Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax on Trump, DSA, Iran War and more...

Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy Available to Discuss Midterms, Trump, DSA, Iran War and More!

Newsmax Founder offers unique views on GOP’s plan to keep Congress, FCC’s media consolidation, AI and much more . . .

BOCA RATON, Fla. — August 24, 2026 — With the 2026 midterm elections entering their decisive final stretch, Chris Ruddy, CEO and founder of Newsmax, is available for television, radio, podcast and print interviews to discuss the rapidly changing political landscape, President Donald Trump, the upcoming elections, the Iran war and big media changes.

Few media executives know the thinking of President Trump and top leaders like Ruddy.

A longtime Trump friend who has known the president for decades, Ruddy can offer insights on the president’s political thinking and how he will battle to keep the House and Senate.

The political environment is increasingly difficult for Republicans. An Emerson College Polling survey released August 20 finds Democrats leading Republicans 51% to 43% among likely voters on the generic congressional ballot.

At the same time, Republicans face the traditional midterm headwinds confronting the party occupying the White House, while Democratic primary participation has surged.

Can Trump and the GOP beat the odds? Ruddy is available to discuss:

·         Why Democrats are leading in the latest polls — and whether those numbers will hold. What is driving this and what the GOP must do between now and Election Day.

·         Trump’s falling approval ratings. Is the president really at a political low point and can Trump reconnect with voters who backed him in 2024?

·         The Iran war, gas prices and the economy. Recent polling shows economic anxiety and the conflict are significant political vulnerabilities. 

·         The rise of the Democratic Socialists of America. The new Emerson poll finds the DSA close to taking over the Democratic party as their candidates win key primaries. 

·         What President Trump is really thinking. Drawing on his long familiarity with Trump Ruddy can offer his assessment of the president’s strategy for 2026 and beyond.

·         What happens if Democrats take the House. Ruddy can discuss how Trump could respond to a Democratic House and the real possibility of impeachment. 

·         The Unending Iran War. Ruddy looks at the ongoing conflict and reveals a surprising prediction of what will happen next. 

NEWSMAX TALKS MEDIA LANDSCAPE

Ruddy can also discuss the dramatic transformation taking place in American media — and why he believes traditional legacy outlets are losing influence as audiences migrate to newer outlets like Newsmax. 

Ruddy is also available to discuss Newsmax’s battle over television ownership and media consolidation, including its objections surrounding Nexstar and the FCC.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has sided with the broadcast TV industry that has long opposed Trump and conservatives to allow them to have massive media consolidation.

ABOUT CHRISTOPHER RUDDY: Christopher Ruddy is the CEO and chairman of Newsmax. He has built Newsmax from a digital news operation into a publicly traded, multiplatform media company spanning cable television, streaming, digital, publishing and social media reaching 50 million Americans regularly. Ruddy has known President Trump and has been a prominent commentator on politics and media.

8-25-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Todd Starnes: Talarico is Prostituting Name of Jesus, Warns Famed Texas Pastor

2. Todd Sheets: "Medicare for All" is a Plan to Get Elected... and Not Much Else

3. Prof. Janice Fiamengo: Lindsay Clancy and the Perennial Innocence of Killer-Mothers

4. Michael Levine: WNBA's Identity Crisis - League is Committing Slow-Motion Suicide

5. Michele Steeb: The Tragic Results of Drug-Tolerant Housing

6. Kenneth Rapoza: We Need Strong Tariff Protection to Support U.S. Commercial Vehicle Production Surge of 2026

7. Daniel Greenfield: White House to Launch Largest Visa Revocation in History

8. Kerry Lutz: What's $40 Trillion Among Friends?


Talarico is Prostituting Name of Jesus, Warns Famed Texas Pastor

By Todd Starnes, Author of THE GOLDEN AGE: How Trump Saved America

Dr. Robert Jeffress, senior pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas, delivered a blistering assessment of Texas politician James Talarico's theology, accusing him of presenting a version of Christianity that is fundamentally at odds with the Bible. Jeffress said Talarico represents a growing strain of progressive Christianity that rejects foundational evangelical teachings while continuing to invoke the name of Jesus Christ. [more...]


"Medicare for All" is a Plan to Get Elected... and Not Much Else

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

So here we are: a young electorate long conditioned by progressives to blame capitalism for everything is now ferrying a series of socialist barnstormers across America. Every bandwagon needs its own rallying cry and, over the past couple of weeks, the one we seem to be hearing over and over again is "Medicare for all" ...which is pretty clever – seniors like Medicare and only a cold-hearted, exploitative capitalist could possibly oppose providing what seems to be a functioning health care program to everyone, right? Even if socialists could confiscate all the billionaires' income, they won’t come close to paying for this program. In fact, they would have to roughly triple taxes for everyone making over $187,000 a year (which includes the billionaires) to cover the cost. [more...]


Lindsay Clancy and the Perennial Innocence of Killer-Mothers

By Prof. Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

Western criminal law has been soft on violent mothers for at least the past 250 years.

The headlines look away from the actual victims in the case: the three helpless children who were strangled to death in early 2023. All the sympathetic emphasis is on their mother, portrayed as a tragic figure allegedly "failed" by others and not morally responsible for her horrific act. As in many cases of mothers who murder their children, Lindsay Clancy has defenders aplenty eager to cry for her and proclaim their solidarity. Some are even willing to say that they have felt as she allegedly felt - eager to dispatch their children. Her grisly act has provoked masses of donations to a GoFundMe account as well as enthusiastic rallies of (mostly) women proclaiming her innocence. [more...]


 

WNBA's Identity Crisis - League is Committing Slow-Motion Suicide

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

The WNBA is committing "slow-motion public-relations suicide" by refusing to answer one of the simplest questions in human history: What is a woman? Former NBA player and human-rights activist Enes Kanter Freedom was removed from Sunday night's Chicago Sky–Indiana Fever game following a heated interaction with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom has become an outspoken participant in the national debate over transgender athletes competing in women's sports. When an organization refuses to define the very people it exists to serve, it has abandoned its mission. The WNBA should establish a transparent, biology-based eligibility policy, enforce civil conduct and stop treating reasonable questions as acts of political aggression. Authenticity is the new credibility. Until the WNBA speaks honestly, every controversy will become another self-inflicted wound. [more...]


The Tragic Results of Drug-Tolerant Housing

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

America's homelessness policy is undergoing a fundamental reset. HUD is trying to move the nation beyond measuring success by housing placement alone and toward recovery and self-sufficiency. Under Housing First, one man was considered a success. Now, he's dead. In 2025, 48% of the homeless who died in NYC were "sheltered." If our definition of success begins/ends with where someone sleeps, we will continue to fail those who need our help most. Housing ≠ human flourishing. Recovery, restoration, and self-sufficiency must be the standard by which we measure/ determine success. [more...]


We Need Strong Tariff Protection to Support U.S. Commercial Vehicle Production Surge of 2026

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

New data showing a sharp increase in Mexican heavy-duty truck production and exports to the United States underscores the importance of maintaining strong tariff protections that encourage commercial vehicle production and investment in the U.S.. Mexican production of heavy-duty trucks and buses climbed 51.8% year-over-year in July, reaching 14,675 units. Exports increased 66.7% to 13,117 vehicles, with more than 90% of that volume destined for the U.S. market. The data demonstrates the powerful role that trade policy plays in determining where future commercial vehicle production and investment occur. [more...]


White House to Launch Largest Visa Revocation in History

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

200,000 visas obtained through fraud targeted.

Beyond the border asylum fraud, there's also a more commonplace form of asylum fraud in which foreigners enter the country on B1 (business) or B2 (tourist) visas and then apply for 'asylum' and never leave. How big is the B1 and B2 visa asylum fraud problem? Big enough that the Trump administration is preparing to pull 200,000 visas fraudulently obtained by asylum applicants. It's being described as the largest visa revocation in history. [more...]


What's $40 Trillion Among Friends?

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

We are told the deficit doesn't matter, the national debt is just a number, and rising interest costs are manageable because America borrows in its own currency. And those people are correct. It doesn't matter today because Treasury auctions still clear, the dollar remains dominant, and the government can always create more dollars. It doesn't matter, until it does. Washington discovered the greatest financial cheat code in history: spend more than you collect, borrow the difference, refinance the old debt, and repeat. [more...]

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

8-18-26 Expert Guests for Your Show

1. Todd Sheets: How to Help America's Youth Who are Miseducated on Socialism

2. Kerry Lutz: The Real Affordability Crisis - Our Government is Unaffordable

3. Judd Dunning: The Radical Stupidity of Modern Antisemitism

4. John Lott: Explaining Away the Record-low Crime Rates Under President Trump

5. Prof. Janice Fiamengo: Bad Choices, Anger, and Mental Illness

6. Michael Levine: Hunter Biden's Open Mic

7. Daniel Greenfield: Pollster Behind Hong Poll Admits Pushing Fake Poll


How to Help America's Youth Who are Miseducated on Socialism

By Todd Sheets, Investment Banker, Economist, Author of 2008: What Really Happened

No one has made more political hay out of our affordability issues than the long-festering but rapidly ascendant socialist wing of the Democrat Party, which has proffered a simple prescription: make everything free! But how do we help America's frustrated and miseducated youth understand what's really going on here? What about promises to pay for all the freebies by taxing the rich? In fact, this is a political lie the Democrats have gotten away with for far too long. With roughly 1/3 of all households already paying no federal income taxes and the top 10% of earners paying roughly 70% of such taxes, we already have one of the most progressive systems in the world. [more...]


The Real Affordability Crisis - Our Government is Unaffordable

By Kerry Lutz, Founder of the Financial Survival Network, Economist

The affordability crisis isn't really a pricing problem... it's a government problem.

Every politician in America now claims to care about "affordability." Housing is unaffordable. Healthcare is unaffordable. College is unaffordable. Insurance is unaffordable. Groceries are unaffordable. Raising a family increasingly feels like running a leveraged buyout with no exit strategy. And Washington's answer is almost always the same: spend more money - another subsidy, another tax credit, another government loan program, another agency, another guarantee, another trillion dollars pumped into an economy already distorted by decades of intervention. Then everybody acts shocked when prices rise again. [more...]


The Radical Stupidity of Modern Antisemitism

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Newsmax Columnist

The stupidity of antisemitism has no merit. It is simply bigotry, one of mankind's oldest, ugliest and most irrational hatreds. There is nothing intellectually interesting about judging a person because he or she is Jewish, just as there is nothing intellectually defensible about judging an entire race, religion or ethnicity by the sins, politics or actions of somebody else who shares that identity. Yet somehow, in supposedly sophisticated America, antisemitism has again acquired an ideological costume that allows people who would never tolerate open racial prejudice against almost anyone else to rationalize their hatred of Jews as politics. [more...]


Explaining Away the Record-low Crime Rates Under President Trump

By John Lott, Foremost Expert on Guns & Crime

Paul Krugman remains one of the left's most influential voices. In his latest column, he argues that President Trump avoids taking credit for the drop in murders because Trump's ultimate goal is cruelty rather than public safety. Krugman contends that Trump's policies have made crime worse than it otherwise would have been. But if Trump's policies truly reflect "cruelty," how should we account for the lives they may have saved – particularly the lives of black Americans, who suffer a disproportionate share of murder victimization? His column illustrates how people on the political left are trying to explain away the truly record-low crime rates under President Trump. [more...]


Bad Choices, Anger, and Mental Illness

By Prof. Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

Disturbed women cannot create a sane movement

Marching in p**sy hats, baring their breasts to save the earth, fighting with ICE agents, declaring themselves "nasty," feminist women today are self-evidently the least contented and most rancorous women in America, preoccupied with victimhood, consumed by the politics of despair, and experiencing higher rates of depression (and corresponding anti-depressant use) than non-feminist women. It is logical to conclude that feminism causes female unhappiness by encouraging ingratitude, paranoia, and reckless rage. [more...]


 

Hunter Biden's Open Mic

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

Why is Hunter Biden suddenly everywhere? After years of guarded silence, former President Joe Biden's son is appearing on podcasts, news programs and digital platforms, discussing everything from addiction and family turmoil to politics, public figures and his father's health. The answer is simple: Hunter Biden is attempting to reclaim ownership of a story that has long been told by prosecutors, politicians, journalists and political opponents. For years, Hunter Biden was treated as a character in everyone else's narrative. [more...]


Pollster Behind Hong Poll Admits Pushing Fake Poll

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

"A short-term social experiment"

Polls were always a debatable proposition, but lately, like everything in politics, they’ve gotten worse. The Dem primary polls promising big wins by Hong and El-Sayed in Wisconsin and Michigan were, as the actual races showed, exercises in voter suppression. Now the company behind at least one of them got caught and is admitting to having put out a fake poll. [more...]

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

8-11-26 Excellent Guests for Your Show

1. John Lott: Socialists' Demands to Abolish Police and Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans

2. Janice Fiamengo: Feminism Cannot be Reformed

3. Michael Levine: 'Vocabulary of Equity' Doesn't Teach Children to Read

4. Kenneth Rapoza: Import Values Fell by Around $6 Billion in June, But Month Was Second Highest Goods Import Surge of 2026

5. Daniel Greenfield: Mamdani's Wife to Travel to Al Qaeda State with NYPD After September 11

6. Michele Steeb: How One Woman Restored Her Life

7. James Hirsen: WNBA Rules Mandate that Enes Freedom and Royce White Be Let In


Socialists' Demands to Abolish Police and Prisons Will Mean More Dead Americans

By John Lott, Foremost Expert on Guns & Crime

...and while Democrats claim that 'black lives matter,' their policies of defunding the police and getting rid of prison means more black people will be victims of violent crime.

What these Democrats ignore is that criminals overwhelmingly prey on people like themselves. About 90% of black homicide victims are killed by other black people, and 70% of black violent crime victims are victimized by a black offender. Abdul El-Sayed, the projected Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, has argued that systemic racism shapes the criminal justice system and has advocated defunding the police and reducing imprisonment. In tweets and interviews in 2020 and 2021, he made comments such as, "I believe that we do need to defund the police," and "The police have become standing armies we deploy against our own people." [more...]


Feminism Cannot be Reformed

By Professor Janice Fiamengo, Author of The Goddess That Failed: Feminism's Unending War against Men, Families, and Civilization Itself

It must be destroyed, root and branch.

Feminism poses a threat to everything good in western culture, perhaps especially to women's capacity to love, reason, and exercise self-restraint. The Goddess That Failed shows why feminism has nothing to do with gender equality. It is a radical ideology that seeks sexual license, unearned economic privileges, and freedom from adult accountability for women. It enforces economic servitude, shame, and legal disempowerment for men. It impugns male goodness while excusing female wrongdoing; even worse, it encourages women to be their worst selves while telling men that they can never be good enough. Feminism thus destroys the very thing it claims to seek - true reciprocity between the sexes. [more...]


 

'Vocabulary of Equity' Doesn't Teach Children to Read

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

California, blessed with extraordinary natural beauty, staggering wealth, and some of the best-known universities on earth, has spent much of the past decade behaving like a civilization determined to squander its inheritance. It is a tragedy not because decline is inevitable, but because it is entirely avoidable. Consider one startling statistic. According to recent education results, a Black fourth-grade student in Mississippi is approximately two and a half times more likely to be proficient in both reading and mathematics than a Black fourth-grade student in the Golden State. Pause and absorb that. [more...]


Import Values Fell by Around $6 Billion in June, But Month Was Second Highest Goods Import Surge of 2026

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

Despite foreign currency gains against the dollar in top trading partners like Mexico, Vietnam and China, import values for goods came in at $309.01 billion. That is the second highest import value of the year following May's $316.86 billion surge, says the Bureau of Economic Analysis. All told, the goods gap for June was $102.10 billion, down from $105.96 billion in May. Import values are much higher than the $82 billion to $86 billion range recorded for much of the year, suggesting both price inflation of key imported commodities and possible spikes in volume of manufactured goods. [more...]


Mamdani's Wife to Travel to Al Qaeda State with NYPD After September 11

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Something has gone very wrong in New York City.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s wife Rama Duwaji is heading to Syria and Lebanon next month – and she’s bringing along cops assigned to the First Couple’s taxpayer-funded NYPD detail, The Post has learned. Duwaji will be jetting to the Middle East for a trip beginning Sept. 20 to the countries on the State Department’s “Do Not Travel” list for Americans because of dangerous conditions, a source said. Duwaji, a 29-year-old Syrian-American artist, has ties to the region and refers to herself as a “Syrian Illustrator” on her website. Her parents are Syrian Muslims originally from Damascus. [more...]


How One Homeless Woman Restored Her Life

By Michele Steeb, Homelessness Expert

Watch Julianna's story - in 2017, Julianna was addicted to meth, trapped in domestic violence, and on the verge of permanently losing custody of her two young sons. Most people had written her off. A recovery and restoration program didn't. Demand that your elected officials - and every homelessness advocacy organization you support - stop settling for housing as the finish line. Restored lives must become the standard by which we measure success and hold our leaders accountable. [more...]


WNBA Rules Mandate that Enes Freedom and Royce White Be Let In

By James Hirsen, NY Times Bestselling Author, International Business Attorney, News Analyst & Cultural Commentator

Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White just threw their hats into the 2027 WNBA Draft. Under the basketball league's own eligibility language, the two former NBA first-round picks are currently identifying as women. Freedom and White's declaration of gender has the WNBA dribbling across the cultural court to schedule an emergency task-force meeting of team presidents and general managers in order to discuss "transgender athlete participation." In a world of logic, reason, and ethics, the league has an obligation to apply its own set of rules consistently. [more...]

Monday, August 10, 2026

United in Hate - The Left's Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas

By Jamie Glazov, Editor of Frontpage Magazine at the David Horowitz Freedom Center

Jamie Glazov holds a PhD in History with a specialty in Russian, U.S., and Canadian foreign policy. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books, Jihadist Psychopath and Barack Obama’s True Legacy, and the host of the web TV show The Glazov Gang. His new book, United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny, Terror, and Hamas, tackles how and why the Left aids and abets those who seek to destroy America.

It confronts two crucial questions: [1] Why does the Left romanticize death cults and authoritarianism? [2] Why does it stand for causes that fundamentally oppose human rights and democracy? United in Hate offers a powerful answer: These groups harbor a shared contempt for Western civilization and a deep-seated urge to dismantle it from within. [more...]

Thursday, August 6, 2026

Fauci's Fifth - A 40-Year Reputation Collapses in One Afternoon, Says America's Leading Media Expert


By
Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

With today's Fauci contempt hearings, we should revisit the reason behind the hearings in the first place. Michael Levine, America's leading media expert called Dr. Anthony Fauci's appearance before Congress "a shocking and embarrassing disaster" that inflicted irreparable damage on a public career spanning more than four decades. "Dr. Fauci did not merely have a difficult afternoon," Levine said. "He presided over the televised demolition of his own credibility." Fauci's repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment transformed what could have been an opportunity for clarification into a spectacle of evasion, Levine argued. His refusal to answer lawmakers' questions created a devastating public impression - regardless of the legal strategy behind it. [more...]

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

8-4-26 Great Guests for Your Show

1. Judd Dunning: The Shadows of Communism, Cultural Marxism, and Socialism That Lie Waiting Beyond Trump

2. Michael Levine: Lock Up the Enablers - Parents Must Face the Consequences, Too

3. Kenneth Rapoza: House Foreign Affairs Committee Ropes in Japan, South Korea as Solution to U.S. Shipbuilding Woes

4. John Lott: America's Murder Problem is Smaller Than it Looks

5. Daniel Greenfield: Bipolar Socialist Immigrant Explains She'll Be Great Governor Because She's a Failed Chef

6. Josh Hammer: Don't Forget How Florida Defeated Fauci-ism and Vindicated Federalism


The Shadows of Communism, Cultural Marxism, and Socialism That Lie Waiting Beyond Trump

By Judd Dunning, Talk Show Host, Newsmax Columnist

We are seeing a new Iron Curtain waiting to fall after President Trump's term if conservatives lose control of this country. We must study history to know the truth. There is no healthy face of communism, which is evil and repressive; and its sister ideology, socialism, carries the same false promise whenever it seeks to replace individual liberty, private ownership and the sovereignty of the citizen with centralized government control. This is not fearmongering. The socialistic, communistic, non-America-first and anti-sovereignty politics we have seen threaten the central principle of conservative populism: that the citizen is the true ruler and owner of the country. [more...]


Lock Up the Enablers - Parents Must Face the Consequences, Too

By Michael Levine, Public Relations Expert, Author of Authentic PR

I thoroughly agree with the 15-year prison sentence handed down to Colin Gray, the father of the Georgia teenager who carried out the deadly 2024 Apalachee High School shooting. This decision was long overdue and a powerful reminder that parental responsibility does not end at the front door. Gray was convicted after giving his son the assault rifle used in the massacre despite multiple warning signs, including the boy's fascination with mass shootings, his disturbing behavior, and prior contact with law enforcement regarding alleged threats. For far too long, America has treated some parents of violent juvenile offenders as innocent bystanders. When overwhelming warning signs are ignored, and a parent provides the very weapon used to commit mass murder, accountability should not stop with the shooter. [more...]


House Foreign Affairs Committee Ropes in Japan, South Korea as Solution to U.S. Shipbuilding Woes

By Kenneth Rapoza, Reporter/Columnist for Coalition for a Prosperous America

The U.S. is the world's No. 1 exporter of liquefied natural gas. It has two new LNG tankers under construction, or under firm order, in the Philadelphia Shipyard. The builder is Hanwha Ocean, a South Korean shipbuilder. No U.S. company has built an LNG tanker since 1980 – that's the Virginia-based General Dynamics built LNG tanker named "Abuja." For this reason, the House Foreign Affairs Committee seems committed to counting on Japan and South Korea to help the U.S. rebuild a shipping industry long lost to Asia a generation ago. [more...]


America's Murder Problem is Smaller Than it Looks

By John Lott, Foremost Expert on Guns & Crime

Does the United States have a higher murder rate than its peer countries? Yes, but new research shows that statistic obscures how murders in the U.S. are extremely concentrated in very tiny areas. Nevertheless, the United States has recently made remarkable progress. Since national recordkeeping began in 1900, the country has never recorded a murder rate this low. The previous record low was approximately 4.5 murders per 100,000 people, and the rate stood at about 5.0 per 100,000 in 2024. [more...]


Bipolar Socialist Immigrant Explains She'll Be Great Governor Because She's a Failed Chef

By Daniel Greenfield, CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center

DSA Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, who had once been institutionalized, is a bipolar socialist immigrant (she makes Graham Platner seem nice and well adjusted) had once tweeted that Thanksgiving should be canceled because it was racist. Hong was sued for $30,000 by Capital One for not making payments on her credit card which she blamed on her failed chef business... so I'm not sure that the natural next step is being governor of Wisconsin. [more...]


Don't Forget How Florida Defeated Fauci-ism and Vindicated Federalism

By Josh Hammer, Syndicated Columnist, Talk Show Host

Thankfully, not every American was equally subjected to Anthony Fauci's (the public health bureaucrat who became the face of America's botched COVID-19 response) overweening, politically expedient and often-changing dictates. We have our Founders to thank for that: Federalism mitigated the burdens of Fauci-ism for the many Americans fortunate enough to live in states whose political leadership defied prevailing COVID-era biomedical despotism. I would know: I moved to Florida in 2021 in no small part due to the way Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) handled COVID-19. DeSantis, alongside Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature, acted in heroic fashion during COVID. [more...]