America just won hockey gold for the first time in 46 years. Last time? Miracle on Ice. We beat the USSR.

Back when we were still proud to be Americans. For the first time in 25 years, starting to see that again.
Canada was favored. Didn't matter. You don't have to be the favorite. You just have to refuse to lose.
Jack Hughes took a stick to the face in the third period. Looked down at his teeth on the ice. Mouth full of blood. Didn't go to the locker room. Didn't flinch.
101 seconds into overtime, he buried the golden goal. Toothless, bleeding, and smiling. His brother Quinn won the quarterfinal in OT. Their mother Ellen coached the women's team to gold. A Jewish-American hockey family. Three gold medal moments in one Olympics.
This team lost Johnny Gaudreau to a drunk driver in 2024. So when they won, they grabbed the American flag. They held up Johnny's jersey. They brought his kids onto the ice for the team photo.
No politics. No statements. Just Americans wearing the flag with pride and playing for something bigger than themselves.
And it's not just on the ice.
Military enlistment hit a 15-year high. Every branch exceeded its goals. Young Americans want to serve again.
Overdose deaths down 19%. Today, same day we won gold, El Mencho, the head of Mexico's most powerful cartel, was taken out with US intelligence support.
We removed Maduro from Venezuela. Iran is at the negotiating table. Countries that ignored us are lining up.
The American Dream was never about being the most talented or the most favored. It was about believing when nobody else did.
Refusing to quit.
And wearing the flag like it means something. Because it does.
America is back. And the world is watching.
Tim Walz would've told them to take a knee. Then let a billion dollars in fraud slide out the back door.