2026 Elections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

III. Tools of Engagement

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

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

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

MIA Monthly 26 10 30 FINAL DRAFT WORD

ELECTION 2026 REPORT: THE SEASON OF AMOS

By Staff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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 It is also intended to be an historical document to show the conditions that allowed the results of this election to happen.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A. ISSUES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

B. ELECTION LAWS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C. BALLOT INITIATIVES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D. HOUSE RACES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

E. SENATE RACES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FURTHER RESOURCES

2026 Ballot Measures Overview and Topics – Ballotpedia

Senate Polling Averages – Real Clear Politics

Cook Political Report Ratings – Cook Political Report

House Battlegrounds – Ballotpedia

 

III. TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT

A. THE BIRTH OF THE ECUMENICAL NATION-STATE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here are three sources for search engine builders:

Why Choose Programmable Search – Google

Build Your Own Search Engine – wiby.org

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

B. JOAN OF HAMAS?

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Federalist – TheFederalist.com

PJ Media – PJMedia.com

American Thinker – AmericanThinker.com

Townhall – TownHall.com

The American Spectator – Spectator.org

Breitbart – Breitbart.com

Daily Caller – DailyCaller.com

The Daily Wire – DailyWire.com

Liberty Nation – LibertyNation.com

Just the News – JustTheNews.com

C. THE 2026 MIDTERM ELECTIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.”

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

Appeals court rejects White House push to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots
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EXCERPT:

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

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

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

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

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

BREAKING: DOJ says 405 non-citizens cast over 1,500 ballots in WA, warns thousands more may be voting illegally | The Post Millennial– thepostmillennial.com
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EXCERPT:


“If the state of Washington knowingly or unknowingly allows a non-citizen to vote, they are canceling out or stealing the vote of the United States citizen.”

The Justice Department announced Monday that federal investigators have identified 405 non-citizens who voted illegally in Washington state, with many casting ballots in multiple elections, and warned that potentially thousands more could be voting illegally as the state fights federal demands for its complete voter registration database.

Acting US Attorney Neil Floyd said investigators identified more than 1,500 ballots cast by the individuals. Federal prosecutors have asked Washington election officials to set aside ballots submitted by those on the list until their eligibility can be confirmed.

“We have identified over 400 non-citizens who had voted in Washington, and many of them have voted multiple times. That means we have identified over 1500 ballots illegally cast,” Floyd said.

What The Midterm Senate Polls Won’t Tell You– thefederalist.com
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EXCERPT:

With the midterm election fast approaching, there’s a great deal of speculation about the accuracy of the polls. Democrats are generally hoping that the polling is right, as it suggests they are poised to take control not only of the House of Representatives but probably also the Senate. Correspondingly, Republicans are hoping the polls are wrong. They speculate that conservatives are more distrusting of pollsters and therefore less apt to respond to their inquiries, and that the polls aren’t adequately adjusting for this.

There is no way to know for sure whose hopes are more realistic. At the same time, we aren’t flying completely blind. We now have a track record of Senate polling across five prior federal elections in the Donald Trump era. If we assume that polls will perform as they have typically performed on a state-by-state basis throughout this era, what would that mean for this election?

The 13 states whose 2026 Senate races are generally thought to be the most competitive have each already had at least three Senate elections during the Trump era (from 2016 to 2024). If we take how the two parties’ Senate candidates fared in the final RealClearPolitics (RCP) average of recent polling in those races and compare that with how they fared in the final results, we can see whether polling underestimated one party or another in a given state — and by how much.

Blurb:

Voters in four states will decide abortion measures next week in contests to protect access and, in one case, roll back a constitutional protection voters approved in 2024.

Idaho, Virginia and Nevada voters will all decide on legal and constitutional protections for abortion on Nov. 3, while Missouri will be asked to reconsider rights they endorsed just two years ago. The states are hotly-contested battlegrounds for interest groups fighting over abortion access since the Supreme Court stripped federal guarantees on the procedure in 2022, which triggered a patchwork of restrictions across the US and spurred ballot measures in the ensuing …

Watch: El-Sayed Staffer Lets His True Feelings About Americans and the Muslim Brotherhood Slip in Devastating Undercover Video– www.westernjournal.com
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EXCERPT:

A ranking member of Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s organization has said the quiet part aloud — and there was an undercover camera rolling. In a video published Monday by the […]

The post Watch: El-Sayed Staffer Lets His True Feelings About Americans and the Muslim Brotherhood Slip in Devastating Undercover Video appeared first on The Western Journal.

 

Pete Hegseth Is Trying To Flee The Trump Administration Before He Can Be Impeached– www.politicususa.com
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EXCERPT:

 

Eight days before the midterm election, two things have become certain. Democrats are going to take back the House, and after they do, Democrats are going to impeach Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

There is a list of Trump cabinet members who are likely to quit when Democrats win back the House, because they will be facing impeachment. Pete Hegseth is at the top of the list, followed by RFK Jr., and Linda McMahon, who has destroyed the Department of Education.

There will be an exodus of people out of the Trump administration after the midterm election. Karoline Leavitt got an early start out the door, but will be far from the last person to leave.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) said last month on MS NOW:

 Donald Trump himself has said it multiple times, that he’s planning to give pardons to everyone in his circle. But I actually very much disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t be trying to use every tool we have in the toolbox.

In particular, we have cabinet secretaries like Pete Hegseth, who Republicans think should be impeached at this point because of his illegal killings in the illegal war, and what we’ve seen over the last year is that when Congress did file impeachments, folks like Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi were actually fired by the President because the American people were clear they didn’t want them in those jobs of trust.

So I think there’s a number of cabinet secretaries that have blatantly broken the law, done unconstitutional things, and I think they better get ready because we’ll come for them.

The Senate elections in two blue wall states– www.americanthinker.com
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EXCERPT:

Most of the toss-up state senatorial races are within the margin of error. That means turnout is crucial. This explains why President Donald Trump is campaigning. He aims to get the solidly Republican base to vote, which will offset the angry Democrat vote. But we should look carefully at Michigan and Minnesota’s Democrat senatorial nominees. They are campaigning at the end with the more extreme members of their party.

Abdul El-Sayed has refused to answer any questions related to his family’s support of the Muslim Brotherhood. He has refused to answer who is more dangerous to the USA, Iran or Israel. Regardless of his personal opinion, when in 2012 he co-signed a letter to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to oust personnel from the previous administration, he did not want to lose the radical Islamic bloc, which is sizable in his state. His retort that such questions are Islamophobic is just a deflection. But he has not shored up his larger base.

El-Sayed invited Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) to appeal to socialists. He wants Medicare for All, covering medical, vision, dental, and hearing costs without deductibles. He supports abortion rights and gender-affirming care. Further, he supports public financing for elections, ending the Senate filibuster, term limits for Supreme Court Justices, funding nationwide mail-in voting, a wealth tax to fund education and public housing, moving to green energy, government regulation of AI, and opposes military support of Israel. He brought in Ayanna Pressley and former President Obama, hoping to shore up left and black votes which he lost in the primaries. Bernie Sanders has supported El-Sayed, demonstrating his radical views. It appears that he is vulnerable, and the independents will determine the victor — El-Sayed or former congressman Mike Rogers, a less charismatic candidate.

Trump intensifies anti-Muslim rhetoric against Abdul El-Sayed at Michigan rally – US politics live | Donald Trump– www.theguardian.com
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EXCERPT:

Donald Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday, portraying him as a threat to national security.

The president also questioned his loyalty to the United States in remarks that drew a sharp rebuke from a former top Arab American ally. Trump called El-Sayed, a former Detroit health official, a “jihadist” who was “on the side of the terrorists” and would “have to go through a metal detector before he’s allowed to go into the Senate.”

He also repeatedly invoked 9/11, drawing a comparison between stopping El-Sayed from entering the Senate chamber and the passengers who fought back against the hijackers aboard United Flight 93, AP reported.

El-Sayed, who would become the nation’s first Muslim senator if elected, has called attacks on his loyalty to the country “shameful” and repeatedly denied any ties to extremist groups.

Vivek Ramaswamy is bad publicity: Ohio venues cancel campaign events amid backlash over ad featuring Amy Acton’s mother; people leave one-star review on Google– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Ohio venues cancel Vivek Ramaswamy events amid major backlash over advertisement featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mother.

Several venues in Ohio have withdrawn from hosting campaign events featuring Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy as backlash intensifies over an advertisement targeting his Democratic rival, Amy Acton, and featuring her estranged mother. The cancellations come days before the November 3 midterm elections, as Ramaswamy faces criticism from Democrats and fellow Republicans over the campaign advertisement.

Election Integrity Warrior Cleta Mitchell Drives The Left Crazy– thefederalist.com
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George Will once described Cleta Mitchell as arguably “the most important Washington conservative not in public office.”

“She’s armed and zealous,” the conservative columnist told the Wall Street Journal in 2010.

Sixteen years on feels like a century ago, but Mitchell remains a central political figure, as “armed and zealous” as ever in the bare-knuckle, bruising battle to save the republic. Along the way, the legendary election law attorney has been harassed and threatened by a virulent radical left bent on silencing its political enemies by any means necessary. She’s been vilified by an accomplice media, the dutiful public relations agents for the Democratic Party. She’s been spied on by her government for the “crime” of advising and befriending the left’s bogeyman, President Donald Trump.

Mitchell has long carried a huge target on her back for passionately advocating for secure and transparent elections. For that, she has been accused of leading a “voter suppression group,” branded an “election denier,” an “extremist,” and a “traitor.” 

They hate her because she’s been so damn successful.

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

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.

Appeals court resists DOJ’s bid to immediately segregate 20k California ballots – thehill.com
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A federal appeals court appeared unlikely to immediately agree to the Trump administration’s bid to segregate 20,000 California ballots it says are likely noncitizen voters, expressing skepticism at a rare Sunday hearing that a trial judge needs to move quicker. “I don’t see how we have jurisdiction,” said U.S. Circuit Judge Mark Bennett.  The Justice Department (DOJ) sued…