Author: Benjamin Osborne

Marketed as “election reform,” the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is in reality a coordinated effort by progressive states to bypass Article V, nationalize presidential elections, and replace the Constitution’s federal republic with a system of raw democracy.

Congress should go on offense and respond immediately by amending 8 U.S.C. § 1401(a) to codify what the Fourteenth Amendment already requires: citizenship at birth belongs only to persons born in the United States while subject to the nation’s complete political jurisdiction.

OMB, Commerce, and Congress each possess the authority to make this principle explicit. The governing rule should be simple: The decennial enumeration exists to count, not to estimate.

The president’s FY 2027 budget offers more cuts to woke and weaponized programs that, if enacted by Congress, would mark a significant step to restoring accountable government and common sense to the executive branch.