December 30, 2025

Readers’ Choice: Best of Analysis for 2025

Some of our editorial team’s most popular and important analysis articles for the year.

The Patriot Post is a primary touchstone for American Liberty for millions of grassroots Patriot activists and influencers nationwide. We take leave to spend the holiday week with our families each year, but here is a selection of articles our editorial team thought best represented the news and reader interest in 2025. In addition to these topics, visit Right Analysis.

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The Hope of Inauguration Day — Donald Trump’s political comeback is one for the ages, just when the country most needs a change of direction.

Trump Gets His OBBBA — After a long and bruising battle, Congress delivered a huge win for Donald Trump by passing his One Big Beautiful Bill Act just in time for a July 4th signing ceremony at the White House.

Trump’s Tax Cuts Help Everyone Except Dems and Their Narrative — Democrats disingenuously claim that tax cuts will make the rich richer and the poor poorer, when in reality, it only doesn’t help those who don’t pay taxes.

‘Liberation Day’: Trump Goes All in on Tariffs — He sees tariffs as the means of realizing his America First agenda regarding the economy.

The Sanctuary Showdown — Democrats like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson want the rest of the country to think ICE agents are targeting the innocent for simply being, you guessed it, black or brown.

How Much Money Did You Lose in Social Security? —A look at what could have been had George W. Bush succeeded in reforming our nation’s largest entitlement. Instead, Democrats cost us all tons of money.

The Schumer Shutdown: Complete Chaos That Failed Miserably — The GOP finally rallied enough bipartisan support to clear the first hurdle in a lengthy process to reopen the government.

The Republic at 250: A Crisis of Civic Memory — America’s fading understanding of constitutional liberty is opening the door to rival ideologies eager to fill the void.

The Assassination of Charlie Kirk — The Turning Point USA founder was horrifically murdered during a public event for espousing conservative Christian ideas, leaving behind a wife and two young children.

The Dangerous Conspiracies of Candace Owens — What should have been a moment of mourning over Charlie Kirk has instead tragically turned into a bitter fight over truth, legacy, and conspiracy.

Trump Wins Peace, ‘Loses’ Nobel — It was perhaps a forgone conclusion that the Nobel Peace Prize would go to someone other than the man who deserves it most.

The Epstein Distraction — Congress is focused on the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy that repeatedly fails to deliver the goods, when there are a lot more pressing issues to address.

TDS Sets in With Ballroom, DOJ Settlement — President Trump doesn’t take a paycheck, is privately funding the ballroom project, and will donate any money he receives from a settlement with the DOJ to charity.

The Gender-Bender Activists’ Authoritarian Regime Is Crumbling — The heyday of gender pathology occurred just a few short years ago. Now, polling shows that young people are less likely to identify as transgender, nonbinary, or queer.

No Kings — Just Effective Presidents — Must we choose between canonizing Donald Trump and hating him? Why can’t we just be happy that he’s doing what we hired him to do?

Trump Challenges Birthright Citizenship — His executive order to end the practice of granting citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens will likely rise all the way to the Supreme Court.

The DOGE Postmortem — Donald Trump’s famed government-cutting agency, once headed by Elon Musk, is effectively no more. What did it accomplish, and where do things go from here?

A Damning J6 After-Action Report — There were 274 plainclothes FBI agents on site at the Capitol on January 6, and many of them weren’t the least bit happy about it.

An Overly Sexualized Ad for Jeans Stirs Up the Angry Mob — Actress Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle ad campaign is admittedly an overcorrection to woke culture, but the Left’s bemoaning it as Nazism is a race-baiting overreaction.

The President and the Pope — Imagine, just for a moment, the newly elected pope and the American president joining forces to do great things for the world.

Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid — Taxpayers Deserve the Truth — By siding with loopholes and manipulation over taxpayers, Democrats have made clear they would rather protect benefits for noncitizens than protect the program for Americans.

Biden’s Legacy of Pardon Power Abuse — He pardoned over 10,500 people, including his own family members to cover up his own corruption.

Murder in Black and White? — A black teen killed a white teen, and the Internet jury has reached two verdicts.

Boys and Young Men Are Hurting — A return to the common sense of “boys will be boys” and that they need a father is the cure to the culture-induced male malady inflicting millions of boys and young men.

Leftists Equate Bud Light Boycott With Tesla Terrorism — The Left’s destructive and criminal Tesla toddler tantrum is nothing like the peaceful boycott of Bud Light.

Trump’s Deportations and NBC’s Phony Constitutional Crisis — Kristen Welker thought she nailed Trump on “upholding the Constitution.”

AP Deadnames the Gulf of America — The legacy media outlet has trouble letting go of the Gulf of Mexico.

The NFL Flips Us the Middle Finger — By choosing a Trump-deranged, pro-illegal-immigration homosexual activist for its Super Bowl LX halftime act, the NFL is betting that its viewers will once again ignore the insult.

Biden’s DEI Hire at SCOTUS Hits a New Low — Ketanji Brown Jackson’s latest inane opinion managed to annoy fellow DEI hire Sonia Sotomayor, who questioned whether Jackson understood what the case was even about.

Cracker Barrel Removes the Barrel and the Cracker — The restaurant giant is in the midst of a major branding overhaul that has a lot of folks repeating Grandpa’s old saying: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

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