ALEX KRAINER: Great Britain once waged Opium Wars to destroy China and reduce it to a colony. I'm sure they wouldn't do that today to recover their lost colony, the US.

Great Britain once waged Opium Wars to destroy China and reduce it to a colony. It worked (for a while). But I'm sure they wouldn't do that today to recover their lost colony, the US. I mean, it would be wrong. https://t.co/ZwMhXVSsnS

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) May 1, 2026

DANIELLE SMITH: BREAKING: A Presidential permit has been approved for a new bitumen pipeline that will initially deliver more than half a million barrels per day of Alberta oil to facilities and refineries throughout the United States. This project is a joint venture between two great Canadian and US companies South Bow and Bridger using existing assets.

MOAR winning.

Bitumen is high sulfur. Read fertilizer https://t.co/otpyFtzOkg

— Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) May 1, 2026

JEFF CLARK: Proponents of certain brands of Islam would merge Muslim religious practices with government in a way that makes a seasonal creche scene look like kindergarten-level religious piker-ism. What we face here is that this aggressive brand of Islam is literally designing, promoting, and standing up mini-theocracies at the local level.

The Left frequently argues that even voluntary Christian prayer in schools, traditional Nativity scenes at Christmas, the motto "In God we trust" on the money, and the like are establishments of religion violating the First Amendment.

They are ignoring the actual threat that… https://t.co/NxhM23fyv5 pic.twitter.com/Y0DxlTZReS

— Jeff Clark (@JeffClarkUS) April 30, 2026

from Jeff Clark:

The Left frequently argues that even voluntary Christian prayer in schools, traditional Nativity scenes at Christmas, the motto "In God we trust" on the money, and the like are establishments of religion violating the First Amendment. They are ignoring the actual threat that Sharia law's proliferation poses under the Establishment Clause.

The First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any law “respecting an establishment of religion.” This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion, or non-religion over religion.  --LII, Legal Information Institute.

Proponents of certain brands of Islam would merge Muslim religious practices with government in a way that makes a seasonal creche scene look like kindergarten-level religious piker-ism. What we face here is that this aggressive brand of Islam is literally designing, promoting, and standing up mini-theocracies at the local level. What we uncovered in our EPIC City report is one such effort, aimed like a dagger at Texas, one of the remaining beating hearts of our Republic. EPIC aimed, by its own admission, to make its housing development "the epicenter of Islam in North America." It's also important to note that even in Islamic terms, EPIC is discriminatory as it is expressly tied to a Sunni Muslim group and not to the Shiites. Our hope @ItsYourGov is that our report will help you wake up to what is going on in America and the dire level of the threat. 

KING CHARLES LIED. He said, "George Washington, and his fellow founders was to forge a democracy founded upon . . . ." They formed a Republic, if we can keep it. They uniformly loathed Democracy.

They formed a Republic, if we can keep it.

They uniformly loathed Democracy.

They said so, explicitly in Federalist 10 and their correspondence with each other. https://t.co/yZSbwlWHRT

— Linuxhippie (@linuxhippie) April 29, 2026

from Jon Troyer,

Why Can't People Get This Right? . . . because they don't want to

"Out of the fires of a bitter and bloody revolutionary war, the triumph of the father of this country, George Washington, and his fellow founders was to forge a democracy founded upon the rights to liberty and the rule of law." - King Charles III, April 28, 2026

George Washington had very little input on the actual formation of the language of the U.S. Constitution, although he did write letters later in support of its ratification. Aside from voting as a delegate on proposals and presiding over the convention as its president and maintaining order, he spoke only on the final day of the Constitutional Convention, in support of a motion to give Congress the power to enlarge the House of Representatives up to a maximum of one representative per 30,000 people, if it chose to do so. Washington also did not participate in the Continental Congress debates that gave rise to the Declaration of Independence over a decade earlier, as he was in New York as Commander of the Continental Army. In writings, Washington frequently referenced the republican model of government. In his First Inaugural Address (1789), he spoke of

"the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government" as staked on the American experiment.

He said in his Farewell Address (1796),

"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy."

Elizabeth Willing Powel's question,

"Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Benjamin Franklin's response,

"A republic, if you can keep it."

In Federalist #10, James Madison wrote,

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.” 

CHRISTOPHER HALE: [Evelio Menijar-Ayala] finally arrived in California in 1990, having been smuggled in the trunk of a car with his brother over the border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego.

This is the USCCB disenfranchising American Catholics from the Catholic Churches they grew up in. There's nothing random about this. https://t.co/UK9UdD5ozO

— Stephen Coughlin (@S_Coughlin_DC) May 1, 2026

USCCB, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. 

from Christopher Hale:

NEW: Pope Leo XIV has named Salvadoran immigrant Evelio Menijar-Ayala to be West Virginia’s lone Catholic bishop. 

As a teenager, he made three attempts to enter the United States illegally. 

He finally arrived in California in 1990, having been smuggled in the trunk of a car with his brother over the border crossing between Tijuana and San Diego. 

Over the next several years, Menjivar-Ayala worked janitorial and construction jobs in California before deciding to become a priest. 

It’s a remarkable choice in a state that [was] over 90% white and voted for President Trump by 42 points.

This is not a comment against Bishop Menjivar-Ayala, but I find it odd that an immigrant from El Salvador was chosen to be the shepherd of a state (West Virginia) with the lowest percentage of Spanish speakers in the country (less than 1.5%). https://t.co/6Jn7170FPM

— Eric Sammons (@EricRSammons) May 1, 2026