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No Fear. No Political Correctness. No Wokeism. An irreverent fact-based podcast heard and read across 50 US states and 44 countries.

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  • As We Prepare for Christmas, I Give You The Unholy Trinity: Islamism, Marxism, & Woke Progressivism

    As We Prepare for Christmas, I Give You The Unholy Trinity: Islamism, Marxism, & Woke Progressivism
    Dec 5 2025
    As we prepare, once again, to celebrate Christmas, a time of year where we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, peace on Earth, and goodwill towards all men, a dark alliance is crystallizing before our eyes both in the United States and across the West. Islamism, militant Marxism, and anti-Christian progressivism have coalesced in their shared disdain of the Christian foundations of Western civilization and are now openly synthesizing to dismantle them.What binds these three ideologies is not mere tactical convenience; it’s a visceral, existential loathing of the Cross; of individual conscience and of any authority higher than the totalitarian collective or theocratic caliphate. Each detests Christianity because Christianity birthed the very concepts of human dignity, free will, and limited government that now stand in their way.Islamism assaults Christianity in the public square with ever-bolder demands for supremacy. In the United States, we see Muslim-majority school boards in places like Michigan pushing to remove Easter and Christmas references while aggressively inserting Ramadan celebrations. Dearborn public schools now broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over loudspeakers, an act unthinkable for any Christian prayer.Mosques across the country, funded by Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, openly distribute literature calling for the eventual subjugation of “disbelievers.” The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with documented Hamas ties, sues any locale that dares reject the construction of mega-mosques and intimidates critics with accusations of “Islamophobia” until Christian symbols are stripped from public view.The goal is simple: dhimmi status for Christians, second-class citizenship under expanding sharia zones.Marxism, reborn as “Democratic Socialism” and “anti-racism,” wages war on Christianity through the capture of institutions. The Biden administration’s FBI memo labeling traditionalist Catholics “potential domestic terrorists” for attending Latin Mass was not an aberration; it was policy.Public-school curricula now teach children that Christian ethics are inherently bigoted and that the nuclear family, rooted in Christian anthropology, is a tool of White supremacy. And Corporate HR departments force employees to recite land acknowledgments and DEI pledges that implicitly condemn the Christian missionary past as genocide.The Marxist demand for total politicization of life leaves no room for the Christian distinction between the City of God and the City of Man; everything must be subordinated to the revolution.Anti-Christian progressivism, the most insidious of the three because it masquerades as “compassion,” completes the pincer movement. Drag Queen Story Hours in public libraries, funded by taxpayer dollars, are deliberate cultural norm destroyers designed to sexualize children and mock the Christian view of innocence.Laws in Canada and proposed in California threaten priests with imprisonment for refusing to use “preferred pronouns” or for teaching biblical morality in private. And the Eucharist itself is now mocked in “art” exhibits and “inclusive” church services that celebrate abortion as a sacrament.Progressivism’s core dogma—that the autonomous, transgressive self is the only god—cannot coexist with a faith that proclaims “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself.”Each of these ideologies is fundamentally incompatible with freedom, liberty, individualism, and Western culture:* Islamism demands submission (that is the literal meaning of “Islam”). There is no private conscience exempt from the ummah, no separation of mosque and state, no equality before the law between Muslim and non-Muslim. Apostasy is punishable by death, women are legally worth half a man, and the endgame is a global caliphate.* Marxism requires the abolition of private property, the destruction of the family, and the erasure of all non-class-based identity, especially religious identity. The individual is nothing; the collective is everything. Every Marxist regime in history has moved swiftly to crush the Church because Christianity teaches that man’s ultimate loyalty belongs to God, not the Party.* Anti-Christian progressivism replaces the imago Dei with the sovereign, sexually liberated consumer. It cannot tolerate a religion that speaks of sin, judgment, and objective truth. Its therapeutic-totalitarian impulse demands that every knee bow to the latest sexual orthodoxy, enforced by cancellation, deplatforming, and, increasingly, state power.History is unambiguous about where such alliances lead.Islam conquered the Christian Middle East and North Africa in the 7th–8th centuries, turning the cradle of Christianity into a wasteland of dhimmitude and demolishing churches. Spain required eight centuries of Reconquista to reclaim its Christian soul. The Balkans still bleed from five centuries of Ottoman rule.Marxism ...
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    38 mins
  • Local Election Results Demand Conservatives Take The Reins From The Impotent GOP Apparatuses

    Local Election Results Demand Conservatives Take The Reins From The Impotent GOP Apparatuses
    Dec 1 2025
    In the wake of the November 4, 2025, off-year elections, conservatives, Libertarians, and Republicans must confront a brutal reality: the ground is shifting faster than the establishment wants to admit. Democrats and their radical Democratic Socialist allies didn’t just notch victories—they steamrolled through key races, from New York City’s mayoral upset to sweeping school board takeovers nationwide.Zohran Mamdani, that self-avowed socialist jihadi, clinched the NYC mayor’s office with 50.4% of the vote, trouncing establishment hacks like Andrew Cuomo and the hapless Curtis Sliwa. At 34, this Marxist sympathizer becomes the city’s youngest mayor in over a century and its first Muslim leader, peddling rent freezes, free buses, and wealth taxes that will bleed New York City dry.Meanwhile, Democrats flipped governorships in Virginia and New Jersey, locked down Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court seats, and rammed through California’s Proposition 50 to gerrymander five extra House seats their way.But the real gut punch? Dozens of local school board races tumbling to progressive extremists, from Douglas County, Colorado, where union-backed radicals ousted a conservative majority, to Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks County, where pro-NEA slates swept all four seats, dismantling Moms for Liberty’s hard-fought gains.These aren’t flukes; they’re flare-ups of a Leftist inferno that’s already licking at the heels of our slim majorities in the US House, Senate, and state legislatures. If Republicans and their complacent enablers don’t snap awake, 2026 midterms will be a bloodbath, and 2028 a funeral dirge for limited government.The Left’s get-out-the-vote (GOTV) machine is a juggernaut, oiled by dark money NGO cash and socialist zealotry, and it exposed Republican vulnerabilities like a scalpel. Mamdani’s win wasn’t luck—it was a masterclass in mobilization. His campaign unleashed tens of thousands of volunteers, turbocharged by digital savvy that targeted young, immigrant, and renter blocs with viral TikToks on affordability and anti-corporate rage. Turnout shattered records: over 2 million ballots, the highest for a NYC mayoral race since 1969, driven by first-time voters under 45 who backed him by 43 points.The Democratic Socialists of America crowed about municipal triumphs in Detroit, Atlanta, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, too—proof that their grassroots army doesn’t sleep. And school boards? Forget “nonpartisan” pretense. In Colorado’s Woodland Park and Mesa County, progressive coalitions, flush with teachers’ union dollars (the Denver Classroom Teachers Association alone dumped $76,809 on races), flipped conservative strongholds by promising “transparency” while plotting to indoctrinate kids with climate hysteria and gender ideology. The National Education Association boasted 77% win rates in Iowa and Colorado, turning sleepy local contests into socialist beachheads. Republicans? We showed up with limp flyers and donor luncheons. This isn’t complacency—it’s suicide. The Left’s apparatus turned out voters who see Trump as the devil, and we let them.Compounding this disaster is the mainstream media’s venomous bias, a full-throated war on anything red. Outlets like NPR and PBS framed these wins as a “Democratic cruise” and “historic night,” gushing over Mamdani’s “charisma” while sneering at Trump’s “chaotic tenure.” Their core agenda? Smear conservatives as extremists, amplify every Democrat sob story, and bury GOP successes.This hatred peaks with President Trump: Al Jazeera and CBS reveled in his failed endorsements, like backing Cuomo (whom he called a “thug”) only to watch Mamdani surge. Trump warned of a “communist” takeover—correctly—and the press twisted it into “bigotry.”Meanwhile, Republican messaging? A joke. The establishment’s tin-eared consultants peddle focus-group pabulum, ignoring how Democrats flood airwaves with affordability fairy tales. Exit polls showed Latinos breaking 2-to-1 for “moderates” like Abigail Spanberger in Virginia, but that’s code for Leftist enablers who’ll greenlight open borders and woke curricula. Without countering this narrative firehose, Republicans hand Democrats and their socialist puppeteers an unearned edge. The media isn’t neutral—it’s a Democrat super PAC, and our side’s too busy golfing with donors to fight back.Enough finger-pointing at the elites; the real indictment falls on the Republican and conservative establishments that have failed us spectacularly. These country-club consultants and beltway hacks—think McConnell’s whisper network or RNC’s fossilized strategists—have squandered Trump’s 2024 mandate with infighting and half-measures. They botched school board defenses, letting Pipeline Fund liberals pour dark money into flipping two dozen Pennsylvania seats. Complacent doesn’t cover it; it’s betrayal.Rank-and-file conservatives and ...
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    42 mins
  • Why Socialism Betrays the Heart of Christianity

    Why Socialism Betrays the Heart of Christianity
    Nov 24 2025
    In an era where deceptive ideologies masquerade as compassion, it’s crucial for Catholics and Christians to discern the profound chasm between true religious charity and the insidious trap of socialism.Religious-based charity, as exemplified in Scripture, is a voluntary act of love rooted in free will—think of the Good Samaritan’s selfless aid (Luke 10:25-37) or the early Church’s sharing of goods out of genuine fellowship (Acts 2:44-45). It’s personal, driven by the Holy Spirit, and honors God’s command to love our neighbor as ourselves (Mark 12:31). Socialism, by contrast, is a coercive system where the state seizes resources through force, redistributes them via bureaucratic fiat, and erodes individual dignity.This Marxist spawn inevitably breeds totalitarianism, as history screams from the graves of millions under Stalin, Mao, and Castro. Socialism isn’t benevolence; it’s theft disguised as equality, antithetical to Christianity because it supplants God’s sovereignty with the state’s idolatry, crushing the soul’s freedom to choose virtue.At its core, socialism contradicts Christianity by denying the divine gift of free will and personal responsibility. The Bible teaches that each person is accountable before God (Romans 14:12), rewarded or judged by individual actions—not collective mandates. Socialism, with its roots in atheistic Marxism, views humans as mere cogs in a machine, promoting envy and class warfare over forgiveness and grace. It fosters dependency on government rather than reliance on Providence, turning charity into entitlement and compassion into compulsion.Totalitarianism thrives here, as the state becomes the false messiah, demanding worship through obedience. Christians must reject this poison, for it mocks the Cross by promising earthly utopia while delivering spiritual bondage. The United States, born as a Judeo-Christian nation, stands as a beacon against such tyrannies.From its genesis, America’s foundations were steeped in biblical principles. The Declaration of Independence affirms that rights are “endowed by their Creator,” echoing Genesis and the imago Dei. Signers like Samuel Adams invoked “the God of armies” in revolutionary calls, while the Constitution’s framing drew from Mosaic law and Protestant ethics. Even the motto “In God We Trust” and the Pledge’s “under God” underscore this heritage.Examples abound: Puritan covenants shaped early colonies, with John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” from Matthew 5:14 inspiring national identity. The Founding Fathers, influenced by Locke and Montesquieu’s Christian worldview, crafted a Republic where liberty—rooted in God’s moral order—trumps state control. This Judeo-Christian ethos birthed capitalism’s fruits: innovation, prosperity, a middle class, and voluntary giving, far surpassing socialism’s famines and gulags.Yet, the siren song of globalism lures many astray, peddling a disingenuous call to communalism that inevitably slides into Marxist communism and socialism. Globalism isn’t about unity; it’s a facade for centralizing power in unelected elites, eroding national sovereignty and personal faith. It preaches “one world” benevolence but delivers totalitarian control, where borders dissolve, cultures homogenize, and the individual bows to the collective. This extends naturally to socialism’s forced equality, as seen in the UN’s agendas or the EU’s bureaucratic overreach—echoes of Babel’s hubris (Genesis 11). Christians, beware: globalism veils Marxism as “shared humanity,” but it antithesizes the Gospel’s call to personal salvation, not state-engineered paradise.Alarmingly, this deception has infiltrated the Church. A recent survey reveals that one-third of regular churchgoers favor socialism over capitalism. Specifically, among 1,003 American adults attending Christian services at least monthly, 32% prefer socialism, 46% support capitalism, and 22% remain undecided—figures unchanged since 2023. Conducted in July 2025 by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University under George Barna and commissioned by the Family Research Council, the poll highlights stronger socialist sympathies among younger attendees, higher-income households, African Americans, and those without a biblical worldview.Meanwhile, ideological moderates in churches have surged from 19% to 29% in two years, signaling an erosion of Scripture’s free-will principles. This infiltration reflects pulpit propaganda, where globalist messages twist charity into collectivism, betraying Christ’s teachings.When such venom—globalism, socialism, communism—emanates from the pulpit, Christians must remember: God granted us free will (Genesis 2:16-17), empowering us to discern truth. We have the absolute right to disagree with clergy, demanding homilies free from Marxist indoctrination veiled as globalist benevolence. The priesthood isn’t infallible on politics; ...
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