There is a war being waged for the soul of America, and it’s been raging for years. It’s fought with ideas—a poison being sold as medicine to a generation deliberately taught to forget history. The foundational principles of liberty, grit, and free enterprise are being systematically dismantled, replaced by the hollow promise of collectivism that has failed spectacularly everywhere it has been tried.

These toxic ideologies, long discredited and defeated, are now being marketed with slick, new branding. They’re sold as “equity” and “justice” by people who have never had to stand in a breadline. This isn’t an external attack; it’s an inside job, a corrosion eating away at our institutions. And that’s the part that should keep you up at night. But even in the deepening twilight, some are still willing to speak truth to power.

From the Daily Wire:

The House of Representatives on Friday voted on House Concurrent Resolution 58, officially denouncing socialism — the so-called “soft-communism” creeping into our cities and threatening the very fiber of American life. Nearly 200 Republicans and 86 Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, as 98 Democrats stubbornly clung to the idea that socialism has a place in the land of the free…

“Let me educate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle,” she stated. “Socialism is communism-lite. Socialism is the first step to communism. Socialism is the antithesis of the American Dream. It steals from those who work, rewards no one but the state, and is the exact thing millions of immigrants fled when seeking the American Dream. Venezuela, Cuba, and other socialist experiments are cited as cautionary tales of empty shelves, starvation, and economic ruin — a living lesson in what happens when governments seize control of production.”

A Line Is Drawn in Congress

Those weren’t just words from Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY). They were the opening salvo in a long-overdue counteroffensive. On the floor of the U.S. House, a resolution was passed to officially denounce the abject horrors of socialism. Nearly 200 Republicans, joined by 86 Democrats, sent a clear message that America is not, and never will be, a socialist nation.

Yet, in a moment of stunning irony, as patriots in Congress voted to condemn this destructive ideology. But when did they do this? The day New York’s socialist mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, arrived at the White House. Just as Mamdani expected the red-carpet treatment, Congress sends him a stern message.

The Voices of Freedom and Failure

The resolution was a roll call on who still believes in this country. Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) put it bluntly, calling socialism a “death machine, crushing liberty, crushing faith, crushing the free market — essentially, everything our Founders warned us about.”

For 98 Democrats, however, that warning fell on deaf ears. They voted against the resolution, a stunning refusal to condemn an ideology that has butchered and starved millions. Chief among them was Rep. Maxine Waters, who tried to wave it all away, shouting that “it’s not that simple” before deploying the usual D.C. smokescreen of deflections about President Trump. For her wing of the party, it seems, even history is just a partisan football.

A Receipt for a Lifetime of Hypocrisy

But Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) was having none of it. In a masterclass of exposing hypocrisy, she rose to give Waters a history lesson in real time. Salazar reminded the chamber of Waters’ fawning trips to Cuba to visit her “friend”—the tyrant Fidel Castro. She described how Waters had seen the “destruction of biblical proportions” with her own eyes: the political prisons, the public beatings, the desperate families fleeing on rafts.

Salazar didn’t just bring up the past; she unboxed it and laid it right at Waters’ feet for everyone to see. “At that time, Madam Waters never raised her voice to denounce the voice of socialism,” she thundered. The chamber was reminded that the Left’s casual acceptance of socialism today is built on a long and shameful history of ignoring its victims.

The resolution’s passage was a rare win for sanity. But this vote wasn’t an end—it was a beginning. It drew a line in the sand and forced everyone to show their true colors. And the fact that 98 of them, proudly chose the side of failure and tyranny is a stark reminder that this was just one battle in a war that is far from won.

Key Takeaways

• House Republicans successfully passed a resolution to condemn socialism’s history of failure.
• Nearly 100 Democrats voted against the resolution, revealing their radical alignment.
• The vote was held on the day socialist Mamdani visited President Trump.
• GOP Rep. Salazar exposed Maxine Waters’ long history of coddling communist dictators.

Sources: Daily Wire