Think More: Friday, April 17, 2026
Jordan moves to expunge the 2019 impeachment, Moolenaar on Chinese chip smuggling, Wai Wah Chin on Mamdani's racial-equity blueprint, Bessent and Rubio's hemispheric blitz, and another sanctuary-policy failure in New York City.
Jordan: House Moving to Expunge Trump’s 2019 Impeachment
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan confirmed that the House is moving to expunge President Trump’s first impeachment, the 2019 Ukraine article Republicans now argue was built on a manufactured whistleblower pipeline running through former ICIG Michael Atkinson and former CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella.
Moolenaar on the $2.5 Billion Chip-Smuggling Case
House Select Committee on the CCP | selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov
Chairman John Moolenaar’s opening statement frames Chinese evasion of U.S. export controls as a direct threat to American technological and military advantage, using a $2.5 billion chip-smuggling case to map how the regime laundered restricted semiconductors into its military-industrial base.
Mamdani’s 375-Page Preliminary Citywide Racial-Equity Plan
Wai Wah Chin reads the 375-page racial-equity plan issued under New York’s new Mamdani administration as a programmatic blueprint for rewiring municipal government around ideological categories the voters never ratified, with every agency directed to reorder its operations by the new metrics.
Kansas Bars Public Colleges from Requiring DEI-CRT Courses
Inside Higher Ed | insidehighered.com
Kansas becomes the latest state to legislate against the ideological capture of higher education, signing into law a prohibition on public colleges and universities requiring DEI or critical race theory courses as part of general education.
California Republicans Seek Probe of $180 Billion in Taxpayer Fraud
California Republicans are demanding an investigation into an estimated $180 billion in fraud against state taxpayer programs, a figure that dwarfs most state budgets and raises hard questions about the administrative capacity of the nation’s largest blue state.
Bessent and Rubio’s Western Hemisphere Blitz
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are running a coordinated Western Hemisphere campaign of visa revocations and targeted sanctions, the first coherent hemispheric strategy Washington has executed in a generation.
Democrat States Are Desperate to Tax the Rich — Even After They Leave
The Post Editorial Board | New York Post
The Post examines the spread of blue-state exit taxes and extraterritorial wealth levies designed to capture revenue from the very residents whose flight has been accelerated by the policies that produced these proposals in the first place.
Congress’s Secret Misconduct Fund Back in the Spotlight After Swalwell Bombshell
Legal Insurrection | legalinsurrection.com
The taxpayer-funded congressional settlement fund, briefly exposed in the MeToo cycle and then allowed to recede from view, returns to public scrutiny following fresh reporting tied to Representative Eric Swalwell and renewed questions about which members have drawn from it and why.
Teachers Union Makes ‘End Run’ Around Parents, District Tells SCOTUS
Just the News | justthenews.com
A school district’s filing before the Supreme Court argues that teachers’ unions and state labor bureaucrats are using administrative machinery to circumvent elected school boards and the parents who empower them, pushing a case with implications for every district in the country.
NYC Officials Refused ICE Hold for Illegal Alien Accused in Arson That Killed Four
The Department of Homeland Security confirms that New York City officials refused an ICE detainer for an illegal alien now charged with an arson that killed four people and injured seven, the latest test of sanctuary policy against the public-safety record it produces.
