• We told you so: Donald Trump’s record-breaking performance with Hispanic voters helped propel him to a historic second term. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R., Fla.) told us on Monday that “this election cycle we are seeing President Trump blow the doors off of the Hispanic vote.”
  • Open borders op-ed: Sen. Ron Johnson made one of his final cases for Donald Trump in our pages this week, arguing that “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want an open border [and that] Donald Trump will fix it.”
  • It’s still the economy, stupid: Rep. Richard Hudson published an op-ed with us, alongside ClearPath Action’s CEO, Jeremy Harrell, before the election about how “energy prices are on your ballot.” It looks like Americans read it.
  • High energy: Industry sources are already floating some possible names to be the next Secretary of Energy: Dan Brouillette, who ran the department during the first Trump term, Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright, and Paul Dabbar, who served as the Under Secretary for Science during the first term.
  • Dewey Defeats Truman 2.0: 2024 marked the death knell of the once-vaunted “Iowa Poll” by Ann Selzer, which infamously projected that Kamala Harris would win the Hawkeye State. Selzer’s poll also showed Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks losing by sixteen percent, only for her to win once again. Miller-Meeks posed for a photo with coverage of Selzer’s poll for her own “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment.
  • Bullet dodged: A few weeks ago, we warned readers about a North Carolina Democrat so radical that she could decimate all of America’s tobacco supply chain. We are relieved to report that Sarah Taber was the worst performing Democrat statewide in the Tar Heel State, and that the incumbent Republican comfortably won reelection.