An 11-year-old boy watched the movie Jaws. Then he helped clear the name of a dead man the US Navy had blamed for a terrible disaster. In 1996, a boy named Hunter Scott was watching the film Jaws at his home in Florida. One scene particularly fascinated him. The shark hunter Quint recalled the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during the Second World War. Hunter had never heard of the ship. He asked his father whether the story was true. It was. On July 30, 1945, a Japanese submarine torpedoed the USS Indianapolis in the Pacific Ocean. The American warship had just completed a secret mission delivering components for the atomic bomb that would devastate Hiroshima. Within approximately 12 minutes, the ship sank. Of the 1,196 men aboard, only 316 survived. Hundreds had escaped the sinking, only to spend days floating in the ocean, suffering from dehydration, exposure, injuries and shark attacks. Nobody had raised the alarm when the ship failed to arrive at its destination. The survivors were discovered almost by accident. And then came another tragedy. The US Navy court-martialled the ship's captain, Charles McVay, accusing him of negligence for failing to steer a zigzag course to avoid enemy torpedoes. Yet McVay had not been informed of important intelligence concerning Japanese submarines in the area. His request for an escort had been denied. Even the Japanese submarine commander testified that zigzagging would not have changed how he fired his torpedoes. Many survivors considered McVay a scapegoat. He carried the burden of the disaster for the rest of his life. In 1968, he died by suicide. Almost three decades later, an 11-year-old boy decided to investigate what had happened. Hunter began what was supposed to be an ordinary school history project. He read books and military documents. He contacted survivors, asking them to describe the disaster and what they thought of their captain. Eventually, he reached out to all 154 survivors still alive in 1996. More than 80 responded. Many were elderly. Some had rarely spoken about their experiences. They told Hunter about the men they had watched die. About their captain. About the injustice they believed had been done. The boy kept investigating. He wrote to President Bill Clinton. He assembled documents. He challenged the official version of events. His research attracted national attention and helped persuade members of Congress to take up the case. In 2000, Congress passed legislation calling for McVay's exoneration. In July 2001, the Secretary of the Navy ordered that the congressional declaration of McVay's innocence be placed in his official military record. More than half a century after the sinking, the captain's name had finally been officially vindicated, although the original court-martial conviction was not formally overturned. And the boy? Hunter Scott eventually became a US Navy officer himself. There is something profoundly moving about this story. Hundreds of sailors survived a nightmare. For decades, they struggled to get their captain's name cleared. Then an ordinary schoolboy watched a film, became curious and refused to stop asking questions. Sometimes history changes because someone powerful makes a decision. And sometimes it changes because a child refuses to accept that the adults have already established the truth.

The Jews knew that the Messiah was going to be born around the time of the first century because of the prophecies in Daniel. Many Jews also thought this Messiah would establish Jewish military dominance and a universal empire. Like the Kingdom of David but across the whole world. This is why the Zealots rose up, especially in the great Roman-Jewish War of 66-70. The Messiah did come during the first century. But He did not deliver the Jewish world empire that the Zealots expected.

CHRISTIAN ZIONISM A Christian Zionist is a (usually Evangelical Protestant) Christian who believes the modern State of Israel fulfills Old Testament prophecy and that the Jewish people still hold a divine title to the land promised to Abraham. They take Genesis 12:3 literally as a standing command that God will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse it, so supporting the modern Israeli state is treated as a religious duty that brings divine favor while opposing it risks divine judgment. This view, rooted in 19th-century dispensationalism, treats the 1948 founding of Israel (and the 1967 capture of Jerusalem) as a prophetic milestone that prepares the way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, and it stands in direct contrast to the historic Christian teaching that the Church is the New Israel. In the U.S., approximately 60-80% of Evangelicals are Christian’s Zionists. That’s about 40 to 50 million people, most of whom vote Republican and exercise a tremendous amount of influence and control over Republican politics. That is until last Tuesday, when they received a crushing defeat at the polls. Surveys show that Millennial Republicans have gradually moved away from Christian Zionism, while GenZ Republicans appear to be rejecting it entirely. Americans need to understand what Christian Zionism is. They need to understand that it is an extreme and fringe theological view, that has no basis in historical Christianity. They need to understand that Catholics, Orthodox and most Mainline Protestants reject it. And most importantly, Republican Party leadership needs to understand that they CANNOT allow this worldview to influence American foreign policy. Currently, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, is a Christian Zionist.

This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year. Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used. Her exact words (full clip attached): “I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.” Then she turns the knife inward: “These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.” She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues. This isn’t some random podcast bro. This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying: “We were the useful idiots.”

A BOOT SHOP IN OREGON MOVED $93 MILLION. Thirty four million of it, the feds say, was drug money, wired from Springfield straight into drug trafficking corridors in Mexico and Honduras. El Kaiman Western Wear sold clothing and wired money abroad. 179,874 transfers between January 2018 and this July. I did the math. That's one wire every 25 minutes, around the clock, for eight and a half years. The owner is Esteban Peralta Fragozo, 50, a Mexican national in this country illegally. He admitted that himself. The feds ran undercover operations through that store with an informant. He was told the cash came from drug trafficking. He wired it anyway, under false sender names and fake IDs. A traffic stop turned up 72 pounds of methamphetamine. With it, wire receipts from El Kaiman. Oregon has been a sanctuary state since 1987. In 2021 the legislature went further: any federal immigration request without a judge's order gets documented, reported and denied. His store was open the whole time. Federal agents searched his home, his car and his store on Wednesday. A Ruger 9mm, ammunition, bulk cash. A federal magistrate in Eugene ordered him held. Next hearing November 17. A cartel doesn't need a tunnel in a state that has promised not to look. 💎

When Jerusalem fell in 70 AD, world history changed forever. The destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple was one of the most significant turning points in biblical and human history. Its significance includes: • The destruction of the Temple, the center of Jewish worship for centuries • The end of the Old Covenant sacrificial system • The fulfillment of Jesus’ prophecy that not one stone would be left upon another • The scattering of the Jewish people throughout the Roman world • The transformation of Judaism into the rabbinic form that exists today • The final separation between Christianity and mainstream Judaism • The preservation of Christianity as a global faith rather than a Jerusalem-centered movement • A dramatic demonstration of God’s judgment upon a generation that rejected its Messiah • One of the most historically documented events of the ancient world through Josephus and Roman sources • The backdrop for much of the New Testament’s warnings, prophecies, and urgency 70 AD is the moment the ancient biblical world came to an end and a new era began.

The men who wrote the Constitution owned guns, distrusted bankers, and believed taxation without consent was worth dying over. They would not recognize the country operating under their name today. Federal spending crossed $7 trillion per year. The income tax, which the founders explicitly rejected, now reaches into every paycheck you earn before you touch a dollar of it. The Federal Reserve, a central bank of the exact type Jefferson warned would strip citizens of property through inflation, has spent the last two decades aggressively expanding the money supply and handing you the bill through rising prices. The founders drew the federal government's powers in a short, specific list. Congress could coin money, raise an army, and regulate interstate trade. What it could not do is not in that list, because the founders assumed the limits were obvious. They were wrong to assume that. Today the federal government licenses your profession, subsidizes your competitor, dictates your health plan, and surveils your financial transactions above $600. The administrative state, staffed by unelected bureaucrats at the FDA, SEC, EPA, and an estimated 430 other agencies, writes rules carrying the force of law without a single congressional vote. Madison called this precise arrangement tyranny in The Federalist Papers(No. 47). The founders risked hanging to escape a government that taxed tea at 3%. You hand over 30 percent of your income and are supposed to thank the state for the privilege of keeping the rest.

These are the Garima Gospels, ancient Ethiopian manuscripts written in Geʽez which is the classical language still used in Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox worship. They contain the four Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Radiocarbon testing dated the parchment of one volume to AD 390–570 and another to AD 550–660. Preserved at Ethiopia’s Abba Garima Monastery, they are the earliest surviving Ethiopian Gospel books. Their pages contain carefully handwritten text, colorful illustrations, and elaborate decorative arches. What I find especially fascinating is the reminder they give us about Christian history. Long before the printing press or the first English Bibles, Christians in Africa were translating, copying, illustrating, and preserving Scripture. These manuscripts are a beautiful physical connection to that history generations of believers reading the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus in their own language.

I had an opportunity to spend a week in the U.S., and I made a few observations. We often hear Canadians proudly say, “We’re not like Americans.” But I’m curious about what we mean by that, and why we assume it is something to congratulate ourselves about. The first thing I noticed was pride in their country. American flags everywhere! A sense that loving your country does not depend on who happens to be in power. In Canada, we have seen the flag treated as controversial one moment and encouraged the next. Apparently, we need to check the political mood before deciding whether we can proudly fly our own flag. If we need permission to show pride in our country, what else have we learned to ask permission for? So if pride in their country is one of the things that makes Americans different, that’s something I would welcome more of here. I also noticed more personal autonomy and confidence. People seemed comfortable making their own decisions and standing behind their beliefs. Political disagreements? Plenty. But nobody I spoke with seemed to need permission to have an opinion. When did walking on eggshells become a Canadian virtue? If Americans are more comfortable speaking their minds, why would we pride ourselves on being different? There also seemed to be less expectation that government should have an answer for everything. People help themselves, help their neighbours and take responsibility for what comes next, without assuming government will step in and sort it all out. Is that really something we want to distance ourselves from? Independence and personal responsibility sound good to me. Taken all together, what I noticed was less fear. More willingness to try something, take a chance and live with some uncertainty. A confidence that you can figure things out as you go, even when you have to. Are these qualities we should distance ourselves from? I want Canadians to be informed, prepared and confident in their own judgment. Ask questions. Understand the risks. Take chances. Succeed. Fail. Learn and grow. But for goodness’ sake, LIVE. We cannot let fear make every decision for us and expect government to fix everything. So tell me: why is it so important to keep announcing that “we’re not like Americans”? What exactly are we congratulating ourselves on? Give me something more than “we’re nicer.” When people are smeared, labelled and pushed out for expressing different views about this country, can we really say that with a straight face? Besides, I met some pretty nice people down there too.

Thirty-three American Abrams battle tanks, each weighing nearly 70 tonnes, rolling through the streets of a small Kentucky town. Their ultimate destination? Poland. Footage recorded on 1 November shows a freight train passing through La Grange, Kentucky, carrying what Polish defence publication MILMAG identifies as the final shipment of M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks ordered by the Polish military. This is the eighth and final batch under a $4.75 billion contract signed with Washington in April 2022. The tanks are expected to arrive in Poland by sea in late November or early December, before undergoing technical inspections and entering military service. Once delivered, Poland will have received all 250 of its latest-generation Abrams tanks, alongside 116 older M1A1 models already supplied by the United States. That's a total of 366 American-built main battle tanks, forming a substantial part of Poland's expanding armoured forces. For perspective, these are among the most advanced tanks in American military service, equipped with sophisticated fire-control systems, improved armour and 120mm main guns. Poland argues that such investment is necessary to deter Russian aggression and strengthen NATO's eastern flank. Given the war across its border, that security concern deserves to be taken seriously. But the footage also illustrates the sheer scale of Europe's continuing military rearmament. Billions of dollars in contracts, entire armoured formations being modernised and American defence manufacturers supplying the hardware. These aren't American tanks suddenly being deployed to Ukraine. They're part of a Polish military procurement programme agreed four years ago. Europe is rearming on a scale that would have been difficult to imagine a decade ago, and the consequences will reach well beyond the factory gates and military barracks. And that's the part that should concern us all. We are being walked, gently and almost imperceptibly, towards World War III. Not through one great declaration of war, but through a steady escalation of military spending, arms shipments, troop deployments and increasingly dangerous rhetoric. Each step is presented as necessary, defensive and entirely reasonable. Perhaps some are. But taken together, they're moving Europe towards a confrontation from which there may be no easy retreat. The arms manufacturers are making billions, politicians talk of preparing for war, and ordinary families are left wondering how they'll afford to heat their homes. History teaches us that wars don't always begin because somebody wants a world war. Sometimes they begin because those in power convince themselves they can control the escalation. And once that control is lost, it's the working class who will be expected to fight, die and pay for it...again!

Two words of caution, one for older men and one for younger men. Older men, Absalom didn't come from nowhere. When Amnon violated his sister Tamar, David was furious but did nothing (2 Sam 13:21). Absalom waited two years, then took justice into his own hands. Passive fathers raise bitter sons. Don't provoke your children to anger (Eph 6:4) by ducking hard conversations or hoarding work you should hand off. Humble yourself. Own your sins, open your hands, and work alongside these young men. Some young men are telling older men, "You had your chance. Get out of our way." Young men, your grievances about what was squandered before you got here are real. Crushing cost of living and homeownership, foreigners overrunning our nation, feminism pervading everything, and American jobs handed to H-1B workers. But young Absalom had a real grievance too. He sat at the city gate stealing hearts (2 Sam 15:1-6), and he ended up hanging in an oak (2 Sam 18:9-15). Young Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men for the voices of his buddies and lost ten tribes (1 Kgs 12:13–16). You can name your father's sins and still honor him (Exod 20:12). Try building a house by tearing down the man who gave you your name. See how long it stands. If we want lasting reform, we need sons who honor their fathers and fathers who shepherd their sons, all of us under the lordship of Christ, building what none of us could build alone.

1898: Bayer trademarks a new cough medicine for children. They call it Heroin. 1899: They also trademark aspirin. Enjoy it. It is the last unambiguously good thing on this list. 1900: Heroin is Bayer's best seller, marketed to mothers as non-addictive. 1915: Bayer's chemists help put poison gas into the trenches, and the firm's chairman argues for it in Berlin. 1925: Bayer folds into a chemical giant called IG Farben. 1940s: IG Farben builds a slave-labour plant at Auschwitz and part-owns the company that makes the Zyklon B. 1956: A director convicted at Nuremberg of slavery and plunder is quietly made chairman of Bayer's board. 1980s: Bayer learns its haemophilia blood product is riddled with HIV. Rather than destroy the stock, it keeps selling the untreated batches to Asia and Latin America to recoup the money. Thousands of haemophiliacs are infected. Many die. 2003: The New York Times prints the documents. Bayer helps settle for around $600 million and admits nothing. 2018: Bayer buys Monsanto, taking on Roundup, Agent Orange and PCBs in a single afternoon. 2026: The US Supreme Court throws out the Roundup cancer claims. Bayer wins. Heroin, poison gas, Auschwitz, infected blood and a weedkiller in the dock, all from one firm. Every one was legal, sold with total confidence and blessed by the experts of its day, and the company is bigger now than it has ever been. The heroin got recalled. The company never did.

Josip Broz Tito built Yugoslavia's socialist economy on a supposedly clever premise: worker self-management. Factories would be run by elected workers' councils rather than central planners in Belgrade. Western intellectuals practically wept with admiration. Here, finally, was socialism with a human face. But the math never worked. Worker-managed firms systematically chose higher wages over capital reinvestment, because workers capturing today's income had no personal stake in machinery that would outlast their tenure. The incentive to maintain and expand productive capital simply vanished. Yugoslav firms borrowed heavily from state banks to cover the gap, and those banks lent freely because the political cost of bankruptcy was too high for any official to absorb. Inflation ran at 30% annually through most of the 1980s, eventually hitting 2,665% in 1989. You didn't need to theorize about the collapse; you could read it on the price tags. Tito papered over the structural rot with Western loans. Yugoslavia accumulated $20 billion in foreign debt by his death in 1980. That borrowing bought political legitimacy, but not productive capacity. When global interest rates spiked under Volcker's Fed, the debt service alone crushed the economy. The decentralization of Tito's model also contained a fatal political logic. Each of Yugoslavia's six republics developed its own economic fiefdom, protecting regional industries from competition with other regions. Six separate planning bureaucracies fought over the same shrinking pie. Slovenia and Croatia, the most productive republics, grew resentful of transfers flowing south and west. Property rights remained collectivized throughout. No worker actually owned his share of the firm, which meant he couldn't sell it, pledge it, or use it to signal genuine economic preferences. Prices carried noise instead of information. Capital flowed toward political favor rather than toward producers with better ideas. Socialism doesn't work, whether it's centralized or decentralized.

In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again. His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners. Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest. That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life. He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight. Pack nothing. Come now. He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings. This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage. He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again. One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property. Nobody on that farm died. In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive. Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service. He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one. He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him. Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942. The historian mentioned her father by name. She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before. She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched. “I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said. Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it. The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough. Faiza answered with a line history should never forget: “My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.” Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night. He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it. The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.

From the web: In 1998, Serena and Venus Williams claimed they could beat any man ranked outside the top 200 on the men’s tour. German player Karsten Braasch, then ranked No. 203, accepted the challenge. After a night of drinking and smoking with little preparation, Braasch defeated Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2 in straight sets. The matches were not competitive. Braasch later said he never needed to use his finest serve. The Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes of all time. And they barely made Braasch break a sweat. It wasn't because Braasch was very good. He wasn't. But as a male, he possesses biological advantages even the best female athletes can't compete against. That's the very reason we established women's sports to begin with. To even the playing field. That shouldn't be controversial. And you shouldn't need a biology degree to understand it. h/t David J Harris Jr.

When I was Muslim, I thought Christians could never answer this. I would challenge them on this technicality. Bro, I thought I was so slick for this, but then I studied it. For years when I was Muslim, I never asked who actually built the golden calf. I just knew it was a sin in the desert. Then I read both accounts and one detail stopped me cold. In the Bible, the man who builds the golden calf is AARON. Aaron is Moses’ own brother. The first high priest (Exodus 32:4) He gathers the gold, melts it, shapes the idol. And when Moses confronts him, he gives the weakest excuse in scripture: “I threw the gold in the fire and out came this calf.” As if it made itself. Bro. The Bible just put the worst sin in the camp in the hands of the holiest man in the camp. You would NEVER write that if you were protecting your prophets. Now read the Quran. Surah 20. Aaron is cleared and totally innocent. In fact, he tried to stop it. The blame goes to a mystery man called “al-Samiri.” That literally translates to “The Samaritan.” (Surah 20:85) But this is what stopped me cold. The Bible incriminates its own high priest. The Quran writes him an alibi and invents a villain. The Bible reads like an honest record. The Quran reads like damage control. And there’s a second problem with that villain. “The Samaritan.” But Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ time. The city of Samaria wasn’t founded until about 500 years later, under King Omri. 1 Kings 16:24. It’s like putting a Texan at the Last Supper. Now, some Muslim scholars push back, saying that “Samiri” means something else. I’ll be fair, that argument exists. But their own classical commentators read it as “the Samaritan” for centuries. The defense only works by re-translating away from how the tradition always understood it. I used to say the Bible was corrupted. But the Bible is honest enough to say the high priest built the idol. That’s not the fingerprint of a cover-up. That’s the fingerprint of the truth! Only a book honest about how bad we are could point me to a Savior real enough to fix it. The Bible never flattered Aaron at all. It didn’t flatter me either. It just told me the truth, and handed me Jesus.

BREAKING: 🇵🇾 What just happened in PARAGUAY is a WARNING for everyone on earth. More than 3 million people (60% of Paraguay's adult population) have lost access to EVERYTHING. Their bank accounts. Their pensions. Frozen. Inaccessible. Paraguay’s largest digital bank, Ueno Bank, has collapsed. The president of the Central Bank (who is deeply connected to Ueno) has just RESIGNED. Eight high-level executives including the founder and the Bank President are being detained. The people have taken to the streets to demand their money back. And rightly so. This is the model Milei and the rest of the Epstein class are pushing. This could happen ANYWHERE. Best to save in physical gold and physical silver, imo.

I ran for Governor of Oregon at just 36 years old. The moment I announced, my own Republican Party joined forces with the media to smear me as a J6 insurrectionist—even though the truth about my time at J6 is well known (non-violent, unknowingly trespassed, wasn’t there to stop the certification). Throughout the campaign, the old Republican establishment and rival gubernatorial candidates spread disinformation about me, my family, and my character. We even caught them secretly messaging people at my church with lies about me. Two major candidates used political proxies to paint me as inexperienced, unqualified, and too young. The irony? I had more political experience than two of the four leading candidates and owned a highly successful business. They weaponized ageism against me while accusing younger generations of doing the same to them. I was kept off debate stages while the Republican machine propped up its four preferred candidates. Yet I still beat one of them—and did it while running a clean campaign without attacking my opponents. But my experience exposed something far bigger than one gubernatorial race. Maybe this is exactly why younger people don’t get involved in politics. When a handful of entrenched political insiders view politics as a career rather than a calling, they have little incentive to cultivate new leadership, expand their party’s influence, or challenge the status quo. They’re perfectly content to lose cycle after cycle as long as they retain their positions, careers, and little pockets of political influence. Meanwhile, talented, principled people are discouraged from stepping forward. A party that punishes new leadership and protects political insiders over winning elections will eventually run out of people willing to fight for it. This needs to change. In Oregon and across America. We need new blood. We need leaders who stand on principle, put the people first, and are willing to fight for something greater than their own political careers. It’s time to stop protecting the political establishment and start building a movement that actually wins. To the old Republican guard here in Oregon (you know who you are), you are not my enemy, and I hope we can all work together one day. Oregon needs you too and I forgive you whether you like me or not.

There is something inconsistent about saying we trust God with our soul for eternity while living as though He cannot be trusted with tomorrow. We say Christ is sufficient to carry us through death, judgment, resurrection, and everlasting life, yet a financial problem comes, a door closes, health changes, someone leaves, the future becomes uncertain, and suddenly we begin living as though everything depends upon our ability to keep life from falling apart. Jesus addressed this very directly. He told His disciples not to be consumed with anxiety over food, clothing, and tomorrow because their heavenly Father already knows what they need (Matthew 6:25–34). He did not say those needs were imaginary. He taught them to measure those needs against the character of the Father who feeds birds, clothes grass, and knows His children completely. Paul gives us an even stronger argument: “He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?” (Romans 8:32). If God has already given Christ for us, then His providential care cannot suddenly become uncertain when we enter ordinary trouble. The cross is the greatest evidence that His hands can be trusted. This does not mean Christians never become afraid. David could say, “When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You” (Psalm 56:3). Notice that faith did not mean the absence of fear. Faith meant that fear drove him toward God rather than away from Him. Trust is often learned while our hands are still shaking. And this is where our theology has to leave the page and enter life. We confess that God is sovereign, wise, good, and Father to His people. Then the bills arrive, the diagnosis changes, the answer to prayer is delayed, or something precious is taken from us. Those moments expose whether sovereignty is merely a doctrine we defend or a God we actually rest in. Peter says, “casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). That is not sentimental language. It is an invitation to place the weight of temporal life upon the same God to whom we have entrusted eternity. If we can trust Christ to raise us from the grave, we can learn to trust Him with the days that come before it. And when that trust is weak, the answer is not pretending to be stronger than we are. It is bringing the weakness itself to the God who has already proved His faithfulness at the cross.

Let's take stock. You were promised: - Golden age of America - Mass deportations - Decreased inflation & cost of living - No new wars - Secure elections You got: - No discernible golden age - Deportations, but not at the anticipated pace - Inflation & cost of living increase - New war - Still no voter ID required for voting You believed those promises could be delivered without abolishing our many national abominations. This is what happens when you seek blessing without obedience, crops without labor, and fruit without repentance. You want God to prosper your nation without abolishing the bloodshed that requires wrath. It's like playing wack-a-mole with God's punishments. He sends us invaders; He sends us turmoil; He sends us curses because WE DESERVE IT. What you essentially struggle against is God Himself. He will not prosper a nation while the blood of the innocent cries out to Him for justice, and against all the millions of people who have done it or turned a blind eye to it. If you have supported the doctrine of supporting the "lesser evil", the abominable creed that you can support feckless Republicans who sit in seats of power stained by the blood of innocent children, you should repent. These "leaders" are blind guides who take you into the ditch with them. They promise to prosper you while spitting at God. He will not be mocked. "Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him."