I was so excited to wake up and see the creek valley covered in snow. The sky was a just brightening grey and everywhere I looked, everything was blanketed in white. I could hardly wait to get outside, but after checking the temperature gauge, I knew the importance of proper attire.

January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Of all the issues we face as a nation and society, the kidnapping and enslaving of our fellow Americans is the gravest. Like the fentanyl crisis, it’s a phantom evil assaulting our communities. We might not notice it, but heinous crimes could be underway around us at any time.

Two of my top priorities are supporting Ohio manufacturers and lowering costs for Ohio families. This week, we announced a bipartisan tax cut deal that does both – it would cut taxes for many Ohio parents and for Ohio manufacturers, and would also protect residents of East Palestine from surprise tax bills.

It is not Democrat or Republican – nor liberal or conservative. It is the elites versus the rest of us.  

The prevailing narrative emerging from Iowa was that Donald Trump has an iron-fisted grip on the Republican Party, that he’s destined to be the 2024 nominee, and that Americans will get the inevitable rematch between Trump and Joe Biden they say they do not want. I have a three word reaction: Not so fast.

Concerns that Americans would forget the Holocaust or come to doubt it were first addressed by the man who led the Allied armies to victory in the Second World War: Dwight Eisenhower. A Midwesterner by birth who made the military his career, Ike was untainted by early 20th-century antisemitism that was prevalent in the halls of power.

If you have a group who listens avidly to your opinion, be careful. You carry a very big stick and even bigger sway. Sway for which the passing of time will hold you accountable. Use your opinions and your influence wisely. And I’m not simply referring to sports, but you knew that.

Capping a legal battle that had raged for over a decade, a federal judge in late December handed the Osage Nation a major victory by ordering wind farm developers to dismantle dozens of turbines they had erected on tribal land in northeastern Oklahoma.

Imagine if a Houthi drone were to hit one of our ships in the Red Sea. Imagine there were an incident in the South China Sea. Or imagine we suffered a terrorist attack here at home. All of these crises are possible — but if any of them had occurred earlier this month, no one would have known where to find our nation’s Secretary of Defense.

Inflation is not only affecting individual Americans and American families, however. According to the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), 23 percent of small business owners reported that inflation was their single most important problem in operating their business, up one point from last month. 

A Haley win in the Granite State, according to Gov. Sununu, unlocks the entire thing. Follow that up with a victory in South Carolina, he told RCP, and the primary becomes “a one-on-one race with a lot of opportunity to beat Trump.”

No one can hold back the tide, but the Supreme Court has the opportunity to stop the erosion of civil liberties in a marquee case it will hear this week. My organization, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, is proud to represent the fishermen plaintiffs in this case, Relentless v. Department of Commerce.

The influx of millions of illegals under the Biden regime has cost the nation billions of dollars at a time when our national debt has skyrocketed to an unimaginable $34 trillion. And yet Washington does nothing to solve the problem – not the Biden administration and not the Republican House of Representatives.

God says, "For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.” (Hebrews 8:12.) When you repent, God remembers your sin no more. Why should you?" 

Eight years after he upended the established order by nearly winning Iowa and launching himself toward the White House, Trump cruised to a landslide victory in the first presidential nominating contest of 2024.