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Turning Point USA Endorses JD Vance for President

Turning Point USA is all-in on JD Vance.

Erika Kirk announced the organization’s plan to throw its weight behind the vice president in the 2028 election on Thursday, telling TPUSA’s AmericaFest crowd, “We are going to get my husband’s friend JD Vance elected for 48 in the most resounding way possible.” If elected, Vance would become America’s 48th president. 

The Republican Party is filled with fake conservatives. Politicians like Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham always pretend they’re America First during campaign season, but once they’re in office, they work tooth and nail to put foreign interests ahead of ours. The results have been devastating.

The VP is different. When JD says he’s America First, he really means it. We trust him completely. Read more.

 

Brown University Shooting Suspect Found Dead

Authorities have identified the suspect in last weekend’s Brown University shooting, naming 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves-Valente as the accused culprit. They also believe he is responsible for the murder of an MIT nuclear scientist days later.

Officials announced the discovery of Neves-Valente’s dead body on Thursday after finding his corpse with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. 

The Brown shooting claimed the lives of two undergraduate students and injured at least nine others. Professor Nuno Loureiro was the lone victim of the second attack, which took place roughly 50 miles outside Boston.

Neves-Valente was a Portuguese national who studied physics at Brown in 2000 and 2001. His motive remains unclear, according to Providence’s mayor. Read more.

Masa Chips

No More Tax Dollars for Child Sex Changes

RFK Jr. denounced “chemical and surgical sex-rejecting procedures” for minors on Thursday, announcing a ban on taxpayer funding for doctors conducting them.

“So-called gender-affirming care has inflicted lasting physical and psychological damage on vulnerable young people,” he said. “This is not medicine — it is malpractice. We’re done with junk science driven by ideological pursuits, not the well-being of children.”

We were surprised to hear Kennedy use the phrase “gender-affirming care” in the first place. What these “medical procedures” really are is sex changes. Mutilating children. Chopping off their genitals. The blunter the language we use, the more likely the public will realize the horror of these “operations.”

If any part of you is regretting voting for Donald Trump, we hope this story helps put you at ease. Common-sense decisions like Kennedy’s would never have happened under a Harris administration. We’re glad we avoided one. Read more.

 

Democrats Block 2024 Election Autopsy Release

Democrats are uniquely skilled at exposing their own incompetence. This story is the latest example.

The DNC is going back on its promise to release its formal review of the 2024 election, saying that revealing what went wrong last time would be a “distraction” from helping the party win going forward. DNC Chair Ken Martin announced the decision on Thursday.

“In our conversations with stakeholders from across the Democratic ecosystem, we are aligned on what’s important, and that’s learning from the past and winning the future,” he said. “Here’s our North Star: does this help us win? If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”

Martin is dead wrong. The Democrat Party historically botched the 2024 election, and if we were liberal voters, we would want some proof that its leaders have learned from their mistakes. Instead, those at the top of the DNC are embracing the same “oh come on, just trust us” attitude that led to their defeat last year. We don’t know how they expect grassroots Americans to have confidence in them. Read more.

 

Illegal Immigrant Arrested for Murder One Day After Jail Release

Police arrested an El Salvadoran illegal immigrant for allegedly murdering a Virginia man inside the victim’s home on Wednesday. The crime occurred less than 48 hours after the accused culprit last got out of jail. 

Authorities released 23-year-old Marvin Morales-Ortez from custody on Tuesday after prosecutors dropped charges stemming from a gun-brandishing and assault case. Morales-Ortez had reportedly been charged with at least seven crimes in Fairfax County since 2020, and ICE says he is in our country illegally. 

The killing comes amid a broader state fight over whether state and local law enforcement should cooperate with federal immigration authorities. Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger, who will assume office next month, plans to rescind Glenn Youngkin’s executive order requiring Virginia agencies to cooperate with ICE.

This story raises a simple question: Why the hell is Morales-Ortez in the United States? Read more.

American Game

Qatar Holds Flurry of Meetings with Trump Officials

If you listened to Mark Levin, you’d probably believe that anyone who interacts with Qatar is a Jew-hating terrorist sympathizer. But it isn’t true. The Trump administration has a great relationship with the Qataris. They work together all the time.

Qatari officials have been in contact with the U.S. government even more than usual this week, with the country’s prime minister traveling to Washington for back-to-back meetings with JD Vance and Marco Rubio. 

Marco Rubio

The Vance meeting centered around “the strong, strategic bilateral relations between the State of Qatar and the US, as well as the means to enhance them,” while the Rubio summit revolved around “opportunities to deepen cooperation on shared economic and strategic goals in the Middle East and across the world.”

Neocons will never tell you this, but Qatar is America’s greatest ally in its region. Our country’s largest Middle Eastern military base is on its soil, and President Trump granted the Qataris a NATO-style security guarantee earlier this year. Read more.

 

Trump Designates Christmas Eve, December 26th as Federal Holidays

No one wants to go to work the day after Christmas. Thanks to Donald Trump, more Americans than ever may not have to. 

The president signed an executive order declaring December 24th and 26th federal holidays on Thursday, giving federal government workers a five-day weekend following next Tuesday. The change does not apply to state or local governments, nor to private employees. 

Financial markets would not automatically follow the federal calendar, although the stock market tends to close at 1 PM on Christmas Eve. Bond markets are similarly unaffected, as the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association does not always observe federal holidays. Read more.

 

Video of the Day

Video of the Day

Tucker speaks and answers hostile audience questions at Turning Point USA.

 

This Day in History 

December 19, 1941: Hitler takes command of the German army. Amid Germany’s unsuccessful offensive against Moscow, the Chancellor declared himself commander-in-chief as his military weathered a brutal winter retreat. Hitler refused to accept the notion that the myth of German invincibility was broken, so he removed officers who oversaw failed operations in Russia from their commands. The move yielded short-term success, with the Germans reversing their retreat and pushing further north toward Stalingrad, but it eventually proved disastrous when the 6th Army suffered its final defeat in 1943. Hitler remained in charge of Germany’s military until 1945. Read more.

 

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