Good morning!

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff! 

Today's newsletter includes:

• Bible Verse Of The Day
• "Huckabee" Preview
• Not Your Father’s Democrat/Republican Parties
• Perfectly Timed Story
• A Cooling Dish
• Biden Administration Quietly Ends Trump Policy
• “Not Me!”
• Well, This Is Reassuring
• Border Preview
• New Podcasts
• A Reader Writes Back...
• Inspirational Americans

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee

BIBLE VERSE OF THE DAY 

The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

Psalms 7:8

"Huckabee" Preview

By Mike Huckabee

Join me tonight for a terrific new episode of “Huckabee” on TBN! I’ll talk about the left’s racist attacks on voting laws with outspoken North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson. You’ll meet a Huck’s Hero who’s a hero to people and dogs alike. Discover the man behind some of your favorite country hits, singer/songwriter Bill Nash. We’ll have lots of laughs with “In Case You Missed It” and the return of the hilarious Chonda Pierce. Then top it all off with a performance by Christian music superstar, Michael W. Smith.

It all comes your way tonight at 8 and 11 EST, 7 and 10 CST, and Sunday at 9 EST/8 CST, on TBN. To find out how you can watch TBN, from local cable and broadcast channels to streaming, visit https://www.huckabee.tv and click on “Channel Finder” on the top menu. You can stream previous episodes, highlights and online-only “Digital Exclusives,” including extended interviews, “In Case You Missed It” and “Facts of the Matter” segments, and extra performances by our great musical and comedy guests, all at https://www.huckabee.tv. You can also find past shows, highlights and digital exclusives on YouTube and my Facebook page.

Not Your Father’s Democrat/Republican Parties

By Mike Huckabee

The Democrats have been getting poor people to vote for them (and keep themselves poor) for years by claiming that they’re the party of the poor and the working class and the Republicans only represent the wealthy. Like much of what they tell voters, that is a hunk of hooey, and there's now official government proof.

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-working-mans-party-image-shattered-irs-data-reveals-undeniable-truth/

As the linked article reports, a new study of IRS data by Bloomberg backs up several other studies in showing that the exact opposite is true: Republicans are now the party of working people and Democrats the party of wealthy elites.

While the demographic trend accelerated under Trump, with wealthy liberal elites flamboyantly signaling their hatred of him while Americans who were finally getting good-paying jobs loved him, it started much earlier (I wrote a book about the growing disconnect between liberal elites and the rest of America, “God, Guns, Grits and Gravy,” before Trump even entered politics.) But here’s some hard proof that the old cliché is now well and truly kaput:

2020 IRS data shows that Democrats represent 65% of taxpayers with incomes of $500,000 or more, while 74% of taxpayers in Republican districts have incomes of less than $100,000. In 1992, the average Republican Congressional district was 14% richer than the average Democrat district. Now, it’s 13% poorer than the average Democrat district. This is because Democrat power is increasingly being concentrated in a handful of big (very badly-run) blue cities that are centers of big money industries such as stocks, show business and high tech.

Of course, my favorite metric in this story is from the Cook Political Report: 85% of counties with a Whole Foods voted for Biden over Trump, while only 32% of counties with a Cracker Barrel went for Biden.

Check out the full article, where author Ameer Benno goes into the details of why the wealthiest among us are so leftist and pushing big tax increases on the evil greedy rich, when they are the “evil, greedy rich.” Maybe they are self-hating rich socialists who think they deserve to be punished for their success. But if so, let me make a suggestion: fire all your expensive accountants and tax attorneys, and quit getting your bought-and-paid-for politicians to put loopholes into the laws to protect you.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/04/30/study-wealthy-would-be-able-to-dodge-90-percent-of-biden-capital-gains-tax-increase-n1443822

Just hand over at least half of everything you own to the government. That way, you can rid yourselves of your guilt, punish yourselves for your success and stop punishing the rest of us along with you.

Perfectly Timed Story

By Mike Huckabee

Here’s a story perfectly timed for May Day, a big holiday on the normally bleak communist calendar:

A Trump supporter secretly infiltrated an Antifa group in Sonoma, California,

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2021/04/30/a-trump-supporter-infiltrated-an-antifa-group-in-sonoma-n386956

This should help destroy the notion that Antifa is just "an idea" and not an organized, far-left group using terrorist tactics to attack, destroy, silence and intimidate. I'm pleased to hear that the leader of this group, who was previously arrested for felony assault on a police officer, is now frantically trying to remove his social media history after his ID was passed along to authorities. But shouldn't our intelligence and law enforcement agencies be the ones infiltrating Antifa to identify and arrest those who violently flout the law? And shouldn't they have been doing it a long time ago?

A Cooling Dish

By Mike Huckabee

It looks as if, despite some Democrats’ dearest wishes, the Senate will continue acting as the Founders intended: as a cooling dish for the overheated passions of the House. Moderate Democrat West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin announced Friday that he would not vote to make DC the 51st state, meaning there will be no 50-50 tie for Kamala Harris to break. Manchin pointed out quite correctly that DC statehood would require a Constitutional Amendment, since the Constitution specifically forbids it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/05/01/joe-manchin-puts-the-kibosh-on-democrats-latest-hopes-and-dreams-n372277

So I hope that doing away with the Constitution is another Democrat dream that will have to wait for another day.