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Why So Many Young Men Follow Online Influencers Today or “Why so many guys are lowkey obsessed with influencers rn”
The popularity of these figures reflects a larger social reality: many young men are searching for guidance about success, identity, and purpose.
Traditional sources of direction — community institutions, stable career paths, and clear social expectations — have weakened.
lhpgop
9 hours ago6 min read


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


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


Strategic Signaling, Not War: Understanding Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Iran
Neoconservatives tend to view military power as meaningful only when used kinetically. If bombs are not falling, they assume weakness or indecision.
lhpgop
Feb 23 min read


The Real Game Behind the GameHow Money Is Actually Made in the NBA and Premier League Soccer
Professional sports today are not just competitions. They are attention businesses.
lhpgop
Jan 294 min read


WHERE IS "El CID"? A Decree Against the Nation: How Spain’s Leaders Turned Their Backs on the People
Spain is not a blank slate.It is not a spreadsheet.It is not a laboratory for ideological fantasies.
A nation is a shared inheritance: economic, cultural, and civic. It survives only when change happens with consent, at a pace people can absorb, and in service of those who already belong to it.
lhpgop
Jan 273 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


OPERATION. ARCTIC SPRING. HOW THE OBAMA COULD HAVE TAKEN GREENLAND
Think of it as a fusion of Arab Spring tradecraft, Cold War IO doctrine, and modern NGO-media-platform dynamics, with Greenland as the test case
lhpgop
Jan 1916 min read


The NGO Problem: When Philanthropy Becomes Political Warfare
Congress has spent decades treating NGOs as a philanthropic category rather than a governing category. That assumption no longer holds. In the U.S. and internationally, segments of the NGO ecosystem now function as political and operational actors—intermediating migration flows, influencing foreign policy, financing domestic activism, and shaping enforcement outcomes.
lhpgop
Jan 113 min read


TRUMP'S VENEZUELA BRIEF. SOUTH AMERICA GOES MAGA? WHAT WAS AND WASN'T SAID
What this administration is doing is internally consistent with how it thinks about power, legitimacy, and time—and it is not a continuation of the Bush-Obama era nation-building model that the media keeps dragging out of storage every time the United States acts abroad.
lhpgop
Jan 44 min read


Comedy Isn’t Funny Anymore: Where Does the Act End?
The First Amendment protects speech from government censorship. It does not require audiences to applaud, platforms to amplify, or critics to remain silent. Withdrawal of attention is not censorship; it is judgment.
lhpgop
Dec 27, 20254 min read


A STRATEGIC RESET IN AFRICA. Why Ambassadorial Change Signals a Bolder, More Equitable U.S. Africa Policy
The Trump administration recently recalled nearly 30 career diplomats, including U.S. ambassadors from 15 African nations, as part of an effort to realign diplomatic personnel with the President’s America First agenda. The affected countries include Algeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, and Uganda. All of the recalled ambassadors had assumed their posts during the prior Biden admin
lhpgop
Dec 24, 20253 min read
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