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Leopards don't change their spots.
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Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal—the reestablishment of white supremacy—fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.

After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South.

The 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, was passed with 100% support from Republicans in Congress—and only 23% support from Democrats. That’s a sobering fact, often overlooked in today’s political discourse.
When the 14th Amendment came up—declaring that formerly enslaved people were full citizens of the states in which they lived and entitled to the same rights and privileges as any other American—not a single Democrat in either the House or the Senate voted in favor.

Let that sink in.

It was the Democrat Party that founded and championed the Ku Klux Klan. Between 1882 and 1964, a total of 4,743 people were lynched—3,446 Black and 1,297 white. These are the real numbers—painful, factual, and historical.

Today, Planned Parenthood—widely supported and defended by Democrats—kills more Black lives in just three days than the KKK did in 86 years. It ends more total lives in two days than the KKK lynched in nearly a century. These aren’t just statistics—they’re lives, disproportionately lost in silence.

In the 19th century, Democrats actively blocked Black children from attending public schools. Fast forward to today, and the same party continues to obstruct educational freedom: 99% of Democrats vote against school-choice legislation, effectively trapping Black families in failing, government-run schools.

Even now, in 2025, the left continues to fight against educational equality, working to keep children locked into broken systems instead of empowering families to choose what’s best for them.

I’ll be the first to say I’m not the biggest fan of everything in the Big Beautiful Bill—including its name—but after decades of effort, conservatives finally created the first national school voucher program through the Trump BBB.