It’s official. American preachers can now endorse political candidates from the pulpit without fear of losing their church’s tax-exempt status.

This comes about thanks to the conclusion of a lawsuit filed by a couple of Texas churches last year.

Even since the Johnson Amendment was added to a broad tax bill in the 1950s, the IRS has banned political endorsements. And while proponents of the rule like to say it was loosely enforced to begin with, it has nonetheless muzzled leaders of faith for decades.

Will this change how pastors, preachers, and other Church leaders behave behind the pulpit?

More importantly—will this lead to a change in the culture?

WATCH the video for my thoughts on the matter.

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ARTICLE: IRS Gives Churches Blessing to Endorse Candidates

Read the court order HERE

Watch Pastor Paul Blair’s presentation, Biblical Principles of Civil Government

Learn more about the Black-Robed Regiment HERE

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America is still the greatest country.

You know this is true because people still want to come here.

Another reason we know this is true is because the people who claim to hate this country won’t leave.

In this video, I share my family’s story of how we left communist Romania, why I think America is so great, and what we need to do to make sure we keep it that way.

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Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose | This is a book I wrote about a man who nearly died in his attempt to defect communist Romania. The man is a minister and a friend you now lives on Atlanta, GA.

Is America turning on perversion and back toward God? | I recorded this video after looking over some surveys indicating that American culture is backtracking on its amoral trajectory. This is a good sign.

Read my articles on The New American HERE

Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior editor at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

Donald Trump has had it with Thomas Massie and his silly principles. The Kentuckian’s latest violations include voting against the One, Big, Beautiful Bill and calling Trump’s unilateral decision to order a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites “unconstitutional.”

A pro-Trump super PAC is going after the rogue Republican congressman on behalf of the president. Kentucky MAGA recently released a hard-hitting attack ad filled with lies.

I talked to Massie about the ad, and he pointed out the irony that the Senate stripped some of the provisions Massie is falsely accused of opposing—yet Trump still supports it. Massie also told me he’s seen a significant uptick in support, including fundraising. He also told me why he thinks he’ll win this battle.

The match is on!

Watch my video for further analysis.

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The Big Beautiful Bill includes $150 billion for defense spending. It’s fascinating to see the technology we’re investing in.

The Big Beautiful Bill military spending section is impressive and alarming. It makes you wonder whether we’re bolstering defenses or preparing for war. The answer is likely both.

The bill allocates money to build a Golden Dome missile system, boost production of every kind of missile, torpedo, mine, and explosive, and to improve the effectiveness of our nuclear weapons system. There’s even piles of money for unmanned underwater robots and lasers.

Watch the video for more details.

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The White House is telling people to calm down and trust President Donald Trump to decide how embroiled America becomes in Israel’s war against Iran.

No thank you.

I think I speak for many who voted for Trump when I say this illustrates perfectly why the Founders created a system that doesn’t give the president unilateral power to go to war.

This is a very anti-American request from the White House, although it’s likely they don’t see or mean it that way. Nevertheless, if Trump is not careful, he’s going to lose the support of his most loyal base, the true MAGA constituency.

Listen to my podcast for more on how the system is supposed to work, why Iran may not even be the nuclear threat Israel claims it is, and why MAGA doesn’t need Trump whereas Trump needs MAGA.

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My articles on the Israel-Iran war:

Is Iran a Legitimate Nuclear Threat?

U.S. Sends More War Machines to the Middle East to Counter Iran

MAGA Opposes U.S. Intervention in Israel’s War With Iran

Paul Dragu is an award-winning newspaper journalist, a senior editor at The New American magazine, and the collaborative writer of Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty, and Purpose. You can email Paul at [email protected]

For more than a decade, secular America has predicted, with great excitement, the impending death of Christianity. And it’s had reasons to do so. The America of today is unrecognizable from that of just a couple decades prior.

Regarding homosexuality, the public view has flipped significantly. Whereas about a quarter of Americans approved of that lifestyle in the mid-90s, that number is flipped on its head today.

Secularists have had a great run.

But that run of may be coming to an end.

Recent surveys and polls suggest Americans are tiring of the depravity and that corporations are pulling back on Pride support in response.

Is America on the verge of a revival?

Check out my analysis and decide for yourself.

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ARTICLE: Homosexuality Losing Support; Christianity Resurging

VIDEO: Transgenderism is not just a nutty social fad. It's FAR worse than that

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The Trump-Musk bromance seems to be over. And it all fell apart in real time with the entire world watching.

Did Elon have a drug-induced breakdown?

Did he have an autistic-related breakdown?

Or is Trump’s accusation correct, that Elon is made that his hundreds of billions in campaign support didn’t buy his companies any favor?

OR—is the entire thing some weird 5-D theater designed to gin up media support for the release of the Epstein client list?

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A few years ago, a bizarre assault on basic biology and common sense suddenly emerged into the mainstream. Even to the barely awake, it was obvious the push to legitimatize transgenderism was coordinated. The media were telling us to approve it, entertainment was programming us to accept it, the corporate world was working overtime to sell it to us, schools were indoctrinating kids to accept it, and even the federal government hired people who would’ve been committed 20 years ago.

During its short stint in the mainstream, transgenderism has already been linked to several murders around the country. Perhaps the most known example is that of the Nashville Christian school shooter. The recent release of her journals solidifies the suspicions of everyone who sensed the reason the FBI withhold her writings was to protect a preferred social class. But after Trump became president and the FBI got a new director, the killer’s journals were released. And we now have learned that the Nashville school shooter was not only obsessed with her transgender identity, but highly influenced by it.

In this video:

* I cite directly from the killer’s journals

* Present credible research showing that medical consensus regarding transgenderism was fabricated by activists who hijacked the medical guidelines associations and crushed dissent

* Make the case that this trend is part of a wider, more sinister agenda that, if realized, could end humanity

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Nashville “Trans” Killer a Creation of Woke Ideology; Hated Whites, America, Herself

Leader of Homicidal Trans Cult on the Loose

My interview with Dr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist of 40 years and author of the book Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist’s Guide Out of the Madness HERE

You can download a PDF copy of Martine Rothblatt’s book From Transgender to Transhuman HERE.

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I was working as a delivery driver for an auto parts store when planes hit the World Trade Center towers. I didn’t keep up with current events at the time, but like many Americans, I was glued to the news that entire day.

Also like many Americans, I knew things would never be the same again.

September 11 triggered a 20-year military escapade into the Middle East that piled onto our national debt and stirred more hatred among Arabs toward America. It also conveniently served as an excuse for the government to pass legislation that allows our spy agencies to legally snoop on law-abiding Americans willy nilly, which continues to this day.

Moreover, 24 years later, accusations that circumstances surrounding that awful day are not what we’ve been told continue surfacing. The most explosive and worrisome is the very credible charge that U.S. military intel knew of terrorists’ 9/11 plans ONE YEAR prior, and yet the government did nothing to prevent it.

Recently, one of the most credible sources of these damming charges comes from a former high-ranking congressman who claims to have documentation and testimony corroborating this point as well as others, including one alleging the CIA knew Osama bin Laden wasn’t in Afghanistan at the same time U.S. troops were sent there to look for him.

The truth about 9/11 is probably too terrible for most Americans to accept. But it’s not necessary that all Americans wake up from their stupor of naivete and stubborn denseness. History is shaped by the few who engage while the rest of the world follows along the paths cut by the trailblazers.

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Read my article: Sen. Johnson Floats Possibility of New 9/11 Investigation as Coverup Suspicion Gains Momentum

Read my article: Former Congressman Curt Weldon Resurfaces With Explosive Claims About 9/11 “Coverup”

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in 2005 titled, “Why Did the 9/11 Commission Ignore ‘Able Danger’” in which he talks about the military intelligence having prior knowledge of 9/11

America has a long history of coverups, including Pear Harbor, the USS Maine, Operation Keelhaul and more. I recently wrote about this HERE

The Oklahoma City bombing is still one of the least acknowledge coverup in US history. Read my article HERE

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Woke ideology is a lethal mind disease. In the case of the Nashville school shooter, it led to the death of seven people, including the shooter.

The FBI recently released the killer’s journals—it’s more than 1,000 pages long—and its contents verified what conservative media suspected all along: the Nashville school shooter was obsessed with gender ideology, the same poison they’ve been pouring into the minds of Western Civ for years.

But the killer not only hated her sex—she hated her own race and her country.

The Nashville school shooter was a product of woke ideology.

That poison turned her into a homicidal lunatic.

Listen to my podcast for more.

Here are some related articles I wrote on the issue:

* Nashville “Trans” Killer a Creation of Woke Ideology; Hated Whites, America, Herself

* Leader of Homicidal Trans Cult on the Loose