On the evening of March 25, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, experienced what many described as a political “stunner.” In a heavily Republican district — the 36th — Democrats pulled off an unexpected upset in a special state Senate election.

Josh Parsons, the Republican chairman of the Lancaster County Commission, lost by 482 votes to James Malone, the Democratic mayor of East Petersburg. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a reliably partisan Democrat, quickly congratulated Malone and praised the victory as a blow to “the extremism coming from D.C.” There’s little doubt Malone will vote in lockstep with Shapiro’s agenda.

The reality on the ground often looks very different from the national mood captured in polling data.

This result didn’t happen in a swing district. Lancaster County gave Donald Trump a 15-point margin in 2020 and has consistently voted Republican since before the Civil War. Since moving here more than 30 years ago, I’ve watched every state senator and nearly every county official win as a Republican. The same goes for our congressional representation.

Parsons’ predecessor, state Sen. Ryan Aument, regularly defeated Democrats by more than 2 to 1. In last week’s election, Libertarian candidate Zachary Moore claimed 480 votes — most of which likely would have gone to Parsons. But even with those votes, it’s unclear whether Parsons would have pulled off a win. And even if he had, a narrow victory would still fall far short of the GOP’s long-standing dominance in this district.

Democrats won in Lancaster County by mobilizing their strongest voting blocs — including a near-monopoly on college-educated white women and virtually all black women. Their state party also benefited from a flood of money provided by the usual group of culturally radical plutocrats.

Only 29% of registered voters in Lancaster County turned out last Tuesday. But Democrats ensured their supporters showed up.

I’ll be blunt: I find the happy talk on Fox News tiresome — the claims that Democrats are in decline and doomed to lose every major race outside deep-blue states until the end of time. If I were a betting man, I’d back the Democrats in any race where the parties are supposedly even.

Republicans may face another uphill battle in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1. That contest features Susan Crawford, a very progressive district judge from Dane County, against Brad Schimel, a conservative Milwaukee-area judge.

Despite Republican hopes, Crawford’s left-wing record draws major financial support from donors like Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, George Soros, and the usual crowd from Wall Street and Hollywood. So far, Democrats have raised more than double what Schimel has. Crawford has also built an army of volunteer campaigners from her left-wing base.

Many prominent GOP figures remain overly confident about their party’s electoral chances, but they often misread the data. They place too much stock in the Democratic Party’s low national poll numbers, failing to grasp that these figures don’t necessarily predict outcomes in specific races.

Democrats consistently energize their base by championing progressive cultural positions and railing against phony “fascism” and fictitious “Nazis.” This rhetoric motivates activists, who eagerly contribute time and money to causes they view as morally urgent. While outlets like the Washington Examiner lament “the toxicity” of Democratic rhetoric, voters on the left often find this language empowering. Just because conservatives recoil at inflammatory attacks from lawmakers like Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) doesn’t mean their base does.

The Democratic Party may hold just 29% approval nationally, but it maintains powerful institutional support, including public-sector unions and deep-pocketed donors. When government bureaucrats or teachers’ unions believe Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or other fiscal conservatives threaten their funding, they spring into action to protect their interests. These permanent-state allies don’t need high approval ratings — they need motivation, and they have it.

Low polling numbers alone won’t stop Democrats from flipping deeply red districts if they outspend Republicans by large margins and mobilize zealous volunteers. The reality on the ground often looks very different from the national mood captured in polling data.

In my own reliably Republican district, the national unpopularity of Democrats didn’t stop a surprise upset. What should have been a GOP lock turned into a “stunner” — and a warning.

Recent speculation suggests Donald Trump may withdraw from NATO, while few have explored the reasons he might pursue that path.

Yes, abandoning America’s longtime security framework in Europe aligns with promises to cut spending and avoid foreign entanglements — but the motivations run deeper than that.

If the US is moving toward a more transactional foreign policy, then keeping Turkey happy makes sense, especially if it means limiting Russian-Chinese influence in Central Asia.

It’s about restructuring the global order.

The U.S. is pivoting toward a more transparently transactional alliance system, one centered on regional powers that can do the heavy lifting while Washington plays arbiter.

The new security and economic bloc forming before our eyes looks like it will involve Russia, Turkey, and Israel.

These are not natural allies in the traditional sense, but they each serve a role in what is shaping up to be a strategic trade-off:

• Russia gets its Ukraine deal;
• Turkey gets dominance in the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia; and
• Israel secures its energy routes.

Greece, Armenia, and even Ukraine, meanwhile, are looking more and more like sacrificial pawns in this reshuffling.

Trump has never cared for NATO’s obsession with Ukraine, and he’s likely to cut a deal that brings the war with Russia to an end.

The most probable outcome would be a mineral rights agreement where Russia officially consolidates its control over Eastern Ukraine while the United States walks away with access to key resources and a stabilized energy market.

The war-fatigued West will be sold this as a win (“Trump ended the war!”) but in reality, it will be the moment Washington moves past its commitments to Eastern Europe and onto bigger plans.

This wouldn’t just be a settlement on Ukraine. It would also serve as the foundation for a broader U.S.-Russia understanding. Russia’s ultimate goal is to weaken NATO’s grip over its near abroad. If Washington gives signals that it won’t interfere in Armenia, Georgia, or even parts of Eastern Europe, Moscow will have no reason to keep its old hostility toward America.

Recalibrating alliances

Then, we have Turkey. Recent rumors that Trump would shut down a U.S. military base in Greece have yet to come to pass. Still, they reflect the region’s anxiety concerning Trump’s affinity for Turkish President Recep Erdoğan.

Erdoğan has always wanted a freer hand in the Aegean, where Greece controls a massive exclusive economic zone and the most important shipping lanes in the region. If Washington tacitly allows Turkey to pressure Greece, it clears the way for a major shift in power.

At the same time, Israel is tied up in the energy game with Greece through a pipeline linking the two. If Turkey’s aggressive posturing disrupts that project, Israel may find itself needing to recalibrate its alliances.

That’s where we come in. America can broker an arrangement where Israel and Turkey, which have been exchanging fighting words over Palestine for the last year and a half, find common ground, possibly at Greece’s expense.

This isn’t far-fetched. Turkey has been a problem for NATO for years, and yet Washington keeps it close because of its strategic importance.

If the U.S. is moving toward a more transactional foreign policy, then keeping Turkey happy makes sense, especially if it means limiting Russian-Chinese influence in Central Asia.

A geopolitical earthquake

Meanwhile, the West is playing Armenia much like it played Ukraine: dangling EU integration, offering economic deals, and encouraging a break from Russia.

But just like Ukraine, Armenia is expendable. If war breaks out again with Azerbaijan, Armenia will be on its own, isolated from Russia and surrounded by hostile powers.

Here’s the likely scenario: The war starts, and Armenia holds out for a while, but without serious backing, it eventually loses key territory, most importantly the southern region of Syunik.

Then, as with Ukraine, America steps in as the “peacemaker” and negotiates a deal.

The price? Armenia gives up Syunik, allowing Turkey and Azerbaijan to finally complete the Zangezur corridor, uniting the Turkic world from Anatolia to Central Asia.

This would be a geopolitical earthquake. Turkey and Azerbaijan would gain unprecedented control over trade and energy flows, and a new power bloc would emerge stretching across the Caspian.

At first glance, a U.S.-backed Pan-Turanic expansion sounds counterintuitive, but it actually aligns with Washington’s shift toward an interest-based alliance system. A consolidated Turkic bloc led by Turkey, stretching from Anatolia through Azerbaijan and into Central Asia, would serve as a counterbalance to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. It would give the U.S. leverage over key trade routes while keeping both Russia and China in check.

At the same time, this would spell the end for Armenia as we know it. A landlocked state already struggling to maintain relevance would be completely isolated, boxed in by adversaries, and left with little recourse but to accept a diminished future. The EU’s empty promises won’t save Armenia. If anything, they will only push it further into the abyss.

Who wins, who loses?

Winners:

• The U.S. moves beyond NATO into a more flexible alliance structure.
• Russia secures its Ukrainian gains and reduces Western influence near its borders.
• Turkey achieves its long-term goal of regional dominance and direct access to Central Asia.
• Azerbaijan cements its position as the dominant power in the South Caucasus.
• Israel secures its energy interests in a new regional balance.

Losers:

• Ukraine is left with a frozen conflict and a fractured future.
• Greece faces renewed pressure from Turkey over shipping lanes and energy control.
• Armenia loses Syunik and is pushed into permanent isolation.

The bottom line

If Trump follows through on withdrawing from NATO, it won’t be the end of U.S. influence. It will simply be the beginning of a new grand strategy.

The post-1945 world order was built on ideological alliances and the “rules-based order.” The next era will be about raw, transparently strategic interests. America doesn’t need NATO if it can secure influence through regional power deals.

Armenia, Greece, and Ukraine are all at risk of being left behind in this transformation. The West no longer fights for weak states unless it directly benefits from doing so. The game is changing, and the players who don’t recognize the shift will be the ones who suffer the most.

America may be back on course toward normalcy after President Trump’s victory, but that’s not stopping the left-wing crazies from acting, well, crazy. If anything, it’s emboldened them.

Most recently, a conservative student at a Texas university was allegedly assaulted by one of these left-wing crazies — a transgender student who used a bike lock as a weapon. The incident was caught on video by the victim, Turning Point USA chapter President Paige Neumann.

The footage shows 20-year-old Liam Thanh Nguyen — who identifies as “Alyssa” — grabbing his bike before swinging a bike lock at Neumann. Nguyen was arrested and booked into Collin County Jail the same day.

“Timmy Tam the man decided to take a bike lock and assault somebody,” Alex Stein of “Prime Time with Alex Stein” comments. Stein’s booth at the campus was also reported to be damaged in the incident.

“I hate to just lump them and overgeneralize them, but when it comes to school shootings, when it comes to a lot of issues in sports, these trans people are very violent,” he continues.

“I don’t know enough to determine if all of the drug treatments that they do and hormone treatments they do contribute to that,” President of the Conservative Caucus Jim Pfaff responds.

“But what I do know is one of the arguments for accepting this lifestyle is, ‘Oh, well, there’s going to be lower suicide,’ and suicide rates are going up like crazy,” he continues. “So there’s an emotional, psychological component in this, and so it seems obvious that it would come out in anger like that.”

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Democrats just scored a shocking win in Lancaster, Pennsylvania’s state Senate special election. This is a seat in a district that President Trump carried by 15 points in November. A deep-red district. A “safe” seat. And yet we lost.

Let me say something few in politics have the courage to admit: I got this one wrong.

We cannot afford to sit out the mail-in game and hope for a red wave to appear by magic on Election Day.

I want to make sure every patriot understands exactly what happened — and what it means for the future of freedom in Pennsylvania and across the country.

Citizens Alliance offered to activate the PA CHASE program to protect the 36th Senate District seat. We were prepared to mobilize ballot chasers, execute our mail-in voting strategy, and ensure that Republican turnout matched the intensity of the left. But we were told it wouldn’t be necessary. GOP insiders said the special election would be “a cakewalk.” Consultants assured us that the Republican candidate would cruise to victory by double digits.

They were wrong. And I was wrong to believe them.

Let’s be very clear about why this happened. The Democrats crushed us in mail-in voting.

Democrat mail-in votes totaled 8,869, while Republican mail-in votes lagged at 3,547.

That means that the GOP candidate earned just 28.5% of the mail-in vote.

Our internal modeling for Pennsylvania has been consistent and accurate: To win statewide or in swing districts, Republicans must hit 33% of the mail-in vote. In 2024, President Trump got 34.5% of the mail-in vote, thanks in part to our PA CHASE efforts. But in this race, we came up short.

The proof is right in front of us. The rules in Pennsylvania give Democrats a 50-day head start on voting. They use every one of those days to chase ballots, engage low-propensity voters, and dominate the mail-in process. Republicans have been asleep at the wheel.

Do I like mail-in voting? No. I believe in one day of voting with ID. But that’s not the system we have. And until it changes, we must compete under the rules in place.

We cannot afford to sit out the mail-in game and hope for a red wave to appear by magic on Election Day. That’s a losing strategy, and the Lancaster loss is proof. Democrats are building momentum, infrastructure, and habits that will carry them through every cycle unless we match them with precision and resolve.

The good news? We know how to fix it.

We officially relaunched the PA CHASE program for 2025. Our mission is clear: Knock on 500,000 doors every year and deliver victories at every level of government. We’ve built the data models. We’ve trained the teams. We’ve proven it works.

But we need more patriots to step up.

We can’t let complacency cost us any more seats.

Let Lancaster County serve as a wake-up call. If Republicans don’t get serious about mail-in voting, we will keep losing seats that should be safely in our column. We will keep watching the Democrats run laps around us while we pretend it’s still 2004.

I’ll take the hit for this one. I should have pushed harder. I should have raised the funds and targeted this critical special election despite the naysayers. That won’t happen again.

The path forward is clear. Fight fire with fire. Chase every ballot. Win.

Three teen sisters in Texas are accused of trying to stab their mother to death because she turned off the Wi-Fi, according to authorities.

Deputies and detectives with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office responded on Sunday night to a “disturbance” at a residence in the Barkers Branch neighborhood, a suburb outside Houston, Texas.

“They’ve always been known for trouble in this neighborhood, and our neighbors tell us the same thing.”

Officers found a mother who had allegedly been assaulted by her three teen children, ages 14, 15, and 16.

“The three siblings allegedly coordinated a plan to try and kill the mother,” Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a statement. “Because the mother turned off the Wi-Fi, all three grabbed kitchen knives and chased her throughout the house and into the street, attempting to stab her.”

Police said one of the three girls threw a brick at the 39-year-old mother and hit the adult female in the ankle, according to ABC News.

During the melee, the 70-year-old grandmother of the children was reportedly assaulted and knocked to the ground while she was attempting to protect the alleged victim.

Thankfully, the mother and grandmother did not suffer any serious injuries, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.

Meanwhile, the three female siblings were arrested. The three teen sisters were charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. All three teens were booked in the Harris County Juvenile Detention Center. All three of the suspects were not named because they are all underage.

An anonymous neighbor told KRIV-TV that the family is “known” for disturbances.

“They’ve always been known for trouble in this neighborhood, and our neighbors tell us the same thing,” the neighbor said.

“It’s always cops around that house,” the neighbor alleged.

The unnamed neighbor said the incident is “so crazy.” The neighbor described the family as “unstable” and added that it is “very sad for them.”

You can watch a KRIV-TV newscast about the three siblings attempting to stab their mother with kitchen knives and the interview with the neighbor here.

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The left’s long march through the institutions was a resounding success. Numerous businesses, churches, libraries, law enforcement agencies, schools, and other organizations have for decades served as incubators for radical activists and amplifiers for pernicious ideologies.

Leftist marchers are, however, now being routed.

Conservatives and other normalcy advocates have in recent years undertaken a reconquest, enjoying success with certain academic institutions such as the New College of Florida as well as major businesses including Walmart, Harley-Davidson, and John Deere.

President Donald Trump — who has taken an axe to DEI, critical race theory, and gender ideology in the federal government and in federally funded organizations — continued his D.C.-focused purge of radicalism on Thursday, this time taking aim at the nation’s premier museums.

Trump intends to rid the Smithsonian Institution, its 21 museums and 14 education and research centers, and the National Zoo of radical leftist programs, policies, and installations.

In an executive order titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” the president noted, “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”

‘Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination.’

“This revisionist movement seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States by casting its founding principles and historical milestones in a negative light,” continued Trump. “Under this historical revision, our Nation’s unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness is reconstructed as inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.”

Trump slammed the Biden administration for advancing this “corrosive ideology” and cited the following as examples of the anti-American propaganda at issue.

• The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s exhibit “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” which represents that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used
  race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and
  disenfranchisement.”
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s assertions that the nuclear family, rugged individualism, self-reliance, prioritization of work over play, emphasis on rational linear thinking, punctuality, decisiveness, and a future-oriented outlook are “aspects and assumptions of whiteness and white culture in the United States.”
• The “forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum plans on celebrating the exploits of male athletes participating in women’s sports.”

The Smithsonian also enraged conservatives in recent years with the National Museum of American History’s Hispanic exhibit portraying religion and history through a Marxist lens and the Smithsonian Institution’s 2020 “Girlhood” exhibit featuring the racist founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, and a medical transvestite.

Trump directed Vice President JD Vance to work with senior staffers to “remove improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

Trump also tasked Vance and Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to work with congressional lawmakers to ensure that Congress avoids bankrolling exhibits or programs at the Smithsonian Institution that “degrade shared American values, divide Americans based on race, or promote programs or ideologies inconsistent with Federal law and policy.”

Cognizant and critical of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum’s initiative to feature male cross-dressers in future exhibits, Trump also insisted that the museum does “not recognize men as women in any respect.”

“Museums in our Nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn — not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” said Trump’s order.

In addition to flushing leftist radicalism out of the Smithsonian museums, Trump — whose administration has been reverting the names of federal lands and military bases to what they were before Joe Biden took office — set his sights on a restoration of that which the iconoclasts of yesteryear chose to eliminate from the public consciousness.

Radicals both inside and outside government committed to a campaign of destruction and deracination in the wake of George Floyd’s death in 2020, digging up graves, toppling statues, renaming animals, melting down busts, and knocking out church windows.

Trump directed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to figure out whether public monuments, memorials, statues, or other properties within the Interior Department’s jurisdiction were removed or changed during this radical campaign “to perpetuate a false reconstruction of American history, inappropriately minimize the value of certain historical events or figures, or include any other improper partisan ideology.”

The president demanded further the reinstatement of pre-existing monuments that were removed.

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Earlier this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) kicked off a “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go from Here” tour targeting areas with Republican influence to rally progressive support. The tour is yet another anti-Trump movement designed to villainize President Trump, Elon Musk, and every GOP policy they spearhead.

Since AOC is so keen on visiting red states, Mark Levin invited her onto his show for a debate. It’s a perfect opportunity if her goal is to reach into corners of conservative influence.

“I said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a national town hall meeting here three hours a day, five days a week. We reach into every single one of those Republican districts and yours — Democrat districts. Come on for an hour,”’ he says.

After multiple calls and emails to her office, he “heard nothing.” He’s also reached out to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), and even some RINOs. None of them will respond to his invitations.

So when people ask him, “Why don’t you ever have one of these big Democrats on?” it’s because “they won’t come.”

According to Stephen A. Smith, a friend of Levin’s, “nobody wants to debate [him].”

But the invitation remains open.

“I’ll debate any of them on any of these platforms for an entire hour,” says Levin.

But so far, none of these Dems or RINOS will risk being humiliated by the Great One. Can you blame them?

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In a disturbing news story, a former female teacher from Indiana is facing several child molestation charges after being accused of forcing multiple teenage boys into having group sex with her.

Some of the victims were as young as 13.

31-year-old Brittany Fortinberry is facing 24 more charges after five more alleged victims have come forward.

One victim claimed Fortinberry allegedly spent $600 on a group of teens before forcing them to wear the famous mask from the movie “Scream,” and having sex with them. The victims also claimed Fortinberry threatened suicide if they were to tell anyone.

But it doesn’t stop there, as Fortinberry was also allegedly paying teen boys between $100 and $800 for photos of their genitals, while also sending some teens nude and explicit videos on Snapchat and on an app called “Session.”

According to one victim, Fortinberry allegedly coaxed the boys who didn’t want to participate into it by saying “just let it happen.”

Even more concerning, a parent of one of the victims reportedly told the police that Fortinberry’s husband was well aware of what was going on — and threatened to “slaughter” the teenager in front of her if he were to come forward.

“I mean, I can’t imagine,” Dave Landau says on “Normal World.” “Like why the ‘Scream’ masks?”

“I just want to know how you even get to that point in a relationship with a teacher,” guest Deric Cahill says, adding, “How do you crack the door open to d**k picks?”

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Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) says the idea of males participating in female sports is a distraction and was an election issue that “allowed” Americans to be “divided.”

Speaking with Errin Haines, editor at large for outlet the 19th, Crockett talked about “getting back to basics” and focusing on what is impacting the populace while ignoring distractions.

The first issue Crockett brought up was why there was so much focus on transgender athletes during the 2024 election cycle: “What are we doing?!” Crockett asked.

“In this election, we allowed ourselves to be divided. We allowed them to distract us, and we allowed them to talk about the trans folk,” the Democrat began. “According to them, the trans kids, they want to play sports. That is the biggest issue that we’ve had. Since when? Since when?! Find the little trans child that is ruining your life. I mean, I’m just like, what are we doing?! Like, what are we doing?!”

Interestingly, the interview with Crockett was recorded just days before several international stories broke regarding transgender athletes, in addition to the plethora of stories that led up to, and continued through, election season.

A former NCAA hurdler recently spoke out about her championships being taken by a male athlete and asked for the results of her races against the male to be overturned. Days later, a high school male won two gold medals in girls’ track and field in Portland, Oregon, for the second straight year. This prompted a federal investigation from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.

At the same time, World Athletics announced it would begin mandatory gender testing for female athletes in order to protect the integrity of women’s sports.

Crockett, and Democrats as a whole, seemingly ignoring this large wedge issue has massively benefited Republicans; polling has showed an increasing swing across political lines in favor of protecting women’s spaces.

A New York Times/Ipsos survey of 2,128 people showed that 79% of respondents believed males who identify as female should not be allowed to participate in women’s sports. This included over 1,000 Democrats who agreed at a rate of 67%.

A national exit poll from the Concerned Women for America found 70% of moderate voters saw the issue as important to them, as well.

“Truth matters. Men aren’t women,” Jennifer Sey, CEO of XX-XY Athletics, told Blaze News. “This is bigger than trans-identified men playing women’s sports. We’re defending truth and women’s right to fairness and privacy.”

‘Undocumented folk contribute billions …’

Crockett’s diatribe continued by downplaying the issue of illegal immigrants lowering wages and not paying taxes.

The congresswoman justified illegal labor by rhetorically asking the audience, “How many of you are raising kids to go and work on the farms?”

She then asked, “How many of you are looking to send your kids into hospitality after this college education so that they can go and make the beds at the hotels?”

Crockett then claimed illegal immigrants contribute “billions” to tax revenue but do not receive Social Security benefits and therefore are a net benefit to the country.

“They’re not talking about the fact that undocumented folk contribute billions in, I think it was a hundred billion dollars in tax revenue that we got.”

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Long-suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle — who still awaits justice for the Biden administration’s apparent retaliation against him for being a whistleblower — says his Christian faith continues to drive him as he seeks to have his security clearance reinstated and his good name restored after 30 months of hardship.

A week after Empower Oversight sent a
history of his case to the FBI with a request to reconsider the bureau’s revocation of his security clearance, O’Boyle said while he struggles with the painful delays, he uses his experience to talk to people about Jesus Christ and the faith that sustains him and his family.

‘I’ve thought about the biblical accounting of Joseph many times.’

“That’s where I keep leaning more and more, is to try to just speak the truth of Christ,” O’Boyle said in an interview with Blaze News. “And so if that’s the purpose — and I think in a way it already is — then so be it.

“Who cares what happens to me on earth if Christ can win some souls because of a little bit of hardship that I had to face or my family had to face?” O’Boyle said. “That’s worth it in droves.”

30 months and counting

O’Boyle, 38, of Waukesha County, Wis.,
continues to share more of his story of becoming a target of a weaponized FBI and Department of Justice. He just observed the 30-month anniversary of his suspension by the bureau based on probably false charges that he leaked information to Project Veritas. His security clearance was revoked in July 2024.

O’Boyle lost a dream promotion, his income, his home, his medical benefits, his peace of mind, and, ultimately, his unborn child due to miscarriage in March 2024. Such a journey would wilt and defeat many if not most others, but O’Boyle leans hard on his faith and regularly shares why Christ is the answer to it all.

“The Lord is using this for whatever His purposes are, even though we don’t necessarily understand them all the time,” O’Boyle said. “Who knows what the future will hold? This definitely will be a linchpin moment for all of us, and hopefully we can continue to deny self and point to the cross and say, ‘All right, I’m willing, Lord; use me even if it’s difficult.’ And this certainly has been difficult.”

Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle regularly shares his Christian faith when discussing his whistleblower case.Photo by Chris Duzynski for Blaze News

O’Boyle, the co-host with former FBI Special Agent Steve Friend of “The ”
American Radicals Podcast,” shares a favorite scriptural reference on every episode. He has cited the Psalms, Genesis, the Old Testament prophets, and admonitions from St. Paul’s letters. He does similar things when appearing on other media, just as he did before a televised hearing of the House Committee on the Judiciary in May 2023. Faith is the fabric from which O’Boyle is woven.

“I’ve thought about the biblical accounting of Joseph many times during the last 30 months,” he said. “It’s Genesis 50, verse 20.”

‘Who am I to be able to carry the banner of Christ?’

Joseph, the 11th son of Jacob and the firstborn of Rachel, was a favorite of his father as evidenced by a multicolored coat given to him. His envious brothers plotted to kill him but instead took his garment, sold him into slavery, and sent the coat back to Jacob soaked in animal blood. After Jacob’s death, the brothers came to Joseph, now a respected Egyptian official, seeking forgiveness.

And his brethren came to him: and worshipping prostrate on the ground they said: We are thy servants. And he answered them: Fear not: can we resist the will of God? You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people.

O’Boyle said he draws a powerful lesson from Joseph, that God will draw good even from the worst treachery.

“He tells them, ‘What you meant for evil, God meant for good,’” O’Boyle said. “And I rest in that a lot, because most of the time I don’t see the good, I don’t feel the good, I don’t hear about the good.”

O’Boyle said he has heard from people who saw him on social media or on broadcasts talking openly of his faith. That experience has been humbling.

“There have been a small handful of people who have already reached out, who’ve said, ‘I’m in a Bible study now. I can’t believe your faith. I opened my Bible again because of you.’ And I think, ‘Well, that’s not because of me,’” he said.

“That’s the Holy Spirit at work. That’s not Garret O’Boyle doing any of that,” he said. “It’s very humbling because it’s like, why would God bother with somebody like me? Who am I to be able to carry the banner of Christ and try to push that message forward? I’m nobody. And yet he’s put me in this position.”

Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin (left) interviews suspended Special Agent Garret O’Boyle on the April 26, 2024, episode of “The Kyle Seraphin Show.” Both men are FBI whistleblowers.

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O’Boyle, his wife, Heidi, and their four daughters have been on a long, nightmarish path since Sept. 26, 2022, when he walked into an FBI office in Virginia to start a new job. He was instead stripped of his gun and credentials and put on unpaid suspension following legally protected whistleblower disclosures he made to Congress.

The 22-page Empower Oversight letter provides a painfully detailed breakdown of O’Boyle’s case and the retaliation he and his attorneys say was visited upon him for standing up on issues like vaccine mandates, COVID testing with no religious accommodation, tracking the activities of local school board members, targeting pro-life activists as potential terrorists, inflating/padding of domestic terrorism cases, and many other issues. Empower Oversight represents O’Boyle in his case.

“It soon became clear that no one within FBI management or leadership took seriously his good-faith protected disclosures of FBI wrongdoing — much less investigated them, fixed the problems, or punished the wrongdoers,” wrote Empower Oversight founder Jason Foster. “Thus, starting in late 2021, SA O’Boyle began making protected disclosures to Congress concerning the politicization and weaponization of the FBI.”

‘Wow, they really screwed that guy.’

O’Boyle said he thought his case would have been resolved by now with the election of President Donald J. Trump and the confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI director. Patel was deeply familiar with the cases of O’Boyle and other FBI whistleblowers. His foundation helped O’Boyle — and others — with funds for Christmas just before O’Boyle’s FBI salary was cut off.

“I did not think it was going to take this long,” he said. “I didn’t think we were even going to have to submit this letter, to be honest. … I kind of go back and forth between hopeful and despondent, and I would say now I’m just apathetic. I’m not holding my breath on anything. I’m pretty disappointed at this point that there’s been such a lack of action.”

O’Boyle said that before his confirmation, Patel had indicated a desire to bring him and other victims of FBI weaponization back to the bureau.

‘There’s no clarity’

“We thought after Trump got elected that that would bring some clarity, but it hasn’t,” O’Boyle said. “And then we thought once Kash was confirmed, it would bring even more clarity. And it seemed like that’s the direction things we’re headed.

“But there’s no clarity still. We’ve got to get this monkey off our back before we can, one way or the other, before we can try to figure out what to do with the rest of our life.”

Even factoring in his personal bias in the case, O’Boyle said anyone who reads the Empower Oversight letter should come away understanding the injustice of the situation for him and his family.

“I don’t know how you read that and walk away and say, ‘That guy was wrong,’ and not the other way around where, ‘Wow, they really screwed that guy.’”

On March 20, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary,
wrote to Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging action to “right the ship.”

“My office has been told that, in many of these cases, the suspension of their security clearances resulted in immediate, indefinite suspensions without pay while the FBI improperly and intentionally delayed the process for these individuals to contest the adverse action,” Grassley wrote. “This tyrannical government conduct caused significant financial hardship.”

Garret O’Boyle embraces his wife, Heidi, and the youngest of their four daughters at their home in Waukesha County, Wis. O’Boyle said he laments the harm done to his wife and children by the FBI most of all.Photo by Chris Duzynski for Blaze News

O’Boyle said he tries to remain optimistic, but the continuing delays make it difficult to see justice reigning in his case.

“It seems like it’s so close and it seems like it’s such an easy right for them to do that,” he said. “I can almost taste it, like, ‘Okay, here we are at a potential outcome that I used to not even imagine, and now it’s so close,’ and it’s like, ‘Oh, just make it right.’”

The FBI National Press Office told Blaze News that the bureau has no comment on O’Boyle’s case.

Despite the hell the case put him and his family through, O’Boyle says he does not regret his decision to fight to restore his name and his career.

‘That is going to take years to undo.’

“I vividly remember getting walked out of that FBI building, and I remember thinking, ‘I don’t care what it takes. I am going to fight this as long as I have to. Even if it means becoming entirely bankrupt, I’m going to fight this because this is wrong,’” he said. “And thankfully, Heidi agreed and bought in to that. Certainly it has come with struggle for us both, but we have remained consistent in that belief.”

O’Boyle acknowledges that Patel faces a herculean task to reform the FBI after years of political targeting of conservatives who stand up for the rule of law.

“Think of the cultural rot that has occurred at the FBI,” he said. “That’s not going to change in a few weeks because you got a new director and then a few weeks later a new deputy director. That is going to take years to undo.”

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