Transfigurations: The hour has come for you to wake from sleep...

Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. -Romans 13:11-12

We have the means to evangelize our country; but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches. -John Stott

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Trump States Gaining Population As High-Tax States Lose People, New Census Data Show Low-tax, Republican-leaning states are gaining people, while higher-tax, Democrat-leaning states are losing them, according to new domestic migration data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.

What Do New Yorkers Get for Their High Taxes?

If New York residents, especially those in New York City, get so little in return, where does all that money go? Not to better roads, not to education, not to the quality of life, not to assist those who are truly needy. Somehow it simply vanishes — but into whose pockets?

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California’s Oil Refining System Has Collapsed, and One Region Is Ground Zero Oil remains central to transportation, freight, agriculture, construction, manufacturing, and the petrochemical feedstocks embedded in clothing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, electronics, and sanitation.

Anyone who has worked around infrastructure understands this. Concrete does not pour itself. Steel does not fabricate itself. Heavy equipment does not run on intentions. Supply chains do not move on declarations.

Even the “clean energy” economy depends on petroleum. Wind turbines, solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles, and grid infrastructure all rely on petroleum-based materials and global shipping. And even if electrification accelerates, California still lacks the transmission capacity to move sufficient power to population centers.

Trump's Energy Policies Saved Lives During Harsh Winter Storms But this storm, as bad as it was, could have been a lot worse if the Biden administration had gotten its way. It ordered five major coal plants to close as part of its green energy agenda, and taking those power plants offline would have spelled disaster for millions of Americans.

Thankfully, the Trump administration kept them open.

U.S. Out of Paris Climate Agreement

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Democrats Have Become The "Useful Idiots" Of Globalist/Marxist Forces Bent On Destroying Western Civ Okay, those are the players outside the USA fomenting revolution among us. The picture, though, is woefully incomplete without America’s Democratic Party, which activates and amplifies the dynamic inside the USA. The Democrats are hostages of the outside forces, but they are not innocent hostages. They are hostage also to their own demonic greed — for power and riches. The Democratic Party has engineered itself into a colossal racketeering operation, a criminal organization, a mafia.

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The Data Is In — and the Narrative Is Wrong: Consumer confidence, demographics, and falling inflation gird the Trump economy The combination of solid wage growth, low inflation, a confident consumer, and a labor market that remains fundamentally healthy — despite requiring fewer monthly job additions due to demographic shifts — suggests the economic expansion should continue at a healthy pace in 2026. And this is without factoring in the stimulus coming in the first half of 2026 from the Trump tax cuts, continued tariff revenue, and two likely additional interest rate cuts from the Fed this year.

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The New Monroe Doctrine: Buckle Up — This Is Where It Gets Real But tonight, I want to focus on something that is going to happen this year beyond those two headline-grabbing situations. I know I sound like a broken record when I say this, but a large portion of the Western Hemisphere is taking a big swing to the right. People are sick of socialism and leftist policies. Countries like Bolivia, Chile, and Honduras have elected United States-aligned and, in some cases, Trump-like candidates in recent months.

Panama boots China from Panama Canal in another victory for Trump’s Monroe Doctrine revival Panama’s Supreme Court decision to force out a Chinese port operator caps the Trump administration’s year-long effort to oust China from the strategic waterway

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Mother Testifies She Consented to Daughter’s Transgender Surgery Over Fears for the Teen’s Life Varian’s attorneys have suggested that she actually had body dysmorphia, an irrational obsession with a flaw or part of one’s anatomy. They allege that the health care professionals did not give enough consideration to her host of other problems: depression, autism, social phobia, anxiety, and anorexia.

Deacon said she was never fully on board with the procedure and initially told Einhorn that “it was never gonna happen” if she had any say in the matter. This led to many “heated discussions” with the psychologist.

“This man was just so emphatic, and pushing and pushing, that I felt like there was no good decision,” she said.

HHS Ends Biden Rule Mandating Pharmacies Dispense Abortion Drugs Trump’s HHS also scrapped the Biden administration’s use of the term “pregnant person,” pointing out the fact that “only women and girls can be pregnant.”

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