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Cheryl K. Chumley

Cheryl K. Chumley

cchumley@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio answers a question about Cuba during a meeting between President Donald Trump and Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin in the Oval Office of the White House on St. Patrick's Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Communism cannot exist when citizens know their rights are from God

Remember when Barack Obama used his presidency to declare a "Cuban thaw" and in December 2014, threw open America's doors wide to forge a "new course in relations" with Cuban President Raul Castro and his communist government? Yeah. That went about as well as could be expected. Fast-forward to today.

July 25, 2026
FILE - The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service is in Washington, August 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

An unbelievable IRS persecution of an elderly farmer

A 76-year-old Tennessee farmer, Wilson Perry Kirby, mistakenly received a $20,000 refund from the IRS in 2022, and when he tried to return it, the IRS wouldn't let him. So he hired a tax expert to take care of the matter. But that didn't work, either. Instead, the IRS charged him interest and took his entire 2025 tax refund amount as payment.

July 24, 2026
President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, lead a rally in Managua, Nicaragua, Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)

Nicaragua communists are the dream of Democrats

Nicaragua's 80-year-old communist dictator, Daniel Ortega, announced his country would no longer hold elections. Republicans look at that and go, holy cow, what a tyrant. Democrats look at that and go, how do we do that here?

July 23, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani delivers a speech to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States at City Hall on Friday July 3, 2026 in New York. (Anna Connors/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Economic justice is a Marxist takeover of free markets

Economic justice is when the government takes from Peter to pay Paul because the government decides Peter's wealth is unfair to Paul, and Peter's resources actually only came on the back of Paul's work, and so, Peter owes Paul.

July 22, 2026
Political commentator Van Jones appears at Associated Press headquarters, Friday, April 28, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan) ** FILE **

Socialists at root are all liars

Democrats haven't been democratic in more than a decade. They've just been pretending at it. They've just been lying about it.

July 21, 2026
U.S. Constitution and domestic spying illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

WATCH: Government growing some scary spy powers

America has a Constitution, and America has a Fourth Amendment guaranteeing the citizens are safe from government's unwarranted searches and seizures. But the status of the Fourth Amendment stands on shaky grounds.

July 20, 2026
Michigan U.S. Senate candidates, Abdul El-Sayed, left, and Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., are displayed on a television during a debate inside the spin room at WoodTV studios on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, in Grand Rapids, Mich. (AP Photo/Kristen Norman) ** FILE **

For the love of America, please stop calling them progressives

Allowing leftist politicians to get by with hiding their anti-American ideologies under the cloak of a safe Democrat Party is a bias of the worst kind. It doesn't just advance a lie. It advances a cover for a very destructive force that is rapidly seeping into the government and destroying America.

July 16, 2026
President Donald Trump, right, meets with Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani aboard Air Force One at Al Udeid Air Base in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

The New York Times was right to report on Qatar-gifted Air Force One

The Department of Justice has subpoenaed four New York Times journalists for reporting a security matter that required President Trump to fly home on the old Air Force One, not the Qatari-gifted plane, from the NATO summit. This is not a fight the White House should win. It's not even a fight the administration should wage.

July 15, 2026
Democrats opposition to the election integrity SAVE Act illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LISTEN: Saving SAVE, saving America from socialism

The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has left the political makeup of the Senate, along with the fate of such crucial legislative matters like the SAVE Act, in question -- or has it? South Carolina, after all, is a safe Republican state.

July 15, 2026
A portable data center solution featuring rows of server racks and integrated cooling units within a modified shipping container, ready for deployment. File photo credit: Snide12 via Shutterstock.

WATCH: The realities of losing the A.I. war

America's facing significant challenges in the global war for technology dominance, not the least of which is the line that must be maintained between citizen privacies and the need to capture data to fuel artificial intelligence development -- something that does not concern China at all.

July 11, 2026
A "Happy 250th Birthday" signs seen near the entrance at Lucky Patriot Fireworks in Batavia, Ohio, Tuesday, June 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Happy 250th: Let’s reclaim ‘innocent until proven guilty’

The key to maintaining liberty is to understand that the roots of tyranny grow and spread in a godless society. As America grows more secular -- as America turns from God and church and traditional values and morals -- so crime spikes and lawlessness spreads and government grows.

July 10, 2026
The U.S. Capitol is seen during Independence Day events honoring the nation's 250th anniversary, Saturday, July 4, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Civics, as a matter of national security

A survey found 58 percent don't know the main purpose for the Constitution; and 57 percent don't understand why we declared independence from Great Britain. That's not just a sad commentary on the state of the education system. It's a frightening harbinger of the country's loss of freedoms.

July 10, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivers the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026, in Williamsburg, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

Democrats happily blow tax dollars filing frivolous court cases

And so begins another round of reckless, feckless, frivolous, costly court dramas, courtesy of Democrats who love, love, love to spend tax dollars on their anti-constitutional designs. If Democrats had to pay for their own legal lawfare, court dockets everywhere would suddenly clear.

July 9, 2026
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, speaks during the Democratic National Convention Aug. 22, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Randi Weingarten, the teaching world’s exploiter-in-chief

House Republicans are investigating American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten to see if she used union dues to pay for the writing and promoting of her book, "Why Fascists Fear Teachers." It's expected that her primary defense will be to call out Republicans as fascists.

July 8, 2026
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters as he walks to his office following a vote at the Capitol, Tuesday, June 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Republicans aren’t guilt-free on the growth of DSA

Former President Ronald Reagan used to talk about government as the enemy of freedom. He used to warn that the scariest words in the English language were, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Republicans seem to have forgotten that, though.

July 6, 2026
People listen before President Donald Trump speaks at the opening of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

WATCH: America, 250 years strong

America's 250th year kicks off and my, what a tremendous republic we still are. Challenges abound, but American Exceptionalism is going strong.

July 3, 2026