There is a particular kind of math happening in Washington right now, and it goes like this. Take something that belongs to all of us, call it a burden on industry, and hand it over. This week we watched the equation run twice in a single news cycle, once in the ocean and once in the forest.

On June 11, President Trump signed a proclamation reopening roughly 500,000 square miles of Pacific Ocean to commercial fishing, rolling back protections across three marine national monuments near Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa, according to USA TODAY. The pitch is cheaper seafood and a stronger fishing industry. The White House summary argues the ban was “not necessary” because many of the species are migratory and already protected by other laws.

Here is what that framing skips. These monuments were created by a Republican, George W. Bush, and treated as ocean national parks ever since, because scientists consider protected waters some of the most effective tools we have for rebuilding threatened fish stocks, per the National Parks Conservation Association. And we have been here before. When the administration reopened a different Pacific monument in 2025, a federal court struck the move down by August, according to Earthjustice, which has already promised to sue again. So the “win” may not survive contact with a judge.

Now travel 2,700 miles inland, where the same logic is aimed at the trees. The administration’s proposed budget zeroes out all research and development funding for the U.S. Forest Service, and 56 of the agency’s 90 research stations have been identified for closure, according to NPR. One of them is a Seattle lab that built the real time smoke maps that governments, firefighters, and phone apps rely on when the air turns toxic. The Forest Service chief insists science is still a priority. His boss’s budget says otherwise.

The timing is the part that should stop us cold. The National Interagency Fire Center reports that nearly every western state faces above normal wildfire risk at some point this season, and the country has already burned nearly twice its 10-year-average for this point on the calendar. We are proposing to dismantle the people who study smoke and fire in the exact summer the West is forecast to choke on both.

Put the ocean and the forest side by side and the pattern comes into focus. This is less an environmental philosophy than a trade, and we are on one side of it whether we signed up or not. The benefits are immediate, narrow, and promised: a fishing harvest here, a trimmed budget line there. The costs are diffuse and arrive later. Depleted fisheries our kids inherit. Fire seasons we understand a little less each year because we defunded the understanding.

What makes this moment different from the usual fight over regulation is that the cuts target knowledge itself. You can argue about how many boats belong in a monument. It is harder to argue for knowing less about a fire that is already burning toward a town.

There is some good news worth holding onto. Congress, not the president, writes the final budget, and the Forest Service plan has drawn opposition from both parties, according to NPR. The fishing rollback faces the courts. None of this is settled.

So this is the moment to be loud. Call your representatives and ask where they stand on the Forest Service research budget before the fire maps go dark. Ask whether the seafood savings are worth fishing grounds that may never refill in our lifetimes. The commons only stays ours if we act like we own it. Go beyond the headlines…

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Doctors are not known for picking fights. Their whole job is to keep their voices level even when the news is bad, to calm us down rather than rile us up. So when the largest group of physicians in the country votes to stop being polite, it is worth noticing who they decided to stop being polite with.

This week in Chicago, the American Medical Association elected Sandra Fryhofer, an Atlanta internist and blunt critic of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be its next president, according to the AMA. She beat an opponent who had promised to keep working quietly with the administration. The message from the group’s delegates was hard to miss. They want their leaders to call out Kennedy, even if it costs them money.

That last part matters more than it sounds. The AMA spent the past year trying to stay on Kennedy’s good side, partly to protect the Medicare fees its members depend on. Trading that leverage for open criticism is the kind of choice people make when they think something bigger is at stake.

So what do the AMA’s more than 320,000 members think is at stake? Start with measles. The CDC has confirmed about 2,030 measles cases in 2026 as of early June, putting this year on pace to pass 2025, which was already the worst stretch for measles in over three decades. Public health experts warn we could lose the elimination status we earned in 2000. Measles was supposed to be a solved problem. It is becoming an unsolved one on our watch.

Then there is the money. The budget law Republicans passed last year, often called the One Big Beautiful Bill, cuts roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid over a decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates analyzed by KFF. That same analysis projects about 10 million people losing Medicaid coverage, with the total number of uninsured climbing higher once related cuts to Affordable Care Act plans are counted. Those are not abstractions to a doctor. They are the patients who simply stop showing up.

Vaccines sit at the center of the fight. After Kennedy and the CDC rewrote the childhood immunization schedule in January, shrinking the list of diseases kids are routinely protected against from 18 down to 11, the American Academy of Pediatrics sued. A federal judge blocked the changes in March, per the AAP. The AMA backed that case from the sidelines rather than leading it, which is exactly the caution its members are now rejecting.

Here is why this should land for the rest of us, whether or not we ever crack open a medical journal. Doctors are not a partisan bloc. For a long time they leaned Republican. When a profession that cautious decides the quiet approach has failed, that is a signal about how serious the moment really is. According to polling the AMA points to, we already trust doctors on vaccines more than we trust the government, which means these are the people many of us will actually listen to.

The new tone will not arrive overnight. Fryhofer does not take over until the summer of 2027, and plenty of doctors worry that picking this fight could cost the group allies and income it cannot easily replace. That tension is real.

But the vote already happened, and it told us something. The people who treat us decided that staying comfortable was no longer worth it.

So the question lands back with us. When our own doctors conclude that silence carries a body count, are we paying as much attention as they are? Go beyond the headlines…

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The sparklers have been bought for the kids. The grill is getting prepped. The National Mall is staged for fireworks, the 250th birthday party is booked, and somewhere some guy is already hawking foam hats shaped like the Statue of Liberty. So here is an awkward question to be asking at this year’s annual celebration of independence: do we still believe in the thing we are about to celebrate?

A new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggests a lot of us are not sure. Only about a quarter of us say the country stands above all others in the world, according to the AP-NORC poll, while 44% call it one of the greatest among many. Roughly 3 in 10 now say there are better countries out there, up from 19% in an AP-NORC poll back in 2016.

That is the patriotism question. The democracy question is louder. About two thirds of adults say a democratically elected government is highly important to the nation’s identity, according to AP-NORC, down from 80% in 2021. Read that again. In four years, the share of us who think being a democracy is central to being America dropped about 14 points.

The slide is steepest among the people who will inherit the place. Only about half of adults under 30 see democracy as a key part of American identity, per the poll, compared with 81% of those 60 and older. Younger Americans are also the most likely to say other countries are simply doing it better.

It would be easy to call this cynicism and move on. It is more honest to call it disappointment. The same survey found that 51% of us say the American Dream once held true but does not anymore, according to AP-NORC. Only 22% of adults under 30 say it still holds, compared with 46% of those 60 and older. A generation watched their parents buy houses on starter salaries and now rents a room to make the math work. That is not a mood. That is a balance sheet.

Notice what is not happening here. People are not saying democracy failed. They are saying the people running it stopped honoring the deal. A 24-year-old in Alabama told AP that the framers built guardrails to stop any one faction from grabbing too much power, then added that they probably never imagined how fast those guardrails crumble once the people inside the system quit enforcing them. That is not venting. That is a fairly precise description of how republics come apart.

The split underneath all of this is partisan and it is sharp. About half of Republicans say the country stands above all others, according to AP-NORC, compared with 7% of Democrats. Most Republicans say the American Dream still works. Most Democrats and independents say it does not. We are not just arguing about who should govern. We are arguing about what country we are even living in.

And some of us are doing that math with paperwork in our pockets. A 70-year-old in San Antonio told AP that neighbors have started carrying proof of immigration status in case they get stopped, and that even citizens are being questioned now. It is hard to wave a flag while bracing to prove you belong under it.

Here is the part a poll cannot measure. Belief in democracy is not weather. It does not just happen to us. It holds when people show up, vote in the races nobody covers, call the offices, and refuse to treat the guardrails as optional.

So before the fireworks, two questions worth sitting with: what are we actually celebrating, and what are we willing to do to keep it worth celebrating? Go beyond the headlines…

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There is a version of this story where the news is good. In it, fewer of us need help buying groceries because more of us are doing just fine, wages are climbing, and Washington is simply trimming a bloated program back to a healthy size. That is the version the Trump administration is selling. The trouble is that almost none of it holds up.

Since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed last summer, more than 3.5 million people have lost access to SNAP, the food assistance program once known as food stamps, according to PBS NewsHour reporting this June. That drop happened in roughly six months, between July 2025 and February 2026, and every single state saw enrollment fall. Arizona leads the country, with participation down 51 percent, according to estimates cited by PBS. About 38 million of us still rely on this help, but the floor is moving fast.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and her allies frame the decline as proof the economy is roaring and fraud is getting cleaned out. Sara Naomi Bleich, a Harvard public health professor who worked at the USDA under two presidents, told PBS that explanation is not accurate. SNAP is built to shrink when the economy strengthens, she said, but the economy has not measurably improved since the law passed, and the cost of food still punishes most family budgets.

So what is actually pushing people off the rolls? Paperwork, mostly. The new law raised the age for work requirements from 54 to 64 and piled on documentation, so more people now have to prove every month that they logged 20 hours a week. Presley Nassise, a SNAP recipient who is 27, has a chronic illness, and works two jobs, described submitting Venmo records, cash app screenshots, even letters from neighbors swearing he lived where he said he lived. Miss the 30 day processing window, or have an understaffed state office miss it for you, and you get dropped and forced to start over. His benefit fell from a little over $200 a month to nothing for three months, then was restored at $50.

The fraud argument is the weakest part of the pitch. According to a USDA study covering 2015 through 2017, the SNAP trafficking rate sits at 1.6 percent, low compared with other federal programs. And here is the catch Bleich flagged: the new rules do not even target fraud. They target payment error rates, which measure whether someone got a few dollars too much or too little, not whether anyone is cheating. So we are throwing eligible people overboard to solve a problem that was never really fraud.

Strip away the talking points and what remains is a cost shift. The law is projected to cut about $186 billion from SNAP over the next decade, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, and states facing steep penalties are responding by making the door harder to walk through. People who qualify and play by the rules are losing meals anyway.

This is where it stops being abstract. When food help vanishes, food insecurity climbs, and with it come higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, as Bleich warned. Hungry kids learn worse. Sick adults cost the system more later. A program that runs on an average of about $6.20 per person each day, according to CNBC, turns out to be one of the cheapest ways we have ever found to prevent all of that.

We get to decide whether this stands. Call your representatives, press candidates on restoring these benefits before the 2026 midterms, and refuse to let a story about a booming economy paper over emptier kitchen tables. The numbers are not lying. We should not let anyone tell us they are. Go beyond the headlines…

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Most of us don’t think of the South Lawn of the White House. We will this week. Not because it’s the spot where hundreds of kids roll eggs at Easter but because it’s where crews are bolting together a steel cage big enough to seat thousands of people. On June 14, which happens to be the president’s 80th birthday, that cage will host a UFC card sold to us as a tribute to the country turning 250. He has even floated keeping the thing up forever, comparing his lawn cage to the Eiffel Tower.

Is he kidding?

According to a YouGov survey conducted last week, 51% of us disapprove of the White House hosting the fight, while only 27% approve. Among independents, the voters who tend to decide elections, the gap is even wider, with 55% disapproving and just 18% on board.

That distance, between what he is building and what we are living, is the whole story right now.

Walk it forward. While crews weld a fighting cage onto the lawn, families are doing nervous math in the grocery aisle. And the people who handed this president his second term are noticing. According to a bipartisan poll released May 27 by UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization, 67% of Hispanic voters now disapprove of his job performance. In Florida, a state he carried and loved to brag about, disapproval among Latino voters sits at 51%. Most striking of all, 25% of the Hispanic voters who chose him in 2024 say they would not do it again. According to the same group, that number climbed from 9% last April to 13% in November to a full quarter today.

Ask them why, and, of course, nobody brings up a cage match. They have other pressing matters on their minds. According to that UnidosUS poll, the issues top-of-mind for these voters are the cost of living and inflation, named by 44%, immigration enforcement in their neighborhoods, named by 33%, stagnant jobs and wages at 26%, and the war in Iran at 25%. These are people drawing a straight line between the choices coming out of Washington and the squeeze they feel every single week.

Now set that beside what the president chose to do on national television this weekend. Sitting with NBC’s Kristen Welker for an interview that aired Sunday, he was asked for evidence that California’s election was rigged. He offered none. He called the reporter crooked, called her network crooked, and when she kept pressing, he pulled off his microphone, said he had enough, and walked out. The Democratic frontrunner there, Xavier Becerra, had simply advanced to November through California’s ordinary and admittedly slow vote count.

In that same conversation, he defended a fund carrying a price tag of 1.776 billion dollars that could end up compensating people who pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers on January 6. He suggested the rioters were ushered into the Capitol by the FBI. There is no evidence for that either.

So here is the full picture. A leader pours his attention into a birthday spectacle, into relitigating an election he already won, and into the idea of cutting checks to people who attacked the Capitol. Meanwhile the coalition that elected him is telling pollsters, in growing numbers, that they want help with rent and groceries and a Congress that actually does its job. According to UnidosUS, 84% of Hispanic voters worry that Congress is handing too much power to the president.

November answers all of it. The cage will come down eventually, whatever he says about the Eiffel Tower. The real question is whether we keep watching the lawn or start watching our own lives. The polling suggests we already know the difference. Now we vote like it. Go beyond the headlines…

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Our mail carrier already brings us birthday cards, tax notices, and the occasional jury summons. If the Trump administration gets its way, that same truck could soon be carrying handguns to doorsteps across the country.

That is just one piece of what gun violence prevention advocates are calling a tsunami of deregulation. In late April, according to Axios, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives unveiled nearly three dozen final and proposed rules, a package that PBS News reports includes more than 30 changes announced the same day the Senate confirmed Robert Cekada as ATF director. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche called it the most comprehensive regulatory reform package in the agency’s history.

The centerpiece is the repeal of a 2024 rule designed to close what’s known as the gun show loophole. That rule, built on the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, required thousands more sellers to get licensed and run background checks on buyers outside traditional storefronts, per NBC News. Now it’s headed for the shredder. To be fair, an investigation by The Trace found the rule never meaningfully boosted prosecutions. But there is a difference between fixing a tool that underperformed and throwing it away while the industry applauds. And the industry was literally in the room. The Trace reported that executives from the country’s largest gun trade organizations flanked Cekada as he signed the changes.

Then there’s the mail. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel concluded in January that a 1927 ban on mailing handguns, widely considered the first federal gun law, is unconstitutional. According to CBS News, the Postal Service formally proposed allowing handgun shipments on April 2, and the public comment period closed May 4. The National Rifle Association argues the old ban created needless headaches for gun owners who follow the law. Opponents counter that mailed handguns are easier to steal, easier to traffic, and easier to move around state background check laws.

Here’s the part that is really scary: The ATF admitted the danger in its own paperwork. In a proposed rule narrowing who counts as mentally unfit to own a gun, the agency wrote that the added risk “may be minimal, or may be considerably greater (up to and including potential mass casualty events),” as reported by Axios. In other words, the agency tasked with keeping guns out of dangerous hands acknowledged, in writing, that its own proposal could contribute to mass casualty events. And it proposed the rule anyway.

This is happening at a strange moment. Gun deaths are finally falling. The CDC counted 44,447 firearm deaths in 2024. The national gun death rate dropped 7 percent from 2023, the largest decline since 1995. That progress did not happen by accident. It happened alongside community violence intervention, tighter dealer oversight, and yes, expanded background checks. Daniel Webster of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions said these rollbacks are a green light to the part of the industry that profits from crime.

We still have time to weigh in. These are proposed rules, subject to public comment, legal challenge, and political pressure. The question is whether we treat regulatory fine print as somebody else’s problem or recognize it for what it is: decisions about whose safety counts. A gun death happens roughly every 12 minutes in this country, according to Johns Hopkins. The clock is the one thing nobody is deregulating. Go beyond the headlines…

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Make no mistake about what happened. For the first time since this war began more than three months ago, a war powers resolution cleared a chamber of Congress on a final vote. Four Republicans joined every Democrat to say what most of us have been saying at kitchen tables for months: enough.

The White House insists hostilities have ended. The strikes that keep landing in the region say otherwise. And Speaker Mike Johnson keeps defending the campaign as the work of a commander-in-chief keeping us safe. But safe is not how this war feels from where we sit. According to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in March, 59 percent of Americans said the United States made the wrong decision in using military force against Iran. That number has hung over Congress like a storm cloud, and on Wednesday it finally rained.

Follow the money and the unease makes even more sense. A top Pentagon official told lawmakers the war has cost about $25 billion so far, but three people familiar with the matter told CNN the real figure is closer to $40 to $50 billion once you count rebuilding damaged bases and replacing destroyed assets. That is on top of the $11.3 billion the Pentagon estimated the first six days alone cost, according to reporting by the New York Times. And we are paying twice. Per testimony at a Senate hearing reported by Military Times, gas prices have surged roughly $1.50 since the war began, pushing the national average to about $4.50 a gallon, and we have already paid $40 billion more for fuel, a figure projected to top $193 billion by the end of the year. 

So when Davidson, the Ohio Republican who sided with the Democrats, demanded the administration define the mission before continuing it, he was not grandstanding. He was asking the question every one of us deserves answered before another billion goes out the door.

Yes, the resolution is largely symbolic. It would need to pass the Senate and then survive a near certain veto, which requires two thirds of both chambers. Nobody pretends those votes exist today. But symbols move politics, and politics moves wars. Remember that a nearly identical measure died in a 212 to 212 tie just weeks ago, and that Republican leaders once sent members home early rather than let this vote happen. The dam did not break all at once. It cracked, vote by vote, as the costs piled up and the explanations wore thin.

Here is the bigger truth Wednesday revealed: the Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war, and that power only matters when lawmakers are willing to use it. For decades, members of both parties have ducked these votes, preferring to criticize wars from the sidelines rather than own the decision. This House just stopped ducking.

The Senate now has its chance. It already advanced a similar measure in May. The question is whether senators will finish what they started or wait for the price at the pump, and the price in lives, to climb higher.

This war was started in our name, but nobody asked us, and nobody asked Congress. Through our representatives, we just took the first real step toward ending it. Let’s not make it the last. Go beyond the headlines…

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There is a special kind of awkward that sets in when you throw a party and the guests start quietly slipping out the back door. That is roughly where things stand with the Great American State Fair, the sprawling celebration that Freedom 250 plans to stage on the National Mall from June 25 through July 10 to mark the country turning 250.

This week the country singer Martina McBride became the latest name to walk. According to her Instagram statement reported by The Hill, she signed on believing she had been invited to a nonpartisan event built to honor all 50 states, and it “turned out to be misleading.” She is not alone. The Hill reports that Young MC, Morris Day and the Time, and the C+C Music Factory have all pulled out in recent days, each saying some version of the same thing: nobody told them the celebration came with a political price tag.

The organizers insist it does not. Freedom 250 spokesperson Rachel Reisner told The Hill the fair welcomes everyone who wants to commemorate the milestone in a way that “uplifts and unites.” CEO Keith Krach framed it as a gathering for all 56 states and territories. That is a lovely sentiment. The trouble is that the nonprofit was created by President Trump to carry out his vision for the anniversary, the music outlet SPIN flatly described the fair as backed by Trump, and the whole production is unfolding in the same summer the president marks his 80th birthday.

Follow the money and the picture sharpens. According to New York Times reporting cited by the advocacy group Public Citizen, donors to Freedom 250 were offered access to the president in exchange for gifts of $1 million. According to NPR, the National Endowment for the Humanities has reserved $15 million for a triumphal arch planned as a centerpiece of the festivities. A birthday party for the republic is starting to look less like a block party and more like a fundraiser with a Ferris wheel out front.

Here is why this should bother us no matter where we sit. A 250th anniversary comes once. The 1876 centennial and the 1976 bicentennial are remembered as moments the whole country could step into together, regardless of who held the White House. What is happening now is the slow conversion of a shared inheritance into branded property. When artists who have spent decades singing to red states and blue states alike feel they have to flee the stage to protect their relationship with their own fans, something has curdled. McBride put it plainly, writing that she did not want listeners moved by her music to feel she was abandoning what those songs stood for.

The wider cost is trust. If we cannot agree that the founding belongs to all of us, the odds of agreeing on anything harder shrink to nothing. It is no accident that the “No Kings” movement is already organizing a nationwide counter event, as The Hill notes, timed to the president’s birthday. One celebration is meant to flatter a man. The other is meant to remind him he is not one.

We do not have to accept this framing. The semiquincentennial is ours, not a stage set for any single politician. We can show up at the local parades and county fairs and library readings that no donor bought and no agent had to flee. We can treat the anniversary as a mirror rather than a backdrop. Two hundred fifty years in, the question is not whether America throws a good party. It is whether we still know how to celebrate as one country. The performers walking away just made that question impossible to ignore. Go beyond the headlines…

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We like to think we know where the danger lives. We bolt the doors at night, we tell our kids not to talk to strangers, we keep one eye on whoever lingers too long near the playground. So it lands like a gut punch to learn that the worst predators are not outside at all. They are already in the house, glowing on a phone left charging by the bed, whispering through a headset during a late round of a game we assumed was harmless.

That is the unsettling heart of a new piece by Lisa Pescara-Kovach, a University of Toledo professor who studies violence and directs the school’s Center for Education in Mass Violence and Suicide. Her subject is a loosely connected online group called the 764 Network, and she admits it keeps her awake at night. After reading what these people do, I understand why.

The playbook is patient and sickening. Members pose as friends on platforms like Roblox and Minecraft, flattering a lonely kid, mirroring their interests, talking for hours until trust feels real. Then they move the conversation to encrypted apps like Discord and Telegram, where they feed the child gore and disturbing imagery framed as something only cool people understand. Eventually come the requests for explicit photos. The instant a child sends one, the trap snaps shut. Now it is blackmail. Comply or we send this to your school, your friends, your parents. The demands only escalate, pushing victims toward harming themselves, torturing their own pets, even carving a stranger’s name into their skin as a mark of ownership.

This is not a fringe nightmare we can wave away. According to the FBI, more than 450 subjects are currently under investigation for ties to 764 and similar violent networks, and the bureau says every field office in the country is now involved. In October 2025, according to ABC News, the Justice Department filed its first terrorism charge against an alleged 764 member, a 21-year-old in Tucson accused of conspiring to support terrorists. FBI Director Kash Patel has called this work modern day terrorism aimed squarely at our children.

The cost is not theoretical. In January 2025, a 17-year-old opened fire in the cafeteria at Antioch High School in Nashville, killing 16-year-old Josselin Corea Escalante before turning the gun on himself. Investigators say he left behind audio attributing the attack to 764 and a related group. A child weaponized by strangers he never met in person. That is what is at stake.

These predators are not driven by one ideology or one motive. Pescara-Kovach describes a shared appetite for cruelty itself, a hatred of the world that finds its outlet in the easiest target imaginable. And the access point is something we handed our kids ourselves, thinking we were giving them a game.

So what do we do? We stay close without panicking. We ask about online friendships the way we ask about school friends. We learn the platforms our kids actually use. We watch for clusters of warning signs, unexplained cuts, sudden secrecy, a new friend no one has ever met. And if the worst happens, we do not punish the child or delete a single message. We preserve everything and report it to the FBI at tips.fbi.gov or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at cybertipline.org.

The strangers found a way in. It falls to us to know the way they travel, and to be standing in the doorway when they try. Go beyond the headlines…

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There is a line in the document the San Diego mosque shooters left behind that nobody quite knows what to do with. After listing Jewish people as the No. 1 enemy, one of the teenagers wrote that women came in at No. 2. Above Muslims. Above Black Americans. Above the very congregation he was about to attack.

That detail, surfaced in NPR’s May 27 reporting on the 75-page manifesto, deserves a long pause. Two teenagers walked into the Islamic Center of San Diego on May 18 while roughly 100 children were inside. Three men, Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, threw themselves at the gunmen so the kids could live. And tucked into the killers’ written justification was a section calling women “the No. 1 enemy” after Jews, using a slur lifted straight out of incel forums that translates roughly to “female humanoid organism.”

We have been told for years that mass political violence is about race, or religion, or immigration. It is all of that. But according to Alex DiBranco of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, who spoke to NPR, misogyny now functions inside the white nationalist movement the same way antisemitism does. It is the connective tissue. The conspiracy theory that glues everything else together. Women, in this worldview, are the secret architects of cultural collapse, the reason the world will not give certain men the dominance they believe they are owed.

If that sounds fringe, consider the pattern. Heidi Beirich, cofounder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told NPR that this strain of woman hatred “did not exist in white supremacist circles, say, 10, 15 years ago.” Now, she says, it has “completely infected” that world. The 2011 Norway killer, who murdered 77 people according to NPR’s reporting, blamed feminism for what he called the Muslim invasion of Europe. The Christchurch shooter, whom the San Diego teens called themselves “Sons of” in their writings, ran on the same fuel. Buffalo. El Paso. Colorado Springs. Jacksonville. Different targets, same operating system.

Now the part that should make us uncomfortable. The 2025 United States Counterterrorism Strategy, released by the White House this month, names three top terrorist threats: narcoterrorists, Islamist terrorists and violent left wing extremists. The phrases “far right,” “white supremacist” and “neo Nazi” do not appear in it, according to Colin Clarke of the Soufan Center, who reviewed the document for NPR. Joe Biden’s name shows up seven times. Lebanese Hezbollah, a proxy of a country we are currently at war with, appears twice.

Think about what that means. Two American teenagers radicalized online, dressed in Christchurch cosplay, livestreamed killing three men inside a house of worship in front of an audience of children. And the federal document meant to guide how we spend resources to protect ourselves does not list the ideology that drove them as a threat at all.

We do not get safer by pretending the people who actually kill us are not the people who actually kill us. According to the ADL’s analysis of the San Diego manifestos, the two shooters used a racist slur for Black Americans at least 32 times between them. That document is sitting in plain view. The FBI can read it. The White House can read it. The question is whether anyone with the power to move resources is willing to act on what it says.

Call your representatives. Ask them, on record, why violent far right extremism was scrubbed from the national threat list. Ask what they plan to do before the next mosque, the next synagogue, the next grocery store, the next gay bar. The pattern is not hiding. We just have to make someone look. Go beyond the headlines…

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