12 Things AMAC Newsline Got Right and Called Early in 2025

Over the course of 2025, AMAC Newsline has worked to bring our readers informative and engaging content on the biggest stories driving conversations in everything from politics and economics to pop culture and foreign affairs. While we always base our analysis on the facts, we have also sought to provide unique and insightful perspectives on what narratives to follow. Here are the big stories that kept AMAC Newsline readers on the cutting edge of the key developments that shaped this year.

Liberals faced strong global headwinds in 2025

Back in January, Ben Solis connected the dots of an impending global meltdown for liberals. “While President Donald Trump’s historic political comeback was undoubtedly the most dramatic and high-profile victory anywhere in the world for conservatives in 2024, it was hardly the only one,” he wrote. “In 2025, the global right could be poised for even more significant progress.”

That indeed proved to be the case. In Argentina’s October 2025 legislative elections, President Javier Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party scored a decisive win in the Chamber of Deputies, increasing its influence over national lawmaking. Conservative leaders and parties also scored major victories in Chile, Bolivia, Honduras, and Ecuador. Japan lurched rightward as well with the election of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. In Europe, conservative Karol Nawrocki won the presidency, while conservative parties also grew in parliamentary strength in certain countries like Germany and Portugal, even when not achieving power outright.

Trump secures the border almost overnight

This “told you so” isn’t confined to just 2025. Throughout the course of Biden’s presidency, AMAC Newsline pointed out that the flood of illegal aliens was entirely a result of government policy – no matter how much Democrats and the corporate media wanted to blame nebulous “root causes.” When Trump won re-election, Aaron Flanigan predicted that his border policies would be a roaring success almost immediately.

But even that optimistic view may have undersold the scale and astonishing speed of Trump’s victory at the border. Illegal crossings have plummeted to the lowest levels seen since 1970. Some sectors have seen a 95 percent reduction in crossings. For seven straight months to end the year, zero illegal aliens were released into the country’s interior. In the first 10 months of Trump’s second term combined, the country saw fewer illegal crossings than the worst month under Biden. Additionally, more than 2.5 million illegal aliens have been removed from the country.

Supreme Court upholds law protecting children from transgender surgeries

In January, Aaron Flanigan previewed United States v. Skrmetti, a major Supreme Court case surrounding a Tennessee law that bans so-called “gender-affirming care” for children. As Flanigan wrote, “the High Court’s conservative majority appeared poised to uphold the Tennessee law and protect children from dangerous and unnecessary transgender ‘treatments.’”

In June, the Court took the exact approach Flanigan predicted, ruling that decisions about the availability of “transgender”-affirming drugs and procedures for minors should be left to state legislatures. As Shane Harris wrote following the decision, “While the 6-3 ruling was a major victory for common sense and biological reality, it also mirrored the divide in American culture over transgenderism – and the growing majority of Americans who reject it outright.”

Trump sparks domestic energy revolution

One of Trump’s central promises on the campaign trail in 2024 was to “unleash American energy” and deliver lower gas and electricity costs. In February, Ben Solis wrote that Trump’s cabinet picks “look to spark a domestic energy revolution” and that “the Trump energy revolution is underway.”

As 2025 comes to a close, “revolution” is an apt word to describe the current state of the American energy sector. U.S. domestic oil and gas production hit a record high this year, with oil output topping 13.6 million barrels per day in July. As a result, gas prices have hit four-year lows, dropping below $3 per gallon over the Christmas holiday.

Trump becomes a global diplomatic titan

Despite foreign policy “experts” predicting that President Trump’s first term would be a disaster for America’s standing on the world stage, some of his greatest victories came through international diplomacy. In February, Herald Boas predicted that Trump’s second term would be similarly successful abroad. Specifically, Boas wrote that Trump “draws his power from economic capacity and its use in the United States’ relationships with friends and foes.”

One year in, Trump has indeed used American economic might to force countries to the negotiating table, settling more than a half-dozen conflicts, including between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Pakistan and India, and Egypt and Ethiopia. In addition, Trump’s diplomatic prowess has secured trillions of dollars in foreign investment in the United States.

RFK Jr. ignites “Make America Healthy Again” Era

When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was confirmed as Secretary of Health and Human Services in February, Hunter Oswald wrote that it marked the “beginning of [the] MAHA era.” Kennedy has indeed delivered on many of his promises to combat the chronic disease epidemic and challenge conventional wisdom that has led to Americans becoming increasingly unhealthy. Following his lead, more than a dozen states have banned junk food purchases with food stamps. HHS has also overhauled the childhood vaccine schedule and revamped federal guidance on nutrition and fitness, among other changes.

Left-wing assassination culture continues to cast a dark shadow over America

Following the left’s depraved reaction to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson late last year, Sarah Sisk wrote in April about how support for Thompson’s killer revealed that the left “is embracing assassination as a justified response to personal and political disagreements.” As Sisk argued, the left glorifying assassination could only lead to more violence. In July, Shane Harris followed that up with a piece arguing that Democrats have a “violence problem.”

This is one prediction that all decent Americans hoped and prayed would never come to pass. But it was proven correct in one of the most horrific, tragic manners possible when conservative icon Charlie Kirk was killed in September. As Harris opined in the wake of Kirk’s death, “The greatest tribute we can offer is to follow his example – to live courageously, to defend the truth without compromise, and to never be afraid to stand for what is right.”

Persecution of Christians in Nigeria becomes a major storyline

Disaffected liberal commentator Bill Maher made waves in September when he called out the corporate media for ignoring the systematic killing of Christians in Nigeria. That monologue sparked greater public awareness that culminated in Trump’s Christmas Day announcement of strikes on Islamic State militants in the country.

But if you had been reading AMAC Newsline, you were already well aware of the plight of Christians in Nigeria. Way back in April, David Deavel was urging AMAC readers to pay more attention to the crisis in the African nation, followed up by another story from Ben Solis. Once again, AMAC Newsline was ahead of the curve.

Trump creates a military recruitment boom

Shortly after Trump took office, Andrew Shirley predicted that he would bring about a “military recruitment boom” by eradicating woke policies and ordering military leaders to emphasize patriotism and toughness. In June, the Army met its fiscal year 2025 recruiting goal four months early. Overall, fiscal year 2025 was the best recruiting year in 15 years throughout the military.

Illegal aliens terrorize American roads

Back in July, Sarah Sisk warned about the dangers of giving out driver’s licenses – particularly commercial driver’s licenses – to migrants who can’t speak English and don’t understand the laws of the road.

Just weeks later, Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old illegal alien from India who was issued a CDL by the state of California (in violation of federal regulations) caused a horrific accident on a Florida highway that killed three people. In another case out of California days later, yet another illegal alien from California caused the death of three more people. Subsequent reports showed liberal states like California and New York had issued CDLs to dozens of suspected illegal aliens, in some cases not even requiring them to provide their first name.

Schumer became the biggest loser of the government shutdown

As what would become the longest government shutdown in history commenced, Shane Harris predicted that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer would emerge on the losing end of the dispute. It’s difficult to reach any other conclusion than that given that Democrats ultimately caved and progressives amplified their calls to remove Schumer as leader when the shutdown eventually lifted after 43 days.

Government fraud and corruption are so much worse than anyone imagined

When liberals began freaking out amid the start of the Trump administration’s crackdown on the waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars, Shane Harris argued there could be only one reason for the meltdown: Democrats were in on the scam. Just this week, internet sleuths have unearthed how fake Somali “daycare centers” suspected of stealing taxpayer dollars, then turned around and donated that money to Democrat political campaigns. That’s just one of dozens of examples of how Democrat-linked groups have benefited directly and indirectly from the fraud exposed by the Trump administration and enterprising journalists.

As the calendar flips over to 2026, AMAC Newsline will be ready to continue bringing our readers coverage of the storylines and inside scoops that the mainstream media won’t touch. Stay tuned!