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Christian Identity Politics and Its Pitfalls: Fragmentation, Radicalization, and the Politics of Religious Identity
Identity-centered religious frameworks are not unique to Christian Identity theology. Some strands of Black Hebrew Israelite movements, for example, employ similar mechanisms of ethnic chosenness, sacred struggle, and boundary formation, though with entirely different identity claims.
lhpgop
16 hours ago6 min read


The U.S. Midterm Elections: A Very Possible Outcome
Given the extremely narrow margins in Congress, such differences may not merely reduce losses or gains. They could determine control of the House and influence the Senate balance with only modest seat changes.
lhpgop
2 days ago4 min read


Venezuela Status Report (as of Feb 11, 2026)
What you’re seeing is consistent with a real ramp-up in sanctioned-but-authorized energy activity:
lhpgop
6 days ago3 min read


Why Does the State of Florida Have a Problem With the First Amendment?
In other words, Florida’s legislative process currently rewards overreach and relies on vigilance to fix it later.
That should worry conservatives most of all. The First Amendment does not exist to protect popular speech, approved industries, or friendly officials. It exists to protect criticism—especially criticism of those with power.
lhpgop
6 days ago3 min read


The Quiet Coalition Defending the Fed
The Senate’s reaction—freezing nominations, demanding investigations be dropped rather than concluded, and admitting there may be no procedural path forward—signals how intolerable that reframing would be to the current order.
lhpgop
Feb 33 min read


WHO RUNS MITCH MCCONNELL
With Mitch McConnell showing visible decline and no longer serving as party leader, the old assumption — that one man is personally directing every strategic pause — no longer fits the facts. What remains is a familiar Washington pattern: power disperses to those who control time and money.
lhpgop
Feb 23 min read


When a Governor Crosses the Line from Protest to Obstruction
Governors are free to criticize federal policy. They are free to sue. They are free to campaign. What they are not free to do is convert state power into an operational tool against federal law enforcement.
lhpgop
Jan 303 min read


When Faith Becomes Political Infrastructure, the Public Purse Must Close
Across the United States, some religious organizations and clergy have moved beyond moral advocacy into operational interference with federal immigration enforcement, including physically blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. These actions are defended as faith-based witness.
lhpgop
Jan 294 min read


Where the Narrative Breaks: Misread Voters, Manufactured Majorities, and the Limits of Perception Politics
The midterm landscape is not best understood as a binary contest between mobilized majorities and reactionary minorities. It is better understood as a system under strain from perception management, institutional opacity, and misread silence.
lhpgop
Jan 264 min read


TAKING AIM AT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S CIVIL RIGHTS DOUBLE JEOPARDY.
The cumulative effect was a measurable increase in civil rights investigations that appeared asymmetrically distributed across politically salient incidents rather than proportionally tied to objective indicators of criminality.
lhpgop
Jan 246 min read


Speaking From the State: Why Officials Who Legitimize Violence Must Be Held Accountable
Officials in power already enjoy structural advantages: a microphone, institutional credibility, and the ability to frame legality for millions of people who are not lawyers. With those advantages should come responsibility
lhpgop
Jan 246 min read


James Fishback and the Sins of Omission in a Gubernatorial CampaignPLUS SOME ADVICE FOR BYRON DONALDS
In Florida, the risk is that this dynamic siphons attention and trust away from viable Republican leadership—most notably Byron Donalds—creating conditions that advantage Democrats.
lhpgop
Jan 233 min read


The Minnesota “Union Walkout” Ahead of January 23
January 23 has not yet arrived—but the narrative is already being written.
If organizers and media continue to rely on implication rather than disclosure, they should not be surprised when workers, contractors, and the public start asking whether this “walkout” is less about labor—and more about manufacturing consent through ambiguity.
lhpgop
Jan 223 min read


PAPER DRAGON. A Structural Assessment of PRC Power, Vulnerability, and Strategic Overstatement
Intelligence professionals must be trained to see through the shimmer—and to recognize that systems built on opacity, coercion, and external dependence rarely perform well when exposed to time, pressure, and friction.
lhpgop
Jan 225 min read


OVERHAULING THE US LABOR FORCE
The political coalition for such a reform is broader than its opponents assume. Citizens gain mobility, dignity, and wage protection; employers gain legal labor and predictability; sending states gain structured remittance flows; and immigration hawks gain real enforcement. The losers are the actors who profit from illegality: shadow intermediaries, labor brokers, and political rent extractors.
lhpgop
Jan 214 min read


When the Camera Becomes the Weapon.
There may never be subpoenas or indictments arising from Milwaukee. But the incident should force an uncomfortable reckoning: if journalism is going to operate as a combat arm of ideological movements, it cannot also claim the immunities of detached neutrality
lhpgop
Jan 193 min read


THE MACHADO HURDLE: NAVIGATING VENEZUELA’S NEXT POLITICAL TEST UNDER TRUMP
The Venezuelan transition is entering its most precarious phase. Machado is a player, but not the center of gravity.
lhpgop
Jan 195 min read


The Trump 10% Credit Cap Is a Start — But Real Reform Requires Ending Lifelong Debt
The lifelong debt model is a relatively new invention — a late-1990s to 2000s engineering project built on FICO scores, securitization, minimum payment formulas, and behavioral gamification
lhpgop
Jan 174 min read


Under Trump, Tribes Must Choose: Partners or Protesters
Tribal sovereignty rests on federal recognition of nationhood, rooted in treaties and congressional plenary power.⁹
lhpgop
Jan 154 min read


Greenland, Europe, China, and the Arctic Monroe Doctrine: A Strategic Reframing of Western Hemisphere Arctic Security
Europe attempted to preempt American primacy.
PRC attempted to indirectly derail American consolidation.
Inuit nationalism aligned with the United States.
The United States reasserted hierarchical reality, using energy rather than war.
lhpgop
Jan 144 min read
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