Trump OMB Director Russ Vought: How Intel Agencies Overrule The President
RCP Video, Real Clear Politics
Russ Vought told Tucker Carlson why it is so difficult to change the momentum of policies pushed by the "administrative state." Vought: You've got to know how to fire them, and there are tools to do that. The president was innovating in that space himself with what’s called Schedule F, essentially saying, if you work for me and you're a policy or career official—think your attorneys who are writing regulations—then we're going to create a new classification, and you are going to be what most of the country is, which is an at-will employee."

We Need National Election Reform … Now!
David Catron, The American Spectator
It is no coincidence that most of the states that Kamala Harris won in 2024 have weak or nonexistent voter ID laws. This is why the Republicans must get national election reform passed and signed into law before the end of 2026. Unless 2026 is a very unusual midterm election, the Democrats will flip enough seats to regain a majority in the House where they will extinguish all hope for common sense election reform. They will then exhume the “For the People Act” and try to convert the country into a one-party autocracy like California.

Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump’s pick for attorney general
Jeff Mordock, The Washington Times
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz said Thursday that he is withdrawing from consideration as attorney general, saying that the controversy surrounding his potential nomination was “unfairly becoming a distraction”. “While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work for the Trump/Vance transition,” Mr. Gaetz wrote on X. “There is not time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I’ll be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as attorney general.”

The Trump Counterrevolution Is a Return to Sanity
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
For Trump, party identification, titles, and traditional prestige matter less as he is surrounded by an ideologically diverse cadre including Elon Musk, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Dana White, Tulsi Gabbard, and Joe Rogan. The country no longer must apologize incessantly for its past or present but can move on—content that it need not be perfect to be better. The age of flashing pronouns, renaming iconic landmarks, statue toppling, trashing the dead, vandalizing with impunity the campus library, or spouting anti-Semitic venom is passing.

Georgia Republicans Mark Guilty Verdict for Laken Riley’s Murderer as Democrats Mourn ‘Transgender Day of Remembrance’
Tom Pappert, The Star News Network
Multiple Georgia Democrats instead noted LGBTQ activists celebrate November 20 as the Transgender Day of Remembrance, which the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) explains can be honored “by attending and/or organizing a vigil” in order “to honor all those transgender people whose lives were lost to anti-transgender violence that year, and learning about the violence affecting the transgender community.” Only Senator Raphael Warnock posted a statement responding to the Jose Ibarra guilty verdict.

Say her name: The Laken Riley case and presidential politics
Byron York, Washington Examiner
All Kamala Harris could do was try to blame Republicans for the mess she and Biden had made of the border and pretend that she would be tough on the border if elected president in her own right. Nobody believed it. In a political sense, the Ibarra trial, verdict, and sentencing was a kind of terrible coda to the election: This is what Trump and Republicans were talking about. Apart from the awful sadness of it all, the Riley case showed both the appalling consequences of an open border and why the issue was important for so many.

Saving The Country With Russ Vought
Scott McKay, The American Spectator
Vought, who describes our current moment as not quite midnight for America but more like 11:59 p.m., and speaks repeatedly about the need to “save the country,” places great emphasis on retracing conservatism’s steps in an effort to find where it went wrong. He says that at his organization’s events, attendees will find themselves being given books. Vought also talks about the president retaking power from Congress, and in particular the power to impound funds appropriated by Congress but are neither needed nor wanted.