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our editor in chief at The Federalist, Molly Hemingway, as
well as our Chief Development Officer, Sarah Prinsy. We not
only do a twenty twenty five recap of some of
the biggest stories we covered this year, as well as
a twenty twenty six preview of what the year ahead
is going to hold, but we also talk about how you,
the Federalist fans, listeners, followers, how you can get involved
and help support our work in this important fight for
truth in a landscape that doesn't really seem to always
care all that much about it. We also preview our
new Federalist store and how you can find some awesome
merch there. So, without further ado, please welcome Molly and
Sarah to the Kylie Cast. I am here today with
Sarah Prinsy, the Federalists Chief Development Officer, and Molly Hemingway,
editor in chief at The Federalist. It is so cool
to be sitting here, even if we're not in the
same room in a virtual room with you two, because
I never get to see you, so welcome to you both.
Speaker 2: It's great to be here. Thank you, so great to
have you.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you, Sarah, because Molly is a familiar
face to the millions of moms in America who watch
your on Fox News. But Sarah, you are a relatively
recent addition to the Federalist, So why don't you kick
us off by just telling us how you got here?
Why did you choose the Federalist crazy team that you're
now a part of?
Speaker 3: Of course, of course it was a very easy choice
actually seeing the work the Federalist does and the truth
that they put out into the world, I knew I
wanted to take my talents and my time here. I
truly believe that we are saving this country one article
at a time by actually telling the truth and giving
people the information they need.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to be a part of.
Speaker 3: This so badly to help get this out, to make
sure everybody knows about it, and just to help tell
these stories that are so important. I have two daughters,
I have a grand baby, and I want this country
saved for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, retweet, couldn't have said that better. Mollie.
Speaker 1: You've worked in media for a long time conservative and second,
I think as well our non conservative media. What sets
the Federalist apart from all of these other media organizations
in your mind?
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're in an information warfare environment. We have a
lot of different media companies that think their job is
to push propaganda, to push narrative. They want to advance
the ball politically, and so we see that with so
much major left wing corporate media, Washington Post, New York Times.
You know, they're constantly running big stories designed to help
political allies and to hurt political opponents. And we are
different than that because we do not subscribe to their
left wing political view. You know, whatever the issue is
that they want to be pushing, whether it's like putting
books encouraging trans operations in children's libraries, or pushing lawfare
against conservatives, or pushing COVID hysteria or whatever the thing is,
we just don't share their view of you know, what
is good for a media outlet to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think another thing too, even among conservative media, that
sets us apart. I mean as people who are watching
the show, not just listening, can see, which this is
a reminder that if you are just listening to the show,
you could be watching it. So go check out the
full video version on YouTube or rumble. But it's that
we're not in the same room. We don't all live
in DC. A lot of media conservative and otherwise, you know,
they have a home base they exist in one place,
people move there and you start to think the same
and talk the same. And specifically for DC outlets, you know,
you have people from all over the country who have
all of these diverse viewpoints, and they come to.
Speaker 2: The Beltway and they hear the DC speak.
Speaker 1: And they view it as their job to speak DC
to the rest of the country, Whereas at the Federalist,
not only our vast roster of contributors but also even
our staff are all over the country I mean coast
to coast everywhere in between. And it's so cool that
we just have such diverse viewpoints, which becomes very apparent
in the chat when we have all kinds little squabbles there.
But it's also just so great because you never get
one viewpoint. You really get a lot of diverse viewpoints,
even on one side of the aisle, which is super cool.
Speaker 4: And just like put a fine point on that that
is so well stated. So much of corporate media and
just media in general are based in Washington, DC or
New York. They exist to tell the rest of the
country what the powerful people in DC and New York
want them to know. And when we started the Federalists,
we were like, well, what if a publication existed to
tell the people in d C what real people think
about what they're doing and about what their concerns are.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Like, so we every day make sure that we are
putting forth a perspective that is almost completely absent from
most corporate media, which is, you know, the American perspective
on how things should be. You know, what are the
concerns of normal people and how frustrated they are with
the people who are in power.
Speaker 1: They're A great thing is there are a lot of outlets,
even among conservatives, that specialize in one thing and they
do it super well. And maybe it's a culture publication
or maybe it's a specifically religious publication, and they run
like a lot of really good Catholic stuff or a
lot of really good Protestant stuff, and they fellow those
niches really well. But one thing that I love about
the Federalist is we cover politics, religion, and culture, and
often those things intersect. You know, something is not strictly
a political issue, it's also touches on religious liberty issues
and things, and so that just really helps us to
cover this broad array of topics that matters so much
to Americans and to cover them all really well. So
I love, specifically as a Christian Conservative, being able to
really let that inform my writing and the podcast and
everything else, which is which is unique to us. I think, Molly,
let's talk quickly about the biggest stories of the year.
What are the things that stand out to you? And
our coverage at the Federalists from twenty twenty five is
like our not only our bombshell pieces, but just the
things that were unique or yeah, what's stood out to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, every year at the Federalist is different, and this
year was really marked by, of course, the Trump administration.
So last year we were covering so much about elections,
election integrity, looking at how elections were being run in
every state, anticipating problems before they became. Some of the
horrific problems that we saw in twenty twenty, reporting on
them so that people could deal with them at a
time that was helpful. And so Trump wins the twenty
twenty four election, Republicans take the House and the Senate,
and so it's this really interesting time that I think
nobody would have predicted four years prior. Trump hits the
ground running. You know, it was one of these things
where he clearly had an agenda to push right away
when he came into office, and so a lot of
people talk about like the first hundred days of a
presidency being a really big thing. In Trump's case, it
was more like the first two hundred days, We're just
just every day. It was like waking up to ten
major stories. And so part of it is about communicating
what is being done. It is about how left wing institutions,
such as the media and other institutions, what they were
doing to thwart what the Trump administration was doing. Looking
at whether Congress, how Congress was responding to Trump in
terms of, you know, he would have different cabinet nominations,
and frequently some of the most paciferous opposition would come
from fellow Republicans. We were on top of that story
like few other publications were, in part because we understood
how frustrated average Americans who had voted for Trump were
with the typical DC political games that are going on,
and we were able to weigh in heavily with coverage
of how different nominations were going, who was attempting to
stop them, and why. I think that was some of
our really important early coverage. We also saw major law
fair against the Trump administration. So with how broken everything
is in Washington, d C. The Trump administration has taken
what has become like a popular thing for presidents to
do and really turned it up, which is governing by
executive authority executive order and then seeing and then what
happened with a lot of his opposition on the left
was that they just immediately would file for injunctions to
stop whatever was going on. This is something where it's
kind of our bread and butter to look at what's
happening in the courts. Frequently when the courts have, you know,
have a decision, things are working their way through a
court system. It's very complicated. It's very difficult to understand,
you know for a normal layperson, like what did that
order just mean and what does that mean for the
progress of something? And meanwhile, left wing media is just
doing everything in their power to join with left wing
other left wing institutions to thwart anything from happening during
the administration. So we covered that a lot, and then
we also had some really exciting stuff for another issue
that we've covered for a long time, which is the
fallout of the Russia collusion hoax and other information operations
that were run against the first Trump administration. We did
some of the best reporting on that during the first
Trump administration and it really helped us as all of
a sudden in the second Trump administration, some of his
cabinet secretaries and other officials are declassifying information, and it's
just like a deluge of information coming out. And because
we had done such good reporting on that over the years,
we were able to kind of quickly explain, here's what's new,
here's what's not new, here's what can happen going forward,
and so all of those stories were important. Also covering
what's happening with cultural issues. You know, we previously talked
about some of the trans insanity that's going on, and
just being on top of that and covering that, also
what's happening for pro lifers and their political voice in
this administration, some of which hasn't been a very good
story for them, and explaining what their desires are and
how they're trying to push things forward. And so we
just had like, really, there's so much stuff I could
get into, but I don't want to just ramble on
another thing. I just want to say really quickly. We
were covering because so much was being done on the border,
looking at things like how border enforcement affects, you know,
public goods such as healthcare, education, all of our emergency services,
and drilling down into that and seeing how what this
means for local communities across the country. As you noted,
we're not primarily based in DC or New York. I'm
in DC, but almost all of our reporters and editors
are spread throughout the country, so that we can have
a really good sense of the pulse of the American
people everywhere else.
Speaker 2: Such good stuff.
Speaker 1: And we will get back to the Russia hoax reporting
because that was huge this year, so we'll dive into
that in a little while here. I was also laughing
to myself as you were saying the first two hundred
days of the Trump administration and how much there was
to cover. And I remember when I joined sixsh years ago,
I think I would always think, like, oh, once we
get to the end of the Supreme Court confirmation, like
things will slow down a little bit, like oh, we'll
be able to catch our breath after the election. And
that's just a lie. Every single time, there was no
no breath catching. After the twenty twenty four election, it's
just been like NonStop and the best way. But it's
just it's always something and the Trump administration is no exception.
Speaker 4: I have to tease about this because you know, Sean Davis,
our CEO, who's great, and I you know, we're pretty
plugged in every day of the year. And I tried
to take a single day off in August of twenty
twenty three. I guess it was that when they rated
mar A Lago or was that twenty two I can't
twenty three, I think, And it was the day they
rated mar Alago and Sean Davis was like, we're literally
never allowed to take another day off ever again.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, yep, And that's why they write it that day.
You have to know that, Molly, that they were waiting
for your schedule, Yeah, for your day off. So oh
my word. Anyway, such good coverage this past year. But
of course, all of this good journalism is only possible
because of our very generous and loyal listeners, viewers, donors.
Everyone who cares about saving the country cares about truth
and good journalism and fighting the good fight. So Sarah
on the development team, can you explain to us what
the Federalists Foundation is and how our listeners and readers
who maybe aren't currently supporting this work of journalism, how
they can get involved in this really important fight.
Speaker 3: Of course, I think a lot of people don't realize
that we are a nonprofit of five oh one to
three c so your donations are tax deductible, and the
Foundation supports the Federalist as you as you see them
as a whole, and it's very important. We don't get
any government money. We're completely supported by our donors and
by their generosity and believing in what we're doing. And
we want to get to know our donors better. We
want to talk with them, we want to see them
at events, and so going into twenty six, we have
made some donor levels where we'll have calls, they will
get special emails, and at certain levels they will get
very cool swag and things sent to them because we
all love this stuff. And actually, if you join the
newest initiative that we have, the Federalist Insider, and that's
exactly what you'll be. You're going to get to hear
things first, You're going to know about events first. Molly
will be going on a book tour next year and
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If you're part of a Federalist Insider And not only
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hit that you want to give that every month and
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It tells everybody out there you are. It's an amazing
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going out. So Sarah, thank you for that one of
the biggest Federalists highlights this year, which Molly already previewed,
was winning the Dow Prize.
Speaker 2: That was a really big deal and I would love.
Speaker 1: Molly if you can just share with our listeners the
awesome Russia hoax reporting that contributed to that honor for
the Federalists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Dow Journalism Awards are given to people who
do good investigative journalism, and we won this year the
Grand Prize for our coverage of the Russia collusion hoax
just in the past year. And so, as I mentioned,
this is a story that we've been working on since
the very beginning, and it was very lonely at the beginning.
My first story on the Russia collusion hoax is actually
October twenty sixteen, so before most people even knew there
was a hoax, we were covering this looking we'd kind
of recognized that an info op was being laid out,
and so you know, covering that and what that meant
and why people shouldn't fall for it. By January of
twenty seventeen, the whole country was like up in arms
about the Russia collusion hoax. I think a lot of
normal people looked at it and said this is ridiculous, like,
obviously this isn't true. Donald Trump did not steal the
twenty sixteen election by colluding with Russia.
Speaker 2: And that's great. But in Washington, d C.
Speaker 4: Everyone either believed it or pretended to believe it. And
so we worked so hard with very limited information. You know,
the whole story was being done in conjunction with very
powerful left wing media CNN, The Washington Post, the New
York Times. They were working hand in glove with Obama's
top spy chiefs and their friends who remained in these
three letter agencies during the Trump administration to paint a
false picture that Trump had colluded with Russia to steal
the election. All of those media outlets won major awards
for their full participation in it. So we covered everything,
you know, using the information that they would publish and
our own sources, our own access, our own shoe leather reporting,
would you know, figured out what was going on and
uncovered it well. Just in the last year we had
more exclusive stories, including stories showing how there were which
were exclusive to us completely, you know, completely, our own
reporting showing that people in the CIA and the ODN I,
the Director of National Intelligence offices had actually tried to
stop the Russia collusion hoax, and what happened to them
when they tried to stop it. They had their jobs threatened,
They were isolated from knowing enough information to know how
to pursue their suspicions that things weren't right. They were bullied,
they were disparaged, and so we broke those stories and
we won this award for those stories and others about
that unveiling of the Russia collusion hoax, And just to
add to it, in the early years, we were mostly
focused on the FBI. What was James Comey doing, what
was Andrew McCabe doing, What was the Department of Justice doing?
We really knew there were problems there, and that's where
almost everybody was paying attention. What we broke this year,
and what we learned this year was how the other
spy agencies were also involved and the key role that
they played in operationalizing this hoax and information.
Speaker 2: Up against the American people.
Speaker 4: And so we are thrilled that we won this massive
prize from thewjournalism people, and we are so thankful to
have our work appreciated because it was so lonely to
do it for so long. I mean what we went through,
the bullying that we received from certain very high level people,
including United States senators and other people who were really
trying to threaten us away from reporting this story. It's
now kind of popular to understand that it was a hoax,
but that was, you know, first of all, thanks to
our amazing reporters and also very difficult to do at
the outset.
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Speaker 1: Well, this gets to something that the Federalist is really
good at, and that is identifying info ops and hoaxes
as they're getting started and then being able to kind
of cut it off at the source. So, I mean,
we've done this with so many things. I mean great
Russia Russia collusion, hoax reporting, with the Kavanaugh rape hox,
with the Jesse small Lette hoax, with twenty twenty election propaganda,
the Suckers and Losers hoax. I mean, we could sit
here and list hoaxes and infoops that we've kind of
been right at the start, going no for probably twenty minutes.
But Molly, how why are we so good at recognizing infoops?
And how can our listeners make themselves immune to falling
for these kinds of hoaxes and ops?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I mean, it's like a really good question, and it's
been a lifetime of work for many of us to
kind of get to the point where you can recognize them.
I'm thinking right now about the first time I recognized
like a large scale information up, which was I think
maybe like twenty I camera was like somewhere in the
twenty ten to twenty fourteen phase, there was a hearing
that was held on religious liberty and problems with the
Obamacare and how it restricted different church bodies religious liberty,
and so there was I can't remember which committee it was,
but they had a variety of different leaders of different
church bodies talking about it. And then the Democrats put
up a witness who was a woman named Sandra Fluck
I think her name was. She was a Georgetown law
student who wanted to take a bortifacians as birth control
or something like that, and so as she testified, it
suddenly became the biggest news in the world somehow, you know,
all these different media outlets had gazy, beautiful photos of
her ready to go about her plight.
Speaker 2: It was evening news.
Speaker 4: It was like, you know, coordinated messaging was pretty easy
to pick out from it because the purpose of the
hearing was to talk about religious liberty concerns, and within
twenty four hours, all of a sudden, it was about
how religious people want to keep poor law students at
Georgetown from being able to take a bordiphaciance or something.
And so when I saw that, I was like, oh,
that was well coordinated. That was smart. Like I didn't
love it because I care about religious liberty, but it
was a very smart operation. And it turned out that
Sandra Fluck was repped by a major PR firm, I
think Anita Dunn was involved in her storytelling and how
they got that out. So once you see it, it's
kind of easy to see it. Anytime a thing just
starts rolling out. With the Russia collusion hoax, I'll just
say the thing that keyed it for me was that
Hillary Clinton tweeted out a story from I think The
Atlantic or something like that saying, oh, it looks like
Russia's colluding with Trump to steal the election. And then
there were three other stories that kind of came out
at the same same day, and I think it was
like the day of the last debate, so you could
tell like these all came out because Hillary Clinton wanted
them out that day, and she's highlighting them, and it's
all like it didn't It also helped that it didn't
just seem true to me, Like I was like, I
don't think Donald Trump is a Russian agent, you know,
so you're already kind of sniffing it out.
Speaker 2: The Kavanaugh rape.
Speaker 4: Hoax, I think is like an IQ test for whether
you can figure this out or not. So if we
can go back to twenty eighteen, I think that was
the year that he was nominated, it was interesting, you know,
Justice Kennedy steps down there is a short list of
potential candidates, so we kind of get familiar with who
the different candidates are. Kavanaugh is announced as the nominee.
He's widely characterized as being sort of like the most moderate,
most acceptable to some of the weaker Republicans who will
have to vote on his nomination. Immediately, things get crazy.
You've got organized protests at the Supreme Court immediately, and
they had pre made signs for each of the nominees
or each of the potential nominees with like the worst
person in the world would be Hardaman, the worst person
in the world would be kavanat like they already were
ready to go. And so they're doing that, and you've
got massive protests on Capitol Hill, but they're not really
breaking through because the guy is so he doesn't elicit
a lot of excitement from a lot of people. So
it's just like not breaking through, and it's all about
paperwork and stuff like that. And then one day the
Washington Post announces that this guy who's been a federal
judge for twelve years and has gone through like a
ton of background checks, well there's like an interesting story
of a woman alleging some kind of wrongdoing. And it's
like a very long story that clearly is trying to
make a lot out of an allegation, but it doesn't
seem like it's like a very difficult story to rebut
because it's based on the memories of a single person
and what happened when that dropped. I'm on some of
these chats with reporters and other journalists and you know,
even ostensibly conservative journalist. Then moment that story drops, they're like, oh,
this looks bad. They should probably find another nominee. And
I'm thinking, well, I lived through the Clarence Thomas hearings.
I remember that they went exactly this way, exactly down
to a last minute media drop of a vague claim
that's very difficult to rebut laundered through like the finest
journalism outlets. And I'm thinking, it's possible that Brett Kavanaugh,
this person that everyone in DC kind of knows and
has found to be a very very polite person, is
also a serial gang rapist. That's certainly possible, but it's
highly unlikely. And I'll be damned if I believe the
Washington Post about this without much better evidence. Right, And
so it's not just about recognizing the information AP but
like being willing to fight the information OP as well.
You know, anytime you see coordination of a similar message,
you know, I think quite clearly the there's a lot
of coordination going on right now with a message trying
to get American troops to not follow orders of their superiors.
This is actually very damaging to military cohesion. You can
see it's an OP because everyone keeps on trying to
drop stories that support it. But you need to not
just recognize what's happening, but also fight it.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And you make such a good point too
about the Clarence Thomas thing, because these ops they just
go round and around the same cul de sac, like
we keep doing the same thing over and over, and
so that's another way you can recognize them is that
there's nothing new under the sun, and the same ops
will recycle themselves eventually.
Speaker 3: So I'm I think I'm probably like a lot of
other people out there. Before I found The Federalist several
years ago, I would scroll on socials and then you know,
see a story and like is that true? And then
have to go down this whole entire rabbit hole of
trying to figure out what I just writ is it true,
spending time I should not have spent on that when
now I usually just go to our website, the Federalist
dot Com and I just read and I'm like, yeah,
that's all I have to do when I see anything
silly is go see what the actual truth is on
our website. It saves me hours a day just to
go there now, which is great.
Speaker 4: I love hearing it, And that's like what we're doing,
you know, we invest a lot of time and not
just having like a sense that maybe they're not telling
the truth, but explaining why, having the facts that you
could share with friends and family about why you believe
the thing you believe. We've already done the work of
explaining things and assessing things, and we're willing to you know,
We're willing.
Speaker 2: To say things that are difficult to say.
Speaker 4: And I think that is inspired a lot of confidence
in our reporting. It's not you know, opinion, it's reporting
based on real things that it's you know, very hard
to get done, but we're very proud to do it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think COVID is a really good example of
this too, because I know there.
Speaker 2: Was really a crisis of credibility.
Speaker 1: That happened in that whole era where there were many
Americans that's you know, the corporate media are lying to us,
which yes, that is true, and that you know, that
was the time that it was recognized the medical establishment
is lying to us. You know, the public schools are
lying to us. Everybody's lying to us. And so much
was exposed during that era where people really just stopped,
stopped inherently trusting institutions that they thought were inherently trustworthy
because we realized actually they're not. But I think in
the past few years we've seen this kind of like
crisis where it's like, okay, well.
Speaker 2: Then who do you believe?
Speaker 1: And the thing is that, like not every single thing
is a conspiracy theory, Like.
Speaker 2: There actually is real truth.
Speaker 1: And that's one thing that I love about the Federalist
is that we don't just stop at distrusting the institute
and asking good questions, but it's that there actually are
facts that we can know and we can find out
and those are the things that we deal in, is
the facts and the truth. And that there's so much
power in that because it gives people something to grab onto,
not just to let go of. So that's really important Sarah.
I keep hearing people talk about the Legacy Society at
the Federalist but I don't know what that is. So
can you share with our listeners what is the legacy society?
Speaker 2: Her?
Speaker 3: Of course, everyone that is a donor should be part
of Legacy Society because if you're a donor, you believe
in what.
Speaker 4: We are doing.
Speaker 3: And what that means is you've decided that you're going
to leave a percentage of your estate to the Federalists.
So when that time comes, you're going to make sure
that we're going to be here for another one hundred
and twenty years reporting this, that we are going to
be a long standing entity, and you want to make
sure that happens with part of your estate, with part
of your trust. And it's very easy if you go
to our website. We actually have a tool on there,
so if you don't have your will done yet, there
is a free tool and it helps you fill everything out.
You get it done, you get it printed out, you
send us a copy so we can recognize and thank you,
and then you just go and have it signed by
your attorney or any attorney and your will is done
and then we're in it, and we very much appreciate that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I didn't even know that was possible. So, yes,
the Federalists will outlive a lot of the people listening
to this. So that's that's great, Molly. So twenty twenty five,
that's a wrap. We're now entering the new year. I'm
curious what you think are the biggest stories our listeners
can be watching for and the biggest things that the
Federalist is going to have our finger on the pulse
of Beside the midterms, which that's a big one that's
coming up, but what else.
Speaker 4: Well, I would actually say, if I can mention, midterms
aren't a huge thing to cover, and next year is
an election year. It's an important election year. I think
there's a lot of prognosis that people have about what's
likely to happen. Historically speaking, the party that is not
in power would be expected to have huge gains. It's
also true that the twenty twenty four election was a
really important election for America. I think this is one
of those things that we speak to at the Federalist.
A lot of people who are in media are pretty
comfortable with the status quo, and that's true, whether they
are left wing corporate media or sometimes like establishment conservative media,
they're actually just fine with the way things are going.
But I think a lot of people in this country
are very worried about the direction of the country. They
really think that there have been some major problems that
are putting the success of the republic in question. And
so this isn't Every election is interesting in different ways.
But I think that when people surprised so many people
by re electing Donald Trump for this non consecutive second term,
it was very much for a lot of people about
a desire to make some important and radical change to
some of the bad things that have been happening. And
so House and Senate elections are very important for that because,
you know, to be obvious about it, to have the
change of the kind that a lot of people want.
Who controls the House and who controls the Senate will
have a lot to do with, you know, whether people
are satisfied with the results, and so we will be
investing a lot in covering the House and also just
kind of helping people understand how normal people view these things,
which is very different from how people in Washington, d c.
Think about things. I just you know, prior to taping
this was having a call with the very high elected
person trying to convey what we hear from our readers
and listeners on these topics. So that's one thing we
will continue to be covering the law fare issues. It's
actually like I wish we had had so many more
reporters able to tackle this. I'm so thankful for the
ones that we have and that we are able to
have those reporters, but additional reporters mean you can do additional,
much needed work on some of these, like very important
issues related to these massive document releases that we're getting
from out of the FBI and dj things that we
have worked for for a long time through our own
Foyer requests, our Freedom of Information Act requests where we're
trying to get information from different agencies, and then also
through our reporting with Congressional committees and other people, and
so we will continue to show an ongoing issue, which
is the corruption of the Department of Justice and FBI.
What we've seen is that and what our reporting I
anticipate will show in the coming year because we have
so much that I'm working on with other reporters on this,
is that the Department of Justice and the FBI they
have wide discretion in how they go after targets of
investigations or how they prosecute people, and that is appropriate.
You want wide discretion, but you need people of good
character to make sure that they are not biased in
how they apply that discretion. And what we're seeing in
our reporting, and we'll have more of this in the
coming weeks and months, is that when it came to
political allies of the FBI and Department of Justice, they
did everything in their power to protect them, and when
it came to their opponents, they did everything in their
power to prosecute them, to investigate and prosecute them to
the fullest extent of the law. That's an ongoing story.
It's something that whether whether Republican wins after Trump leaves
office or not, this is something that's going to require
massive change if we want to have a healthy republic.
And the only way to provoke action or not, the
only way, one of the ways to provoke action is
to paint a picture of how bad the situation is.
And so we're working on that law fair We're you know,
continuing to cover other issues related to courts, such as
what's happening at the Supreme Court, there are a lot
of really important issues. And I have written co written
a book on the Kavanaugh confirmation, and I have written
a book that will be coming out in April on
Justice Alito's life and jurisprudence. And what that means is
I get to talk to a lot of people who
are at the court, at the Supreme Court, and one
of the things I've learned is that we are very
well read by a lot of the clerks and other
important people at the Court, and so, you know, continuing
to cover those cases and provide arguments that can be
cited in opinions and whatnot that like continues to be
very important and will continue to do that as well.
Speaker 1: If I can just add to the ongoing stories, I
think immigration will continue to be a huge thing in
twenty twenty six. And I know a lot Americans are
happy about the deportations, but there's a lot more that
can be done, and just what the future this country
looks like as it relates to immigration, and just even
how it's how it's manifesting across the country. I mean,
the Somali fraud was a huge thing in Minnesota, but
that's replicated across the country, and I think we're just
going to continue to see more and more stories about that,
and hopefully at the Federalists be able to continue to
put more and more pressure on the administration and other
people who have the power to do something about it,
because it's important issue.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: On that point, one of our great senior contributors, Benjamin Weingarten,
wrote a book on ilan Omar and some of these
issues that we were able to publish on, you know,
years ago. It's great that people are starting to pay
more attention to some of this stuff, and we are
absolutely we've been at the cutting edge of looking at
problems with the lack of border enforcement or with what
needs to happen going forward as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we're going to wrap up here pretty quick.
But I do have to ask Sarah. I see that
we have a new Federalist store. So, and I mostly
see this because our colleague Sean Fleetwood, who is a
super fan of Clarence Thomas, has pointed out over and
over again that we have a Clarence Thomas T shirt
in the store. But I see there is other merch too,
So can you tell us about the store, what people
can find in it and where they can find it?
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: If you go to the Federalist dot com, it is
on there. It says shop very proud of this. There
are products for everyone on there. There's onesies for babies
up to sweatshirts and T shirts. I will say that
we did go out of the box because we kind
of are out of the box in thinking that you know,
some of them are conversation starters. I will tell you
I am wearing one of them and when I wear
those out, it starts conversations. Maybe I won't wear it
to Target, but we'll see. But we have hats, we
have everything there. There's bags, there's cups. One of my
daughters has the little air pod earpod things the case. So,
like I said, there's something for everybody there, and it
just kind of shows that you support us, that you
want to have those conversations. I mean, there's enough people
out there that it's just our logo that they're not
gonna they're not gonna yell at you unless you're wearing
something a little bit more controversial like me. But it's
all great quality. It is helping us in supporting us
as well, and it's just another way to be vocal
that you support the Federalist and that you are a
lover of.
Speaker 4: Freedom and you're anxious for the fray.
Speaker 1: M hm, Sarah, I think Target is exactly where you
should be wearing that yurt be my next stop. Everybody,
go check out the Federalist Store. Definitely be repping the
Federalist brand wherever you go Target and elsewhere. Go join
the Federalist Foundation. See how you can support us in
twenty twenty six, and keep looking for all of our
great reporting in the new year. I'm so excited to
see what stories we're gonna break this year. It's gonna
it's gonna be a good one. Sarah Molly, thank you
both so much for joining me today. It was truly
a blast having you both here in the studio.
Speaker 2: Loved being here.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Kyle, I appreciate it.
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