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

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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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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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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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The State Of Our Political Divide

Barack Obama

Donald Trump

Transgender

WASHINGTON—As the government shutdown rolls into the weekend, Republicans are making something very clear: this may be the &#8220;Schumer Shutdown,&#8221; but it&#8217;s a different New Yorker who&#8217;s really to blame.
It started on Wednesday, when Vice President JD Vance surprised the White House press corps at the day&#8217;s briefing.
&#8220;The reality here, and let&#8217;s be honest about the politics, is that Chuck Schumer is terrified he’s going to get a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,&#8221; Vance <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1973442899892191464">said.</a>
From there, it was off to the races. House Speaker Mike Johnson took the talking point and ran with it, highlighting an alleged rift between New York&#8217;s senior senator and the congresswoman from Queens in several interviews and <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1973501784909029810">on X,</a> where he proclaimed &#8220;Chuck Schumer is driving his party OFF A CLIFF because he’s TERRIFIED of AOC and the far left. That’s not leadership.&#8221;
All manner of prominent Republicans have invoked the looming Schumer-AOC contest as the reason for the shutdown, including Treasury Secretary <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1973727982280663179">Scott Bessent,</a> Senators <a href="https://x.com/SenBillCassidy/status/1973756759904039089">Bill Cassidy</a> (LA), <a href="https://x.com/TomCottonAR/status/1973024614487056463">Tom Cotton</a> (AR), and <a href="https://www.marshall.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/senator-marshall-chuck-schumer-is-afraid-that-aoc-will-primary-him/">Roger Marshall</a> (Kansas), as well as <a href="https://x.com/RepDonaldsPress/status/1973172460943274034">Reps. Byron Donalds (FL)</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/NancyMace/status/1973223980036501796">Nancy Mace</a> (SC).
Congressman Mike Lawler (R-NY) told The Daily Wire that the &#8220;Schumer Shutdown&#8221; has &#8220;nothing to do with policy and everything to do with politics.&#8221;
&#8220;Chuck is so consumed by the threat of a primary challenge from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that he’s willing to put his own job security ahead of the American people,&#8221; Lawler said.
He slammed Schumer for &#8220;cowardice&#8221; and said his actions only &#8220;hurt hardworking New York taxpayers.&#8221;
This is hardly the first time lawmakers have blamed the opposing party and their policies for shutting the government down. In 2013 it was Harry Reid and Obamacare; in 2017, Donald Trump and the border wall. But this time around, Republicans are going beyond blaming Democrats or even Democratic leaders. Notably absent from these conversations is House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) who has been as active on the issue as Schumer.
The attempt to drive a wedge between Schumer and AOC — whether to alienate the moderate and radical wings of the Democratic Party, or signal that there&#8217;s no daylight between them — seems to be as much about defining the post-shutdown conversation as it is about assigning blame. Like President Donald Trump, who is leveraging the shutdown to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-meeting-set-to-axe-democrat-agencies">curtail the federal government</a>, congressional Republicans seem intent on using this shutdown to their advantage.
On Friday afternoon, Senate Democrats for the fourth time <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm">blocked</a> a continuing resolution that would reopen the government. Republicans&#8217; rhetorical strategy continued apace.
NRSC spokeswoman Joanna Rodriguez pointed The Daily Wire an <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/09/26/schumer-government-shutdown-democrats-strategy">Axios report</a> that indicates Schumer &#8220;has been plotting this government shutdown with far-Left radical activists for months.&#8221;
She said she believes Democrats&#8217; low approval ratings are &#8220;only going to keep getting worse&#8221; because Schumer and &#8220;rank-and-file Democrats&#8221; including Georgia Senator John Ossoff are &#8220;more focused on appeasing the deranged rage of their liberal base that wants illegal aliens to have free healthcare.&#8221;
&#8220;There are two very big reasons why Chuck Schumer would make a toxically-leftist policy like free healthcare for illegals as his &#8216;why&#8217; for this shutdown: crazy Democrat primary voters love it, so it could help in an AOC primary. And he is desperate to win over this radical group of openly socialist Senate candidates leading in Democrat primaries across the country that want to end Schumer’s reign as Senate Democrats’ leader if any of them win in the midterms next year,&#8221; Rodriguez said.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) <a href="https://mariodiazbalart.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-diaz-balart-schumers-shutdown-shows-democrats-are-disarray">observed</a> that the continuing resolution, already passed by the House, is the &#8220;same clean bill Senate Democrats — including Schumer — voted for in March.&#8221;
So, what changed?
Sources with knowledge of the issue told The Daily Wire it all began after Schumer voted to fund the government until Sept. 30, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending#:~:text='Deep%20sense%20of%20outrage%20and%20betrayal':,Democrats%20react%20to%20Schumer%20announcement&amp;text=When%20Senate%20Minority%20Leader%20Chuck,the%20face%2C%22%20she%20said.">reportedly</a> receiving backlash from Democrats.
A month later, a <a href="https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/4/4/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-leads-chuck-schumer-in-hypothetical-2028-matchup-by-19-points">poll</a> showed AOC leading Schumer in a hypothetical 2028 matchup by 19 points.
“Because Schumer allowed the government to be funded several months ago, the Left wing rose up against him,&#8221; Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on his <a href="https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1973513750926991502">podcast</a> this week. &#8220;You want to understand why we have a shutdown? It’s one thing: Schumer is looking over his left shoulder and he sees AOC running up behind him — and he is terrified he is going to lose his job,” Cruz said.
Perhaps the surest sign Republicans&#8217; strategy is working is that AOC keeps responding. On Tuesday, she told <a href="https://x.com/BreitbartNews/status/1973186304205865213">MSNBC</a> that the shutdown is &#8220;so not about me.&#8221; Two days later, she and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — the leaders of the Democrat Party&#8217;s radical wing — released a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5535687-sanders-ocasio-cortez-aca-subsidies-shutdown/">three-minute video</a> on the shutdown.
The next day, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-schumer-jeffries-are-leading-democrats-s-rcna235300">NBC</a> pressed AOC again about a possible Senate run. The congresswoman equivocated, saying “I think the answer is that people are sick of politics being determined by these horse races.&#8221;
Schumer&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.

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WASHINGTON—There is a Republican push for President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration to put an end to tax code provisions that make it more cost-effective for Americans to obtain transgender medical procedures and surgeries, The Daily Wire has learned.
The IRS currently designates so-called gender procedures as a &#8220;qualifying medical expense,&#8221; meaning patients can pay for these procedures with tax-advantaged Health Savings Accounts and subsidized Affordable Care Act insurance plans. In a letter first obtained by The Daily Wire, Missouri congressman Bob Onder is asking Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to take a look at changing what qualifies.
&#8220;Hardworking American taxpayers across the country are unknowingly made complicit in underwriting these costly, dangerous, and deadly medical procedures,&#8221; Onder writes, urging Bessent to &#8220;remove sex-trait altering drug regimens, procedures, and related providers from tax-advantaged qualified medical expenses.&#8221;
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&#8220;The tacit tolerance of a radical movement that has subjected thousands of American children to baseless medical treatments with grave consequences should be of serious concern to all of us,&#8221; Onder said. &#8220;We must ensure that this misguided acceptance does not result in Americans unknowingly and indirectly subsidizing the cost of these procedures.&#8221;
Bessent, who serves as acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is able to define which procedures as qualified medical expenses, the letter notes. Gender-affirming care is now broadly considered a qualified expense, meaning patients can pay for everything from chest binders and hormone therapy to surgeries using tax-advantaged HSA and FSA accounts, or taxpayer-subsidized Obamacare insurance plans.
The push to change this comes as the Trump administration redoubles its efforts to combat radical gender ideology in the wake of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/calls-to-investigate-trans-domestic-terrorism-escalate-after-devastating-school-shooting">string of deadly attacks</a> perpetrated by transgender-identifying assailants. Last week, the president told The Daily Wire that his administration is &#8220;very strongly&#8221; examining the pattern of transgender violence, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt similarly told The Daily Wire that transgender violence is “definitely something worth looking into.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyone who denies that at this point is being willfully ignorant,&#8221; Leavitt said.
In his letter, Onder lays out five major mass shootings that have been &#8220;conducted by transgender individuals with proven political motivations&#8221; since 2018.
That would include <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=EXCLUSIVE%3A+Attempted+Kavanaugh+Assassin+Identifies+As+Transgender+Woman%2C+Legal+Filings+Show">Robin Westman</a>, a trans-identifying 23-year-old man who opened fire last month on Catholic schoolchildren while they were praying in Minneapolis. It also follows the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, whose accused killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was living with a 22-year-old trans-identifying male named Lance Twiggs.
&#8220;As Congress and the Trump Administration consider advancing policy proposals aimed at addressing the underlying conditions that led to Mr. Kirk’s assassination, it would be a grave mistake not to acknowledge the role transgender ideology has played in inflicting harm on our nation’s children,&#8221; Onder wrote.
Onder further notes that advocates of transgender procedures are taking advantage of vulnerable young people, coaxing them into experimental medical procedures that often cause irreparable harm, and indoctrinating them into a radical ideology.
Citing a May <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2025-05/gender-dysphoria-report.pdf">report</a> from the Department of Health and Human Services that found there is &#8220;minimal evidence to support the benefits of sex-trait altering procedures,&#8221; Onder argues that these procedures often lead to &#8220;severe health consequences&#8221; that &#8220;have sparked equally devastating societal consequences.&#8221;
&#8220;We are witnessing a disturbing rise in left-wing political violence with increasing rates of mental illness and political radicalization, which is incredibly concerning and warrants concerted examination,&#8221; he tells Bessent. &#8220;These &#8216;activists&#8217; are systematically exploiting the confusion of these vulnerable individuals, weaponizing their distress to target anyone they perceive as a political or ideological opponent.&#8221;
Onder is a member of the Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative caucus in Congress, which has led the charge against both <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-riley-gaines-to-join-republican-study-committee-members-lunch">transgender ideology</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-call-for-an-end-to-violent-rhetoric-on-the-anniversary-of-butler-shooting">political violence.</a> In 2022, then-RSC Chairman Jim Banks introduced <a href="https://rsc-pfluger.house.gov/news/press-releases/reps-banks-lamalfa-sen-cotton-introduce-protecting-minors-medical-malpractice">legislation</a> that would protect minors from transgender procedures. The RSC — which counts among its members prominent lawmakers, including Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Kat Cammack (R-FL) — has seen its efforts to fight gender ideology pay off under President Donald Trump.
Shortly after taking office in January, Trump signed an executive order declaring &#8220;federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology.&#8221; The Trump Justice Department is considering a ban on firearm purchases for individuals who identify as transgender, as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-doj-considering-gun-ban-for-transgenders?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+DOJ+Deliberates+Over+Gun+Ban+For+Transgenders">previously reported.</a> And in June, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee&#8217;s ban on transgender procedures for minors, a decision RSC Chairman August Pfulger (R-Texas) hailed as &#8220;a huge win for parental rights and defeating the woke ideology of the Left.&#8221;
Other RSC members are expected to sign on to Onder&#8217;s letter in the coming days, sources with knowledge of the matter tell The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Children are the most vulnerable members of our country, and they deserve leaders who will protect them,&#8221; Onder writes. &#8220;This action alone will make a marked impact on the well-being of children nationwide, and will end this country’s moral retreat into the acceptance of a radical ideology that defies biological reality and puts our citizens at risk.&#8221;

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As Transgender Violence Mounts, Republicans Push Trump To End Tax Advantage For Gender Procedures

House Republicans

Obamacare

Scott Bessent

Violence

In recent weeks, the American people have witnessed a troubling rise in violent crime, coordinated attacks on public safety, and brazen assaults on the rule of law.
These are not isolated incidents — they are the natural outgrowth of a radical ideology that seeks to undermine our institutions, erase our borders, and excuse lawlessness in the name of politics. At the forefront of defending our nation against open borders is Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an agency too often demonized by the Left but indispensable to the safety and security of the American people.
The House Freedom Caucus stands unequivocally with the men and women of ICE. These officers are on the front lines every day — tracking down human traffickers, dismantling drug cartels, and removing violent offenders from our communities. While the radical Left caricatures ICE as unjust, ordinary Americans know the truth: ICE agents are often the last line of defense protecting law-abiding citizens from predators who exploit our once-porous border and weak enforcement policies.
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Unfortunately, the same voices in Washington who clamor to “abolish ICE” are the ones pushing policies that fuel the very chaos now destabilizing communities.
Sanctuary city mandates tie the hands of law enforcement, allowing dangerous criminals to slip back into neighborhoods. Open-border rhetoric invites record waves of illegal immigration, straining hospitals, schools, and public services, and a refusal to prosecute repeat offenders fosters a culture of repeat violence.
Together, these policies are not just misguided  — they are dangerous. They create fertile ground for extremism, criminal networks, and even terrorism to take root here at home.
America cannot afford to indulge in these ideological experiments. Our first duty as a nation is to protect our citizens. That begins with secure borders, strong enforcement, and unwavering support for the agencies tasked with carrying out that mission.
ICE is not the problem — it is part of the solution.
The House Freedom Caucus has consistently backed measures to give ICE the resources, authority, and cooperation it needs to succeed. We support programs like the 287(g) partnerships that allow local law enforcement to work directly with ICE to detain and remove criminal aliens before they reoffend. We have opposed reckless sanctuary policies that put ideology above safety, and we continue to push for stronger penalties against traffickers, gang members, and those who exploit our immigration system to carry out crimes.
The contrast could not be clearer: while the Left’s radical ideology excuses lawlessness and undermines those sworn to protect us, the Freedom Caucus stands firmly with ICE, law enforcement, and the American people.
ICE officers put their lives on the line daily. They deserve the support of Congress and the full weight of the federal government behind them, and they deserve a country willing to reject radical ideologies that put criminals ahead of citizens.
The path forward is simple: support ICE, enforce the law, and reject the destructive agenda that fuels lawlessness. The Freedom Caucus is proud to lead that fight. America’s safety, sovereignty, and future depend on it.
Reps. Ralph Norman (S.C), Keith Self (Texas), Mark Harris (N.C), and Sheri Biggs (S.C) are members of the House Freedom Caucus.
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Congress Must Stand With ICE Against The Threat Of Leftist Ideology

Congress

Freedom Caucus

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben &amp; Jerry’s and longtime champion of the brand’s radical left-wing activism, resigned this week, accusing parent company Unilever of silencing its “values-driven” voice. In a rambling and deeply ideological farewell letter shared on X by his longtime business partner Ben Cohen, Greenfield portrayed himself as a martyr of corporate censorship, lamenting that Ben &amp; Jerry’s could no longer act as a megaphone for leftist causes.
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After 47 years, Jerry has made the difficult decision to step down from the company we built together. I’m sharing his words as he resigns from Ben &amp; Jerry’s. His legacy deserves to be true to our values, not silenced by <a href="https://twitter.com/MagnumGlobal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MagnumGlobal</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FreeBenAndJerrys?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FreeBenAndJerrys</a> <a href="https://t.co/EZXGRjs76a">pic.twitter.com/EZXGRjs76a</a>
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Greenfield, who helped turn an ice cream brand into a vehicle for radical leftist politics, claimed he was stepping down because the company could no longer “stand up for the things we believed.” Among those beliefs: <a href="https://x.com/benandjerrys/status/1381743962558504969">defunding the police</a>, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2022/06/ben-and-jerrys-ice-cream-israel-palestinian-territories-human-rights-watch/">demonizing Israel</a>, promoting abortion access, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colin-kaepernick-gets-ben-jerrys-ice-cream-flavor-proceeds-funneled-to-his-own-foundation">collaborating</a> with anti-police activist Colin Kaepernick.
“After 47 years,” Greenfield wrote, “I can no longer, in good conscience, remain an employee of Ben &amp; Jerry’s.” He said he was heartbroken by the loss of what he called the company’s independence to promote leftist values, an independence supposedly enshrined in the 2000 acquisition deal with Unilever.
According to Greenfield, the company’s founding mission was never just about ice cream — it was always about being a “values-led” company that stood for “peace, justice, and human rights,” conveniently defined through the far-Left lens of modern identity politics. He went so far as to say that if Ben &amp; Jerry’s can’t be a platform for leftist causes, “then it wasn’t worth being a company at all.”
Greenfield’s resignation caps off years of ideological escalation at Ben &amp; Jerry’s. In 2021, the company tweeted that America’s policing system “can’t be reformed” and “must be dismantled” after the Daunte Wright shooting, calling the tragic incident a result of “white supremacy.” That same year, Ben &amp; Jerry’s partnered with Colin Kaepernick for the “Change the Whirled” flavor, directing proceeds to his radical anti-police foundation.
Ben &amp; Jerry’s has also been a persistent critic of Israel, going so far as to cease operations in what they called “Occupied Palestinian Territory,” parroting BDS-style rhetoric. Employees have reportedly been subjected to video lectures from anti-Israel activists, including Omar Shakir, a known BDS promoter expelled from Israel, who falsely accused the Jewish state of apartheid while downplaying terrorist aggression from Hamas.
The company’s descent into full-scale activism included introducing flavors called “Justice Remix’d” and “Pecan Resist,” each an homage to far-Left causes such as criminal justice reform and resistance to the Trump administration.

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Don’t Let Them Lie To You. Charlie Kirk’s Killer Is A Left-Wing Terrorist.

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Republican Utah Governor Spencer Cox said Saturday that investigators believe suspected Charlie Kirk assassin, Tyler Robinson, was &#8220;deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology.&#8221;
“It’s very clear to us and to the investigators that this was a person who was deeply indoctrinated with leftist ideology,” Cox <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/who-tyler-robinson-charlie-kirk-suspect-814fd21f">told</a> The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal report noted that Robinson &#8220;lived much of life on the internet.&#8221; His mother said that by age 15, Robinson was dressing up as “some guy from a meme” for Halloween.
Cox has previously revealed that Robinson’s family members told investigators that the 22-year-old, who did not have a registered political party affiliation, had become more political over the last few years. At a recent dinner, Robinson discussed Kirk&#8217;s upcoming appearance at an outdoor event on the Utah Valley campus in Orem, and talked about why he didn&#8217;t like Kirk or his conservative ideology.
Additionally, recovered bullet casings found with the apparent murder weapon had anti-fascist engravings, Cox said. One casing read, &#8220;Hey Fascist! Catch!&#8221; and another included the lyrics from a famous Italian anti-fascist song called &#8220;Bella Ciao.&#8221;
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox confirmed writings on bullet casings of Charlie Kirk&#8217;s killer, Tyler Robinson:
&#8211; Notices bulges, OWO what&#8217;s this? 
&#8211; Hey Fascist! Catch! 
&#8211; Oh bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao 
&#8211; If you read this you are gay LMAO<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CharlieKirk?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CharlieKirk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TylerRobinson?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TylerRobinson</a> <a href="https://t.co/bi3eghpBG4">pic.twitter.com/bi3eghpBG4</a>
— CapitolModerate (@CapitolModerate) <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolModerate/status/1966506133310386636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
Kirk, 31, was assassinated while answering questions at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The politico had massive influence with young conservatives, having founded Turning Point USA at just 18 years old. He was widely known for routinely speaking openly about his Christian faith.
Cox said during a Friday presser that Kirk&#8217;s assassination could be a “turning point” on whether the country would embrace free and open debate or turn to political violence.
“This is certainly about the tragic death, assassination, political assassination, of Charlie Kirk,” the governor said. “But it is also much bigger than an attack on an individual. It is an attack on all of us.  It is an attack on the American experiment. It is an attack on our ideals. This cuts to the very foundation of who we are, of who we have been, and who we could be in better times.”
“Political violence is different than any other type of violence, for lots of different reasons,” Cox added. “One, because in the very act that Charlie championed of expression, that freedom of expression that is enshrined in our founding documents, in having his life taken in that very act makes it more difficult for people to feel like they can share their ideas, that they can speak freely.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/well-never-surrender-erika-kirk-gives-emotional-fiery-address-following-husbands-assassination?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=%E2%80%98We%E2%80%99ll+Never+Surrender%E2%80%99%3A+Erika+Kirk+Gives+Emotional%2C+Fiery+Address+Following+Husband%E2%80%99s+Assassination">‘We’ll Never Surrender’: Erika Kirk Gives Emotional, Fiery Address Following Husband’s Assassination</a>

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