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The New York City Council plans to pass a bill that would authorize approximately 800,000 immigrants who are not citizens of the United States to vote in local elections.

The Our City, Our Vote legislation would ensure that migrants who hold green cards, migrants who maintain a legal work status in the United States, and DACA recipients are granted special voter registration forms that are used to obtain a local-only ballot at the polls.

The legislation calls for training poll workers and community education campaigns to ensure every voter receives the correct ballot, The New York Times reported.

Outgoing Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio said he has mixed feelings about the legislation because it could dissuade migrants from obtaining citizenship, and he reaffirmed his belief that giving immigrants special voting privileges has to be decided at state level, according to state law. The veto-proof majority in the Council, however, plans to move forward with the bill on Dec. 9.

One councilman, Ydanis Rodriguez, told The New York Times that the bill is a good thing for Democrats who can use it to further the talking points claiming that voting rights are being attacked across the country.

Its important for the Democratic Party to look at New York City and see that when voting rights are being attacked, we are expanding voter participation, he said.

Republicans, however, are already fighting Democrats efforts to legislate noncitizen voting into permanency in other places around the country. In October, the Republican National Committeeannounced it would sue Montpelier and Winooski, Vermont, for altering their town charters to accommodate municipal voting by noncitizens.

Democrats are trying to dismantle the integrity of our elections. In addition to attacking widely supported safeguards like voter ID, Democrats also want foreign citizens to vote in American elections. Republicans are fighting back on this far-left assault against election integrity unlike radical Democrats, we believe that our elections should be decided solely by American citizens. This is a matter of principle and we will fight in all 50 states to ensure this remains the case, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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The White House fears that an impending Congressional Budget Office analysis will say Democrats spending bill would increase federal deficits. The dispute seems unsurprising, given the myriad budgetary gimmicks in the billbut not for the reasons one might expect.

Ignore for a moment the fact that the bill contains ten years of tax increases to pay for a few years of spending that Democrats later hope to extend, meaning that independent budget analysts have pegged the bills true ten-year cost not at $1.75 trillion but nearer to $5 trillion. Ignore too the fact that front-loading the bills spending means it will almost certainly increase federal deficits in the short-term, exacerbating inflation at a time price increases are already at 30-year highs.

Instead, the proximate dispute with CBO concerns whether an increase in tax enforcement will yield as much revenue as Treasury claims. On that front, one of the biggest arguments against the Biden administrations position comes via Joe Biden himself.

The New York Times reported Monday that the White House has begun bracing lawmakers for a disappointing estimate from CBO, and is urging lawmakers to disregard the budget office assessment, saying it is being overly conservative in its calculations. While administration officials say additional tax enforcement will generate $400 billion in new revenue, CBO Director Philip Swagel on Monday said he stood by the agencys September estimate that enhanced enforcement authority will net roughly $120 billion.

The difference between the lower and higher revenue figures could determine whether the bill gets scored as a budget-saver or budget-buster. Treasury has therefore come out swinging at CBO, with Assistant Treasury Secretary Ben Harris calling the offices methodology patently absurd in an interview with the Times.

But given his own boss conduct, Mr. Harris doth protest too much on tax enforcement. After leaving the vice presidency in early 2017, Joe Biden and his wife Jill created two S-corporations, and characterized most of their book and speech earnings as profits from those corporations rather than taxable wages.

These maneuvers allowed the Bidens to dodge nearly $517,000 in payroll taxes. The Tax Policy Center called the Bidens actions pretty aggressive. And a recent Congressional Research Service report outlined several instances in which federal courts agreed with the IRS in requiring S-corporations to pay back taxesall of which arguably applied to the Bidens.

Yet despite the Bidens public release of their returns, and coverage of the irregularities surrounding them, no news has yet emerged of an IRS audit. Why?

Political bias provides one possible explanation, given past IRS harassment of conservative non-profit organizations, and unanswered questions regarding the leak of tax returns to the liberal activist site ProPublica. The Times reporting on Donald Trumps taxes last year confirmed the IRS had initiated audits of his returns well before he attained the presidency, so its reasonable to ask why Bidens pre-presidential returns have not come under similar scrutiny.

Yet a more basic explanation comes from the fact that people like the Bidens can hire high-priced lawyers to defend their actions. If audited, Biden would likely engage experts to validate taking a salary of only $145,833 in 2017, against more than $10 million in corporate profits, as reasonable compensation in line with IRS guidelines.

He might offer a low-ball amount to settle a potential audit quickly, but could also engage the IRS in years of costly litigation. After all, if the public release of his returns did not compel Biden to use less aggressive tax strategies, an IRS audit would have little effect.

Ironically, the bill in question would close the tax loophole the Bidens spent the past four years exploiting. Treasury says the change would reform a system that is unfair and provides tax planning opportunities for business owners, particularly those with high incomes, to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Therein lies the problem with that particular tax increase, the proposals for increased IRS enforcement authority, and the Democratic bill in general. Honest individuals and struggling small businesses, who try hard to pay their obligations to the federal government, will face higher taxes, new regulatory burdens, and a greater potential for IRS harassment. But those who have the money and tools to game the systemthe Joe Bidens of the worldwill carry on much as before.

White House claims lawmakers should ignore a CBO analysis showing the spending bill increases the deficit, because CBO underestimates revenue gains from tax enforcement, have an easy retort: How can Bidens IRS get other rich people to pay their fair share if Biden himself wont pay his?

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Paramount Networks hit western drama Yellowstone has surpassed viewing records for any show currently on television, earning three spots on the Digital Entertainment Groups list of top 20 most-watched. Yellowstone earned the lists second, 11th, and 19th spots. The modern-day ranch show is the No. 1 series on television right now, including broadcast and cable.

More than 14 million viewers tuned in to Yellowstones season four premiere on Sunday, the most-watched premiere on cable since a 2017 episode of AMCs The Walking Dead. The show gained popularity for its non-polarizing message, focusing on rural America and small-business USA instead of divisive political affiliations.

Over 14 million viewers tuned in for our Yellowstone premiere, which will now serve as a massive launch pad as we sneak episodes of Taylor Sheridans new series Mayor of Kingstown, whose full season will be rolling out exclusively on Paramount Plus starting Sunday, said CEO of MTV Entertainment Group Chris McCarthy. Taylor has created a cinematic experience that our remarkable cast led by Kevin Costner brings to life in a way audiences cant get enough of and we are excited to deepen our relationship with him and capitalize on this tremendous momentum by building out the Yellowstone franchise together.

The four-season show is only available on cable television. According to Philos streaming insights, Yellowstone attracted audiences near Montana (where the show is filmed), Wyoming, and agriculturally-based cities. Since its 2018 premiere, the show has drawn a groundbreaking audience.

The show stars Oscar winner Kevin Costner who plays a Reagan-era Republican, as well as Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, Luke Grimes, Wes Bentley, and Kelsey Asbille, and was created by John Linson and Taylor Sheridan.

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When Donald Trump was president and filling the federal court system with conservative jurists, some leftists yearned for a national divorce. Richard Kreitner, in Break It Up: Secession, Division, and the Secret History of Americas Imperfect Union, argues that a unified America does terrible things such as promoting slavery, instituting Jim Crow, starting wars, and incarcerating minorities. Kreitner asserts, Secession is the only kind of revolution we Americans have ever known and the only kind were ever likely to see.

But now the left is once again in charge, with a tenuous hold at the federal level fortified with near-monolithic control of elite institutions corporate media, social media, Hollywood, academia, and big business. In the face of the lefts remorseless quest for totalitarian power, some conservatives are now also calling for a national divorce.

According to a September survey by the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, theyre not alone, with 52 percent of Trump voters and 41 percent of Biden voters agreeing to some extent that America should split up.Into this mix comes conservative writer David Reaboi, who has posted thoughtfully on the topic, writing that National Divorce Is Expensive, But Its Worth Every Penny. Reaboi is hardly alone, with Michael Anton, Michael Malice, and others pointing to the utility or inevitableness of a national breakup.

That something should happen or will happen doesnt mean it would be easy. Even more grimly, Reaboi points out the obvious that one day, the United States will end. History teaches us that regimes, like all human creations, rise and fall and world-bestriding empires fall harder, faster, and more surely than that.To drive the point home, he draws from Allan Bloom to argue that the differences between Red and Blue America are far deeper than any issues we interact with on the surface; theyre essentially pre-political.

Lest we believe our times unique, Americans have been at each others throats before.

In the presidential campaign of 1800, Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were no strangers to partisan strife. Personalizing the political divide, Thomas Jeffersons supporters smeared President John Adams as having a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. Adamss campaign labeled Jefferson, the vice president, as a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.

The election of 1860 was even worseand it was followed by a civil war in which one in 25 men killed one another or succumbed to disease in a fight to make men free.We tried a national divorce once and it didnt work so well. A modern national divorce would require a practical path to governance. Its not as easy as it looks.

The America we know today almost didnt make it. Much has been written about the challenges faced by the colonists, the struggles of the War for Independence, and the brutal carnage of the Civil War. But little has been said about that dim time in the American experience between 1783 and 1789, after victory over the British and before the ratification of the Constitution.

That was also a time of maximum danger, intrigue, and heated passions when Americans were not yet sure whether bullets or ballots would decide the fates of governments. The infant America was governed under the Articles of Confederation, a weak system of national government in which the states reigned supreme.In the six years that elapsed from the end of the Revolutionary War to the ratification of the Constitution, America was nearly torn asunder by rebellion.

In 1786, farmers in western Massachusetts rebelled. Desperate over their inability to pay taxes and angry about a system that favored wealthy Boston merchants, they burned courthouses to destroy tax and loan records, then marched on Boston. In nearby Poughkeepsie, N.Y., sympathy riots broke out. Capt. Daniel Shays almost toppled the commonwealths government before his followers were defeated by the state militia.

Shayss Rebellion so shocked the political leaders that it proved to be a major consideration in the minds of those who drafted and ratified the Constitution a few months later. On Sept. 17, 1787, they agreed to present the Constitution for ratification by state conventions.

The success of the Constitution was by no means assured. It almost failed in Philadelphia when the constitutional convention almost broke apart over the vexing issue of slavery that would tear the nation a little more than threescore and 10 years later. The delegates also wrangled with how to apportion representation in the new Congress.

Under James Madisons Virginia Plan, both houses of Congress would have had proportional representation. The small states would have none of it and rallied behind the New Jersey Plan, which would have preserved each states equal vote in a one-house Congress. It took another month of discussions before the Great Compromise resulted in todays present system of House and Senate, with the House representing the people and the Senate representing the states.

Then the Constitution almost failed when it was sent out for approval. The Constitution needed to be ratified by nine of the 13 states to go into effect. The first five ratifications were quickly accomplished.

But on Feb. 6, 1788, Massachusetts constitutional convention ratified the new form of government on the narrow vote of 187 to 168, and only after Gov. John Hancock and Samuel Adams negotiated a demand that the Constitution incorporate a Bill of Rights should it pass. The no votes mostly came from the western part of the state, where Shayss Rebellion saw widespread support.The Constitution was then rejected by Rhode Islands grassroots democracy 2,708 to 237.

After the Massachusetts convention recommended amendments to the Constitution, all subsequent state conventions, except Marylands, agreed that a Bill of Rights was needed. Still, it wasnt enough to prevent very close votes in New Hampshire (57 to 47); Virginia (89 to 79); and New York (30 to 27). Then North Carolinas convention adjourned without voting on the Constitution.

In October 1788, after setting up the timetable for the new government to take over, the Congress of the Confederation achieved a quorum for the last time. On March 4, 1789, the new republic was born, and the coup dtat was complete.

A national divorce? No, thank you. Breaking up is hard enough creating a new government that can both secure liberty and survive is even harder. Rather, let us strive to repair the nation we have.

Returning to the Constitution would be a great first step. The surest route to doing that would be to end federal primacy over state power via restoring the original meaning of the Commerce Clause, while forcing Congress to legislate rather than hiding behind unelected bureaucrats by rediscovering the nondelegation doctrine.

There are reasons to be hopeful that these limitations will be enforced with renewed vigor. Just this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), of which I am a part, successfully had the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions federal eviction moratorium struck down as exceeding federal power under the Commerce Clause. It was the first federal regulation struck down under the Commerce Clause in 20 years.

As for the nondelegation doctrine, in 2019 four justices of the Supreme Court expressed a willingness to reinvigorate the long-dormant doctrine, even though it had gone unenforced for more than 80 years. The lower courts seem to be taking those justices statements seriously. In another case brought by TPPF last week, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals stayed the Biden administrations federal vaccine mandate, citing concerns that it may violate the nondelegation doctrine.

Taken together, a proper application of the Commerce Clause and the nondelegation doctrine could loosen the national relationship enough that a formal divorce would be neither necessary nor desired.

Chuck DeVore is vice president of national initiatives at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and served in the California State Assembly from 2004 to 2010.

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An at-home COVID-19 testing kit that the Biden administration spent $231.8 million to produce was just recalled, due to higher-than-acceptable false positive test results, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The 2.2 million faulty kits were manufactured by Australian company Ellume, the company that produced the first over-the-counter antigen test. It was granted emergency authorization use on December 15. Ellume was also the first company to garner FDA approval for over-the-counter COVID-19 tests, on February 11.

Ellume is recalling certain lots of the COVID-19 Home Test because they have higher-than-acceptable false positive test results for SARS-CoV-2, said an FDA press release. The reliability of negative test results is not affected. For these tests, a false positive test result shows that a person has the virus when they do not have it.

In February, the Biden administration authorized a $231.8 million deal with Ellume to speed up the production of at-home tests. Making easier tests available to every American is a high priority with obvious benefits, White House senior adviser Andy Slavittsaid in February. Each test, Slavitt claimed at the time, would produce 95 percent accuracy in 15 minutes.

Now, the FDA has classified the recall of these tests as a Class I recall, which is the most serious type of recall for products that could cause serious adverse health consequences or death, according to the administration. The recalled tests were manufactured beginning on February 24, just days after the Biden administration handed Ellume millions.

So far, 35 false positives have been reported to the FDA. While no deaths have been reported, a false positive could result in delayed diagnosis or treatment for an individuals actual illness, unnecessary COVID-19 treatments which can have dire side effects, or needless isolation, according to the FDA.

At Ellume, we understand that trust is central to fulfilling our purpose as a company, and we recognize that this incident may have shaken the confidence of some of those who trusted Ellume to help them manage their health and to take back a bit of control of their lives during this pandemic, said Ellume CEO Sean Parsons. To those individuals, I offer my sincere apologies and the apologies of our entire company for any stress or difficulties they may have experienced because of a false positive result.

The defective tests make up more than 10 percent of the millions of tests the company has distributed. The Biden administration spent an additional $2 billion on rapid at-home kits in September and the administration announced it would spend another $1 billion on tests in October.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has admitted it has no record of an unvaccinated person spreading COVID after having previously recovered from the virus.

The admission from the government agency came in response to a September Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from a New York attorney, who asked the CDC to provide documents reflecting any documented case of an individual who (1) never received a COVID-19 vaccine; (2) was infected with COVID-19 once, recovered, and then later became infected again; and (3) transmitted SARS-CoV-2 to another person when reinfected.

In its response, the CDC said that a search of its records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to the attorneys request.

The CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) conveyed that this information is not collected, the agency added.

The bombshell revelation comes on the heels of a wave of scientific data that has shown natural immunity to be extremely robust at preventing coronavirus reinfection. Studies from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Emory University, the Cleveland Clinic, and others have found natural immunity to be incredibly strong months and even a year after infection.

Moreover, a preprint studyconducted by researchers from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University in Israel, which has not been peer-reviewed but has been shown to use more accurate methodology than a similar CDC study, found that people with natural immunity to COVID-19 could be 13 times less likely to contract the respiratory virus than those who were solely jabbed with the Pfizer-BioNTech shot.

Natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity, the study concluded. Individuals who were both previously infected with SARS-CoV-2 and given a single dose of the vaccine gained additional protection against the Delta variant.

Shawn Fleetwood is an intern at The Federalist and a student at the University of Mary Washington, where he plans to major in Political Science and minor in Journalism. He also serves as a state content writer for Convention of States Action. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood

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Grammy-nominated Five For Fightings John Ondrasik joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky on The Federalist Radio Hour, where he discusses and performs his new song titled Blood On My Hands.

Ondraski said he wrote the song in reaction to the recently botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and to call for accountability of our leaders. Blood On My Hands has already surpassed well over a quarter of a million views on YouTube.

Ondrasik discusses how some band members disagree with the message of his song, how the music industry is no longer interested in fighting the system, and how artists can confront cancel culture.

You would think in this day and age, the usual suspects who usually like to write protest songs about oppression, and womens rights, and gay rights, would be all over Afghanistan, Ondrasik said. Its ironic that the music industry and the music media have frankly become The Man and they have little to do with rock and roll anymore which is disappointing.

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Consumer prices in October increased by a historic 6.2 percent over the year prior making it the biggest inflation jump in 30 years.

According to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans also paid 0.9 percent more on daily goods and other items than they did in September.

Along with shelter, used cars and trucks, and new vehicles, the indexes for medical care, for household furnishing and operations, and for recreation all increased in October, the report noted.

These rising prices come on the heels of a massive supply-chain crisis fueled by the Biden administrations lack of action and a nation still recovering from months of shutdowns mandated by politicians who sacrificed economic stability and viability to keep people at home.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently joked that the supply-chain issues facing a majority of American familiesare simply the tragedy of the treadmill thats delayed, and White House Chief of StaffRon Klainalso downplayed the crisis in a retweet mischaracterizing the historic inflation and backup of goods as high class problems.

This most recent consumer price index shows that some of the largest price increases are occurring in goods and services that most Americans need but cannot comfortably pay for anymore. Some of the biggest price climbs were in energy, which rose 4.8 percent since last month and 30 percent since last year, and gasoline, which climbed 6.1 percent since September. Food prices also increased the cost of Americans grocery runs by 1 percent since September and 5.3 percent since last October.

A report released on Tuesday indicated that producer prices are also rising at alarming rates. Despite the Biden administrations repeated claims that skyrocketing prices among goods and services in the United States istemporary,producer prices rose 8.6 percent since October 2020 and show no signs of stopping.

Jordan Davidson is a staff writer at The Federalist. She graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism.

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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Mark P. Mills, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern Universitys McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss his book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and A Roaring 2020s.

One of the things I map out in my book is that the speed with which new technologies enter commercial viability actually hasnt changed much in 200 years. Its still, its very similar. It seems like its faster, but its really not significantly different, Mills said. But what is different is that the confluence of three things, three spaces happening simultaneously doesnt happen very often. So in that sense, were going to go through not an acceleration in the rate at which an individual thing got better like an airplane or a robot, they all get better or roughly the same rate. Its been a long time getting to the cloud, not overnight.

The cloud, Mills said, has amassed a large role in the quiet technological revolution occurring in the world today and will continue to grow because there is a strong reliance on it.

Amazon has utter dominance right now. Microsoft, [which] was a mere five years ago viewed as an irrelevant, also ran. Its now catching up to Amazon. Its a big company and its alright. Googles catching up. Oracles catching up. Everybodys chasing the cloud because the demands for its services exceed anybodys ability to supply them, Mills said.

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Watch the video for a monologue followed by an interview with Russ Vought, former OMB director and current president of the Center for Renewing America, and Shaun Rieley, senior director for advancement and programs at The American Conservative, a doctor of political philosophy, and combat veteran of the War on Terror.

Tuesday was one heck of a night in Virginia. Virginia Democrat Terry McAuliffe went from a sure thing to the Hillary Clinton of 2021 the man who had a layup of a race and choked. But along with all the good news there was some truly grisly stuff as well.

It was the kind of thing that reminds us why education is so important, why Tuesdays vote was just a step in the right direction and why the fight to save the children of Virginia is far from over.

After the obligatory applause for his family and campaign staff whom he hysterically dubbed the finest campaign team ever assembled human scumbag Terry McAuliffe told his crowd of acolytes what was most important to him; what was first in his heart. The fight continues, he promised. We gotta make sure to protect womens right to choose in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Choose. We all know what that means. They arent choosing their schools or whats taught in them; Terry hates those ideas. Hes not talking about choosing what to wear or what to eat or what to watch on TV. No theres only one choice Terry cares about, and thats the right to choose an abortion.

For those who dont know, Virginia has a more obscene abortion regime than every single country on the planet aside from North Korea and China. For the left, defending that regime is all important. Its the beating heart of the Democratic Party, if you will.

Sure, later on McAuliffe mentioned health care and education, but he wasnt going in alphabetical order. In his heart, abortion is number one just ahead of his family and far, far ahead of God.

Theres a truly sad aspect of this ghoulish spectacle: McAuliffe is a product of Catholic education. Seriously: Catholic junior high, Catholic high school, undergrad at the Catholic University of America, then law at Georgetown, the oldest ostensibly Catholic institute of higher learning in the United States.

What did he get for all that? He got this: A first-and-foremost devotion to abortion and selfish, libertine political values. Fifteen years of Catholic education, plus wherever he went to elementary school, and did we get a champion for Christ? A defender of the innocent? Far from it. We got a Herod-like figure, more a child of the Democratic Party and his selfish political ambitions than of the church.

Hes not alone: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, President of the United States Joe Biden the churchs most famous and powerful children are all radically pro-abortion.

Thats a colossal failure. Its kind of thing you get when you receive a religious education that is twisted until it is purely academic, and Jesus Christ is relegated to a feel-good rainbow in the sky.

Evil lurks in us all. Even with a proper education and a good family, its possible to go bad. But the lesson of Biden, Pelosi, and McAuliffe is when you dont get that base when you arent properly taught how to be good with a firm and solid education well, its only a matter of time.

Now, for a moment, imagine an education that isnt just wishy washy, but actively actively teaches you to hate; actively rejects Gods creation of man and woman; and actively attacks the truth that no matter what color our skin is on earth, in death we are all one body in Christ. Imagine the products of that education. Its terrible to picture.

The Coming Fight For Virginia

That brings us to the very reason for Tuesdays red sweep of Virginia, a blue state: The active indoctrination of children by teachers devoted to lies and to race hate. It was more than that more uplifting than that, more beautiful than that, more powerful than that parents of all ethnic backgrounds, economic situations, and political stripes uniting to say hell no.

Together, they deposed the Democratic majority that imposed this awful regime and replaced it with a Republican majority. Isnt that wonderful, you might be thinking! But whats next?

Heres whats next: Hard, vicious work that is not for the faint of heart. This isnt the kind of thing where you win a single big battle and its all over, like in the movies; its more like a grinding counter-insurgency.

Were up against teachers and principals and librarians fanatically committed to genderqueer studies and anti-racism in our classrooms; an army of psychologically fragile extremists who werent unelected Tuesday night, still have their jobs, and will be recording social media sob stories and imitating Gandhi as they lay their bodies across classroom thresholds and screech and writhe on live television.

Our enemies are well-funded and theyll be even more well-funded after Tuesdays debacle. The victimizers of children will paint themselves as the victims of mean Republicans; theyll fancy themselves the resistance, as we well know.

Every single fight they wage will be sympathetically blasted across CNN and MSNBC. The New York Times will movingly tell the story of a young woman from a broken home whose only dream was to grow up, become a librarian, and share her love of reading incestuous gay pornography with the little children; a woman whose dream was stolen by bigoted Ku Klux Parents.

Then theres the lawyers: Not just hundreds of lawyers from rich progressive non-profits, but also the Department of Justice, with unlimited time and the full resources of the federal government. Do you think theyre going to sit by and watch Virginian parents just decide theyre going to have a say in their childrens education?

Transforming Tuesdays Win Into A Lasting Victory

Lets not get too down; Tuesday was wonderful. The first step was taken when parents woke up, the next when parents spoke up, and the third, last week, when they fired politicians across the state and replaced them with Republicans.

Republicans arent often quick to fight. For far too many, a majority is a trophy to be gingerly placed in a glass, back-lit cabinet and oood and awwd at until it turns to dust. Precious few Republicans see a majority for what it is: an invitation from the people to exercise power in their name.

The battle ahead will be hard. There is no time to pack up and go home. Glenn Youngkin, good man as he seems to be, is not a stand-in for active and engaged parents. If they leave the field, he will not succeed. If they stay and insist that he hold fast to the principles he ran on, then he has a chance.

The grassroots organizations and school board campaigns must continue. You dont seize a castle, turn to your leader and say, Alright, bloke, weve done our part and now were headed home. Youve got it from here.

No; we need to finish the fight and win the war. We need good teachers and there are a great many who are sick of this insanity. We need protections in place to allow them to speak up. We need the state of Virginia to protect them from the vipers who surround them and want them crushed.

We need the school boards opened up. For months, these boards have used the police as a weapon against parents; its time to free the police from this role and reestablish the First Amendment in Virginia.

We need to identify the superintendents and principals and teachers and librarians who insist on teaching hate and pornography, and make sure they are fired with prejudice; damn The New York Times.

For too long, the norm has been that Democrats create new programs while in power, and then Republicans just try to not expand them too much or too quickly. Scuttle that strategy forever. A bad program is always bad, and they should be defunded immediately when we have power.

Thousands of activist monsters take state and federal money to warp our children. They need to be thrown out in the cold. Leave them penniless; they deserve even less.

The people were up against are the creatures who twisted little ol rural Loudoun County into a bastion of insanity in a few short years and thats just one county. There are more than 3,000 counties in this country, and they want to pull a Loudoun in every single one of them.

We need to think like they did to take it back: Weve got to think like revolutionaries.

Make no mistake: The left brought this fight to our doors. In Virginia on Tuesday, parents answered their challenge. But theres a reason we dont call it the Culture Vote and thats because its the Culture War.

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After 2021 Election, The Hardest Fighting Is Still Ahead In Virginia - The Federalist