Joe Biden became a lame duck the day he ended his 2024 re-election campaign. No matter who won between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, he had resigned himself to leaving the White House in January 2025. But he hasn’t left yet – he’s still president until his predecessor-turned-successor is sworn in, and there’s still plenty…
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Editor’s Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation’s longest running and most popular weekly column. Once the concussion of Donald Trump’s defeat of Kamala Harris wore off, it didn’t take long for TDS 2.0 to kick in and the progressive blame game to begin. One entrepreneur is taking a capitalistic approach to safe spaces for the…
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President-elect Donald Trump is building his administration – and he’s poaching from the incoming Congress to do so. So, who’s going where in DC, and what does this mean for the Republican majorities in the Senate and the House? How would any vacancies be filled? Who’s on first, What’s on second, and I Don’t Know…
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What’s on the MAGA menu? Headlines are abuzz with speculations about President-elect Donald Trump’s likely Cabinet selections in an administration that has signaled it will demand loyalty, competence, and determination. For his second term, Trump is building a team to implement a bold agenda that he claims will target an inefficient and entrenched bureaucracy, taxes,…
Incumbents worldwide were crushed in 2024, but will they learn from the beatdown? The triumphant return of President-elect Donald Trump did not occur in a vacuum. Throughout the world, governments led by the parties of the 21st-century global political establishment find themselves reeling from a public blowback that has been decades in the making. “From…
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Even with their power gone, leftists are sure to have many a trick up their sleeves. Kamala Harris and the left got their clocks cleaned in the 2024 election, but that doesn’t mean they will rest in their despair. They have already started setting up an obstacle course for the second Trump presidency. While they…
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Since Donald Trump’s lopsided victory in the 2024 presidential election, there has been much talk – happily on the right, hauntingly on the left – of whether we have just witnessed a seismic event that rarely occurs in politics: a genuine and durable realignment of the electorate. While that term is based on art as…
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It’s almost a week after Election Day, yet little has changed since the rush of called races on that first night. The little bit of progress since has been a trickle. Still, few races remain to be called – just one in the Senate and 18 in the House – and the results paint a…
Republicans clearly came out on top in this election, but there were some Democratic winners as well. Though he wasn’t officially running for anything, California Governor Gavin Newsom might be one of the biggest. Newsom set to work meticulously positioning himself as the future youthful face of the progressive Democratic establishment well before President Joe…
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Natural prevention faces off against pharmaceutical cures. The USDA is revising its nutrition guidelines. Critics of past federal guidelines, which favored high carbohydrate diets and were compromised by industrial food producers, are closely scrutinizing the new regulations because they advocate “reducing focus on chronic disease risk reduction” and more on “improving the lifespan.” This oxymoronic…
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The recriminations and finger-pointing by those on the progressive left began shortly after Georgia and North Carolina showed durable and ultimately irreversible leads for Donald Trump. And when the “blue wall” states began falling like dominoes, and Trump was on his way to a resounding victory in the Electoral College and becoming the first Republican…
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Between the blizzard of polls, pundits, and partisanship, most of the attention paid to the 2024 presidential election is understandably based on voters’ assessments of the relative merits of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. And while that process, however tortured it may be, provides a framework for the electorate to scrutinize this election’s diametrically opposed…
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