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What does AI say about the Most Important Election Since Reagan?

What about the Midterm election? It seems that the topic of daily discussion is all about AI and the midterm elections. So, I decided to ask my AI program to do some research and give me its opinion on how this midterm election may turn out. The first time I asked this question I didn’t […]

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Op-Ed: Four Districts, One Clear Choice

Every two years, Idaho voters choose who will represent them in the Legislature. That choice is especially consequential in our state’s most competitive districts. Voters in Moscow, west Boise, Pocatello, and Sun Valley will decide whether to continue on the path of faith, family, and freedom or take a detour toward division, destruction, and socialism. […]

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Op-Ed: Idaho’s Future Depends On Your Vote

We’ve been here before. Less than four weeks before an election that could change the course of our nation’s future, all the talking heads are telling you to give up. It’s over, they say. Democrats will win the House, and probably the Senate too. President Trump will be impeached, and the MAGA agenda is dead. […]

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Idaho Attorney General 2026: Labrador vs. Hickman

Bottom line – The choice is between a proven Republican incumbent with a measurable record and a capable lawyer whose public life has run through progressive causes. Raúl Labrador (R) has recovered roughly $165–190 million for Idaho since 2023, more than quadrupled arrests for internet crimes against children, cleared a 1,400-tip backlog, and defended Idaho’s […]

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Op-Ed: Idaho Republicans Are United Against Prop 1

With just over a month to go until Election Day, Idahoans are getting fired up to vote. Absentee ballots are already in the mail, early voting starts in just two weeks, and voters are preparing to decide the most important questions of the day. Chief among those questions is whether or not Idaho will turn […]

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Defend the Innocent

What is the moral condition of a nation that allows an entire category of its people to be murdered, one by one, without due process? How is that nation affected when, over time, the population loss is 66 million – greater than one-sixth of the country’s current population? Imagine if everywhere you go, one in […]

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Op-Ed: When Republicans Vote, Idaho Wins

Last week, I had the honor of leading Idaho’s delegation to the first-ever Republican Party midterm convention in Dallas, Texas. Speaker after speaker, from President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, told the story of how Republican leadership is […]

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HJR 4, Legislative Authority Over Drugs

In my class, I like to ask students a simple question: what’s the first word in the US Constitution after the Preamble? Most guess wrong. Look it up yourself — it’s “All.” The full sentence: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States.” Not most. Not some, subject […]

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John Livingston

100 Days Left

As we enter the final 100 days before the midterm elections, I find myself both astonished and concerned—not only by how progressive Democrats and Democratic Socialists have shaped the political narrative, but by how effectively they have reshaped the very language through which Americans interpret that narrative. Control of language is control of thought, and […]

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Trump Releases Election Security Papers

How Secure Is Your Vote? Government security testers broke into election networks in hours, not months. The same declassified files that expose the weaknesses also spell out the repairs and there is still time to make them before November. A plain-language briefing built entirely from the records released by the White House Government Transparency Task […]

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Op-Ed: Nine Month Abortion is Too Radical for Idaho

I’m sure you’ve heard that the so-called “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” has qualified for the ballot. That means you, the voters of Idaho, will face a clear choice this November: bring abortion back to Idaho, or maintain our state’s status as a sanctuary for the unborn. Supporters of the initiative, now called Proposition 1, […]

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Op-Ed: Vote No On Prop 1… Again

Well, it’s all but official. Word is that pro-abortion activists found enough signatures to get their radical and deceptive “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” on the November ballot. I’ve never seen such a dishonest title. Abortion is not about freedom, it’s not about privacy, and it’s certainly not about reproduction. Abortion is the deliberate destruction […]

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