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Ellie Gardey Holmes is a journalist, author, and magazine editor who exposes the absurdities and abominations of our politics and culture.

She is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power, a full-reaching biography of Gavin Newsom published by Post Hill Press, with a foreword by former Speaker of House Newt Gingrich. Ellie has written more than 50 articles on Governor Newsom.

Ellie writes for the American Spectator on topics such as radical leftism, politicians gone wild, cultural rot, the decline of higher education, and abortion. She also has bylines at the Blaze, the Washington Stand, the Daily Caller, and the College Fix.

Ellie is the print magazine editor at the American Spectator. The magazine is published biannually.

Ellie lives in Michigan with her husband and son. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism.

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What an Awful Woman – The American Spectator

The Democrats have rolled out a new strategy for combating the affordability crisis: kill your kids, and pocket the money you would have otherwise spent on caring for them.This strategy comes to us courtesy of Jessica Valenti, one of the most abortion-obsessed women in the world. She dedicates her career to demanding that abortion be maximally available on demand on her Substack, Abortion, Every Day.Last week, Valenti was asked to sound off on how abortion is a “kitchen-table issue” in an interv...
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James Talarico’s Strange Religion – The American Spectator

Over the past day, the Daily Wire and the Blaze published twin interviews showing two pastors at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico’s home church, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, disavowing Jesus Christ and Christianity in shockingly blunt terms.The first, from the Daily Wire, features the “nonbinary and lesbian” Rev. Babs Miller.“Whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me,” she said. “The fact remains that that message that was delivered by someone named Jesus, supposedly, an...
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The Feds Are Closing In on Newsom — and His Corporate Bankrollers – The American Spectator

The Justice Department has been investigating California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife for over a year now. Our understanding of the investigation had until recently come almost entirely from anonymous Justice Department sources, who spilled that the feds were focusing on the taxes and nonprofits of the governor’s wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom.But we have just now obtained a clearer picture of precisely where the federal investigation stands now.The San Francisco Standard obtained subpoenas issu...
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Newsom’s Affair Partner Reveals She Was Blackout Drunk During Encounters – The American Spectator

“Anyone who is mentally incapacitated due to alcohol and other drugs cannot give consent,” states a high school sex education curriculum used in Washington state.“Exploiting a person’s impairment from the use of alcohol or other drugs is not okay under any circumstances. If someone is incapacitated from alcohol and/or other drugs, they cannot give consent,” reasons Dartmouth University’s sexual consent guide.The sentiment is a common one repeated in schools, colleges, and workplaces across the c...
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Bill Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, and the Questions That Won’t Go Away – The American Spectator

“For at least a decade, Clinton has been prone to extramarital affairs, often more than one at a time, and to numerous one-night stands. According to the troopers, the clandestine sexual encounters occurred even after the presidential election and continued through Clinton’s final days in Little Rock.”So writes David Brock in The American Spectator’s most famous article, “His Cheatin’ Heart,” which was published thirty-two years ago. As depicted by Brock, Clinton is a sex maniac. This is to the...
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Five Years After Claims of ‘Genocide’ at Residential Schools, Still No Bodies Found – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

On May 27, 2021, the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation announced the supposed discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves at a Native American residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Specifically, Chief Rosanne Casimir claimed the discovery of the “remains of 215 children.”Canada convulsed in horror. Flags were lowered to half-mast for five months straight. One First Nation group after another came forward claiming they had discovered hundreds more unmarked graves. At one site in Saskat...

“Ellie Gardey Holmes unmasks California Governor Gavin Newsom as the self-serving opportunist he truly is.”

—Newt Gingrich