Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) called it quits and left office on Jan. 5, leaving Georgia’s 14th congressional district up for grabs.

Shawn Harris — a Democratic retired brigadier general who was previously defeated by Greene in a landslide — attempted to take the seat in Tuesday’s free-for-all special election. He was, however, thwarted by Clay Fuller, a hard-nosed Republican who served in the Air National Guard and left his role as district attorney to run for Congress.

‘TOO BIG TO RIG.’

With over 95% of the votes in as of Wednesday morning, Fuller — whom President Donald Trump characterized as an “America First Patriot” in his endorsement last month — had secured 34.9% of the total vote, reported the Associated Press.

Trump’s pick handily outperformed over 10 other Republican contenders, including former Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore, who identified himself on the campaign as “Trump’s #1 Defender for Georgia’s 14th Congressional District.” Moore received 11.6% of the vote.

The other Republican candidates couldn’t crack 5%.

Harris, alternatively, managed to secure 37.3% of the vote.

As neither Harris nor Fuller reached the necessary 50% plus one vote to take the district outright, they are headed to a head-to-head runoff election on April 7 where Trump’s pick won’t have to compete with fellow Republicans.

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Fuller told reporters at his election night watch party, “I would describe this as an outright win.”

“We know that the endorsement from President Trump made a difference in this race, and we’re going to go and win it,” continued the candidate. “I think it’s time that the Republican vote unites and gets a representative to Capitol Hill as soon as possible.”

Trump noted just before midnight, “Congratulations to Clay Fuller, of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, on getting such a high percentage of the vote with 12 Republicans running. We want to make the next vote ‘TOO BIG TO RIG.’ Clay will be a GREAT Congressman — HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!”

Notwithstanding his opponent’s performance in a crowded Republican field, Harris claimed, “This race isn’t over.”

“Momentum is real. The coalition is growing,” continued Harris. “Let’s finish what we started.”

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In the wake of the U.S. strikes on Iran, host Bill Maher welcomed Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to Friday’s episode of “Real Time.” During the panel discussion, the topic turned to the strikes. That’s when Maher seemed to set a trap for the California senator.

Reading from a Department of Justice memorandum opinion on presidential authorization to use military force, Maher began, “The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force […] because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.”

Maher then revealed the source of the quote.

Maher then asked Schiff whether the reasoning was sufficient.

“That’s too vague for you?” Maher asked.

“Totally vague,” Schiff responded, seemingly still thinking this was a quote from the Trump administration

Maher then revealed the source of the quote.

“OK, because that’s from Obama about Libya,” Maher said, catching Schiff off guard after using a trick question.

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The statement referred to the legal justification used by the Obama administration when the U.S. joined NATO military operations in Libya in 2011. However, Schiff didn’t know Maher was quoting Obama but assumed the words came from Trump after the recent attacks on Iran.

When Schiff realized the words weren’t Trump’s, he justified Obama’s words and shifted by discussing another debate during the Obama presidency over potential U.S. military action in Syria.

“Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without authorization. I and many others pushed back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress,” Schiff said.

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The senator argued that Congress must reassert its constitutional authority over decisions to go to war during Trump’s administration but never criticized the statement Obama made.

“We are unquestionably at war now. The founders made an extraordinary decision at the time, which was not to give that power to the president but to give it to the Congress because they were worried, as Hamilton said, that a president would grow too fond of making war,” Schiff said.

Schiff doubled down, warning that presidents could increasingly bypass Congress when authorizing military action.

“After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria, he’s grown too fond of this. And Congress … needs to step up, assert its role, or it is going to be gone for good. And then, any time a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time, will feel free to make war. And that would be hugely dangerous for the country,” Schiff said

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Unless you live in Arizona — one of the few places that skip the ritual — you’re probably feeling it this week.

The curse of daylight saving time.

Even sitting in the shade exposes your body to light far stronger and more natural than indoor lighting. Our bodies need bright days — and dark nights — to stay in rhythm.

That groggy, slightly awful feeling on Monday morning wasn’t in your head. Research has linked the shift to increases in car accidents, workplace injuries, and even heart attacks in the days that follow. No bueno.

But the bigger problem may not be the clock change.

It’s that modern life has pulled us away from the natural rhythm our bodies were designed to follow.

Because the truth is simple: Your body runs on sunlight — not the clock on the wall.

The God-given clock inside you

Nearly every organ in the human body operates on an internal timing system.

This biological cycle — known as circadian rhythm — follows roughly a 24-hour pattern tied to the rising and setting of the sun.

For most of human history, that rhythm governed daily life.

The sun rose.People woke up.The day unfolded in natural light.Night fell, and darkness signaled the body to wind down.

Then electric lights arrived. And screens. And climate-controlled buildings where many of us spend nearly the entire day indoors.

And the signals that once kept our internal clocks synchronized with the natural world faded away.

The result? Many researchers now believe modern humans are living in a constant state of circadian disruption.

And that disruption may affect far more than sleep.

This isn’t new science, by the way (info links coming below). But because the solution is simple, free, and impossible to turn into a pill — and because most physicians receive no training in it — many people have never heard about it.

That is finally starting to change.

The circadian rule

The principle behind circadian health is remarkably simple: The more your daily life aligns with the sun’s natural rhythm, the better your body functions.

The more you fight that rhythm, the more your health eventually pays the price.

This isn’t mystical new age nature worship. It’s biology.

God created your eyes with specialized receptors that detect different wavelengths of light. Those signals travel directly to the brain, triggering hormonal changes that regulate:

Alertness;Sleep;Metabolism;Mood; andImmune function.

Light literally tells your body what time it is.

Which means the kind of light you see — and when you see it — matters more than most people realize.

A simple daily light routine

You don’t need to overhaul your life to benefit from circadian alignment. Start with something simple. (And remember, lose the sunglasses!)

1. Sunrise — the most important light of the day

First morning light offers your body perhaps the most powerful circadian signal.

Sunrise light contains a high concentration of red wavelengths. When this light enters your eyes, those receptors God designed at the back of your retina go to work, signaling to your brain that the day has begun. That signal triggers a cascade of hormonal changes:

Cortisol rises, helping you wake up and feel alert.Your internal clock starts the day’s metabolic rhythm.And about 12 hours later, your body begins preparing to release melatonin — the hormone that helps you fall asleep.

In other words, morning light sets the schedule for the entire day.

Try this: Greet the sun.

Go outside for 15-20 minutes near sunrise (no sunglasses, or any glasses or contacts, if possible).You don’t need to stare at the sun — just let your eyes take in the morning sky (even on cloudy days, the circadian signal is still there).I like to listen to a Bible passage and meditate on the beauty He created around me.

2. The morning UVA window

About an hour after sunrise, another important type of light becomes more prominent — UVA light.

Unlike the stronger UVB light that peaks later in the day, UVA light is gentler but still biologically powerful. Research suggests morning UVA exposure helps:

Support hormone balance;Improve mood and energy (much like good food does);Improve gut microbiome; andPrepare the skin for stronger sunlight later in the day.

Try this: Take a morning sun walk.

Take a 20-to-30-minute walk outdoors roughly an hour after sunrise.Let your eyes and skin soak in the natural light (again, no glasses).

3. The midday vitamin D window

So you’ve been out twice today, once at sunrise and then for a “UVA walk” — and you might be congratulating yourself on getting some vitamin D.

But you actually didn’t get any yet.

The only time your body can naturally produce vitamin D is when your skin absorbs UVB light, which happens midday.

This varies greatly depending on time of year and location — winter offers a far shorter window if any at all, and you get more UVB the closer you are to the equator. Here in the U.S., if you’re not in a southern border state, you may not have any UVB for a few mid-winter weeks.

But midday sunbathing is the only natural way your body can produce vitamin D and all its related metabolites, which are not part of your vitamin D supplement. (It’s a shame modern medicine has so effectively terrorized people from even going outside midday.)

Actual sunbathing, where you minimize clothing and maximize exposure, should be done only after being out in the earlier morning light, which as mentioned primes your skin for the stronger rays.

Note that sunscreen defeats the purpose of this and is not needed, if you start with just a few minutes (less than five) and very gradually increase your daily exposure. When exposure builds gradually, the skin develops what researchers call a “solar callus” (the rest of us call it a tan).

This is how to be sunburn-proof.

Try this: Get direct midday sun.

After a few days of increasing your morning sun time, take your lunch outside for a few days.Spring is a great time to start this because the UV light is more gentle than it will be in summer.Get the MyCircadian or Circadian app to help you know when UVB light is available in your area.

4. Bright daylight throughout the day

Sunlight isn’t just one thing.

It’s a spectrum. A rainbow of different colored light. More red early and late in the day, more blue midday, and every hue in between, all of which send different signals to your body’s internal clock.

Which leads to a surprisingly simple piece of advice: Spend more time outside.

Even sitting in the shade exposes your body to light far stronger and more natural than indoor lighting. Our bodies need bright days — and dark nights — to stay in rhythm.

Be outside as often as you can.

Try this: Take regular sun breaks.

People used to take a smoke break at work — take a sun break.Every time you get up to use the bathroom or grab a drink or whatever, spend an extra 60 seconds to pop outside.Look for ways to take your inside tasks outside.Take meetings and calls outside.Take your laptop outside.Eat meals or snacks outside.Take a book outside.And if you must scroll on your phone — do it outside.

5. Sunset — your body’s evening signal

Just as sunrise tells your body the day is beginning, sunset helps confirm that it’s ending. The warm light of dusk signals the approach of nighttime.

After sunset, however, modern life introduces a problem — bright artificial light.

Screens, LED lighting, and overhead lights emit strong blue wavelengths that can confuse your circadian system.

To your brain, that blue light looks like midday sunlight, which means the body delays melatonin production — making sleep harder.

Try this: Watch the sunset and dim the lights.

Spend 5-10 minutes outside at sunset enjoying God’s original work of art — a new one every night.Consider dining outside during sunset.After sunset, dim indoor lights.Soft lamps and/or incandescent bulbs are better than bright overhead lights.Staring at a fire is better than staring at the TV.Reading a book is better than scrolling on your phone.Bathing by candlelight is better than using harsh bathroom lighting.

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Living by the sun

Making small changes as in the above routine can gradually bring your internal clock back into sync with the natural world.

Long before electric lights, smartphones, and daylight saving time, the sun quietly set the rhythm of human life.

Our bodies never forgot that rhythm.

And the more closely we align with that rhythm, the more we may rediscover something modern life has made easy to forget: God designed us to live by light — spiritually and physically.

Apps to help

The Circadian app or MyCircadian both help you identify what the sun is doing in your precise location so you can optimize when you go outside. D Minder helps you target safe UVB exposure.

Further information

Many voices in the circadian health space argue that our bodies evolved to sync with the sun. But Christians understand that this rhythm reflects design, not accident. Chelsea Blackbird, aka the Christian Nutritionist, often discusses these topics on her podcast.

Circadian health is often linked to the emerging field of “quantum biology.” A few experts worth following include:

Dr. Martin Moore-Ede: “The Light Doctor” is a former professor at Harvard Medical School, and he’s a leading expert on circadian medicine.Sarah Kleiner is the creator of the MyCircadian app recommended above. Lots of information can be found on her website, and she also has a regular podcast with Carrie Bennett, another good source for quantum biology/circadian information.Zaid Dahhaj is author of The Circadian Classroom, a newsletter with a tremendous amount of scientific information that he makes easier to understand.Nikko Kennedy writes about circadian principles as they apply to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum in Brighter Days, Darker Nights.Ryan Brown offers a lot of interesting research-based information, like this article on light’s impact on diabetes. Ryan healed his own autoimmune condition using circadian principles (as did quite a few of the people now sharing this information).Dr. Jack Kruse is a neurosurgeon and health educator. Follow him on Facebook, X, or Instagram. (He recently posted some interesting information on how circadian principles apply to fertility.Dr. Alexis Cowan is a “light biologist” who studies how sunlight shapes human health.And if you like getting your information from easy-to-absorb, beautiful graphics on Instagram, Danielle Hamilton is a great follow.

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Alabama police announced murder charges against the mother of a missing toddler on the birthday of the girl, who would have turned 3 years old.

Adrienne Reid reported the child missing on Feb. 16 from their apartment on Apache Drive, according to a Facebook post from Enterprise police. They said they determined she was lying and arrested her the next day.

‘A 53-day campaign of deceit, lies, manipulation, and destruction of evidence.’

“Through the careful and methodical work of investigators, we have reached the heartbreaking and horrific conclusion that … her mother, her caretaker, the one that should have been there to keep her safe, willfully murdered Genesis and placed her in a duffle bag and discarded her in a dumpster,” Enterprise Police Chief Michael Moore said.

Moore said police believed that the girl had not been since Christmas Day, and they were able to obtain video from a neighbor’s security camera that showed the mother walking toward the garbage dumpster of the complex with a rolling duffel bag at about 11:30 p.m.

The next day, she was seen on video returning to the dumpster with toys and other belongings of her daughter.

The Coffee County Sheriff’s Office is tasked with searching for the girl’s remains at the Coffee County Landfill.

“I need the public to understand that this will not be an easy or fast search,” Coffee County Sheriff Scott Byrd said.

“The subject dumpster where the bag we are looking for was picked up on December 26. It was compacted in the truck that picked up it,” he explained. “It was taken to a distribution facility and compacted again. It was taken on another truck to the landfill where it was processed further with bulldozers and a compacting machine.”

Coffee County District Attorney James Tarbox excoriated the mother in a statement about the case.

“The evidence shows that Adrienne Reid killed her daughter, literally threw her in the trash, and then engaged in a 53-day campaign of deceit, lies, manipulation, and destruction of evidence, before she finally reported her missing on February 16,” he said.

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“Her conduct speaks for itself, and I believe this preliminary decision to seek the death penalty conforms to our community’s beliefs about this case and our shared values about how we value and seek to protect the most innocent among us, our children,” Tarbox concluded.

Moore concluded the press conference by saying his faith provided some solace while confronting the alleged evil perpetrated on an innocent child.

“I believe that Genesis’s earthly body is no longer what defines her, and that she is now in a place far greater than anything this world could offer, surrounded by a love and power beyond our understanding,” he said.

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After months of public back-and-forth, Netflix’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery is dead. Paramount won. The company on February 26 said it had completed its purchase, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said regulators would approve it “pretty quickly.”

Some observers blamed Netflix’s loss on the Trump administration. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) labeled the Paramount deal a “disaster,” and allies implied that administration officials leaned on Netflix to stand down.

Netflix profits when audiences stay home. Theaters, restaurants, and the broader ecosystem built around going out don’t.

That’s revisionist history. Netflix lost for two reasons: Paramount offered more money, and Republicans have grown far less willing to wave through consolidation by mega-firms that already squeeze consumers and tilt the culture war leftward.

Paramount outbid Netflix

Start with the obvious. Netflix offered a little over $27 per share. Paramount offered $31 per share — roughly $111 billion in total value.

Netflix couldn’t match that price. Paramount could. Netflix walked.

That’s math, not corporate intrigue.

Why Washington had concerns

Money explains why Netflix lost. Politics explains why so few people in Washington felt inclined to rescue it.

Carr said Netflix’s bid raised “a lot of concerns.” President Donald Trump signaled skepticism. So did many congressional Republicans. They saw a company that already dominates streaming trying to turn itself into the dominant media conglomerate — and they saw the costs landing on consumers, creators, and competitors.

Consumers would have taken the hit first. As Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) noted during merger hearings, Netflix’s expansion has marched alongside higher prices. Subscribers pay more, then sit through more ads. The company pushes customers toward “cheaper” tiers that still interrupt programming people already bought access to watch.

Filmmakers would have taken the hit next. Director James Cameron warned that the sale would be “disastrous for the theatrical motion picture business.” Netflix profits when audiences stay home. Theaters, restaurants, and the broader ecosystem built around going out don’t.

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Then comes culture. Paramount’s programming spans the spectrum. Nobody confuses it with a conservative company, but nobody defaults to treating it as a progressive messaging machine either. Its catalog ranges from right-coded “Yellowstone” to newer, openly left-wing “Star Trek” entries, with plenty of mainstream fare between.

Netflix plays a different game. Its board includes former Obama administration official Susan Rice. Critics on the right point to its content tilt, including an Oversight Project analysis that found left-leaning programming outnumbered right-leaning programming by a wide margin. Even Netflix’s CEO recently tried to walk back a 2020-era post supporting Black Lives Matter, a retreat that looked less like conviction than belated damage control.

Monopoly defeated

For years, conservatives answered complaints about corporate media with a libertarian shrug: Let the market decide. That posture collapsed once the market stopped functioning like a market. A handful of firms now gatekeep distribution, advertising, and cultural prestige. Consumer choice matters less when one company controls the pipes.

Netflix seemed to miss that shift. It still spoke like the scrappy upstart that crushed Blockbuster, not like the biggest player trying to swallow a legacy studio and reshape the entire ecosystem on its terms.

Netflix will survive. It will keep producing content, and it will keep pushing its worldview in much of that content. It just won’t do it with control over Warner Bros. Discovery — or over the broader media landscape.

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Fifteen years ago, when Glenn Beck was still working at Fox News, he issued a dire warning: “Radicals, Islamists, communists, and socialists will work together against Israel, against capitalism … to overturn stability.”

Are we seeing that prophecy come to fruition today?

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn addresses the recent New York City bombing attempt and connects it to his former prediction.

Last weekend, two men with possible ISIS ties were charged with terrorism-related offenses after allegedly attempting to detonate two improvised explosive devices at a protest outside Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City’s Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. The incident occurred amid clashes between a group protesting the Islamification of New York City and a group of counter-protesters.

“But that’s not the troubling part of the story,” Glenn says. “The most troubling part is what happened afterward. The new mayor of New York condemned the protest itself as hateful and racist, but he avoided acknowledging the ideological context behind the attack on the other side.”

“At the same time, there are reports circulating that the mayor’s own wife had previously liked social media posts celebrating the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel,” he adds.

“Why does any of this matter?” Glenn asks.

Because “what leaders excuse or refuse to confront often becomes what a society learns to tolerate.”

“There is this growing ideological alliance between two movements that have historically had two very different worldviews: radical Marxism and radical Islamism,” Glenn says.

History, he argues, proves time and again that “when movements share the same enemy,” which in this case is “Western civilization” and everything it values, “a temporary alliance” will form between those movements, regardless of how conflicting their core ideologies.

The key word there is “temporary,” he says, as the union only holds so long as the enemy breathes.

Glenn gives the example of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 when Shia religious scholars banded together with “Marxists and communists and secular revolutionaries” — marching “arm-in-arm, hand-in-hand” to “destabilize Iran” and ultimately overthrow the shah.

But “once the Islamists consolidated power under the Ayatollah Khomeini, they turned on their former Marxist allies. The communists were imprisoned; the revolutionaries were purged. They were executed, and they were tortured,” Glenn recounts.

What we’re seeing right now in New York City, Dearborn, Minneapolis, and even parts of Texas (not to mention Great Britain and France) as Muslim radicals and far-left groups coalesce is more “red-green alliances” that will likely end “in one side eating the other,” he warns.

“Ideology matters because history shows that civilizations don’t collapse from a single attack. They collapse when they lose the ability to recognize the attack for what it is. Iran learned that lesson in 1979. Europe is learning it right now. And America is seeing the early warning signs.”

“The solution … is not hatred. … The solution is also not naive or stupid compassion,” Glenn says.

The answer, he says, is to “welcome those who come here to be Americans the right way, and remove those who came here the wrong way, and those especially who have come here to change or harm America.”

This equates to “deporting the individuals who openly support terrorism,” “refusing to tolerate violent ideological movements,” and “having the courage to discuss the problem honestly even when it’s uncomfortable.”

“The most dangerous moment any civilization ever faces is not when the extremists appear, because the extremists have always been here. … The most dangerous moment is when leaders and citizens convince themselves that speaking about the threat is worse than the threat itself,” Glenn says.

“It’s not too late to pull back on the reins, but it is growing late.”

To hear more, watch the video above.

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Many conservatives still treat the fall of Roe v. Wade as a decisive victory. The four years since have looked more like a warning.

States passed more pro-life laws. Abortion numbers still climbed as chemical abortions expanded. Republicans hold Congress and the White House, yet their best legislative win amounted to defunding Planned Parenthood for a single year — while Washington toys with expanding IVF mandates and even hints at becoming more “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment.

When the pro-life movement treats its own argument as too radioactive to say plainly, moderates still aren’t convinced — and the base stops listening.

The biggest losses didn’t come from legislatures. They came from voters.

Across the country, abortion-rights activists have used ballot initiatives to write a “right to abortion” into state constitutions. Once voters approve those amendments, courts use them to bulldoze state pro-life laws. The trend will continue unless the anti-abortion movement rethinks its messaging — fast.

Blue states predictably enshrined abortion rights. Red and purple states did too. Voters in Missouri, Montana, and Arizona backed abortion amendments. Colorado, New York, and Maryland did as well.

In 2024, abortion ballot measures passed in seven states and failed in three. Florida stopped an amendment only because state law requires a 60% supermajority. Nebraska rejected one by 51%. South Dakota defeated its measure with 59%. All three states backed President Donald Trump by larger margins than that.

Another wave of initiatives is coming this year. Nevada voters will decide whether to provide the second affirmative vote needed to add an abortion amendment they approved in 2024. Virginia, where Democrats control state government, will vote on an abortion amendment as well. Idaho voters may consider an abortion statute that lawmakers can later amend or repeal. Arkansas could vote on a measure to make the state constitution easier to amend, which would almost certainly tee up an abortion amendment fight soon after.

The pro-life movement keeps walking into these battles with a losing playbook.

Many pro-life groups center their messaging on women who get abortions rather than the babies murdered by abortion. They assume the issue primarily drives Democratic turnout. They want to “compete” by shifting to softer language about women’s health, hoping to win moderates on neutral ground.

That approach doesn’t persuade moderates, and it often fails to mobilize the pro-life base.

Take Arizona. The pro-life coalition opposing Proposition 139 called itself “It Goes Too Far.” One of its yard signs read: “Protect Women’s Health.” It didn’t even mention abortion.

Arizona voters re-elected Trump with 52% of the vote. They also approved Proposition 139 with nearly 62%. That’s the same margin New York voters gave their own abortion amendment.

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Ohio followed the same pattern. Pro-life groups launched “Protect Women Ohio” to oppose Issue 1, which passed with nearly 57% of the vote in 2023. The messaging leaned on parental rights and transgender issues — as if linking Issue 1 to other debates would broaden the opposition.

Instead, the coalition blurred the point. Issue 1 appeared in an off-year election, one year after Roe fell. Progressive voters turned out. Conservatives stayed home.

Afterward, activists who knocked doors against Issue 1 told the same story: Pro-life voters felt confused. The campaign avoided the central issue, then wondered why the people most likely to vote against abortion never felt compelled to show up.

Abortion amendments raise other policy questions. They touch parental consent, conscience protections, and medical regulation. But the core reason to oppose them remains simple: Abortion murders babies. Pro-life messaging that refuses to say that out loud shouldn’t expect to win.

A blunt moral argument does two things that “women’s health” slogans don’t. It keeps the debate centered on what abortion is. It also activates the voters needed to defeat these measures — voters who will turn out when they understand their ballot could save lives.

Conservatives face a familiar temptation in a culture that punishes conviction: soften the message for short-term gains. Electoral politics requires prudence. It doesn’t require self-censorship. When the pro-life movement treats its own argument as too radioactive to say plainly, moderates still aren’t convinced — and the base stops listening.

If Republicans want to win ballot fights and build lasting cultural renewal, they need to speak with moral clarity. Until they do, they’ll keep losing these amendments — and babies will keep dying because of it.

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