Turn off the news. Seriously, just turn it off for five minutes and read this instead.
Because if your week looked anything like the headlines, you’re exhausted, angry, and convinced everything is falling apart. That’s exactly how the media wants you to feel. A demoralized conservative is a couch-sitting conservative, and couch-sitting conservatives don’t show up on election day.
So let’s talk about what actually happened this week. Spoiler: it was good. Real good.
714 Million Barrels. New Record. USA. USA. USA.
The Trump administration hit a number this week that would have caused a ticker-tape parade if a Democrat had done it: 714 million barrels of offshore oil produced in 2025. An all-time record. The most domestic energy this country has ever pumped in a single year.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgess explained it simply regulatory certainty, streamlined approvals, and getting bureaucrats out of the way of the people who actually know how to drill.
The same crowd that told you American energy independence was a right-wing fever dream is now very quiet. The same administration that spent four years canceling pipelines and begging Saudi Arabia for oil left behind a country that just broke its own production record.
America First energy policy works. Who knew. (We knew.)
Factories Haven’t Run This Hot Since 2022
Here’s another one that got buried: U.S. manufacturing expanded at its fastest pace in nearly four years in March. The ISM Manufacturing PMI came in at 52.7. Thirteen of sixteen manufacturing sectors reported growth. Eight straight months of expansion.
Eight straight months.
The media spent years telling blue-collar workers their jobs were gone forever shipped overseas, automated away, never coming back. They told entire communities to learn to code and stop complaining. They said the manufacturing economy was a relic.
Funny how “never coming back” keeps coming back.
California Got Slapped With a $4.5 Million Bill For Hiding Your Kids’ Transitions
Oh, this one is sweet.
After the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 last month that California’s scheme to secretly transition students without telling their parents was unconstitutional, a federal judge this week handed the state a $4.52 million attorneys’ fee bill.
Judge Roger Benitez a man clearly operating with a functioning sense of justice cited California’s “litigation intransigence.” Every time the parents and teachers fighting this policy won, California filed another appeal, another motion, another delay. They stretched this out as long as they possibly could hoping the parents would give up.
They didn’t give up. They won. And now California taxpayers are on the hook for $4.5 million because Gavin Newsom’s administration thought it could keep parents in the dark about what was happening to their own children.
The bill’s in the mail, Gavin.
Iran’s Navy: Gone. Iran’s Air Force: Ruins.
President Trump addressed the nation this week with a sentence that would have been considered science fiction four years ago: “Their Navy is gone. Their Air Force is in ruins.”
The core objectives of the Iran campaign are nearing completion. The regime that spent decades funding terrorism, chanting death to America, and making the Middle East a permanent warzone is having the worst spring of its existence.
This isn’t weakness. This isn’t appeasement. This isn’t 444 days of hostages and helplessness. This is what American strength looks like when you put someone in charge who actually believes in it.
We’re Going Back to the Moon
NASA launched Artemis II this week. American astronauts. Heading to the Moon. First time since 1972.
While the other side was busy organizing protests, holding fake congressional hearings, and paying celebrities to strum acoustic guitars about how sad they are America pointed some of its bravest people at the Moon and hit launch.
That’s us. That’s who we are.
Go into the weekend knowing we’re winning. Because we are.
