220;<a href="https://reg.msu.edu/Courses/Search.aspx?CourseID=342088#Results">TE 102: Pedagogy and Politics of Justice and Equity in Education</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had to write papers on different identities. You can choose race, gender, sexuality, income status. I think the goal is to have most students write about their whiteness,&#8221; the student said. &#8220;They teach that white people can&#8217;t see their identity. The core tenet of these classes feels like white people, especially white men, are the number one objection to what stands in the way of a better education system and a better society.&#8221;
The conservative student group, Young America&#8217;s Foundation, which first highlighted TE 101 at MSU, called the course&#8217;s content &#8220;divisive and discriminatory.&#8221;
&#8220;This kind of rhetoric only pushes Americans further apart, and is not only a waste of taxpayer money at a publicly funded university, but also a waste of students’ time,&#8221; Michigan State YAF added in a statement. &#8220;Do we really want our future educators teaching our children that an entire race is evil?&#8221;
Michigan State defended the class. A spokesperson for the university told The Daily Wire that the course &#8220;aligns with national teacher preparation standards, and its associated curriculum is reviewed through well-established academic governance processes at the department, college, and institutional level.&#8221; The spokesperson added that courses and curricula are approved by the department, which requires sign-off from the dean, and then approval by an independent curriculum committee.
Courses and curricula are also reviewed by the Office of Accreditation, Assessment, Curriculum, and Compliance and the University Curriculum Committee. After those reviews, the University Curriculum Committee votes for final approval.
&#8220;Michigan State University remains firmly committed to academic freedom, scholarly inquiry, and the preparation of educators who are well equipped to serve all students,&#8221; the MSU spokesperson added.
Since coming into office in January, President Donald Trump has signed executive orders seeking to crack down on DEI teachings at public universities. The Trump administration has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-dei-universities-investigated-f89dc9ec2a98897577ed0a6c446fae7b">launched</a> investigations into dozens of universities across the country over accusations that they pushed DEI programs on students and faculty, which led to racial discrimination.

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‘Indoctrination’: MSU Forces Future Teachers To Take Class Rooted In Black Lives Matter

'Indoctrination': MSU Forces Future Teachers To Take Class Rooted In Black Lives Matter 'Principles'

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Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in the five-part series “American Maoists: Warnings From The Cultural Revolution.”
In Part II, Xi Van Fleet and Sasha Gong — both activists, scholars, and survivors of Mao’s communist uprising — broke down the endless cycle of victimization that fuels perpetual revolution, and has been embraced by the American Left.
Today, the authors take up the question of women. The American Left, it turns out, is not the first revolutionary movement to encourage androgyny and shame women for being traditionally feminine. Indeed, as our authors, show, destroying womanhood is essential to the revolutionary project.
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The story of women under radical Marxist ideology is the story of beauty turned to beast.
Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing — known in the West as Madame Mao — was once celebrated as a symbol of feminine beauty. In 1930s Shanghai, the so-called “Hollywood of the East,” she gained fame as a rising movie star, embodying the glamour and grace traditionally associated with Chinese womanhood.
But Shanghai was also a hub for progressives, Communist sympathizers, and fellow travelers — and Jiang Qing was soon drawn into their orbit.
In 1937, at the age of 23, Jiang Qing — like tens of thousands of other progressive youths — traveled to Yan’an, the Communist stronghold in the loess hills of northwestern China, to join the revolution. There she quickly caught Mao Zedong’s attention, leading him to set aside his guerrilla fighter wife and marry the former movie star. 
As Jiang Qing bound herself to Mao and the Communist revolution, she began to shed her feminine image: cutting her long hair short, trading dresses for shapeless military uniforms, and abandoning the aura of a glamorous actress.
This transformation was not simply personal; it reflected a broader ideological demand. In Yan’an, and later in Beijing, the revolution required individuals to dissolve their identity into the collective. As Mao’s political power grew, Jiang’s own image moved ever further from the ideals of Chinese traditional femininity.
By 1966, when Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, Jiang’s metamorphosis was complete. Elevated to unprecedented authority as “Chairman Mao’s greatest standard-bearer,” she emerged as a hardened, gender-neutral revolutionary warrior, wearing a distinctly masculine haircut and clad only in a Mao suit or military uniform.
Jiang Qing became the model for all Chinese women to emulate. Feminine qualities were denounced as toxic, bourgeois, and reactionary, and women were expected to abandon not only the ornaments of beauty but the very essence of femininity itself — as lovers, wives, and mothers. Mao himself praised this new ideal in verse: “China’s daughters hold uncommon resolve; they love not splendid ornaments, but the arms of revolution.”
Nowhere was this more stark than in the Red Guard movement: thousands of teenage girls, who might once have sung, studied, or courted love, instead shouted slogans, wielded clubs, and became torturers and killers.
The Red Guard was responsible for the first murder of the Cultural Revolution — the brutal beating to death of their principal at a Beijing girls’ high school — an act that unleashed the nationwide violence which would claim tens of millions of lives.
It was in that era that both of us passed through girlhood, adolescence, and the bloom of youth, devoid of all femininity.
We were told, and we believed, that women could hold up half the sky, and that whatever men could do, we could do even better. We strove to become Iron Girls — the Chinese version of the superwoman — taking on the hardest tasks while training ourselves to look, speak, and act like men. Family, children, and motherhood were pushed from our minds; all that mattered was proving ourselves as revolutionaries.
Sadly, defeminization left deep scars on the women of our generation, eroding many of the traditional Chinese virtues of womanhood: tenderness, modesty, nurturing, grace, and devotion to family. Our generation, unlike our Western counterparts, grew up without dreams of a fairytale love story or a perfect wedding. 
When some of us later came to the West, we shattered the stereotype of what an Asian woman was expected to be in the eyes of Westerners.
As survivors of Mao’s defeminization, we are horrified to see history repeating itself here in America. Although the process began decades ago with the rise of second-wave feminism in the 1960s, its pace has accelerated dramatically in recent years.
Radicalized young women — especially white female youth in search of identity — have taken defeminization to new extremes. The body itself becomes a canvas of protest against convention and traditional feminine beauty: blue hair, tattoos, piercings, and harsh attire announce open rebellion. One needs to look no further than the Antifa girls on the streets for living proof.
As in Mao’s China, defeminization is more than an outward transformation; in today’s woke culture it is a proud declaration of being the opposite of what family, culture, or faith once revered as good, beautiful, or sacred. In this sense, it is a total reordering of values, inscribed visibly on the body. 
What is even worse is that the defeminization of women is accompanied by the feminization of men — a topic for another time. Both trends aim to shake the very foundation of a functioning society.
READ MORE:
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/license-to-kill-what-turns-normal-people-to-political-violence" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Maoists, Part I: License To Kill: What Turns Normal People To Political Violence?</a>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-wheel-of-misfortune-victims-victimhood-and-victimization?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Xi+Van+Fleet+and+Sasha+Gong&amp;category=Opinion&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=The+Wheel+Of+Misfortune%3A+Victims%2C+Victimhood%2C+And+Victimization">American Maoists, Part II: The Wheel Of Misfortune: Victims, Victimhood, And Victimization</a>
Xi Van Fleet is a survivor of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, activist, and author of “Mao’s America: A Survivor’s Warning.”
Sasha Gong is a writer, scholar, journalist, and filmmaker. A dissident in Mao’s China, she holds a PhD from Harvard University and was previously Director of the China Branch at Voice of America.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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From Red Guard To Blue Hair: Why Leftists Destroy Womanhood

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Jihadists are not hijacking planes anymore. They are hijacking leftists. 
 
Two years ago, Hamas terrorists committed the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In one night, Hamas killed 1,200 men, women, and children; raped and assaulted countless women and girls; and took 251 hostages back to Gaza.
But on this year’s anniversary of October 7, leftists took to the streets of New York City clad in keffiyehs and <a href="https://x.com/thestustustudio/status/1975683499903291713?s=12&amp;t=nnkH5SpU6p7k0VsIc0xI0A">waving Hamas’ flag,</a> <a href="https://x.com/StopAntisemites/status/1975976376026247606">chanting praises for the massacre.</a>
The scene from NYC was not spontaneous. It was another episode in a decades-long bloodless revolution. In a <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/document/20-an-explanatory-memorandum-on-the-general">1991 memorandum,</a> the Muslim Brotherhood, a forerunner to Hamas, detailed its strategy for jihad in America. Brother Mohamed Akram wrote:
<blockquote>The process of settlement is a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” with all the word means. The Ikhwan [Muslim Brotherhood] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western Civilization from within. (Emphasis added).</blockquote>
The New York City rally is proof that, 35 years after Akram penned this plan, jihadists have succeeded in hijacking leftists.
Leading them are the <a href="https://canarymission.org/campaign/Mamdanis_DSA#Who-is-the-DSA?">Democratic Socialists of America</a>. The DSA boasts 80,000 members and 400 community chapters, and notable members of the party include New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — who, on the campaign trail, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/mamdani-appears-smiling-arm-in-arm-with-imam-siraj-wahhaj-93-wtc-bombing-co-conspirator/">posed for a picture</a> with an unindicted conspirator in the deadly 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
The DSA’s leaders explicitly say that their group exists to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.” <a href="https://canarymission.org/campaign/Mamdanis_DSA#Current-Leadership:~:text=%E2%80%9Ca%20unique%20responsibility%20to%20act%20from%20the%20heart%20of%20empire%2C%20the%20belly%20of%20the%20beast%2C%E2%80%9D%20adding%20that%20%E2%80%9Cthe%20most%20important%20thing%20that%20we%20can%20do%20is%20take%20that%20empire%20down%20from%20within.%E2%80%9D">Francis Gill</a>, an elected board member, said the DSA has “a unique responsibility to act from the heart of empire, the belly of the beast” to take the “empire down from within.”
Ahmed Husain, director of activism for the DSA, said in a web seminar: &#8220;We&#8217;re inside the home of empire &#8230; As they [Hamas] fight there, we fight here &#8230; we&#8217;re doing our part our duty in this fight against empire.&#8221; Sounds familiar.
In June, leader <a href="https://x.com/snackvampire/status/1933397152442822730">Mirah Wood tweeted</a>: “Death to Israel, death to America.”
This leftist-jihadi alliance makes almost no sense — American leftists should recognize the glaring illiberality of radical Islam. <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/afghanistan-taliban-bans-women-mid-wives-education-work-b2659927.html">In Afghanistan</a>, for example, women cannot speak or show their faces in public; and, in the Middle East and North Africa, <a href="https://www.unicef.org/mena/media/17696/file/ChildMarriage-Factsheet-Feb22.pdf%20.pdf">700,000 child brides</a> marry Muslim men every year. Add to that <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-pakistans-rape-culture-led-to-the-uk-grooming-gangs/">rape culture</a>, pervasive and violent <a href="https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/stories/10-most-dangerous-places-Christians/">persecution of Christians</a>, and the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/06/14/countries-where-being-gay-is-legally-punishable-by-death/39574685/">death penalty for homosexuality</a>.  
But, for leftists, logic doesn’t matter as long as America is dismantled. The ends justify the means, and as the proverb goes, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Hand in hand with leftists blinded by Marxism, jihadists have set in motion their “Civilization-Jihadist Process”:
In Dearborn, Michigan, <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1976264850268360855">residents hear the Muslim call to prayer five times a day</a> and <a href="https://x.com/DerrickEvans4WV/status/1976507193621905417">Islamists flood streets waving foreign flags</a>.
On college campuses across the country, radicalized students <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/harvard-settles-with-jewish-student-who-sued-school-for-ignoring-campus-antisemitism/">harass their Jewish peers</a> and <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/02/timeline-the-gaza-solidarity-encampment/">seize university property.</a>  
And on the New York streets once darkened by the devastation of the 9/11 attack, leftists now praise the very jihad that inspired terrorists to fly two planes into the World Trade Center.
It is clear America has a jihad problem approaching hard and fast from the left. If the United States is to remain rooted in its founding principles — religious liberty, free markets, Christian ethics, and the dignity and equality of the sexes — Americans must resist the “global intifada” unfolding in our streets, universities, and halls of power.
How? Leftists embrace jihad because they hate America. Resistance, then, must be a patriotic love of America and her values: hard work, merit, marriage, family, service, worship, civic engagement, college football, daddy-daughter dances, Mom’s sweet iced tea, and borrowing eggs from the neighbors. The only thing Leftists and jihadists have in common is hatred for America.
That unity is shallow. But patriotism runs 50 states and 250 years deep.
Average Americans should love America. Professors and universities should teach love of country, and elected officials should serve the American people — not dismantle the country.
Good faith debate, civil disagreement, and the democratic process must stand. But they cannot bear good fruit absent a common affection for fellow man and country.
On 9/11, jihadists broke America — but only for a moment. From the ashes of that tragedy came a stronger American resolve and a unifying love of country.
Today, jihadists want to destroy America slowly, from within. But love of country can defeat jihadists again.
Hannah Lape is Legislative Assistant for the <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee</a>, dedicated to promoting Biblical values and Constitutional principles in public policy.
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America Has a Jihad Problem. How Will We Defeat It? 

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Numerous organizations have latched onto the homelessness crisis in the United States to advocate for &#8220;Marxist, anti-capitalist, or anti-American ideologies,&#8221; according to a report published last week by conservative watchdog, Capital Research Center (CRC).
In the 113-page <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/app/uploads/Infiltrated-Report-1.pdf">dossier</a>, CRC identifies multiple groups that are part of &#8220;extremist ideological movements advocating&#8221; for certain policies to address homelessness. The report refers to this network of leftist groups as the &#8220;Homelessness Industrial Complex,&#8221; which helps shape policies that are &#8220;counterproductive&#8221; and fail to address the root problems of the homelessness crisis.
&#8220;Many of the groups over time have moved away from a focus on directly serving people who suffer to advocacy, which is to say political fighting,&#8221; CRC President Scott Walter told The Daily Wire, adding, &#8220;Some groups have gotten seriously radical.&#8221;
The report, which CRC put together in cooperation with the Discovery Institute, a conservative think tank, combs through numerous organizations and highlights how they have pushed some of the most extreme leftist talking points. The report also analyzes the financial data of leftist networks and identifies how they have spent billions of dollars in their supposed effort to address homelessness, while the crisis has only spiraled further out of control.
Researchers with CRC looked into dozens of nonprofits that signed onto a Supreme Court amicus brief in last year&#8217;s Grants Pass v. Johnson case, opposing arrests and fines for homeless individuals who violated city ordinances. In that list of organizations, researchers found many groups that don&#8217;t focus solely on addressing homelessness, but also push radical leftism on other issues.
The National Harm Reduction Coalition, for example, supported defunding the police and told drug abusers that “no one knows what’s best for you better than you. Whatever drugs you use, we want you to be safe and healthy.&#8221; In 2022, the National Harm Reduction Coalition received 73% of its $12.8 million funding from government grants.
San Francisco Rising, another leftist organization that signed onto the Grants Pass v. Johnson amicus brief, is open about its political activism, calling itself an “electoral alliance” working “to build political power with working-class communities of color.”
The Center for Constitutional Rights filed another brief for the Grants Pass v. Johnson case, urging the court to oppose the city&#8217;s efforts to enforce the law against homeless individuals. The Center for Constitutional Rights <a href="https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/press-releases/legal-group-israeli-colonial-domination-necessary-context">defended</a> Hamas&#8217; October 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, arguing that “Palestinian resistance fighters” had the right to “carry out attacks on military targets.”
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The Western Regional Advocacy Project, another nonprofit highlighted by CRC, espouses anti-capitalist rhetoric and has made <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_k3KChdZ1/">calls</a> to &#8220;Abolish Police.&#8221; The group&#8217;s executive director, Paul Boden, <a href="https://thestreetspirit.org/2025/05/07/the-roots-of-neoliberal-fascism-in-america-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/">wrote</a> an article in early 2025 arguing that the Trump administration is instituting &#8220;neoliberal fascism&#8221; in America.
&#8220;The essence of extreme radicalism is fury that America is a horrible place, and for those people, they want to exploit the homeless because they can point to the homeless as supposed evidence that the country is horrible,&#8221; Walter said. &#8220;If that is what you&#8217;re doing, you don&#8217;t want there to be fewer homeless people. You want their suffering as vivid and as widespread as possible. And if they were in an institution that was helping them with their mental or their substance abuse, instead of being out on the streets, that&#8217;s not very good for your PR campaign.&#8221;
Other far-Left groups that are involved in housing and homelessness advocacy have openly pushed Marxism. The Autonomous Tenants Union Network <a href="https://atun-rsia.org/who-we-are">says</a> that it fights &#8220;for a world without landlords and without rent&#8221; and then adds that it wants to &#8220;end capitalism itself.&#8221;
Stomp Out Slumlords, a D.C.-based member of the Autonomous Tenants Union Network, <a href="https://www.stompoutslumlords.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/SOS-2023-report_web.pdf">wrote</a> in 2023, &#8220;We’re not going to get to communism without moving people to talk to their neighbors first, and more importantly, doing it ourselves. Here in DC, exercising tenant purchase rights or pushing for rent freezes aren’t going to immediately decommodify housing, true. But these are the small-scale sites of disruption from which we can build working-class power into something much bigger.&#8221;
The Manhattan Institute&#8217;s Christopher Rufo, who has written extensively about America&#8217;s homelessness issue, said in the foreword to CRC&#8217;s report, &#8220;The rhetoric of &#8216;housing is a human right&#8217; and &#8216;abolish homelessness&#8217; is seductive, but it functions as a smokescreen.&#8221;
&#8220;Behind it lies a set of interests dedicated to dismantling enforcement, expanding bureaucracies, and keeping streams of funding flowing into activism rather than into effective service delivery to those in desperate need,&#8221; Rufo added.
The Trump administration has sought to address the homelessness crisis by focusing on law enforcement and rehabilitation. President Donald Trump also signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/">executive order</a> in July that aims to move &#8220;homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment&#8221; to &#8220;restore public order&#8221; and to redirect federal funds toward &#8220;Effective Methods of Addressing Homelessness.&#8221;
&#8220;Surrendering our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens,&#8221; the order stated. &#8220;My Administration will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety.&#8221;
The Trump administration has faced backlash from leftist groups over its move to clean up homeless encampments. The Southern Poverty Law Center is another group that has inserted itself in the homelessness debate while advocating for leftist ideologies. The SPLC has frequently been slammed for smearing conservatives. CRC found that the SPLC often &#8220;engages in homelessness policy by submitting amicus filings that oppose enforcement.&#8221;
After Trump signed his July executive order, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/trump-executive-order-homelessness-faq/">argued</a> that the order &#8220;promotes unlawful and out-of-date approaches that are rooted in anti-Black racism and bias against people with disabilities.&#8221;
Walter said that rooting out the &#8220;Homelessness Industrial Complex&#8221; in the United States remains a &#8220;huge challenge&#8221; that &#8220;will take years.&#8221;
&#8220;It will take years because there&#8217;s so much money and inertia behind the current bad industrial complex on this,&#8221; Walter added. &#8220;So much of this is state and local, not federal. The federal money is often funding bad state and local things, so it&#8217;s not like the feds have no role or no leverage, But if Portland and Seattle and San Francisco and Los Angeles want to continue to be foolish and hurtful, it will not be easy to change because they are the tip of the spear for dealing with this.&#8221;

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Leftist Groups Exploit The Homelessness Crisis To Push ‘Anti-American Ideologies,’ Watchdog Says

Leftist Groups Are Using The Homelessness Crisis To Push 'Anti-American Ideologies': Watchdog

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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday that the state is actively going after professors at public universities who push leftist ideologies over important studies.
Abbott made the comment in response to a University of Texas at Austin professor getting dismissed from an administrative post over &#8220;ideological differences,&#8221; a move that was <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/austin/2025/10/15/university-of-texas-mark-artman">reported</a> by Axios last week. In a <a href="https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1979953044977598674">post</a> on X sharing the Axios story, Abbott wrote, &#8220;Texas is targeting professors who are more focused on pushing leftist ideologies rather than preparing students to lead our nation.&#8221;
&#8220;We must end indoctrination and return to education fundamentals at all levels of education,&#8221; he added.
After being dismissed, tenured psychology professor Art Markman said on LinkedIn he’s preparing for “a new chapter” in his career. He had been at the University of Texas for 27 years, eventually becoming senior vice provost for academic affairs. Markman is also a co-host of the science podcast, &#8220;<a href="https://www.npr.org/podcasts/381443482/two-guys-on-your-head">Two Guys on Your Head</a>.&#8221; He did not say what &#8220;ideological differences&#8221; led to his dismissal.
The Daily Wire reached out to the University of Texas at Austin, seeking comment.
Markman&#8217;s dismissal came as the University of Texas System, which consists of 14 academic and health institutions across the state, launched a review of gender identity and LGBTQ studies, the Austin American-Statesman <a href="https://www.statesman.com/news/education/article/ut-system-audits-gender-courses-gop-targets-21075365.php">reported</a>. The probe will look into courses at all 14 of the system&#8217;s institutions.
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&#8220;The U.T. System has been reviewing courses on gender identity taught at all U.T. institutions to ensure compliance and alignment with applicable law and state and federal guidance, and to make sure any courses that are taught on U.T. campuses are aligned with the direction and priorities of the Board of Regents,&#8221; the University of Texas System said in a statement. &#8220;This review will be discussed at the November Board of Regents’ meeting.&#8221;
Pressure has ramped up on Texas universities to gut courses that include diversity, equity, inclusion, and radical gender theory as President Donald Trump takes action against schools that push leftist ideologies.
Texas A&amp;M, which is not part of the University of Texas System, has also faced controversy in recent weeks after Dr. Melissa McCoul, an English professor, was filmed in class pushing pro-LGBT talking points and telling a student who opposed her to leave a lecture. The videos showing McCoul spouting radical gender theory in a children&#8217;s literature class at the university were obtained by Republican Texas Rep. Brian Harrison and first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-texas-am-student-booted-from-lecture-after-objecting-to-professor-pushing-radical-gender-theory">reported</a> by The Daily Wire.
Harrison then went on a crusade accusing Texas A&amp;M of leftist bias and pushed for the university&#8217;s president, Mark Welsh to step down or be fired. Welsh&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-am-president-to-resign-after-leftist-politics-infiltrated-university-childrens-lit-course">resignation</a> was announced less than two weeks later.
Harrison appears unconvinced that Texas is going far enough to address LGBT courses at public universities. The state lawmaker <a href="https://x.com/brianeharrison/status/1979965546637472043">responded</a> to Abbott&#8217;s post on Sunday, saying that the University of Texas System is still promoting &#8220;LGBTQ Studies.&#8221; The University of Texas <a href="https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/wgss/courses/">offered</a> numerous courses on LGBT topics this fall, including &#8220;Queer Eastern Europe,&#8221; &#8220;Queer Latinx Aesthetics,&#8221; and &#8220;Black Queer Art Worlds.&#8221;

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Greg Abbott Says Texas Is ‘Targeting Professors’ Who Push Leftism

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On Saturday, millions (allegedly) of American leftists participated in “No Kings” rallies, the second day this year alone — the first one being in June — on which leftists have marched en masse against President Donald Trump and his administration.
While the leftists marched with their poorly-made signs, social media users observed and did what they do best — mock the mockable and astutely tear apart their cause.
Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume summed up the irony of “No Kings” best:
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The &#8220;No Kings&#8221; rallies are mostly a protest against a man who sought power 3 times through democratic elections and enacted his major agenda item by majority vote of democratically elected members of Congress. Some king.
— Brit Hume (@brithume) <a href="https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1979584553586217103?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As did Blaire White, who noted that if Trump were truly a king, the “No Kings” rallies likely wouldn’t be allowed:
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“No Kings!” and the man was democratically elected, won the popular vote, and is allowing you to protest him.
— BLAIRE WHITE (@MsBlaireWhite) <a href="https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1979601118276595989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Others, like Robby Starbuck, pointed out the hypocrisy of attending a “No Kings” rally while having supported the Biden administration’s draconian COVID mandates:
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It’s peak dark comedy that the people doing No Kings protests this weekend are the same people who told us we MUST get experimental shots to work, that we MUST wear masks to fly and that our grandparents MUST die alone for the greater good. Have you ever seen less self awareness?
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1978936447324327988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) made a similar comparison:
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To everyone marching at the “No Kings” protest:
You supported Biden’s rule-by-decree presidency.
You defended censorship, mandates, and lawless power grabs.
You’re not against kings, you’re mad yours lost his crown.
— Rep. Claudia Tenney (@RepTenney) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTenney/status/1979522998559195485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Still others noted the irony of “No Kings” protesters supporting a political party that coronated a presidential nominee without a single primary:
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Having a &#8220;no kings&#8221; protest when you voted for the party that hand-selected Kamala Harris to be their nominee without earning a single vote is peak irony
— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) <a href="https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1979320968897269858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Imagine chanting “no kings” while backing the party that crowned Kamala Harris without her earning a single vote.
The jokes write themselves. I guess kings aren’t allowed, but queens get a pass.
— Jeffery Mead (@the_jefferymead) <a href="https://twitter.com/the_jefferymead/status/1979574260562558995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;NO KINGS!&#8221; says the party that did not let a single voter pick their nominee in 2024
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1979588534353920467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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One observer pointed out that all the energy expended on the rallies could have gone to better causes, such as helping the homeless:
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No Kings protesters walking past hundreds of Portland homeless and our addicted. With all the energy they put into protesting why don’t they spend some of their time volunteering and ending this humanitarian crisis? Filmed by my homeless friend @johnmanpdx on IG <a href="https://t.co/h15hiWxeaI">pic.twitter.com/h15hiWxeaI</a>
— Kevin Dahlgren (@kevinvdahlgren) <a href="https://twitter.com/kevinvdahlgren/status/1979643437726195789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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There were also remarks about how the protests are allegedly rife with astroturfing, and that the real “No Kings” day was July 4, 1776:
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Happy No Kings day to all who (are paid to) celebrate <a href="https://t.co/J3l0AOZjYh">pic.twitter.com/J3l0AOZjYh</a>
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) <a href="https://twitter.com/DC_Draino/status/1979587997210128525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As the Democrats hit the streets today protesting law-and-order.
We want to remind you: The only official “No Kings” protest was on July 4, 1776.
Nothing says &#8220;we care about democracy&#8221; like showing up to a rally sponsored by communists.
— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyMace/status/1979518325425143986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Lastly, Catturd wrapped the story up with an astute observation referencing the most recent day Americans decided they wanted a president and not a hand-selected empty suit:
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Our No Kings March last November was better. <a href="https://t.co/rQGpeZ2hHG">pic.twitter.com/rQGpeZ2hHG</a>
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) <a href="https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1979574945803018571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Leftist ‘No Kings’ Protests Mocked On Social Media

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Just over a week after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow — a Democrat now running for the U.S. Senate — attended a fundraiser alongside a left-wing blogger who mocked Kirk in the immediate aftermath of his killing.
On September 21, McMorrow held a <a href="https://secure.actblue.com/donate/250921schoenkopf">fundraising event</a> in Detroit that was hosted by Rebecca Schoenkopf, who runs the far-left news and commentary blog, Wonkette. McMorrow seeks to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI).
In an article Schoenkopf wrote on September 11, the day after Kirk was gunned down, she stated, “Charlie Kirk got shot at Utah Valley University yesterday, and he is dead. … Kinda seems like we should do something about guns.”
Schoenkopf also mocked Kirk as a “free speech hero” and criticized MSNBC for firing analyst Matthew Dowd, who had said on-air that Kirk was “constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech, aimed at certain groups,” adding that “hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which often then lead to hateful actions.”
In a post published two days after Kirk was assassinated, Schoenkopf described Dowd as an “actual Christian type of lib” and argued that he “correctly pointed out that Charlie Kirk unfortunately espoused a lot of hate.” In a post on Bluesky — the social media platform that many leftists fled to after Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X — Schoenkopf again mockingly referred to Kirk as a “hero.” She <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/wonkette.bsky.social/post/3lykzbuv5qc2e">wrote</a>, “Boy sure seems like we’re firing a lot of professors this week for bulls*** made up specious selectively edited reasons. Charlie Kirk built that. A hero to the end.”
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Wonkette published multiple articles criticizing Kirk in the days following his assassination. On September 11, Schoenkopf shared an article titled, “<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/second-amendment-comes-for-charlie">Second Amendment Comes for Charlie Kirk</a>.” The article began, “Rightwing s***-stirrer and professional troll Charlie Kirk was shot and killed yesterday during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.” The Wonkette piece promoted by Schoenkopf added, “Charlie Kirk himself was an enthusiastic participant in the drive to push American politics toward constant outrage and violent rhetoric, especially if it made libs mad.”
In another piece titled “<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-evil-that-men-do-lives-after">The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them,</a>” which was also published by Wonkette on September 11, the writer said it was “inaccurate” to describe Kirk as someone who peacefully engaged in civil debate. Instead, they described Kirk as a “professional s***lord.” Yet <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/p/regime-already-working-overtime-to">another article</a> posted by Wonkette quotes a pastor who said of Kirk, “You do not become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life.”
The Daily Wire reached out to McMorrow’s campaign for comment. It did not respond.
During a speech on the Michigan Senate floor on the same day that she joined Schoenkopf for the fundraiser, McMorrow said that Kirk’s assassination was “horrifying.” She added that each person in the legislature has a responsibility to seek unity. In a social media <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mcmorrowformichigan/videos/since-the-assassination-of-charlie-kirk-weve-seen-too-many-use-his-murder-as-an-/3784252928374684/">post</a>, McMorrow blasted conservatives, saying, “Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we’ve seen too many use his murder as an excuse to divide, to blame the so-called ‘radical left,’ from the President of the United States to colleagues in my own legislature.”
While McMorrow was quick to condemn her Republican colleagues for stoking division following Kirk’s assassination, it appears that she had no issue fundraising with a leftist blogger who promoted articles that called him a “professional s***lord” and a “weapon of the enemy.”

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In a recent episode of the Holy Post podcast, co-host and pastor Skye Jethani criticized the conservative conviction that “policies should favor Christian ideas.” Instead, he proposed that Christians in government should pursue policies that promote “flourishing and goodness for everyone.”
To be a Christian and simultaneously claim that Christian ideas are incapable of producing a flourishing, free, and good society — how small a faith must that require?
What ideas does Jethani prefer to Christian ideas? Secular ideas? Satanic ideas?
Jethani is not the only one with this view. He is among a chorus of evangelical pastors, pundits, and academics who seem more concerned with policing conservative Christians than with confronting the godless, suicidal death cult that is assailing our nation from the Left.
The Left embraces the mockery of God’s created order for marriage between one man and one woman. The Left celebrates aborting unborn babies in the name of “reproductive freedom.” Since 1973, 65 million boys and girls have died by the violence of abortion to the applause of Democrats.
The Left also champions mutilating, sterilizing, and castrating children. Mentally ill, confused, and vulnerable girls and boys are being irreversibly damaged in the name of “gender-affirming care” to the cheers of LGBTQ ideologues.
And on the heels of Leftist rhetoric, mainstream politicians call women “birthing persons” and “chest feeders,” radicalized schoolteachers and administrators force girls into locker rooms with boys, and drag queen strippers throw cash at toddlers.
Faced with all this, some Christians urge silence — worried their churches or platforms might be labeled “too political,” “offensive,” or “unempathetic.”
When I was preparing to be a lifeguard, my training went a little something like this: if someone is drowning, do not jump in the water and drown with them. Throw a life preserver, extend a shepherd’s crook, or make a skilled save while ensuring your own safety. Pull the swimmer out of the water to save their life.
Like the sinking swimmer, the Left does not need affirmation as it drags our country down its suicidal path — it needs firm rejection from the Church and its shepherds. Sinners cannot be saved in their sin, but must be called out of it.
The Church must offend flesh, confront darkness, and model a holier way as a city on a hill and a light in the darkness. The “love of neighbor” is the whole truth spoken in love, an invitation to repentance, and the promise of newness of life in Christ.
The Holy Post and others’ avoidant, “empathetic” approach to political engagement does not offer a broken culture a solid refuge or a light in the darkness. It does not throw a life preserver, but jumps in to drown with the sinner. Willful silence from platforms and pulpits in the face of cultural evil condemns Christian audiences to ignorance, and the fear of man makes a fickle, fruitless flock.
That’s not compassion: it’s apathy cloaked as empathy.
The same fruitless result is reached when evangelical thought leaders obscure simple Biblical truths in mind-numbing “nuances” and an overly “winsome” delivery — believers are left clueless, unequipped, and vulnerable, and cultural evils go unchecked and unchallenged.
A Christian government and a Christian cultural consensus cannot save every soul in our country — only the Holy Spirit’s work of regeneration and faith in Jesus Christ can do that in a person. But together, both can create a nation where objective truth, moral order, and God’s good design provide “flourishing and goodness to everyone.”
America needs Christian ideas. Unborn babies, children, marriages, and families need Christian ideas, and unbelievers need the truth, love, joy, compassion, goodness, dignity, charity, freedom, moral order, and righteousness inherent in Christian ideas.
If the belief that Christian ideas should govern society makes us too extreme for the cool kids’ table at the Holy Post, so be it. If proclaiming Biblical truth about the sanctity of life, children’s innocence, godly marriage, and the created dignity of the sexes is deemed “too political,” then again, so be it. The Church is not called to cultural appeasement — it is called to “destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5).
The answer to our nation’s cultural schism is not a thoughtless kumbaya with the Left. It is revival — revival in our Churches, revival of a Christian cultural consensus, and revival of governance rooted in Christian ideas.
Hannah Lape is Legislative Assistant for the <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee</a>, dedicated to promoting Biblical values and Constitutional principles in public policy.
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Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans and Democrats are united in their desired outcomes for the country but divided on the best policies and actions for getting there.
For the good of the country, it’s time to dispel that notion.
Our political divide can be summarized with this simple metaphor: Democrats would like to drive the bus over the cliff. Republicans would like to drive the bus away from the cliff.
The fact that this is now our current situation is testimony to the success of the Leftists. Turn back the clock 50 years or so, and neither Republicans nor most Democrats wanted to get the bus anywhere near the cliff — despite both parties supporting some legislation and international behavior here and there that took us in that direction anyway.
How did we get here? In 2008, Barack Obama told us that we were five days away from <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obama_rallies_columbia_missour.html%2523ixzz2sNoV8MER" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“fundamentally transforming”</a> the country. Perhaps more voters should have asked themselves, “Does someone really love something that he wants to fundamentally transform?”As has always been the case with radical Leftists in the United States, their chief goal is to destroy the existing cultures, traditions, institutions, and economic and governmental systems so they can build a socialist utopia from the ashes.
They start with sowing chaos by any means necessary, with hopes of graduating to complete revolution. In previous attempts, the seed for the chaos and revolution has been socioeconomic and class-based, pitting a far larger population of the impoverished against a much smaller population of the wealthy. Historically, their challenge in the United States has been that the middle class is too numerous, upwardly mobile, and content to entertain the push for jealousy, resentment, and unrest.
Taking notes from <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marcuse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herbert Marcuse</a>, the father of the new Left, Obama chose a different tack, substituting racial identity for socio-economic class as the dividing influence. <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1687/race-relations.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallup found</a> in the pre-Obama era that some 70% of respondents believed that racial relations between blacks and whites were “very good” or “somewhat good.” By 2015, that number had plummeted to 47%.
In his excellent piece, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great-racial-awakening" target="_blank" rel="noopener">How the Media Led the Great Racial Awakening</a>, Zach Goldberg used extensive research to demonstrate a proactive effort from the media that correlated with Obama’s second term to normalize a new vocabulary regarding racial identity and oppression.
Between 2011 and 2019, use of the terms racists, racist, and racism by The New York Times and Washington Post, among others, increased over 700% and just under 1,000%, respectively. He notes that the phrase “white supremacy” rarely appeared in any media until 2015, but that by 2019, the Times and the Post respectively were using that phrase 17 to 18 times more frequently than they were in 2014.
He found similar massive jumps in usage of the phrases “systemic racism, white privilege, unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion, and whiteness” across mainstream media. As <a href="https://www.chicoer.com/2015/07/14/letter-democrats-run-on-unity-govern-based-on-division/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Arthur Brooks</a> said, the president ran on optimism and unity but governed on pessimism and division.
In 2011, with Obama’s <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2011/08/23/2011-21704/establishing-a-coordinated-government-wide-initiative-to-promote-diversity-and-inclusion-in-the" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order 13583</a> — Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce — DEI language, metrics, and policies were officially cemented across federal agencies.
This was the divisive launching pad that the radical Left had long awaited, and, as <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Cultural-Revolution-Conquered-Everything/dp/0063227533" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christopher Rufo</a> observed, like a Trojan Horse, these once fringe ideas quickly became embedded in K-12 and higher education school curricula, HR departments, our military, and boardrooms. In the following years, Democrats allowed their party to be taken over more and more completely by radical Leftists. Judging by their leadership, proposed legislation, policies, and rhetoric, the Democratic Party is now officially a radical Leftist party.
The result is that Democrats — whether most of them recognize it or not — have become a party of chaos and revolution that supports obstruction and destruction. Immediately after President Donald Trump assumed office, the Democrats adopted the theme word “resist,” and that is exactly what they have been doing to stifle every positive move the Trump administration attempts to make. Lawfare and judge shopping are occurring at record numbers, with rogue district and federal judges issuing nationwide injunctions.
Is this assessment too harsh to apply to all Democrats? Strictly speaking, yes, of course. There are plenty of non-extremist, traditional Democrats who shake their heads about what has happened to their party and country. These folks do not wish to drive the bus over the cliff.
However, as long as they continue to vote for the radical Leftist leaders — including people like Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries, and Ilhan Omar — and cling to the <a href="https://starrs.us/understanding-the-always-blue-mindset/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;always vote blue no matter who”</a> dictum, they are, for all practical purposes, indistinguishable from the radical Left ruling class. And their votes are helping move the bus closer to the precipice.
Too many conservatives have yet to grasp the significance of this fact. They argue fervently about a given Democrat policy — say, open borders — explaining with data, anecdotes, and logic why it is an unfair, dangerous, and destructive thing for America. Their belief is that Democrats have not thought of these arguments or seen this data, or thought through the logic of what they are supporting. Put bluntly, they cling to the old-fashioned belief that we are two parties connected by intention and differing only in methodology.
Au contraire. The radical Leftists understand very well the damage created from such policies, and that damage is precisely their end goal. Perhaps the message needs to be delivered as if speaking to a three-year-old — “Yes, they&#8217;re doing it on purpose!”
That vile truth is what too many Americans have been too slow to recognize. Yes, they want to destroy the family unit, churches and religion, patriotism, American energy independence, free speech, the middle class, our military readiness, educational excellence, individual financial independence, the constitution, and the country as we know it.
Virtually every disastrous policy supported by the Democrats — from the Affordable Care Act to DEI, defunding police, to the Green New Deal, open borders to student loan forgiveness, cashless bail to transgender ideology and beyond — has been enacted to inflict some measure of damage to one or more of the country&#8217;s fundamental systems, or to simply bring about chaos and move the bus closer to the cliff. Leftists have been quite successful in their overall mission. That bus is arguably closer than it has been since World War II.
This divide also explains the knee-jerk opposition to anything proposed by President Trump or the Republicans. They know that if Trump or the Republicans are proposing or opposing something, it is no doubt intended to move the bus further away from the cliff; therefore, they don’t need to think about their response, no matter how ludicrous — they hold the opposite view.
Mutilating the genitalia of 12-year-olds with gender dysphoria? Sending the FBI after parents who complain about school policies at school board meetings? Letting arsonists and murderers out of jail? They support all of that. Sending an MS13 gangster, wife-beater, child-trafficker, and illegal immigrant back to El Salvador? Destroying the nuclear capabilities of the world’s largest sponsors of terror for the last 30 years? They oppose all of that.
The radical Left is now synonymous with the Democratic Party, and Democrats are pursuing what radical Leftists have always pursued — chaos and revolution.
Accordingly, they are supporting all policies that will promote that and opposing those that would support or enhance the existing governmental structure. The media are dominantly controlled by or are themselves the radical Left — and push narratives that align with those views. Further, they aggressively censor competing, conservative narratives. <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google helped confirm</a> this with their announcement this week.
The best way to defeat all of them is to continue educating voters about who they are, ensure fair elections, and defeat the Leftists at the polls. The sooner that traditional Democrats and many conservatives can understand the new state of our political divide, the faster we can defeat the radical Leftists and get away from the cliff. Once this has been accomplished, instead of putting all of our energy and resources toward unwinding and fending off the Leftist policies meant to destroy us, perhaps we can begin to put them toward more positive and productive initiatives.
Greg Salsbury, Ph.D. is former president of Western Colorado University and Board of Advisor member for <a href="https://starrs.us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">STARRS.US</a>. He earned his Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Southern California, and an M.A. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC.
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