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Key Democrats say they are done with it. Polling shows Americans are tired of it. But can Democrats successfully move on from “woke” and redefine their identity moving into the 2026 elections? After the 2024 elections, leader after leader in the Democratic Party joined the chorus, blaming “woke” for the party’s travails. James Carville, who was a key Clinton strategist, said during an episode of his podcast, that the “woke era” “killed” Democrats in the 2024 elections, adding that, while he thinks the party is “beyond it” at some level, “the image stuck in people’s minds that the Democrats wanted...

Lawyer and Democrat lobbyist Nathan Daschle discusses the Democratic Party in the wake of the 2024 presidential election. “After the 2024 elections, I think the Democrats have had to reflect a little bit on what at least some people call the woke agenda,” Mr Daschle said. “I’m not even sure if that term is fair because underlying it are some legitimate sensitivities and some legitimate concerns, but I do think that the Democrats after 2024 did take a hard look at themselves.”

VIDEOPoll after poll has revealed a STEEP decline in the Democrat Party. One big reason is that most normal people are completely turned off by the LACK of any sign of mental health among the liberals and have no interest to associate with such loons. This video compilation reveals that the most outspoken of the libs are in severe need of being committed to asylums. The good news for them is that PRESIDENT Trump is now advocating for the reopening of the mental asylums that have been closed with the resultant INSANITY you see here.

Aesop wrote that “the smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.” For Republicans, Jasmine Crockett embodies that and is an eternal source of hilarity. She thinks she can be all things to all people. Her accent changes depending upon to whom she is speaking. Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris tried the same thing and were also justifiably mocked for it. Crockett allegedly has a fine education, expensive private schools, college and law school. This is not evident in her public appearances. She has stated that the people who voted for and support Trump “lack education” while it is she who...

A hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term is that he’s not just promoting his own policies — he’s looking to shake up the American power structure from top to bottom. Step by step, he is undermining or destroying the left’s decades-old program to achieve total dominance of government and politics through its control of money and institutions. That’s what Trump is up to with his plan to move much of the federal bureaucracy out of the Washington, DC, area and into the rest of the country. In doing so, he’s infuriating federal bureaucrats leading cushy lives in DC and...

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) drew widespread mockery Thursday over a since-deleted social media post that showed how the cost of groceries skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden. The X post included a graph of soaring cheese, alcohol, dairy, grocery, produce and meat prices dating back to October 2019, with the major inflection point being near the start of the Biden administration in 2021. “Trump’s America,” read the tweet shared by @TheDemocrats. “Prices are higher today than they were on July 2024 all in major categories listed below,” read the caption on the graphic, which did not note the source...

For decades, the dominant assumption has been that people-of-color in the USAwould find their natural political home within the Democratic Party. The nation’s growing racial and ethnic diversity seemed to ensure the left’s electoral future. I have been studying the movement of nonwhite voters to the right for 15 years. When we began this work, people like Mr. Gibson were often disdained by liberals as dupes of the right voting against their own interests, votes they would regret once they saw their conservative beliefs in action. But seven years later, Mr. Gibson seems to be much less of an anomaly....

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld cheered Hunter Biden after the former president’s son went on a profanity-laced tirade, tearing into members of the Democratic establishment who he says undermined and mistreated his father toward the end of his presidency. “But Democrats, if you listen to him … what have Democrats been trying to do? All six months. Try to be authentic. They try to fake swear, do a lot of theater. That’s real swearing,” Gutfeld said after watching the interview Biden gave to YouTube personality Andrew Callaghan. “You gotta give it to him. That guy is authentic, he’s the real...

Watching leftists endlessly promote the same catastrophic policies is tiresome. Some quotations come to mind: - "“It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so many things that aren't so.” -- Ronald Reagan - “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -- Soren Kierkegaard Since so many of the worst cities in America are run by Democrats, one would think that their voters would eventually catch on. Those who do and are able, move away. Some take their...

This comes after the DNC invested $20 million into her youth engagement campaign targeting young male voters—a campaign that has, to date, produced little to no measurable results.

DNC Chair Ken Martin vented about party Vice Chairman and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg to the point of near tears in a recent call with top Dem brass, saying, “No one knows who the hell I am." “I’ll be very honest with you: For the first time in my 100 days on this job, the other night I said to myself for the first time, ‘I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore,’ ” Martin bluntly admitted in leaked audio of the May 15 Zoom meeting, which was obtained by Politico, Martin, who was elected boss of the...

Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary under former President Joe Biden, has switched her party affiliation to independent, according to a publishing company’s description of her forthcoming book. Jean-Pierre, who has worked in Democratic politics for decades, is set to release a new book that will discuss Biden’s decision to bow out of the 2024 election and encourage voters to look beyond the two-party political system. The description of her book, titled Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,” says she “didn’t come to her decision to be an Independent lightly.” The...

In a rare moment of honesty from the left, retiring Democrat Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado is sounding the alarm — not about Republicans, but about the crumbling state of his own party. During a CNN interview on Sunday, Bennet torched the Democratic brand, admitting what millions of Americans already know: today’s Democratic Party is out of touch, unpopular, and fundamentally failing. . . . Bennet, who is positioning himself for a gubernatorial run in Colorado in 2026, didn’t hold back. He expressed “fury” at his party’s inability to defeat Trump, even after years of media smears, endless investigations, and...

On April 27, 2025, the Walk Away Campaign staged a rally at Beverly Gardens Park in Beverly Hills, Calif. in support of President Trump. The Walk Away Campaign describes itself as a movement that encourages those on the political Left to “walk away from intolerance and societal discord; to leave identity politics behind; and to walk towards unity, civility, respect, and the American ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all.” The Beverly Hills rally was part of Walk Away’s nationwide American Restoration tour that took place during the spring of 2025. A group of dissidents showed...

Democrats are scrambling to craft new strategies to get back into power after their ignominious defeat in 2024. Folks on the left have finally decided to give up on identity politics and focus on solutions – okay, I can’t finish this sentence with a straight face. But I tried, and that should count for something, shouldn’t it, dear reader? The truth is, Democrats continue to show they have failed to learn their lessons after Republicans beat them like Mike Tyson whupped Peter McNeely in last year’s elections. Instead of looking inward and figuring out where they went wrong, the left...

When COVID happened, I was still a devout Democrat. I did notice that it seemed like we were all working hard to sabotage Trump rather than come together as a country to help him deal with a once-in-a-generation pandemic. That would be the first tiny crack in the surface of my bubble. I wondered why our hatred of Trump was more important than dealing with this once-in-a-generation crisis. It was verboten to think such a thing. What I learned then is that they are all about clinging to power. They want their Woketopia back, and they’re willing to go to...

Top aides to former President Joe Biden warned donors that replacing him atop the ticket with his handpicked vice president would be a big “mistake,” according to excerpts of a forthcoming book previewed Thursday by The Guardian. Excerpts published from the book, “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” show Biden aides and allies “aggressively” advised top Democrat donors to not jettison the then-president in favor of then-Vice President Kamala Harris as Biden fought for his political survival in the summer of 2024. The book, written by NBC News’ Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes, catalogues behind-the-scenes...

As Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer knows better than anyone, the Democratic base is pissed off. And not just a little. The intensity of the anger roiling the party is at a historic level, suggesting a breach between congressional Democrats and the party grassroots so severe that it could reshape the 2026 primary election season. Congressional Democrats have typically enjoyed higher popularity with their voting base than their Republican counterparts. But the trauma of the 2024 presidential election defeat appears to have ruptured that relationship. A review of Quinnipiac University’s annual first-quarter congressional polling reveals that, for the first time...

“It is insane how we’ve been voting Democrat for 60 plus years, and we’ve never seen a change from people like you, Lori Lightfoot, Rahm Emanuel. We are waking up! You will not have that seat the next election!” In the last three elections, Donald Trump has steadily increased his share of the vote in Chicago, from 12.4% in 2016, to 15.8% in 2020, to 21.4% in 2024. In Illinois as a whole, Trump’s percentage jumped from 40.5% in 2020 to 44.3% last November. #WalkAway The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement, founded by former liberal, Brandon Straka, dedicated...

The Young Turks’ ​⁠‪@AnaKasparian‬ with ​⁠‪@glennbeck‬ on the experience that woke her up to the ills of the radical left: “It wasn’t just that this terrifying thing happened. It was also the reaction that I received from a faction of the left, the ‘social justice’ left, who think that the criminals are the victims and the victims are the criminals. And I don’t know how big this factions is, but they’re loud enough to push me away completely.” We’re proud of Ana for speaking out. She’s got a warm welcome in #WalkAway! 👏 The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots...