https://townhall.com/columnists/feedTownhall is the leading source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking stories, election analysis and commentary on politics and the media culture. An information hub for conservatives, republicans, libertarians, and liberty-loving Americans.en-usMon, 09 Nov 2026 10:52:12 -0500<![CDATA[Democrat Party implosion isn’t an impossibility. The Democrats are not&nbsp;united, not by any stretch of the imagination, and their divisions are serious, for reasons I shall explain. And they are already having disagreements. A couple of headlines I saw Friday:]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Mark Lewis]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/11/09/will-the-democrats-implode-n2686112<![CDATA[On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated on the campus of Utah Valley University. When he was killed, Kirk was doing what he regularly did, allowing a liberal to question him on an issue. He was known for holding events on college campuses and giving his political opponents an opportunity to ask questions.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jeff Crouere]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2026/11/09/deranged-democrats-celebrate-kirk-assassination-n2686111<![CDATA[The Democrats have been ominously warning for months that once their party resumes power, they will go relentlessly and viciously after President Donald Trump, his appointees and associates, and others connected to the MAGA movement. In January, they will hold over the 50 percent majority in the U.S. House required to impeach Trump and his officials, although not the two-thirds control in the U.S. Senate to actually remove them. Depending on whether Democrats end up taking 54, 55, or 56 Senate seats, they would need 11 to 13 sellout Republican Senators to cross over and vote to remove.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Rachel Alexander]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2026/11/09/how-the-left-will-be-coming-after-us-with-large-scale-lawfare-now-n2686109<![CDATA[New York’s attorney general can now go to court to stop a flyer that hasn’t been mailed, provided the state believes it impersonates a union. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the law on Sept. 9, and its text reaches anyone who “has engaged or is about to engage” in what it defines as false impersonation.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/11/09/blue-states-are-putting-a-price-on-speech-n2686104<![CDATA[Both in Israel and in the US, right-leaning politicians shape-shift more than any creature on Star Trek.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/11/09/politicians-lie-you-dont-say-n2686103<![CDATA[A gratifying response to the absolute disaster last Tuesday has been the fact that Republicans in general have started a good-faith debate about what the hell happened and what we should do next. Oh yeah, there are some schmucks in there gloating, and a few grifters are trying to leverage the disaster to resurrect their garbage Bush-era brand of uniparty decline, but they don’t count. Mike Pence, for example, weighed in, but he weighs nothing — the guy couldn’t be more of a lightweight, and the notion that anyone cares what Mike Pence says, whose name isn’t Mike Pence, is positively hilarious.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Kurt Schlichter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/11/09/one-big-midterm-lesson-no-more-gop-zombie-hacks-n2686086<![CDATA[I remember when I was stationed at Fort Riley near Manhattan, Kansas, my Mom did something she rarely, if ever, did. She took a plane ride out to visit me. Mom was not a big fan of airline travel. Back in the day, she preferred bus, train, or car. It was special to have Mom come out and spend time, especially to see her little granddaughter, Aubrey Elizabeth. Elizabeth was my Mom’s name. In those days, Manhattan, Kansas, did not have a thriving airport, so one had to do the two-and-a-half-hour drive down to Kansas City (MCI). Coming back to Manhattan, where we lived, the skies grew dark, and as we headed west from Topeka, we entered the wide-open Konza Prairie. Off in the distance, the night sky was illuminated. They were doing a controlled prairie burn. Mom, in her sweet Southern vernacular, kindly asked me if we were driving into hell.&nbsp;]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Allen West]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/11/09/a-political-controlled-burn-n2686059<![CDATA[Election 2026 is over, and it didn’t go well. Final tallies are still trickling in for California (they always do), but those elections are a foregone conclusion. The AP called the California governor’s race at the closing of the polls, and I am too jaded by liberal Californians’ repeated votes for failure to scream about voter fraud. No matter how much fraud there may be, I have witnessed enough town halls and political discourse in this state to recognize that Californians are afflicted with Republican Derangement Syndrome and Trump Derangement Syndrome in particular.]]>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Arthur Schaper]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2026/11/09/election-2026-reflections-on-the-deep-blue-victories-n2686007<![CDATA[Wall Street gave Democrats a standing ovation on Wednesday and a dose of reality on Thursday. After Democrats won both chambers of Congress, flipping more than two dozen Republican-held House seats, the Dow jumped 3 percent, its best post-midterm day since 1982. Then Thursday arrived. At the close, the S and P 500 had fallen 4.36 percent, or 334.89 points, and the Nasdaq Composite 5.52 percent, or 1,421.52 points. The VIX, Wall Street's fear gauge, jumped&nbsp;68 percent to 27.46. That is the worst second day after a midterm in nearly a century, well past the 2002 low of 2.3 percent. More than $2 trillion in value evaporated from pension plans, IRAs, and 401(k) plans.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/11/08/your-401k-just-met-the-new-congress-n2686095<![CDATA[Two weeks before the November election, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s hopeful book "America’s Golden Age" described “Trumpism and an Era of Limitless Possibilities.” Then the bottom fell out – and America today is facing the total cancellation of the Trump agenda.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Duggan Flanakin]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/dugganflanakin/2026/11/08/gingrichs-golden-age-comes-crashing-down-n2686090<![CDATA[Political disagreement is essential to a functioning democracy. Republicans and Democrats will naturally disagree over taxes, immigration, national security and virtually every issue confronting the country. Vigorous debate is one of our political system's greatest strengths, but there is a difference between aggressively challenging policies and using language that portrays a political opponent as a threat who must be eliminated.&nbsp;]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Dan Rene]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/dan-rene/2026/11/08/political-rhetoric-is-becoming-more-dangerous-n2686089<![CDATA[Law professor Jonathan Turley posted on X on Friday, “Democrat Richard Ojeda, who was just elected to Congress, has declared that he would be 'happy to go to jail' if he has a chance to physically assault the incoming Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.” While I’d love to see the Secret Service, under whose protection Miller lives because of violent leftists threatening to murder him and his family in the name of “tolerance,” break Ojeda’s jaw as they threw him to the floor, I somehow suspect the unfortunate-looking Democrat is all talk, as most Democrats are.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Derek Hunter]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/11/08/these-democrats-are-out-for-literal-blood-n2686087<![CDATA[While the news media in the United States continues its myopic obsession with politics, it has missed an important humanitarian story, where the First Lady has almost single-handedly liberated an entire city in Ukraine, relieved extreme suffering and ensured the safety and well-being of thousands of people.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Ken Blackwell]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2026/11/08/the-real-humanitarian-n2686068<![CDATA[Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are available here. The first 56 volumes are compiled in the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," covering volumes 57-113, was published in December 2022.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Myra Kahn Adams]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/myrakahnadams/2026/11/08/a-quick-bible-study-vol-345-when-god-calls-people-to-leadership-in-the-old-testament-part-1-n2686062<![CDATA[There are certain things in life that one may need to experience oneself.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Alan Joseph Bauer]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2026/11/08/what-does-a-banana-taste-like-n2686055<![CDATA[America should not be surprised that our nation, largely existing in flagrant rejection of God’s Word, is reaping the consequences of its own rebellion.]]>Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Dr. Alex McFarland]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/alexmcfarland/2026/11/08/one-nation-under-judgment-spiritual-implications-of-the-election-results-n2685925<![CDATA[In this day of quick takes, biting nicknames, and social media-fueled division, it takes a lot for just about everyone to agree on something. And usually, in a bittersweet way, that seems to happen most when a beloved entertainer passes away.]]>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jon Scruggs]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jonscruggs/2026/11/07/what-this-patrick-stewart-scene-can-teach-us-about-truth-and-courage-n2686003<![CDATA[On a night when Republicans lost their grip on states they had governed for decades, the Ron DeSantis model in Florida was the sole survivor.]]>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Evan Berryhill]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/evanberryhill/2026/11/07/republicans-still-have-a-future-ron-desantis-showed-them-how-n2686074<![CDATA[Mourning what they lost but choosing life and rebuilding for today and generations to come &nbsp;]]>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Paul Driessen]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2026/11/07/beeri-rises-like-a-phoenix-from-its-october-7-ashes-n2686071<![CDATA[OpenSecrets projects that federal campaigns will spend $11.9 billion this year, a record for a midterm. Jerry Seinfeld built a hit show about nothing. Our candidates just spent nearly $12 billion on the sequel, and outside groups alone are on pace for $3.9 billion, an 85 percent jump from 2022.]]>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:01:00 -0500<![CDATA[Jay Rogers]]>https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/11/07/the-ads-stop-the-bills-keep-coming-n2686065