Warren Daniel

It’s refreshing to hear a democrat who doesn’t sympathize with terrorist dictators.

🚨 EPIC! President Trump pulls up to Whataburger in THE BEAST and now the food is on Air Force One. You cannot make this up. While the DC swamp lives off champagne and donor dinners, Trump is grabbing Texas burgers and taking them 30,000 feet in the air. That’s why they can’t stand him. He’s real. He enjoys it. And you already know he’s not “vacationing.” He’s working the phones, locking in deals, moving the country forward with a Whataburger in hand. Only Trump. 🇺🇸🔥

I am a woman from Iran. Let me tell you honestly how women like me see politicians like you in America, women who speak about freedom from the safety of Congress while sympathizing with our killers under Islamic regimes. You stand next to the American flag, speaking about freedom. Now you launch campaigns saying, “No War With Iran.” Now I want to introduce you to a brave Iranian woman who understood America better than you ever will. Her name is Sara Saeidi. Born and raised in Iran. 39 years old. A mother of two daughters, 19 and 6. She was shot in the head for the “crime” of peacefully protesting while wearing a sweatshirt that said MANHATTAN, with the American flag beneath it. While you stood in Congress under that flag, she carried its name on her chest, not as symbolism for a photo opportunity but as a dream. Three days after she was killed, her body was returned to her family only after threats and money were taken from them. They were banned from holding a proper funeral. Authorities falsified the circumstances of her death. That is the regime you refuse to confront clearly. She wanted the freedom Manhattan represents, the freedom to live without fear, without morality police, without a bullet in her head. The same freedom protected by the Constitution you swore to uphold. You speak of “No War With Iran,” but you refuse to condemn the war being waged against us, the Iranian people, by the Islamic Republic. More than 30,000 unarmed civilians have been killed. Women blinded. Teenagers hanged. Mothers executed. When American lawmakers like you reduce this reality to a partisan talking point, you do the regime’s work for it. Dictatorships thrive when moral clarity disappears and when lawmakers choose ambiguity instead of standing firmly with victims. You call yourself anti war. But where is your condemnation of the regime’s massacre? Where is your outrage at its war against its own people? You are anti-Iranian women.💔 Peace without justice is surrender. Your hatred of President Trump appears stronger than your love for America, stronger than your love for Manhattan, for freedom, for women’s rights. That is why you sound sympathetic to the Islamic Republic while remaining silent about women like Sara, like me, and like millions of Iranians who are victims of this barbaric regime. You celebrating hijab day in Manhattan in beautiful New York and watching women get killed in Iran for not wearing hijab. I dare you to share the picture of Sara, and say no to the war being wage by Islamist terrorist on us, Iranians.

Here’s how I really feel about Iran. People used to ask me how I felt about progress in Afghanistan. I would always say we were three weeks away from victory and three days away from defeat on a sliding scale. Yesterday we were in the exact same spot. Tomorrow we’d be in the exact same spot. We were allowed to do enough to not lose, but we never were allowed to do what we needed to do to win. Play that theme across the rest of our Middle Eastern involvements, anywhere we decided to sponsor a color revolution. Grand idea and scheme of involvement. We’d get involved, commit resources, people, and try to Westernize or “capacity build.” Tons of military contracts and money pouring overseas. Then. Nothing. We’d hold short, get politically bogged down, and paralyze our military operations. And we’d lose. For years, that became the playbook—getting into conflicts without a clear path to victory. Big ideas. Lofty objectives. But no willingness to do what it actually takes to win. Our troops were asked to operate in the gray, constrained by politics, chasing goals that sounded good in think tanks but did not translate on the battlefield. President Trump tried to take the handcuffs off during his first term. He did some bold things—demolishing ISIS in weeks and assassinating Soleimani on the tarmac of Baghdad International. But what we are seeing now is a fully formed doctrine: clarity of purpose, decisive action, and no apologies for defending American interests. Enter President Trump’s second term. An incredibly decisive operation in Midnight Hammer, sending a clear message to Iran. Picking off Maduro in Venezuela—sending the clearest message to all of the adversaries of the United States that we are willing to use unprecedented capabilities and are truly done messing around. And today, Ayatollah Khomeini is dead. He was an evil man, and American and Israeli airpower sent him into the next world, straight to Hell. Gone are the days of failed regime change and capacity building. Gone are the days of kicking the can down the road and getting nothing done. Gone are the days of sacrificing our military authority and capabilities on the altar of political correctness. The world is a dangerous place. When nations threaten the United States of America or its close allies, President Trump is very clear: we will seek terms of peace. But if peace is unobtainable, we are going straight for the jugular, because we are done getting nothing done. Because the world deserves peace, and to be free of leaders who oppress and oppose peace. And simply, more than anyone else in the world by a factor of ten, because we can. This ain’t your father’s regime change. It’s not the Global War on Terror. It’s not even war. It’s avoiding war through the limited, extremely violent and decisive use of force that achieves decisive overmatch and ends the ability for conflict altogether. It is reshaping the globe and the balance of power in favor of the United States of America again. We are rolling the tables. Anyone who has been to war, hates war. But I like what we’re doing, and why. Because decisive strength is what prevents long wars and protects American lives. This isn’t over. Pray for our Troops 🇺🇸

Team USA just won its first Olympic hockey gold in 46 years. On February 22. The exact anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Forget the storybook narrative for a second. What happened today is a masterclass in what performance science teaches us about pressure, identity, and legacy. Consider the pressure this team was under. They walked into today carrying 46 years of near misses. The US hadn't won Olympic gold since 1980. They lost the gold medal game in 2002 and 2010...both times to Canada. Last year at the 4 Nations tournament, Canada beat them in overtime. That loss was still raw. The 1980 hero, Mike Eruzione, was in the building. He told the players before the game: "It's just a hockey game." It wasn't. And everyone knew it. Canada outshot the US 41-26. They dominated the second and third periods. Nathan MacKinnon missed an open net. Macklin Celebrini had a breakaway and couldn't convert. Devon Toews had Hellebuyck beaten and somehow the puck stayed out. Then Charlie McAvoy cleared a puck off the goal line with his glove. This was not a dominant performance. It was a team surviving enormous pressure and refusing to break. That distinction matters. How does a team perform under that kind of weight? It starts with the environment the coach creates. Mike Sullivan is now the only American-born coach to win multiple Stanley Cups AND Olympic gold. When he took over the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2015, the team was loaded with talent — Crosby, Malkin, Letang — and completely broken. His description: "There was a dark cloud over the locker room." His first move wasn't a new system or a motivational speech. It was a reframe. He told the team: "There are certain things in life we can control and certain things we can't. We needed to focus on the things that we could control and not dedicate any cognitive resources or worry to things we couldn't control." The team adopted a two-word motto: "Just play." Six months later, they won the Stanley Cup. Tonight, he helped USA do it again on the biggest stage in the world. Sullivan builds what he calls a "safe zone for learning." His video review sessions are explicitly NOT about blame. "We don't want a player walking into our video room on eggshells worried about 'Am I going to be in the film? Is Coach going to yell at me?' It's a game of mistakes. Our responsibility is to learn from them." His guiding principle from his college coach: "Before players want to know what you know, they want to know that you care." It's the difference between compliance and buy-in. Buy-in wins championships. Research backs up Sullivan. Fear-based environments don't produce peak performance. Especially when pressure is already high... They produce anxiety, risk-aversion, and choking. When people feel psychologically safe — when they know mistakes won't be weaponized against them — they take smarter risks, recover faster from errors, and perform better under pressure. We could see it in how Sullivan framed this moment in the weeks before the game. "What an incredible opportunity we have in front of us." Not a burden or expectation...Opportunity. He took the unusual step for a hockey team and kept the team in the Olympic Village instead of a hotel. His reasoning: "The Village is part of the experience." The Hughes brothers roomed together. The Tkachuk brothers roomed together. He didn't try to ignore or isolate them from the pressure. He was embedding them in it, together. And then there's the guy who scored the goal. Jack Hughes came into the Olympics injured, underperforming, slotted on the fourth line. Sullivan moved him up mid-tournament because, as he put it, "We thought by moving him and getting him more ice time, he could impact the game more." Hughes's response: "I believe in myself more than anyone. Wherever I was slotted coming into this thing, I knew I was going to play well." A coach who believed in him when results said otherwise. A player who believed in himself when the lineup said otherwise. Then two teeth got cracked in half by a high stick in the third period. And he scored the golden goal anyway. Everyone's going to remember this as the night the US ended a 46-year drought. On the anniversary. In overtime. Against Canada. But the real lesson is quieter than that. The environment you create determines the performance you get. A safe zone for learning. A focus on controllables. Relationships built on care, not fear. Pressure reframed as opportunity. That's what it looks like when a team is ready, with the right environment and support to tackle the ghosts of history. They built a culture where a team could survive 41 shots and a kid with two broken teeth could score the biggest goal of his life. The 1980 Miracle was about belief overcoming talent. Today was different. Today was talent, preparation, identity, and 46 years of accumulated hunger arriving at the same moment. -Steve

🇺🇸 For bringing home the gold and delivering an overwhelming sense of pride throughout America, we hereby grant FREE CRABCAKES FOR LIFE to all members of the 2026 USA Men’s & Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Teams! This applies to both dine-in and shipping for all time. God Bless America! Johnny Hockey Forever! 🇺🇸

Why you don't burn the flag. 🇺🇸🫡 🇺🇸🫡 🇺🇸 🙏🙏😢🙏🙏

Winter wonderland arrives

Some good storm preparation tips.

NC State House member dunks on “we killed the state children’s hospital” Sorry kids. #ncpol

Highlight of the Army-Navy Game yesterday. Cadets and Midshipmen with a beautiful performance of the National Anthem. #chillbumps

@NewFrameInc @ArmyNavyGame @BobBrinsonJr @NavalAcademy @ager_eric @skydiving11 @WestPoint_USMA

🏈🇺🇸🎖️⚓️ It’s @ArmyNavyGame Week and the #DoPoliticsBetter pod becomes a demilitarized zone as West Point grads Sen Warren @DanielforSenate & Sen @BobBrinsonJr square off against @NavalAcademy grad Rep @ager_eric. @skydiving11 & I also break down the week on the #ncpol gridiron! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/do-…

Unfortunately this is all too true as western North Carolinians have come to know.

As we mark the one year anniversary of Hurricane Helene’s disastrous effects on western NC, I think this slide from the lessons-learned briefing I attended yesterday pretty much sums up the determination and grit of our mountain people. Well done. #ncpol

Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

We're proud of the heroic actions taken Saturday night by Cadet Larry Pickett Jr, a second-year cadet & @ArmyWP_Football player, & his father who are seen pulling a driver to safety in a video online taken by the family. Their actions are the embodiment of the @USArmy Values.

Prayer is not an escape from reality. It is the very place we meet Christ, who Himself was unjustly slain. We will continue to pray, not because we are passive, but because we know only God can bring true justice, healing, and peace. Evil wants us to stop praying and to despair. We will not. We cling to Christ, who has conquered death. “The prayer of a righteous person has great power in its effects.” -James 5:16