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The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The Daily Signal on June 12, 2019.  “Tonight, we renew our resolve that America will never be a socialist country.” That’s from President Donald Trump’s last… Read More

At three minutes past ten in the morning, on August 24, 1991, 450 Ukrainian politicians took their seats in the hard wooden benches of their parliamentary assembly hall for an extraordinary session. With the palpable weight of an attempted soviet… Read More

The rigorous evidentiary foundation that exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaigns of mass internment and forced labor in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region was driven by a groundbreaking methodology developed by Dr. Adrian Zenz, Director of China Studies at… Read More

As an 11-year-old boy, along with my 7-year-old brother, I was playing on the beach near Havana, Cuba, where we spent most of the summer every year. Little did we know how quickly life could change under communism.  A year earlier in 1959, we heard and experienced some minor… Read More

The following is an op-ed written by Dr. Edwin J. Feulner. It originally ran in The National Review on June 12, 2022. June 12 marks the 35th anniversary of President Reagan’s Brandenburg Gate speech — memorable for the six words still… Read More

On July 21, 2026, the Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who fled communism in Cuba as a child and became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress in America, provided the keynote address at VOC’s Captive Nations Summit. Read her full remarks… Read More

President Donald J. Trump boldly announced the third week of July as Captive Nations Week. As he proclaimed: During Captive Nations Week, we stand in solidarity with all who suffer beneath communism and tyranny, and we renew our commitment to advancing the timeless cause of liberty… Read More

Ed’s strong anti-communism because of his religious faith and his political beliefs merits special mention. The story begins during the height of the Cold War. In 1961, Ed Feulner (EJF) was on a two-month summer college trip with 16 other… Read More

Writing in the Washington Examiner, VOC’s Dr. Eric Patterson exposes one of the key lies of democratic socialist talking points in America. As he argues: Americans are being told that so-called “democratic socialism” is simply the humane politics of Scandinavia… Read More

Today, South Korea is well known around the world for its vibrant and free democracy, which was gained through a long battle against the threat of communist incursions from the North. But recently, that pride is quietly slipping away. For decades, Korean… Read More