Changing of the Guard
What to know: It’s official—former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t seek re-election to the seat in Congress she has held for nearly 40 years.
The TPPF take: Pelosi’s brutal partisanship did much to damage our civil discourse.
“Her decision to tear up President Trump’s first State of the Union address when he handed it to her in 2020 marked an awful historic moment,” says TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester. “Pelosi said it made her feel liberated. Democrats frequently call Trump a threat to democracy, but what could have been a bigger threat than that petulant, hateful action symbolizing a rejection of one branch of our government by another?”
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Open Enrollment
What to know: It’s open enrollment time for the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges. Premiums have risen more than 30% for many of the plans.
The TPPF take: There are better health care options available.
“There is a better way,” says TPPF’s Dr. Cliff Porter. “Transparency and direct contracting bypasses the inflated costs and poor healthcare access caused by the middlemen. Direct Primary Care (DPC) options are far better medical care at a fraction of the cost. DPC combined with innovative options like health cost sharing plans are far better medical care, often for less than employee contributions alone.”
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Charlie Warned Us
What to know: In a July interview, the late Charlie Kirk warned that New York City’s Zohran Mamdani was shifting the Democratic Party’s focus toward “grievance-based politics.”
The TPPF take: Kirk was right; and resentment is at the heart of grievance-based politics.
“In America, Mamdani adapts an anti-imperial framework to domestic battles,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Housing becomes a colonial metaphor — the landlord as colonizer, the tenant as the colonized. Policing morphs into occupation, with the NYPD cast as imperial — even Israeli — enforcers. Palestine serves as the ultimate symbol of resistance, unmoored from traditional socialism or theocracy. Islam, in this lens, isn’t about faith but rather a badge of subjugation turned into moral cohesion against the West.”
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