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We must hang together to save America’s fragile liberty

America has weathered past existential crises by hanging together and fighting. That’s still our job today.

Albin Sadar | March 11, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

America is only a few short months away from celebrating its quarter-of-a-millennial birthday, which is being officially feted as “America 250,” as well as its “Super Centennial.” But can America survive for another fifty years, all the way to its Tri-Centennial Celebration? Even as Trump fights an existential war abroad, there’s one here at home, too.

Without question, the country has had a long and glorious lifespan. However, as the world surely knows, its life has not been without errors when it was navigating rocky roads and dangerous waters, and its survival was iffy, at best. One need only go back 165 years to the Civil War to verify that observation.

Of course, at the moment of our nation’s creation, it experienced multiple “birth pangs.” But the men and women who willingly put their very lives on the line did so despite knowing that the outcome was not guaranteed. The nation could have been stillborn in the earliest days of its fight for survival against the overwhelming might of the British Empire.

Just recently, I was reminded of both the fight for America’s survival during the Civil War years (the nation might not have reached even its Centennial celebration) and its founding conflict, when I took one of my many walks through the famous cemetery in my neighborhood of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is the final resting place of many captains of industry (families such as the Rockefellers and Carnegies), as well as this country’s very first internationally recognized literary giant, Washington Irving.

Within the borders of the expansive cemetery are monuments commemorating both the Civil War and Revolutionary War dead. These landmarks are stark reminders of how fragile a nation’s life can be.

The words carved in stone on the Revolutionary monument remind us:

 

Photo by the author.

1776 - 1783

In Memory

of the

OFFICERS and SOLDIERS

of the

REVOLUTION

who by their valor

sustained the cause of liberty

and independence

on these historic fields.

While we honor the dead, it’s important to remember the raw courage of the living, including those too old to take to the battlefield themselves. When he signed his name to the Declaration of Independence, an act of treason in the eyes of King George III and the British Crown, and therefore a hanging offense, Benjamin Franklin allegedly made this grim observation: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”

That ominous observation recently came to mind when one of Barack Obama’s henchwomen, Susan Rice, laid out the Democrats’ game plan once they regain power. On a recent podcast, she warned that those who “take a knee to Trump” would be getting a reckoning. Rice stated that the Democrats would not be “playing by the old rules” when it came to retribution.

Rice was making it clear: Do not align yourself now with Trump or any of his tens of millions of supporters and followers. Your time is “not going to end well.” We know that’s not an empty promise. Those who ventured to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, not just because they believed that the 2020 election was stolen, but because they knew it was flipped for Biden...well, they saw that the Democrats excel at revenge.

Rice’s promised “lawfare” will once again be redefined, smashing all previous Funk & Wagnalls definitions (Rowan and Martin will be turning over in their graves).

So, what can derail the Democrats’ destructive engine?

Might “hanging together” in these critical days be strongly advised?

Might “patriotism in action” be the solution?

President Trump has made it abundantly clear that two major standards are needed for defining a nation: secure borders and honest elections.

The border is secure. However, the S.A.V.E. America Act is still twisting in the wind.

Within months of the spectacular celebratory events surrounding July 4, 2026, Americans will once again have the sacred opportunity to head to the polls to choose their leaders. The choices this year could not be more stark. The Democrats will be clearly and unabashedly out for revenge.

Two things are now necessary to—again, in Franklin’s words—keep the Republic: Patriots must maintain the pressure on elected officials to pass S.A.V.E., and then they must vote in overwhelming numbers this November. No one can afford to sit this one out.

These actions will uphold the Republican majority in Washington and assure that President Trump’s impressive and powerful agenda continues to stave off America’s “fundamental transformation.”

 

Confidentiality lost! We live in a totally different world today.

 

Whatever Happened to Confidentiality?

A government that can peer into your medical file, your legal records, your spiritual life, and your finances without resistance is not a guardian of rights but rather an overlord. 

Jim Cardoza | March 12, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

In a free society, confidentiality is more than a courtesy; it is a fundamental pillar of trust. Whether in the examining room, the attorney’s office, or the confessional booth, certain relationships have long been protected by a simple principle: what is said in confidence stays in confidence. This was a recognition that certain professional relationships can only properly function when insulated from surveillance and coercion. However, in modern America, these sacred trusts are under relentless attack by government mandates, digital intrusions, and public policies which promote government control at the expense of individual liberty.

Consider the doctor-patient relationship, once understood to be unassailable. Patients could share their most intimate concerns with the confidence that their disclosures would remain private. That allowed doctors to diagnose and treat without fear that their patients would withhold critical information. But today, that trust no longer exists. 

Government reporting mandates now require doctors to report a growing list of health information, sometimes under penalty of law. These electronic health records are often linked to databases accessible by government officials and third-party contractors. In some states, physicians are compelled to even report gun ownership if a patient expresses emotional distress. 

The justification for these intrusions is always the same: public safety, public health, or that vague concept promoted as “the common good.” The pandemic accelerated this trend. Under the guise of COVID-19 contact tracing, vaccination records, and “community safety,” the government gained unprecedented access to personal health data. Some doctors were even threatened with license suspension for expressing dissenting views on pandemic policy. What remains of doctor-patient confidentiality when neither party is free to speak honestly?

A similar decline can be seen in the realm of legal counsel. The principle of attorney-client privilege is supposed to be ironclad -- ensuring that even the guilty have the right to mount a defense without fear that their lawyer might become a witness against them. But modern government practice has taken aim at this also. Prosecutors increasingly seek to pierce attorney-client privilege in politically charged cases. When discretion is left to bureaucrats or judges with political agendas, the exception can quickly become the rule.

We saw this play out in cases where government agencies raided law offices, seized privileged communications, and government lawyers were the ones to decide which documents are protected and which are not. When that happens, we no longer have a legal privilege. We have a legal pretense.

Clergy-penitent privilege is also damaged when the state deems religious confessions to be in conflict with mandatory reporting laws. The therapist-client relationship has been riddled with carve-outs and disclosure requirements. Even the financial advisor and client relationship is no longer free from surveillance, thanks to a raft of regulations requiring the flagging and reporting of “suspicious” transactions -- an undefined term that gives bureaucrats broad license to probe.

What all these trends reveal is a fundamental shift in the balance of power between the individual and the state. Confidentiality, once viewed as a protection for the individual against government overreach, is now simply identified as an obstacle to government control. While the language used to justify this shift is always dressed in noble-sounding abstractions -- safety, health, transparency, security -- what it actually means is that the state reserves the right to know everything about you.

The cost of this transformation is the destruction of professions. A doctor who fears that an honest conversation will be monitored becomes a bureaucrat with a stethoscope. A lawyer who hesitates to give frank advice because it might be subpoenaed becomes an agent of the state, not a client advocate. A pastor who wonders whether to report a confession becomes a snitch, not a shepherd.

The erosion of these trusted relationships produces patients who don’t tell their doctors the full story, clients who must think twice before trusting their attorneys, and parishioners who avoid spiritual guidance altogether.

What makes this trend all the more dangerous is its creeping nature. No one declared the end of confidentiality. It is being undone subtly by incremental policies, executive orders, and professional “guidelines.” The very people tasked with protecting confidentiality -- doctors, lawyers, and clergy -- are being slowly morphed into instruments of state policy.

History has shown us where this leads. A government that can peer into your medical file, your legal records, your spiritual life, and your finances without resistance is not a guardian of rights but rather an overlord. The birthright of liberty is reduced to a permission slip.

For this very reason, the founders of our nation wrote a Constitution that assumes government power must be restrained. Confidentiality is one such restraint. It is not a loophole to be closed but a firewall to be maintained. To defend it is not to protect criminals or endanger society -- it is to uphold the only kind of society worth living in: one where free individuals can speak, seek counsel, and be healed without the state eavesdropping at the door. 

 

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Shock NBC poll reveals American voters' true feelings about ICE and Democrats

Landon Pfile March 09, 2026 theblaze.com

While Democrats have historically pushed for softer enforcement, 53% of registered voters now say they approve of the job the Trump administration is doing on border security.

As President Donald Trump continues his push to secure the nation, a new NBC News survey reveals that American voters hold positions on enforcement of immigration laws that are at odds with the mainstream media narrative. The poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies, shows that when it comes to border security, voters prefer the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a staggering 27-point lead.

The American people have more faith in the agency protecting the border than in the party that has consistently undermined it.

The survey was conducted between Feb. 27 and March 3, 2026. It included interviews with 1,000 registered voters, with 620 respondents reached via cell phone and 309 interviewed through an online survey sent via text message. The results, which have a margin of error of ±3.10%, reveal a growing divide.

The poll also has shocking news for the Democratic Party. According to the survey, 38% of voters have a positive view of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. By comparison, only 30% of voters have a positive view of the Democratic Party. This eight-point gap suggests that despite radical "Abolish ICE" rhetoric from progressives, the American people have more faith in the agency protecting the border than in the party that has consistently undermined it.

In a post on X, Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley noted, "[The Democratic Party] barely edged out Iran in popularity. As Democrats push airports toward a shutdown during peak Spring break travel, they could soon lose not just to Iran but Ebola in future polls."

Republicans hold their largest issue-based advantage on the border, far outpacing the 22-point lead they hold on the issue of crime. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party trails significantly on these pressing security concerns.

While 50% of voters say they prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress, they are simultaneously backing the Trump administration's firm stance on the U.S. border and immigration enforcement.

 

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Fighting the cartels goes international

Trump’s National Security Strategy is bearing fruit in the Western Hemisphere.

Wendi Strauch Mahoney | March 7, 2026

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth stepped away from overseeing Operation Epic Fury to host the hemispheric defense conference, where the focus was forging a more unified regional security strategy with neighboring nations.  In his March 5, 2026 remarks at the Americas Counter Cartel Conference (A3C) in Doral, Florida, Hegseth emphasized plans to expand bilateral and multilateral cooperation to coordinate military operations, security partnerships, and contingency response across the region overseen by the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) which is also headquartered in Doral.  Notably, just days before the conference, the United States and Ecuador engaged in their first joint military ground operation against South American drug cartels, the very kind of coordinated action Hegseth urged in his remarks.

Hegseth described a kind of “neighborhood watch” writ large, where sovereign nations work to “prevent external powers from threatening our peace and independence in our shared neighborhood,” expressly recalling the Monroe Doctrine framework and referring to it as the Trump Corollary of the Monroe Doctrine, while jokingly calling it the “Donroe Doctrine.”

Representatives from 17 countries attended the conference, which was described as the first gathering of its kind “in more than 30 years.”  The participating leaders signed the Joint Security Declaration, a foundational document committing their governments to deeper cooperation on border security, countering narco-terrorism, trafficking, addressing other shared threats, and protecting critical infrastructure across the Western Hemisphere.

Consistent with Trump’s National Security Strategy (NSS) and the administration’s designation of cartels as terrorist organizations, Hegseth cast cartels and narco-terrorism as military threats, not simply law enforcement challenges.  His remarks echoed secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Feb. 14, 2026 address at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), but with a sharper emphasis America’s own hemisphere.  Under the Trump administration, regional leaders, Hegseth said will no longer “accept the status quo to co-exist with narco-terrorism or [rely solely on a] law enforcement-alone approach that [has] failed to deter and dismantle threats.”  He made clear that the Trump administration has made the issue a core national defense mission.  Hegseth also stressed that the U.S. military was deployed to the border and said the 101st Airborne’s command structure was involved in operational control there.

Citing Operation Southern Spear, Hegseth referred to an offensive posture in the region, one that has moved from surveillance and interdiction to offensive maritime action.  Operation Southern Spear is an interagency mission that began in January 2025 as a 4th Fleet effort to use “Robotic and Autonomous Systems (RAS) to support the detection and monitoring of illicit trafficking” in the SOUTHCOM theater.

According to the Jan. 28, 2025 press release from the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command,

Operation Southern Spear will deploy long-dwell robotic surface vessels, small robotic interceptor boats, and vertical take-off and landing robotic air vessels to the USSOUTHCOM AOR. 4th Fleet will operationalize these unmanned systems through integration with U.S. Coast Guard cutters at sea and operations centers at 4th Fleet and Joint Interagency Task Force South. Southern Spear’s results will help determine combinations of unmanned vehicles and manned forces needed to provide coordinated maritime domain awareness and conduct counternarcotics operations.

By late 2025, it had expanded into a Joint Task Force Southern Spear campaign under U.S. Southern Command involving kinetic strikes, maritime interdictions, and tanker seizures carried out with support from the USS Gerald R. Ford and the Amphibious Ready Group.  In a Dec. 2, 2025 press conference, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson told the media there were “to date, a total of 21 kinetic strikes in U.S. Southern Command’s area of operations ... resulting in 82 suspected narco-terrorists having been killed.”

Official Pentagon and SOUTHCOM statements portray it as an interagency mission with DHS, the Coast Guard, and DOJ aimed at crushing illicit activity, defending the homeland, and restoring security in the Western Hemisphere.  An important part of Southern Spear is its “quarantine” of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean, with the U.S. declaring that “the only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully.”  It is a broad regional security and coercive maritime enforcement mission.

Hegseth went on to say that fentanyl flows are down 56 percent, calling fentanyl a “weapon of mass destruction.”  He boasted of Maduro’s and his wife’s capture in January, alluding to the difficulty of the operation.

The Trump administration is committed to a much larger mission than merely snuffing out narco-terrorists.  Hegseth, Rubio, and Trump’s NSS address a larger civilizational and ideological framework, whereby these nations are offspring of Western civilization, sharing a more ordered Christian worldview, one that contrasts with a more violent and chaotic worldview dominated by “narco-communism, narco-tyranny, mass migration, and globalism.”

The Trump doctrine is broadly geostrategic.  In that vein, Hegseth warned of adversaries that control ports, infrastructure, and choke points like the Panama Canal.  Calling upon America’s neighbors to “embrace our shared geography,” he said that these are

the same adversaries that threaten our shared heritage, threaten our shared geography as well. They seek to displace the historic “North-South” relationship that we’ve always shared with some sort of a new “Global South” that excludes the United States and other Western nations but includes non-Western powers and other adversaries.

The answer to our challenge, Hegseth continued, is not to ignore our geography in the name of global interests, but to embrace our shared geography in the name of national interests. That is why President Trump has drawn a new strategic map from Greenland to the Gulf of America to the Panama Canal and its surrounding countries.

Hegseth also signaled a likely institutional shift at U.S. Southern Command, moving from more effete support systems to the rugged operational support needed “for this robust mission ahead.”

One of the great mistakes of the past was that our leaders didn’t provide the U.S. Southern Command with the support that it needed. It was a command chock full of lawyers, social workers, NGOs, [and] law enforcement. That’s changing.

Trump’s national security Cabinet members are on message.  They share a muscular vision that treats cartel violence, porous borders, and foreign malign influence as interconnected national security threats requiring sustained regional action, not symbolic diplomacy.  The Trump administration views the Western Hemisphere as a strategic neighborhood that must be defended through burden-sharing, operational coordination, and a renewed expectation that partner nations will direct resources toward shared threats and objectives in defense of their own territory and sovereignty.