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How the Federal Reserve Works and Why Conservatives Are Skeptical

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What the Federal Reserve Does The Federal Reserve is the central banking system of the United States, established by Congress in 1913. Its dual mandate, established by law, is to pursue maximum employment and stable prices (meaning low inflation). It pursues these goals primarily through monetary policy: setting the federal funds rate (the interest rate […]

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What Did the Supreme Court Decide in 2025-2026? Key Rulings Conservatives Need to Know

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The Court’s Conservative Majority in Its Current Phase The Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority has now been in place for several terms. Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a leading conservative constitutional scholar, appeared on Breaking Battlegrounds Episode 229 to analyze how the conservative majority is using its jurisprudential authority. His framework:

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What Is Ranked Choice Voting and Why Do Conservatives Oppose It?

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What Ranked Choice Voting Is Ranked choice voting (RCV), also called instant-runoff voting, allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference (1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice) rather than selecting a single candidate. When no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the candidate with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and those voters’

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What Is School Choice and How Does It Work in Practice?

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What School Choice Is School choice is the policy framework that allows public education funding to follow the student rather than being assigned automatically to a government-run school based on geographic attendance zones. The core conservative argument: parents, not government bureaucracies, should determine what educational environment best serves their children. Public funding should support that

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Conservative Immigration Reform: What Does the Policy Actually Propose?

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The Three Pillars of Conservative Immigration Reform Conservative immigration reform proposals in 2026 focus on three distinct but related areas. The first is restructuring legal immigration pathways away from family-based chain migration and toward merit, skills, and national interest criteria. The second is expanding enforcement authority, both at the border and in the interior, through

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Trump’s Second Term Policy Agenda: What Has Actually Changed in 2026

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Immigration: The Largest Structural Change The most consequential second-term policy shift has been in immigration enforcement. Executive orders signed in the first weeks of the term reversed multiple Biden-era policies on asylum processing, parole programs, and deportation priorities. Former Immigration Judge Art Arthur, who appeared on Breaking Battlegrounds Episode 232, described the changes as the

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What Is the Second Amendment Sanctuary Movement?

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What a Second Amendment Sanctuary Is A Second Amendment sanctuary is a jurisdiction, state, county, or municipality, that has passed a resolution or ordinance declaring that its law enforcement agencies will not enforce firearms laws they consider to be unconstitutional violations of the Second Amendment. The resolutions vary in specificity: some are symbolic declarations, others

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Who Are the 2028 Presidential Contenders Conservatives Should Watch Now

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Why Watch 2028 Now Presidential cycles begin earlier than the media acknowledges. Candidates who are serious about 2028 are making decisions right now: which Senate or gubernatorial races to support, which policy positions to stake out, which donors to cultivate, which early-state organizations to build. By the time the first Iowa caucus approaches in early

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How the Iran War Is Shaping the 2026 Midterm Election

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The Historical Pattern Sustained unpopular military engagements consistently harm the governing party in midterm elections. The 2006 midterms, held amid public exhaustion with the Iraq War, cost Republicans 31 House seats and six Senate seats, enough to flip both chambers to Democrats. The key variables: the duration of the conflict, the clarity of the strategic

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