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Republicans Must Fight for President Trump… or Be Defeated

This article was posted originally at The Hill. “Is Trump finished?” one of his savviest conservative supporters asked me recently. In other words, will restless Republicans, unable to achieve any legislative…

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Tear Them Down? The Conservative Case Against Confederate Monuments

A lot of people I respect greatly are coming to the defense of Confederate war monuments in the wake of the Charlottesville brouhaha. I understand their impulse to resist this…

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How Conservatives Are Fighting Back on College Campuses — And Winning

Dr. Tommy Curry is a professor of philosophy at Texas A&M University. In 2012, he listed out situations where it is acceptable to kill white people, and still pushes such…

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How Can Conservatives De-Politicize College Campuses?

It’s no secret that Marxists use academia as their retreat. Every couple of decades they wander out, get elected, destroy a bunch of stuff, then retreat back to their taxpayer-funded…

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Who Is Jack Posobiec? Meet the Pro-Trump Author, Activist, and Twitter Phenom

I had the opportunity to sit down this week with Jack Posobiec, author of Citizens for Trump: The Inside Story of the People’s Movement to Take Back America. Posobiec is…

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Why Are Some Conservatives Joining Big Hollywood to Attack a Small Business?

The American Conservative Union has allied with Big Hollywood to launch a scurrilous attack on a startup company that’s trying to protect conservative values. In a “Call to Congress” letter on their…

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Trump Promises Another Conservative Supreme Court Justice

Many conservatives who may have been unsure about Donald Trump during the campaign ultimately voted for him because of his promise to nominate a strong pro-life Supreme Court justice to…

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Final Thoughts on Tomi Lahren

It’s time for my “Final Thoughts” on Tomi Lahren, written, unfortunately, in the inimitable style of Tomi Lahren. Last week, 24-year-old know-it-all firebrand Tomi Lahren, a supposedly “conservative” media superstar…

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The Transition So Far: Splendid!

Beginning with the joint appointment of Reince Priebus as chief of staff and Steve Bannon as chief “strategist,” the Trump administration has been signaling two things: 1) He’s not going…

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The Three Most Important Takeaways from the 2016 Election

On March 3, 2015, as the early stages of the Republican presidential primary campaign were just getting under way, our team launched ThePulse2016.com to keep readers like you up to…

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Hey, RedState? Quit Viciously Attacking Good Conservatives.

I have a lot of respect for Leon Wolf and all the folks over at RedState. I really do. But I made the decision months ago to ignore their website…

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How a Clinton Victory Would Powerfully Unite the Right

In a previous column I considered how the coalition that is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy began to fray after losing the common enemy against which it had united: In…

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How the Soviet Union’s Secret Weapon Ultimately Unhinged the GOP

The most enduring cliché of every presidential election is that it is the most important in history. The nominees proclaim this because, for them, this is certainly true. They also…

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Party’s Over: It’s Time for Conservatives to Leave the GOP

Since the conclusion of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, the GOP has been tearing itself apart. And Senator Ted Cruz is already positioning himself to pick up the pieces and…

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Could Trump Re-energize the Conservative Movement?

Jeff Bell, the American Principles Project’s Policy Director and occasional contributor to The Pulse 2016, was recently featured in an interview with National Review writer Neal Freeman about the 2016 election and…

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Florida Governor Betrays Conservative Principles with Obergefell Answer

In an interview on Tuesday evening sure to upset the conservative grassroots, Florida Governor Rick Scott said that the Republican Party needs to de-emphasize its opposition to the LGBT agenda.…

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Trump Misses Huge Opportunity on Supreme Court Abortion Case

After keeping silent for most of the week following the Supreme Court’s pro-abortion ruling in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Donald Trump finally weighed in on the case yesterday in…

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Be Bold, #NeverTrump: Just Vote For Hillary

The driving message of the #NeverTrump movement is Principle Before Party. According to #NeverTrump, voting for Donald Trump would ostensibly violate conservative principles, and therefore, true conservatives must discard party affiliation…

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Why I Don’t Like Mitt Romney (VIDEO)

Frank Cannon is president of the American Principles Project and a respected conservative political strategist with over 30 years of experience. …Mitt Romney is choosing to dislike Trump for reasons…

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