The Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, a Hispanic evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump, citing significant drops in church attendance in the face of immigration raids and mass deportations, is urging government leaders to recognize the “innocent people” who are being swept up in detention quotas. Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference and pastor of New Season Church in Sacramento, California, said in an interview Thursday that some churches in the NHCL...| The Roys Report
Evangelical pastors and leaders celebrated Monday morning when 20 Israeli hostages were reunited with their families, while Israel released nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees in exchange. “Today, we celebrate as darkness has been defeated and divine justice reigns,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “After 738 long and painful days, the final hostages are released from Gaza.” Similarly, Troy Miller, pr...| The Roys Report
The Sept. 21 memorial for Charlie Kirk spotlighted the power of Turning Point USA, the youth movement he built around conservative politics and evangelical faith.| The Roys Report
“A good judge must not be a young person but an old one, who has learned late in life what injustice is like and who has become aware of it not as something at home in his own soul, but as something alien and present in others, someone who, after a long time, has recognized … Continue reading Judging the Judges→| Thoughts about leadership, history, and more
What would Brandeis make of a Supreme Court that rules in favor of granting presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and puts corporate interests above the populace? The post Can the Legacy of Louis Brandeis Save American Democracy? appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
President Trump's family has already secured north of $1 billion worth of profits on crypto businesses, Eric Trump estimated, amid criticism over conflicts.| Decrypt
Erika Kirk, widow of assassinated conservative Christian activist Charlie Kirk, will be the new CEO and board chair of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the group revealed. Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed Sept. 10 during a public appearance on the campus of Utah Valley University in Provo, Utah. A 22-year-old suspect, Tyler Robinson, is facing a litany of charges in Utah, including aggravated murder, a death penalty offense. He was also charged this week with felony discharge of a firearm caus...| The Roys Report
The Southern Baptist Convention will go its own way on immigration policy, the denomination’s top public policy official said Wednesday (Sept. 17), breaking ties with a coalition of other evangelical Christian bodies focused on the issue. “We feel we need to take a more independent posture on our immigration-related work,” Miles Mullin, acting president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, the SBC’s policy arm, told the agency’s trustees in announcing it had severed ties ...| The Roys Report
Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old accused of assassinating Charlie Kirk, has been charged with aggravated murder, which, if convicted of, means he could face the death penalty. In a 10-page probable cause document, Utah prosecutors levied a total of seven charges against Robinson. Along with the murder charge, others were felony discharge of a firearm, two counts of obstruction of justice, two counts of witness tampering, and committing a violent crime when children are present.| The Roys Report
As he sat behind a microphone for nearly two hours in the White House complex on Monday (Sept. 15), Vice President JD Vance’s face hung with visible emotion. As the guest host of Charlie Kirk’s podcast, he talked with a series of White House officials as they told stories about Kirk, the conservative activist who was killed by an assassin’s bullet last week while speaking at a college in Utah. But as the vice president began to draw the episode to a close, the tone shifted from mournful...| The Roys Report
2 days after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, his widow Erika delivered a stirring message “You have no idea what you just unleashed,” she said.| The Roys Report
Advancing an uncompromising Christianity aiming to influence every facet of society, Charlie Kirk coalesced an influential faith network.| The Roys Report
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stumbled on questions about Israel on a recent Pod Save America podcast. The post Dems Debate Israel—Yet Again appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In the report, made public this wk, task force members said they found a pattern of bias against Christians during the Biden administration.| The Roys Report
As their congregants live in fear of deportation, pastors look to reassure & care for congregants, but to financially sustain their churches.| The Roys Report
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond| Nationhood Lab
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond| Nationhood Lab
An updated regional breakdown of the last US election to include Alaska results and the final results for greater New York City and beyond| Nationhood Lab
Breger is a man of ideas—and his ideas are respected in the conservative circles in which he moves. By now, he has been on the job long enough for these qualities to be discovered. The post From the Archives | Marshall Breger and the Worst Job in Washington appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
Providing support to ICE detainees and family members waiting to see them is just one way American Jews can step up. The post A Jewish Response to ICE: Lessons from an Occupied French Village appeared first on Moment Magazine.| Moment Magazine
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab's director outlines the findings of Nationhood Lab’s recent analysis of the interlocking geographies of intergenerational mobility, household debt and creditworthiness.| Nationhood Lab
Nationhood Lab’s director presented the project’s findings on a shared American story in an invited guest essay for The Next Move, democracy advocate and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov’s widely read substack... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
Around 300 National Guard troops arrived in Los Angeles early Sunday following clashes in recent days between protesters and federal immigration agents.| Global News
Rich Logis was once one of Trump’s most ardent defenders. “MAGA became all-consuming,” he said. But after years of being deeply involved, Logis broke away —| Verdaily
In 2020 I used Jody Baumgartner’s political science model of VP candidate selection to predict Joe Biden’s running mate selection. I wrote: Looking at veep choices since 1960, he found that there are five key factors that tend to predict … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Did the early American colonists intend for America to be a “Christian nation”? Some of them sure did! ... Did the American Founders intend for America not to be a Christian nation, and instead to be secular in its government and politics, with full tolerance for competing religions, Christian or not (or not at all)? Many of them sure did! Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Both classical liberalism and civic republicanism were common during the Founding Era. They sometimes worked together (for example, by agreeing on the need for personal freedom) while sometimes creating tension (for example, what is the purpose of personal free?). Continue reading →| Information Knoll
Democrats very likely win both Georgia Senate seats, resulting in a 50-50 Democratic-Republican balance in the U.S. Senate, with Vice President Harris casting the tie-breaking vote, making Chuck Schumer the very likely new Senate Majority Leader. This means Schumer gets … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
The 2020 Democratic “Veepstakes” is now officially underway. Given that Biden often refers to himself as a “transitional” candidate, his choice of vice president is all the more important given that his running mate will be seen by many as … Continue reading →| Information Knoll
So for those who haven’t still voted in the spring primary presidential election, how are you all thinking about the voting choice? At this point both parties have presumptive nominees and that ver…| Information Knoll
Maine’s Portland Press Herald also spoke with Colin Woodard to get the backstory on why Maine always ranks so high in voter participation| Nationhood Lab
More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community| Nationhood Lab
What does it say about the state of civics in the U.S. if a former U.S. President, and possible future one, has no compunction to lie ever more grotesquely?| The Globalist
More in Common’s Threads of Texas project found seven distinct groups of Texans; we explored how they’re distributed geographically and within the state’s Latino community| Nationhood Lab
Kamala Harris, whose mother was Hindu, and husband is Jewish. is a member of the oldest historically black Baptist church in San Francisco.| The Roys Report
Four months into 2024, migration at the U.S.-Mexico border remains at some of the lowest levels of the Biden administration. And the phenomenon is not limited to Greg Abbott's Texas.| Adam Isacson
Electric vehicle adoption in the U.S. is still low compared to peers. But, the reasons aren't as clear-cut. They'll certainly surprise you| The Auto Future
