WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senator Elizabeth Warren was seen riding into town Monday morning bearing the scalp of her defeated enemy, Spirit Airlines.

Mehek Cooke, senior national security and legal analyst at The Daily Signal, warned that the shutdown of Spirit Airlines exposes a broader failure by the Biden administration and Democratic leaders to think through the real-world consequences of ideologically driven policy decisions, which she says are now directly hurting American consumers.

Appearing on NewsNation over the weekend, Cooke said the collapse of Spirit Airlines was not inevitable, but the predictable result of the Biden administration blocking a merger with JetBlue that could have allowed the struggling airline to survive.

“They didn’t think forward,” Cooke said. “At the end of the day, this was an ideological win.”

Democrats have sought to shift blame away from the Biden administration for the airline’s closure, with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., arguing that spiking fuel prices and a court ruling against the Spirit–JetBlue merger are responsible. But Cooke rejected that claim outright.

“It has nothing to do with fuel costs—we’re all grappling with that,” she said. “The Biden DOJ blocked this merger. They weren’t actually protecting consumers.”

Cooke noted that Spirit served as one of the last low-cost carriers offering affordable travel to major cities—options that are now gone.

“Every American that actually flies Spirit, including me—to so many places, like New York—don’t have a cheaper option,” she said. “If a merger was there today, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.”

She emphasized that Spirit was not attempting to form a monopoly but to survive. “They were trying to merge because they were struggling—and that’s what survival is today,” she said.

Cooke accused Democratic lawmakers of refusing to take responsibility for the consequences of their policies. “For Elizabeth Warren to now double down and blame fuel costs is just a lie to the American people,” she said. “At least gloat in your win and say we did it—we closed down the airline. We hurt the American consumer.”

The discussion later turned to the Supreme Court’s decision last Wednesday striking down Louisiana’s congressional map, which relied heavily on race. Cooke said the ruling sends a clear message nationwide that the Voting Rights Act “should protect access to the ballot.”

“It shouldn’t just give politicians on either side a constitutional hall pass to start sorting Americans by race,” she said, adding that the Constitution explicitly prohibits racial gerrymandering.

Cooke argued the ruling signals that states cannot use race as a political shortcut. “Americans don’t want to be racially profiled,” she said. “We want our votes to count.”

Senior Biden Department of Justice attorneys fantasized about prosecuting Catholic nuns as they reviewed the events of the Jan. 6, 2021, protest and Capitol riot in Washington, D.C.

Realizing that there were nuns present at the peaceful rally on the National Mall that day, DOJ federal prosecutor Molly Gaston wrote that she “would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting” Catholic religious sisters. One of her colleagues, Notre Dame graduate JP Cooney, replied, “I’m with you.” “Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”

This information was just revealed by investigators working for Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and published by Mary Margaret Olahan at the Daily Wire.

Notably, Cooney is now running for the U.S. House of Representatives for the 7th Congressional District of Virginia. His comments clearly impugn the integrity of more orthodox Catholic nuns who still opt to wear traditional robes and veils, known as “habits.”

Unfortunately, this instance of anti-Catholic bias from Democrats is hardly new—or isolated. It is part of a broader War on Faith. After all, Cooney and Gaston’s boss, President Joe Biden—who has long cultivated a public image as a supposedly devout Catholic—presided as vice president over the multi-year legal assault against the Little Sisters of the Poor.

After the Obama-Biden administration tried for years to force the Catholic order to provide medical coverage that contradicts Catholic teaching, the Trump administration thankfully granted a full exemption to the nuns, who dedicate their lives to serving the poor and elderly. That exemption was also upheld by the Supreme Court in 2020.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has also displayed her own deep prejudice against Catholics, attempting as a senator to disqualify a Catholic federal judge nominee simply because he belongs to the Catholic fraternal organization the Knights of Columbus. Thankfully, she failed in this blatantly unconstitutional act of bigotry against a worthy judge who now serves on the federal bench with distinction.

In addition, the Biden FBI targeted traditional Catholics for investigation and surveillance. These patriotic citizens were singled out for the allegedly subversive and “extremist” activity of … attending Latin Mass on Sundays!

Despite this litany of abuses and clear anti-Catholic bias in the ongoing War on Faith, bishops continually insist on inserting themselves into highly partisan U.S. politics to side very publicly with Democrats. From the Bishop of Rome himself, Pope Leo XIV, to various American bishops, on certain issues these prelates seemingly take every opportunity possible to attack the Church’s political protectors and join in league with the oppressors of Catholics.

For instance, even after the much-publicized online feud between Pope Leo and President Trump, the pontiff just appointed a new American bishop, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala, in West Virginia, who was, as a young man, an illegal migrant trespassing into the U.S. He ultimately received legal status through a religious visa for workers in ministry, but he openly acknowledges having crossed illegally into America.

As recently as last year, Bishop Menjivar-Ayala criticized immigration enforcement, stating that “each day this situation is getting worse and more ominous.” He also assailed what he called the “dark side of anti-immigrant animus.”

In addition, the pope also named a new auxiliary bishop for Washington, D.C., Robert Boxie III, a vocal critic of the Trump-Vance administration, especially on racial preference issues. He said that “the attacks on DEI … the fact that it’s been turned into something negative—or something that should be avoided or not talked about—just flies in the face of who we are as Americans.”

It seems far from coincidental that the Holy Father would choose to make such appointments in a deeply red, pro-MAGA state, as well as in the nation’s capital, without at least an awareness of the political symbolism following his public spat with Trump.

But inexplicably, many Church bishops default to this very pattern. They defend the oppressors of Catholics. They rally to the side that turns abortion into a pagan “sacrament” and wants to mutilate the genitals of confused children. In doing so, they invert the proper relationship between Church and state: it should be leftist politicians seeking to accommodate and respect the moral teachings of the Church, not Church leaders appearing to bend toward secular political power.

As their excuse for joining hands with such partisan actors, the bishops pretend that porous borders are somehow moral or virtuous, defying logic and the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, especially St. Thomas Aquinas.

With these politicized moves, many bishops de facto retaliate against the masses in the pews who voted by supermajorities for strong immigration law enforcement, a principle deeply embedded in millennia of Catholic teaching and tradition. Pray that these shepherds will learn from their flock, who overwhelmingly support strong borders and an immigration model of law and order in our homeland.

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House Republicans are renewing a push to enact legislation that would bar dual citizens from serving in Congress, arguing the measure would ensure lawmakers pledge allegiance solely to the United States.

“These are outside influences—this is literal foreign interference,” Rep. Randy Fine, R‑Fla., told The Daily Signal last week.

Fine reiterated the point over the weekend on X and on his “Fine Point” podcast.

“Think about it. When you’re a citizen of a country, you take an oath of allegiance to that country. How can you serve in the government of the United States if you’ve pledged allegiance to another country?” Fine wrote. “So it wouldn’t preclude you from being an American, but it would say you can’t be in Congress.”

Chairman of the Freedom Caucus Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told echoed his colleagues remarks and told The Daily Signal that “serving in Congress requires a single, unwavering allegiance to the United States of America.”

“Divided loyalties undermine the responsibility to write our laws and shape national policy that directly impacts the lives of Americans,” Harris added. “Congress must correct this by requiring Members to renounce any foreign citizenship and pledge allegiance to the United States.”

Other proponents of the effort, including Republican congressional hopefuls Brandon Herrera of Texas’ 23rd District and Anthony Sabatini, who is seeking the GOP nomination in Florida’s 11th Congressional District, argue the proposal would weed out elected officials whose loyalties lie elsewhere.

“I oppose dual citizenship in Congress; I also oppose all foreign aid,” Sabatini told The Daily Signal. “Very few congressmen in D.C. are loyal to this country.”

“Only a handful are,” he added.

Herrera echoed that sentiment on Sunday, writing, “Crazy thought: American politicians should have allegiance to America.”

Other House members are also backing the effort. Rep. Thomas Massie, R‑Ky., has introduced separate legislation in recent months that would require members of Congress to disclose any foreign citizenships they hold.

“Dual citizens elected to the United States Congress should renounce citizenship in all other countries,” Massie said. “At a minimum, they should disclose their citizenship in other countries and abstain from votes specifically benefiting those countries. If we are going to continue to allow members of Congress to acquire and retain citizenship in other countries, they should at least be required to disclose to voters all countries of which they consider themselves to be citizens.”

In the Senate, Sen. Bernie Moreno, R‑Ohio, introduced the Exclusive Citizenship Act last fall, which would require lawmakers to forfeit any dual citizenship.

“If you apply for citizenship, one of the parts of becoming a naturalized citizen is you have to make a pledge of allegiance only to the United States of America that already exists,” Moreno said on the “Standpoint” podcast with host Gabe Groisman. “So what we’re doing is saying, ‘OK, well, if you’re making that pledge only to the U.S. on a go‑forward basis as a naturalized citizen, you also have to renounce your former citizenship.’”

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