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Hancock: Saving Liberty in an Age of Manufactured Tyranny
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Hancock: Saving Liberty in an Age of Manufactured Tyranny

By Michael A. Hancock | Commentary, Substack A Citizen’s Guide to Resisting Fear and Restoring the Republic There is a form of political ventriloquism occurring in America. The left warns, with breathless urgency, that Donald Trump is a dictator in waiting, a Mussolini in a red tie, poised to crush democracy with a golf swing and a sneer.  Yet while they scream “authoritarianism,” they themselves quietly build its infrastructure. This is no longer just about Donald Trump’s rhetoric or temperament. It’s about how a fabricated narrative has become the pretext for a real and present ideological revolution—one that seeks to dissolve the very foundations of the American experiment: objective truth, individual liberty, the nuclear family, and the rule of law.  All...
Sturm: Wisdom gained after debating a Pronoun Policy as a theater company board member
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Sturm: Wisdom gained after debating a Pronoun Policy as a theater company board member

By Melanie Sturm | Commentary, Substack What would you do if the state called you an unfit parent — not for hurting your child, but for refusing to pretend your daughter is your son? That’s the reality Colorado families could soon face under a bill advancing in the state legislature. And in Maryland, the Supreme Court is now weighing whether parents have any say at all over LGBTQ content taught in elementary school. Policies once dismissed as fringe are ubiquitous. Silence shouldn’t become complicity. Two summers ago, I saw where this leads — not while in a courtroom, but around a boardroom table. I’d served on the board of a beloved theater company for over two decades. Then one day, a concerned parent forwarded me the children’s program Pronoun Policy, which required kids ...
Colorado Governor silent on whether he’ll use far-left smear factory to cancel conservatives after flag squabble
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Colorado Governor silent on whether he’ll use far-left smear factory to cancel conservatives after flag squabble

By Tyler O'Neil | Daily Signal Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis, did not respond to concerns that his administration would rely on the Southern Poverty Law Center to exclude conservatives from a state flag program after his office apologized for honoring a gay organization the SPLC brands a “hate group.” Polis’ signature appeared on a document celebrating the Colorado chapter of Gays Against Groomers, a group of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people who oppose experimental transgender medical procedures on children. The SPLC—which vehemently supports transgender interventions for children and labels mainstream conservative and Christian organizations “hate groups,” placing them on a map along with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan—branded Gays Against Groomers an “anti-LGBTQ ...