2025 was an eventful year in politics. It was not as eventful as the previous year, 2024, with a presidential election in the United States and a European parliamentary election. However, there were plenty of stories to cover, and we did it quite successfully, judging by the growth of traffic on our site: for the first time, our monthly unique visitor counts added up to crossing one million for the year.
To give you a look back at the year, here are our most-read articles, broken down by month.
January
Hungarian Conservative really started out the year with a bang—with our most read article of all time, collecting over 405,000 clicks by the end of the year. The piece explores the potential real-life inspirations behind László Tóth, the protagonist of the Academy Award-winning picture The Brutalist. The fictional Tóth, played by Adrien Brody, is a Hungarian Jewish architect who emigrated to the United States to escape the horrors of the Holocaust.
As you can learn from our popular article, there are a few historical figures who match that rough description, such as Marcel Breuer and Ernő Goldfinger.
Also in the first month of the year, over 100 schools in Hungary received the same bomb threats via anonymous emails. Thankfully, no actual explosives were planted in any schools.
February
We followed up our most-read article ever in January with our second-most-read article ever in February. For Presidents’ Day, we ranked the ten best and ten worst Presidents in United States history. It has been read over 47,000 times—that 47, evidently, is a very symbolic number for the United States presidency right now.
The second most popular article for the month was Elon Musk taking on the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of his DOGE efforts in the earliest days of the second Trump administration.
March
By March of this year, the Russo–Ukrainian war had been raging on for over three years. That month, the American news site The Hill published an opinion piece that was finally something that dared to deviate from the mainstream narrative; and made claims such as ‘the Maidan massacre was a false-flag operation initiated by Ukrainian far-right militants, Kyiv’s violation of the Minsk agreements directly led to Russia’s full-scale invasion, and the US under Joe Biden made false promises to Ukraine, ultimately prolonging the conflict,’ as we wrote at the time in our most read article for the month.
Coming in second was the story of Bosnian Serb politician Milorad Dodik, wanted by Interpol, allegedly meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
April
Amidst all the heavy geopolitical news for the year, April had a rather lighthearted, feel-good story rise to the top. However, it is certainly not a feel-good story for the subject himself: American nuisance streamer (here’s a term that got popularized in 2025) Ramsey Khalid Ismael, aka Johnny Somali, racked up eight criminal charges for himself in South Korea for bothering the public for entertainment. Since then, he got one of those dismissed by settling with the victim, but seven are still on his rap sheet, four of which he has already pleaded guilty to.
However, he is still not in jail, only banned from leaving South Korea. His legal saga is expected to at last come to an end early next year.
The same month, a piece covering the views of French novelist Renaud Camus on the concept of demographic replacement in the West was our second most popular article.
May
Our #1 article for this month is actually no longer available on our site, since its subject, one Mr James Cordier, felt it just wasn’t his style and had someone reach out to us with a request for removal. In an act of Christian charity, we complied.
Thus, the most read article from May that is still up on our site is an interview with the ethnic Hungarian former Mayor of Lansdale, Pennsylvania, Andy Szekely. He, among other things, spoke to us about a pornographic book, All Boys Aren’t Blue by George Johnson, making its way into an elementary school library in his home town.
The friend of our site, Bryan Leib’s comments about Hungary being the safest country in Europe for Jews is coming in at #2 for May.
June
In June, tensions over the second Trump administration’s deportation efforts came to a boiling point with riots in Los Angeles, California. At the same time, a more light-hearted story about the matter also emerged: one online activist decided it was a good idea to solicit and share information about the location of ICE agents in Los Angeles. However, online sleuths from the other end of the political spectrum quickly uncovered his identity: 21-year-old Jack Quillin.
What followed was a grovelling apology by our boy Jack, who did not appreciate his personal info being shared this time.
Second on our most-read list for this month: part one of a piece titled The Western Roots of China and the Chinese Roots of the West.
July
Disney’s live-action adaptation of Snow White starring Latina actress Rachel Zegler (despite the character’s name…) was a slow-motion Hollywood trainwreck if we’ve ever seen one. It was originally slated to come out in the spring of 2024, but was pushed back a year due to its many, many issues. Just one, for instance: for the sake of ‘inclusivity’, the seven dwarves were originally replaced by a diverse group of seven mythical creatures, just for the studio to add CGI dwarves in post-production after the backlash.
Needless to say, the movie became a massive box office bomb for Disney when it finally did come out in March 2025, losing well over $150 million. Zegler, who did a lot to hurt the movie’s prospects with her snarky media appearances prior to the release, ‘fled’ across the ocean to the UK to revive her acting career as a stage actress. Even there, bad fortune followed her: in July, news broke that she had to leave one of the performances of Evita during intermission due to an undisclosed medical emergency.
Also in July, Former US Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate for the Democratic Party Kamala Harris caught some slack online for cropping Former President Joe Biden out of a 4 July photo she shared in celebration of the national holiday.
August
Tragically, a 22-year-old biological man who identified as a woman opened fire on children attending Mass at a Catholic school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in August, killing two. This was our most-read news story for the month.
Also in August, an American citizen was stabbed in the face by a migrant in Dresden, Germany.
September
The month of September was an outstanding one for our site. Our piece about the suspicious deaths of AfD candidates in Germany has received over 25,000 views.
Local elections were held in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia in Germany in the fall. The populist right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) had seven (!) of its candidates die within just a few weeks leading up to the vote. Despite the eerie events, even AfD’s own NRW deputy state chairman claimed that he did not suspect foul play.
The #2 article of this month has racked up over 18,000 clicks, another impressive number: it is about Ukrainian-born online personality Anna Malygon’s habit of posting images of herself in battle gear, despite living in Los Angeles, California, about 6,000 miles away from the frontlines in Ukraine...
October
In October, we had another sequence of events so suspicious that many thought it was more than just a coincidence. On the same day, explosions broke out in two oil refineries treating crude oil from Russia in Százhalombatta, Hungary and Ploieşti, Romania.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk was back in our most-read stories again. This month, he went after a cartoon director with a Netflix series for controversial statements about the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk.
November
Our most-read piece of content for November is likely going to be generational trauma for many Hungarians. The Hungarian men’s national football team were poised to reach their first FIFA World Cup play-off since 1997, with a chance to make it to their first World Cup since 1986. As even the extra time ticked down in the last qualifier against Ireland, the score stood 2–2, sending Hungary to the play-offs. However, in the 96th minute, Troy Parrott found his third goal of the night, ripping the play-off spot away from Hungary.
We also had a great interest in our article about Jordan Bardella of the right-wing populist Rassemblement national party leading presidential polls in France.
December
The most recent story on our year-end list is not a happy-go-lucky one. It is about a man with an extensive criminal record striking a 75-year-old lady in the face with a wooden board in Seattle, Washington, and why so many mainstream outlets decided to simply not report on it. Let’s hope that 2026 will start on a much happier note than that.
Also in December, right-wing podcaster Tim Pool reported that shots had been fired at his residence in West Virginia. The details of that case are unclear to this day.
We hope you continue to enjoy our content in 2026, and we wish all our readers a very Happy New Year!
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