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President Trump delivered a speech decrying Chinese interference in American elections while the most expensive House primary in the nation's history unfolded under the direction of a foreign lobby. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its network poured record sums into defeating Rep. Thomas Massie, who had held the Kentucky seat for fourteen years on principles of constitutional restraint and national sovereignty.
Massie asked the obvious question after his loss: when will the speech address Israeli interference. The answer remains silence from the same administration that blesses the mechanism by which a foreign power now selects members of Congress.
This transaction follows the pattern of every empire that permitted external powers to purchase its deliberative bodies. The foreign lobby does not argue policy on the merits; it removes the men who resist its demands and installs replacements who will serve another nation's priorities.
The governing principle remains unchanged since the American founding. Washington warned in his Farewell Address that habitual favoritism toward any foreign nation creates the instruments by which that nation captures domestic institutions. Scripture reinforces the same boundary: a people that cannot keep its own house will be ruled by those who can.
The City of Man always seeks to dissolve the distinction between nations so that loyalty becomes negotiable and sovereignty becomes a commodity. The faithful remnant recognizes that property, representation, and law belong first to the household and the commonwealth under God, not to external bidders.
Every additional seat purchased by the foreign lobby tightens the chain around the remaining representatives. The pattern is not accidental; it is the methodical replacement of those who place American interests first.
The remnant must therefore refuse the false choice between one foreign power and another. It must demand that its representatives serve the nation whose soil they represent or be replaced by men who will.
Restoration begins with the refusal to fund or defend any candidate whose campaign treasury bears the mark of foreign gold. The alternative is the quiet surrender of the last instruments of self-government.
