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Waking up to the shocking realities of Tuesday’s election—confused, resentful, and a bill of long-avoided realities—one might say we have all the conditions of a blackout or a hangover.  Let us then take cues from those 12-Step programs—and realize there is a problem, we are its cause, and our principles must be put above personalities.  2026 is a rude awakening, but it can commence our recovery.  Our nation, and the West, cannot afford denial.

The party’s and the movement’s ideals, taught from Lincoln to Coolidge to Reagan to Trump—as he campaigned in 2016 and 2024—are still commonsense and favored. Living up to them and articulating them are what suffered, along with too many Pied Pipers of Podcastistan masquerading as having the country’s best interests at heart and taking a lot of youth with them.

Electing so many Marxists/Islamists in the year of our own country’s birthday, celebrated anemically at best, is the unkindest cut of all. But a serious recommitment to what we’ve long preached is the path to renewal.

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Ronald Reagan used to quote the philosopher Montesquieu: “The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principle upon which it was founded.”  Reagan cited this point to warn us as more and more policies were enacted violating our principles of self- and limited government.  Later in his career, Reagan would also warn about our decayed and degraded state of knowledge about our own history.

Indeed, today, Americans’ knowledge about history and civics is at record lows, helping explain our new acceptance and promotion of literal socialist policies and politics in America.  Our education system, our schools, have failed us.  Thank God, however, a few historians have given us a gift to help us recoup the things we used to know.  Particularly beautiful and helpful is Allen Guelzo and James Haskins new two-volume history of Western Civilization: “The Golden Thread.”

Enough cannot be said about such a work as Guelzo’s and Haskins’—nor its scholarship, readability, and beautiful presentation.  Their work comes just in time and could not be more necessary.

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It's election day 2026, the midterm elections. What is at stake? Lots of governorships across the country. The control of the United States Senate, the control of the US House of Representatives, the future direction of Congress.

There are huge issues at stake. You know that's true in every election, but we know it's particularly true in this midterm election, 2026.

The future of our country is very much on the line, as is the future of states, the future of Congress. You just go down the list. America's role in the world is very much on the line. The future shape of American culture, very much on the line. There is no escaping the responsibility if you have the power of the vote.

If you have that power, then go vote. And as Christians, of course, vote your conscience on Christian principles and as Christians, of course. Let's pray for our country.

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Our long midterm election cycle has almost come to its end. What will follow it?

A long national nightmare – if voters don’t take Democrats at their word.

Their party no longer represents a loyal opposition. They have nominated House and Senate candidates who openly espouse the deadly ideology of Marxism, which imposes poverty and tyranny everywhere it has ever been tried. Their nominees now openly oppose the only Jewish state, perhaps our most strategic ally, while sympathizing with radical Islamists.

One Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, claims Iran is less of a threat to America than Israel – and no Democrat candidate will contradict him.

Ronald Reagan warned that we are only one generation from an end to liberty. This is that moment Reagan feared.

This election will result in the end of American liberty – unless patriots turn out to vote and to oppose every Democrat on the ballot.

What will you choose? Apathy or freedom? Get out and vote … while you still can.

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In 1964, Ronald Reagan delivered a famous speech called “A Time for Choosing.”  A few years earlier, Paul Harvey delivered a famous broadcast entitled “The Testing Time.”  In those days of a heated fight against Marxism abroad and an aggressively expansive welfare state at home, we needed to be warned about a lot of decisions before us.

Both Marxism and the welfare state are here at home now. We are in such times again—times that are testing us, times where we are forced to choose, once again, not between right and left but up or down.

These times are brought to us by the same philosophies too regnant in the 1960s, revived by a leftist professoriate dominating our education system for over three decades, churning out millions and millions of students soaked in the study and praise of anti-Western curricula and Marxism.

They are also brought to us by a Democratic party so thirsty for votes they have complied and endorsed with candidates representing those radical views. 

This is why this election is crucially important.

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