Today the Russian government is rewriting some of the darkest chapters of its Soviet past. The eyewitnesses of Soviet authoritarianism have a different story for us and a message for our era.

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Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, ...

With Hegseth in charge of deploying the military under emergency powers to assistant immigration officials, the US is in danger of creating a Latin American gulag.

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