Deep State Invites Nuclear War

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Tuesday is the 1,000th day of the Russia-Ukraine War, and the Deep State irresponsibly escalates it further by authorizing Ukraine’s Zelensky to launch American-made ATACMS long-range missiles against targets within Russia. Pronounced “attack ’ems,” ATACMS was supplied to Ukraine by the pro-war, globalist military elite in Washington, D.C.

Ukraine quickly used a half-dozen of these missiles on Tuesday against Russian military stockpiles, which appears to be only the beginning. Soon U.S. missiles costing more than a million dollars apiece could rain down on Russia, perhaps eventually against cities, as Ukraine has forced teenagers into its army and kids may be picking the targets as in a video game.

Russia responded to the attack by updating its nuclear doctrine to declare its intention to respond, if it chooses, with nuclear missiles. President Putin signed a new document on Tuesday to the effect that “the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response.”

North Korea, which also has nuclear weapons, could likewise retaliate if its troops inside Russia are killed by American-made missiles. The last time we came this close to nuclear war was during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when Robert F. Kennedy (father of Trump’s Cabinet appointee RFK Jr.) played a pivotal role in devising a response.

Biden is allowing the globalist elite to run our government, and Americans are stuck with this for two more months until President-elect Trump is sworn into office. This reinforces the urgency of Trump being able to clean house and install his own team on the first day of his presidency, on January 20, 2025.

From a makeshift podium deep in the Amazon forest in South America that looked like a comedy skit from Saturday Night Live, Biden held a press conference about the importance of trees and then declined to take any questions about the consequences of his escalation of the Ukraine war. Biden next meandered aimlessly away from the podium and back into the jungle, giving new meaning to the term “lame duck” for officials who are on their way out of office, as Biden is.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted, “The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives. Gotta lock in those $Trillions.”

The lawfare against Trump has completely failed, such that even the sentencing hearing in New York County against him was just canceled. The federal government is expected to drop all of its charges against Trump by the first week in December.

But the Deep State is trying to fill the anti-Trump void by hamstringing his presidency with the Pentagon’s own pro-war agenda. A campaign has started to try to block Trump’s appointment of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense, partly based on the Christian tattoos that he proudly wore in the Army National Guard while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Trump’s superb appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence is also being attacked by globalists after she endorsed Trump as “a man who wants to end wars, not start them.” Gabbard will become the top intelligence adviser to the president, having authority over all our spy agencies.

Almost no one alive recalls the last time nuclear bombs were used, to end World War II in Japan nearly 80 years ago. For many decades afterward, political movements sought to disarm nuclear weapons, but it is difficult to find any liberals sounding alarm bells against war today because the Left committed to Biden in 2020 and Harris in 2024.

World War III has become more likely due to the Deep State’s first fomenting and then mishandling the war in Ukraine. Norway, Sweden, and Finland have all just provided special information to their citizens to prepare to survive a war by stockpiling essential food and medication, and by learning what to do if there is an attack.

Democrats are failing to prepare American citizens on how to survive if there is a missile attack that destroys the internet, the power grid, or the supply chain for groceries. Norway just printed and sent 2 million copies of its pamphlet to prepare its people for war, one for each household.

The Left has hated Russia ever since it began to prohibit Pride parades more than a decade ago. Obama refused to attend Russia’s Winter Olympics in 2014 and, by authorizing Ukraine to launch American missiles at Russia, Biden is continuing the anti-Russia campaign by liberals against it.

In 2022 Biden’s hapless Secretary of Defense blurted out, “We want to see Russia weakened.” Now Democrats are putting Americans and our allies in harm’s way by provoking Russia to counterattack with missiles of its own, for a war that nearly everyone admits cannot be won.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Time to Deliver on Trump’s Mandate

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Trump’s spectacular sweep of every swing state, by substantial margins, has left liberals speechless. Downsizing and layoffs are next in the liberal media, which needs to happen at the federal government too based on this extraordinary mandate by voters.

Young men under 30 propelled this victory by supporting Trump by 13%, after previously backing Biden by 15% in 2020. The biggest loser in the election was the feminist ideology of the Democrat elites who have run our country into the ground.

With a new 4-vote GOP majority in the Senate, including the tiebreaker vote held by Vice President Vance, Democrats will be unable to get their bad bills through Congress and, if they do, then Trump will veto them. We can also expect the Senate to confirm Trump’s appointments to the federal bench and to his Cabinet.

Trump’s most important appointments will be to the Department of Justice and the Department of Health & Human Services. Sweeping reforms are needed at both agencies, with strong new leadership necessary to achieve that.

Yet pressure by the Establishment is intense behind the scenes to prevent Trump from appointing an Attorney General who will clean house at the politically motivated Department of Justice. This election gives conservatives a second chance to defang the Deep State, and if we fail to do it this time then a miraculous third chance later cannot be reasonably expected.

The signs are that liberals entrenched in the DOJ are doubling down in resistance to the mandate of the People on Election Day. Many of these comrades for the Left can do the honorable thing by resigning before January 20, but few will.

Former Missouri Solicitor General John Sauer, who defeated Jack Smith in the U.S. Supreme Court on the weaponized prosecution of Trump, would be a terrific choice for Attorney General. It is essential to go outside of the D.C. Establishment to overcome the Deep State, and the appointee must be someone willing to order a full outside audit of the DOJ.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a proven track record of overcoming a mini-Deep State in Texas that improperly impeached him and then unsuccessfully attempted to remove him from office. Paxton is battle-tested by that experience, and has the moxie to defeat the D.C. elite.

Paxton has been courageously leading on many top issues, from defending Texas’ sovereign right to secure its southern border to suing physicians who violate Texas law by harming children with transgender treatments. Paxton anticipates the lawfare by the Left to tie up Trump’s reforms with lawsuits in the one-sided D.C. federal courts.

The opposition to an appointment of RFK Jr. to a Cabinet-level position must be overcome. The Department of Health & Human Services, FDA, CDC, and NIH are politically corrupt, as demonstrated by their mishandling of Covid and interference with safe, affordable medications.

RFK Jr. has credentials and experience that far exceed those of most other candidates for Cabinet positions, and the realignment in this election was based on a promise to give him real authority. A symbolic position as “health czar” would not enable RFK Jr. to fulfill his pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” by clearing out the cabal of wrongdoers at federal agencies.

The Deep State has terrified nearly every Republican, other than Donald Trump himself, such that representative government in our Nation’s capital does not really exist anymore. It functions more like a police state, whereby the unlimited, largely unsupervised funding of the DOJ has resulted in relentless political investigations and prosecutions.

Sauer, Paxton, RFK Jr., and only a handful of other candidates for these key positions have the courage and skills to stand up against the Deep State to save our country. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) is in that category, too, but notice how the Swamp is wrongly stifling his campaign to become Senate Majority Leader.

Trump does not need the cooperation of Congress to exercise the pardon power granted exclusively to him by the U.S. Constitution. This pardon power was modeled on the authority of the King of England, and it must be used frequently and broadly by the 47th president.

Trump could grant individual and blanket pardons on Truth Social, which would have the bonus of belittling the Deep State in addition to neutralizing it. Trump should also issue preemptive pardons, without allowing the DOJ to bankrupt its victims first.

Trump could set a further precedent for presidential authority to pardon for state prosecutions when they incorporate federal allegations as the ongoing, politically motivated prosecutions of Trump and his supporters in New York, Georgia, Arizona, and Michigan all do. Presidential power is improperly undermined when state prosecutors funded by Leftist George Soros can threaten imprisonment of the president and his top advisers.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Adios to Biden and Harris

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Biden and Harris have inflicted problems that are the worst in history, for the next administration to clean up. Tens of millions of illegal aliens, violent crime and drug smuggling, declining military enlistment, and rampant inflation are all heavy burdens for the new presidential administration.

Mexico is reportedly delaying a vast horde of at least another 150,000 migrants at Tapachula, which is its southernmost city, until after our election depending on who wins. On Sunday a shootout occurred in Mexico near the California border, which left 2 Colombians dead and 4 wounded.

Another recent shootout occurred just south of the Texas border along the Rio Grande, near the Tornillo-Guadalupe International Bridge. The Mexico National Guard exchanged gunfire with a caravan of suspected drug smugglers, and afterward found three abandoned trucks, all of which had been reported as stolen in the United States, and an arsenal of 20 rifles, 19 bulletproof vests, 11 handguns, 10 combat helmets, and ammunition in excess of 2,900 rounds.

Illegal aliens are included in the census that establishes each state’s allotment in the Electoral College and the House of Representatives, boosting states that harbor illegals while depriving other states of political power. California alone has eight more congressional seats than it should, and an equal number of Electoral College votes that properly belong to conservative Midwestern states like Ohio.

An illegal alien from West Africa was caught by the border patrol in March near San Ysidro, California, but then released under the notorious policy of “catch and release” by Biden and Harris. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi was merely given a “notice to appear” at an immigration hearing, but it is silly to expect someone who entered our country unlawfully to voluntarily show up for his own deportation.

Evidently this illegal alien moved to Chicago, where at 9:30 in the morning he allegedly began shooting at an Orthodox Jewish man walking to a synagogue. As emergency response workers and police rushed to the scene, Abdallahi allegedly shot at them, too.

The State of Illinois, not the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, recently charged him with terrorism. Many terrorists and criminals snuck into our country over the Biden-Harris open border, creating an enormous burden to find and deport them.

Meanwhile, Biden and Harris have alienated young men so badly that their enlistment in our military has fallen to an all-time low. Last year the Army, Navy, and Air Force all failed to meet their recruitment goals under Biden-Harris, due to a plummeting rate of enlistment by young men.

The Biden-Harris Administration repeatedly lowered standards to reach the military’s enlistment targets. Earlier this year the Administration even removed the long-standing requirement of a high school diploma or an equivalent test score on an exam such as the GED, but lower standards result in more dropouts during boot camp.

Since Biden and Harris entered the White House 1.7 million additional Americans have had to take on multiple jobs merely to survive. For example, this past August 264,000 Americans began part-time work to make ends meet.

A whopping total of 30% of the new jobs created under Biden and Harris has been government employment, which is simply redistributing money from taxpayers to the workers. This is not the genuine economic growth that Americans need.

Inflation exceeded salary increases for most of the four years that Biden and Harris were in office. Real wages and benefits fell by 4% during their administration.

In 2020, while Trump was president, the average price of a dozen grade A large eggs was only $1.51. By September of this year under Biden-Harris, this average price had soared to $3.81, which is more than a 100% increase.

Egg prices have increased by 40% in the last year, and jumped by nearly 20% in one month as recently as September. Far from claims by Harris supporters that inflation problems have subsided, this crucial ingredient in our diet has boosted the cost of living for many Americans, while prices for chocolate have sharply increased by nearly 38% since 2020.

Inflation has driven up the cost of groceries so much that young adults struggle to make ends meet. Housing prices are beyond the reach of the newly married, which means they will delay having children while our national birth rate continues to plummet.

The trade deficit jumped by 19.1% in merely one month, to total $84.4 billion for the month of September. As with most of the economic data reported by the Biden-Harris Administration, the originally disclosed $70.4 billion trade deficit in August was underreported and was subsequently revised to be worse.

The trade deficit reflects lost American jobs, as those goods can and should be made here by Americans. Restoring those jobs should be a top priority.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Men Reject Dems’ “Vote for a Woman” Pitch

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Democrats are trying to win this election by telling men to vote for Kamala Harris because she’s a woman, but this pitch is not working. Trump leads among male voters by 16% nationally in the latest USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll, while Democrats belatedly try to overcome that lack of support by men.

A defining feature of Harris’s vice presidency, according to the New York Times, was to order a review of many years of government briefing reports about foreign women leaders, to search for gender bias. No such bias was found, but nevertheless the Deep State mandated training sessions for federal workers on how to write about women leaders in other countries.

This is beyond silly, and not what our tax dollars should be funding. It is certainly not what should be leading our country at this time of economic crisis and foreign wars.

The economy and inflation are the top two issues for likely voters, and Trump leads on both of them. Crime, gun policy, and the open border also rank highly in importance now, while the abortion issue on which Harris bases her campaign is ranked only seventh in significance by voters.

Trump has been opening his rallies by asking his crowds if they are better off now than four years ago, when Kamala Harris moved into the White House. The immense crowds respond with a thunderous “no.”

A disastrous open border, inflation, and the transgender agenda: Kamala is not going to correct any of this. She candidly admitted in one of her rare interviews that she could not think of anything she would have done differently from Biden.

Yet in one of many cringe-worthy television ads by the Harris side, Hollywood actor Ed O’Neill absurdly admonishes: “Be a man: Vote for a woman.” The Democrat strategy is to try to shame men into voting for Kamala Harris.

Another absurd ad by Democrats to induce men to vote for Harris included this zinger by an actor pretending to support Harris: “I eat carburetors for breakfast!” Car mechanics for Kamala is what campaign consultants apparently thought would persuade more men to vote for her.

Democrats have trotted out the 1980s rock star Bruce Springsteen to perform at recent Harris campaign events in Atlanta and Philadelphia, where Democrats seek early voting to carry Georgia and Pennsylvania. Trump is widely supported outside these two liberal cities, and he recently held an immense campaign rally in Pennsylvania where liberal Penn State is located.

This presidential election is about whether the ideology of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) should block a strong leader, Donald Trump, from becoming president again. Men are not buying Democrats’ attempt to win the White House based on DEI.

The prime minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, a terrific female leader, did not campaign on a slogan of “I’m with her,” like Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign in 2016. Kamala Harris is trying to become president based on so-called “equity politics,” which often means women taking credit for what men accomplish.

Harris is the nominee only because Joe Biden has been president, not because Harris won any votes in a primary. In fact, Harris pulled out early from the Democrat primary in 2020 due to the lack of support for her.

Many prominent liberal men have declined to endorse Harris for president, such as Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. At the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the successful men who own these papers each overrode their editorial staff to block them from endorsing Harris.

The Los Angeles Times’ owner asked its editorial board to do a factual comparison of the candidates so that readers could decide for themselves for whom to vote, but the liberal editors refused. Leftists have since resigned from both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, which is good news for the future of both papers.

A NYT/Siena poll earlier this month showed Trump leading Harris among young men by 17%, which is a historic lead for a Republican to have over a Democrat with this traditionally liberal demographic of young men. Young men are not thrilled by losing opportunities to women based on the woke DEI ideology.

Michelle Obama is campaigning for Kamala Harris with mean-spirited attacks on Trump. “You know who is nasty to me? Michelle Obama. I always tried to be so nice and respectful. … She was nasty,” Trump responded.

On the ballot is a choice between radical feminism, embodied in the DEI candidacy of Kamala Harris, as opposed to the candidate who got there based on his merit, Donald Trump. Many traditional Democrats are not persuaded by “vote for a woman” campaigning, because it takes more than that to lead our Nation out of the economic mess that Kamala Harris has caused.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

GOP Needs to Counter “Souls to the Polls” in Georgia

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Democrats expect to win Georgia by putting their billion-dollar war chest to use on an enormous get-out-the-vote effort there. In the first of three weeks of early voting, a record-breaking total of more than 1.5 million ballots were cast in the Peach State.

This Thursday, Democrats pull out all their stops in Georgia with a joint rally featuring former president Barack Obama, aging rock star Bruce Springsteen, and Kamala Harris. Perhaps Taylor Swift’s “cat lady” approach is no longer considered helpful to Harris’s campaign.

Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey has remarkably begun running ads in Pennsylvania begging voters to reelect him because “he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.” That signals a shift by Democrats away from trying to defeat Trump in Pennsylvania to focus more on Georgia.

There is no registration by political party in Georgia, but reportedly a higher-than-normal 55% of the early voters have been women. The record surge in early voting there is partly the result of the Democrat political machine driving women to the polls to vote for Kamala Harris.

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has delayed releasing the results of a state audit to remove illegal aliens from its voter rolls. Virginia and other Republican-led states have been transparent in removing noncitizens from their voter rolls, which Biden’s Justice Department has opposed.

The voter turnout in Georgia is on track to surpass its nearly 5 million ballots tallied in 2020, when Biden reportedly won by only 11,779 votes. In 2022, the Democrat political machine reelected one of the most liberal senators in the country, the black Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Republicans cannot afford to lose this state again.

Republicans wasted tens of millions of dollars on political ads in Georgia to try to defeat Rev. Warnock, and he won by 100,000 votes based on Democrats’ superior ground game. Republicans should not allow Kamala Harris to win Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes, which Trump needs to prevail nationwide.

“Souls to the polls” is the name for the Democrat operation that drives many thousands of under-informed voters from predominantly black churches to polling booths on Sundays. This caught Republicans off guard in 2020, and the GOP campaign consultants should be doing far more in this must-win state.

Kamala Harris spent Sunday in Georgia churches urging black congregations to cast ballots for her during early voting, and they are. A large number of older voters have cast early ballots, and many of them are churchgoers.

A toll-free number is publicized by Democrats to provide a free ride to the polls, and this operation is credited with the record-breaking early turnout. The Republicans do not have anything nearly as effective in Georgia.

Brilliance on Sunday by Trump working at McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, plus Elon Musk’s rallies there, have apparently secured victory in this Commonwealth. The 810,000 voter registration advantage by Democrats in 2020, when Biden reportedly won by 80,000, has been reduced to less than 300,000 as of Monday thanks to a phenomenal grassroots voter drive.

The Cook Political Report just moved the Pennsylvania Senate battle to a toss-up, despite how the Democrat incumbent Bob Casey was way ahead just a month ago. Republicans seem certain to win a Senate majority, and could add to that with additional wins based on the manufacturing jobs issue in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

While some polls show Trump slightly ahead in Georgia, the latest Washington Post-Schar School poll shows Harris leading by 51-47% there. The side that turns out the most votes will be the one that wins this state, and probably the national election.

Fortunately, Trump has a few appearances planned for Georgia in these final two weeks before this election. It would be wonderful if Elon Musk and other Trump supporters, such as Tulsi Gabbard, could change their schedules to rush there soon too.

Musk and others were right to focus entirely on Pennsylvania during the past month, but that mission appears to have been accomplished. In response Democrats have apparently shifted their campaigning away from Pennsylvania in a new strategy to win the election with Georgia instead.

Musk should help by reacting accordingly, and start doing his rallies in this pivotal southeastern state. Long lines gather outside of Musk’s rallies and he is boosting Trump’s campaign, which is needed in Georgia now.

There is still time, and successful campaigns adapt to changes in strategy by the other side. Football teams change their plays depending on how the other team lines up on the field.

Republicans and all Trump supporters need to react to this seismic shift in strategy by Democrats. Rallies, postcards, and phone calls by Trump supporters should shift to Georgia now.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Will Non-Citizen Votes Decide This Election?

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Illegal aliens are prohibited from voting in a presidential election, under a Republican-sponsored law enacted in 1996 and codified at 18 U.S.C. § 611. But illegal aliens are not told that, and many are falsely misled by Democrats to think they can vote in federal elections.

On Sunday, Trump posted about Biden-Harris’s new lawsuit against Virginia on his social media platform Truth Social that “One of the Greatest Examples of DOJ Weaponization is the fact that they are suing Virginia to put ALL of the Illegal Voters, which were fully exposed and removed by the important work of Governor Glenn Youngkin, back on the Voter Rolls.”

“Obviously, this was done so that they can CHEAT on the Election. So sad! What has happened to our once Great Country?” Trump added.

If merely one-tenth of 1% of illegal aliens cast a ballot in this election, it could illegally flip the outcome to Kamala Harris. That’s because she’s allowed 20 million new trespassers across our southern border, many of whom have settled in key battleground states like Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Georgia.

Kamala Harris’s Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Virginia on October 11, and Alabama two weeks earlier, to block them from cleaning their election rolls of non-citizens. Some Leftist-controlled cities, particularly in deep-blue Maryland and Vermont, allow non-citizens to vote in local elections.

Foreigners who are here illegally will vote overwhelmingly for Kamala Harris, of course, because she provides them lavish benefits while Trump rightly pledges to deport them. Democrats falsely accuse Trump of supposedly subverting democracy, but it is Kamala Harris and her supporters who seek to rig this election by insisting that illegal aliens remain on the voter rolls despite the efforts of Republican-led states to attain voter integrity.

It is ironic that the same liberal-controlled DOJ that violated its traditional rule against bringing politicized prosecutions within 60 or 90 days of the election is now suing to prevent voter rolls from being corrected within 90 days of the election. It is appropriate and necessary to purge illegal voters from registrations during this Quiet Period, which Trump-haters have violated anyway with their own politically motivated court filings.

“Federal law has made it nearly impossible for states to verify the citizenship of voter-registration applicants,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton recently said. “Although it is a crime for a non-citizen to register to vote, federal law restricts states from requiring proof of citizenship, and state agencies like those we lead have limited means to verify voter citizenship in many cases.”

The Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin pushes back on the recent lawsuit against him by the Biden-Harris DOJ, as he should. “With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls.”

Early voting is already in full swing in Virginia, a state that is home to many liberal federal workers but also numerous veterans and solidly Republican rural regions. The tallies of how many have voted early there are so encouraging that Trump might even win this Commonwealth and its 13 Electoral College votes, which would be icing on the cake.

The northern Virginia suburbs of Arlington and Alexandria are dominated by federal workers, and Biden won these areas by more than 80% of the total vote. But the early voting in these suburbs is less than half of what it was in 2020.

Yet early voting is higher than in 2020 in western Virginia, which is Trump Country. This region is more like West Virginia, which Trump wins by 40 points, so the uptick in early voting reflects a particularly high enthusiasm among Trump voters.

Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania again Monday night, observing that “WE win Pennsylvania, WE win this Great Commonwealth, WE are going to win the whole ball game.” Harris is also spending nearly all of her time campaigning there, with far fewer appearances than Trump’s rallies, as both sides focus on this “Keystone State.”

Pennsylvania public schools have been hit hard by an influx of illegal aliens who cannot speak English. Under Biden-Harris, the number of English Language Learner (ELL) students needing expensive special instruction to learn for the first time how to read, write, and speak in English rose by almost 40% between the 2020-21 and 2023-24 school years, despite overall student enrollment declining.

One might wonder how millions who do not speak English are able to fill out their ballots. Philadelphia County, where Democrats rack up an enormous margin to overcome their losses in most Pennsylvania counties, prints its ballots in Spanish and Chinese, and assistance while voting is also allowed there.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Trump’s Bounce from Butler and Elon

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By John and Andy Schlafly

Trump’s memorable rally on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he survived an assassination attempt in July, cemented his full support by Elon Musk who has 200 million followers on his social platform X. Additional joint appearances are planned.

Musk was the only speaker introduced by Trump Saturday night, and Elon focused on voter registration. Musk likes to win as Trump does, and this election will be won or lost on the ground game.

Trump will appoint Musk to lead a new government efficiency commission, and both are not afraid to fire many workers to improve productivity. Musk reportedly fired 80% of the Leftist staff at X after taking over Twitter and changing its name.

“Do we really need... whatever it is... 428 federal agencies?” Musk asked rhetorically in a recent interview with Tucker Carlson. “I think we should be able to get away with 99 agencies.”

The exuberant Musk jumped up and down with excitement upon taking the stage in Butler before 60,000-100,000 attendees, which the Secret Service absurdly estimated as only 20,000. Liberals are so furious at Musk’s cheerleading for Trump that they even criticized the height of his “vertical,” to which a conservative responded with a hilarious image of Musk leaping to block a Michael Jordan dunk.

If Americans do not elect Trump, then this will be “the last election. That’s my prediction,” Musk said, referring to the loss of freedom under a Kamala Harris administration.

Liberals are reeling in desperation at the prospect of Musk campaigning hard for Trump. A host on leftwing MSNBC blustered, “I will say that Elon Musk is perhaps the world’s leading spreader of disinformation, including outright lies about hurricane relief, about illegal immigrants.”

So now the world’s most successful CEO is branded as a conveyer of disinformation after endorsing Trump. Last week Musk was the leader in delivering relief to many victims of Hurricane Helene.

Musk tweeted Friday afternoon, “The level of belligerent government incompetence is staggering!!” He was responding to a report from his staff that the Biden-Harris Administration, through FEMA, was interfering with his company’s flights to provide relief to the hurricane-ravaged regions in the Southeast.

After Musk’s companies delivered many Starlink communication devices, FEMA began to “throttle” back helicopter flights by imposing cumbersome, unnecessary codes. This was a classic approach by D.C. liberals to obstruct private charity and free enterprise.

The federal government impedes private access, even by charity workers, to distressed areas so that the Biden-Harris Administration can control or spin the narrative. They want to censor images of how badly they have failed to help thousands of victims of this hurricane.

“There are hundreds of reports of FEMA/FAA blocking flights. This literally just happened,” Elon Musk tweeted out on X for the world to see. “Still waiting … the helicopter is trying to land to deliver critical supplies,” Musk observed.

Enter Pete Buttigieg, a longtime Cabinet member of the Biden Administration and by now a master of how the Deep State tries to control nearly everything. He artfully responded, “No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights.”

The trick was his use of the word “legitimate,” as his own Department of Transportation decides what is or is not “legitimate.” All rescue and recovery flights should be considered legitimate, including those that transmit images of failure embarrassing to Kamala Harris.

Eventually Mayor Pete ended the obstruction, for now, of Musk’s charitable work for the hurricane victims. But there never should have been any interference by the federal government with charity in the first place.

Appearing on “The View” on Tuesday, Kamala Harris was asked, “if anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” Kamala responded, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

So it is fair game to criticize Kamala for all of the wrongdoings by the Biden Administration. That includes stifling censorship on social media by Biden-Harris, about which Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has apologized for caving into.

Musk “saved free speech,” Trump said while introducing him at the immense Butler rally. After excitedly leaping to the microphone, Musk then explained how important the First Amendment is.

Musk punctuated that with how we need the Second Amendment to protect the First Amendment. The vast crowd erupted in thunderous applause.

“You must have free speech in order to have democracy. That’s why it’s the First Amendment, and the Second Amendment is there to ensure that we have the First Amendment,” Musk declared.

Liberals are alarmed not merely by Musk’s endorsement of Trump, which began when Trump rose with “Fight! Fight! Fight!” after having been shot in Butler in July. Liberals are panicked by what Musk is saying daily, and how it resonates so well with American voters in the swing states deciding this election.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Kamala’s Inflation Is Causing the Strike Wave

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By John and Andy Schlafly

Early Tuesday 45,000 workers went on strike at our 36 major shipping ports from Maine to Texas, imposing estimated costs of $5 billion daily and causing a supply chain nightmare. This shuts down our enormous ports in Houston and near New York City, and is the first strike by the longshoremen’s union since 1977.

Inflation is the root cause of this devastating dockworkers’ strike, which is part of a new strike wave that includes the walkout at Boeing that has stretched into its third week and caused more than a billion dollars in harm. Inflation has sharply increased the cost of living and created uncertainty about the future value of the dollar, while wages have failed to keep up with rising costs.

Workers feel compelled to demand substantial salary increases merely to break even as the costs of daily necessities of life have soared. In negotiating long-term contracts, unions must factor in uncertainty about how bad inflation will become, which has pushed the annual increase in healthcare costs from 5% in 2021 to an estimated 8% by next year.

“Look at Inflation destroying the World. NONE OF THIS HAPPENED WHILE I WAS PRESIDENT!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday afternoon in dismay about multiple crises occurring under Kamala Harris, who cast the tie-breaking vote in enacting the Inflation Acceleration Act in 2022, misnamed the Inflation Reduction Act.

Reading from a teleprompter, Harris declared “I will work to pass the first-ever federal ban on price gauging on food.” Her gaffe in mispronouncing “price gouging” showed she had no understanding of what she was reciting, and her plan would result in shortages.

Meanwhile, Trump has been visiting the carnage wrought by Hurricane Helene in Georgia and North Carolina, where more than 140 have died from the storm and a reported 600 are missing. Biden was lounging at his vacation home refusing to do anything more than take a few phone calls, while Harris dined with liberal celebrities in Hollywood who hope to buy this election with lavish campaign contributions.

“Oh, it’s good to be home!” gushed Kamala Harris Sunday afternoon to liberal billionaires in Los Angeles, while 1.7 million businesses and residents lost power in the Southeast from Hurricane Helene. Only after Trump shamed Biden did Sleepy Joe finally agree to visit the devastated regions.

A rebuilding effort will be needed in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene but that won’t be easy with all of our Eastern ports shut down by the recent strike. It won’t be cheap, either, with construction prices having risen sharply during the Biden Administration, and strikes causing more inflation.

Already surcharges have been slapped onto goods in anticipation of the closing of our Eastern and Southern shipping ports, and goods have been rerouted at additional expense to the West Coast. Shortages are expected.

Philadelphia, in battleground Pennsylvania that is expected to decide the upcoming presidential election, is a major port of entry being hit particularly hard by this shutdown. Produce is what comes through the Port of Philadelphia: vegetables and fruit, plus frozen meat, paper, and steel products.

Americans have already endured sticker shock on these goods, as Trump explained in detail during a press conference on August 15 at his summer home in Bedminster, New Jersey. Food prices have surged by 28% since 2019, with nearly all of those increases due to inflation under Kamala Harris and Biden.

Trump has gotten along well with unions his entire life while constructing high-rises in New York City, Chicago, and beyond. With union labor he built his magnificent hotel at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., completed it ahead of schedule, and subsequently sold it at a profit.

Trump is supported by an overwhelming majority of Teamsters union workers as confirmed by a recent poll that its leaders published in September. The Teamsters bosses declined for the first time in nearly 30 years to endorse the Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris.

The strike wave of 1945-1946 resulted in the Republican landslide of historic proportions in the midterm elections that year. Then the Taft-Hartley Act was enacted to deal with costly strikes by authorizing the president to order a cooling-off period for negotiations, but Biden refuses to invoke it now in fear of a backlash by union voters.

A similar strike wave occurred in the 1970s, and contributed to runaway inflation that culminated in Jimmy Carter’s landslide defeat for reelection in 1980. The incumbent president in 1976, Gerald Ford, was likewise defeated when he ran for reelection.

As roughly half of our nation’s ocean shipping grinds to a halt now, the lack of leadership in the White House harms our Nation. As war continues in Ukraine and expands in the Middle East, this strike wave at home weakens our national strength.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.

Globalists’ War Against Trump

The Phyllis Schlafly Report
By John and Andy Schlafly

Only one man stands in the way of the globalist agenda: Donald Trump. Globalists are doing everything they can to prevent his return to the White House.

On Sunday, Ukraine’s Zelensky visited the large munitions plant in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he was welcomed by Democrats Gov. Josh Shapiro and embattled Sen. Bob Casey Jr. Their implicit message is that sending more American-made arms to Ukraine, with permission to launch them deep inside Russia, would appeal to voters in this pivotal swing state.

In an interview published Sunday by The New Yorker magazine, Zelensky campaigned for the globalist-controlled Kamala Harris by improperly describing Trump’s VP as “too radical” for urging peace. JD Vance is the popular Senator from Ohio where many Ukrainian Americans reside, and Vance rightly speaks out against this senseless war as RFK Jr. and others have.

After sharply criticizing Trump and Vance – which should be considered an illegal foreign campaign contribution to Kamala Harris – Zelensky was flown at taxpayer expense to Scranton on a U.S. Air Force C-17A plane. Zelensky never mentions how many Ukrainians have really died in this futile war, which has inflicted over a million casualties and wanton destruction.

Globalists provided Zelensky with more security for his campaign stop in Pennsylvania than for Trump. The Deep State cares more about keeping Zelensky safely in power than about protecting Trump so that he can become president again.

Zelensky is not helping himself by picking sides in our presidential race, or by lashing out at Trump and Vance as early voting begins. Trump will be tougher now in forcing Zelensky to accept a peace deal that would include holding the free election that Zelensky canceled when he declared martial law.

Meanwhile Ryan Wesley Routh, the would-be assassin on Trump’s Florida golf course, sat undetected in nearby bushes all night and morning waiting for Trump to reach the adjacent hole. No one swept the course perimeter, which would have easily caught Routh without gunfire.

Routh considered himself to be a “global citizen” and even wrote a book about it. “ALL GLOBAL CITIZENS COME STAND WITH UKRAINIANS NOW!” his book shouted in an excerpt available on Amazon.com.

Who paid for this assassin’s travel from Hawaii to Ukraine and back, and then to South Florida? When the British newspaper Daily Mail interviewed Routh’s 35-year-old son, Oran Routh said his father told him he was at the beach, which the son assumed was in Hawaii, not Florida.

The DOJ released a handwritten letter addressed to “Dear World” in which Ryan Routh admits “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.” Though grateful for the work of local law enforcement and the alert action by the Secret Service agent who shot at the would-be assassin, Trump properly criticized the meager charges that were filed against the wannabe killer.

“The charges brought against the maniac assassin are a slap on the wrist,” Trump stated on Monday. “Florida charges would be much more serious than the ones the FBI has announced.”

The Secret Service does not lack adequate funding, as the House pretended when it voted unanimously to send them hundreds of millions of additional dollars even before the agency accounts for its failure to prevent Trump from being shot in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. The real problem is that the Deep State hates and fears Trump, who should fire much of the D.C. elite upon returning to the White House.

The 741 self-described National Security Leaders who published a manifesto endorsing Kamala cited as one of their reasons that Trump would probably fire some of them if he takes office again. Biden and Harris have not fired a single person for more than 3.5 years, despite pervasive wrongdoing and gross incompetence as in their deadly pullout from Afghanistan.

At an overflow rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania, Trump explained how he kept peace in the world for four years as president. But war, not peace, is what the Deep State wants to justify its existence and engage in profiteering from arms sales and then construction projects afterward in the destroyed countries.

On Tuesday Biden delivered his final speech to the United Nations in promotion of the globalist ideology, mouthing words that were written for him to deliver. Biden pledged endless ongoing “support to help Ukraine win this war,” which is impossible.

In contrast, Trump explained to the crowd who packed the 6,000-seat arena in Indiana, Pennsylvania that the world is on fire because of Biden and Harris. They did nothing to prevent this war or the worsening one in the Middle East.

Globalists are pro-war because they enrich themselves from the weaponry sold and used, and from the rebuilding that follows. They picked Harris as their puppet to continue this agenda.

John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.

These columns are also posted on PhyllisSchlafly.com, pseagles.com, and Townhall.com.