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The Dying Republic: 1.6 kids per woman spells demographic doom

As elites import votes instead of nurturing life, Jack Callahan reveals a powerhouse plan to reward families, revive piety, and reclaim our legacy

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Brian D. O’Leary
Jul 24, 2025
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As one peers into the nursery of our republic, what greets you is an empty cradle. With America’s fertility rate now a skeletal 1.6 children per woman, the nation is mortgaging its future to a cabal of windbag elites and progressive apparatchiks who shrug while the cradle empties. They’d rather preach climate doom than restore hope for tomorrow’s families.

Jack Callahan—everyman, patriot, and pugilist—snorts at the spectacle. He remembers America as a land bursting with life: families crowded around Sunday dinner tables, piety mingling with laughter, and the promise of a better dawn in every newborn’s cry.

Today, he sees secular rot gnawing at the foundation. He remembered Kamala Harris, the High Priestess of Malthusianism, who used her presidential campaign to frighten twenty-somethings into embracing “climate anxiety” rather than parenthood.

Elites like Harris don’t shed tears for our disappearing birthrate. They are busy drafting open-border blueprints to import fresh ballots, not bab…

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