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Happy New Year, Lions Den. I’m Daniel Cohen, and this is the kind of story that forces us to do two things at once: tell the truth and connect the news to the Good News. Today we’re talking Somali fraud in Minnesota, organized welfare fraud, taxpayer dollars, blue-state corruption, Gavin Newsom, Tim Walz, Ilhan Omar, and Califraudia. We are also going to talk about why the legacy media keeps missing the real story, and why accountability matters if you love your family, your community, and your country. If you want biblical, unfiltered coverage of current events, watch now for free on Real Life Network at RealLifeNetwork.com.

The Minnesota Somali Fraud Scandal and the Democrats’ Accountability Problem

Let’s start in Minnesota, because the Somali fraud scandal there just got worse. We have heard about childless child care centers, fake services, and billions of dollars stolen through programs meant to help real families. And what is stunning to me is not only the alleged scale of the scheme, but the political reflex that follows: deny, deflect, and play the victim.

Tim Walz has tried to frame this as “criminals taking advantage of generosity,” and then he pivots to blaming “political actors.” No, Governor. The victims are the working families who needed those resources. The victims are taxpayers who did their part and got robbed. And if whistleblowers are right, this was not a small-time hustle. This was a system that stayed open long enough to get comfortable.

Here is what should make every American furious: when investigators and citizen journalists ask basic questions, they are smeared. If you raise concerns, you are called a racist, an Islamophobe, or a bigot. That tactic is not just dishonest. It is strategic. It buys time. It intimidates watchdogs. It keeps the money moving.

And yes, I’m going to say what legacy media will not say plainly: the Democrat Party cannot keep claiming it stands for “the oppressed” while protecting the machinery that oppresses ordinary citizens through corruption. You cannot preach compassion while enabling fraud that drains public programs meant for children.

Califraudia: Allegations of Education, EDD, and Homelessness Fraud in the Golden State

Now the spotlight shifts to California, and this is where the term Califraudia fits like a glove. Whistleblowers and investigators are pointing to alleged losses that are staggering, including claims tied to the education system: fake community college applications, ghost students collecting aid, and a broader “welfare industrial complex” that rewards volume over verification.

If the scale being discussed is even partly accurate, it is not mismanagement. It is system failure.

California already has a history that should have triggered sweeping reform years ago. Billions in homelessness spending with results that do not match the money. A high-speed rail project that eats cash and produces excuses. Unemployment systems that hemorrhaged fraud during COVID, including claims tied to clearly ineligible or even nonexistent recipients. And then there is the day-to-day nonsense that tells you the people running the state are not watching the store: unused devices still being billed, checks still being sent, layers of bureaucracy that nobody audits until the damage is done.

Here is the spiritual reality underneath all of it: when leaders fear man more than God, accountability collapses. When one party rules without consequence, oversight becomes optional. And when the press functions as a partner instead of a watchdog, citizens become the funding source for their own decline.

I love California. Real Life Network is based here. There are faithful believers here, hardworking families here, and people who still believe in God, family, and country. But that is exactly why Califraudia matters. It is not a “pile on.” It is a warning flare: if you normalize fraud, you will eventually normalize collapse.

Media Meltdowns, Public Broadcasting, and Why the Blue-State Model Keeps Breaking

Now connect the dots with me. We also saw the Corporation for Public Broadcasting moving toward dissolution after decades of taxpayer support. Regardless of how you feel about PBS or NPR, the lesson is simple: systems that rely on other people’s money eventually hit a wall. When the funding stream dries up, the weakness is exposed.

And that is the same model we are watching in blue-state governance: raise taxes, borrow more, expand programs, and then act shocked when fraud explodes inside them. The people pay, the insiders profit, and the media runs cover by changing the subject.

The Democrats’ candlelight theatrics over January 6 are part of the same strategy. When you cannot defend your governance, you perform moral superiority. When your credibility is collapsing, you light candles and hope voters forget the receipts.

But voters are not forgetting. People are leaving. And honestly, the most “scientific poll” is the moving truck. When families can no longer afford the cost of corruption, they vote with their feet.

Here is where I land today, Lions Den: fraud is not just a financial issue. It is a moral issue. It is theft. It is injustice. And it is the kind of injustice Scripture repeatedly condemns, because it punishes the poor and rewards the powerful.

So what do we do? We tell the truth. We demand accountability. We pray for repentance where there is corruption. We pray for courage where there is cowardice. And we stay anchored, because no political party is the Savior, but Jesus is Lord over every nation and every system.

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In the first days of 2026, the headlines are not whispering anymore. They are shouting. President Trump, Maduro, Venezuela, narco terrorism, the war on drugs, the U.S. military, Trump foreign policy, and the fight for freedom are all colliding in real time. And if you care about current events through a biblical worldview, you should be paying attention, because this is not just geopolitics. This is consequences. This is accountability. This is a warning to dictators, terrorists, and the political class that has protected them. I’m Daniel Cohen, and on RLN News and The Daniel Cohen Show on Real Life Network, we are watching a new pattern form: America’s enemies are learning that there is a price for harming the American people, and 2026 is looking like a year of reckoning.

For four years under Joe Biden and the Democrat machine, the world watched America project weakness. The southern border became a pipeline for fentanyl and cartel profit. Terror proxies took notes. Dictators grew bolder. And narco traffickers operated like they were untouchable. But then President Trump returned, and the message became unmistakable: there are consequences.

Maduro dared Trump. He mocked him. He acted like he was shielded by geography and protected by alliances with bad actors. Now, according to the script you just read, Maduro and his wife are in handcuffs, headed for the justice system, and the question is not only “how did this happen so fast,” but “who is next?”

Operation Absolute Resolve and the End of Impunity

Let’s back up and talk about why this moment matters. What the script describes is not a long, grinding war. It is not nation building. It is not an endless occupation. It is a swift strike built on a principle the political class forgot: when a regime becomes a hub for narco terrorism, weapons smuggling, and the poisoning of Americans through fentanyl, it becomes a direct threat.

In the story we are watching unfold, President Trump gives the green light to Operation Absolute Resolve, and within hours, Maduro is captured and brought to face justice. That speed is the point. It sends a message that is louder than any speech at the United Nations. Dictators who rely on delay, distance, and bureaucracy are suddenly forced to calculate risk again.

The Democrats and their media allies immediately reached for the same old talking points. They accused Trump of “gunboat diplomacy.” They claimed it was about oil. They tried to dress moral confusion in moral slogans. But here is what the script exposes: the same political movement that tolerated strongmen for decades suddenly finds its voice when someone finally removes one.

You remember the history. Hugo Chavez insulting an American president at the U.N. Democrats applauding. Obama shaking hands with Chavez. The left treating anti-American propaganda like sophistication. That is not compassion. That is ideological blindness.

And it is not just Venezuela. It is the entire Western Hemisphere. When adversaries like Iran, China, and Russia seek footholds in Latin America, they are not doing charity work. They are positioning. They are building leverage. They are looking for bases of operation. And the point Secretary Rubio makes in the script is clear: America does not “need” Venezuela’s oil, but America cannot allow hostile regimes to control strategic energy infrastructure in the Western Hemisphere and use it to fund terror networks and criminal pipelines.

That is not imperialism. That is sovereignty. That is security. That is protecting American families.

The Democrat Reaction and the Moral Slogan Trap

One of the most telling moments in the script is not a battlefield image. It is the reaction. The Democrat ecosystem instinctively picks the wrong side, again and again, because it is driven more by opposition to Trump than by a consistent moral framework.

They called Maduro illegitimate when it was convenient, then condemned consequences when they arrived. They speak of human rights while defending organizations and narratives that empower terrorists. They want you to believe that strong action is automatically corrupt, and that weakness is automatically virtuous. But victims of tyranny do not live by slogans. They live by reality.

That Venezuelan Jewish woman in the script nails it. Outsiders love to explain Venezuela to Venezuelans and Israel to Jews using phrases that sound morally correct while ignoring the lived experience of people under threat. That same pattern shows up everywhere right now. People who have never lived under socialism preach to those who escaped it. People who have never faced existential danger lecture Israelis about survival. People who have never buried family members from cartel violence minimize border chaos as politics.

The script makes another uncomfortable point: Democrats have trained America’s enemies to assume there will be no serious consequences. That assumption is now collapsing. When Trump says “watch it,” the world understands it is not theater.

That is why Colombia’s socialist leadership is nervous. That is why Cuba becomes part of the conversation. That is why dictators and narco traffickers are suddenly weighing escape plans instead of victory speeches.

This is what deterrence looks like when it is credible.

Iran, Israel, and the Reckoning Spreading Beyond Venezuela

The script pivots from Venezuela to Iran for a reason. These stories are connected. When a narco terrorist dictator falls quickly, it reshapes the psychological map for every regime that survives by fear. Iran is not just a distant foreign policy issue. Iran is a regime obsessed with destroying Israel and undermining America, while its own people suffer under economic collapse and brutal repression.

The details in the script are staggering. Currency collapse. Inflation. Food prices soaring. Protesters killed. Women punished for a strand of hair. And in the middle of that, the regime pours resources into terror and ideology instead of water, electricity, and dignity. That is what totalitarian systems do. They feed the machinery of control and starve the human beings trapped under it.

And when the script references biblical truth about Israel’s endurance, it is not an aside. It is worldview. The point is this: regimes can rage, but they cannot rewrite the covenant purposes of God. The Iranian regime can threaten. Proxies can posture. Campuses can chant. But truth does not bend to propaganda.

Which brings me to one of the most chilling parts of the script: American professors on Zoom calls encouraging revolutionary violence, praising Hamas talking points, and normalizing the ideology that led to October 7 atrocities. This is not “free speech as an abstract concept.” This is the shaping of young minds. This is radicalization packaged as education. And it explains why socialist and Islamist aligned narratives are gaining traction in places like New York City.

When you see leaders talk openly about property as a “collective good,” you are watching Marxism shed the mask. The abolition of private property is not a misunderstanding. It is the point. And when Americans vote for it, they discover too late that ideology always has consequences, just like dictators do.

The script ties it all together with a final development: even as Trump confronts threats abroad, the administration pressures institutions to stop irreversible medical interventions on minors. That is part of the same theme. Boundaries. Reality. Consequences. A refusal to pretend that lies are compassion.

And I’ll end where the script ends: Isaiah 54:17 reminds us that no weapon formed against you shall prosper. That promise is not political branding. It is spiritual assurance. America is not finished, and God is not done.

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It is the first official show of 2026, and I can say this without hesitation. It is already a happy new year in Venezuela. In less than four hours, President Trump dismantled one of the most brutal communist dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere without a single American casualty. Nicholas Maduro, the narco terrorism strongman who poisoned the United States with fentanyl and enriched Iranian terror proxies, is no longer untouchable. He is sitting in an American prison cell.

While the American left mourns the fall of another socialist idol, the people of Venezuela are dancing in the streets. They are crying tears of joy. They are hugging strangers. They are tasting freedom for the first time in decades.

This is not just a headline. It is a historic turning point. And it exposes everything wrong with the last generation of weak foreign policy.

Maduro Arrested and a Dictatorship Collapses

Venezuela was once the wealthiest nation in South America. It was rich in oil, rich in resources, and rich in opportunity. Then socialism arrived, and it rotted the nation from the inside out.

Hugo Chavez promised justice, equality, and redistribution. What he delivered was Marxist communism. When Chavez died, Maduro doubled down. Political opponents were imprisoned. Dissidents disappeared. The military became an enforcement arm of tyranny.

The economy collapsed. Inflation exploded. Food vanished. Families scavenged for survival. Millions fled because staying meant death. Meanwhile, Maduro lived in luxury, enriching himself and his inner circle while an entire nation starved.

And this regime was not contained within Venezuela. It exported chaos. Drugs flowed north. Fentanyl killed tens of thousands of Americans every year. Terror money flowed east toward Iran and its proxies. Venezuela became a narco state aligned with America’s enemies.

This is why Maduro’s arrest matters. He was not a misunderstood leader. He was a criminal dictator who kidnapped an entire country and poisoned another.

America First Means Strength That Ends Tyranny

For decades, Americans were told that decisive action leads to endless war. That is a lie. Endless war comes from weakness, indecision, and appeasement.

President Trump proved that again. No occupation. No boots stuck on the ground for a generation. No flag draped coffins. Just overwhelming American capability applied with clarity and resolve.

Maduro was warned. Sanctions were imposed. Diplomatic isolation followed. He ignored every warning. And then the United States acted.

This is what smart foreign policy looks like. The United States is the world’s strongest superpower. When that power is used correctly, evil regimes collapse quickly.

America First does not mean America isolated. It means American strength used to advance freedom, protect lives, and stop threats before they metastasize. Ending narco terrorism abroad saves American lives at home.

That is the connection the media refuses to make.

A Global Signal to Iran and Every Dictator Watching

Do not miss what else happened when Maduro fell. The message went far beyond Venezuela. Iran heard it. China heard it. Russia heard it. Every dictator and every terror aligned regime heard it. When America draws real red lines, the world adjusts. And when tyrants fall, oppressed people take notice.

That is why this moment matters so deeply. Venezuelans are celebrating, but they are not alone. Iranians are watching. Women are defying compulsory hijab laws. Protesters are filling the streets. Courage spreads when fear is broken.

Freedom is contagious. So is hope. The left calls this reckless. They call it regime change. They pretend to care about human rights while defending systems that crush human dignity. That hypocrisy is now fully exposed.

You cannot claim to stand with women while defending regimes that torture them. You cannot claim to stand with the oppressed while mourning the fall of their oppressors. The people of Venezuela have spoken. They did not ask for socialism. They rejected it. They did not want sanctions relief. They wanted freedom. And now they have a future again. This moment is bigger than one country. It is about whether the world bends toward tyranny or toward liberty. It is about whether America leads or retreats.

Today, America led. God bless the people of Venezuela. God bless those who stood for freedom. And God bless the United States of America.

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A Regime Facing Rejection, Not Reform

Iran is entering a phase that its ruling clerics have long feared but refused to acknowledge. What began years ago as scattered unrest has now hardened into a sustained rejection of the Islamic Republic itself. Across multiple cities, protesters are no longer bargaining with power. They are repudiating it. The chants coming from the streets no longer ask for reform within the system. They call for the system’s removal.

According to reporting by Iranian dissident and analyst Anni Cyrus, one of the most alarming developments for the regime is the growing number of protesters openly calling for the return of Crown Prince Reza Shah Pahlavi. That demand is unprecedented in the context of Iran’s post-1979 political order. It signals not a longing for the past, but a rejection of clerical supremacy and the religious state that has dominated Iranian life for more than forty years. When crowds chant for a figure explicitly displaced by the Islamic Revolution, they are not negotiating terms. They are declaring the revolution itself a failure.

This shift matters because the Islamic Republic is not merely a government. It is an ideological system that fuses religious authority with political control and enforces obedience through fear. The regime’s legitimacy rests on the claim that it governs by divine mandate. Any public challenge to that claim, especially one voiced by large numbers of ordinary citizens, strikes at the heart of its authority. That is why the state’s response has been swift and violent.

Security forces have fired live ammunition into crowds. Arrests have escalated into the thousands. Executions have been carried out under vague criminal charges designed to disguise political repression as law enforcement. Internet blackouts and surveillance have intensified in an attempt to control the narrative and isolate protesters from one another. These measures reflect a regime that understands it is losing consent and is relying increasingly on brute force to maintain control.

Faith, Fear, and the Collapse of Legitimacy

Economic collapse has accelerated the unrest, but it did not create it. Inflation, unemployment, and shortages have devastated everyday life, yet these hardships are widely understood inside Iran as symptoms of a deeper problem. The ruling clerical class has enriched itself while ordinary Iranians struggle to survive. Corruption is systemic. Accountability is nonexistent. Faith has been weaponized to silence dissent rather than to serve the people.

Religious minorities, particularly Christians, have borne the cost of this system for decades. Iran remains one of the most hostile environments in the world for Christian converts. Leaving Islam is treated as a political offense. House churches are raided. Pastors are imprisoned. Evangelism is prosecuted as a threat to national security. These actions are not anomalies. They are the logical outcome of a state that cannot tolerate allegiance to any authority beyond its own religious framework.

Yet despite the repression, Christianity continues to grow underground in Iran. House churches persist. Converts continue to testify to encounters with Christ through Scripture, personal witness, and dreams. The expansion of the Christian faith under such conditions highlights the inherent weakness of coercive religious rule. When belief is enforced by law, it eventually collapses under its own contradictions. Faith that is freely chosen cannot be extinguished by prisons or executions.

Why Iran’s Uprising Matters to the World

Western policymakers have repeatedly misread this reality. For years, Iran has been treated as a conventional state actor capable of moderation through incentives and diplomacy. Nuclear agreements were framed as stabilizing tools. Sanctions relief was promoted as humanitarian. Dialogue was cast as the pathway to peace. These approaches failed because they misunderstood the ideological nature of the regime. The Islamic Republic is not oriented toward compromise. It is oriented toward survival through control.

The Iranian people appear to understand this more clearly than many Western institutions. Their chants are not aimed at foreign governments. They are aimed at the clerics who rule them. They are rejecting political Islam as a governing system, not merely objecting to economic conditions or foreign policy disputes. That distinction matters.

The contrast between Iran’s streets and Western discourse is stark. While Iranians risk their lives to escape Islamic rule, segments of Western culture continue to romanticize Islamist narratives under the banner of tolerance or social justice. While Iranian women defy compulsory veiling, Western institutions frame hijab enforcement as empowerment. While Iranian Christians worship in secret, Western churches often hesitate to speak clearly about the dangers of religious authoritarianism.

This moment demands honesty. The uprising in Iran is not simply another cycle of unrest. It is a reckoning with an ideology that promised justice and delivered repression. It is a warning about the consequences of merging religious absolutism with unchecked political power. It is also a reminder that truth, once awakened, is difficult to suppress.

Whether the current uprising succeeds or is violently crushed, the Islamic Republic has already lost something it may never recover. It has lost the belief of its people. Regimes can survive sanctions and protests. They rarely survive the collapse of legitimacy. Iran’s future remains uncertain, but one reality is now unmistakable. The era of unquestioned clerical rule is ending, and no amount of force can fully restore what has been broken.

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I am often asked why Israel, a tiny strip of land about the size of New Jersey, dominates global headlines, ignites outrage, and fuels endless conflict. Standing here in Jerusalem, the answer becomes clear. This city is not just geography. It is theology. It is the place where the Messiah, His land, and His people are bound together by an unbreakable covenant that the enemy of God desperately wants to sever.

Jerusalem is not controversial because of politics. It is contested because of prophecy.

The Covenant the World Cannot Break

Israel’s enemies refuse to accept one foundational truth. God tied the Messiah, the Jewish people, and the land together forever. Scripture makes this unmistakably clear. God calls Israel the apple of His eye. When the nations rage against Israel, they are not merely opposing a country. They are provoking God Himself.

The Bible does not teach replacement. God has not abandoned Israel. He has not revoked His covenant. Romans tells us plainly that all Israel will be saved. Zechariah tells us the Lord will dwell in Jerusalem again. And when Yeshua returns, He is not coming back to Rome, London, or New York. He is coming back to the Mount of Olives.

That is why this land matters. If Israel could be erased, where would the Messiah return? The answer terrifies the enemies of God because it exposes the impossibility of their goal. God laughs at the nations because what He established cannot be undone.

Why the Enemy Is Obsessed With Israel

This is why Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their allies fixate on Israel. This is why the United Nations obsessively condemns it. This is why history keeps repeating itself with different names and different regimes but the same hatred.

Pharaoh tried to destroy the Jewish people. Haman tried. Hitler tried. Hamas tried. Iran is trying now. Yet Israel remains. Four thousand years later, the Jewish people are still here. The land still exists. Jerusalem still stands.

That is the proof. The gates of hell have not prevailed, and they never will.

The conflict over Israel is not about borders or politics. It is about the Messiah. It is about God keeping His word. And it is about a spiritual battle that has been raging since the beginning of time.

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The world did not simply “change” in 2025. It accelerated. Nations shifted, narratives collapsed, and the spiritual temperature rose. From the first major political reset in Washington to the front lines of the Middle East conflict, the year carried a message many tried to ignore: truth matters, and leadership matters.

On the Daniel Cohen Show year in review, Daniel walks viewers through the defining moments of 2025, month by month. The stories include global conflict, media bias, moral confusion, and flashes of courage that reminded millions what Western civilization is built on: ordered liberty, Judeo Christian conviction, and the unshakable hope of the gospel.

This is not just a political recap. It is a snapshot of spiritual warfare in real time, with Israel, America, and the wider West facing the same fundamental question: will we stand for biblical truth, or will we surrender to deception.

January 2025: Trump Returns and the Reset Begins

The year opened with a dramatic shift as a new leader returned to the White House on January 20, 2025. Daniel frames it as the moment “truth and common sense came roaring back,” with immediate reversals of policies tied to climate agreements, DEI mandates, and what he describes as the “transgender madness” that had reshaped military culture.

It was also a month defined by clarity. “Peace through strength” became the theme as Trump issued blunt warnings to Iran and projected deterrence that many believed had vanished in recent years. Daniel connects these developments directly to Israel news and the Middle East conflict, pointing to how quickly adversaries adjust when America either projects strength or broadcasts hesitation.

January also carried sobering reminders at home. A devastating Southern California wildfire burned tens of thousands of acres, and Daniel highlights leadership failures, infrastructure strain, and the frustration of citizens watching officials offer excuses instead of accountability. In this telling, 2025 was already revealing a deeper divide between slogans and reality.

Spring 2025: Media Bias, Moral Collapse, and the Cost of Denial

As winter turned to spring, Daniel turns the lens toward the institutions shaping the national mind: the legacy press, cultural gatekeepers, and political elites. He highlights how media bias can blur moral lines, especially when it comes to Israel, Hamas, and the stories that dominate Christian news coverage.

In March, Daniel points to examples of mainstream outlets framing conflict in ways that minimize Hamas violence while applying scrutiny and blame to Israel. In his view, the issue is not merely bad reporting. It is a worldview problem. When a culture rejects biblical truth, it loses the ability to name evil clearly.

Then comes April, a month Daniel frames as symbolic. Holy Week, Passover, and Easter arrived, yet national leadership publicly elevated identity politics on Christianity’s most sacred day. For many believers, it underscored how rapidly Western civilization can drift when religious freedom is treated as optional and biblical worldview convictions are mocked.

Summer 2025: Israel’s 12 Day War With Iran and the Meaning of Strength

If the first half of 2025 felt turbulent, June became seismic. Daniel recounts the 12 day war with Iran as a turning point in the Middle East conflict. Israel launched strikes against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, targeting facilities and leaders tied to the program. Iran responded with hundreds of ballistic missiles and waves of drones, pushing Israel’s defensive systems into constant motion.

Daniel describes the daily reality of Israelis moving between normal life and bomb shelters, with warning sirens, interceptors, and explosions that made the conflict intensely personal. He emphasizes what many in Israel already understand: survival in the region often depends on decisive action, not wishful thinking.

The climax came when the United States struck fortified nuclear sites that Israel could not reach alone. Daniel presents this as a defining picture of alliance and leadership: America backing Israel, not pressuring restraint at the moment restraint becomes deadly.

Whether one agrees with every political conclusion or not, the show’s point is clear: ideology has consequences. Deterrence is real. And when leaders refuse to confront threats, innocent people pay the price.

Fall 2025: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination 

Then came September 10, 2025, a date Daniel treats as one of the darkest and most catalytic moments of the year: the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Daniel recounts the shock, the grief for a young father, and the ugliness of public celebration from corners of the culture that claimed moral superiority.

But the story did not end with tragedy. Daniel highlights what followed: a wave of public resolve, increased hunger for biblical truth, and what he describes as a “biblical movement” reflected in exploding Bible sales and renewed boldness across campuses and communities. Erica Kirk’s statement became a rallying cry: the mission did not die with Charlie. It multiplied.

In October, national recognition and public remembrance reframed the loss into a call to courage. Daniel’s message is not triumphalism. It is an admonition. Christians do not celebrate death. They mourn with those who mourn. Yet they also refuse to let fear silence truth.

Christmas 2025: The Hope That Outlasts Every Headline

By the end of the year, Daniel returns to the only anchor that does not shift with elections, wars, or media cycles: Jesus Christ. Christmas is not about the noise, the shopping, or the spectacle. It is about the Jewish Messiah entering the world to save it.

Daniel ties the entire year to a simple conclusion: the struggle is not merely political. It is spiritual. The answer is not despair. It is discernment, courage, and the gospel. In a world where tomorrow is promised to no one, the call is urgent and compassionate: come to the truth, receive grace, and walk with your Creator.

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The pain of Joe Biden’s disastrous presidency is not abstract. It has names and faces. On The Daniel Cohen Show from Real Life Network, Daniel Cohen shows how an Autopen presidency in Washington, a broken border, unvetted Afghan migration, socialist indoctrination, and Islamic pressure in Europe are all connected. This is Conservative News with a Biblical Worldview, not to stir rage for its own sake, but to wake up Christians to the spiritual war behind the headlines. Daniel Cohen, Charlie Kirk, and other bold voices are calling believers to see Biden, Trump, Radical Islam, and the open border through the lens of Scripture, not spin.

The Autopen Presidency and Blood at the Border

Cohen begins with grief. Twenty year old National Guard member Sarah Bexstrom died on Thanksgiving Day after being shot near the White House by an Afghan national brought into the United States under Joe Biden’s Operation Allies Welcome. Her father held her hand as she slipped into eternity. Fellow Guardsman Andrew Wolf was shot twice in the head and is now fighting for his life. His family is begging believers to pray, and Cohen urges viewers to intercede for a miracle.

Then he asks the question everyone in Conservative News should be asking. How did we get here?

For four years the media told America that Joe Biden was sharp and in control, even as the world watched him fall off bikes, lose his place, and whisper that he would “get in trouble” if he took questions. Now, President Trump has called the whole thing what it was. An Autopen presidency. Trump says that virtually all of Biden’s executive orders were signed by machine, not by the man whose name is on them. If that is true, Cohen says, then who was actually running the country. Deep State handlers. Obama era operatives. People the American public never elected.

While Biden’s staff and an Autopen were authorizing open border policies, the southern barrier was literally being pulled up by heavy equipment so migrants could stream through. It was not just families from Mexico. Young, fighting age men from the Middle East were allowed in. Biden’s team promised these Afghans were carefully vetted. Then two Afghan nationals in the same week were either arrested for plotting terror or accused of carrying it out. One, according to investigators, drove across the country to ambush American soldiers near the White House. Another allegedly built a bomb in Texas and posted video threats online.

This is not compassion, Cohen says. It is negligence. Immigration without assimilation is invasion. And the cost is now measured in American blood.

From Kabul to Campus: Immigration, Islam, and Indoctrination

Cohen then zooms out. What is happening through Biden’s immigration policies has a spiritual twin in America’s classrooms and Europe’s streets.

In Minneapolis, a reporter walked through “Little Mogadishu” and could barely find anyone who spoke English. Somali gang members claimed parts of the neighborhood as their turf. Cohen is not attacking legal immigrants. He is an immigrant himself who moved with his family to Israel. The difference, he says, is that biblical immigration expects people to love their new nation, learn its language, and adopt its values. Modern multiculturalism does the opposite. It demands that the host country change everything for newcomers and then calls any discomfort Islamophobia.

He points to Europe as a warning. In England, an Islamic activist declared that the cross on the national flag is unacceptable under Sharia. In Brussels, Muslims disrupted a Christmas market, filling the air with chants and black smoke. Christmas, one of the most sacred Christian holidays, is being treated as an offense in lands built on Christian heritage. Cohen notes that there is one Jewish state, Israel, and more than fifty Muslim majority nations. Yet Israel is accused of colonization while Islamic activists demand that Europe change its flags, food, and festivals.

Even the Vatican is not immune. Cohen describes Pope Francis placing a wreath at the tomb of Ataturk, the man whose regime helped erase Christianity from Turkey, and the Vatican Library providing a prayer rug for Muslims. To Cohen, that is surrender, not bridge building.

Back in America, the same spirit shows up in the classroom. At the University of Oklahoma, Christian psychology student Samantha Fulnecke wrote a short essay defending traditional gender roles and citing the Bible. Her trans identifying professor failed her with a grade of zero and called her beliefs offensive. Cohen contrasts this with his own university experience in the late 1990s, when professors at least allowed debate. Today, he says, the only diversity allowed is the kind that makes everyone think exactly the same.

Add to this a Heartland Institute poll showing that a majority of young adults prefer a Democrat socialist for president in 2028, and the pattern is clear. Mass migration, endless printing and inflation, useless degrees, and constant propaganda have primed a generation to embrace socialism and resent the country that gave them more opportunity than any place in history.

The Hope of the Gospel in a Shaking West

Despite the heaviness of the stories, Cohen refuses to end in despair. He reminds viewers that the deepest problem is not Biden, Trump, socialism, or Radical Islam. The deepest problem is sin. Human beings in Brussels, Kabul, Minneapolis, and Washington have all rebelled against a holy God. When societies forget Him, they lose their minds and their morals. Borders collapse, gratitude dies, and grievance becomes a way of life. That is why even wealthy figures like Michelle Obama can frame life as oppression, and why some conservative voices like Candace Owens can drift into confusion about Israel. Without a firm biblical anchor, anyone can be swept away.

The answer is not nostalgia for a better past. It is repentance and faith in Jesus Christ.

The Gospel says that God created the world good, that humanity fell into sin, and that no political system can repair what sin destroyed. In love, God sent His Son. Jesus lived without sin, died on the cross as a substitute for sinners, and rose again so that all who repent and trust Him alone are forgiven and given new life. That is the only foundation strong enough to withstand the pressures of globalism, jihad, socialism, and cultural decay.

Cohen urges believers to know their Bibles, to test every voice, whether from the left or the right, against Scripture, and to reject political idolatry. Christians can support strong borders, call out Islamic terror, resist socialist lies, and still love their enemies because their identity is rooted in Christ, not in cable news. He commends resources like Pastor Jack Hibbs’ devotional “Watching Waiting” to help believers stay awake in the last days and live with hope, not fear.

In the end, he says, nations rise and fall, but the kingdom of God cannot be shaken.

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The West is facing a crisis of truth that cannot be explained by politics alone. On The Daniel Cohen Show from Real Life Network, Daniel Cohen connects stories from Germany, the Middle East, and America to show how Radical Islam, cultural confusion, political corruption, and media manipulation are symptoms of a deeper spiritual war. His message blends Conservative News with a Biblical Worldview that refuses to look away from the real enemy. Tags such as Daniel Cohen, Muslim Brotherhood, Trump, Trump Executive Order, Comey, Letitia James, Iran, Water Crisis, Christmas Markets, Germany, Islamic Terror, Trans Athlete, Womens Sports, Erika Kirk, Turning Point USA, Faith, Forgiveness, Israel, and Real Life Network become threads in a much larger story.

A Crisis of Discernment in Germany and the West

Cohen begins with a moment that shocked even seasoned journalists. In Germany, during one of the oldest Christmas Markets in Europe, a German church allowed the Muslim call to prayer to echo through its sanctuary. Even the German reporter who filmed it admitted a sense of deep unease. Cohen ties this to growing influence from Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, who continue to use Western institutions as platforms to expand their ideology.

Qatar alone has spent billions to reshape Western thought, funding activists, politicians, media outlets, and university programs that advance pro Hamas sentiment and anti Israel narratives. These same networks celebrated on the streets of Berlin and Hamburg after the October 7 attacks, waving Hamas flags and shouting chants that once would have been unthinkable in Europe.

Cohen reminds viewers that discernment is the missing ingredient. When nations reject biblical truth, they lose the ability to distinguish good from evil. Political leaders offer appeasement instead of justice. Media outlets rewrite reality. Churches remain silent to avoid offense. Germany, a place once known for theological conviction, now struggles to define right and wrong at its own Christmas Market.

This is not simply geopolitical confusion. It is spiritual blindness.

The Collapse of Courage in America

From Europe Daniel Cohen turns to the United States, where political corruption and cultural decline reveal similar patterns. He highlights a case in which a Christian school teacher in Kentucky repeatedly abused young boys while school officials looked the other way. According to the report, the school treated the teacher as a victim rather than a danger, a tragic example of the collapse of moral courage.

Cohen connects this with larger failures of leadership. He points to political figures like James Comey and Letitia James, whose selective prosecutions demonstrate a pattern of weaponized justice. He contrasts this with President Trump’s willingness to take bold action, including a Trump Executive Order targeting foreign influence campaigns. Cohen shows how Trump faced endless resistance from entrenched Deep State networks who feared the exposure of their alliances with groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and the Iranian regime.

He also highlights Ilhan Omar’s recent statement saying she is representing “the people of Somalia” rather than American citizens. This, Cohen says, is the natural result of electing leaders whose loyalties lie with foreign interests over biblical principles.

The madness shows up not only in politics but in culture. Cohen plays footage from the World’s Strongest Woman competition where a biological male dominated female athletes. Women who had trained for years were pushed aside by an ideology that denies biological reality. Cohen says this is what happens when a society abandons truth. The women’s sports crisis is not an isolated problem. It is a symptom of a culture at war with creation itself.

The Church’s Calling in an Age of Chaos

Despite the darkness Daniel Cohen refuses despair. He highlights leaders like Erika Kirk and Turning Point USA Faith who are helping Christians speak with courage and clarity. Erika’s message on forgiveness struck Cohen deeply. She explained that forgiveness does not erase accountability but frees the believer from bitterness. It allows Christians to fight for truth without losing compassion.

Cohen applies this to the war in Israel. He reminds viewers that Israel is not just another country. It is a nation God set apart in Genesis 12 and defended throughout Scripture. Any worldview that refuses to recognize God’s covenant with Israel will falter when interpreting world events. Radical Islam understands this spiritually even if the modern West does not.

Cohen warns that many Western churches have been silent about Islamic Terror, Iran’s aggression, and Hamas’s goals because they fear criticism. He urges pastors to recover biblical conviction. The early Church faced Rome. Modern believers face ideologies built on deception, intimidation, and moral relativism. The Church must stand between culture and collapse.

Yet Cohen also stresses hope. Forgiveness and Faith are powerful weapons when wielded through the Gospel. Christians can expose evil without becoming hateful. They can defend women’s sports without mocking the broken. They can stand with Israel without despising their neighbors. Courage is born from conviction, not rage.

The Hope of the Gospel

Cohen closes with clarity. The enemies of truth are active. Whether through the Muslim Brotherhood, foreign influence from Iran, cultural confusion about identity, or the collapse of discernment in American institutions, the real battle is spiritual. The crisis is not just Radical Islam or political corruption or collapsing borders. The crisis is sin.

Humanity has rebelled against God. No government can heal that wound. No election can rescue a nation that rejects its Creator. But Christ can.

Jesus lived without sin, died for sinners, and rose again so that all who repent and believe may be saved. This is the hope that can revive a nation, restore courage, and lead believers to stand with conviction.

Cohen urges viewers to fill their minds with truth and anchor their worldview in Scripture rather than media spin. Real Life Network exists for this purpose, offering Conservative News, biblical teaching, and Christian worldview content that strengthens believers for a time such as this.

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In this episode Daniel Cohen used Tucker Carlson’s recent comments about Christian Zionism to explain something much bigger. This is not just a media feud. It is a picture of spiritual warfare that reaches from the war in Israel to American politics, from news streaming on big platforms to what believers choose to watch live tv on at home.

What Tucker Carlson Got Wrong about Christian Zionism and Israel

Tucker Carlson recently called Christian Zionism a “brain virus” and a “Christian heresy” while talking with Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who mocks the Holocaust and degrades women. After major backlash from pastors, ambassadors, and many believers, Tucker tried to walk it back with a soft apology. He said he was angry, that his words were poorly chosen, and that some Christian Zionists are very kind people.

Then he immediately doubled down on the lie that led him there. Tucker claimed that Israel deliberately targeted churches in Gaza and intentionally murdered Christian civilians. He argued that because the Israeli military is precise, any tragic hit near a church must have been planned policy, not fog of war.

Daniel Cohen pressed pause on that narrative. Israel’s military does have precision tools, but precision does not erase the chaos of battle or the evil of Hamas. Terrorists hide among civilians, in apartment blocks, in hospitals, near churches and schools. Collateral damage is heartbreaking and tragic, but it is not the same as a policy to murder Christians. In at least one case Israel admitted error, investigated, and expressed deep sorrow. That is the opposite of what Tucker claimed.

Christian Zionism, Daniel explained, is not blind loyalty to every decision of a government. It is a conviction that God made a specific covenant with the Jewish people and the land of Israel, and that covenant is still part of His plan for the nations. It is faith and politics working together under Scripture, not political christianity that worships any leader on earth.

How a Media Narrative Becomes Spiritual Warfare

Daniel also pointed out what many miss. Tucker did not make these comments in a vacuum. He chose to share a stage with Nick Fuentes, a man who praises Hitler, mocks the murder of six million Jews, and jokes that women really want to be abused. When a high profile commentator like Tucker gives that kind of voice a platform, he is not just asking questions. He is driving a wedge between Christians and Jews and poisoning the well for future conversation about Israel.

That is why this matters for faith and politics. When believers repeat these talking points, they end up defending a narrative that makes Israel the villain and excuses the terror of Hamas. Christian Zionism is smeared as warmongering, while actual terrorists are framed as victims. This is not simply political christianity. It is a distortion of the Gospel and of history.

Daniel reminded viewers that supporting Israel’s right to exist and defend herself does not mean ignoring the suffering of Arab Christians in Gaza, Lebanon, or Syria. You can care deeply about every Christian in the Middle East and still refuse to call Israel the aggressor in a war that Hamas started. That balance is what a mature christian worldview news perspective looks like.

From there Daniel widened the lens. The same spirit that twists the Israel conflict also shows up in American culture. Legacy news channels call it justice when conservatives are censored, doxxed, or de-platformed. Entertainment elites celebrate performers who mock God on award shows and NFL stages. Radical activists demand open borders and call any enforcement cruelty. In each case the goal is the same. Redefine good and evil, then shame anyone who resists.

This is why uncensored news matters. Believers cannot just trust big streaming platforms that mute stories which do not fit elite narratives. They need video streaming services and new channels that are willing to call sin sin, protect women in locker rooms and sports, defend unborn life, and tell the truth about war in Israel even when it is unpopular.

Why Believers Need Better News Streaming and a Stronger Spine

Daniel Cohen often reminds viewers that the biggest question is not what Tucker, or the Heritage Foundation, or the Obamas think. The real question is whether Christians will let Scripture shape their view of Israel, America, and culture, or whether they will let trends on news streaming apps and social feeds do the discipling.

That is where Real Life Network comes in. RLN is a streaming service built as an alternative to secular video streaming services that laugh at faith. It offers christian tv shows, live news, and faith based news that refuses to compromise. Viewers can watch live tv style coverage, replay segments as online news, and explore full shows from a growing lineup of new channels that share a clear Christian worldview.

Daniel’s challenge is simple and direct

• Open your Bible before you open your favorite news source
  
  
• Refuse to let talking heads tell you how a Christian must feel about Israel or about the war in Israel
  
  
• Reject the wedge that people like Nick Fuentes and other extremists try to drive between Jews and Christians
  
  
• See cancel culture, gender confusion, political rage, and the hatred of Israel as different fronts in the same spiritual war
  
  

When believers do that, faith and politics stop being a tug of war between parties and become an arena where Jesus is Lord over every headline.

A Call to Stand with Truth in an Age of Confusion

In the end Daniel Cohen’s message is not about winning a media fight with Tucker Carlson. It is about guarding the church from subtle deception. The enemy would love nothing more than to convince believers that supporting Israel is unchristian, that standing for women’s safety is hateful, that enforcing borders is bigotry, and that only approved voices on big streaming platforms count as real News.

The Gospel tells a different story. God is faithful to His covenant with Israel. He calls His people to protect the innocent and confront evil. He commands us to love our enemies, not by endorsing their lies, but by speaking the truth in love. And He invites every person, Jew and Gentile, to salvation through Jesus.

That is why christianity and politics cannot be separated from discipleship. It is why political christianity that compromises Scripture to stay acceptable will always collapse. And it is why believers need faith based news, christian worldview news, and trustworthy online news that points them back to Christ and His Word every single day.

In an age when truth bends to politics and headlines echo propaganda, Daniel Cohen stands apart. On The Daniel Cohen Show from Real Life Network, Cohen refuses to separate faith and politics, insisting that every crisis in Israel, Europe, or America reveals a deeper spiritual battle. His latest message, now streaming on RLN’s Christian streaming service, exposes how the war in Israel, the collapse of moral courage in the West, and the revival of the Church all connect to the same conflict between light and darkness.

The War in Israel and the Western Desire for Chaos

Daniel Cohen begins by explaining the Israel conflict as more than a military standoff. He calls it a mirror reflecting the moral decay of the West. When Vice President J D Vance stood in southern Israel and said that Western media seems to root for failure, Cohen agreed. He notes how every violent flareup is treated as proof that peace is impossible, as if journalists secretly prefer unrest to resolution.

Cohen points to something bigger happening beneath the surface. The ceasefire in Gaza, fragile as it is, represents the groundwork for an Abraham Accords 2.0 that could unite Israel with more Arab nations. Iran and Hamas tried to stop that process on October 7, but their terror only exposed their weakness. Across the Middle East, Arab leaders are tired of Iran’s chaos and looking toward stability with Israel instead.

For Cohen, this is where Christianity and politics intersect. He says the way nations treat Israel reveals their spiritual health. The promises God made to Abraham still stand, and rejecting those promises has consequences. Cohen praises leaders such as Netanyahu and pastors like Jack Hibbs, who refuse to apologize for supporting Israel’s right to exist. He reminds viewers that what happens in the Middle East is not random history. It is evidence that biblical prophecy is unfolding in real time.

From London to New York: The Cost of Moral Surrender

Cohen turns his attention to Europe, describing how cities once known for courage are now paralyzed by fear. London, Amsterdam, and Paris have become stages for mobs shouting antisemitic slogans while police stand by and do nothing. He calls it moral cowardice disguised as tolerance. The refusal to confront evil has created societies where Jewish citizens must hide behind fences and guards just to worship in peace.

Then Cohen looks at New York City, where radical candidate Zoran Mamdani publicly promises to remake the state “in the image of our people.” For Cohen, those words are not progress but warning. He explains that when politics becomes tribal, truth disappears. Polls show foreign born voters supporting Mamdani while native born New Yorkers divide among failed alternatives. It is a symptom, Cohen says, of immigration without assimilation and education without truth. When a nation forgets who it is, power replaces principle.

Cohen warns that America is on the same path as Europe. The slow surrender to radical ideologies, the moral confusion in the name of tolerance, and the silence of churches all point to a deeper loss of conviction. Without biblical truth, the West cannot survive. The problem is not diversity, he says, but the rejection of God’s design for justice and order.

The Church’s Moment to Rise

Even in the darkness, Cohen sees signs of hope. The Church is stirring. Turning Point USA Faith has doubled its network of partner churches, now more than eight thousand strong, reaching hundreds of thousands of believers ready to stand for truth. Cohen calls this growth part of Charlie Kirk’s legacy. Kirk preached repentance, holiness, and sacrifice in a culture that craves comfort. He reminded believers that a faith that costs nothing is worth nothing.

Cohen speaks with apologist Dr Frank Turek, who challenges Christians to prepare for cultural battle long before they step onto a college campus. Turek’s Cross Examined ministry teaches believers how to defend their faith with logic, evidence, and love. Both men agree that silence is no longer an option. Fear has no place in the life of a believer. God commands courage, not comfort.

Cohen ends with a reminder that history belongs to God. Governments rise and fall. Online news, news streaming, and live news will change by the hour, but the Gospel does not. The greatest battle is not in Gaza or New York but in the human heart. Christ alone can bring peace. He lived a perfect life, died for sinners, and rose again to offer forgiveness and eternal life.

When viewed through that lens, the war in Israel, the political turmoil in America, and the collapse of Europe are not separate stories but one message. They remind us that truth matters and eternity is near.

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