Let’s be honest. If you spent this week doom-scrolling the mainstream press, you probably think America is one bad day away from complete collapse. The economy is doomed. The wars are unwinnable. Democracy is hanging by a thread. Pour yourself a drink and despair.
Or and hear us out you could read this instead.
Because while the media was busy manufacturing your anxiety, a whole lot of very good things happened this week. Wins for American energy. Wins for American manufacturing. Wins for parents. Wins for the rule of law. And oh yes Iran’s military is reportedly in ruins.
Here’s what you missed.
America Just Pumped More Oil Than It Ever Has In History
The Department of the Interior quietly dropped a number this week that should have been front-page news everywhere: in 2025, the United States produced 714 million barrels of offshore oil a new all-time record.
Record. All-time. History.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgess credited “regulatory certainty, streamlined processes, and encouraging responsible development.” Translation: we got the government out of the way and let Americans do what Americans do which is apparently pump more oil than any country in the history of the planet.
Remember when they told you energy independence was a fantasy? Remember when the previous administration was canceling pipelines and begging OPEC for favors? Yeah. About that.
American Factories Are Roaring Back
Here’s a number the financial media buried under seventeen recession-panic headlines: the ISM Manufacturing PMI hit 52.7 in March the strongest factory expansion in nearly four years. Thirteen out of sixteen manufacturing industries reported growth. Eight consecutive months of expansion.
Eight. Consecutive. Months.
The same people who spent three years telling you manufacturing jobs were gone forever and would never come back are now very busy not talking about this. American workers are building things again. American factories are humming again. And the people who said it couldn’t be done are doing what they always do moving the goalposts and hoping you don’t notice.
California Just Got a $4.5 Million Bill for Hiding Kids’ Transitions From Parents
This one is deeply satisfying on multiple levels.
You may remember the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling last month that California’s policy of hiding students’ gender transitions from their parents likely violated parents’ constitutional rights. The Court said and we’re paraphrasing here that no, actually, parents have rights, and the state doesn’t get to secretly socially transition your child while you’re at work.
Well this week, a federal judge handed California a $4.52 million attorneys’ fee bill for the trouble they caused fighting this all the way to the top. Judge Roger Benitez specifically cited California’s “litigation intransigence” which is a polite legal way of saying they wasted everyone’s time throwing hissy fits at every court level until the Supreme Court finally told them to sit down.
Four and a half million dollars. For trying to keep parents in the dark about their own children.
Gavin Newsom, your bill is ready at the front desk.
Trump: Iran’s Navy Is Gone. Their Air Force Is in Ruins.
On Wednesday night, President Trump addressed the nation on the Iran conflict and delivered a sentence you won’t hear on CNN: “Their Navy is gone. Their Air Force is in ruins.”
The administration says core military objectives in the conflict are nearing completion. Whatever you think about the broader strategy, one thing is undeniable this is not the Carter hostage crisis. This is not 444 days of America looking weak while a terrorist regime laughs at us.
The mullahs who spent decades chanting “Death to America” and funding every terror group from Lebanon to Yemen are having a very, very bad spring. And the American military that made it happen deserves every bit of credit they’re not getting from the press.
America Is Going Back to the Moon
And finally because sometimes the news is just flat-out great NASA’s Artemis II mission launched successfully this week, putting American astronauts on a trajectory around the Moon for the first time since 1972.
While Democrats were holding shadow hearings demanding reparations for illegal immigrants and Bruce Springsteen was playing sad songs about an America that rejected him, actual Americans strapped into actual rockets and aimed themselves at the actual Moon.
That’s the country we live in. The one the media doesn’t show you.
Have a great weekend. We’re winning.