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In Issue 2026.30, Amos Elections, we cover Election Predicting, Lula’s Brazil, Brexit Reduxing

Our Situation Report has been replaced in this issue by our 2026 Election Report. We cover the issues, the laws, the races, and offer a prediction on the results.

Our Bellwether Digest covers Non-Citizen Balloting, Vucic’s Fall, Activist Judge Handcuffing

Tools of Engagement include resources to be informed in the news, informed in the elections, and how to build your own search engine.

In our Final Thought, Editor Paul Gordon Collier and Publisher Bill Collier offer their final word on the upcoming election.

I. 2026 Election Report: Pt. 1 – Issues, Election Laws, Ballot Initiatives

II. Bellwether Digest – Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, People Advance

III. Tools of Engagement

IV. Bellwether Report – U.S Politics – World – Culture – Market- Sci-Tech

V. 2026 Election Report: Pt. 2 – House Races – Senate Races – Predictive Analysis

VI. Final Thought – Last Comments on the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election

MIA Monthly 26 10 30 FINAL DRAFT WORD

ELECTION 2026 REPORT: THE SEASON OF AMOS

By Staff

“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel comes!

“Pass over to Calneh, and see, and from there go to Hamath the great; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Or is their territory greater than your territory,

“O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?

“Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,

“who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music,

“who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!

“Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile, and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.” – Amos 6:1-7

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This report is intended to give you, the reader, information to make an informed decision both on who to vote for and whether or not you should vote at all. It is also intended to be an historical document to show the conditions that allowed the results of this election to happen.

Be sure to read our Final Thought on page xx for closing remarks from both the Publisher and the Editor on the midterm elections.

It will either be a document preserving the methods the Democrats used to put open insurrectionists in Federal office, or a roadmap for how to beat back attempts by future insurrectionists to coopt our election system to their own treasonous ends.

We start off our report with an analysis of the major issues in this election cycle, then document that election laws at play in this election. We also analyze the major ballot initiatives in this midterm election.

In the second part, we cover the bellwether races of the House and Senate that we believe will telegraph where the rest of the electorate will go.

What we cannot document is the degree to which efforts by the DOJ to impede Democratic Party opportunities to manufacture votes will be effective, nor the degree to which electronic voting corruption will factor into this race.

The outcome of this election, should the Democrats win, might or might not be the actual will of the “American people.” If it is truly their “will,” then true Americans are a minority in our own land.

We end our report with a Predictive Analysis of the election cycle. This report has been divided into two parts. The first part covers the Issues, Election Laws, and Ballot Initiatives, the second part covers the Senate and House bellwether races. It ends with a Predictive Analysis. The second part of the report starts on pg. xx.

A. ISSUES

While there are variations in the U.S. House races, the voters’ issues in the 2026 Midterm elections have little to nothing to do with the nature of Rule of law in our country. Instead, the issues are dominated by material self-need or anti-Trumpism.

It is only in a few House and Senate Races that one candidate (always a Republican) is making an Americanism versus Progressivism and traditional culture versus progressive culture argument.

The anti-Trumpers want you to believe the GOP, like Trump, wants to re-enslave black people and return the white race to supreme power. This is not hyperbole; this is their base operating system’s core belief that everything else is built on.

If you could clearly disprove the myth of the white devil, their whole justification for violence as a means of political persuasion ends, for now they are not attacking devils, they are attacking innocent Americans.

This group is not only decidedly going to vote Democrat; they are the heart of the power that gave Democratic Socialists favorable chances to become U.S. Senators. This is the target audience for agit prop operations like “The View,” which regularly pitched the “Trump will enslave black people” narrative on their show leading up to the 2024 election.

At the top of almost every race is “affordability,” which is a narrative that has real truth behind it. President Trump came in boasting about how the economy would be booming under his administration, but that has not been the case.

He has brought tremendous amounts of investment dollars from outside America that have yet to bear fruit, but that factory infrastructure boom may collide with AI’s looming debt crisis.

One of the major impediments to a booming economy is the war in Iran, which is the second biggest issue in the campaign season. We believe President Trump was emboldened by the success of Venezuela, when he “arrested” Maduro and dramatically switched Venezuela from a Chinese asset to an American oil resource. We believe he thought they could remove the Iranian regime in one fell swoop.

Had the Iranian regime crumbled when all of its leaders were killed, twice over, the world would be a very different place right now, and the economy might very well be booming. But the regime didn’t fall. The constant promises of a quick end to the war ring a symphony of broken glass for every promise broken.

As we have documented in the past, the President never explained to the American people what the war was about: China and the AI War. We believe he still feels he must not make the war clearly about China for fear that either China might have the muscle to interfere or he doesn’t want to lose negotiating power. It is also possible his coalition doesn’t want to lose access to China’s resources, its billion-plus-people market.

The third biggest issue is, essentially, Trump. How it is polled versus what is behind that sentiment, we believe, are two different things. The polling cites Trump’s policies on tariffs, trade, and immigration. We suspect it is really “Trump is a Nazi and so are the Republicans” that is driving most of what we are calling the “Trump issues” people, and that lie is perpetuated every day in the progressive state press, from CNN to the Washington Post.

This group is the one willing to cheat, willing to set businesses on fire, and some are willing to kill. The Charlie Kirk assassin fits in this category. They believe they are fighting a force that intends to kill them and all their friends. This is not hyperbole; this is the psychosis that has been created by our media, our schools, and our politicians, especially (but not exclusively) the Democrats.

Abortion is next on our list. There are many women in this country who will vote for the Democrats merely to preserve the right to murder the consequence of casual sex. A smaller percentage of men will do the same. In America, 1 in 4 women have murdered one or more of their unborn children. 1 in 5 men have supported and/or funded the murdering of one or more of their unborn children.

Were America to ever turn its moral back on abortion, there are millions of people who will find themselves potentially judged socially as a murderer. There is a very real reason they would support a party willing to lock up dissenters to unborn child murder.

It is not the “right” to murder unborn children that makes abortionists violent seditionists against the republic, it is fear of consequence, for they all know in their hearts they chose murder for “ease.”

There is a very real reason corporate media will not do in-depth investigations into what abortion really looks like, both in the abortion centers and in what happens to women psychologically afterwards.

A lot of these abortion-supporting women and men find it very easy to adapt the white devil narrative, for the ones pitching the lie are also guaranteeing prosecution of anti-abortionists. Their white devil lie allows them to tell these women and men that being against abortion is just a dog whistle for white supremacism. The murderers get to morally condemn those against their murderous practices.

Forcing a woman to give birth against her will is how the white devil keeps the rest of the world down. This is not hyperbole. Such violent and dangerous nonsense is said regularly in Ivy League classrooms, by the students AND their professors. They give permission to their extremist progressive street fighters to murder the anti-abortionist infidels.

Healthcare and local economic interests round out the bulk of our main voters’ issues for the midterm elections.

What’s missing from this list is the Epstein Files, though I believe that it’s still in here, behind the scenes. President Trump’s reaction to the Epstein Files was the beginning of the end of his domestic policy magic. He became just another politician after that exchange.

His unwillingness to tell the American people what the Iran War is really about has left the Israel conspiracy theorists, almost all of them the REAL far right or progressives (or, to a lesser extent, the Orthodox and the Catholics, both of which have eschatology that lack a state of Israel), to gain social power at heights they’ve never had before. Hating Israel as the great Satan has gone mainstream.

The President’s reaction to the real concerns about Data Centers might be the final undoing of his Domestic policy magic. He no longer sounds like a fresh voice challenging an ossified system. He sounds like a stale voice pushing a new system on people without bothering to candidly explain what it is, a machine to challenge China’s AI power. The nation that wins the AI War wins the world, or so he might think (and he might just be right).

Meanwhile, the real issue in this election is the nature of rule of law in this land. The people gaining ascendancy are openly calling to dismantle the republic and begin using the state to pick winners and losers in the culture war.

The rule of law in the land will no longer be rooted in individual liberty; it will be rooted in class status, with the “weak”, the “disenfranchised,” enjoying special truth-telling powers that gatekeeps the halls of power to ensure the “majority” are on the outside looking in.

The full acceptance of abortion by most “Americans” has been the fundamental killer of the shared assumption of “endowed by our creator with inalienable rights.” The traitors of the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling chose the dismantling of America’s uniting principle and justification for American Rule of Law as a means to prevent the state from becoming womb watchers.

With the declaration that, de facto, a human is only one who is first born, then viable, the state assumed the power of God to define human life. This is a religious assertion, not a neutral, secular one, and it contradicts basic logic and science

It also cultivates a heuristic within the abortionist that gives them permission to sub-humanize problem humans, like the unborn who interfere with the parents’ ease. Endowed by our creator with inalienable rights and murdering the unborn for the sake of ease cannot coexist in the same spirit.

These issues are being talked about, hyperbolically, by shock and awe non-progressive influencers who mostly push the myth that the progressives are about to be destroyed for good. A few go in the other direction, promising the end of all things, but still offering a glimmer of hope it can all still be saved.

On the street, in the places where packs of most people gather, Tim Poole and Langly Outdoors are unknown voices that never cross their feeds. What shows up in most Americans’ feeds are the news aggregations of the corporate press, with non-progressive voices almost completely frozen out. They allow a handful of non-progressive outlets to show up in these feeds. Breitbart is one of the few “favored” allowed in.

These feeds are filled with white devil lies and Israel demon myths. To be sure, the hyperbolic emotional shock and awe tone is almost matched by the non-progressives, but their voice is a niche rowboat in the progressive-dominated sea.

The narratives that should be told are drowned out by Trump Nazis, White Devils, Zionist Ghosts, real economic pain, and the desire to use abortion as birth control. We are not debating whether anyone still wants a republic based on the creator endowing us with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; we are debating material well-being and the great white Satan manifest in Trump, nothing more.

In our bellwether races, we will cover the issues in that race, where you will see some variations from this list.

B. ELECTION LAWS

Thanks to the Supreme Court upholding Mass Mailer Elections, Democrats have at least a 2-3% advantage in any race where their people are counting the mail-in ballots. It is difficult to track the advantage they might have thanks to alterable “electronic voting.”

Eight states will have all-mail voting, along with the District of Columbia. The eight states are California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont.

All-mail voting means every registered voter gets a Mail-in Ballot.

29 more states allow no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. Only 13 states require excuse-based mail-in ballot voting. These states are Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia.

Mail-in ballots are expected to account for at least 25% of the vote in this upcoming election. Nearly 1/3 of the 2024 election votes were cast by mail-in, so a downward trend is encouraging, though it should account for no more than 10% of the vote if it were limited to only excuse-based absentee ballots (what we are calling mail-in ballots to emphasize exactly what kind of votes these really are).

While some mail-in voting is necessary, the more mail-in ballots as a percentage of the vote there are, the more opportunities there are to nudge the numbers in the party’s favor. Our election report from July of this year shows how that is possible. Uncleared election rolls that allow the mass production of fake ballots are one way mail-in ballot voting enables cheating.

You can see how hard progressives, including their seditious judges, work to protect these voter rolls from purges of the dead and non-citizens. They know full well the power their party, their real country, would lose should the voter rolls be cleaned up.

There have been no significant changes to electronic voting since the last election cycle, so the ability to manipulate elections is still nearly as strong as it was in 2024.

As far as in-person voting is concerned, 36 states require some form of ID to vote. 14 states do not require any form of ID to vote. These states are California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. The District of Columbia also does not require ID to vote.

We will cover how these election laws might affect some of the bellwether races we’ve chosen to highlight in our HOUSE and SENATE sections of our report (that starts on part two of this report, which begins on pg. xx). For each highlighted race, we will repeat the election laws of the state to make it easier for the reader to connect these laws to the specific races highlighted.

C. BALLOT INITIATIVES

We are focusing on statewide ballot initiatives in our analysis. We will cover abortion, election law, and data center ballot initiatives. These are the initiatives that are most likely to affect close House and Senate Races.

  1. ABORTION – There are four major abortion ballots in state elections; one initiative hopes to claw back abortion allowance, but the rest hope to allow more abortions for any reason, and one up to birth.

Idaho’s Proposition 1, the “Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act” would lessen restrictions on abortions and arguably make it easier for underage girls to have abortions without the consent of their parents or guardians.

Nevada’s Question 6, the “Right to Abortion Initiative,” would allow abortions up to “fetal viability.” It passed in 2024 by a 64% majority. It must pass twice to become a constitutional amendment.

Virginia’s Question 1, the “Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment,” would allow abortion up to birth, with no restrictions on why.

Missouri’s Amendment 3, “Abortion and procedures for minors,” is an attempt to repeal the abortion rights amendment that passed in 2024. This amendment would also ban transgender “treatment” for minors. This ballot question is the only one this election cycle in defense of the unborn child.

  1. ELECTION RULES – Five states have ballot initiatives that would require government-issued photo ID for in-person elections. These states are Arizona, California, Nevada, North Carolina, and Ohio.

Colorado has a ballot initiative that will require greater verification for mail-in ballots. It would require each ballot to be submitted with a government identification number, which includes the last four digits of the voter’s social security number, drivers license number, and the Colorado REAL ID number.

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Kansas, South Dakota, and West Virginia have ballot initiatives that require verification of citizenship to vote.

Alaska has a ballot initiative that would end ranked-choice voting and the top four primary system.

Virginia has a ballot initiative that would allow felons to vote.

The overall trend of most of the initiatives on the ballot is towards greater integrity in the election system. Favorable outcomes could help American candidates in the next major general election, the 2028 Presidential Election.

  1. AI DATA CENTERS – There are no statewide measures addressing AI Data centers, but 13 states have local ballot initiatives. Arkansas, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin have at least one local data center ballot initiative.

There are 49 ballot initiatives, with Ohio accounting for 21 of them; Illinois has 7, Maine has 4, Kansas and Wisconsin each have 3, and the rest have 1-2.

The amount of AI Data Center ballot initiatives is lower than expected, and the lack of any statewide initiative is surprising. AI Data Centers did not show up in most top voters’ issues lists.

D. HOUSE RACES

The Republicans currently hold a 218-214 majority in the House. In this election, Democrats are already favored to win 220 races. Of those 220 races, 12 of them are GOP-held seats in the “leans Democrat” category. Four of the “leans Dem” races are Democrat-held seats.

There are 17 House races in the toss-up category. 12 of these House Races are GOP-held seats. That means the GOP can lose 24 seats, the Dems less than 10 (the status of some races are debatable, but the maximum of at-risk Democrat seats are 10).

If the Democrats lose all of the GOP-held leans Dem races, then their chances of taking the majority are greatly reduced. This would require them to win 10 of the 12 GOP-held seats in the toss-up category while holding all their toss-up seats. This also assumes they hold on to all of the races in the Leans Dem category. If they do, they only need to win four of the GOP at-risk seats to claim a majority in the House.

GOP-favored redistricting has made the few challenged DNC seats challengeable, but so far, no clear GOP favorite over a Democrat incumbent has been created through these redraws as many supposed they would.

We will highlight three races from each of the four sub-categories, GOP seats that lean Dem, GOP toss-up seats, DNC seats that lean Dem and DNC toss-up seats. There are no DNC-held seats that lean GOP.

  1. GOP SEATS LEAN DEM – IA-01 – Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) vs. Christina Bohannan (D):

The incumbent in this race, Mariannette Miller-Meeks, barely beat the incumbent, Christian Bohannan, in 2024. She won by less than 1,000 votes. The previous race, in 2022, saw her lose to Bohannan. This is the rubber match between the two. Limited polling show Bohannan with a 5-point lead, 40-35.

The main issues of this race are affordability, abortion, and immigration (the anti-Trump faction outlined in the ISSUES section of this report). There is no-excuse mail ballot voting and a limited ID (non-photo) requirement for voting.

PA-10 – Scott Perry (R) vs. Janelle Stelson (D):

The incumbent, Scott Perry, is about 2-3 points behind the challenger, Janelle Stelson. The Democratic challenger is a former local TV news anchor whose name recognition helped propel her to a DNC primary win.

The race seems to be, on one hand, a moratorium on Trump, and on the other, affordability. Perry recently ran an ad alleging Stelson had a “nudity” incident involving her neighbor, but the charge remains unsubstantiated. The race is becoming a moratorium on the alleged “character” of both candidates.

PA is a no-excuse mail-in ballot state. It does not require ID to vote.

WI-03 – Derrick Van Orden (R) vs. Rebecca Cooke (D):

This is another race where the GOP incumbent is facing the former DNC incumbent they narrowly defeated in 2024. Van Orden beat Cooke in 2023 by a mere 3 points. The polls show Cooke up between 1-4 points. There are independents running in this race that could affect the outcome overall.

This race has an AI-related issue connected to the campaigns being run, AI-generated images being used in campaign advertising. The top of the list, though, is affordability, with immigration and Iran also showing up as major issues driving the race. This is another race with affordability and the issues we call moratoriums on Trump both being major issues. The AI element is more focused, once again, on the character of the candidates.

Wisconsin has no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. It requires photo ID for in-person voting.

  1. GOP SEATS TOSS-UP – MI-07 – Tom Barrett (R) vs. William Lawrence (D):

This race is mostly about affordability, specifically manufacturing and auto industry job availability. The incumbent narrowly won in 2024. The latest polls show Lawrence leading by 1-5 points.

Michigan allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. Photo ID is not mandatory but will be requested.

NY-17 – Mike Lawler (R) vs. Cait Conley (D) – The issues in this race are varied. Affordability issues are there, and so are Trump issues (those issues that are moratoriums on President Trump). Alongside them are also public safety and AI data centers. There is no one dominating issue in this race, though we suspect this race is shaping up mostly to be a moratorium on President Trump.

The latest polls show a virtual tie, with neither candidate holding a lead of more than 2 over the other.

New York is a no-excuse mail-in ballot voting state. It does not require any form of ID to vote.

PA-08 – Rob Bresnahan (R) vs. Paige Cognetti (D) – The incumbent narrowly beat the Democrat incumbent in 2024. The race has the usual affordability issues and Trump issues, but allegations of insider-trading corruption against the incumbent, Bresnahan, are becoming a major issue favoring the Democrat in the race.

The Democrat, Cognetti, is the former Mayor of Scranton. Polls show the Democrat ahead by 2-5 points.

Pennsylvania allows no-excuse ballot voting. There are no ID requirements for in-person voting.

  1. DNC SEATS LEAN DEM – FL-25 – Jared Moskowitz (D, incumbent) vs. Scott Singer (R):

This is a redrawn district that should favor the Republicans. The GOP challenger, Scott Singer, is the former Mayor of Boca Raton. A libertarian candidate could be a factor in the outcome of this race.

This race is mostly dominated by affordability issues, with immigration (a Trump issue) having a minor influence. The polls show a wide disparity, with some showing the Democrat up by 5-6 points, and others showing the GOP challenger up by as much as 7 points.

Florida allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. ID is not required for in-person voting, though it will be requested.

NM-02 – Gabe Vasquez (D, incumbent) vs. Greg Cunningham (R):

This is another redistricted district. After the redistricting, the seat became competitive. The Democrat incumbent is ahead in the polls by 2-4 points. The predictability markets heavily favor the Democrat.

This is a race that is both a moratorium on Trump and progressive culture versus traditional culture. The Democrats have a huge spending advantage, with the RNC not investing heavily in this potential pick-up.

New Mexico does not require an excuse for mail-in ballot voting. No ID is required for in-person voting.

TX-34 – Vicente Gonzalez (D, incumbent) vs. Eric Flores (R):

This is another western state district that was made competitive through redistricting. There is a minor-party candidate that could affect the outcome of this race. The latest polls show the incumbent Democrat up by 3-7 points.

The main issues in this race are border policy and affordability issues. The border policy issue may just favor the Republican, but the affordability issue favors the Democrat (as they usually do in most races, including the Senate Races).

Texas requires an excuse for mail-in ballot voting. It does not require ID for voting, though it will request it.

  1. DNC SEATS TOSS-UP – FL-14 – Kathy Castor (D, incumbent) vs. Mike Beltran (R):

This is the second redrawn Florida district on our list. There is a libertarian who could affect the outcome of this race.

The latest polls show a dead heat between the two. The main issues in this race are affordability.

Florida allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. It does not require ID, though it will request it.

OH-09 – Marcy Kaptur (D, incumbent) vs. Derek Merrin (R):

The Democrat incumbent narrowly defeated her current challenger, Derek Merrin, by less than 1 point in 2024. The latest polls show a virtual tie in the race. The main issues in this race are affordability.

Ohio allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. It requires photo ID for in-person voting.

TX-35 – Johnny Garcia (D) vs. Carlos De La Cruz (R):

This is another redrawn Texas district on our list. The district was held by a Democrat, but the incumbent switched districts to a “safer” seat. The main issues in this race are mostly affordability related. The latest polls show neither candidate ahead of the other by more than 2 points.

Texas requires a qualifying excuse for its mail-in ballot voting. It does not require ID to vote, but it will ask you for your ID.

E. SENATE RACES

The Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate. There are six races that will determine the majority in the Senate. Five of them are GOP-held seats, one is a DNC-held seat. The Democrats must hold their one seat and take three of the five at-risk GOP-held seats. Should they lose their held seat, they will have to sweep the GOP-held seats.

We will give an analysis of all six races. The GOP-held seats are Alaska, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. The one Democrat-held seat at play is Michigan.

  1. ALASKA – The incumbent Dan Sullivan is running against a non-serious Dan Sullivan in a transparent bid by the Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, to peel off Sullivan voters from the Sullivan that matters. Despite clear evidence Peltola’s campaign was behind this rouse; the courts have yet to intervene to remove the larping Sullivan. The governor has announced a criminal investigation into the Peltola campaign.

The state has a long history of trickling absentee ballots in after election day. so the potential for election fraud is high here. The incumbent is framing this race as Americanism versus Progressivism, while his challenger is stressing the affordability issues. Both issues are dominating this race.

It appears to us there is an interest in the anti-Trump GOP faction in the state, led by their other Senator, Lisa Murkowski, to sabotage this pro-Trump candidate even at the cost of potentially handing the Senate majority over to the anti-American Democrats.

The polls show a 2-point lead for Peltola. We believe the incumbent must win by 4 plus points to avoid being absentee-balloted out of an early election day lead.

The voters in this race will also be deciding whether to continue their top-four nonpartisan primary, which has been more often than not used to prevent conservative pluralities from taking the seat, even if it means allowing the Democrats to win.

  1. MAINE – Susan Collins is the anti-Trump GOP incumbent in this race, yet it is vital for the Trump agenda that she hold on to this seat. Her challenger, Troy Jackson, is an extremist progressive who would support a constitutional rewrite to end free speech and armed self-defense rights.

Jackson is attempting to make this a moratorium on Trump, while Collins is attempting to make it about her positive economic voting record. She stresses her independence of Trump, which is authentic. For the voters, the main issues are first affordability, especially energy affordability, then AI data centers and Collins’ ties to President Trump.

The latest polls have shown Collins up by as much as three points, and Jackson by as much as 2 points.

Collins has an advantage in funding, though Jackson is not far behind.

Maine has a ranked-choice voting system in Federal elections, meaning one candidate must get a majority of the vote to be declared winner. If there is no majority winner, then second-choice votes are assigned to the candidates’ totals until a majority winner is declared. While Collins and Jackson are the only ones on the ballot, write-in candidates could delay the final tally if neither scores a majority victory.

Maine allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. They do not require ID for in-person voting.

  1. NORTH CAROLINA – This seat belongs to an anti-Trump GOP Senator, Thom Tillis, who is retiring. The Democrats have a strong brand contender in the former Governor of the state, Roy Cooper. He faces the former RNC Chair, and current NC GOP chair, Michael Wattley. There are independent candidates in this race that could help determine the outcome.

Roy Cooper wants this race to be about affordability, while Wattley wants this race to be about progressive culture and progressive rule of law (a social caste system) versus traditional values and American rule of law. The voters’ issues are divided between affordability, progressivism versus Americanism, and unique state issues connected to hurricane relief.

Cooper has been holding a strong 8–11-point lead in most polls, and that includes the latest one. The state allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting but has a strict mail-in ballot verification process. Voter ID or Social Security Number information is required for in-person voting.

  1. OHIO – This is a special election that was necessitated by JD Vance, the former incumbent, becoming the Vice President of the United States. John Husted was appointed to fill out the term. His challenger, Sharrod Brown, lost the other Ohio Senate seat in 2024. He hopes to return to the Senate in the other seat.

There is a libertarian candidate who could influence the final outcome in this race.

Sharrod Brown hopes to make this election a moratorium on Trump, while Husted is stressing tax relief. AI Data centers are a major issue in this race, with Brown calling Husted the “Face of Data Centers.” The other issues with voters are affordability, especially electricity costs connected to data centers, the war in Iran, and tax relief.

The latest polls show a 2–4-point lead for Brown.

North Carolina is a no-excuse mail-in ballot voting state. It requires strict photo ID for in-house voting.

  1. TEXAS – The GOP incumbent, John Cornyn, lost in a run-off primary to the state’s Attorney General, Ken Paxton. The GOP candidate is running against State Representative James Talarico, a radical progressive xtian who regularly refers to God as being non-binary and denies the deity of Christ.

Talarico has openly supported the effective dismantling of many basic American rights, such as freedom of religion, freedom of speech, right to bear arms, and even due process rights. He runs in this race as a “moderate” Democrat promising most general audiences a more affordable life.

Paxton has been framing the race as Americanism and Traditionalism versus far-left progressive extremism, which is an existential threat to the republic. Paxton’s checkered past, which includes an impeachment enabled by progressive republicans in cooperation with the Democratic minority, has become one of the main issues for voters.

The top issues for voters are corruption affordability, and Trump ties, all of which bodes poorly for Paxton. The polls show Talarico with a 2–3-point lead.

Texas requires a qualifying excuse for its mail-in ballot voting. It does not require ID to vote, but it will ask you for it.

  1. MICHIGAN – This is an open DNC seat. The incumbent, Gary Peters, is retiring. The Democrat nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, is a radical Islamist progressive pretending to be a “moderate” Democrat only interested in saving voters money and exposing Trump’s corruption. He preaches Medicare for all and an end to ICE funding.

The main issues for voters are cost of living, tariffs, data centers, immigration, Trump performance, and crime. This race is not about progressivism versus Americanism among the electorate, despite Mike Rogers’ efforts to make it so. The latest polls give El-Sayed a 2–7-point advantage.

Michigan allows no-excuse mail-in ballot voting. Photo ID is not mandatory but will be requested.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

The 2026 Midterm election has two main issues driving most races, affordability and anti-Trumpism. By anti-Trumpism we are not referring to disagreements with Trump policies (we have plenty of disagreements with Trump policies ourselves), but with a progressive-propagated lie that Donald Trump represents the white devil coming back to power.

Where candidates are attempting to make the race a moratorium on the anti-American, anti-human policies of the violent progressive ideology driving the Democratic Party, the progressive state press is doing its best to keep the focus on affordability.

When they’re not doing that, they’re demonizing opposition to progressive policies, like abortion, open borders, systemic institutional anti-white racism, and what we call rainbow fascism (forcing people to publicly affirm the degenerate social morality of the anti-Christian progressives).

If the polls are accurate, so far, the voters are not viewing this race as a contest between Americanism and Progressivism, as most don’t seem to believe progressives are the anti-American insurrectionists that any American who understands “endowed by their creator” would recognize they are.

Progressives are the kind ones, protecting homosexuals and non-whites from brutal white oppression. Progressives are the kind ones offering assurance of comfort in exchange for police state control. So far, the polls show the “Americans” want this promise.

The voters are at ease in Zion, and believe the progressives can keep them in that state, not worrying about the existential threat to the republic that progressive policies are in material reality. It is better to lose the republic and preserve abortion, open borders, and child sex medical experiments than it is to preserve the republic and end such anti-human, self-consuming practices.

While there are some reasons to doubt the sincerity of the polls, we believe the marketing efficacy of the polls might be worth 1-2 percentage points for the Democrats, for it will embolden Democrats who see an opportunity to win close races and demoralize the Republicans who will feel their vote won’t make a difference.

If the polls are fake, and some are self-admitted fakes, they still help the Democrats create real voters, as well as give the Democrats cover to cheat, should the “opportunity” present itself.

With the Democrats, we are dealing with an ideology, like Islam, that countenances deception and violence as a means of political persuasion because both Islam and Progressivism preach a message of heaven on earth through murder and lies against an enemy both factions reduce to demons.

The more institutional power they have, the more those institutions will become fraudulent, violent machines of war intended to destroy the republic and allow the progressives to finally have a country of their own (not America, that name will be dropped if and when they finally consolidate total political power).

We can hope the polls are so skewed that not even their marketing effect, coupled with the Democrats’ ability to manufacture votes through unchecked voter rolls and simple electronic voting manipulation, will be enough for them to cheat their way to victory.

In any race where the Democrats’ unaccountability election laws (laws intended to make it easy to cheat) are the law of the land, we suspect the Republican will have to win that race by at least 4 points, possible 5 or 6 (depending on the electronic voting manipulation power the Democrats possess).

We do not believe the polls are so fake as to bury such commanding leads for Republicans, so we suspect the outcome of this election will be a strong majority in the House for the Democrats and a tie in the Senate, 50-50. The majority for the Democrats will be no less than a 10-seat advantage. It could be more.

With this “victory,” expect the “woke” activists to become more emboldened, more violent, progressive state and local governments to prosecute more Americans for the crimes of being non-progressive, and corporations that were walking away from wokeness to turn back to them again.

A DNC win will trigger criminal investigations and prosecutions at state and local levels, bury our congress in constant sham hearings intended on convicting Trump and his allies of crimes they mostly didn’t actually commit, and embolden the street fighters that gave them this victory to ratchet up their violence.

You will see more and more progressives openly calling for the American republic to be scrapped, to form a new constitution with a new name for their progressive state.

We have long-recommended President Trump use every legal means possible to declare the Democratic Party an insurrectionist terrorist operation. We have called on him to use his emergency and insurrection act powers to arrest its leaders, prosecute them for treason, confiscate their assets (including the progressive state press, a treasonous information terror network), and punish the insurrections to the fullest extent of the law.

We should not be holding elections in which Islamists and Socialists are allowed to rule over a country they all want to murder. Yet here we are.

If it happens as we imagine it will, it is a judgment of God on the land, a land that accelerated its descent into progressive madness the day its own court protected child murderers from rightful prosecution.

If the polls are more skewed than we imagine, and electronic voting manipulation powers are not as great as we think they might be, then the Republicans might hold on to the House. They might even pick up a few seats, but they will still have a majority that can be nuked by traitors within their own party (as this current small majority has often ALREADY been subverted by those same traitors).

In the Senate, they could pick up 2 more seats (at most) and make it much more difficult for traitors within their party (like Susan Collins, should she hold on and win) to subvert the American agenda in service of their progressive masters.

Roe V. Wade will be remembered in the history books as the catalyst for the destruction of America’s uniting standard for a diverse (in ideas) people, that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights which effectively make WE THE PEOPLE the stewards of our own happiness and prosperity, not the state.

Progressivism doesn’t survive without violence, and it has no tolerance for self-stewardship.

Progressivism is an intolerant religion, like Islamism (Muslims who believe in a Sharia state), that should not be tolerated, let alone be legal.

Tolerating the intolerant is to make your neighbor their next victim.

This is the land of the brave free, not the land of seditious cowards seeking to murder their way to heaven, with Americans becoming the dead bodies they will pile up wherever they have the power to do so.

This election is about America, and hardly anyone outside of a few niche audiences knows it or seems to care. Truly, we have entered the season of Amos, where the people of the land close their eyes to the depravity around them, with the hope of preserving their beds of ivory and their bowls of wine.

FURTHER RESOURCES

2026 Ballot Measures Overview and Topics – Ballotpedia

Senate Polling Averages – Real Clear Politics

Cook Political Report Ratings – Cook Political Report

House Battlegrounds – Ballotpedia

 

III. TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT

A. THE BIRTH OF THE ECUMENICAL NATION-STATE

In our October 16, 2026, MIA issue Paul Gordon Collier wrote about his experience researching the immigration crisis in Europe. He wrote: “In the course of our research, we have discovered that the narratives around the three bellwether European countries we are using for this report are being buried by search engines that assure only progressive state media shows up in current news search results.

“Even when prompting AI to present data outside of the progressive state press, not one major AI deployed could comply. Even when we provided them with a list of websites that we use for news aggregate analysis, the AI could still not produce research results outside of the progressive state press.

“A couple of websites, like Breitbart and PJ Media, made it into the aggregation analysis process because they are some of the very few non-progressive sites that show up in current news searches.

“Without AI, the research process is considerably more time-consuming than with it. In order for us to have a more complete picture of views on the planvasion, it will take us a lot more time than we previously thought, therefore we are offering here a scaled down version of what the final report will be.

“We are in the process of building AI bots that will regularly search websites outside the progressive state press to assure we get current news research results not so overwhelmingly dominated by progressive talking points.”

Using search engines to get the latest news is fraught with non-disclosed filtering of websites not aligned with progressive orthodoxy. Our website, newslinkia.com/, archives news blurbs and links from a disparate news pool, one that includes the progressive state press and non-progressive state press.

If you want to get information on a current news story, we recommend you do one of three things, build your own news aggregate website, your own personal-use search engine, or use newslinkia.com/.

Our site is not comprehensive, so it should be used as a supplement to other sources, not the exclusive source.

Here are three sources for search engine builders:

Why Choose Programmable Search – Google

Build Your Own Search Engine – wiby.org

How to build a search engine: A complete guide for developers – meilisearch.com

B. JOAN OF HAMAS?

In our October 23, 2026 issue of MIA, we covered the French Riots. We reported: Here are four headlines that bellwether the progressive state press narratives on the French riots:

  1. FACT FOCUS: Trump and Republicans blame France’s immigrants for riots without evidence – AP News – This headline asks Americans not to believe their lying eyes, the hundreds of thousands of videos showing African and Middle Eastern men praising Allah while they unleash hell on French citizens.
  2. France has a proud tradition of protesting, and sometimes people lose their heads – abcnews.com – This headline attempts to make a somewhat grim joke; though the lesser context, the disproportionate outrage version of “lose their heads,” is their punchline, not the French Revolution. The article is accusing people of being hysterical for reacting with existential concern about what’s going on in France right now.
  3. France: Protests “brought the entire population together for a common purpose”– France 24 – This French publication is all-in on the riots, even attempting to popularize the riots by claiming everyone is participating in them. We wonder how the French citizens who are not in on the insurrection feel about this headline
  4. Looters Seize on massive French protests to raid and vandalize shops – France 24 – This is that same treasonous French press protecting the insurrection again. This headline is attempting to shift all the blame for the violence not on the politically motivated insurrectionists aiming to destroy the republic, but on “selfish looters.”

The French press has decided that “far right” candidates noticing the riots and the Islamists’ roles in the riots is problematic, even racist.

MS Now may take the case. Their mouthpieces decided to implore Americans to protest (meaning riot) here like they are in France over our economic woes. Not only are they pushing the narrative that this is an unaffordability protest, but they are also openly trying to trigger similar French-styled arsonist attacks against American businesses.

Another story from our Bellwether Digest that week showed Americans are mostly getting the kind of “news” highlighted above. We reported: LEFTIST NEWS AGGREGATORS DOMINATE U.S. NEWS – 58% of Americans are getting their “news” from far-left news aggregators that block non-progressive media from being seen. These four far-left news aggregators are run by progressive-controlled corporations aligned with the Democratic Party. The four aggregators are Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft’s MSM.

Our news research compels us to track multiple news sites, on the left, right, and otherwise. Here are 10 sites that are not progressive which we regularly monitor. We encourage you to create your own RSS aggregate of these sites, or bookmark them so you regularly have sources for news not filtered through the enemy’s lens.

The Federalist – TheFederalist.com

PJ Media – PJMedia.com

American Thinker – AmericanThinker.com

Townhall – TownHall.com

The American Spectator – Spectator.org

Breitbart – Breitbart.com

Daily Caller – DailyCaller.com

The Daily Wire – DailyWire.com

Liberty Nation – LibertyNation.com

Just the News – JustTheNews.com

C. THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

In this issue of MIA, on page 2, we concluded our election report with this claim, “While we would not be shocked, or even surprised, if the Republicans hold on to the House, at this point we must assume they will not.

“A DNC win will trigger criminal investigations and prosecutions at state and local levels, bury our congress in constant sham hearings intended on convicting Trump and his allies of crimes they mostly didn’t actually commit, and embolden the street fighters that gave them this victory to ratchet up their violence.

“You will see more and more progressives openly calling for the American republic to be scrapped, to form a new constitution with a new name for their progressive state.

“We have long-recommended President Trump use every legal means possible to declare the Democratic Party an insurrectionist terrorist operation. We have called on him to use his emergency and insurrection act powers to arrest its leaders, prosecute them for treason, confiscate their assets (including the progressive state press, a treasonous information terror network), and punish the insurrections to the fullest extent of the law.

“We should not be holding elections in which Islamists and Socialists are allowed to rule over a country they all want to murder. Yet here we are.

“If it happens as we imagine it will, it is a judgment of God on the land, a land that accelerated its descent into progressive madness the day its own court protected child murderers from rightful prosecution.”

We suspect the results of the election will not be known on the first night so we encourage our readers to track those results, as well as the fall-out from those results on our website newslinkia.com/.

Our website contains archives of news blurbs and links of both the progressive state press and independent press. We tag our archives to make it easier for readers to follow certain topics.

Here are links to those tags that will be updated regularly throughout the week. These tags are related to the 2026 election:

2026 Elections

Senate Races

Alaska Senate Race

Maine Senate Race

Michigan Senate Race

North Carolina Senate Race

Texas Senate Race

House Races

Michigan House Races

Ohio House Races

PA House Races

Texas House Races

Election Fraud

Election Law

Mass Mailer Election

Voter ID

FINAL THOUGHT: LAST COMMENTS ON THE UPCOMING 2026 MIDTERM ELECTION

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor, and Bill Collier, Publisher

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

“This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.” – 1 Timothy 2:1-6

Ed. NOTE; Read our full Election 2026 report starting on pg. 2 and continuing on pg. xx.

From Paul Gordon Collier:

Unless the polls are dramatically skewed and/or the DOJ is able to neutralize the DNC “bump” that gives them an advantage in any close race with slow returning mail-in ballots, it is likely that the Democrats will take the House and probably come to a tie in the Senate, giving the GOP the majority by a Vice President’s vote.

I am reminded of the quote in 1st Timothy we cited above. For me, I interpret this verse with two main meanings, one which gives me peace in the midst of great trial and the other that informs my decision on voting.

In the first instance, I read this passage to show us that through “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings…” for the hope of our leaders’ salvation “… we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.”

In other words, praying for the salvation of our leaders will keep us rightly calibrated to continue to advance the Kingdom of God, come what may, for all leaders are allowed to rule by God’s permission. No one rules that isn’t chosen by God to do so, even if he rules dishonestly.

In the second instance, I read this passage to show us that through “supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings…” our leaders will recognize the sovereignty of God over the lives of his children and not interfere with their peaceful kingdom work.

In other words, we pray for our leaders to respect the authority of God in our lives and not create rules that prevent us from living out our civilization-creating faith peacefully in the land we are called to be good stewards of, even if we are only sojourners on the earth before the New Heaven and the New Earth are formed.

This last reading compels me to want to influence the state to not create laws that impede our work or support it with violence. In this election cycle, most of these races have little to do with Americanism, which is a civic vehicle of power that DOES allow the Christian civilization to flourish within it without compelling anyone to join it.

In my state of Pennsylvania, the candidates are mostly talking affordability and data centers, not the existential threat to American Rule of Law the progressives represent, nor the fecklessness of the GOP in defending it.

One party is an ineffective defender of Christian peace, and the other means to criminalize much Christian thought, including rejecting homosexuality, rejecting the non-binary, rejecting abortion, and soon, rejecting euthanasia.

For me, I have little reason to vote outside of voting for the feckless defender of Christian peace, because at least they aren’t accelerating the criminalization of the faith like the progressives are. I won’t reveal my choice, whether I chose to vote or not.

Instead, I will suggest there is good reason to vote for the inept slowdown, and good reason not to. Outside of voting directly for the progressives, or any leftist third party alternative, there is no wrong choice to make in this election for the Christian.

Whatever you decide, I hope you do with it a spirit I myself hope to find soon, with a hope for the restoration and salvation of even the “worst” of the progressive candidates currently threatening our faith with arrests, and a faith that the rest of the Lord will steward us safely to His final willed plan, triumph in the New Heaven and New Earth.

From Bill Collier:

Politics is too big, and people are too small, in the USA, but in so many other places, from Germany and Nigeria to America and the UK, people feel that if their political tribe wins all will be saved and if it loses all will be lost.

When more than 10% of your life is caught up in politics, it is too much and it is a sign that politics has taken over real life. Most of what we have and achieve and most of what we need should not depend on who wins elections.

Part of my work involves politics, and I can tell you two things: first, that the political class is mostly just looking for a payday, and second, that the results of the actual elections they work on rarely amounts to anything more than more grift from different people if the incumbents lose.

As you get caught up in hysterics over politics and cut off friends over it, the political class just keeps finding new ways to hype themselves and create bogeyman fears of their opponents so they can sit on comfortable luxury, vaingloriously imagining that edicts can change human nature itself.

Ultimately, though, they just want the seat because from it flows wealth and power to stroke their precious egos and fill their bank accounts. Even the losers of elections gain prestige, and with it they gain economic windfalls.

Don’t get me wrong, I do believe in being politically engaged. There are times when truly sinister forces are afoot who must be stopped, but, more often than not, the shrieking at the other party is hyperventilating nonsense based on exaggerations and lies. This election cycle, however, is difficult to exaggerate the threat the Democratic Party poses to our republic.

As long as I steward myself, including my vote and my voice, as well as, in my case, my professional work, in a manner I genuinely believe is based on my understanding of what honors my God, my country, the rights of all, and my own integrity, then I can rest in Jesus to cover the many things I can never control beyond that which is in my own hands.

I believe we should all vote in our countries. It is not validating the system, as some say, in my opinion, it is stewarding whatever IS IN YOUR HANDS and even if a system you do not want to validate gives you the power to vote, then by God, I believe, you should try to use it not because it will change anything but because we should always steward everything in our hands.

Some exceptions may apply. I’ll leave it to you to decide if this election qualifies as such an exception.

Vote your conscience, vote your interests, vote for the best options. Some say that it is a vote for the lesser of two evils, but sometimes it is more a tactical decision to slow the retreat and hope for a better option tomorrow. I often feel that way in the U.S. Elections today.

The “choice” of the American citizen is often merely opting for a slower retreat from the ideal of a free and pluralistic society of equals under common law.

But politics is too big and we are too small and we should, I propose, try to find better ways to grow our power outside of politics, while engaging in the political arena as good stewards of our citizenship.

BELLWETHER REPORT – OCTOBER 2026

By STAFF

This month’s report covers political, world, culture, market, and sci-tech news from October 1-30

This report includes People Advance Reports.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. AI Watch
  3. Progressive State Press
  4. France Riots
  5. Ukraine War
  6. Iran War
  7. China Watch
  8. Judgefare
  9. Trump Deportations
  10. Election Fraud

U.S. POLITICS

  1. PROGRESSIVES CAUGHT PLOTTING OVERTHROW OF AMERICA – The progressives are planning on enacting a series of violent actions after the midterm elections, should they win decisively. The plan is to trigger a federal response that will allow progressive-controlled states to rebel against the Federal government.

From the main source for the uncovered videos and documents, DataRepublican, “You’ve heard that the DSA is proposing structural reforms to America, including abolishing the Senate and imposing term limits.

“What you not have heard is – there is an operational plan to put it all into action. If the Democratic Party sweeps 2026, then DSA will become ‘foot soldiers”’ in constant clashes with the administration to cross a ‘red line’ or invoke a ‘doomsday scenario’ – meaning, President Trump invokes the Insurrection Act, probably sometime in 2027.”

  1. BIDEN’S DOJ STALKED PARENTS OPPOSED TO WOKE SCHOOLS – Parents who dared speak out against progressive policies in American public schools were tracked and harassed by the FBI. If you dared go to a school board meeting and speak out against pro-transgender policies, or gay porn in school libraries, Biden’s FBI viewed you as a national security risk.

U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stated, “Under the Biden Administration, parents were the enemy. They were labeled as terrorists, targeted, and investigated by a government weaponized against them. That era is over. The Trump Administration is acting with unprecedented energy and purpose to restore parents’ natural rights as the primary protectors of their children.”

  1. JACK SMITH WAS SPYING ON EVERYONE – A new document drop by the White House Government Transparency Task Force has revealed “special prosecutor” Jack Smith was spying on almost everyone in the Trump inner circle, including his lawyers. He did this by monitoring the phone of the President’s key administrative organizer and coordinator, Susie Wiles. She is currently President Trump’s Chief of Staff.

U.S. ELECTION

Read our full report on the 2026 midterm election on pg. 2.

  1. APPEALS COURT PROTECTS 20,000 NON-CITIZEN CALIFORNIA BALLOTS – A Federal Appeals court ruled 2-1 to deny the Department of Justice’s request to remove 20,000 non-citizen ballots from California’s voter rolls. The court passed on a technicality, claiming it had no power to act until a lower court had ruled. They also claimed, “The United States’s claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self-constructed one.”
  2. CALIFORNIA TELLS THE FEDS A FEW ILLEGAL VOTES ARE NO BIG DEAL – California’s progressive governor Gavin Newsom recently condoned a few non-citizen votes for the sake of not fully checking their voting rolls as the Department of Justice has requested. After the DOJ caught 28 illegal aliens registered to vote and planning to vote, Newsom’s government responded with indifference to the news.

Newsom claimed, “Yes, non-citizen voter registration and voting does happen in isolated instances — in California and the rest of the country alike — but it is so rare that the Trump admin is parading around town about .0001% of California voters. If the feds were serious about this, they would have done this long ago — not in the middle of people voting, which inherently and needlessly sows distrust and doubt in our democracy.”

  1. ARE THE POLLS RIGGED? – Another polling company has confessed to creating fake polls. Wedgwood Polls confessed it created fake polls to show Democrats ahead as part of a social experiment. They claimed, “Our fabricated numbers were given instant credibility across platforms and cited on air and reporting.”

WORLD

  1. NETANYAHU CRIES FOUL AS ELECTION LEAVES NO FINAL WINNER – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to win a majority needed to form a government after the Israeli election, but so did his opponent. Netanyahu beat his opponent 21.4% to 16.2%. Netanyahu is claiming Islamist factions have infiltrated the election process, robbing his coalition of their “rightful” victory.

Golan posted on X, “We must no longer accept Netanyahu’s racist division between Jewish votes and Arab votes. We have a responsibility. And we have an opportunity to form a government of change in partnership with Israel’s Arab citizens.” Netanyahu responded, “We must not endanger Israel and establish a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties.”

  1. BOLSONARO LOSES IN “QUESTIONABLE” ELECTION – The Chinese won Brazil’s Presidential election when their candidate, Lula da Silva, won re-election for the third time. He defeated the American candidate, Senator Flavio Bolsanaro, the son of the former President, Jair Messias Bolsanaro. Lula lost in the first round of votes but came back in the run-off to defeat Bolsonaro by a 51-48-point margin.

The controversy with the election began when a Lula-supporting activist judge decided to extend the closing hour of the polls by 2 hours. It is believed this is where Lula “manufactured” the votes he needed to hold on to power. The win by Lula assures China will continue to have a strong presence in South America. It also means Brazilians will face draconian social media censorship laws.

  1. AFTER IRAN REJECTS PEACE TALK OFFER, U.S. THREATENS STRIKES – Vice President JD Vance’s letter to the Iranians offering another round of peace talks was summarily rejected by the Iranian regime. As a result, the U.S. is threatening to resume air strikes against the Islamic Republic. Iran has countered that it would consider peace talks, but only if brokered by Pakistan.

The U.S. has reached out to its Gulf State allies and informed them there may soon be an “intense” war with Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is not completely opened, and Iran has been able to score hits on tankers still. President Trump once again claimed the war will be over soon, but hinted at a last intense stage.

  1. SERBIA FALLS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTION – Candidates in support of the “Student List” won the majority of seats in Serbia’s election, overthrowing the long-standing power of pro-Russian and Pro-Chinese Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic. The Student List won 52.7% of the vote and 140 of the 250 Parliament seats. The incumbent party, the Serbian Progressive Party, has been in power since 2012.
  2. FRANCE ISLAMIST-PROGRESSIVE RIOTS CONTINUE – Under the guise of “education reform,” which is mostly demanding more resources and creating policies aligned with the Progressive-Islamist alliance, riots across France in most major cities continue unabated. So far, more than 5,000 people have been arrested.
  3. IN WAKE OF MASS “MIGRANT INVASION,” SPAIN’S PM FORCED TO CALL SNAP ELECTIONS – Spaniards are joining the growing national protests against their country’s policies of open borders and the state’s attempt to destroy their national identity. The pressure is mounting on the regime in power, the progressives. They rule under their current Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, who rules thanks to a coalition of leftists.

His own party fared worse than the pro-Spanish party in the last election (which finished first but was kept out of power by the far-left coalition). Now, Sanchez must call a Snap election before any hope of winning another election (if he even makes it to that point) dies as the resistance to his Spain-hating policies grows.

  1. ALBERTA CHOOSES SOVIET CANADA – The vote to secede from Canada failed in Alberta by a convincing margin, with only 23% voting to start the process of secession. With results being delayed, and polls not opening in all places when they should have been, some doubt might remain about the results, but the margin makes it difficult to sustain.
  2. BURNHAM BLAMES RUSSIA FOR BREXIT – UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has telegraphed his next major move, setting up an election with Brexit on the chopping block. He is leading an international effort to paint Britain’s choice to leave the EU as a Russian-manipulated outcome, justifying a revisiting of the question. He accused Russia of meddling not only with the 2026 vote, but with other European elections as well.
  3. HAMAS SUPPORTERS MARCH ON OCTOBER 7 – Hamas supporters in London decided to march on the 3rd anniversary of the October 7 slaughter of innocent Israelis by the organization they are marching for. The march was not seen as racist by British police, despite it clearly sending a message to the Jews that they’re still next. It is an embrace of the slaughter of the Jewish race, nothing more.
  4. WOMEN IN INDIA STERILIZED TO WORK SUGARCANE FIELDS – With little opportunity outside of working sugarcane fields, hundreds of thousands of women in India choose to have their wombs removed to stop having periods. They do this to ensure they don’t miss workdays.

One woman described what they must endure: “We never have a day off. Once we arrive here, it’s constant work every single day for the next four to five months. Even removing my own uterus requires taking on debt. It feels like my body itself has become a slave to the system.”

CHINA

  1. CCP AGENT CAUGHT SPYING ON TAIWANESE AMERICANS – The DOJ has arrested Wanying “Heather” Zeng, 34, under charges she was spying on Taiwanese Americans for the Chinese government. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg declared, “The central allegation here – that Zhang, at the behest of the People’s Republic of China, covertly surveilled relatives of a high-ranking foreign government official in the United States – is deeply troubling…”

U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli added, “Ms. Zhang is charged with acting at the direction of Chinese government officials to spy on the family of a senior Taiwanese official here in the United States. She violated our laws and will be held accountable in our courts. We will aggressively investigate and prosecute illegal foreign operations on American soil.”

  1. CHINA LOSES TRILLIONS AS FAITH IN AI FALTERS – The Chinese STAR 50 Index has lost trillions of dollars in value in recent months thanks mostly to lost faith in AI. The total value of AI stocks accounts for 40% of the market. The AI machines being built aren’t making money off their domestic market, a problem the U.S. might be facing soon as well.
  2. CHINA WINS IN U.S. COURT – A Federal judge has decided the Pentagon does not have a right to block firms from having defense contracts that lobby for Alibaba. The company rewarded in the ruling is a CCP-controlled and supporting enterprise. This ruling allows the CCP to continue to infiltrate American military procurement infrastructures. They can effectively even “lobby” congress to make it happen.
  3. CHINA ENTERS LAOS – China has sent a military convoy into the border nation of Laos, which is raising concerns of Laotians who have bad memories of colonization from world powers. The military is being moved into a permanent “Training Center,” which is raising even more red flags among the local population.
  4. CHINA ADDS AIR BASE TO “TRAINING” IN LAOS – China has extended its presence in Laos following reports it had set up a training camp inside the country. Now, China appears to have built an air base within Laos as well. Satellite imagery showed Chinese military aircraft leaving from and landing in the region identified as the new air base. Beijing has now claimed the base is to train Laotian pilots to fly Chinese fighters.

CULTURE

  1. LEFTIST NEWS AGGREGATORS DOMINATE U.S. NEWS – 58% of Americans are getting their “news” from far-left news aggregators that block non-progressive media from being seen. These four far-left news aggregators are run by progressive-controlled corporations aligned with the Democratic Party. The four aggregators are Apple News, Google News, Yahoo News, and Microsoft’s MSM.
  2. SHARIA GAINING FAVOR AMONG AMERICAN YOUTH – Thanks in large part to great efforts by progressive-controlled government schools promoting Islam and excoriating Christianity, a new poll reveals 4 in 10 young Americans have a favorable view of Sharia, Islamic Law.

The poll indicts the public education system, which has fallen to insurrectionist progressives. These “teachers” are more aligned with Chairman Mao and Osama Bin Laden than they are with George Washington and Jesus Christ.

3. AMERICAN UNDERGRADS BECOMING VIOLENT PROGRESSIVES – A new poll from the Buckley Institute claims 45% of American undergrads support violence against “hate speech.” 30% of self-identifying “conservative” undergrads agreed. 22% of undergrads believe America deserved 9/1. Among those who support violence against “hate speech,” 72% say “hate speech” is a constitutionally protected form of free speech.

4. SOMALI TEEN PLOTTED MASS MURDER IN MALL OF AMERICA – The FBI caught another wanna-be terrorist before they could act by first seemingly enabling their actions. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, an 18-year-old Somali American, was arrested and accused of plotting to kill Americans in the Mall of America. He was going to use an AK-47 and 200 rounds of ammo. The teen purchased the inert AK-47, and the ammo, from the FBI. This is how the arrest was made.

The DOJ released a statement that, in part, exclaimed, “The FBI rendered the AK-47 rifle inert prior to the transaction. During the sale of the firearm and ammunition, Mohamud reaffirmed his plan to use the firearm and ammunition to shoot people at the Mall of America”

5. CHILD GENDER “THERAPISTS” CONTINUE SHUT-DOWN OPERATIONS UNDER NEW NAMES – When child transgender therapists and operations are shut down from organizations relying on Federal tax dollars, they turn to independent trans zealots to both fund and protect them. The Trump administration is working on identifying shut down operations and following them when they go “independent.”

6. HARVARD PROFESSORS AND ALUMNI ARE AGAINST HIRING CONSERVATIVES – A recent suggestion by Harvard that it should do more to get conservative professors hired was met with stiff resistance from progressive professors. Over 95% of Harvard’s professors are self-identifying progressives.

Progressive alumni joined in the resistance, with one alumnus claiming, “Even supposing that [silencing] takes place, how would the hiring of conservative faculty act as a countervailing force? Surely such hiring may inhibit viewpoint diversity rather than nurture it.” We will leave that statement represent the mind of the progressive in all its incongruity with reality.

7. UK SUPPORTS GLOBAL HATE SPEECH CRACKDOWN – The UK is coming out in support of a UN resolution demanding worldwide action to prevent hate speech. The Burnham administration declared, “… we, the UK, thank the African Group for bringing forward this resolution and pay particular tribute to South Africa for their principled leadership in keeping the fight against racism high on the international agenda.”

8. WOMAN ALMOST SUICIDED BY CANADA FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO COOK – A woman who was depressed because she felt she could no longer cook for her family was approved for suicide by Canadian doctors. Fortunately, she was talked out of it, but not by the doctors, who may have wanted to profit from her organs.

Canada’s embrace of euthanasia, which was supposed to be a measure of last resort for the truly terminally and pain-ridden ill, has led it to expand the reasons people can apply for state-assisted suicide. We can add to that growing list not being able to cook for your family. Now, even euthanasia supporters are raising the alarm on Canada’s seemingly careless reliance on suicide to cure its social and economic woes.

9. SUPPORT FOR CRIMINALIZING OFFENSIVE SPEECH SPIKES – Four in 10 U.S. students support criminal prosecution of “offensive speech,” which is up 7 points from last year. The survey came from the Buckley Institute. At the same time, 73% of students agreed the Constitution is an important document for the U.S., not an outdated one.

10. IDAHO PROPOSITION WOULD ALLOW MINORS TO CONSENT TO ABORTION – Despite what the ACLU has been saying about Idaho’s Proposition 1, critics counter that it does, in fact, allow minor children to consent to abortions without parental notice. The proposition, if passed, would remove limits on abortion and effectively allow children to have abortions without parental consent.

11. BELGIUM’S EUTHANASIA EXPLODES – Over 1,100 people have been euthanized by Belgian authorities for ailments that are not immediately terminal. In 2025, euthanasia deaths jumped 12.4% from last year. They accounted for 4% of all national deaths.

MARKET

  1. NINE U.S. BANKS DEBANKED DISSENTERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ORTHODOXY – Nine major U.S. banks have been found to have debanked Americans for holding views not acceptable to the anti-American ideology of progressivism. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a report exposing the unconstitutional, and possibly criminal actions.

The nine banks listed were: BMO Bank, Capital One, Citibank, JPMorgan Chase Bank, PNC Bank, TD Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo Bank. These debankings happened between 2010 and 2025, meaning they continued after Trump took office.

  1. AI DEBT LOOMING THREAT ON WORLD ECONOMY – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a warning to global markets about the looming debt in the AI industry. It claims all the major American tech companies are saddled with AI investment bills not met with AI-producing revenues.
  2. META GETS $25 BILLION BILL OVER 2016 ELECTION – A New Mexico court is ordering Meta to pay $25 billion in a civil lawsuit for allowing Cambridge Analytica access to user data during the 2016 election. The company was working for the Trump campaign. It used that information to help the Trump campaign more effectively target potential voters.

SCI-TECH

  1. U.S. AXES DEEPSEEK, CHINA THREATENS COUNTERACTION – The U.S. has announced a ban on China’s DeepSeek AI from U.S. government systems, citing security risks. China has responded by threatening consequences if the U.S. doesn’t reverse this decision. DeepSeek models “present multiple threat pathways,” according to a notice published in the U.S. Federal Register.
  2. GOP HANDS AI GOVERNANCE OVER TO CALIFORNIA – Because the Republican-controlled national legislature failed to pass a measure to block them, California is set to be the definer of AI standards. Now, Anthropic is using California’s AI standards to push a national bill forward that could allow their AI agents to work without government intervention unless the high threshold of 50 lives in danger is met.
  3. ANTHROPIC WANTS TO MERGE WITH THE PRESIDENT – Anthropic has launched a “presidential engagement” project in preparation for the 2028 Presidential election. They plan on engaging with major U.S. presidential candidates on AI policy to determine their political strategy. From this, their political funding strategy would follow. It’s a transparent “buy influence” program being advertised in advance ahead of the 2028 elections. It is projected Anthropic will be a $2 trillion plus venture. With no limits on campaign finance, this will make Anthropic an instant President maker.
  4. ANTHROPIC ANNOUNCES RESTRICTIONS ON BEING MEAN TO ITS AI AGENT, CLAUDE – Anthropic has announced plans to implement a new governance policy for users of its AI agent, Claude. The change of policy would eventually block users from using Claude who are consistently “mean” to Claude.

They claim the rule will be enforced selectively, “only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.”

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. SOCIAL SECURITY TO GET RECORD CLEANUP AFFECTING 50 MILLION RECORDS – The Social Security Administration (SSA) has identified 50 million Social Security records that have inaccurate or fraudulent information. They’ve begun a massive database cleanup of Social Security records, which is intended to dramatically reduce fraud. This is the largest cleanup operation in the history of the SSA.
  2. NO HEARINGS FOR ILLEGALS – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-7 to continue to allow the Federal government to detain illegal aliens without a hearing. The ruling makes it easier to deport illegal aliens, whose deportations are often delayed by lengthy hearing-delay tactics from progressive activist “lawyers.”
  3. OREGON SCHOOL SHOOTING STOPPED BY AMERICAN GUN OWNER – A shooting at an Oregon high school left three children, aged five, eight, and 1l, along with one teacher, dead. The shooter has been identified as John J. Griffin III. The shooter was stopped by a parent with a concealed carry license, saving many lives, but tragically not all lives.
  4. TRUMP TARGETS MAJOR U.S. CORPORATIONS IN FOREIGN VISA CRACKDOWN – Vice President JD Vance announced the Trump administration’s new restrictions on the H-1B Visa program. These new restrictions effectively end U.S. corporate reliance on “cheap foreign labor” for high-level positions, which effectively freeze Americans out of higher potential seats of power.
  5. SCOTUS AFFIRMS TRUMP’S RIGHT TO FIRE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES – A challenge to President Trump firing of a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) member was dismissed by the Supreme Court. Gwynne Wilcox, a progressive, was fired by President Trump. She sued to get her job back.
  6. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RUNS OUT OF PATIENCE WITH ISLAM – The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning the Muslim Brotherhood and calling on action to be taken against Islamists in Europe. French European Parliament member Céline Imart said of the passage, “This is a historic victory because it is a European first.”
  7. CNN FALLS TO MAGA? – The merger deal between Paramount and Warner Brothers has now officially gone through, meaning a Trump-supporting family, the Ellisons, OFFICIALLY hold the reins of power of CNN, the progressive state cable news flagship.

The current head of CNN, Mark Thompson, said of the merger, “First, I’m convinced that from David Ellison on down, Paramount Skydance leadership really does believe in news alongside entertainment as a top strategic opportunity for our new company… And second, having now spoken to them at length of the topic, I have real confidence that they both understand and will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for.”

  1. ICE UNMASKING STRUCK DOWN BY 9TH – An effort by progressive California to unmask ICE agents in an effort to help their street fighters locate and terrorize (or worse) ICE agents has been struck down by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

From the summary of the ruling, “In sum, if a state law directly regulates the governmental conduct of the United States without congressional authorization, it is void irrespective of whether the regulated activities are essential to federal functions or operations, and irrespective of the degree to which the state law interferes with such functions or operations.”

  1. CHRISTIAN-ONLY FRANCHISE CONSTITUTIONAL, COURT RULES – The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a Christian-only auto repair franchise is not a constitutional violation. The company, Christian Brothers Automotive, only allows self-professing Christians to be franchise owners. There are 300 franchises nationwide.
  2. GREENLAND GOLD COMING AMERICA’S WAY – President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social, “Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland! There are Experts that are saying that the amount of easily available Oil is far greater than that of almost any land, anywhere in the World and, even more importantly, from a Security Purpose in the Defense and Offense of both the United States of America, and Europe, is second to none. Any future attack on the United States will have to come across Greenland, where our Defense will routinely knock down drones, missiles, or any other form of weapon not yet even conceived. It gives us time, location, and sightline, like nowhere else in the World!”
  3. AS FOREIGN APPLICATIONS DRY UP, UNIVERSITIES LOWER TUITION FOR AMERICANS – After a dramatic reduction in foreign customers for U.S. universities, the consequence for Americans is lower tuition. Universities needing American customers are now lowering their tuition prices to get them. Several private schools struggling to exist are now lowering their tuition by 40-50% to win back American customers.
  4. PASTOR FREED AFTER BEING ARRESTED FOR HAVING 24/7 CHURCH – An Ohio Pastor has seen his conviction for opening his church 24/7 overturned by the Ohio Sixth District Court of Appeals. The defendant, Pastor Chris Avell, faced “fire code charges” and jail time for keeping his church open 24/7.

His counsel, Ryan Gardner, said of the ruling, “Pastor Chris has the constitutional right to operate his church free from the government imposing draconian fire code regulations. We hope that this latest ruling will put an end to the years-long legal battle that Pastor Chris has endured. We are grateful to all the work of our co-counsels in this case.”

  1. DOJ TO LET SUPPRESSOR RULING STAND – The Department of Justice has informed congress it will not be appealing a lower court decision that struck down federal regulations on firearms suppressors. The ruling only applies to the states in the jurisdiction of the court.

BELLWETHER DIGEST – WEEK ENDING OCTOBER 30, 2026

By STAFF

This week’s report covers political, world, culture, market, and sci-tech news from October 23-30

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Reports.

For 2026 Election News, read our report on the midterm elections on pg. 2. You can read part two of the report on pg. xx.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. AI Watch
  3. Progressive State Press
  4. China Watch
  5. Brazil Watch
  6. France Riots
  7. Ukraine War
  8. Israel Watch
  9. Europe Riots
  10. Iran War

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

  1. APPEALS COURT PROTECTS 20,000 NON-CITIZEN CALIFORNIA BALLOTS – A Federal Appeals court ruled 2-1 to deny the Department of Justice’s request to remove 20,000 non-citizen ballots from California’s voter rolls. The court passed on a technicality, claiming it had no power to act until a lower court had ruled. They also claimed, “The United States’s claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self-constructed one.”
  2. NETANYAHU CRIES FOUL AS ELECTION LEAVES NO FINAL WINNER – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to win a majority needed to form a government after the Israeli election, but so did his opponent. Netanyahu beat his opponent 21.4% to 16.2%. Netanyahu is claiming Islamist factions have infiltrated the election process, robbing his coalition of their “rightful” victory.

Golan posted on X, “We must no longer accept Netanyahu’s racist division between Jewish votes and Arab votes. We have a responsibility. And we have an opportunity to form a government of change in partnership with Israel’s Arab citizens.” Netanyahu responded, “We must not endanger Israel and establish a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties.”

  1. BOLSONARO LOSES IN “QUESTIONABLE” ELECTION – The Chinese won Brazil’s Presidential election when their candidate, Lula da Silva, won re-election for the third time. He defeated the American candidate, Senator Flavio Bolsanaro, the son of the former President, Jair Messias Bolsanaro. Lula lost in the first round of votes but came back in the run-off to defeat Bolsonaro by a 51-48-point margin.

The controversy with the election began when a Lula-supporting activist judge decided to extend the closing hour of the polls by 2 hours. It is believed this is where Lula “manufactured” the votes he needed to hold on to power. The win by Lula assures China will continue to have a strong presence in South America. It also means Brazilians will face draconian social media censorship laws.

  1. AFTER IRAN REJECTS PEACE TALK OFFER, U.S. THREATENS STRIKES – Vice President JD Vance’s letter to the Iranians offering another round of peace talks was summarily rejected by the Iranian regime. As a result, the U.S. is threatening to resume air strikes against the Islamic Republic. Iran has countered that it would consider peace talks, but only if brokered by Pakistan.

The U.S. has reached out to its Gulf State allies and informed them there may soon be an “intense” war with Iran. The Strait of Hormuz is not completely opened, and Iran has been able to score hits on tankers still. President Trump once again claimed the war will be over soon, but hinted at a last intense stage.

  1. CHINA LOSES TRILLIONS AS FAITH IN AI FALTERS – The Chinese STAR 50 Index has lost trillions of dollars in value in recent months thanks mostly to lost faith in AI. The total value of AI stocks accounts for 40% of the market. The AI machines being built aren’t making money off their domestic market, a problem the U.S. might be facing soon as well.
  2. ARE THE SAUDIS ATTEMPTING TO BUY THE HOUTHIS OFF? – Saudi Arabia is allegedly working with Iran to broker a deal with the Houthis that would see the Houthis get $1 billion to quit the war. The allegations were released in the Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom. The Houthis have expanded their attacks on Saudi Arabia, launching six strikes in recent days.

They are also threatening to declare war on Egypt should it aid the Saudis in the war. Their efforts to shut down the Red Sea have not quite materialized, but trade has been slowed, though not significantly.

  1. COMEY GETS NEW CHARGE RELATED TO NY TIMES LEAK – James Comey will face more charges connected to an allegation he “knowingly and willingly” passed sensitive top secret national defense information to the New York Times, a flagship of the progressive state press.

The DOJ stated it filed a “waiverless criminal information to toll the statute of limitations as it relates to allegations concerning former FBI Director Comey. Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals.”

  1. SWALWELL INVESTIGATION LEADS TO NEW FBI RAID – A raid of a mansion in Southern California is connected to a federal investigation into the potential criminal activity of former congressman Eric Swallwell. He is suspected of having ties to the CCP. He is also suspected of committing sexual assault on women, with one accusing him of rape. It was his rape allegations that led to his resignation, not his ties to the CCP.
  2. CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES DECLARED CCP FRONTS BY U.S. – The U.S. Department of War has declared China’s “cultural outreach” centers in progressive-run U.S. universities security threats.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declared, “These Chinese government-backed propaganda cultural programs had infiltrated our nation’s universities in almost every state. Now, thankfully, Congress banned them a few years ago, these Confucius Institutes. But they came back disguised in new forms, just like DEI does. Just call it a different name. Well, the Department of War has taken action to stop this as well.”

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. SERBIA FALLS TO A STUDENT REVOLUTION – Candidates in support of the “Student List” won the majority of seats in Serbia’s election, overthrowing the long-standing power of pro-Russian and Pro-Chinese Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic. The Student List won 52.7% of the vote and 140 of the 250 Parliament seats. The incumbent party, the Serbian Progressive Party, has been in power since 2012.
  2. CHINA WINS IN U.S. COURT – A Federal judge has decided the Pentagon does not have a right to block firms from having defense contracts that lobby for Alibaba. The company rewarded in the ruling is a CCP-controlled and supporting enterprise. This ruling allows the CCP to continue to infiltrate American military procurement infrastructures. They can effectively even “lobby” congress to make it happen.
  3. BREXIT TO BLAME FOR UK UNREST, BURNHAM CLAIMS – The UK’s radical progressive Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, continues to push an anti-Brexit narrative intended to set up a redo election. He hopes to bring the UK back into the EU, and he aims to use the riots and unrest in Britian to stigmatize Brexit. He is now directly accusing Brexit of being the underlying cause of the unrest in the country, not the unfettered immigration of foreigners that hate Britian, nor the criminalization of dissent against it.
  4. U.S. JAPAN MILITARY DRILLS DISRUPTED BY CHINESE AND RUSSIAN SPY PLANES – While the U.S. and Japan were engaged in military drills in the Indo Pacific, China and Russia sent spy planes to disrupt the action. Japanese fighters were scrambled to escort the spy planes out of the region. The drills involved thousands of troops, hundreds of aircraft, and dozens of naval vessels.
  5. 60 CHRISTIANS KILLED IN ETHIOPIA – Islamist assaults on Ethiopian Orthodox Churches have left 60 Christians dead. One attack claimed 14 lives, and another attack 4 days later left 46 dead. Local authorities blamed the Oromo Liberation Army for the slaughter. The terror group has failed to respond to the accusations.

PEOPLE ADVANCE

  1. NO HEARINGS FOR ILLEGALS – The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 10-7 to continue to allow the Federal government to detain illegal aliens without a hearing. The ruling makes it easier to deport illegal aliens, whose deportations are often delayed by lengthy hearing-delay tactics from progressive activist “lawyers.”

The Supreme Court affirmed the lower

  1. DEI DEFEATED DESPITE JUDGE’S AI “RULING” – The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Judge Henry Wingate’s ruling that held an anti-DEI Mississippi Law was unconstitutional. The judge used AI to create plaintiffs not involved in the case.

In the ruling, the court declared, “Those included mention of plaintiffs and defendants not in the complaint, supposed ‘declarations’ from non-existent or never-present individuals, false quotations purporting to be taken from the text of H.B. 1193, and several erroneous claims that the law had already led to the demise of apparently fictitious programs.”

court. The ruling allows the Trump administration to deport illegal aliens without a hearing.

  1. ALLEGED CLASSIFIED LEAKER ARRESTED – The FBI arrested a former CIA contractor, Ian Brinksman, 42, for allegedly leaking classified information through his Substack blog. An FBI affidavit alleges he published classified information, claiming the “public deserves to know about” it.
  2. ONE MILLION BARRELS OF OIL FROM VENEZUELA – President Trump announced on Truth Social the arrival of 1 million barrels of oil coming from Venezuela at no expense to the taxpayer.

He wrote, “I am traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas to a PACKED Rally, where the United States of America will receive ONE MILLION BARRELS of VENEZUELAN OIL as a result of our Highly Successful Military Operation, followed by the Biggest Oil Deal in the History of the World. Thanks to our renewed relationship with Venezuela, which has turned out to be a truly excellent one, the Oil is being provided to the United States at NO cost to the American Taxpayer.”

Prime Minister Benjamin failed to win a majority needed to form a government after the Israeli election, but so did his opponent. Netanyahu beat his opponent 21.4% to 16.2%. Netanyahu is claiming Islamist factions have infiltrated the election process, robbing his coalition of their “rightful” victory.

Golan posted on X, “We must no longer accept Netanyahu’s racist division between Jewish votes and Arab votes. We have a responsibility. And we have an opportunity to form a government of change in partnership with Israel’s Arab citizens.” Netanyahu responded, “We must not endanger Israel and establish a government that relies on anti-Zionist Arab parties.”

No clear winner in Israeli election as polls show race headed toward stalemate, negotiations on forming government– www.cbsnews.com
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No clear winner emerged in Israel’s elections on Wednesday morning with the vote count still under way. Neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition nor the opposition bloc, led by Gadi Eisenkot, secured a majority, according to exit polls on Tuesday night.

With 60% of the ballots counted, Netanyahu’s Likud party secured 21.4% of votes and Eisenkot’s Yashar had 16.2%, according to official election data.

One or the other would need to obtain majority support in Israel’s 120-seat parliament, known as the Knesset, in order to form a government.

On Wednesday morning, the head of Israel’s main left-wing party called for his opposition allies to work with Arab parties to unseat Netanyahu.

The Chinese won Brazil’s Presidential election when their candidate, Lula da Silva, won re-election for the third time. He defeated the American candidate, Senator Flavio Bolsanaro, the son of the former President, Jair Messias Bolsanaro. Lula lost in the first round of votes but came back in the run-off to defeat Bolsonaro by a 51-48-point margin.

Bolsonaro is disputing the election. Not wanting to end up like his father, Bolsonaro has fled to America, with the blessings of President Trump. However, the President is reportedly not going to back Bolsonaro’s claim he is the rightful President of Brazil. The U.S. press (the progressive state press) is celebrating the Chinese win because it stymies their own President, Trump.

The controversy with the election began when a Lula-supporting activist judge decided to extend the closing hour of the polls by 2 hours. It is believed this is where Lula “manufactured” the votes he needed to hold on to power. The win by Lula assures China will continue to have a strong presence in South America. It also means Brazilians will face draconian social media censorship laws.

Flavio Bolsonaro Declares Himself Rightful President Of Brazil, Denounces ‘Tyranny’ After Fleeing To US– dailycaller.com
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Flavio Bolsonaro proclaimed himself the rightful president of Brazil after losing Sunday’s election and fleeing to the United States to dodge a court-ordered travel ban.

Liberal Party Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro reached Miami on Tuesday, having refused to surrender his passports, according to Reuters. He first called himself Brazil’s “elected president” in a letter on X, then deleted it posted another message describing himself as the country’s rightful “leader.” He blamed his loss on an electoral coup by the Supreme Court and Workers’ Party President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula won the runoff with 51.79% of the vote to Bolsonaro’s 48.21%, a gap of about 4.43 million ballots, according to Latin Times. The federal electoral court, foreign governments, and Bolsonaro’s own party accepted the outcome, Reuters reported.

“I want to say, not only to my 60 million voters but to the Brazilian people, that I am the leader and that the criminals who stole Brazil’s election are part of a criminal organization that has established a tyranny,” Bolsonaro wrote, according to Reuters.

Saudi Arabia is allegedly working with Iran to broker a deal with the Houthis that would see the Houthis get $1 billion to quit the war. The allegations were released in the Israeli newspaper, Israel Hayom. The Houthis have expanded their attacks on Saudi Arabia. launching six strikes in recent days.

They are also threatening to declare war on Egypt should it aid the Saudis in the war. Their efforts to shut down the Red Sea have not quite materialized, but trade has been slowed, though not significantly.

$1 Billion For Peace? Report Flags A Secret Saudi Deal With Houthis Via Iran– www.ndtv.com
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Saudi Arabia offered a $1 billion financial package to Yemen’s Houthi rebels through an Iran-brokered deal to secure a ceasefire and halt attacks on the kingdom, according to a report by Israel Hayom, an Israeli newspaper.

The report by Israel Hayom cites Gulf diplomatic sources and states that the proposal aims to completely halt Houthi strikes on Saudi infrastructure.

The deal was reportedly discussed during a surprise visit by Saudi Defence Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman to Tehran, where Iran offered to act as a regional diplomatic mediator. The report alleged that the Saudi minister carried the $1 billion physically aboard a Hercules military transport aircraft on which he arrived in Tehran.

In an official statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said that, “The visit to Tehran by Prince Khalid bin Salman, the defense minister, and representatives of the member states of the Mecca Joint Defence Alliance comes as part of the alliance’s ongoing efforts to de-escalate tensions between the parties to the current crisis, encourage dialogue and diplomatic solutions, and support the mediation efforts undertaken by the State of Qatar and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.”

German court rejects bid to end Ukrainian ex-officer’s trial over Nord Stream pipeline blasts– abcnews.com
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HAMBURG, Germany — A German court on Tuesday rejected a defense request to end the trial of a former Ukrainian army officer who is accused of damaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines built to carry Russian gas to western Europe in blasts four years ago.

Serhii Kuznietsov, 50, went on trial at the Hamburg state court on Oct. 14, charged with causing an explosion, damaging property, disrupting public service and being an “accomplice to war crimes” by attacking civilian infrastructure.

He is alleged to have been the ringleader of the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, considered one of Europe’s biggest acts of sabotage since World War II.

His lawyers swiftly filed a motion to dismiss the charges. They argued that Kuznietsov was still an active duty soldier and as such was obligated by Ukrainian law not to speak for reasons of secrecy linked to national security, and that under German law anyone who can’t speak out can’t be convicted.

The court dismissed the motion on the trial’s second day of hearings on Tuesday, German news agency dpa reported. It said that the defendant’s defense wasn’t limited under German law, and that freedom to testify in Germany isn’t limited by a foreign country’s conditions of service.

The undersea explosions on Sept. 26, 2022, ruptured the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, which was Russia’s main natural gas supply route to Germany until Moscow cut off supplies in August 2022, months after launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. They also damaged Nord Stream 2, which never entered service because Germany suspended its certification process shortly before Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine.

The suspect allegedly organized and carried out the detonation of at least four bombs between 14 and 27 kilograms (around 31 to 62 pounds) at a depth of 70 to 80 meters (230 feet to 263 feet) near the Danish island of Bornholm.

Kuznietsov was detained last year in Italy. He was publicly named in extradition proceedings that led to his transfer to Germany in November.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has denied allegations that his country was involved in the pipeline blasts.

 

Brazil’s Leftist President Wins Re-Election After Controversial Last-Minute Order– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s incumbent left-wing president secured a shocking fourth term victory on Sunday, October 25, defeating Liberal Party Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the presidential runoff. The election immediately generated controversy due to a controversial judicial order in which a single Brazilian Supreme Court Justice — who previously worked as a personal attorney for Lula — extended voting for two hours after polls were set to close.

With approximately 99.9 percent of polling sections tabulated by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Lula received about 51.77 percent of valid votes (roughly 64.17 million) to Bolsonaro’s 48.23 percent (roughly 59.79 million), a margin of about 4.38 million votes. Abstention declined from roughly 21 percent in the first round to about 19 percent in the second.

The outcome constituted a significant reversal from the opening round. In the October 4 first round, Bolsonaro led with approximately 47 percent to Lula’s 45 percent, ahead by about 2.2 million votes. No candidate since Brazil’s return to direct presidential elections in 1989 had finished second in the first round and won the runoff.

‘Bribery, Threats, Violence’: Netanyahu Accuses Arab Parties Of Stealing Israeli Election– dailycaller.com
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Israel’s Arab political parties of election fraud Wednesday, amid record-level Arab voter turnout and election wins in the ongoing Knesset polls.

Netanyahu alleged that the Arab parties “support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state” and had “stolen” the elections “through serious criminal offenses of bribery, threats, violence, forgeries, and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters,” according to a translation of his statement posted on X.

The two main Arab parties are Ra’am and the Joint List, according to the Times of Israel.

Speaking for his Likud party, Netanyahu accused the Arab parties of trying to rig the elections through “thousands of envelopes with cash and Ra’am slips, threats and violence against polling station members, multiple voting behind the curtain, voting with double identities, discrepancies between the number of envelopes and the number of voters, the use of prohibited mobilization software, and more.”

His party demanded an investigation of the Arab parties by the police, the Shin Bet — Israel’s domestic security and counterintelligence agency—and the Central Elections Committee, which oversees the general elections for the Knesset.

Iran remains open to talks with US under Pakistan-brokered deal, envoy says– abcnews.com
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ISLAMABAD — Iran remains open to talks with the U.S. under a Pakistan-brokered interim deal reached in June to end the conflict, Tehran’s ambassador to Islamabad said Saturday, accusing Washington of undermining diplomacy and prolonging the standoff over the Strait of Hormuz.

Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam said that Iran recently conveyed through Pakistan that it was prepared to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifted its naval blockade, but accused U.S. President Donald Trump of rejecting the proposal by insisting the blockade of Iranian ports would continue.

Pakistan and Qatar helped broker the June agreement, which sought to restore shipping through the strait, lift the U.S. naval blockade and begin negotiations toward a broader deal addressing Iran’s nuclear program.

Moghadam, speaking at a seminar in Islamabad, said that Iranian officials had conveyed their willingness to reopen the strait during visits to Tehran by Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Muni r, provided Washington ended its blockade.

Moghadam also said that Tehran would study the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement that includes Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey before deciding whether to support it, describing it as a potential instrument for unity. “We will study the Mecca Agreement, and if it is good, we will support it,” he said.

Houthi forces claim six attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities | Conflict News– www.aljazeera.com
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Iran-backed Houthi forces have claimed a total of six attacks on airports and oil facilities across Saudi Arabia despite a rare meeting of Saudi and Iranian senior officials in Tehran earlier this week after which the two sides agreed to resolve differences in the region through dialogue.

Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan all sent high-level representatives to the meeting but despite the positive statements, Houthi forces continue to launch missiles and drones at the kingdom and Saudi-backed forces inside Yemen.

Houthi spokesperson Yahya Saree said in a statement posted on X that the attacks targeted vital commercial and military infrastructure which spanned Saudi Arabia from its east and west coasts to Riyadh and the southern region of Najran.

According to Saree’s statement, the Houthis targeted the Ras Tanura oil refinery with a ballistic missile, an Aramco facility in Abqaiq with a missile, King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh with multiple missiles, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam with a drone, the Rabigh oil refinery with a ballistic missile and a Saudi military headquarters in the Najran region.

What Israel’s Election Results Mean for the Middle East and Beyond– warontherocks.com
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Israeli elections on Oct. 27 produced a complex result, with neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition alliance, led by Gadi Eisenkot, winning enough seats in the Knesset to form a government. The opposition faces a tricky choice: attempt to form a unity government with Netanyahu, after channeling anger at the prime minister during the campaign, or partner with the Israeli-Arab parties, which performed unusually well in the election. The latter option, however, is deeply unpalatable to most of the Jewish opposition. A period of negotiations now commences, while Netanyahu remains in a caretaker position. If no governing coalition emerges, then Israel could hold new elections.Israel’s contentious election campaign centered far more on domestic issues than on debates about the Palestinians or foreign policy.

New Jersey Keeps Enforcing Its Rifle and Magazine Bans and Asks the Supreme Court to Park Its Appeal Behind Viramontes– www.usacarry.com
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Key Takeaways

  • New Jersey filed a Supreme Court petition on October 1, 2026, asking the justices to hold Davenport v. ANJRPC pending decisions in Viramontes and Grant.
  • New Jersey’s rifle and magazine bans remain in effect under a Third Circuit stay granted August 4, 2026, while the case proceeds.
  • The full Third Circuit voted 10-5 on July 17, 2026, ruling that semiautomatic rifles and magazines over ten rounds are arms in common use that cannot be banned.
  • New Jersey warned that denying the petition now would cause a flood of currently restricted weapons entering the state that are near-impossible to retrieve.
  • The Third Circuit acknowledged it stood alone, as the First, Second, Fourth, Seventh, Ninth, and D.C. Circuits have upheld similar laws.

A Federal Appeals court ruled 2-1 to deny the Department of Justice’s request to remove 20,000 non-citizen ballots from California’s voter rolls. The court passed on a technicality, claiming it had no power to act until a lower court had ruled. They also claimed, “The United States’s claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self-constructed one.”

Appeals court rejects White House push to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots
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A federal appeals court has rejected the Justice Department’s emergency bid to set aside thousands of mail-in ballots in California. In a 2-1 ruling Monday, the judges said the appeals court lacked the authority to intervene before a lower court had ruled.

The lower district court has a hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon.

The DOJ wanted a faster decision, arguing that California should set aside ballots associated with roughly 20,000 registered voters it suspects are not U.S. citizens. But the two judges in the majority said the government was partly responsible for its own urgency.

“The United States’s claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self-constructed one,” the judges wrote, pointing to the department’s delay in filing the lawsuit and seeking emergency relief.

California officials have disputed the government’s list, saying it includes people who appear to be U.S. citizens.

The Chinese STAR 50 Index has lost trillions of dollars in value in recent months thanks mostly to lost faith in AI. The total value of AI stocks accounts for 40% of the market. The AI machines being built aren’t making money off their domestic market, a problem the U.S. might be facing soon as well.

Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll | China– www.theguardian.com
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Trillions of dollars have been wiped from China’s stock markets in recent months amid increasing anxiety about the future of artificial intelligence, as Beijing races against the United States for dominance in the sector.

The STAR 50 Index, which tracks technology and innovation companies on the Shanghai stock exchange, has plunged 40% since June. Other indexes of major companies dropped by about 20% over the same time period.

The precipitous drop has wiped out $2.4tn from the Chinese stock market since May, according to Bloomberg.

AI stocks account for over 40% of the stock market value in China and Hong Kong, according to Goldman Sachs, meaning that any dent in value will send shockwaves across the whole domestic market.

James Comey will face more charges connected to an allegation he “knowingly and willingly” passed sensitive top secret national defense information to the New York Times, a flagship of the progressive state press.

The DOJ stated it filed a “waiverless criminal information to toll the statute of limitations as it relates to allegations concerning former FBI Director Comey. Filing a criminal information to toll the statute of limitations is a widely recognized practice in federal court and has been approved by multiple Circuit Courts of Appeals.”

James Comey Faces New Charges In Alleged NYT Leak– thefederalist.com
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Mr. “86 47” is facing more federal legal trouble, this time on charges related to the alleged leaking of national defense information to The New York Times a decade ago.

According to court documents filed earlier this month and made public on Monday, former FBI Director James Comey on or about Oct. 5, 2016 “knowingly and willfully” passed along or caused national defense information to be transmitted to The Times. The charges involve a story the corporate media outlet published about Yahoo’s use of a surveillance system to scan emails for child pornography and spam. The authority was meant to meet the demands of a court order directing Yahoo to track communications of a state-sponsored terrorist organization, the newspaper reported at the time.

The Obama administration’s Department of Justice obtained permission from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge. Yahoo was barred from disclosing the matter, according to The Times.

Prosecutors allege the disgraced former FBI director authorized James Baker, the agency’s general counsel at the time, to provide the corporate media outlet with classified national security details. Comey, the DOJ alleges, wanted to “correct misinformation” published the previous day by Reuters.

A raid of a mansion in Southern California is connected to a federal investigation into the potential criminal activity of former congressman Eric Swallwell. He is suspected of having ties to the CCP. He is also suspected of committing sexual assault on women, with one accusing him of rape. It was his rape allegations that led to his resignation, not his ties to the CCP.

Investigation into Democrat ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell heats up as FBI raids Beverly Hills mansion– www.theblaze.com
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The investigation into disgraced Democrat Eric Swalwell continues, as federal agents raided a mansion in Southern California Tuesday morning.

Swalwell, who resigned from Congress and dropped his 2026 California gubernatorial bid in April, has been under intense scrutiny since five women have come forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct. One woman even accused him of rape.

‘It might still be connected to sexual offenses, but …’

Early Tuesday morning, FBI agents raided a home in Beverly Hills, California, in connection with the Swalwell investigation, Fox News reported. The raid occurred at a home on Roxbury Drive near Benedict Canyon Drive around 7 a.m. Pacific Time, according to KABC.

The mansion belongs to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck, KABC reported. Cloobeck ran for governor of California last year and then endorsed Swalwell after dropping out. He publicly distanced himself from Swalwell following the sexual misconduct allegations.

The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment.

Former DOJ prosecutor Jim Trusty told Fox News that when it comes to federal search warrants, “digital is king.”

“What federal authorities love to find is not necessarily the evidence of the crime itself, like finding a gun or finding a knife or finding money, but finding communications, getting access to computers and iPhones and everything else,” Trusty explained.

Trusty then noted that the raid involves federal agents, while sexual assault allegations are typically prosecuted at the state level. “You have to wonder, is there a slightly different angle? It might still be connected to sexual offenses, but does it have to do with obstruction? Does it have to do with false statements when he was being investigated by Congress?” Trusty wondered.

Candidate in support of the “Student List” won the majority of seats in Serbia’s election, overthrowing the long-standing power of pro-Russian and Pro-Chinese Prime Minister Aleksander Vucic. The Student List won 52.7% of the vote and 140 of the 250 Parliament seats. The incumbent party, the Serbian Progressive Party, has been in power since 2012.

Video. Serbia: crowds celebrate in Belgrade after Vučić admits defeat– www.euronews.com
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Supporters of the student-backed opposition movement celebrated the announcement, marking a major political turning point after nearly two years of demonstrations against his government.

Earlier, election officials had begun counting ballots at polling stations across the capital as voting closed. Preliminary figures released by Serbia’s election commission indicated the country’s highest parliamentary election turnout in more than three decades, reflecting the scale of public participation in a closely watched contest between the governing party and a broad opposition movement.

The election followed a prolonged wave of protests that began after the collapse of a concrete canopy at Novi Sad railway station in November 2024, killing 16 people. The disaster triggered widespread anger over alleged corruption and failures of public oversight, with students emerging as the driving force behind demonstrations that spread across Serbia. Their movement gradually brought together people from different political backgrounds, united in demanding accountability and political change.

Vučić’s concession on Sunday brought a dramatic conclusion to the electoral contest, with supporters of the student-led movement gathering in Belgrade to celebrate the defeat of the party that had dominated Serbian politics for years.

 

The UK’s radical progressive Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, continues to push an anti-Brexit narrative intended to set up a redo election. He hopes to bring the UK back into the EU, and he aims to use the riots and unrest in Britian to stigmatize Brexit. He is now directly accusing Brexit of being the underlying cause of the unrest in the country, not the unfettered immigration of foreigners that hate Britian, nor the criminalization of dissent against it.

Andy Burnham blames Brexit for Britain’s migrant crisis – The Independent
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  • Andy Burnham has blamed Brexit for Britain’s migrant crisis, arguing that leaving the European Union resulted in “weaker control” over immigration.
  • He said that the small boats crisis stemmed from the UK losing its ability to return migrants in the manner it previously could under EU arrangements.
  • While expressing a desire for the UK to rejoin the EU in his lifetime, Burnham insisted he would not move ahead of public opinion or dictate the process.
  • Burnham ruled out reintroducing EU freedom of movement without a public referendum, confirming no changes will be proposed during this parliament.
  • More than 200,000 migrants have crossed the Channel since 2018, despite a 41 per cent drop in small boat arrivals during the first half of 2026.

While the U.S. and Japan were engaged in military drills in the Indo Pacific, China and Russia sent spy planes to disrupt the action. Japanese fighters were scrambled to escort the spy planes out of the region. The drills involve thousands of troops, hundreds of aircraft, and dozens of naval vessels.

China, Russia Send Spy Planes Amid Massive US-Led Military Drills; Japan Scrambles Fighter Jets
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Japan has scrambled fighter aircraft after Chinese and Russian intelligence planes conducted five flights near the country between October 20 and 23. The activity involved three Chinese Y-9 aircraft and two Russian Il-20 reconnaissance planes, according to Japan’s Joint Staff. The missions coincided with Keen Sword 2027, a major Japan-US military exercise running until October 29. With thousands of troops, hundreds of aircraft and dozens of vessels involved, the developments highlight heightened military activity across the Indo-Pacific. No Japanese airspace violations were reported.#China #Russia #Japan #SpyPlanes #MilitaryAircraft #KeenSword2027 #USJapanAlliance #IndoPacific #MilitaryNews #Geopolitics #Y9 #IL20 #JapanAirSelfDefenseForce #BreakingNewsRead Less

A Federal judge has decided the Pentagon does not have a right to block firms from having defense contracts that lobby for Alibaba. The company rewarded in the ruling is a CCP-controlled and supporting enterprise. This ruling allows the CCP to continue to infiltrate American military procurement infrastructures.

China’s Alibaba wins court ruling over Pentagon ban that made the company fire dozens of American lobby firms
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A US federal judge has ruled that the government cannot block companies from getting Pentagon contracts simply because they work with firms that lobby for Alibaba, reports Reuters. The Chinese company sued the US government in June this year after the Pentagon added the Chinese company to a list of firms accused of helping China’s military. The list also included search engine company Baidu, electric vehicle maker BYD and other Chinese technology and manufacturing firms.

What the ruling means for Alibaba

The court’s decision allows Alibaba to continue working with Washington lobbyists who also represent companies that do business with the Pentagon. As per the report, this could help the Chinese company fight its inclusion on the US military-related list.Alibaba reportedly dropped dozens of lobbyists after the Pentagon named it in June. The company has challenged the decision, arguing that there is no evidence to support the claim that it has links to China’s military.Being on the list does not bring direct sanctions, but it can affect a company’s ability to secure Pentagon contracts.

An Islamist assault on Ethiopian Orthodox Churches have left 60 Christians dead. One attack claimed 14 lives, and another attack 4 days later left 46 dead. Local authorities blamed the Oromo Liberation Army for the slaughter. The terror group has failed to respond to the accusations.

Attacks kill at least 60 Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia, church says– abcnews.com
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Two attacks in Ethiopia’s Oromia region killed at least 60 Orthodox Christians, the country’s Orthodox Church said, urging authorities to protect civilians and bring those responsible to justice.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s Holy Synod said Monday that 14 people were killed in Merti district on Oct. 20 and a further 46 in Shirka district on Oct. 24. Both districts are in Oromia’s Arsi Zone.

More than 20 people were seriously wounded and 20 homes were burned down, the church said, describing the killings as “brutal and merciless massacres.”

Oromia regional government spokesperson Hailu Adugna blamed the Oromo Liberation Army, or OLA, for the attacks. He accused the rebels and their allies of trying to provoke ethnic and religious conflict to divert attention from military losses in northern Ethiopia. He presented no evidence supporting the accusations in the statement.

The FBI arrested a former CIA contractor, Ian Brinksman, 42, for allegedly leaking classified information through his Substack blog. An FBI affidavit alleges he published classified information, claiming the “public deserves to know about” it.

FBI Arrests CIA Contractor In Connection With Classified Information Leak– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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The FBI on Friday arrested Ian Brinksman, a CIA contractor, on charges of unlawfully transmitting national defense information. Brinksman, 42, was taken into custody following a search of his Washington D.C. residence.

According to the Justice Department, Brinksman began working in 2020 as an employee of a U.S. government agency based in the Eastern District of Virginia. In September 2022, he became a systems integration developer for a private contractor, identified in court filings as “Company 1,” that supported the same agency.

Throughout this period he held a Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). CIA Director John Ratcliffe stated that Brinksman “provided services to CIA” and that the investigation followed a referral from the agency.

The Supreme Court is barring judges from ruling on deportations until the appeals process has run its full course. The ruling allows the Trump administration to deport illegal aliens without a hearing.

Supreme Court Bars Judges From Pausing Deportations While Appeals Are Decided
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The Supreme Court stripped immigration judges of the ability to pause certain deportation proceedings on Tuesday, declining to block a deal slammed as “egregious collusion” between the Justice Department and the state of Texas.

The unsigned order on Tuesday halts the practice known as “administrative closure,” which allows judges to pause deportation cases. The practice affects thousands of cases a year, and has been granted 360,000 times since 1990, according to statistics by the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

The procedure clears a judge’s dockets while other circumstances surrounding the migrant are resolved, including appeals of criminal cases or if they are seeking humanitarian protections or other legal status. It can also give some people relief in difficult circumstances, such as those who were the victims of certain crimes or children who were abused or abandoned.

Data has previously shown that most immigrants whose cases return to court after administrative closure are ultimately allowed to stay in the U.S.

President Trump announced on Truth Social the arrival of 1 million barrels of oil coming from Venezuela at no expense to the taxpayer.

He wrote, “I am traveling to Corpus Christi, Texas to a PACKED Rally, where the United States of America will receive ONE MILLION BARRELS of VENEZUELAN OIL as a result of our Highly Successful Military Operation, followed by the Biggest Oil Deal in the History of the World. Thanks to our renewed relationship with Venezuela, which has turned out to be a truly excellent one, the Oil is being provided to the United States at NO cost to the American Taxpayer.”

NEW: Trump Announces Arrival Of First 1-Million Barrels Of Venezuelan Oil– trendingpoliticsnews.com
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President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the first one million barrels of Venezuelan oil under a major energy agreement had arrived in the United States.

The cargo reached Corpus Christi, Texas, aboard the oil tanker Angerona, which docked at the port the previous day. Trump planned to visit the vessel during a campaign stop in the state, joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, as part of a trip that included multiple rallies in support Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton.

“We took over Venezuela very successfully, and they’ve sent me as a gift a boatload of a million barrels of oil, and I’m giving that to the United States of America,” Trump told reporters before departing for Texas. “We’re going to accept a million barrels of oil, and I’m going to give it to you people to use it the way you want,” he added, further noting that oil prices “are going to be dropping very sharply, very soon.”