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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Heartlander. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Eric Schmitt
Democrat ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ hits high fever with opposition to surgical extraction of Venezuela’s Maduro, Schmitt says

Democrat opposition to President Trump’s extraction of Nicolás Maduro in “a very exquisite and specific limited action” Saturday shows “that Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just the domestic policy… Read More

January 5, 2026
Media
Obscenity, tragedy, political warfare: Heartlander filled these 2025 gaps in other outlets’ news coverage

From lewd sexual materials in area schools, to soft-on-crime policies and avoidable deaths of law enforcement officers, Heartlander readers were apprised of goings-on in the two-state region in 2025 that… Read More

January 1, 2026
Opinion
Monstrous, unheard-of Somali immigrant Medicaid fraud an indictment of unbridled immigration, indifferent media

Stunning reports of billions in brazen welfare fraud by Somali immigrants in Minnesota and elsewhere have shined a harsh light on the double folly of open borders and closed-minded media. Read More

December 29, 2025
Eric Schmitt
Hits on narco-terrorist drug boats ‘100% justified’ despite Democrat handwringing, Schmitt argues

Eric Schmitt is neither cowed by China’s revenge lawsuit against him nor bashful in his support of sinking narco-terrorist boats. The Missouri senator emerged Wednesday from a closed-door viewing of… Read More

December 18, 2025
Opinion
Is self-governance a myth? Americans up against a government at war with their duly elected president

If you’re wondering why President Trump felt it necessary to tout his considerable accomplishments in a speech to the nation Wednesday night – perhaps it’s because the legacy… Read More

December 18, 2025