Medicaid was not built for able-bodied adults in their 30s and 40s who are simply not working. It was built for people who genuinely cannot take care of themselves; the elderly in nursing homes, children from low-income families, pregnant women, the severely disabled. That was the program. Then Obamacare blew the doors open. The Affordable Care Act created a brand new eligibility category: working-age, able-bodied adults earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level. Twenty million people were added to Medicaid under that expansion. The program that once protected the most vulnerable in America was converted, in part, into a no-questions-asked entitlement for people who could, in many cases, work their way out of it.

A federal prosecutor went public this weekend with something California does not want you to read. Bill Essayli, First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, announced that the state is actively blocking a federal audit of its voter rolls. The Department of Justice, led by Harmeet Dhillon, has been trying to obtain California's voter registration records for over a year. The legal authority is clear: the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1960 all grant the federal government the right to review these records. California sued the DOJ back. A district court dismissed the federal case. The DOJ appealed. It now sits before the Ninth Circuit.

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed the cadets at West Point, many Americans heard something that has been missing from too much of modern public life: moral clarity.

On Tuesday, Vice President JD Vance confirmed from the White House briefing room that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar for immigration fraud. "I don't want to prejudge an investigation," Vance told reporters. "It certainly seems like something fishy is there." He made one thing unmistakably clear: "If we think there's a crime, we're going to prosecute that crime."

On Tuesday, the Justice Department added a one-page addendum to Trump's IRS settlement declaring the agency "forever barred and precluded" from auditing Trump, his family, and his businesses' past tax returns. Chuck Schumer called it a "get-out-of-jail-free card." Democrats across the country screamed corruption. The media ran wall-to-wall coverage about accountability and the rule of law.

The First Amendment protects the free exercise of religion. It protects the right to assemble. It does not require Christians to hide their faith to make progressives comfortable. There is no constitutional clause that says "except when the president is involved" or "only in private." The left has spent decades demanding that Christianity retreat from public life entirely, not because the Constitution requires it, but because the left is threatened by it.

In two weeks, California holds its June 2 gubernatorial primary. Sixty-one candidates are on the ballot. Republicans have consolidated behind two: Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and Trump-endorsed political commentator Steve Hilton. Democrats have seven major candidates, none of whom has managed to break away from the pack. The result is a crowded Democratic field splitting its votes into thin slices, while Republicans stand a real chance of claiming both top-two spots and locking Democrats out of the November general election entirely. And now the left wants to change the rules.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court preserved telehealth and mail access to mifepristone while the legal battle continues. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. The 5th Circuit had ruled on May 1 that the Biden-era FDA regulation allowing the drug to be prescribed by video appointment and mailed to patients without an in-person visit was unlawful. The Supreme Court slapped a temporary stay on that ruling while it considers the case. The fight is live. The stakes are civilizational.