Electioneering refers to efforts aimed at influencing how individuals vote, particularly when those efforts occur at or near the time and place of voting. While political advocacy is an essential feature of democratic life, electioneering becomes problematic when it intrudes upon the voting process itself. In contemporary legal and civic discussions, electioneering commonly includes: The…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – USAID Funding
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) occupies a curious place in American public life. It is rarely discussed in everyday political conversation, seldom appears in campaign debates, and is often described in vague terms such as “foreign aid,” “humanitarian assistance,” or “development work.” Yet USAID controls tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, operates…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Religious Liberty
Religious liberty is not a side issue in American life. It is one of the load-bearing pillars of the constitutional order, and when it weakens, the entire structure of a free society begins to creak. The Founders did not treat religious freedom as a hobby right or a private eccentricity. They treated it as a…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Surrogacy and In Vitro Fertilization
Surrogacy and in vitro fertilization (IVF) are often discussed as niche medical or personal issues—matters best left to doctors, infertile couples, and private contracts. That framing is misleading. These practices now sit squarely at the intersection of law, economics, technology, ethics, and public policy. They raise foundational questions about how American society understands human life,…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – China Foreign Policy
American foreign policy toward China is no longer an abstract concern reserved for diplomats, think tanks, or defense analysts. It has become a kitchen-table issue that affects jobs, prices, national security, religious liberty, and America’s long-term survival as a free and sovereign nation. For this reason alone, China policy deserves careful attention from American voters.…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: The Ukraine – Russia Conflict
The Ukraine–Russia war did not suddenly appear in February 2022, even though that date marks Russia’s full-scale invasion. The conflict is the culmination of decades of unresolved geopolitical tensions following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. When the USSR dissolved, Ukraine emerged as an independent nation but inherited a complicated legacy: deep cultural…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – University Activism
American universities have long been viewed as places of learning, debate, and intellectual formation. For much of the nation’s history, higher education was understood as a training ground for future leaders—men and women shaped not only by technical knowledge but by habits of reasoned argument, civic responsibility, and respect for pluralism. Over the last decade,…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Gay Adoption and Foster Parenting
Few social issues expose the fault lines of modern America as clearly as gay adoption and foster parenting. What at first glance appears to be a narrow question about family structure quickly expands into debates over human nature, children’s rights, the role of government, religious liberty, and the meaning of equality itself. For this reason,…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: K-12 Public Education
Public education is not a narrow policy dispute. It sits at the crossroads of culture, economics, parental authority, national cohesion, and the future moral imagination of the country. Few institutions touch more Americans more directly or more persistently than the public school system. Over fifty million children attend public K–12 schools each year, and nearly…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation – Abortion
Abortion is not a peripheral policy dispute. It is one of the most morally serious, socially consequential, and politically divisive issues in American life. Unlike debates over tax rates, regulatory policy, or even foreign affairs, abortion directly concerns the deliberate ending of developing human life. For this reason alone, it commands sustained attention from voters…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Gay Marriage
The question of gay marriage occupies a unique and enduring place in modern American political life because it is not merely a policy dispute. It is a disagreement about the nature of marriage itself, the role of the state in redefining long-standing social institutions, and the moral framework that undergirds law, family, and civil society.…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Energy Policy
Energy policy is not an abstract debate reserved for economists, environmental activists, or politicians in Washington. It reaches directly into the daily life of every American household. Energy determines the price of gasoline at the pump, the cost of heating a home in winter, the reliability of the electrical grid during summer heat waves, the…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Policing and Racism Claims
Policing is one of those public issues that touches ordinary Americans far more directly than abstract debates in Washington. Unlike foreign policy or monetary theory, policing is experienced at street level—when a family calls 911, when a business owner locks up at night, when parents decide whether their children can safely walk home from school.…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: The Second Amendment
The Second Amendment is not a niche or technical policy question. It is one of the most emotionally charged, philosophically revealing, and politically consequential issues in American public life. Few topics more clearly expose the differences between how Americans understand liberty, government authority, public safety, and human nature itself. For voters, the Second Amendment functions…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Crime and Punishment
Crime and punishment sit near the foundation of any functioning civilization. Long before debates over taxation, healthcare, or environmental policy arise, a society must answer a basic question: Will law-abiding citizens be protected, and will wrongdoing be punished fairly and consistently? If the answer is unclear or evasive, everything else begins to wobble. For American…
Critical Issues Dividing the Party and the Nation: Israel Foreign Policy
American foreign policy toward Israel is not an abstract, distant concern reserved for diplomats and academics. It is a concrete issue that touches U.S. national security, economic stability, energy markets, counterterrorism, constitutional governance, and the moral credibility of American leadership abroad. For voters attempting to weigh party platforms seriously, Israel functions as a kind of…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Civil Rights
Few political phrases carry as much moral weight in American public life as civil rights. It is a term that evokes the nation’s highest ideals—liberty, equality before the law, and protection from unjust government power. Because of this moral weight, civil rights has become one of the most contested and misused concepts in modern political…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Cannabis Legalization
Cannabis legalization has moved from the political margins to the center of American public debate in little more than two decades. What was once treated almost exclusively as a criminal justice matter is now discussed in terms of personal liberty, public health, state revenue, social equity, and federalism. Today, marijuana policy affects tens of millions…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Election Integrity
Election integrity is not a fringe concern, nor is it a recent invention of partisan politics. It sits at the foundation of a constitutional republic. If citizens cannot trust that elections are conducted honestly, transparently, and according to the law, then every downstream political outcome becomes suspect. Laws may still be enforced, courts may still…
Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Free Speech
Free speech is not a fashionable abstraction or a luxury for polite societies. It is a structural necessity for a constitutional republic. The First Amendment’s protection of speech, press, religion, assembly, and petition is not an ornament added for decoration; it is the load-bearing wall that allows every other liberty to stand. At its core,…
Critical Issues Dividing The Parties and the Nation: Immigration and the Border
Immigration and border policy is one of the most persistent, polarizing, and consequential issues in contemporary American politics. It sits at the intersection of national security, economic opportunity, humanitarian concern, rule of law, and national identity. For many voters, it drives electoral choices, affects local public services, and stokes powerful cultural emotions. Yet despite its…
The Great Political Shape-Shift: How Progressivism Rewired the American Parties
Most Americans have heard the phrase “the parties switched.” Yet few can explain what that means, when it happened, or how it unfolded. The truth is more complex than the slogans of modern politics. The Democratic and Republican parties did not swap identities overnight; they evolved over nearly two centuries through a combination of moral…
Lindy Li and the Fracturing of the Democrat Party
In recent years, cracks have begun to show in the carefully constructed facade of Democratic Party unity. While many of these tensions were visible to political insiders, they remained obscured from the public eye—until now. Lindy Li, a prominent former Democratic fundraiser and party official, has stepped into the spotlight to expose what she characterizes…
“Jim Crow” and Semantic Warfare of the Left
What is “Jim Crow” and why do leftist Democrats constantly use this phrase in semantic warfare? The phrase Jim Crow evokes one of the darkest and most oppressive chapters in American history. It refers not to a single law or policy but to a broad and pervasive system of legalized segregation, discrimination, and racial humiliation…
Can a Biblically Faithful Christian Vote for the Democrat Party?
In an age where political choices increasingly reflect moral convictions, Christians face a vital question: Can a biblically faithful follower of Christ in good conscience vote for the Democrat Party? The answer, grounded in Scripture, moral clarity, and the sanctity of human life, is no. This is not a matter of partisan loyalty, but of…
What Democrats Mean by “Democracy” — and Why It’s Not What Republicans Mean
By now, most Americans have heard Democrats warning that “democracy is under attack” or “we must save our democracy.” These phrases are repeated in speeches, headlines, campaign ads, and social media. President Joe Biden, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and countless left-leaning commentators say that former President Donald Trump and the…
The Party Switch Myth – An Attempt to Hide the Racist History of the Democrat Party
For over a century after the Civil War, the American South was the stronghold of the Democratic Party. From Reconstruction until the latter half of the 20th century, Southern states voted almost exclusively for Democrats at both the state and federal level. Yet today, these same states are firmly Republican. This realignment was not a…
The Democrat Party and Their War on Young Men – How Progressives Seek the Votes of Those They Despise
The Democrat Party has announced a $20 million campaign initiative targeting young men between the ages of 18 and 30. This comes as recent polling data shows growing disillusionment among young men—particularly white, straight, Christian men—with progressive policies, identity politics, and cultural narratives that label them as oppressors by default. The irony is impossible to…
Understanding the Republican and Democratic National Party Platforms
In the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. elections, the Republican and Democratic parties articulated their visions for the nation’s future through their respective platforms. These documents not only outline policy positions but also reflect the underlying philosophies and worldviews that guide each party. This analysis aims to provide a comparative overview of both platforms, highlighting…
The Ruling Class Unmasked: Who are the Global Elite and the Deep State—and How Do They Steer Nations?
In today’s world, democratic republics exist on paper, but behind the scenes, unelected and often unaccountable power structures determine much of what passes for “governance.” These forces—commonly referred to as the elite and the deep state—wield immense influence over national policy, cultural norms, and global agendas. This blog post identifies who they are, where they…
Biden’s Ideological Colonization – Exporting Progressivism (Wokeness) through Foreign Aid
One of the bitterest ironies in American foreign policy in recent years was that the very voices who most loudly decried the evils of Western colonialism became its most aggressive modern practitioners—albeit in a new form. During the Biden administration, the United States increasingly weaponized foreign aid as a tool to promote progressive ideological agendas…
Comparing Indiana’s Republican and Democratic Party Platforms: a Call to Vote Your Values
As Indiana looks ahead to the 2026 midterm elections, now is the time for Hoosiers to consider what really matters when they step into the voting booth. With so much noise in modern politics—personality contests, media spin, family traditions, and regional loyalties—it can be easy to forget that what truly defines our vote is not…
Ten Indictments Against Democrat Leadership – A Call for National Repentance and Political Reform
Goodbye, Joe Biden, and good riddance. The presidency of Joe Biden may go down as one of the most damaging in modern American history—not simply due to policy blunders or ideological excesses, but because it served as a grotesque reflection of the broader decay within Democrat leadership. The damage wrought by Biden and his party…
Predictions for a Democrat Controlled America
Leftist news agencies continue their propaganda efforts to deceive the American public. Dire predictions of a Trumpian totalitarian government by leftist news agencies are used to instill fear in the populace. Christian nationalist is the new boogey man of the left. The label is used by leftist legacy media to vilify and shame biblical Christians…
Do Democrats Value Democracy and Freedom?
The Biden administration and Democrat leadership claim American democracy is endangered by MAGA Republicans, the villains of the leftist narrative. Does the Biden administration and Democrat leadership love freedom, and are Republicans the real danger to democracy? I don’t think so. The Democrat party is the real danger. Totalitarians of the past, including Joseph Goebbels…
Why No Christian Should Ever Vote for Democrat Candidates
These are some reasons that no Christian should ever vote for Democrat candidates. Conservatives, vote for candidates reflecting conservative values. Unfortunately, school board elections in some states are non-partisan. This makes it difficult. Ask county Republican chairs beforehand for recommendations on solid conservative candidate choices. Robert Sparkman rob@christiannewsjunkie.com This post is a more detailed version…