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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 It is also intended to be an historical document to show the conditions that allowed the results of this election to happen.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

 

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.

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.

US resumes strikes after Iran rejects JD Vance’s proposal to restart peace talks– www.mirror.co.uk
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A letter by US Vice President JD Vance to Iran requesting to resume peace talks has reportedly been rejected . The request was met with the pushback that no new steps will be taken until all seven of Iran’s conditions have been met simultaneously.

Mr Vance contacted a top Iranian political and military official to propose a renewal of peace negotiations, the New York Times reported, quoting a US official and an Iranian official. Mr Vance’s letter was sent just days before the US midterm elections next week, which could be devastating to the Republican Party.

He reached out in a letter sent last week via Qatari meditators and delivered on Sunday to General Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and former commander in chief of the Revolutionary Guards Corps.

The letter reportedly suggested that American and Iranian officials meet soon, adding that he would lead the talks for the US. The proposal was reportedly received well by Iran’s leaders, many of whom view Mr Vance as someone would could help end the conflict, the Iranian official said.

 

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.

 

Judge continues to block Trump admin. from cutting down trees at D.C. golf course, confirms she’s still “not the Lorax”– www.cbsnews.com
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A federal judge on Monday barred the Trump administration from removing trees from East Potomac Golf Links in Washington, D.C., in a colorful ruling that follows a weekslong controversy over President Trump’s plans to overhaul the publicly owned course.

“The Court earlier stated, ‘I am not the Lorax. I do not speak for the trees,'” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes wrote. “The Court still does not speak for the trees. It speaks only for the rule of law.”

In a 70-page preliminary injunction ruling, Reyes prohibited the government from “removing or damaging” any trees on the golf course while a lawsuit challenging the renovation plan works its way through the court system. The judge also required 10 days’ notice before the government makes “any irreparable modification” to the course.

The judge had previously blocked tree removal through Monday.

In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump called the ruling “unconstitutional” and said his administration would seek appeal. He added that the government would move forward with closing the course on Nov. 15.

“To have to give advanced notices to a judge who has no expertise in Golf, Architecture, Landscaping, Construction, or anything else having to do with building such a World Class Project, is not fair, appropriate, or Constitutional,” the president wrote, arguing the project is “totally ‘as of right.'”

Mr. Trump has sought to overhaul the golf course — which sits beside the Potomac River — for months, pitching a “World Class Championship Golf Course” fit to host high-profile professional tournaments instead of the current “dysfunctional” course. The D.C. Preservation League sued over the planned changes to the course, arguing the government violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to analyze the project’s impacts.

Photos show Ukraine’s Starlink was throttled during Russian strike that killed 5 in park– www.cbsnews.com
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Kharkiv, Ukraine – Yulia Spichak, a 34 year-old makeup artist in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, dropped her son off at an English-language lesson on Oct. 19 and sat down in a nearby park to send a selfie to her sister, Alina. Seconds later, a Russian drone slammed into the park, killing Spichak and four others, including a 1-year-old girl.

The attack came six days after Elon Musk’s SpaceX throttled Ukraine’s access to Starlink, which Ukraine has been using to coordinate its defenses against Russian attacks and for some of its offensive operations. In a post on X, Musk accused Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service by also using it for attacks on Russia.

Ukrainian officials told CBS News that the restrictions imposed without advance notice affected ground-based air defense radars and drone interceptors, hindering the military’s ability to stop incoming Russian strikes.

“It’s an essential part of the air defense infrastructure,” Vadym Ivchenko, a Ukrainian member of parliament on the National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee, told CBS News Monday. “I couldn’t say that all other air defenses stopped working, no. But this part is quite essential for the defense of civilians in Ukraine.”

Paris braces for more unrest as riots reshape the city’s streets– www.latimes.com
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Business is up tenfold at a weapons store near Place de l’Opéra in Paris: Shopkeepers from all over the city have been stocking up on pepper spray and tear gas.

In the nine days since riots erupted in cities across France, thousands of merchants have also boarded up their storefronts, radically altering the Paris streetscape. The screech of electric saws and pounding of nails into plywood are now background noise in the French capital.

“They’re afraid their stores will be attacked and looted,” Yves Gollety, owner of the weapons store, explained.

Adding to the dark mood are police helicopters hovering, with searchlights blazing, to enforce a late-night curfew in the Les Halles and République sections of Paris.

And the city has removed many of the huge street-corner bins where Parisians are accustomed to dropping their empty wine and beer bottles. Rioters had been knocking them over to get glass ammunition against police.

Yet daily life has barely changed in much of Paris, where it can seem like normal times amid the chaos. Friends chat in cafés with shattered windows. Customers ignore plywood covering the front doors of shops.

Flávio Bolsonaro heading to Ecuador, Argentina says, after losing Brazil’s presidential election– www.cbsnews.com
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Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro and his family were en route to Ecuador after leaving Brazil and stopping off in Argentina, the Argentine National Directorate of Migration said on social media. Bolsonaro lost Brazil’s hotly contested presidential election over the weekend.

Bolsonaro, his wife and two daughters arrived in Argentina Tuesday night through the Tancredo Neves International Bridge border crossing, the directorate said, then boarded a private plane for a flight to Guayaquil, Ecuador.

There was no word on whether they would remain in Ecuador.

Earlier, a senior State Department official told CBS News Bolsonaro and his family would receive U.S. visas.

Bolsonaro, an ally of President Trump, and his family will be allowed entry into the U.S., the official said.

Bolsonaro departed Brazil for the U.S. after being defeated by incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s election, according to multiple Brazilian media reports.

A spokesperson for Bolsonaro did not respond to a request for comment. His campaign manager Rogério Marinho also refused to comment.

Silva said Tuesday it was “shameful” that Bolsonaro had fled Brazil.

Mississippi Woman Shoots and Kills One of Two Masked Men Who Broke Into Her Jackson Apartment at 2:30 A.M.– www.usacarry.com
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Key Takeaways

  • A woman shot and killed one of two masked men who broke into her apartment at Park at Inverness Apartments in Jackson at 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 8.
  • The resident fired after fearing for her life when the two ski-masked intruders broke in; one suspect died inside and the other fled.
  • The dead suspect was identified as 15-year-old Kaden Young; the resident was interviewed by police and released.
  • Police arrested the second suspect, 18-year-old Quintavion Myles, the same day on murder and burglary charges.
  • Myles faces the murder charge under a law that holds felony participants responsible for deaths that occur during the crime, regardless of who fired.

Lula secures victory in Brazil, but faces challenge as Bolsonaro contests victory– abcnews.com
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BRASILIA — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ‘s comeback to win Brazil’s presidential runoff Sunday is already facing its first hurdle as his competitor, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, challenges the results, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the country’s two polarizing political forces.

Lula, who convinced an extra 10.4 million voters to support him in the runoff, is expected to take office on Jan. 5, 2027, for his fourth non-consecutive term. He will serve as a counterweight in a region where leaders are shifting to the right and aligning with U.S. President Donald Trump. Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, promised to cozy up to the Trump administration.

At a news conference Sunday, Bolsonaro said he planned to request an annulment of the election following a chaotic extension of voting at the request of both candidates. However, it’s unclear what legal avenue he would have to do that. His father also contested his loss to Lula four years ago and now serves a 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt.

Early signs from Brazil’s institutions and from leaders across the region, including conservative presidents who oppose Lula, suggest the results will be respected nationally and internationally. Trump has yet to weigh in.

Even with the vote extension, Lula’s win was decisive. The soon-to-be 81-year-old incumbent won more than 64 million votes compared to just under 60 million for Bolsonaro, a margin of nearly 4%.

Iran War Updates: Tehran shrugs off Trump’s attack threats, says diplomacy ongoing as oil prices stay high– www.cbsnews.com
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High-level delegations from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey were in Tehran on Monday for meetings with Iranian authorities to try to avert renewed fighting in the Iran war, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said. Iran and the three countries party to the Mecca defense pact — Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan — agreed to continue talks after a “first” meeting in Tehran, Iranian state television reported.

Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, Pakistani army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir and Ibrahim Kalin, the head of Turkey’s intelligence service, met with Iran’s top security officials and negotiators to push for a deal between Tehran and Washington.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei told reporters in Tehran that the agenda for the Monday meeting wasn’t set, but the talks would “undoubtedly address the most pressing threats to regional security,” while Saudi Arabia said in a statement that the delegations hoped to find “ways to de-escalate tensions, enhance regional security and promote its stability.”

Two regional officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to reporters, told the Associated Press that the war in Yemen and strikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels against Saudi Arabia were also among the topics discussed during the talks.

Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink service agreement– www.cnbc.com
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the press after a meeting with technology executives about artificial intelligence at the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, 2026.

Kent Nishimura | AFP | Getty Images

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Saturday said the company restricted Ukraine’s access to its high-speed technology because Kyiv violated Starlink’s terms of service.

In a post on X, Musk said: “Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.”

He added: “SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.”

Ukraine officials said earlier in the day that SpaceX’s Starlink and Starshield satellite communication systems had restored high-speed service, a day after they said the service remained throttled. Ukrainian official said the service disruption left the country vulnerable to Russian attacks.

“The monitoring systems of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine officially record the restoration of the speed of Starlink/Starshield,” it said in a statement. “The connection remains stable [while equipment is moving] at speeds over 400 km/h (249 miles per hour).”

Rubio calls on Cubans seeking “positive change” to work with CIA: “Now is the time”– www.cbsnews.com
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Cubans seeking “positive change” to work with the CIA, the latest ploy in the growing efforts from the Trump administration to remove Cuba’s communist regime from power.

“To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba – now is the time,” Rubio wrote Friday on X. “The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”

Shortly afterward, the CIA reposted Rubio’s message and a similar call in Spanish for Cubans to work with the agency. A video was posted alongside the message showing the steps needed to contact the intelligence agency.

A strict U.S. embargo and sanctions seeking to put pressure on Cuba’s communist government have led to prices of basic goods skyrocketing and decreased access to medical care for its citizens. Cubans reported waiting in bread lines for hours and others reported lining up to see a doctor.

Arctic shipping: China and Russia expand grip, can Europe fight back?– www.cnbc.com
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The icebreaker Tor (right) at the port of Sabetta in the Kara Sea shoreline on the Yamal Peninsula in the Arctic circle, some 2450 km of Moscow.

Kirill Kudryavtesev | AFP | Getty Images

China and Russia are tightening their grip on Arctic shipping routes, turning the rapidly warming region into a new geopolitical battleground with Europe.

Moscow and Beijing last week have agreed to expand freight traffic along Arctic shipping corridors, increase services between their ports and deepen cooperation on building polar vessels.

The agreement came after the EU unveiled a new Arctic strategy aimed at countering growing Russian and Chinese influence in the region.

Although the competing moves underscore how the once-remote region is turning into a strategic prize, analysts said that Europe’s ability to challenge the emerging China-Russia partnership remains limited, given Moscow’s control over the main shipping corridor and Beijing’s growing commercial clout.

Europe cannot realistically challenge Chinese and Russian dominance of Arctic shipping in any meaningful timeframe.

Alicia Garcia-Herrero

APAC & MEA Chief Economist, Natixis CIB

Man accused of beheading Marine figure on Iwo Jima monument granted bond– www.foxnews.com
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The man accused of using a sledgehammer to behead a Marine figure on an Iwo Jima monument near Quantico, Virginia, was granted bond Monday morning.

Miguel Alonso Maldonado Soriano, 27, was granted bond in Prince William County Circuit Court. His next court date is expected to be scheduled soon.

Maldonado Soriano, a Mexican illegal alien and former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, is charged with felony destruction of property, trespass with intent to damage property and felony injury to a monument.

Netanyahu faces Israel election referendum on Oct 7 accountability– www.foxnews.com
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TEL AVIV, ISRAEL — Campaign banners bearing the faces of Israel’s political leaders cover buildings and roadsides, while in homes, coffee shops and family gatherings, the same question dominates conversations: Will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain in power?

With Israelis heading to the polls Tuesday, the country is bracing for a closely contested election that could end in another political deadlock. But this vote is unlike any other in Israel’s recent history.

For many Israelis, the election has become a referendum on accountability for the failures that allowed Hamas terrorists to carry out the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre — the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.

Netanyahu and Eisenkot face difficult paths to power as neither set to win majority– www.bbc.co.uk
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Many saw this as a make-or-break election to defeat Israel’s most right-wing-ever government, accusing it of stoking racism and hatred.

A huge caveat in all of the current analysis is that the high number of as-yet-uncounted absentee ballots – mostly representing the votes of Israeli soldiers – mean that we are not expecting to have a clear idea of the final results for another day or two.

Overnight, both Netanyahu and Eisenkot addressed their supporters, pledging to form the next government.

“The right-wing bloc has a clear, decisive majority among the Zionist public, among the Jewish public and all those who support the Jewish state. That is what has become clear. A decisive majority,” the PM told his celebrating supporters – although he stopped short of declaring victory.

“We must form a strong, national, right-wing government. That is what must be done,” he added.

“The public has chosen change,” Eisenkot told his Yashar party after exit polls came out – most of which were initially more favourable to the opposition. “The coalition of failure has lost the people’s trust. The Israeli public voted against Benjamin Netanyahu continuing as prime minister.”

“I will work with my partners to ensure that the people’s decision is translated into a Zionist government: stable and good for all of Israeli’s citizens. And quickly – because that is what this moment demands, and because the country needs to be brought back together.”

NATO countries hold rare call with Vladimir Putin as leaders discuss ending Ukraine war– www.mirror.co.uk
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Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre told Russia’s Vladimir Putin of the ‘enormous human and material costs’ of the war in Ukraine in a rare call

Vladimir Putin has spoken to two EU leaders in a rare phone call (file photo)(Image: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The leaders of two NATO countries have held “frank” conversations with Vladimir Putin over ending the war in Ukraine.

Finland’s President Alexander Stubb and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre spoke to their Russian counterpart on a joint call this afternoon – marking a rare example of direct contact between EU leaders and the Kremlin chief.

The call, which was scheduled for 20 minutes but lasted over an hour and a half, saw the two Nordic leaders stress the importance of “de-escalation” in the war amid the “enormous human and material costs”.

Putin is said to have told them that peace is only possible if “Russia’s interests are fully and unconditionally taken into account.”

Brazil election: How ‘Lula’s Army’ WhatsApp chat helped turn race around– www.bbc.co.uk
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Measuring the electoral impact of online mobilisation, however, is notoriously difficult.

While Lula’s allies credit Lula’s Army with helping fuel the comeback, political scientists caution that it is impossible to determine how many votes, if any, were directly influenced by the WhatsApp operation.

Political scientist Denilde Holzhacker argues that a shift in Lula’s campaign strategy was key to his comeback.

Rather than relying solely on online engagement, she says the Workers’ Party candidate succeeded in connecting digital campaigning with grassroots mobilisation on the ground.

According to Holzhacker, the campaign intensified local efforts and adapted its messaging – linking a Bolsonaro victory with concerns about potential changes to social programmes and the loss of rights.

“It was to Lula’s credit that he recognised his own weakness and completely changed his style,” she says. “And Janones managed to do something that had seemed unthinkable for Brazil’s left – dominate social media.”

MIA Weekly October 23, 2026

In this issue:

Oui Islam – Fading Trump – Vote Power

In Issue 2026.35, The Universal State, we do a Deep Dive on the French Riots, which are shaping up to be a battle between the universal state and the French nation-state.

Our Bellwether Report covers Trump Tanking, Progs Plotting, and Social Security Cleaning.

In our Final Thought, Bill Collier settles for an awful choice in the 2026 midterm elections.

  1. Deep Dive: Joan of Hamas? – The Progressive French Jihad
  2. Bellwether Report – Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, People Advance

III. Final Thought – Voting Power in the Face of Awful Choices

MIA Weekly 26 10 23 FINAL DRAFT

By Staff

“French culture doesn’t exist in and of itself; there is no such thing as a single French culture. There is culture in France and it is diverse.” – French President Emmanuel Macron, 2017

INTRODUCTION

A statue of Joan of Arc stands just outside the French city of Toulouse. During the course of a series of protests and riots in cities across France, an African supporter of Hamas festooned the statue in hijab attire and affixed the Palestinian flag to her.

Joan of Arc was the woman who turned the tide for the French in the Hundred Years’ War with the English. From the French perspective, the war was about the pervasive occupation of French territory by the English. The French had suffered innumerable defeats and saw the flower of their nobility slain in pointless slaughter until a girl came forward and led the French to victory at Orléans.

She would later be captured by the English and burned at the stake for heresy, but the French both vanquished the English and became a nation, thanks mostly to St. Joan.

The symbol of the French nation, St. Joan, who beat back the colonizers, the English, was now being colonized herself, this time by a coalition of violent opportunists, all looking to destroy the French identity, for a variety of reasons (and all of them treason).

This week, the two stories that dominated our wires were the now-growing riots in Europe and the 2026 midterm elections.

Last week, our Deep Dive, Planvasion EU, introduced you to the events that led up to the French protests/riots, as well as its spread into other countries. This week, we were not planning on revisiting this topic so soon, but we believe the events in France are devolving faster than we would have predicted.

For that reason, we are going to go a little deeper on a part of last week’s Deep Dive, and that part is the French Riots.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We started our Deep Dive with a quote by Emmanuel Macron, who claimed, “French culture doesn’t exist in and of itself; there is no such thing as a single French culture. There is culture in France and it is diverse.”

If we break that down so that a child can understand it, it reads like this: There is no one culture; there are many cultures, though no shared culture. This is balkanization disguised as “diversity.”

If there is no French culture, there is no France, and that appears to be what the people rioting on the streets want to see happen. Judging from Macron’s quote, one wonders what he is even opposed to. He’s perfectly aligned with the goals of the insurrectionists.

As we reported in last week’s MIA, these riots most likely started spontaneously as student protests. But that quickly changed when the opportunists moved in, all united by a single cause, bringing about the end of the French identity and, by extension, the French state.

When the trouble started, the well-funded organizers moved in, from Islamists to progressives to anarchists and more. Anyone with bad credit or a criminal record might be inclined to join a mob that could destroy records which continue to indict them.

The progressive state press has gone to great lengths to paint the protests/riots as the fruit of unaffordability, not the fruit of progressivism and/or the immigration of Islamists who hate France. Unaffordability is a factor, but mostly when it comes to the protesting, not the riots.

The Islamist converting St. Joan to Islam was not protesting unaffordability; he was seeking to hasten the fall of the republic and the rise of a sharia state.

Our Deep Dive will begin with a quick recap of the events that brought us to this week, as well as a summary of the key events that have happened this past week. Then we will look at the actors in this drama, the ones on the street and the ones behind the ones on the street.

We will give you some bellwether examples of progressive state media protection. We will highlight key responses to the riots so far. We will cover the spread of these riots to other countries, like Italy, Greece, and Belgium. We will conclude our Deep Dive with an assessment of the unrest so far.

A. RECAP OF EVENTS

The events we see in France today were not triggered by students; they were triggered by teachers. Around mid-September, teachers in a Paris suburb began protesting the poor conditions and resources of the education system. By early October, as many as 8,000 people were arrested, with 86% of them being minors.

The protests had already turned violent, with the teachers and students now beginning to be joined by Islamist and progressive adults. The peak of the activity so far came on October 17, with a mix of riots and protests exceeding 800,000 participants across 110 separate locations. In Paris, there were 110,000 protestors and rioters alone.

On that day, 1,500-plus vehicles were set on fire, and an historic town hall was burned to the ground. There were 2,000-plus arrests and hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. This all happened on one day. Since then, curfews have been announced, restrictions were introduced, but the protests and riots continue.

B. THE LATEST

Despite bans and curfews, the violence continued this week. At one point, rioters threatened to take the Marseilles town hall, screaming “We’re taking the Bastille!”

The city of Limoges saw its historic Hotel de Ville burned to the ground. The people who set it on fire were caught on video. They all had masks on.

French President Emmanuel Macron went before the French people and declared, “Those who looted will have to pay for the damage, and those who sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable.”

It is the first time the authorities officially acknowledged that these “riots” were far bigger than student protests, and the intention was (and is) nothing short of bringing down the French Republic.

One pattern that is being seen is that the shops being destroyed (2,000-plus and counting) don’t include Islamist-owned shops.

France’s Interior Minister tendered his resignation in the wake of the failure of the French government to protect its citizens from insurrectionists. Macron declined the “offer.”

However the protests started, it is increasingly difficult not to acknowledge the violence being driven primarily by the progressive-Islamist alliance. Yet, thanks in large part to the progressive state press, the French people are divided on who is to blame for that same violence. Some still blame the students, for instance.

Macron announced plans to change tactics in dealing with the rioters. Specifically, he will be deploying “massive” forces against the rioters. That force will include French soldiers. 1,000 military troops are to be deployed in Paris alone this Saturday, October 24, a day they anticipate will see planned attacks.

They have also banned protests officially and announced other restrictions.

An NFL game in Paris on Sunday is still, as of now, going on as scheduled, but the American press isn’t so keen on going along for the ride given the unstable conditions.

C. THE ACTORS

A Fox News Digital investigation has, so far, identified 54 organizations that are actively supporting the riots in France. Of those 54 organizations, 16 are actual student groups. Among those student groups are Communist and Islamist groups. Outside of the youth, the remaining organizations are far-left groups, including the infamous “Yellow Vests,” who’ve led other violent riots and protests.

From The CounterPoint Blog:

“The protests in France have attracted support within extreme-left milieus across Europe, including before October 17. German platforms have translated French revolutionary texts discussing barricades and sabotage. Italian activists have discussed the influence of the French unrest on domestic protests.

“In Belgium, the activist platform Stuut circulated French texts praising attacks on police, burning barricades, and looting. In Spain, Izquierda Revolucionaria, a revolutionary socialist organization, urged students to follow the French example through strikes and school blockades. In Greece, revolutionary socialist activists called for a solidarity demonstration and praised confrontations with police.

“These developments show how protest narratives, calls for mobilization, and messages supporting political violence currently spread across Europe. Earlier CEP research has already documented cross-border cooperation among violent extreme-left networks. Whether the current protest wave will lead to joint planning or coordinated violent attacks remains unclear.”

Not only did the riots lead to far-left insurgents joining in, but they also spread their progressive jihad to other European countries (and hope to add America to the list).

Some of the French “Humanitarian Aid” Organizations supporting the riots were recently indicted for embezzling millions of dollars to the terror organization Hamas, the same organization Joan of Arc was recently pressed into joining.

Islamists on the ground are already well funded by the French government through social welfare programs, so all they have to do is join in the riots. There are numerous videos of Islamists engaging in violent action against buildings and people alike. One Islamist was caught on video yelling to the police, “In the name of Allah, we will kill them all!”

One video showed numerous Islamist insurrectionists brandishing AK-47s and submachine guns. The video shows the Islamists proudly flexing their wares as they prepare to escalate the insurrection (or so it seems).

Islamists aren’t the only violent insurrectionists. A French woman with a baby was threatened with rape. She was informed she would be “collateral damage” in the name of the revolution. Her aggressors appear to be far-left insurrectionists, not Islamists. They accused her of being a “dirty bourgeois.” She claimed, “With my infant in an apartment I was driven out of because I was told they were going to rape me.”

D. MEDIA PROTECTION

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.

E. THE RESPONSE

Macron’s national speech did little to quell the riots, and its fecklessness, some suggest, might be the undoing of his “centrist” coalition in the upcoming elections. His speech was mostly viewed as mealy-mouthed and almost apologetic. Confidence in the “centrist” ending the cycle of violence is low.

The right-leaning candidate in the upcoming election, Marine Le Pen, has been using the riots to emphasize the importance of ending “decades of anarchic immigration.” Her party has risen in popularity as these protests and riots continue.

The far-left candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, was egging on similar acts of violence in the name of revolution. Now, he is only fanning the flames further.

From the Hungarian Conservative:

“Mélenchon praised the protesters’ ‘very great political and trade-union maturity’, promised to abolish the Parcoursup university admissions platform and reiterated his demand to lower the voting age to 16. The students insisted that they were not being manipulated by Mélenchon or his party, France Unbowed (LFI).

“At the same rally, he outlined his plan to replace the Fifth Republic with a Sixth Republic, tied to his vision of a ‘New France’ shaped by mass immigration and ‘creolization’ rather than traditional French assimilation and national identity.

“Arguing that the country’s demographic and cultural transformation requires a new political order, he proposed a sweeping constitutional overhaul, including citizens’ referendums and the power to recall elected officials, alongside expanded welfare and ecological regionalization.”

He made it very clear that he hopes to dissolve the French identity in favor of the ecumenical progressive state identity.

When President Trump blamed the riots on immigration, Emmanuel Macron called his claims “stupid.” He pushed the unaffordability narrative, blaming Trump’s Iran War for the rise in prices. He and every progressive (including American ones) alleged THAT was the trigger for the riots.

The Chinese are studying the riots, both to see how they might spread to other European countries (and probably how they can help facilitate that) and what lessons they can learn should the French and other European nations successfully quell the insurrection.

Progressive state representative Ro Khanna of California responded to a U.S. official claiming leftists and Islamists are behind the violent riots. He claimed, “He’s wrong to make it about the left wing… I think that we have to look at what is the cause, initially, of the discontent in this country? Why are there so many protests of young people around the world? Because the price of oil has gone up, gas has gone up, diesel has gone up, they don’t think schools are being funded.”

It’s not about insurrectionists wanting to bring down the republic; it’s about unaffordability. Just like the U.S. midterm elections aren’t about Democratic Socialists wanting to destroy the republic, it’s about affordability. It’s not about an international progressive state movement intending to replace many nation-states with one global state; it’s about affordability.

Make a note of how often the international progressive state press and leftist leaders worldwide are aligned with their progressive “American” counterparts.

F. THE SPREAD

It is likely that we will be following up this Deep Dive with an in-depth report on the revolutions brewing across all of Europe, especially if some of these spillovers from France turn into something more.

So far, there have either been violent riots or there are alleged planned violent riots in Greece, Italy, Belgium, and Spain. Spain has already had riots, but in response to the leftists and Islamists. Now, expect counter-riots from those same leftist and Islamist groups.

England has been having  its own unrelated unrest. We expect more unrest connected to the French movement to happen soon.

Even America is under threat, as we have already documented DSA members being caught planning a similar action on November 10.

Italy has been very aggressive so far in dealing with rioters, preventing the mass arsons we’ve seen in France. Greece’s movement is, for now, mostly students, and is still mostly centered in Athens.

ASSESSMENT

In the course of human history, we have created a multiplicity of governance models, and nearly every governance model was designed to serve a particular ethnic group. Even in the case of empires with diverse ethnicity, there was, far more often than not, a ruling ethnicity.

The Roman Empire may have come closest to sustaining a governance model that wasn’t primarily serving the interests of ethnic Romans. Like “American” has become, “Roman” had become by the end of the western part of the Empire, an ideational ethnicity, not a biological one.

In the course of human history, we have created a multiplicity of governance models, almost all of which were, at most, regional in scale, not universal. Outside of the spiritual universal state, the nation, the Kingdom, the Empire, etc., had no ambitions to conquer the world to fulfill their grand missions.

The Christian Kingdom of God is not a universal state; it’s a universal spiritual fellowship. Vedic religions like Buddhism and Hindu variants have universal spiritual states as well (at least many versions do), but no calls to manifest that universality through one universal state.

Islam rose in the 7th century, with a war mandate: conquer the world by force and usher in the final days, which would then deliver paradise to all true believers. They are the first well-known (possibly first overall, but we’ll allow for obscure sects that never rose to prominence to have come before them) example of a belief system not merely justifying, but compelling, its acolytes to conquer the world and create a universal state.

Outside of Islam, no other popular religion or political system called on the creation of a universal state until the rise of social ideologies in the West. They started to emerge as recognizable groups in the 18th century. By the 19th century, they were fully formed.

Initially, the social ideologies appealed to the weak to vanquish the strong. They promised heaven on earth after violent purges of the undesirables, the strong, all in the name of the claim that humans could finitely know the ideal social and build and manage structures to both create and preserve it.

In most of their systems, they identified a key necessity to bring heaven on earth, conquer the world to create one universal state. Only with one universal state could the social ideal of humanity be created and preserved (by any means necessary, of course).

The 19th century saw these same people (those who fetishize the weak, demonize the strong, and offer a false hope of heaven through an ideal managed social) begin to “question” the nation-state model (which itself was relatively newly created).

These people came to be called leftists because of the French Revolution, where the terms of modern “politics” were formed. The ones championing a universal state through an ideal managed social sat on the left side of the French National Assembly. The ones championing the ethnic-centered kingdom with an Empire sat on the right side of the National Assembly.

Left became synonymous with fetishizing the weak and demonizing the strong, then with dissolving individual nation-states in favor of the universal state. Right became synonymous with fetishizing the strong, demonizing the weak, and defending the ethnic-centered nation-state.

By the end of the 19th century, the “right” developed its own social ideology, one that promised access to an understanding of an ideal social, as well as the means to make that happen. They also justified violence as a means of creating their own heaven on earth.

But the right never championed a universal state. They did, however, continue to preserve the old governance model of majority-ethnic-dominant states.

In the 20th century, the two social ideologies clashed. After a right-wing social ideology, Nazism, was defeated in part by a left-wing social ideology, communism, Europe, the source of the right-wing social ideology, began seeking a way to “free itself” from the shackles of ethnic nation-states. It sought the creation of a region-based state no longer limited by ethnic majorityism.

Yet even within that European project, universal state movements flourished (as they continue to do to this day).

Right-wing social ideologies are rarely, if ever, universal state projects. They are bounded to a region, the region that best serves the majority ethnicity in that project. The Nazis were attempting to create an ideal social that served “Aryans” within fixed borders that would allow them to dominate the world without being compelled to conquer all of it.

Even in America, right-wing social ideologies, like many versions (not all) of “Christian Nationalism,” specifically hope to create a limited nation-state for their assumed superior or rightful ethnic group.

The EU project, which began in 1951 but became the official “European Union” in 1993, has consolidated considerable European power in its institutions, but not so much that ethnic-majority-based nation-states within it have dissolved.

France is still, primarily, an ethnic-majority nation-state despite being one of the leaders of the EU, a project designed to dissolve the ethnic-majority nation-state altogether.

In other Western nations like America, Australia, and Canada, the ethnic-majority essentialism isn’t so essential to their identities. In all three of these cases, there are no ethnic versions of their nation-state names. There is no ethnic American, Australian, or Canadian.

Even if in all three cases the initial ethnicity could be categorized as “white,” or “European,” there were, in all instances, early exceptions to those assumptions. Even the “whites” within these nations held on to ethnic identities that often competed with other white ethnic identities. The French in America had no more love for the English in America than the French in France had for the English in England.

But in Europe, which was attempting to create something like the American Federal model through the EU project (where nation-states became states and the ethnic divide became less essential), the ethnic-majority nation-state persisted.

So, they brought in recruits to help accelerate the destruction of the ethnic-majority nation-states of Europe, people who brought with them a universal state model. These people were the Islamists, the “natural” frenemies of Western leftism wherever and whenever they confronted Western ethnic-majority nation-statism.

In America, ethnic-majority-essentialism is fringe, even among “conservatives,” the “right” in this country. Yet America still largely continues to hold to the essentialism of a non-universal nation-state, not a universal one.

America’s neighbors to the south are mostly dominated by universalist social ideologies, communists, socialists, democratic socialists, etc. The leftists in America hope to                                                                           destroy the republic and make America the launchpad for the conquest of the world in the name of their social ideology,

Under Biden, they opened their borders to allow those predisposed to universalist state thinking, with no allegiance to the American state, to conquer through chaos the Americans still holding on to the non-universalist model.

In Europe, within their borders were plenty of “socialists” and plenty of universalist staters among the natives, but it still wasn’t enough to shatter the ethnic-majority non-universalist nation-states, the member states of the EU.

So, they aggressively imported Islamists, frenemies, who had only one thing in common with Western leftism: an appeal to the creation of a worldwide state. The Islamists call it a caliphate; the leftists call it the global state.

They were so desperate to destroy their own native nation-states that they imported people they know, deep down, will kill them next (if they can) after the two join together to defeat their common enemy, the non-universalist nation-state.

Now, the Islamists and the leftists (which we mostly call progressives, even though some groups would bristle at that term) sense a chance to topple governments and install their own power. They plan to exapt (repurpose) the nation-state mechanisms of power to build their universal state. As soon as the non-universalists are dead, the Islamists and Progressives will begin their wars against one another, for in the universalist state model there can be only one font of power.

Worldwide, every nation-state with leftists in it is a potential future province of the universal state. Every nation-state with Islamists in it is a potential future province of the Islamic caliphate. Among both Islamists and leftist universalists, however, there are competing claims to central authority.

The “American” left sees itself as the future ecumenical steward of the universal state, even as it allies itself with Europe and China, both of which see THEMSELVES as the rightful ecumenical stewards of the universal state.

On the Islamic side, their story is as divided as the left’s, meaning any victory over the non-universalists will be followed by decades, or more, of bloody wars as the universalists fight to be the last universalist standing.

France has become the current bellwether of this struggle, the struggle few clearly discuss, the struggle between the universalist nation-stater and the non-universalist nation-stater. That conversation has largely been avoided by the left’s claims to be anti-nationalists. They rarely define their universal state, or even talk about it, outside of intimate de facto war councils that are mostly held in tax-funded university rooms.

Like the atheist who avoids belief accountability by pretending a belief in non-god or a position of “agnostic” is somehow not belief because they have no god, the leftist avoids this very clear debate by pretending to be against nation-states altogether.

At one point, leftists were non-ethnic-majority essentialists; they have since become ethnic-majority essentialists after they created, out of their own imaginations, a two-raced humanity: the “whites” (who are devils that invented evil) and the POCs (people of color, the noble non-whites).

The only major leftist faction that hasn’t adopted the “woke” justification for power (the white devil’s terrorism on humanity) is China, but China has become, officially, an ethnic-majority-essential project, with their ethnicity of choice being the Han Chinese. China is becoming more of a rightist social ideology than a leftist one, even now appealing to the strong, the Han, to vanquish the weak, the non-Han.

They are also not championing a universal state, but rather, like the Nazis, are hoping to be the hegemon for a world that will serve as vassals to the beacon of humanity, the Han socialist state.

The very symbol of the ethnic-majority-essential French nation-state has become Joan of Arc, the woman who saved France from the colonizing English. She appealed as much to her French nationalism as her God when rallying men to her banner.

The symbol of Joan of Arc being “pressed” into Hamas membership might one day be remembered as the sign the French nation-state, the non-universal state, would soon die, or it might be the symbol that galvanizes what’s left of the French people to rise up and take their country back from both the Islamists and the self-hating leftist natives.

We don’t pretend, just yet, to know how this will play out, but we do recognize that the actions in France have brought this debate-by-violence to the fore, making the question of nation-states versus the universal nation-state a lot easier to ask and a lot harder to avoid.

The battle on the streets of France is between the French people who still hold to their national ethnic identity and those who want to destroy it. The battle on the streets of France is also, more importantly, between the universalist nation-staters and the non-universalist nation-staters.

On the side of the universalists are frenemy factions, all presuming they will be the last one standing after the violent wars end. These wars are sure to follow wherever they successfully defeat the non-universalists in the nation-state they are attacking.

The French state stands on the precipice of existence. The response by the non-universalists needs to be total and clear, making this a clear fight between one nation-state and many nation-states. So long as we continue to allow universalist nation-staters to hide behind the lie that they are against the nation-state model, we cannot rally people to our cause like they can theirs.

So long as people don’t understand the existential stakes of losing to the left and the Islamists, they will not feel compelled to take the dangerous risks necessary to defeat them. Let us pray the French people find their courage and their tongues so they can rally the decisive resistance needed to vanquish a psychotic, bloodthirsty enemy who believes you can murder your way to heaven.

Will Joan of Arc be the last cry of a dying French nation or the rally cry of its restoration? We have a strong feeling that as France goes, so too will most, if not all, of Western Europe, including Britain, go.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Joan of Arc: A Study of Faith, Politics, and Sanctity in Fifteenth-Century France – Helen Castor

The Oxford History of the French Revolution – William Doyle

A Brief History of France – Cecil Jenkins

Islamizing Europe: Is the Conquest Inevitable? – World Encounters Institute

Bellwether Digest – Week Ending october 23, 2026

By STAFF

This week’s report covers political, world, culture, market, and sci-tech news from October 16-23

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

TOP NEWS TAGS

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

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

NOTE: We are following the Ilhan Omar story, which, so far, has not led to decisive action against her. She stands accused of being an illegal alien member of Congress. It remains to be seen if the DOJ has enough to prosecute and then deport her.

  1. TRUMP APPROVAL DROPS TO HISTORIC LOW – The Trump approval rating has hit 33% ahead of the midterms. The same poll shows Democrats are more trusted on the economy than Republicans. Both polls portend poorly for the American republic in the upcoming midterm election, which is an election about Americanism that has been hijacked by the “affordability” narrative.
  2. ANOTHER JUDGE STOPS NON-CITIZEN VOTER PREVENTION ACTION – Another Biden-appointed District Judge has halted key parts of the DHS’ non-citizen voter investigation in what appears to be a partisan protection of the Democratic Party. The court called the investigation into non-citizen voting an “unlawful voter initiative.” The ruling cannot be reversed before the election unless SCOTUS intervenes.
  3. STARLINK BACK ON FOR UKRAINE – President Trump told the press that Ukraine’s access to Starlink has been restored. When asked about it, he said, “I don’t want to comment on it, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference, I guess. The bottom line — he put it back.”

Ukraine lost Starlink access in critical areas, leading its President, Zelensky, to claim Musk cost Ukrainian lives. At first, Musk suggested the decision was not his. As of now, the facts behind both the access removal and restoration remain conflicting.

  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. 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.”
  2. 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.
  3. MICHIGAN DEMOCRAT SENATOR THREATENS TO PROSECUTE REPUBLICANS TO FRIGHTEN CHILDREN – Michigan Democrat Senator Elissa Slotkin openly threatened to prosecute young staff members of the Trump administration to frighten young people from serving in a non-Democratic administration.

She said, “I want young people coming out of school to say, ‘Should I go work for the Trump administration? That sounds fun. I might get an opportunity.’ I want them to be like, ‘Lord, that might be buying myself a ton of problems I don’t want, and so let me avoid participating in that.’ I want that deterrence message sent.”

  1. 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.
  2. CHINA STALKS U.S. SHIPS IN TAIWAN STRAIT – The Chinese have sent ships to shadow U.S. ships on patrol in the Taiwan Strait. While the Chinese have done this before, these shadowing operations have recently increased, along with their presence in the Philippine Sea. The U.S. and Taiwan have met this increased activity with their own increased activity in response.

HEADLINES MISSED

  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. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.”

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. 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.
  3. JUDGE NIXES PROGRESSIVE ASSAULT ON NORTH CAROLINA ELECTION INTEGRITY – The progressives were hoping to use Judgefare to loosen absentee ballot laws in North Carolina. Their efforts were halted by U.S. District Judge Thomas Shroeder, who threw their lawsuit out.
  4. 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.”
  5. WALLPAPER ELECTRIC POWER? – Researchers from New York’s Binghamton University have developed a wallpaper that generates electricity from the air. The technology is called Moist-electric generators, which have existed for years, but are now closer to becoming practical.

FINAL THOUGHT – October 23, 2026

By Bill Collier, Editor

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.

“To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.

“To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” – Douglas Adams, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” – Abraham Lincoln

I have very low expectations for voting. I doubt the integrity of our elections, but when I vote I make my own statement. Often, it is just a rebuke of the other side. It is rarely an endorsement of the ones I am voting for.

People will vote Democrat or Republican in a couple of weeks for their own reasons; many are very parochial. That is the nature of voting: it costs nothing but a little time, so you don’t really have any expectations.

My focus is Bill of Rights freedom, as I understand it, because you can only focus on things as you understand them. I assess that the Democrats are more problematic for the Bill of Rights than the GOP, but I don’t have any delusions that the GOP are champions of the Bill of Rights, especially as I understand them and apply them to how I treat others.

I want to rebuke Democrats now because they are, as a party, doing things I believe violate the spirit of what Bill of Rights freedom SHOULD mean.

This does not mean that I like the other side or don’t see problematic behavior there as well. It just means that my calculus is based on my priority and my understanding of Bill of Rights Freedom. I have supported Democrats in the past. For instance, I would vote for Senator Fetterman unless an excellent Republican ran against him, because I think he holds a line for freedom that I can live with.

Voting is not a waste of time because it rarely takes much time, so if your vote disappoints you, you haven’t spent anything on it anyway. So why not just vote?

Some say, “voting legitimizes the system!” In my estimation, it does not. I can hold that a system is corrupt, but if that system gives me the lightest whiff of power to influence a small part of that system, I will take the opportunity. I will be content that I used all in my hand to advocate for a Bill of Rights America. I will not, however, be content with such little power.

This midterm election, I will be voting straight Republican just to tell the Democrats that their approach to Bill of Rights Freedom is not something I can live with.

If you still feel that voting isn’t for you, then so be it. I won’t judge your motives or intent if you extend the same courtesy to me. Not voting is not more or less morally good than voting. What matters is being true to your own true north in how you use or don’t use that power.

As for my predictions, Republicans will probably lose.

The wrinkle in this dynamic are the recent reports of self-confessed fake polls.

If Trump’s party loses the House and Senate, it will be a fascinating time to behold because, while his party is marking time from election to election, the other side is playing for keeps. I fully expect hard, unprecedented action by the Democrats should they win.

Trump has not been able to install a spine into his own team. Their lackluster performances and overly cautious approaches will probably turn many away. I fear a lot will conclude that it’s not worth voting for a party that sees little urgency in the midterm elections

I’ll be voting straight Republican, but I think if Trump faces bloodthirsty democrats in charge of the U.S. House and Senate, it will get VERY ugly between them. Their goal will be to tie him down, prevent him from doing anything, and finally run against this “failure” in 2028 with the hope of sweeping it all, to fully consolidate power and usher in the progressive state.

Most voters don’t think for two seconds about the ideological, spiritual, or philosophical foundations of the other party.  They also don’t take warnings about them too seriously, even if the warnings are legitimate.

This isn’t because they are unintelligent; they are not. It’s because they keep hearing these fears over and over and over, and nothing, to them, changes. It’s the classic “boy who calls wolf too many times” syndrome, and I fear it will help the Democrats greatly.

Popular online influencers chasing clicks, likes, and superchats constantly hype and sensationalize, to the benefit of their online careers, but to the detriment of truthful aggregate understanding.

I don’t know how many times I’ve seen “The Democrats are destroyed,” or words to that effect, in shocking fonts on YouTube thumbnails with hyped emotional faces, all just to build personal empires at the detriment of the republic they allegedly hope to defend.

I think it is more probable than not that the GOP gets a shellacking. Some will say it’s Trump’s fault, and sure, he is the President after all.

I think, however, it’s mostly on Thune and the whole top-tier leadership of the Party, a leadership that cannot and will not play as hard as the other side. When they do play hard, it’s often for things most people don’t care about and at least half absolutely hate. When they go after their own, they play hard as well.

While Trump has been tone-deaf on the Epstein Files, AI Data Centers, and even the Iran War, none of that would be an existential harm were it not for the fecklessness (seemingly intentional, probably intentional) of the GOP leadership, who failed to pass his agenda and convert his executive orders into law.

Trump’s chaotic style, ego, impetuosity, and ribald venom don’t help. His constant shifting around on Iran and Ukraine, frankly, sends mixed signals and peels off supporters.

The Democrats, however, are even worse. They are also chaos lords, shrill, often using lies and exaggerations even more than Trump does. The difference is they are on-brand and affirmed by the progressive state press.

To progressives, like Islamists, lying to advance your kingdom is not only acceptable; it’s morally necessary. To conservatives, lying to advance your kingdom invalidates your kingdom.

Trump is both off-brand to his own party and vilified daily by the same press that is aggressively and illegally protecting the Democrats.

People who thrive on chaos, drama, and hyperbolic reactions lean sharply left. But the people who would lean center-right, center-left (not hard left or partisan Democrat), and centrist specifically don’t want that behavior in their politics.

As for me, as a Christian, I find the left to be violently anti-Christian right now. While the candidates themselves attack Christianity almost daily, the progressive state press conceals their rants, leaving most Americans oblivious to the anti-Christian party they are voting for.

They are not voting for their anti-Christian agenda, but because they believe they will see their gas prices go down with a new party majority in the legislature. The unaffordability narrative is what they are voting for, not Talarico declaring God is non-binary.

I find the Democrats who run California to be in severe violation of basic Bill of Rights freedoms. I am concerned that the people in this land and their leaders have turned from God and are reaping those fruits

I get frustrated that I have to deal with those consequences myself when I have always opposed the things that caused them, progressive policies and conservative fecklessness.

Our “choice” is not an ideal American one. One side, the GOP, is slowing the decline away from freedom, but at this moment, with some exceptions, the Democrats are speed-running the dismantling of the Bill of Rights.

No matter why they might win, the Democrats will celebrate their win and think people voted FOR their pro-Political Islamism, “transing” kids, and other more extreme policies. Yet their party is running on unaffordability, not cutting off the breasts of little girls (their true policies).

All the voters seem to want is cheaper gas, not progressive sharia. The GOP elitists will think if only Trump was as feckless as they are, they could have won. It will only embolden their efforts to sabotage Trump, even at the cost of the republic, since the republic was never their concern.

They work to preserve power within the progressive state, nothing more. They are willing vassals of progressive power, not Americans at all.

I believe that even if the Democrats win, this isn’t the end of our story. Eventually, things will turn around because strong Americans will come along, but not from the Democrats, and probably not the Republicans. The people may just get sick of them both and find a new party to get behind.

As an amateur historian, it’s an interesting time to be alive, but I’d rather just be reading about it.

NYC Mayor Instructs Illegals How To Avoid ICE While Speaking In Spanish– www.louderwithcrowder.com
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EXCERPT:

It has been reported that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks several languages. One of those languages is Spanish. He is now using his language skills to appeal to the illegal population, so much so that he is instructing them on how to avoid ICE.

How is this not satire? Remember when politicians actually fought for the American people rather than putting this much effort into helping foreign nationals? Ahhh, the good old days.

In the video, you see the Mayor instructing foreign nationals how they can avoid accountability for breaking federal immigration laws. This should not be a thing. Rather than ensuring that national security is his priority, he could not care less about the damage this has caused and will cause to America.

Just in New York City alone, we can see the damage illegal immigration has caused Americans.