2026 opens with a mirror: look at the soul, then choose stewardship over symbolism. Kerrie Holschbach of Food For His Children shows poverty breaking when goats become micro-loans, youth become entrepreneurs, and dignity replaces dependency in rural Tanzania. Bob Scott of Bob Scott Productions calls communities back to the Hemlock Little World’s Fair and America 250 pride—build something worth passing on.

The year closed with a reckoning. Money without math. Values without truth. Stefan Padfield, Executive Director of the Free Enterprise Project at the National Center for Public Policy Research, exposed how ESG burns trust while hiding behind virtue. Marie Fischer, Project 21 Ambassador, warned that comfort breeds surrender as youth drift and culture decays. Reverend Steven L. Craft, M.Div., Prison Chaplain & Author, thundered that freedom dies without morality. Clarity over chaos. Accountability over optics. The fight continues into the new year.

A nation decides which suffering matters. In Israel, children learn fear before bedtime, and Shava Kleinman of the Shiloh Israel Children’s Fund explains what it takes to rebuild a shattered inner world. Then historian Walter Herbst traces how managed truth, from JFK to today, hollowed public trust. Two conversations. One warning. Lose the moral spine, and everything else follows.

Christmas is over. The truth is not. Peter Vazquez cuts through the wrapping paper and the lies as Jan Jekielek of The Epoch Times exposes how communist China exports propaganda, how Hollywood strangles honesty, and how American ingenuity could break Beijing’s grip on rare earths. From global power to personal duty, the message is blunt: a nation without truth, gratitude, and strong men does not stay free for long.

Christmas Eve arrives with a hard question: what happens when a culture calls death “dignity,” shrugs at violence as inevitable, and rewrites mercy into the release of repeat offenders, then asks the church to clean up what ideology broke.

The answer is not despair. Hope does not collapse, and truth does not negotiate.

With humor cutting through the fog and a sharp reminder that laughter can keep a nation from surrendering its spine, the conversation turns to Pastor Ken Todd of Harvest Bible Church and the meaning of freedom that is more than politics.

He lays it out plainly: faith is not a slogan, Scripture is not a buffet, and your walk always speaks louder than your talk.

He tells stories from overseas where families hike for filthy water at sunrise, and why his mission builds wells in Ivory Coast so children can live and churches can serve without charging a dime.

Callers press on fear, neighborly love, and the slow creep of collectivism. The thread holds: darkness does not win by being loud; it wins when people go silent. Light still works. Hope still confronts lies.

Accountability still protects the innocent. God, country, family—be a leader, and be a voice for liberty.

Two days before Christmas, the microphones open and the noise of the season gives way to something heavier.

Peter Vazquez confronts the moment plainly: the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis has trained the country to confuse chaos for compassion, dependency for justice, and faith for danger.

Joined by Terris E. Todd of the Project 21 Black Leadership Network, the conversation cuts through culture, politics, and theology without apology.

Christmas is reclaimed as Christ’s Mass, not a marketing scheme. Faith is not extremism. Family is not outdated. Work is not oppression.

The Constitution is defended line by line. The First Amendment matters because truth must speak freely. The Second matters because criminals ignore laws while citizens are told to stand down.

From historical black gun ownership against the Klan to modern crime fueled by drugs, broken families, and no-consequence governance, the warning is consistent: disarm the innocent and you empower the lawless.

Race-based fear narratives, media clickbait, and ideological attacks are exposed for what they are. Claims that America “enslaves” black and brown citizens collapse under evidence of opportunity unmatched anywhere in the world.

Immigration without assimilation, Islamist ideology hostile to liberty, and attacks on national identity are not accidents. They are strategies.

Callers press the urgency. The answer is roots. No hyphens. Faith, family, freedom, responsibility.

Christmas is Christ’s Mass. Love, peace, courage. Stand firm. Lead well. Project21.org

The conversation began with a parasite that hijacks the mind of its host and walks it quietly into destruction. That image became the lens. Not biology, but politics. Not insects, but citizens.

From there, the veil was pulled back with Craig Bannister of CNS News and the Media Research Center. What emerged was not chaos, but design. Media bias by omission. Crimes reframed as compassion.

Illegal aliens with criminal records released while headlines warned that families were “being hunted.” Drug runners dismissed as non-threats while overdose deaths stacked into the tens of thousands. Fraud exposed, but enforcement smeared.

Children told they are mature enough for life-altering decisions, yet too immature to vote or drive.

The thread ran deeper. Elites insulated by armed security promoting policies that leave ordinary communities exposed. Race and grievance sold as currency when facts fail. Trust in legacy media collapsing because truth is treated as optional.

Then came the ground truth. Citizens calling in. Poetry warning of corrupted systems. History forgotten. Rights treated as inconveniences.

Gun shows under siege in New York not because of violence, but because an armed, thinking populace is harder to manage than a frightened one.

Food prices rising. Institutions eroding. Tradition mocked. Accountability dodged.

This is the Vanbōōlzalness Crisis. Manipulation thrives when people stop paying attention. Freedom requires participation. Truth requires friction.

A nation that forgets its foundations becomes easy prey for whatever learns how to speak softly while leading it toward ruin.

A studio lights up after days on the run, and Peter Vazquez comes in with a question that does not care about your politics: when did we start confusing adulthood with age? Somewhere along the way, a paper cut became a lawsuit, a feeling became a policy, and disorder started wearing a halo.

Stephen Williford joins the line like a man who has seen what evil looks for. He does not sell fear. He argues for guardianship. If we can post armed protection over money and politicians, why do we leave children and worshippers as the softest target in town?

Trained, concealed staff. Church safety teams. Deterrence that forces a predator to reconsider. The conversation walks through North Carolina’s HB193 revisions, the tug-of-war with anti-freedom governors, and the larger fight: reciprocity, constitutional carry, and dismantling the ancient tricks of the NFA that turned rights into paperwork.

Then the tone shifts from bullets to beliefs. DawnMarie Alexander Boursiquot of Project 21 enters with a different kind of warning: a nation cannot survive on grievance as a personality. She names the new religion plainly, performing trauma, outsourcing responsibility, medicating pain instead of treating the wound.

From the arguments around Dr. King’s legacy and Chad O. Jackson’s documentaries, to marijuana policy and the quiet money-machine behind “compassion,” she calls for something unfashionable: a moral center.

Christmas is near. Noise is everywhere. Discernment is rare. This hour insists on one idea: liberty survives only where responsibility still has a home.