Townhall Review with Hugh Hewitt

Jerry Bowyer: A Pro-Life Win at Microsoft

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Microsoft just made a quiet but meaningful shift, and it happened because someone showed up.

For years, Pregnancy centers were excluded from Microsoft's nonprofit discount program. Planned Parenthood qualified but pro-life centers that offer ultrasounds, prenatal care, and postnatal support - they were boxed out.

So we filed a shareholder proposal in conjunction with financial advisor, patron Partners, not to grandstand but to engage. We and Alliance Defending Freedom sat down with Microsoft explaining the inconsistency and asked for fairness, and they listened. Microsoft removed the discriminatory requirement.

That's a win, not just for pro-life pregnancy centers, but for the principle of viewpoint neutrality.

Your investments are a voice. Use them. Don't let your dollars be weaponized against your values.

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Carol Platt Liebau: The Supreme Court Takes Up Mail-In Ballot Case

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

With mail-in voting on the rise – and elections more hotly contested than ever – the Supreme Court has stepped in. The justices will decide if states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, so long as they’re postmarked by it.

Federal law sets a single Election Day. But eighteen states – including Mississippi – still accept ballots that come later.

The Republican National Committee argues Mississippi’s law conflicts with federal law, which requires ballots to be both cast and received by Election Day. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.

Mississippi’s GOP officials defend their law, warning that striking it down would create chaos. But late-arriving ballots risk can erode public trust – especially when they flip the apparent outcome after Election Day.

In a time when confidence in our elections is already fragile, the Court’s decision will matter.

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Jerry Bowyer: Netflix and Our Children

Monday, November 17, 2025

Netflix is in trouble, and it's not just about the ratings.

The company is promoting transgender content to children, including shows like Dead End: Paranormal Park, and Strawberry Shortcake rated for young children. One show even featured a child shaming doctors for using biological pronouns.

Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk canceled his Netflix subscription over this sexualized content and urged others to do the same. The result, A plunge in Netflix's stock price. Investors shouldn't pay the price for Netflix's mistakes.

Shareholders are speaking up.

 Proposals from investors are demanding that Netflix explain how this content impacts legal risk and brand value.

Sexualizing children isn't just evil, it's bad business.

If you own Netflix stock, don't stay silent. Vote your shares. Demand accountability, protect kids, and protect your investment.

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Hugh Hewitt: Schumer Won't Be Able to Shake the "Schumer Shutdown"

Thursday, November 13, 2025

The “Schumer Shutdown” is effectively over, just in time for us to clean up the airport mess get the food that SNAP recipients. This epic failure of the record-setting shutdown of the federal government is carved in political stone for as long as Schumer will be remembered.

The Congressional Democrats looked and acted like children throughout this record-setting escapade.

The biggest loser?—after the people actually hurt or at least inconvenienced by this stunt? That would be the Democratic “leader” in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and by a lot.

His strategy from the start was to head off a primary challenge in 2028 from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and that’s it.

Schumer put everyone through this business because he thought it might help his chances of spending another six years in elected office, something he has been doing since 1975. Schumer has been on the taxpayer’s payroll for over 50 years already.

The collapse of his costly “Schumer Shutdown” stunt will trail Schumer for the rest of his career—a career that may well be shorter as a result of this gambit.

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Chris Stigall: Trump's Tariff Strategy

Thursday, November 13, 2025

President Trump’s tariff strategy is not merely an economic and trade whim; it is a crucial and lawful defense against existential threats that require presidential action. In a world where adversaries use trade to undermine America's security, the commander-in-chief must possess the authority to declare emergencies and implement tariffs as strategic measures for national survival. 

Critics argue this is overreach, but both the Constitution and Congress empower him to act decisively, as statutes like Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act layout.

Consider the stakes: Annually, trade deficits exceed $1 trillion, particularly with China. These are not just benign figures; they represent “unusual and extraordinary” vulnerabilities that weaken U.S. manufacturing, compromise military readiness, and contribute to the fentanyl crisis, which claims over 100,000 American lives each year. 

We face existential emergencies. Tariffs are needed to save and secure the republic.

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Seth Leibsohn: Mamdani and Marxism

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

About Zohran Mamdani’s election, a few thoughts: Listening to his supporters and statements, there is no question as to Marxist loyalty. And, as DSA Founder Michael Harrington wrote, Karl Marx is “a democratic socialist in the most profound sense of the phrase.” 

Neither should we be fooled by the DSA’s use of the word “Democratic.”  China, Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela all claim to be Democratic Socialist republics in their constitutions, so did the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the USSR), in its day.  About which: one popular supporter of Mamdani’s, with millions of social media followers, said on election night in New York: he wished the USSR, not the U.S., had won the Cold War.

Fourth, the Democratic party is welcoming of all this into its ranks, with prominent members endorsing it, hardly any denouncing it.

It’s time for all America to take Marxism seriously. After all, the youth movement behind Mamdani, Mamdani himself, and seemingly the bulk of the Democratic party, do.

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Ed Morrissey: Schumer Shutdown Was a Clown Show

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

What did Senate Democrats get out of the 40-day Schumer Shutdown?

Nothing more than what they would have gotten with the clean continuing resolution.

Democrats didn’t get anything they wanted. They didn’t even get a pass on the filibuster for the debate on ACA subsidies, let alone a commitment for an extension. Schumer’s demand for a reversal of the Medicaid changes in the reconciliation bill got completely rejected.

The only real concession in this deal from the GOP is a pledge to rescind OMD Director Russ Vought’s layoffs. But those only took place because Schumer shut the government down first.

How bad was this collapse? Not one Democrat can explain what this shutdown accomplished – other than derailing air travel, federal paychecks, and aid to poor families.

The Schumer Shutdown has been an utter clown show. The progressive Left that demanded a fight against Donald Trump over nothing at all will figure it out sooner or later. Bet on sooner.

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