My apologies for skipping last weekend’s edition of The Top 5 Plus but with several pressing tasks (including being in Washington D.C. for the March for Life), we just couldn’t get to it. Let’s get back on track with this weekend’s selections…1) “‘Medical Malpractice’: DOJ Asks Court to Stall Federal Case on Abortion Drug” (S.A. McCarthy, Washington Stand)
From the article — Last year, the DOJ similarly asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas to dismiss a lawsuit brought against the FDA by Missouri, Idaho, and Kansas. That case also challenged the weakening of safeguards around mifepristone, but the DOJ argued that the states had brought their challenge in the improper venue and lacked standing.
Louisiana and other states with pro-life laws in place have filed lawsuits, issued arrest warrants, and requested extraditions in an effort to bring blue state abortionists to justice for violating state pro-life laws, killing children, and harming women, but “shield laws” in states like California and New York block the pro-life states’ efforts. In a recent bid to circumvent “shield laws,” Florida legislators introduced a bill empowering women and their families to sue out-of-state abortionists directly, rather than pitting two states against each other in court.
In July, the FDA launched a review of the safety standards surrounding mifepristone, following numerous studies and reports demonstrating the damage that the drug does to pregnant women — in addition to the unborn children killed by the drug. However, the agency quickly outraged pro-life Americans when it moved to expand mifepristone, approving a generic version of the abortion drug in September 2025.
Related article: “FDA Wants Pause On Landmark Abortion Pill Suit. Pro-Lifers Say It Will Cost” (Jordan Boyd, Federalist)
2) “Slouching Towards Fort Sumter? Minnesota’s defiance of federal immigration law echoes pre–Fort Sumter nullification, forcing Trump to choose between enforcement and letting blue states slide toward open rebellion.” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
From the article — But after Fort Sumter, Lincoln—who was hated as much by the Confederates as Trump is by the woke and socialist left—gained a consensus that the Constitution had no clauses about any lawful departure from the union. But it did operate under a clear supremacy clause that made state obstruction of federal law and occupation of federal property veritable sedition.
Lincoln and the preservationists felt that they easily had the moral high ground of abolition versus the continuance of slavery. Nor did they want a North America of fragmenting, warring nations in the manner of Europe.
Something similar is emerging over Minnesota, the South Carolina of our age.
Once sanctuary states, cities, and counties had established the precedent that, with impunity, they could nullify federal immigration law, then what followed was a logical and mounting descent into the current open defiance of the federal government. How odd that self-described progressives are now acting out the visions of prior kindred nullificationists and neo-Confederates from John C. Calhoun to George Wallace.
Related articles: “The Rise of the New Confederacy: Democrat insurrectionists have a poor track record.” (Josh Hammer, American Spectator) “Like Their Southern Secessionist Ancestors, Today’s Democrats Push New ‘Massive Resistance’ to Federal Law Enforcement” (Mark Tapscott, Washington Stand)
3) “From Classroom to Clash: The Long March to Disorder — As cities descend into repeated cycles of chaos and lives are lost in Minnesota, Americans are asking a simple question: how did we get here?” (Tony Perkins, Washington Stand)
From the article — Minnesota is not an outlier; it is a case study of what happens when institutions that once fostered moral restraint abandon that role. The real cause is less obvious because it is far removed from the tragic events we see today in the headlines. It can be traced back decades to what was called the long march through the institutions — a phrase coined in the late 1960s by Marxist student leader Rudi Dutschke. The phrase deliberately echoed Mao Zedong’s Long March, but Dutschke’s was not a military campaign. It was a cultural and ideological one, measured in decades rather than battles.
The strategy was to transform society not by overthrowing government outright, but by infiltrating its core institutions: universities, primary and secondary education, the media, the courts, and even churches. The objective was to shape what people were taught — what would be considered normal, respectable, and acceptable — so that political outcomes would eventually become inevitable.
4) “Congressional Republicans Launch ‘Sharia Free America Caucus,’ Shining A Light On The Dangers Of Rising Islamic Ideology” (Harbinger’s Press)
From the article — With twenty-six members from seventeen different states, the newly launched “Sharia Free America Caucus” in the US House of Representatives is working to reveal the dangers and safeguard America from freedom-trampling Islamic ideology.
The caucus, chaired by Texas Congressmen Keith Self and Chip Roy, underscores that Sharia Law poses a direct threat to the United States and Western civilization, noting that both members of Congress and American citizens must be educated to understand the danger.
“Sharia is a direct threat to our Constitution and Western values and seeks to replace our legal system and erode our basic freedoms,” Roy stated. “Our immigration system must be prepared to confront this challenge and defend our Judeo-Christian values.”
Congressman Self, in an interview with CBN, drew a “direct connection between a growing Muslim population in his home state to a gradual infiltration of Islamic control.”
5) “The emergence of Holocaust erasure: The world hasn’t learned the key point — that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people.” (Melanie Phillips, JNS)
From the article — The United Nations chose Jan. 27—the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration/death camp—to commemorate the Holocaust, the term that developed specifically to describe the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
Yet the message the United Nations posted on X on Tuesday omitted any mention of the Jews. It said: “The genocide started with apathy & silence in the face of injustice, and with the corrosive dehumanization of the other. Today and always, we need to remember this. And we must stand up for our shared humanity.”
The post was quoting from a statement issued by the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, who also said that “a group of deluded killers inflicted unspeakable atrocities on millions of Jews and members of other minorities.”
As reflected in the U.N.’s abbreviated version of this statement on X, Türk universalized the Holocaust and thus blurred its real significance. But at least he mentioned the Jews. Others, shockingly, did not.
Other excellent articles from this week:
* “Iran’s Slaughter Of Civillians Reaches Unprecedented Heights As Fiery Warnings Sound From America And Israel” (Amir Tsarfati, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “The EU Just Murdered Western Civilization” (Bradley A. Thayer, American Greatness)
* “Two Decades Of Inconvenient Inaccuracies” (I & I Editorial Board)
* “Twenty Years of Justice Alito: Supreme Court Justices must be smart, wise, and steadfast, too, especially when under pressure. Alito checks all of the boxes and more.” (Aaron L. Nielson, Civitas Institute)
* “The Truth About Malaysian Flight 370 Is Scarier Than The Conspiracy Theories” (Hans Mahncke, Federalist)