Survival Plans

By Aaron Day for the Brownstone InstituteThe walls are closing in on your financial freedom—but not in the way most Americans believe.While the debate rages over the future threat of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), a far more insidious reality has already taken hold: our existing financial system already functions as a digital control grid, monitoring transactions, restricting choices, and...

The Trump administration’s newly released John F. Kennedy assassination files may not point directly to who shot the president, but they do expose the CIA and indicate a massive coverup. Among the players most likely behind Kennedy’s demise are a combination of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Allen Dulles, Fidel Castro, and elements of organized crime, explains Bay of Pigs veteran, educator,...

The United Nations desperately wants access to your money to fuel globalism. It has been dreaming of taxing humanity from the start. And now, it is about to make that dream come true through a global shipping-fuel tax, with potentially catastrophic implications for humanity.A powerful but little-known UN agency is quietly plotting to impose global taxes on international maritime shipping...

America was designed by our Founding Fathers, as spelled out in the Mayflower Compact, Declaration of Independence, and U.S. Constitution, as a constitutionally limited republic. To maintain that system, representatives are elected by an informed and inspired citizenry. This requires a shared moral compass and a fixed standard of what truth is and is not. Historically in the U.S., that...

Demographics are destiny. That idea lay at the heart of the 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, which argued that racial-demographic transformation, among other factors, was producing a political realignment that favored America’s Blue Team. The authors—John Judis and Ruy Teixeira—were pleased with their findings. All good liberals were. The book freaked out Republicans and gave Democrats confidence that irreversible...

Foreign Affairs Despite U.S. Aid, Somalia’s Government Is as Weak as Ever Al-Shabaab has begun to encircle the capital. Since February, the terrorist group al-Shabaab has been on the offensive in Somalia, with many fearing that they aim to take Mogadishu, the capital. Following a 2022 government offensive in the middle part of the country, the situation stabilized and the...

While most of the world was left shocked and dismayed by President Donald Trump’s tariff roll-out on “Liberation Day” earlier this week, at least one foreign government was quietly celebrating. “This is great for the country,” Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said the next day. Mexico and Canada, as part of the USMCA free trade agreement, avoided the imposition of any...

French populist candidate Marine Le Pen has been barred from running for president or any public office for five years due to allegedly embezzling European Parliament funds. Le Pen, who was well-positioned to replace the term-limited Emmanuel Macron, called the ban “a nuclear bomb launched by the system.” “And if they have used that powerful weapon because we were about...

For years, government-school officials in some districts — especially under Democrat state governments — have illegally conspired to hide children’s “gender transitions” and other horrors from parents. They cite “privacy.” But now, with national outrage over the transgenderization of children growing, the Trump administration is hitting back.  The U.S. Department of Education is officially investigating multiple state governments for violating...

The issue of education is sweeping the national conversation. On the state level, Texas and Illinois are considering legislation that creates school voucher programs and restricts homeschoolers freedom and sovereignty. Federally, President Trump created a whirlwind of discussion on the constitutionality and efficacy of the Department of Education.Ultimately, the discussion surrounding education should revolve around parents and families as the...

Suddenly the Supreme Court has a pile of cases that could decide the future of the MAGA movement, on everything from deportation to transgender policy to firing federal workers. The queue stacks up at the High Court with appeals of judicial activist rulings against Trump.Liberals are shrewd enough to file their lawsuits against Trump in the U.S. Court of Appeals...

While President Donald Trump’s executive order gutting certain bureaucratic elements of the Department of Education is a step in the right direction, the order does not eradicate the department and actually shifts many federal financial controls to other agencies, explains The New American’s Alex Newman for Behind The Deep State. President Trump’s move is helpful to advance the national conversation...

While Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is doing great work exposing fraud, the AI models being used could result in loss of constitutional checks and balances if they fall into the wrong hands, argues Jeff Dornik, CEO of Pickax social, to Alex Newman on The Sentinel Report. Shifting to education, Newman invites Michael King, the president of the Massachusetts Family Institute,...

President Donald Trump's mandate from the voters undoubtedly gives him wide latitude to close the border to illegal aliens, which he has done. Border crossings are down 90 percent and more illegal aliens were arrested in Trump’s first 50 days than across Joe Biden's final year in office. Now, many in the America First movement are asking, “What about reducing...

On March 7, Paul Kengor, editor of The American Spectator, delivered a talk on “The Marxist Roots of International Women’s Day” at the Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women in Herndon, Virginia. C-SPAN brought its cameras and recorded the moment for posterity. The broadcast aired several times last week under the title “The Devil and Karl Marx,” the name of...

With federal lawsuits flying and Democrat lawmakers vowing to protect the U.S. Department of Education at all costs, President Donald Trump’s long-awaited executive order on education is making big waves. But it doesn’t do what countless conservatives think it does.It is true that the workforce is being drastically downsized. However, contrary to many of the superficial headlines portraying the historic...

On February 24, 2025, Texas Congressman Jodey Arrington introduced a resolution, “Calling an Article V Convention for proposing a Fiscal Responsibility Amendment to the United States Constitution and stipulating ratification by a vote of We the People, and for other purposes,” which was referred to the committee on the judiciary. The resolution states, ”Whereas congressional and State records of plenary applications for amendments on any subject and applications for the...

Americans have little to no trust in establishment media. Podcasts and independent journalists are the new mainstream, and the trends are accelerating. A new firm now has local news in the crosshairs.Organizations once referred to as the “mainstream media,” perhaps more accurately described as establishment or fake media, are losing public trust at warp speed. Many outlets are letting go...

With many elections decided today by fewer than 1% of votes, election integrity has become more important than ever. Republican state legislatures should be taking decisive action to end opportunities for election fraud.Wyoming leads the way by requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote, as Trump seeks. Previously Kansas and Arizona enacted similar laws but those have been blocked or tied up in...

More states are taking steps to get gold back into commercial circulation as the Federal Reserve continues to erode the purchasing power of U.S. dollars, explained Pirate Money author Kevin Freeman in this episode of Behind The Deep State with The New American magazine’s Alex Newman. Freeman, who is helping lead the charge nationwide, discusses how America got into this...