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Glenn Beck is once again sounding the alarm, and he’s right to make Americans sit up and pay attention. Speaking plainly on his program, Beck warned that “every warning light in me is flashing red” as he connected a string of threats—from rising violent extremism to governmental overreach—that conservatives have been warning about for years. His blunt assessment is not theater; it’s a call to wake up and act before complacency becomes catastrophe.
The federal government itself has been issuing bulletins about a heightened domestic threat environment, warning that anniversaries, large gatherings, and geopolitical flare-ups can fuel violence and hate crimes across the country. Beck correctly points out the perverse possibility that, in a nation with politicized institutions, an attack could be used as a pretext to label political opponents and clamp down on dissent. Washington cannot both admit a heightened threat level and then pretend there are no consequences to its open-border and soft-on-crime policies.
On the border, the reality is uneven but alarming: millions of encounters have been recorded over recent years, and while some months show declines, the surge in 2023 exposed how close our sovereignty came to being overwhelmed. Conservatives have long argued that porous borders are a national-security problem, not just a humanitarian one, because bad actors exploit chaos and lax enforcement to enter the country. Whatever the month-to-month numbers, the lesson is consistent: weak policy invites risk, and Americans deserve leaders who secure the frontier rather than excuse it.
Beck’s deeper, and entirely justified, outrage is aimed at power run amok. When presidents use mass clemency, autopens, or last-minute legal maneuvers while the rest of the country wrestles with crime and chaos, trust in institutions collapses. Recent reporting on wholesale, staff-driven clemency decisions and high-profile pardons has confirmed conservative fears that the pardon power and executive actions can be weaponized or at least misused, leaving ordinary Americans with double standards and no accountability. This isn’t conspiracy; it’s the predictable consequence of an executive branch that treats rules as optional.
Beck also highlighted the ghastly uptick in anti-Jewish violence and threats across the West, and those warnings are backed by federal and intelligence assessments tying recent spikes to international conflicts and online radicalization. Communities are rightly fortifying synagogues, schools, and public events because institutions that refuse to name the ideologies fueling violence will never stop it. Conservatives must stand with our fellow citizens facing real threats, call out the ideologies that target them, and demand honest, non-politicized protection from our government.
On energy and infrastructure, the right has warned for years that policy choices and underinvestment in resilient capacity leave Americans vulnerable to rolling blackouts and grid failures. Beck’s prediction of brownouts in places like Texas is the kind of blunt forecast policymakers should take seriously: independent reliability assessments have repeatedly shown scenarios where extreme weather or supply shortfalls could force rolling outages unless planners restore balance and accountability. The solution is simple in principle—restore diverse, reliable generation, prioritize grid resilience, and stop sacrificing national security to ideological experiments.
This is not a time for timidity. We need forceful border enforcement, honest counterterrorism that names the threat, congressional oversight of executive power, and a national energy policy that puts Americans first. Glenn Beck’s red-flag moment is an invitation to the conservative movement to stop mouthing platitudes and start delivering concrete reforms that defend families, faith, and freedom. If we answer his alarm with courage and competence, we can turn the lights back to green for the republic our forefathers entrusted to us.
