Have you ever heard of a “tenant union?”

Labor unions organize workers. Trade unions organize businesses. But tenant unions organize renters, seeking collective leverage against landlords in much the same way traditional unions organize to oppose management.

Labor unions have formed a backbone of the Democratic Party for decades, but the younger organizer…

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When Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., said she wants to send a message of “deterrence” to scare off young people who might otherwise work in the Trump administration, the ears of conservatives perked up—not just because we understood what she meant, but because we …

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President Trump has achieved a truly historic success in largely solving the massive border crisis under the last administration, but the very strength of his success also introduces a danger: forgetfulness and complacency.

The border crisis did not emerge spontaneously. A sophisticated network of advocacy organizations, donors, litigat…

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Under former President Joe Biden’s administration, illegal aliens didn’t just cross the border. A system of immigration nonprofits, many of them heavily subsidized by taxpayers, provided housing and transportation, settling these aliens across the country.

As I wrote in The Woketopus, organizations such as Catholic Charities USA, Churc…

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Every now and then, legacy media outlets predict that the Religious Left is rising in opposition to the Religious Right, suggesting that a movement for big-government “compassion” will redefine the face of faith-based politics in America.

Yet these movements fizzle out, while conservative Christianity remains steadfast.

The nonprofit Fai…

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As Artificial Intelligence shapes more aspects of Americans’ private lives, a prominent activist group is seeking to influence what Large Language Models can and cannot say to their users.

Americans agree that AI should not encourage users to harm themselves, but what if, in the name of preventing self-harm, activist groups s…

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Many socialists don’t reject Christianity. They rewrite it.

Rather than denying Jesus’ teaching, they twist it into a mandate for government action and wealth redistribution.

That’s why socialism often functions less as a rival religion than as a Christian heresy: it begins with Christian truth and distorts it into something fundamentally different.

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, recently provided a nearly perfect illustration of this process.

He began by discussing a basic teaching of Jesus and ended up demanding that the government take care of people’s basic needs.

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James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, has condemned political violence, but he hasn’t yet addressed the news that members of his church reportedly wish that Thomas Matthew Crooks had been “more successful” when he opened fire at Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, two years ago.

Rev. Babs Miller, a chaplain …

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A climate alarmist group with ties to the Biden administration pledged to sue the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump, on the same day the EPA announced it was rescinding Biden-era rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions at power plants.

“The Trump EPA is tearing down our national limits on the exten…

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How does the Left justify political violence?

Americans got a revealing clue earlier this year when agitators disrupted a service at Cities Church in St. Paul. The church invasion proved distrubing enough—but the aftermath has proven quite revealing, as agitators and their allies defend the attack by reframing it as an act of peaceful protest.

On Sunday, …

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Americans were rightly outraged to see the FBI publish a memo claiming a nexus between racially-motivated violent extremists and “radical traditional Catholics,” but that memo merely represented one piece of an anti-Christian group’s influence on the bureau.

The anti-Catholic memo wasn’t just a scandal because it attacked Catholics—it also reveals a long…

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If the pro-abortion agitators styling themselves “Jane’s Revenge” received critical support from an international network supporting leftist terrorism, why are Americans only learning this four years later?

The answer to this key question has a great deal to do with the left-wing groups that influenced the Biden administration, ensuring…

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The LGBTQ movement is cracking up.

Activists have insisted that the homosexual side of the movement is inseparable from advocacy for transgender ideology, but Log Cabin Republicans has challenged that assumption and the Human Right’s campaign’s response revealed just how fragile the coalition has become.

This news item is no is…

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Does freedom of the press only apply to one side of the aisle?

A large group of press freedom groups, news outlets, and watchdog organizations have raised the alarm about criminal charges against former CNN host Don Lemon for his alleged role in a church invasion. Th…

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The first arrest in the case against the Southern Poverty Law Center highlights a deeper problem in America’s “anti-hate” industry.

Federal authorities arrested former SPLC leader Heidi Beirich last week, charging her with conspiring to fraudulently funnel cash to white supremacist groups and financing her romantic relationship with a neo-Nazi leader. Th…

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A leftist lawsuit seeking to silence President Donald Trump’s commission investigating threats to religious freedom actually proved the commission’s point, and the leftist groups’ ties to the Woketopus highlight just how established this threat truly is.

The lawsuit faults the members of Trump’s commission for expressing the view that “…

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Surprise! Leftist groups are suddenly concerned about debanking—but only when it affects one of their own.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has routinely pressured financial institutions to block mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits (more on that below), while fatuously claiming that conservative fears of debanking are a “conspiracy theory.”

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When a person becomes a bureaucrat, does he then cease to be a human being?

Is a technocratic expert still subject to political passion, partisan bias, and personal conceit, or does he gain, through the arcane ministrations of “Science,” the ability to trans…

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The Left’s enforcer of diversity, equity, and inclusion is bleeding support in corporate America.

Even Microsoft, the Big Tech company with the fourth-largest market capitalization in the world and the engine behind Bill Gates’ fabulous wealth, has stopped using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” to screen nonprofits for its employee matching …

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