Citizen Writers Fighting Censorship by Helping Americans Understand Issues Affecting the Republic.
We love to celebrate the Greatest Generation—but would we recognize the world that forged them? As global tensions rise and America’s factories quietly prepare for contingencies once thought impossible, one question looms: if Detroit ever trades pickup trucks for artillery shells again, are we ready for what comes next? Buckle up, buttercup. History has a habit of collecting unpaid debts.
We like to believe America is immune—that we’re somehow different from every civilization that came before us. History laughs at that kind of arrogance.
Yugoslavia wasn’t supposed to collapse. Rwanda wasn’t supposed to collapse. Their citizens woke up one morning convinced civilization was permanent, until they discovered it wasn’t. The most dangerous moment for any nation isn’t when people disagree. It’s when they stop believing the rules matter and begin believing only their side is legitimate.
The Constitution isn’t self-executing. Freedom isn’t self-sustaining. Civilization isn’t guaranteed.
It’s a veneer—thinner than most of us would ever dare admit.
The U.S. Army was created to defend the United States. Yet today, it protects borders and allies around the world while America’s own southern border is managed through a separate bureaucracy built only two decades ago. Retired Colonel Douglas MacGregor has proposed a simple but disruptive question: What if Border Patrol became part of the Army? The idea isn’t about turning soldiers into immigration agents—it’s about unifying homeland defense, eliminating redundant bureaucracy, saving taxpayer dollars, and putting America’s oldest military institution back in charge of the mission written into its very motto: “This We’ll Defend.”
In 1935, Smedley Butler warned that “War is a racket.” Twenty-six years later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the growing power of the military-industrial complex. Nearly a century later, their warnings deserve another look. As America replenishes stockpiles from Ukraine and Iran while asking Ford and other manufacturers to help produce more weapons, one uncomfortable question remains: when every missile launched becomes another billion-dollar contract, who is really winning? Soldiers still pay in blood. Taxpayers still pay the bill. But someone always profits.
In 1956, the Army created the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit. In 1958, General Curtis LeMay established the Air Force Marksmanship School and pushed competitive shooting across the service because America’s military leaders believed one simple truth: a warrior should master his weapon. Today, many of the skeet fields, rifle ranges, and MWR shooting facilities that once flourished on military bases have disappeared. We call it modernization. Previous generations might have called it forgetting the purpose of a military in the first place.
Xi Jinping is orchestrating a deliberate, decade-long, multi-domain campaign of ideological and political reconsolidation that draws conscious inspiration from Mao Zedong’s methods while adapting them to a modern surveillance state. The comparison is imperfect but illuminating, and the trend lines are unmistakably moving in one direction — tighter, deeper, and more permanent — while obfuscating its harsh effects on the victims from scrutiny.
In the 1970s, Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” emerged as a roadmap for grassroots organizing and political change.
For years, Americans were told there was only one acceptable narrative. Questions were censored. Debate was discouraged. Skepticism was treated like a public health threat. Today, many of those once-forbidden questions are being openly discussed. Whether the more controversial claims ultimately prove true or false, one fact is undeniable: trust is difficult to rebuild after people believe they were denied the full picture. A free society doesn’t require unanimous agreement—it requires the freedom to ask uncomfortable questions.
For more than 6,000 years, the shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula have produced one of civilization’s most valuable resources. Long before Rome, before the Bronze Age reached its peak, and long before Europeans set foot in North America, Indigenous miners were extracting native copper from the Keweenaw Peninsula and Isle Royale. That same metal helped electrify America during the Industrial Revolution and today powers everything from smartphones and AI data centers to electric vehicles and military technology. The richest deposits may be gone, but the story isn’t over—Michigan’s remaining copper could prove to be one of America’s most important strategic resources for the next century.
In 2020, when Antifa came out from Dallas to try to tear down a statue at the old county courthouse in Parker County, Texas, the residents of this area showed up with rifles and shotguns to dissuade them from doing that. The police did not try to stop the residents.
When we leave this world, if our bodies are dug up, our sex will be that assigned as that we are given by God at birth. Our Genetic material, our skeletal remains with not be what we associate our self as being. We will be labeled man or woman based on birth.
If I were grading Zoran Mamdani’s first six and a half months in office, I would give him a D-minus. I cannot honestly say he has failed outright, but he appears to be heading toward disaster with little standing in his way.
God has placed you exactly where you are, at exactly this moment, with the gifts and opportunities you need to faithfully serve Him—for such a time as this.
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.
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.
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.
The Islamist bigot began his July 3rd speech by insulting America’s first president. Steve analyzes the difference between Communist Islamist Zohran Mamdani’s Hate-America speech and President Donald J. Trump’s Love-America speech.
The news is in. Less than one third of Americans have ever written a physical letter in their lifetime.
For more than 120 years, America’s military marksmanship teams have done far more than chase medals. Every summer at Camp Perry’s Small Arms Firing School, they pass generations of hard-earned knowledge to ordinary citizens—teaching safe firearms handling, precision marksmanship, and personal responsibility. It’s a quiet mission rooted in federal law since 1903, built on a simple idea: a nation is stronger when its citizens are capable, disciplined, and prepared. The trophies are impressive, but the real legacy is American readiness.
Eisenhower didn’t warn America about a foreign army. He warned us about ourselves. A five-star general looked into the future and cautioned that a permanent military, a permanent defense industry, and a permanent government bureaucracy could become so intertwined that only an “alert and knowledgeable citizenry” could keep them in check. Sixty-five years later, we spend roughly a trillion dollars a year on national defense, the Pentagon still can’t earn a clean financial audit, and many Americans know more about celebrity gossip than federal spending. The question isn’t whether Eisenhower was right. The question is whether we’re still the alert and knowledgeable citizens he believed liberty required.