Stu Cvrk

Stu Cvrk~ retired as a Captain after serving 30 years in the US Navy in a variety of active and reserve capacities, with considerable operational experience in the Middle East and the Western Pacific. Through education and experience, an oceanographer and systems analyst, Stu is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, where he received a classical liberal education, which serves as the key foundation for his political commentary.

A Retrospective on 2020 Pennsylvania Election Data Analysis

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Immediately after the 2020 election, I was fortunate to be in contact with a group of independent analysts and experts in their respective fields, e.g., statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc., who provided early analysis of publicly available election data sets from Edison Research and other sources. Having remained in frequent contact with several of them to this very day (we regularly discuss election fraud news that breaks through the wall of legacy media obfuscation and lies), we have become good virtual friends – a commonplace occurrence these days.

Obfuscating Money in Politics: McCain-Feingold, USAID, and the NGO Network

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The debate over money in politics is defined by a core tension between the ideals of transparency, privacy, and mandated disclosure. Proponents of robust transparency and disclosure requirements (especially America Firsters) argue that voters have a fundamental right to know who is funding candidates, parties, and issue advocacy, as undisclosed “dark money” from wealthy individuals, corporations, unions, or foreign-linked entities can distort democratic outcomes, enable corruption or undue influence, and facilitate implementation of leftwing policies funded by US taxpayers without authorization or scrutiny. They push for lower reporting thresholds, real-time disclosures, and the closing of loopholes like super PACs and 501(c) organizations to let sunlight act as a disinfectant.

Part II: “Boring From Within”: DSA’s Democrat Party Project Is from the Bolshevik Playbook

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This is the second part of a two-part analysis that examines a specific historical claim: that the decades-long push of Democratic Socialists of America inside the Democrat Party follows the same “boring from within” logic the Bolsheviks used against the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in 1917 — a small, disciplined vanguard using a broader coalition’s legitimacy and infrastructure to gain position, growing more candid about maximalist goals as it consolidates power, with no intention of remaining merely one faction among many.

“Boring From Within”: DSA’s Democrat Party Project Is from the Bolshevik Playbook

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The Democratic Socialists of America have achieved some shocking successes in primaries in the US this year, especially in New York and now Denver where a youthful far left radical defeated a 15-term incumbent and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

The Kuomintang Follows the Mensheviks into Oblivion: This is how accommodating the CCP ends

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Friends of Taiwan continue to be alarmed by the antics of the Kuomintang (KMT) leadership. The latest flare was the visit to China by KMT leader Cheng Li-wun, as reported by AP News.

Perhaps the KMT in their continuing drift toward accommodation with the CCP are ignoring the history of (and fate) of other accommodationist political parties like Russia’s Mensheviks did a hundred years ago.

Choices: The South Dakota 2026 GOP Gubernatorial Runoff

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There will be a runoff for the two GOP candidates for governor on 28 July, as none of the four candidates achieved the 35% threshold required to win outright in the 2 June primary election. Political newcomer Toby Doeden finished first with 31% of the votes, followed by Rhoden at 25%, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson at 23%, and state House Speaker Jon Hansen at 21%. The race saw one of the highest statewide turnouts in over a decade, over 34% — and for the first time in state history, a runoff is needed to decide the GOP nominee for governor.

The Mitch McConnell and Scott Jennings Conversation: This stinks to high heaven

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Mitch McConnell is AWOL, and his handlers haven’t even provided proof of life (or mental acuity). The rally around “20-minute phone calls” and “cogent conversations on important issues” crap reminds me of the Democrats’ “gravitas maneuver” during the 2000 presidential campaign.

Chinese Nuclear and Missile Proliferation Exposed: The official Chinese support for nuclear nonproliferation is bogus

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The Congressional Research Service has tracked Chinese nuclear and missile proliferation concerns across multiple decades and report iterations. The six editions examined here span from May 2021 through May 2026. Taken together, they reveal a consistent underlying pattern — Chinese government-level transfers have largely ended, but a persistent, arguably worsening problem of Chinese entity-level proliferation continues unabated — while the diplomatic and rhetorical framing around that problem has shifted considerably over time.

Senator Thune and Scott Presler: The Tempest in Rapid City

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The South Dakota Republican Party’s 2026 State Convention had barely adjourned on 27 June before the story began morphing into something unrecognizable — a cautionary tale about how political social media can transform a minor kerfuffle into a dramatic narrative of martyrdom and persecution.

The Open-Border Funding and Facilitation Network for Mass Illegal Immigration, Part II

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A deliberate, multi-layered system was assembled over decades by the Democrat Party and its various allies and dramatically expanded between 2021 and 2025 through which U.S. taxpayer dollars, recycled foreign contributions, and dark-money campaign finance were deployed to facilitate mass illegal immigration, entrench the illegal alien population against removal, and sustain the political coalition responsible for building the system in the first place.

The Open-Border Funding and Facilitation Network for Mass Illegal Immigration

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A deliberate, multi-layered system was assembled over decades by the Democrat Party and its various allies and dramatically expanded between 2021 and 2025 through which U.S. taxpayer dollars, recycled foreign contributions, and dark-money campaign finance were deployed to facilitate mass illegal immigration, entrench the illegal alien population against removal, and sustain the political coalition responsible for building the system in the first place.

La Reconquista Is a Threat to the Republic, Part I: A comprehensive analysis

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La Reconquista is a fringe irredentist ideology promoted by some Chicano and Mexican-American activists. It calls for the cultural, demographic, or political “reclamation” of the U.S. Southwest, which Mexico lost after the Mexican-American War.

Chinese Law with CCP Characteristics The Party decides guilt or innocence

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Every once in a while, Chinese leader Xi Jinping makes a grand announcement that makes a person laugh out loud. His statement on 18 November of last year was one such event, as parroted by state-run China Daily: “President Xi Jinping has called for upholding the unity between Party leadership, the running of the country by the people and law-based governance, and making concerted efforts to break new ground in advancing the rule of law in China.”

A Conservative Audit of the Left’s Ruling Assumptions: The mirror they refuse to look into

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There is a particular kind of intellectual dishonesty that does not know it is dishonest. It wraps itself in the language of compassion, hides its power hunger behind slogans of liberation, and mistakes its own cultural preferences for universal moral law. American progressivism, in its current form as embodied by the Democrat Party, has become a nearly perfect specimen of this condition.

Communist China Has Hollowed Out the UN: Decades of successful CCP subterfuge

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The United Nations was chartered in 1945 as a creation of American strategic vision – a Pax Americana scaffolding dressed in multilateral language that was intended to be a cornerstone of the American-made international order shaped after World War II. That calculus has been fundamentally altered over time. The institution has been methodically infiltrated, staffed, and redirected by the Chinese Communist Party over the past 25+ years, transforming the UN from a tool America shaped into a platform Beijing increasingly controls – and paid for in large part by the American taxpayer.

Biden in Sioux Falls: A Post Mortem

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Joe Biden was in Sioux Falls on Friday; he spoke at the South Dakota Democrat Party State Convention. South Dakota media have been competing with each other in producing puff-pieces about his appearance. That’s nothing new because what passes for “major media” in this state are reflexively pro-Democrat despite the fact that 52% of the registered voters in South Dakota are Republicans (a paltry 22% are registered Democrats with the rest independents, third parties, or “no party affiliation”). No wonder their readership/subscriptions have been in the tank for years!

The Case for a “Choice Election” in 2026: Not a referendum on the Republican Party

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The Democrat Party and their legacy media allies are framing the 2026 midterms as a referendum on President Trump and Republican governance in Congress, leveraging historical midterm dynamics where the president’s party often loses seats. Democratic leaders (e.g., Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee chairman) explicitly call for making it a referendum on “Trump’s one big beautiful bill and agenda.” Their messaging focuses on affordability, health care costs, farm/economic impacts from policies, and immigration enforcement effects in key districts. They are targeting ostensibly vulnerable GOP seats in Trump-won areas, expanding maps and emphasizing “MAGA extremism” or unfulfilled promises.

Here’s Why the SAVE Act Must Be Passed: An election integrity advocate’s case

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American self-governance rests on one indispensable foundation: that elections reflect the will of eligible citizens, counted accurately, administered transparently. Republicans and election integrity advocates argue that this foundation has been progressively undermined — not necessarily by a single grand conspiracy, but by a systemic pattern of loosened safeguards, dirty voter rolls, exploitable mail-ballot systems, and aggressive Democrat opposition to the audits and reforms that would resolve public doubt once and for all.

Allegations of Corruption by Top Democrats and Reinvestigations, Part 2

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In keeping with the “move on” narrative concocted by Democrat activists during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998 to protect Bill Clinton from impeachment, Democrats in 2024 probably thought they had successfully delayed, obfuscated, covered up, and pushed past various statutes of limitations for potential crimes associated with the scandals detailed in Part I of this series.