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Tom Basile

Tom Basile

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Tom Basile is the host of "America Right Now" on Newsmax Television. Throughout his decades in government, politics, media and business he’s earned a reputation for credibility, candor and common sense conservatism. During this career his columns have been published in a range of outlets including Forbes and Fox News. He previously hosted "Sunday in America" for SiriusXM Radio. Basile served in the administration of President George W. Bush in various capacities including as an advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad for which he received the Joint Civilian Service Commendation from the Department of Defense. He is the author of the critically-acclaimed "Tough Sell: Fighting the Media War in Iraq" as well as "Let it Sink In: The Decade of Obama and Trump." He served as Executive Director of the New York State Republican Party from 2009-2011 and is a veteran of local, state and national campaigns.
Basile is a member of the New York Bar and an Advisory Board Member of the Kalikow School of Government, Public Policy and International Affairs at Hofstra University. He is a Knight Commander with Star in the Roman Catholic Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and is a member of the Knights of Columbus. Basile and his family live in Tennessee where he runs a strategic communications firm. Learn more about him at www.TomBasile.com. He can be reached at commentary@tombasile.com.

Columns by Tom Basile

Democrat governors and mayors and the National Guard illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Democrats’ National Guard deception

Left-wing governors and mayors, who couldn't care less about federalism when they have their hands out for our tax dollars, are suddenly screaming about the separation of powers.

October 29, 2025
Donald Trump's brain illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Decoding Trump’s brain

In this first month of the Trump presidency, we are seeing unfold something truly unusual in American politics.

February 12, 2025
Biden body count illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Biden’s massive body count

At noon on Jan. 20, on the West Front of the Capitol, a sad chapter of American history will come to an end. Americans will turn the page on the Biden administration.

January 10, 2025
Donald Trump's second term as president illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Trump’s ‘smart shock and awe’

Americans are revolting against "woke" orthodoxy, a dangerously tepid foreign policy, transgender cultism, diversity, equity and inclusion ideology, the censorship complex and soft-on-crime prosecutors.

January 2, 2025
DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) not dead yet illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Don’t be too sure DEI is DOA

Over the last year, Americans have demonstrated clearly that they're fed up with DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion, one of the top mantras of the "woke" politics of the American left.

December 13, 2024
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is welcomed by running mate Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz before she delivers remarks at a campaign rally in Eau Claire, Wis., Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024. (Kerem Yücel/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)

Harris and Walz: The expendables

Democrats will strike back with a vengeance if Mr. Trump doesn't deliver on tax reform, free speech, border security and global stability.

November 15, 2024