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Ken Blackwell

Cincinnati

Columnist at Townhall

Conservative Columnist... Former Ohio State Treasurer, Secretary of State, US Ambassador to the UN, FRC, Club for Growth, NRA, ACRU

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  • 1 month ago | townhall.com | Ken Blackwell

    America First starts with a simple common-sense principle: only American citizens can vote in American elections. Non-citizen voting is a real threat. We have seen cases in past elections of people who are not eligible to vote due to lack of citizenship, who actually vote. The problem is now compounded due to the policies of the last four years, where open southern borders led to millions of unvetted illegal immigrants pouring across the border.

  • 1 month ago | townhall.com | Ken Blackwell

    Recently, reports emerged that Olivier Grondeau, a French citizen, had been liberated from captivity in Iran, having endured nearly half of a five-year sentence levied on him by the Iranian regime ’s-controlled judiciary. While Grondeau's release is a welcome event in its own right, it casts light on a persistent and troubling pattern of hostage-taking by the clerical regime. This practice shows no signs of abating or nearing a genuine resolution.

  • 1 month ago | townhall.com | Ken Blackwell

    When I was growing up in Ohio in the 1960s, there was no such thing as a private teenage world. My friends and I all knew each other’s parents, and we were held accountable for our speech and our behavior by a network of moms and dads who knew one another. While local communities were knit more closely together back then, things are very different in America today.

  • 1 month ago | townhall.com | Ken Blackwell

    A couple of months ago, I wrote about how my hometown Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been aggressively promoting sex change treatments for minors, according to medical watchdog Do No Harm’s Stop the Harm Database.

  • 1 month ago | townhall.com | Ken Blackwell

    No president in my lifetime has been bolder in the defense of American families, farmers, manufacturers and workers than Donald J. Trump. From the very beginning of his presidency, President Trump understood that crooked trade deals and globalist betrayals were sucking dry America's heartland, extinguishing good-paying jobs, and making us frighteningly dependent on foreign enemies like China. That is why President Trump's tough tariffs are not just justified—they are necessary.

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22 Apr 25

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Ken Blackwell
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19 Apr 25

RT @SteveForbesCEO: President Trump’s energy strategy is key to powering America’s leadership in AI. By expanding domestic energy productio…

Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell @kenblackwell
18 Apr 25

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