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  • It’s a Riot: Socialism, and Its Statist Cousin, Are Failing Everywhere

    By Selwyn Duke

    Most young Americans want socialism, polls in recent years have shown. Addressing one of these tender-aged voters recently, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) issued some reassurance. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), he told the young woman, will in the future become “the mainstream Democratic movement.” This is ironic because socialism — and its little cousin statism — are failing everywhere as I write this.

    Oh, but don’t worry (says Alfred E. Neuman?), it’ll work this time.

    Or maybe not. After all, some observers would ask, what could you call the riots currently ravaging Europe?

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  • Talarico’s Suspiciously High Texas Numbers Have Critics Talking Vote Fraud

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s said that “everything is bigger in Texas.”

    Does this include the vote fraud?

    Critics are thus wondering after Democrat James Talarico flipped a Texas Senate seat “blue” on Tuesday in a landslide.

    Oh, it’s not just that Talarico outperformed the RealClear Politics polling average by almost 10 points. (Historically it’s Republicans who under-poll, not Democrats.)

    It’s not just that he won despite having held radical-left views (there are “six sexes,” “transitioning” kids is good, etc.)

    It’s also that Talarico got more Texas votes than Democratic presidential nominees Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, and Joe Biden.

    It’s that even if not one person supported Talarico on Election Day, he still would have won. (I.e., he got more early and mail-in votes than his opponent, Ken Paxton, received in total.)

    And it’s that Texas processed almost three million “new valid voter registrations” between 2022 and 2024 without proof of citizenship. (Texas only requires people to “attest” that they’re U.S. citizens under penalty of perjury.)

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  • Video: Vote Fraud is Massive! How Many Midterm Seats Did the Dems Steal?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Media claim it’s a myth, but vote fraud is a massive problem—even Democrats admit this. In fact, they cheat each other in primaries. So do you really think they don’t cheat Republicans?

    Proof of the above is in this video. The only question remaining is: How many congressional seats did the Democrats steal in this midterm?

  • Midterms and Nitwits: Are “Stupid” Voters the Problem?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1816. There’s a thing about “never,” too:

    It includes yesterday.

    It’s not news to anyone that the Republicans took a shellacking last night in the midterms. The Democrats not only seized both the House and Senate, and flipped four governorships, but they greatly outperformed the polls. While we can wonder how that happened, something is for sure: Tuesday was not American voters’ finest hour.

    A sampling:

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  • Violence Works? Leftist Pol Mistakenly Emails Own Notes to Media; Makes STUNNING Admission

    By Selwyn Duke

    “For internal use only” might have been the intention when mayoral candidate Elif Eralp wrote some notes for staff recently. But that’s not how it turned out.

    And now we all know what she really believes about some of her Muslim enablers — as opposed to what she tells the world.

    Eralp, a member of Die Linke (the “Left Party”), is a leading candidate for Berlin, Germany’s mayorship. She holds the usual left-wing positions, too. These include “anti-racism” and anti-discrimination efforts, housing-policy progressivism and, to the point here, elevating people with “migration backgrounds.”

    But Eralp’s private notes, accidentally sent to a newspaper, reveal that she fears some of her allies and constituents. The issue: They have ties to the Hamas terrorist group.

    It’s also clear that the politician, who could become Berlin’s first Turkish-descent mayor, is afraid to speak out against the individuals. She’s worried about her and her family’s safety.

    Let not your heart be troubled, however. It was announced after the revelations that she’d be getting police protection during her party’s conference this past Saturday.

    Oh, but she’ll still support the importation of the kind of people she’s afraid of into Germany. This is necessary to win power — for herself — at the moment.

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  • Claim: “We Need to Forgive Thomas Jefferson.” Do We Really?

    By Selwyn Duke

    “Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are,” the saying goes. Revealing who your heroes and hated foes are says a lot about you, too. This brings us to Americans who revile Thomas Jefferson (when their ancestors revered him). What can we say about them?

    Writing at the Washington Examiner, commentator Andrew Fowler is saying that these Americans should “forgive” Jefferson. And forgiveness is a beautiful thing, emphasized by none other than Jesus Christ himself. Nonetheless, critics may note, actually applicable here is another Christian principle Jesus articulated:

    “Hypocrite!” He said. “First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

    No, that isn’t directed at Fowler, who has good intentions. But does the problem so many have today with Jefferson — and the Founders generally — really concern those men’s sins?

    Or does it have more to do with the critics’ own sins?

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  • Why Will Leftists Not “Live and Let Live”?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Someone close to me had a great friend who lived through the Stalinist times in Ukraine. She said that when she was a little girl, her father made the whole family go to bed every evening fully clothed, coat, shoes, and all. One night she found out why.

    Secret police came to her home in the darkness and unceremoniously forced the family out. They were then compelled to go on a long march in the bitter winter cold. They suffered, but, prepared, they survived. Many did not.

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  • Does France Deserve to Burn?

    By Selwyn Duke

    In 1811, Joseph de Maistre, a French philosopher who detested the French Revolution, famously said: “People get the government they deserve.”

    In light of recent events in France and elsewhere, however, something else comes to mind: Do people get the riots they deserve, too? Maybe—sometimes.

    Now, I’ll preface my remarks by saying that I really do hope France channels its inner Napoleon and rights the ship. And were I in charge there, I assure you the rioting miscreants would meet their Waterloo in short order. (If the Duke of Wellington can do it, so can the Duke of Westchester. I do proffer my services, too, but I require the same deal the Roman Republic offered during crises: A man would be appointed dictator for a specified time to restore normality, endowed with extraordinary powers and largely free from the usual legal constraints—wink.) But a thought occurred to me the other day.

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  • Midterm Realities: Would a Blue Wave Mean a Crime Wave?

    By Selwyn Duke

    It’s an amazing, though ignored, story: Murder in the United States is at its lowest level since perhaps 1900. As for the violent-crime rate in general, it fell 9.3 percent in 2025. This is the largest year-to-year decline since the FBI began estimating national trends in 1936.

    Something else at its lowest since perhaps the ’30s is net migration. In fact, when the numbers are finalized, it may turn out that there was negative net migration in 2025. But this can happen when you deport, or induce to self-deport, up to three million people, as the Trump administration has done. Note, too, that approximately 190,000 of the ejected illegals had criminal convictions, and many thousands were gang members.

    Now, question: Could there be a connection between the reduction in crime and the reduction in illegal aliens?

    Moreover, is it coincidental that this rapid crime decrease occurred under the watch of a president who has prioritized crime-fighting?

    Third question: How can we know that the Democrats would, upon gaining power, re-enable criminals?

    Answer: They’ve said so — in so many words.

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  • For Democrats to Win Midterms, Must Americans Buy Into a Certain Myth?

    By Selwyn Duke

    Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is “a series of agreed-upon myths.” Yet that current events can be, too, brings us to a question.

    Can the Democrats win the midterms only if Americans subscribe to a certain myth?

    That is, the idea that President Donald Trump’s second term has been a failure.

    A number of observers definitely think so. They point out that far from a failure, Trump’s tenure thus far has been a resounding success. And one of these observers, Rod D. Martin, founder & CEO at Martin Capital, has the receipts to prove it.

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