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OPINION: Sen. Casey, It’s Time to Concede

The 2024 elections proved to be a decisive mandate for President Trump and the pro-American agenda of the Republican Party. This is no more true than in Pennsylvania where Trump won by a very large margin – winning over 50 percent of the votes cast – and where Republican Dave McCormick defeated the long-standing incumbent, Senator Robert Casey. While Trump’s margin is significant, McCormick will likely win by around 0.5 percent, potentially triggering Pennsylvania’s recount statutes.

By Jonathon Hauenschild | Nov 11, 2024

Happy Mother’s Day to my wife, Rebbie

After winning election to the State Senate, Rebbie and I were invited to Harrisburg to meet with several political power brokers.

By Doug Mastriano | May 6, 2022

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Op-ed: Do your elected officials support a Convention of States?

By Jim O'Connor | Feb 15, 2022

An organization called “Convention of States Action” is preparing to flex its political muscle as Pennsylvania’s primary election filing deadline approaches.

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OPINION: Now is the time to protect your schools and your children

By Brooke Rollins | Oct 28, 2021

Certainly, the men who gathered at Independence Hall (then called the Pennsylvania State House) in the summer of 1775 and 1776, and later in 1787, were flawed men.

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OP-ED: Glenn Thompson represents Pennsylvania in new climate caucus

By Andrew Handley | Jul 9, 2021

Pennsylvanians know that our environment and economy can prosper together, rather than be at odds. By joining the newly-formed Conservative Climate Caucus, my congressman, Representative Glenn Thompson, has exemplified this ideal.

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OPINION: Learning from Pennsylvania's Election Chaos

By Nathan Benefield | Nov 17, 2020

What do you do with a ballot that arrives after Election Day, with no postmark and a signature that doesn’t match the voter’s record? Count it — according to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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OPINION: How Pennsylvania Democrats Deliberately Stoked 2020 Election Chaos

By Jennifer Stefano | Nov 17, 2020

I can’t tell you how many texts I’ve received this week from friends and acquaintances across the country asking—usually in all-caps and peppered with profanity—what is going on in Pennsylvania?

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OPINION: Biden’s pledge on fracking won’t reassure skeptical Pennsylvanians

By Erin M. Elmore, Esq. | Oct 29, 2020

Pennsylvanians are still concerned about a possible fracking ban under a Biden-Harris administration — and the Democrat candidates don’t seem terribly interested in providing a serious answer to a question that directly affects our livelihoods.

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OPINION: Black America paid the price for Biden’s acquiescence towards China once, but can’t again

By Jack Brewer | Oct 27, 2020

Most government policies produce winners and losers. When it comes to his 30 years of acquiescence to China and our economic reliance on our communist rival, Joe Biden represented the winners. Black Americans were the losers.

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OPINION: Two Pennsylvania Questions for Joe Biden

By Steve Cortes, Senior Advisor for Strategy to the Trump Campaign | Oct 24, 2020

As Joe Biden travels to Pennsylvania on Saturday, here are two critical questions he should be asked.

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OPINION: Three Pennsylvania Questions for Joe Biden

By Staff reports | Oct 14, 2020

As Joe Biden travels to Pennsylvania on Thursday, here are three critical questions he should be asked.

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OPINION: Biden on Social Security: A Bunch of Misleading Malarkey

By Asheesh Agarwal | Oct 8, 2020

More than 2.86 million Pennsylvanians receive Social Security, which is more than one and five residents.

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OPINION: Three Pennsylvania questions for Joe Biden

By Steve Cortes, Senior Advisor for Strategy to the Trump Campaign | Sep 16, 2020

As Joe Biden travels to Pennsylvania on Thursday, here are three critical questions he should be asked.

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OPINION: Fighting to keep healthcare workers safe

By Steve Patterson | May 18, 2020

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has ravaged communities across Pennsylvania and the country, requiring millions of healthcare workers to sacrifice their safety and well-being to treat the most vulnerable and keep the rest of us safe.

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OPINION: Protect defense supply chains during COVID-19

By Bob Sadusky | May 15, 2020

Many people don’t think much about how products are produced.

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Buried Alive Project supports clemency for Jorge and Victor Torres

By April Bamburg | Apr 4, 2020

Buried Alive Project supports clemency for Jorge and Victor Torres, brothers who have each served more than three decades behind bars for a 1988 conviction on conspiracy to distribute heroin and conducting a continuing criminal enterprise.

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David Barren deserves clemency from President Trump that Obama denied, say advocates

By April Bamburg | Apr 3, 2020

David Morris Barren, a 55-year-old inmate who has served 12 years of a 30-year sentence for conspiracy to distribute controlled substances conviction, is seeking clemency from President Donald Trump.

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OPINION: Anonymous Shell Company Loophole Allows Criminals to Hide from the Law

By Eric O'Neill | Mar 19, 2020

When sophisticated criminal enterprises like drug cartels, human traffickers, and internationally sanctioned countries, such as Iran, want to hide their illicit activities from law enforcement behind anonymous shell companies, the law in the United States allows them to do so.