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Poland just showed us how this ends. Pay attention.
Last night in Warsaw, armed state officers escorted seven judges into Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal. The court’s president was declared suspended. Riot police locked the doors. The President of the Republic turned his plane around mid-flight, walked up to the building, and had to push his way past judges to get inside his own nation’s highest court.
The government says it is restoring the rule of law. The opposition says it is a coup. Both sides quote the constitution at each other while men in riot gear decide who gets through the door.
Here is the lesson.
1. Somebody is going to rule you. The only question is who. There is no neutral state. Every law is somebody’s morality with a badge. If Christians will not govern, pagans and atheists will, and they will govern against your GOD and family. “When one rules justly over men, ruling in the fear of God, he dawns on them like the morning light” (2 Samuel 23:3-4). God’s standard for a magistrate was never “secular.” It was “able men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe” (Exodus 18:21). That is Christian Nationalism. Christians ruled by Christians under Christ. Anything else is Christians ruled by their enemies.
2. Whoever holds the pen rewrites the law. PiS packed the court in 2015. Tusk is unpacking it by force in 2026. Each side believes it is the lawful one. When a nation loses a shared standard above the state, “rule of law” just means “rule of whoever won last.” Proverbs 29:2: “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” The law has to answer to something higher than the next election. It has to answer to God.
3. Cultural Christianity does not hold the line. Poland is 90 percent baptized. There are crucifixes in its parliament. And this same week, thousands marched in Polish streets demanding abortion, while fewer than one in three hundred Poles sit under gospel preaching on Sunday. A nation can be covered in crosses and empty of Christ. Heritage is not discipleship. A country does not get Christian rulers from pagan households.
4. You cannot outsource your hope to a court. Both Polish camps spent a decade believing the Tribunal would save them. Now the Tribunal is the battlefield. “Put not your trust in princes” (Psalm 146:3). Christian rule is not a judge you hope for. It is men you raise, send, and seat.
5. Institutions are captured quietly, then held loudly. The seven judges walked in on a Friday night when the staff was gone. That is how it always happens. Not with tanks. With paperwork, timing, and a locked door. If godly men are not in the building, ungodly men will be.
What we do here:
Build the household. Family worship every night. Catechize your sons to rule and your daughters to build rulers. Your home is the first jurisdiction and the one no court can seize.
Build the church. Faithful elders, disciplined members, men trained to lead. Christian magistrates come out of Christian congregations or they do not come at all.
Take the offices. Sheriff. School board. County commission. State house. Run, or recruit and fund the man who will. “Be wise, O kings; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear” (Psalm 2:10-11). That command is not optional for a Christian with a ballot or a filing deadline.
Pray for Poland. Then put Christians in every seat you can reach so nobody has to pray for us.
“The LORD has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.” Psalm 103:19. That court sits in Warsaw. Ours sits higher, and it claims every court beneath it.
Veteran, today America will thank you with a mattress sale and a free pancake breakfast.
Last Sunday most churches failed you again by having you stand up and the church clap, thinking that is what Veterans Day is about. On the surface that might look and feel right. A few minutes in a service once a year to thank men who risked all for the freedom we have today.
But here is the truth of the matter.
Most veterans feel utterly betrayed by the government that sent them to pointless wars, only to replace them with hordes of migrants. Most veterans have had the rose-colored glasses ripped off of them. They see their dead friends in their minds. They see the wreckage of the families left behind. For what?
Everyone in Christian circles says thank you for your service. But men who talk for a living, who have enjoyed the freedom to preach by other men's blood, will rarely understand you. They are the mouthpiece of the body. You are the hands, the heart, and the feet. You risked all so they could risk nothing.
The pulpit has overwhelmingly failed the warrior for 2,000 years. The feminized church has failed the veteran horribly.
And now, while our country gets ready to devour itself, the veteran is the most betrayed. We lose 22 a day to suicide on average. Churches and pastors need to pour into veterans now more than ever.
Veteran, the waste is not your shame. You answered the call. You did your duty. The men who made the call will answer to God for how they used you.
God is not ashamed of the warrior. He calls Himself one. "The LORD is a man of war" (Exodus 15:3). In fact, warriors are some of the most respected people in the Bible. The Hall of Faith names Gideon, Barak, Samson, and David (Hebrews 11:32). David was a man after God's own heart (1 Samuel 13:14). Jesus marveled at a centurion's faith (Matthew 8:10). God sent Peter to the house of Cornelius, a centurion (Acts 10). God sees you. He knows you.
Brother, if you are hurting today, dial 988 and press 1. Or message me and we will talk.
Your King has not discharged you.
My Veterans Day sermon, Fight for Your Brothers: youtu.be/gcC2e2Klu1s
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The right just lost Congress, and part of the right is cheering. That is the guaranteed way to hell. Pay attention.
Last Tuesday the Democrats took the House and the Senate. Seven Republican Senate seats flipped, Texas, Ohio, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina among them. And a loud part of the right wanted it. They said so for months: let the Republicans lose. Let the Democrats burn it down. Let them hang themselves doing crazy things for two years, and the country runs to a far-right candidate in 2028 and beyond.
That is not strategy. That is volunteering to be the match the other side already wanted.
The election is over. This is now about moving forward. Here is the lesson.
Evil has two sides: the psychotic and the despot.
1. The left is the psychotic, the demonic enemy. It smashes, burns, and murders, and the Democrats drive to hell at 1,000 mph. Nobody here is letting them off. But left against right is only one war. It is the war against the obvious evil. It is the war the ultimate evil uses to keep us distracted while it conquers the world, as it has from the beginning (Ephesians 6:12). None of the "burn it down" men are taking that into account.
2. The deep state is the despot, the ultimate enslavement. It is the orderly devil. Not smash and burn. Absolute control. It is not stupid. It is patient, competent evil that knows no bounds. It uses controlled opposition on the left and on the right. It gets a vote in 2028 and beyond, and it always has. Any plan that leaves it out is either naive or compromised already.
3. The despot wants the fringes raging. It has always used the psychotic to create demand for itself. The psychotic burns. The despot offers to put out the fire. A far left and a far right screaming at each other, which has led to murder and will lead to mass murder, is what it is building. Then it presents a milquetoast Mitt Romney and lets the country flee to him. A far-right candidate to counter a far-left candidate is the matchup it is hoping for. The left already wants its despots to rid the world of the right. The right will offer to do the same with despots of its own: the smash-and-burn rage machine and the total-control despot or king. Either way the despot wins. We must avoid becoming the demonic and our own devil despot.
4. It wants us to discredit ourselves. Nazi salutes. Ridiculous talk. It wants the undisciplined, selfish, feel-good dunks where we shoot ourselves in the foot. Every man who does it on camera works for the other side for free, and we have made that far too easy. Matthew 10:16 was written for men surrounded by wolves. We must be loud, but disciplined. No unforced errors.
5. It kills or arrests those it cannot control. It always has. It strangled and burned William Tyndale in 1536. His crime: putting the Bible in English. Most of the King James New Testament is still his work. It jailed John Bunyan for twelve years. His crime: preaching without the crown's license. He began The Pilgrim's Progress in that cell. Look at Charlie Kirk. Look at JFK.
What wins in 2028 and beyond:
Not a mirror of the far left. A conservative Obama. A palatable, smash-mouth incrementalist who can say the hardest truths like honey, and the female palate will not gag on them. He says things in a way that does not offend, even though it is offensive. That is what Obama did. He won twice, and he was one of the most powerful forces for evil we have ever seen. Imagine that skill in the hands of a righteous man. He speaks to the future young men have to live in: a house they can afford, children they can raise, a country that does not treat them as the enemy.
It is too early to say who the candidate will be. But there are men already showing us what it takes.
James Fishback is 31, the son of a Colombian immigrant, a guy who could be any race. He left Georgetown, built an investment firm, and ran for governor of Florida on what young families cannot afford: a house, the taxes on it, a future. He lost. But he took the college precincts, and his crowds were young men. He showed that young men will show up for a man who speaks to their future.
Joe Kent has integrity and a sympathetic story. Twenty years in the Army, Ranger and Green Beret. Eleven combat deployments. Six Bronze Stars. In 2019 an ISIS suicide bomber in Syria killed his wife Shannon, a Navy cryptologist, and left him with two young sons. He went on to run the National Counterterrorism Center, and in March he resigned it rather than back a war he could not support. He was the highest-ranking official to walk away over it. That is a man who has paid for what he believes.
The standard is integrity plus competence plus the ability to say the hard thing without handing the other side the clip.
What we do here:
Stop amplifying the men who make us easy to dismiss. Every share is a vote for the matchup it wants.
Reward the man who says the hard thing well. Follow him, fund him, and send him to your people.
Stop minimizing the grievances of the young. A man who cannot afford a house or a family is not whining. Hear him and help him. He needs a father, not a dictator.
Look to what Luther got right. He wrote his Small Catechism for fathers to teach at their own tables. We win this around our own kitchen tables, catechizing and discipling our families and neighbors, so that a Christian population creates a Christian nation worth having. This is the way forward for Christian Nationalism.
"A soft tongue will break a bone." Proverbs 25:15. Evil has been patient from the beginning. Now we have to be.
Get you kids out of the schools and get out of the cities.
A 15-year-old student at Sachem High School in NY was ARRESTED for stabbing another student
Police have not released information on the suspect. I’m told the school is also covering up some details.
The victim is in critical condition.
You probably won’t see this story in the MSM…
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Fight for Your Brothers | A Veterans Day Sermon | KrossFarer Church teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/2lgybyXWy…
A guy from the local Baptist Church that I taught Active Shooter Training at this morning made this with AI. He did pretty good! Everyone who knows me knows where he messed up. #TridentShield #KrossFarer
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Are the men you are aligning with going to make you their next enemy when hard times come?
The Covenanters bled for Charles II at Dunbar and Worcester. He got his throne back, burned their Covenant, and hunted them.
How I test a man before I lock shields with him:
1. What does he want power for? A man who wants it over others will use it on you.
2. What does his family look like? A man can fake out most people; his family is not one of them.
3. Who does he answer to? It better be God and a godly form of Christianity and not some hybrid heresy.
4. Does he disagree well? Does he still like you when you disagree? How he talks about the brother who disagrees with him is how he will talk about you.
5. Is he competent as a man? Does he protect, provide, and disciple?
6. Is he loyal? What has the truth cost him?
7. What is he building? Is he building you up, or is he consuming you to build his platform?
"Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD." Jeremiah 17:5
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No ballot feeds a family. Neighbors do.
Tennessee has no abortion, no child transition, no drag queen story hour. And people here still can't afford to feed their families. I voted red across the board and wanted to throw up for the first time in my life.
1. The culture fights were worth winning. They are a fence, not a foundation. A fence does not put food on the table.
2. Democrats drive to hell at 1,000 mph. Republicans at 30. I got in the slow car again. The slow car is not a plan.
3. In America you can still choose your neighbors, most of the time. Lot chose Sodom. The valley was well watered and the money was good. He got out with his life. His wife did not.
4. Live in Sodom and do not be surprised when sodomites do sodomy. Move, or quit being surprised.
5. Consolidate. Get near men who will hold the wall with you. Get the house in order: the debt, the pantry, the rifle, the Word at the table. Firm up the foundation before the storm, not in it.
Daily Action: write down the five men within thirty minutes of your door you would call at 2 AM. If you can't fill the list, that is the work. Start this week.
"And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock." Matthew 7:25
Stand firm.
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Jason Perry retweeted
I am so old, I remember when Christians wanted to be like Jesus and not Anakin Skywalker. Embarrassing.
Heresy is not a big enough word for this filth. "Lord Vader is the galaxy's greatest savior" and "beat, beat, beat, kill, kill, kill, shoot first, ask questions later. We are in the battle not only for our country but for our very souls when Christians and pastors embrace this garbage.
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I am so old, I remember when Christians wanted to be like Jesus and not Anakin Skywalker. Embarrassing.
Jason Perry retweeted
Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
This is a good first step. Well
Worth the read.
One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up.
So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told me. "We might do better than the polls suggest. But the data is telling us that a lot of Trump/Vance 2024 voters are pissed and planning to vote for the other guys. Our voters are turning out, but they may not vote for us."
Well, that looks prophetic now. Our voters did show up. In Florida, for example, the electorate was 9 points more Republican than Democrat, just a couple points worse than 2024. Undoubtedly there were places we could have done better on turnout. But the main problem is not turnout. The main problem is that many people who voted for Trump/Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
There will be a lot of infighting and arguing over what happened and why that is. One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true.
But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.
Another pollster—one of the smartest people I know in politics, told me yesterday we’d lose the generic ballot by 13 points. I felt negative going into Tuesday, but even I was shocked by this. In his polling, he saw that a lot of Trump 2024 voters were angry and planning to vote for Democrats. He asked those voters who had abandoned us what would cause them to come back on our team. The top four answers, accounting for nearly all of the responses were:
1) End the war
2) Focus on cost of living/inflation
3) Put America First
4) Change our relationship to Israel
Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats. This is according to a pollster who nailed the results. While many spent Monday attacking Rachel Campos Duffy for calling for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict, it turns out her political advice was sound. (She’s also a great person.)
In the next few months, there's going to be a lot of gaslighting. Expect to hear any number of establishment politicians say the solution to our woes is amnesty. I'm open to the idea that we should change enforcement—by focusing more on businesses that hire illegal labor, for instance. But anyone pushing amnesty is lying to you.
The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.
If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.
But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.
I remain hopeful about our country. To the people who are pissed off and want to say, “I told you so”: you’re right, you did tell us so. Take that energy into electing Republicans who share your worldview. To the people who are just pissed at the results, you should be. Let’s take that anger and get back to the work of saving our country.
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Young men and some older men on the Christian Right are posting Darth Vader as their hero, and I need you to hear how stupid this is.
You know the gangbanger with his pants around his knees? He picked that look to say, “I don’t answer to you.” Here’s what he actually bought: he can’t run. He can’t fight. And the second he reaches for his waistband to pull his pants up, a cop who fears a gun shoots him. He dressed himself to lose. That’s the whole uniform.
Anakin-posting is that uniform.
The grievance underneath it is real. You were lied to. You were told to wait your turn, trust the council, and the council sold you out. I believe you. I’m angry with you.
But look at the man you picked to carry that grievance. He murdered children. He choked his pregnant wife. He bent the knee to a tyrant and spent the rest of his life killing for him. That’s the movie. Not a left-wing spin on the movie. The movie.
So now every man who wants to smear Christian men as fascists doesn’t have to make anything up. You handed him the picture and wrote the caption yourself. “This is what they stole from us.” You posted a child killer on a throne and called it family values. When they come for you, you can’t run. The story is on their side. And when you reach to defend yourself, you get shot, because you’re reaching for a story that says you’re the villain.
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up. (1 Corinthians 10:23)
One more thing, from a man who spent sixteen years as a Navy SEAL and then stood on a SWAT team. Competent, godly, dangerous men do not follow a guy who posts Anakin memes. They look at him once and keep walking. You know who follows the Anakin guy? Dorks. Do-nothings. Men who want to feel like a warrior from a couch. If that’s the army you want, keep posting. If you want the other kind of man beside you, post like the kind of man he’d follow.
Here’s what kills me. You don’t need a fake villain. You have real men. Charles Martel stood in a line at Tours and held it. Baldwin IV rode to Montgisard with leprosy eating his body and broke Saladin’s army at sixteen. Jan Sobieski came down the Kahlenberg with the winged hussars and lifted the siege of Vienna. Luther stood at Worms and would not recant. Knox stood in front of a queen and did not flinch. Those men protected, provided, and discipled with their actual lives, and you can say their names in front of anyone and not have to explain the dead younglings.
Carry a hero you don’t have to apologize for.
Daily Action: delete the Vader post. Replace it with one real man from your own heritage and one line about what he actually did.
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I agree with his sentiment, but I won’t grant 2028 yet.
This election is over. The 2028 election really starts today. Politicians are going to start contrasting against Trump, and Trump is going to be too busy defending against the Dems and fighting to stay in office till the end of his term.
Rubio might be gone. He’s been pro Iran war all along. But that buys much-needed space: no heir apparent. That’s a lane, not a loss. There is hope for a real primary with real debates over policy, and the reality TV crap will fade from memory.
The Zionist lobby, the deep state, and the rest will be working overtime to get corruption and blackmail hooks into the next round of up-and-comers. DeSantis could be the Zionist candidate they try to push on us, without egg on his face.
The first major battle for 2028 starts forming up now, for the soul of the Republican party, in the rubble and ruins still standing this morning. I pray it ends in a reformed Republican party.
What we do now:
Disciple your household. Scripture at the table every day. Reform starts in the home.
Find or build a strong church that actually engages in the culture war, and stand in it.
Take a seat in your county Republican party. Precinct committeeman, delegate, volunteer. Primaries are won by the men who show up before anyone’s watching.
“The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD.” Proverbs 21:31
MAGA is dead… forever.
It’s not just 2026.
It’s 2028.
Vance can’t win. Rubio can’t win.
You are all so incredibly clueless.
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Doug is a national treasure, full of wisdom, and second to none in strategy. He has changed my life for the better in so many ways: postmil, and by showing me personal kindness. I love the man, respect him, and trust him on many issues more than anyone.
The insane circular firing squad plaguing the Reformed community is a cancer that will do untold damage for decades to come. Much like Martin Luther refusing to shake Zwingli’s hand and call him a brother at Marburg in 1529. Protestantism has never recovered.
I pray we can all learn from that, embrace the wisdom of our elders, and give grace to all.
"I'm not listening to you because you're fat." Doug Wilson: what a dumb ad hominem. Honor your elders. #Waterbreak #DougWilson
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