How the JD Vance Heckler Ended Up in Jail

By Royal A. Brown III

Good for Lakeland PD and Officer Mason McGuirk. Commiecrats just don’t get it that physical contact resisting directions of a LE officer is against the law and they must be held accountable.

According to the Lakeland Ledger, Ben Braver, a 24‑year‑old Democratic candidate for the Florida House in District 65, was arrested after heckling Vice President JD Vance at a Republican rally in Lakeland on October 1, 2026.

Event and disruption

The rally, held in the Skylight Hangar at the Sun ’n Fun Expo Campus, drew about 2,000 attendees and featured speeches from governor candidate Byron Donalds, Sen. Ashley Moody, Rep. Scott Franklin, and others, plus Vance’s keynote address .

During Vance’s speech, Braver stood and began loudly addressing him while recording on a phone on a pole. He said, “Thank you so much, Vice President Vance, for the gas prices” and “Thank you for helping us win in Iran”, then accused Vance of “protecting pedophiles” — a reference to the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case — and sarcastically thanked President Trump for a promised $5,000 “dividend” check .

Removal and arrest

As audience members booed, Lakeland police approached. An officer led Braver through an aisle and out of the building; video shows him continuing to speak after being escorted out. In a paved parking lot, an officer thrust his right leg under Braver’s and grabbed his left arm to force him to the ground, after which two officers handcuffed him.

Vance later called Braver “a clown” and “a Democrat plant” .

Charges and outcome

Lakeland Police Department charged Braver with trespassing and resisting arrest without violence, both first‑degree misdemeanors . The arrest report, provided to The Ledger, names arresting officer Macson McGuirk, who was part of the event’s security detail. Lakeland has trespass warning authority over the entire Sun ’n Fun grounds .

Context

The incident was widely shared online, with video showing multiple angles of the disruption and removal. Vance’s remarks and the crowd’s reaction underscored the political tensions of the rally .

In short, Braver’s heckling, the physical removal by security, and the subsequent misdemeanor charges led to his jail booking, as reported by The Ledger.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

Time To Turn All Blue States RED. Here’s Why!

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

It’s time to turn all states controled by Democrats into RED states that will keeep America great and preserve our Constiutional Republican form of government from the White House to each State House.

We have witnessed blue states with massive fraud, ebrace sanctuary politics, gays, illegal aliens and criminals.

Time for a change!

States Controlled by the Democrat Party

As of 2026, 18 state legislatures are under full Democratic control. In these states, Democrats hold majorities in both the state senate (upper chamber) and state house/assembly (lower chamber):

  • California
  • Colorado
  • Connecticut
  • Delaware
  • Hawaii
  • Illinois
  • Maine
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts
  • Nevada
  • New Jersey
  • New Mexico
  • New York
  • Oregon
  • Rhode Island
  • Vermont
  • Virginia
  • Washington

Note: Nebraska features a nonpartisan, unicameral legislature, while states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota have split control across chambers or tied legislative divisions.

The Average Cost of Government Per Capita in Blue vs Red States

The total budget size and expenditure levels of state governments depend heavily on population size, regional cost of living, and public services.

Because states vary drastically in size—from California with over 38 million residents to Vermont with roughly 640,000—comparing absolute budget costs directly does not provide an accurate metric. Instead, economists evaluate state government costs based on per capita state government spending.

Average Per Capita Spending

  • Democratic-Controlled States: State government spending in Democratic trifecta or Democratic-controlled legislature states averages roughly $11,500 to $13,500 per resident annually.
  • Republican-Controlled States: State government spending in Republican-controlled states averages roughly $6,500 to $8,500 per resident annually.
  • National Average: Across all 50 states, average per capita state government spending sits at roughly $9,800.

Key Per Capita Spending Examples

According to general state budget data:

Higher Per Capita Spending Democratic States:

  • Vermont: ~$14,740 per resident
  • New York: ~$13,419 per resident
  • California: ~$13,206 per resident
  • Delaware: ~$13,114 per resident
  • Hawaii: ~$12,766 per resident
  • Massachusetts: ~$12,060 per resident

Lower Per Capita Spending Republican States:

  • Florida: ~$5,557 per resident
  • Georgia: ~$6,323 per resident
  • Texas: ~$6,746 per resident
  • Tennessee: ~$6,851 per resident

Note: Geographic anomalies exist; for instance, Alaska—a Republican-leaning state—routinely ranks #1 in per capita state spending due to high administrative costs across huge geographic distances and oil revenue disbursements.

Key Drivers of Higher State Costs in Blue States

  1. Expanded Social Programs & Safety Nets: States governed by Democrats generally allocate higher expenditures toward state-funded healthcare (Medicaid expansions and state subsidies), higher education, paid family leave, and public welfare.
  2. Cost of Living & Public Sector Wages: Higher prevailing wage rates, higher costs for infrastructure construction, and competitive public employee union contracts (teachers, public safety, state workers) raise overall administrative costs.
  3. Local vs. State Service Delivery: Blue states often fund public services (like mass transit systems and environmental oversight) directly through state budget appropriations, whereas red states more frequently decentralize services to county levels or private contractors.

The Bottom Line

It’s cheaper to live and work in states controlled by Republicans.

We are currently seeing a massive exodus of businesses, corporations and individuals leaving blue states and moving to red states like Florida, Texas, Georgia and Tennessee.

Remember that it costs $11,500 to $13,500 per resident annually in blue states and $6,500 to $8,500 per resident annually in red states.

“It’s the economy, stupid!” is a political catchphrase coined in 1992 by James Carville.

Red states listened, blue states did not.

Want more money in your pocket then vote RED.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

Which States Allow Illegal Aliens and Dead People to Vote

By Dr. Richard M. Swier, LTC U.S. Army (Ret.)

Abraham Lincoln: “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

John Lewis: “The right to vote has and always will remain the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society.”

Lyndon B. Johnson: “The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by human beings for breaking down injustice…”

John Quincy Adams: “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”


We were struck by a article by Rebeka Zeljko titled, “‘I Have His Ashes’ Virginia Woman Claims Dem Governor Restored Voting Rights To Dead Felon“. In this article Rebecka writes,

Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger may have restored voting rights to a felon who has been dead for ten years.

Virginia resident Peggie Young claimed the governor’s office had sent her a letter restoring voting rights to a felon named Peter Alan Breton. In the Facebook post, Young described Breton as her “dear BFF,” who passed away in 2016.

“I don’t know what to say about this,” Young wrote in the post. “I received it yesterday, September 29, 2026. My dear BFF, Pete Breton, passed away in 2016. I have his ashes.”

“Is this perhaps how voter fraud begins? I’m so confused.”

The letter itself seemingly addressed Breton as the intended recipient, notifying him that Spanberger restored felons’ right to vote, ability to hold public office, to serve on a jury, and to be a notary. Notably, Spanberger restored virtually all rights to felons except for the “ability to ship, transport, possess or receive firearms.”

Read more.

We were also struck by how Iran’s Isamic Revolutionary Guard Corp is asking Americans to vote for Democrats.

WATCH: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from “DEATH TO AMERICA” to “VOTE DEMOCRAT”

The Law

Under the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, federal law strictly bans noncitizens from voting for federal offices like the President or members of Congress. State constitutions similarly restrict state-level voting (such as for Governor or state legislature) strictly to U.S. citizens.

Local Elections Exception

While no state allows noncitizen voting in statewide or federal races, a small number of municipalities in specific states allow noncitizens (which can include legal permanent residents, visa holders, or undocumented immigrants, depending on local ordinances) to vote in select local municipal races, such as for local school boards or town councils:

  • California: Certain local school board elections allow noncitizen parent or guardian participation in cities like San Francisco and Oakland.
  • Maryland: Over a dozen municipalities (such as Takoma Park, Hyattsville, and Greenbelt) permit noncitizens to vote in local municipal elections.
  • Vermont: Cities such as Burlington, Montpelier, and Winooski allow noncitizens to vote in city-level municipal elections.
  • Washington, D.C.: The District of Columbia allows noncitizen residents who meet residency requirements to vote in local municipal elections.
  • Illinois: Chicago permits noncitizens (including parents or guardians) to vote in local school council elections.

State Bans

Most U.S. states explicitly ban noncitizens from voting in any local elections within their borders. Over 15 states (including Florida, Ohio, Arizona, and Alabama) have updated their state constitutions to explicitly prohibit noncitizen voting at all levels.

oting is legally restricted to citizens—and thus illegal for undocumented noncitizens—due to foundational legal principles, national sovereignty concepts, and statutory federal and state laws.

Key Legal & Conceptual Reasons

  1. National Sovereignty and Civic Obligation: In constitutional republics like the United States, self-governance rests on political citizenship. Voting is viewed as the primary right and civic responsibility of citizens, who owe permanent allegiance to the country, serve on juries, and are subject to its constitutional duties.
  2. Statutory Federal Banning: Under federal law—specifically the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (18 U.S.C. § 611)—it is a federal crime for any noncitizen to vote in federal elections (such as presidential or congressional races). Violations can result in criminal penalties, deportation, or permanent inadmissibility for U.S. citizenship.
  3. Protection of Citizen Vote Power: Legal arguments against noncitizen voting emphasize that permitting noncitizens to participate dilutes the voting power of citizens who have completed the legal process of birthright or naturalized citizenship.
  4. State Constitutional Mandates: While the U.S. Constitution sets floor requirements, state constitutions dictate voter eligibility for state offices (like Governor or state legislators). Every U.S. state constitution restricts voter eligibility for state elections strictly to U.S. citizens.

Official Election Information

For additional information on federal voter qualification standards or voter eligibility guidelines in your specific state or local jurisdiction:

  • Consult the U.S. Election Assistance Commission for national voting guidelines.
  • Check your regional Secretary of State office or official local election administration board for local voter registration criteria.

Time to get out the “legal” voters to determine our elections.

Without election integrety we can’t trust the results of any election at any level.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

RELATED ARTICLE: Republicans Must Either Vote in Droves or Kiss the Trump-GOP Agenda Goodbye

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth Delivers ‘State of the Force’ Address, Outlines Series of New Initiatives

By Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services (STARRS)

Pentagon News  — Secretary of War Pete Hegseth delivered a speech on the status of the military today, during which he announced six new initiatives for the War Department.

Speaking to both a broadcast audience and 600 O-3 officers and E-6 enlisted service members at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, Hegseth began by recounting the successful progress he has seen across the department over the past year.

“For almost two years, you’ve heard me talk — over and over — about three core priorities: reviving the warrior ethos, rebuilding our military and reestablishing deterrence.

And I’m proud to stand on this stage and report that the warrior ethos has been revived, our military is being rebuilt and American deterrence is back,” he said early in his remarks.

The secretary went on to emphasize the high recruitment and retention numbers over the past year, mention that military standards that existed in 1990 are back in 2026 and discuss the “E-6/O-3 Rule” — the concept that asks whether a policy, procedure or decision helps or hinders the operational effectiveness and daily reality of an E-6 and/or O-3.

“We fight to win. Clear missions, full hearts, hands untied. It’s all I ever wanted as a platoon leader, and it’s all my E-6 squad leaders ever wanted. … We let our leaders fight their formations, and then we have their back. It’s simple, yet you know in your business it’s incredibly powerful and liberating,” Hegseth said.

After recapping the past year and reemphasizing the War Department’s priorities of strengthening the warrior ethos, rebuilding the military and maintaining peace through strength via deterrence, Hegseth outlined his six new initiatives:

  • The creation of a new 4-star level combatant command: Autonomous Warfare Command.  Memo
  • An effort to study the future of warfare titled “Project Meridian.” Memo
  • A future program that aims to align basing and infrastructure projects to ensure they are collectively advancing toward greater independence titled, federal operations for resilience, troop resources, energy, supply and survivability, or “Fortress America.” Memo
  • Calling for a new, state-of-the-art military installation through a project titled, “The Next Great American Base.” Memo
  • Expanding the ranks of future leaders commissioning into the joint force through a program that expands military training beyond the country’s military service academies and six military colleges to additional institutions of higher learning, titled “America’s Corps of Cadets.” Memo
  • Establishing an Office of Religious Affairs. Memo

Regarding the new combatant command, Autowarcom, Hegseth said that once established, it will focus on building autonomous and robotic capabilities across the joint force in “the fastest peacetime shift in modern history.”

Additionally, the secretary announced that he has directed the direct reporting portfolio manager for unmanned systems to lead “Project Agincourt,” an organization that will establish the pathway for Autowarcom, as well as to execute the existing unmanned systems mission while prototyping a new acquisition model.

Hegseth also said new military occupational specialties will be created in each military department to support the shift to autonomy.

“Today, with … Autowarcom, we institutionalize — and we supercharge — the era of [super intelligence], robotics and autonomous systems, all in order to win,” he said.

Turning next to Project Meridian, Hegseth said the Pentagon’s chief technology officer would partner with members of the private sector to study the future of warfare, and that the project is not about developing new strategies or policies.

“Rather, its purpose is to creatively look into the future and identify the domains we must conquer, and capabilities we must master … to achieve technological and military dominance on the battlefield for decades to come; it is futuristic, on purpose,” Hegseth said.

Regarding the Fortress America program, Hegseth said it calls for every American military installation to eventually run under its own power, hardening every installation on American soil against intrusion and bringing critical supply chains home.

“No matter the circumstance, this department will have the power, the equipment and the supplies you need to take the fight to the enemy. … The Department of War will be the insurance policy for the entire nation,” he said.

Hegseth’s talk of Fortress America then segued into discussing the concept behind The Next Great American Base project, which he said will be a dynamic, self-sustaining power projection platform, and that leaders of every state in the union would be able to provide a “sales pitch” as to why the new installation should be in their state.

“If your state wants the honor of hosting 15,000 to 25,000 of America’s great troops, show us why and how you’re going to do it — cutting through the red tape, offering up the land and rolling out the red carpet for our military families,” Hegseth said.

Regarding America’s Corps of Cadets, the secretary said the Pentagon is partnering with six universities to increase the number of leaders who can commission into the military.

“By embedding continuous military discipline and leadership development into new institutions — by growing our Corps of Cadets — the War Department will ensure our republic is defended by even more officers of unwavering character and patriotism,” Hegseth said.

Turning to his final of the six initiatives, that of the Office of Religious Affairs, Hegseth said religious services in the military have been neglected and bureaucratized for too long.

“Ninety-five percent of our force recognizes an Almighty God. Accordingly, our department has a sacred duty: first-class religious support, wherever we send our warriors,” Hegseth said. He also noted that the new office will report directly to the secretary of war’s office to cut through red tape.

“This is not going to be a paper-pushing shop; it’s going to have real teeth. It’ll protect budgets, demand infrastructure and strengthen religious support,” Hegseth said.

The secretary emphasized that the six announcements were all for the warfighters, as he and the War Department view them as the top 1% of society.

“You are warriors; with that title comes great expectations. So, go forth this day and do good things, hard things. President [Donald J.] Trump has your back, and so do I,” Hegseth said.

“We are the War Department, and we never back down — Godspeed,” he concluded.

Today’s State of the Force speech came exactly one year to the day since Hegseth announced a series of new directives aimed at strengthening the War Department’s people and culture to the U.S. military’s most senior leaders, also at Quantico.


Read Speech: STATE OF THE FORCE ADDRESS

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s State of the Force Address (As Delivered)


Watch: STATE OF THE FORCE ADDRESS


©2026 . All rights reserved.

RELATED ARTICLES:

Secretary Hegseth Announces Six Major Initiatives at Quantico Speech

The United States Air Force Academy Is Training Warriors Again

Civilian Tenure Is Out at America’s Military Service Academies—Why It Matters

New President of The Citadel Gen. McKenzie: “I will be relentless — relentless — in the pursuit of excellence.”

Establishment of the Office of Religious Affairs

El-Sayid Exposed: His Bodyguard States, “Abdul’s a Fraud, a Manufactured Man and Immature!”

By The United West/ Defend The Border

Jordan Domingue, a top staffer who worked two of Abdul El-Sayed’s campaigns has quit the Democrat’s U.S. Senate race and is now talking. He describes is a candidate who has faked his way through public life, right down to the “physician” title.

This is a lengthy article, but every American needs to understand, from an insiders perspective, how dangerous this man would be if elected to the U.S. Senate.


EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed Top Staffer Quits Campaign—Shares Disturbing Truth About “Manufactured Man”–“Pushed multiple staff to tears”–“Immature”–“Cartoonishly fake masculinity” and “Loves to fart in public”

by

Jordan Domingue, a top staffer who worked two of ’s campaigns has quit the Democrat’s U.S. Senate race and is now talking. What he describes is a candidate who has faked his way through public life, right down to the “physician” title. This is a lengthy article, but every American needs to understand, from an insiders perspective, how dangerous this man would be if elected to the U.S. Senate.

In a post on X, Jordan Domingue outlines his decision to defect from Abdul’s campaign after working first on his failed gubernatorial campaign and again on his current Senate campaign.

“His foreign policy was driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.”

I protected Abdul for two years, I worked as his personal assistant/executive protection lead on his campaigns. I departed two jobs early from working abroad, moved to Michigan twice, and took paycuts averaging 50,000k.

I took his lovely wife to the hospital for visits when she was pregnant. His youngest daughter called me Mr. Jorjan. I painted him an original piece of artwork for his birthday.

I was happy to do and experience all of this. For his gubernatorial run he never mentioned foreign policy. During his senate run, his foreign policy was driven by a desire to invoke what seemed like misplaced revenge.

When I finally realized he didn’t actually care about civilians and peace, everything I had previously ignored or excused made it obvious to who he was and that I was on the wrong side.

Jordan Domingue’s profile on X reads more like that of a Republican: USMC Combat Veteran – International Security Professional – Bjj Brown Belt – Lockheed – Anti DSA – Democratic Field Organizer – Rugged Individual

After leaving Abul’s campaign, Jordan Domingue became the founder of Democrats for Mike Rogers.

Continue reading.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

Republicans Must Either Vote in Droves or Kiss the Trump-GOP Agenda Goodbye

By The Daily Signal

What can Americans expect if Democrats win the U.S. House, Senate, or both on Nov. 3?

In 2010, according to Gallup, 50% of Democrats viewed socialism positively. This year: 65%.

Last month’s Center for Strategic Politics survey of 638 Democrat voters discovered that 59% would be very positive (43%) or somewhat positive (16%) if a military coup ousted President Donald Trump—no doubt, as the Left screamed: “Democracy!”

Scarier still, 32% of Democrats would feel very positive (23%) or somewhat positive (9%) if Trump were assassinated.

As Hot Air’s David Strom observed, “The cohort of voters they polled was not just the extremists. The top candidates they chose as their potential Democrat Party nominees were Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and Gavin Newsom … So spare me the claim that this was a bad sample that only polled the radical Democrats.”

The Secret Service has protected Trump through at least six assassination bids, including gunfire at Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024; Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course that September, and last May 11’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

However, Trump’s bodyguards would be powerless to prevent a Democrat House from impeaching him or a Democrat Senate from trying him.

This is what Democrats crave. The Center for Strategic Politics’ study revealed that 87% of Democrats would be very positive (75%) or somewhat positive (12%) if Trump were impeached. With Democrats almost universally salivating over a third Trump impeachment, it is implausible that a Democrat House would fail to indict Trump again. And, once again, they will fabricate charges to “get Trump.”

The Senate would have to confront the articles of impeachment. A Republican majority would need to invest time just to stymie this juggernaut. Meanwhile, Democrats gleefully would try, try again to convict Trump. This would halt all lawmaking and divide America even more bitterly.

Amid these troubling signs, self-sabotaging Senate Republicans foolishly defend the filibuster, a beautiful historical relic. Despite GOP senators’ heartwarming fantasies to the contrary, today’s Jacobin Democrats would catapult the filibuster into the Potomac within moments of conquering the Senate.

Come January, these Republican committee chairmen could yield their gavels to these ranking members:

  • House Foreign Affairs: From Florida Republican Brian Mast to New York Democrat Gregory Meeks
  • House Judiciary: From Ohio’s Jim Jordan to Maryland’s Jaime Raskin
  • House Financial Services: From Arkansas’ French Hill to California’s Maxine Waters
  • Senate Appropriations: From Maine’s Susan Collins to Washington’s Patty Murray
  • Senate Banking: From South Carolina’s Tim Scott to Massachusetts’ Elizabeth Warren
  • Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: From Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy to Vermont’s Bernie Sanders

HELP!

This fall, Democrat voters will dance barefoot atop rusty machetes to reach the polls. Republicans are ho-hum.

Among 1,000 likely voters in Emerson College’s Sept. 21-22 survey, 78% of Democrats are “very excited” to vote in the midterms, versus 70% of independents and just 66% of Republicans. The GOP must erase this 12% enthusiasm gap or brace for tears on election night.

Those waiting in the wings are not your father and mother’s guns-and-butter-oriented, tax-and-spend Democrats. Non-crazies like New York’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Connecticut’s Joe Lieberman are dead. Georgia’s Sam Nunn and Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu are far from power.

Today’s Democratic Party is flying on socialism, fueled by hatred of Trump and his supporters, and increasingly at peace with political violence.

Too many Democrats added blazing Teslas to anti-DOGE protests and worship Luigi Mangione, the highly scenic and equally deadly assassin of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Democrat activists cheered the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk—on the day he took a fatal bullet for free speech and, yet again, on Sept. 10, 2026, exactly one year since his murder, allegedly at the hands of Tyler Robinson, a Leftist propelled by transgenderism.

Republicans and sympathetic independents have two options: Storm the polls in droves to stop the leftward-marching Democrats, or stand down and let these neo-Marxists stomp the brakes on the entire Trump/GOP “America First” agenda.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

AUTHOR

Deroy Murdock

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with The American Spectator.

RELATED ARTICLES:

Election Watchdog Says System Allowed 600 Duplicate Absentee Ballots in Michigan

Squad 2.0

Hasan Piker Says Talarico Must Answer to the Left If Elected

RELATED VIDEOS:

Donald Trump just posted a video that perfectly explains Democrats plan for single Party rule in 96 seconds

Why Conservatives MUST Vote Early: Steve Cortes & Ned Ryun Explain

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Signal column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

The Election Issue Few Pollsters Are Talking About

By The Daily Signal

Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, was once known as the birthplace of Henry Ford and home of Ford Motor Co.’s headquarters.

Today it proudly boasts the title “Arab Capital of America,” with the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. In 2023, it officially became the country’s first majority-Arab city, with about 55% of the population identifying as having Middle Eastern or North African ancestry.

That also makes Dearborn home to a large Muslim population, similar to neighboring Hamtramck. There are 11 mosques within the city limits of Dearborn and more than 100 in the greater Detroit area.

Dearborn is the focus of a forthcoming documentary produced by Steve Cortes, a Daily Signal contributor who traveled to Michigan ahead of this year’s key U.S. Senate election between Democrat Abdul El-Sayed and Republican Mike Rogers. El-Sayed is vying to become the first Muslim elected to the Senate.

Cortes, a pollster who founded the League of American Workers, spoke with me about the Michigan race on the latest episode of the Daily Signal’s “Midterm Report” podcast. We also discussed the issues shaping Wisconsin’s gubernatorial election, Maine’s closely watched U.S. Senate race, and why it’s important for conservatives to vote early.

Michigan: The Impact of Muslim Migration

According to Cortes, the Michigan race remains highly competitive, though his polling currently shows El-Sayed with a narrow advantage.

“Right now in the polling, what we see is El-Sayed in my latest polling up by four,” Cortes said. “Most Michigan citizens, unless they’re sort of hardcore Democratic voters, don’t know very much about Abdul El-Sayed.”

Cortes said his documentary examines what he describes as dramatic demographic and cultural changes in communities such as Dearborn, Hamtramck, and Warren.

“When people think of Dearborn, if they know it, they might know it by Ford Motor Co.,” Cortes said. “This sort of quintessential industrial American town has been overtaken by mass Muslim migration.”

>>> US MUSLIMS GAINING POLITICAL POWER

Cortes said polling conducted by his organization found significant concern among Michigan voters regarding immigration and assimilation.

“When I poll this issue and I ask, ‘Is there too much Muslim mass migration?’ by a six-to-one margin, six-to-one, they say too much Muslim mass migration,” Cortes explained.

He argued that many voters are concerned Muslim immigrants are not integrating into American culture.

“People have quite sensibly said, ‘Wait a second, they’re not assimilating. They don’t agree with our values, don’t agree with our Constitution,’” Cortes said.

People in traditional clothing, including some associated with Muslim migration, walk across a gymnasium floor set up as a polling station, with voters checking in at tables.
Voters wait in line at the Lowrey School on Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Michigan. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

The documentary includes footage from Dearborn and surrounding communities that Cortes believes will surprise many Americans unfamiliar with the region.

“I think a lot of Americans are going to say, ‘Wait a second, is this good for our country?’” Cortes said.

Despite his concerns, Cortes believes the Senate race remains fluid and says Republican voters still have an opportunity to persuade undecided voters.

“I do believe [El-Sayed] is in the lead, but I think over the coming weeks we’re going to reverse that situation,” Cortes said of the Democrat’s polling lead.

Wisconsin: A Tight Governor’s Race

Michigan isn’t the only battleground state drawing Cortes’ attention. He has also spent considerable time in neighboring Wisconsin, where Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany is running for governor against Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley.

According to Cortes, voter frustration over education and property taxes is becoming a major issue in the race.

“In poll after poll, I find that Wisconsinites are extremely angry, extremely anxious about these soaring property taxes,” Cortes said. “But what are they getting for it? Well, they’re getting a worse and worse outcome, particularly regarding education.”

Cortes pointed to reading proficiency rates in Wisconsin schools, arguing that voters are increasingly questioning whether they are receiving adequate results for the taxes they pay.

>>> DATA CENTER BACKLASH UPENDS SWING STATE GOVERNOR’S RACE

He has also produced a documentary highlighting crime and immigration issues in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, a small city between Milwaukee and Green Bay.

“I was frankly shocked to learn just how much really violent illegal alien crime is happening in Wisconsin, someplace really far from the U.S.-Mexico border,” Cortes said. “This very pleasant middle-class community has seen truly horrific illegal alien crimes.”

Cortes said polling suggests the governor’s race remains highly competitive.

“I show that it is effectively tied,” he said of the contest between Tiffany and Crowley.

Maine: A Closely Watched Senate Race

Cortes also believes immigration and assimilation concerns could have an impact in Maine’s Senate race, where Republican Sen. Susan Collins is seeking reelection against Democrat Troy Jackson.

He recently traveled to Lewiston, Maine, for another documentary examining the city’s sizable Somali immigrant population and its effect on the community.

“A lot of people know about Michigan,” Cortes said. “But not Maine. People do not think of Somalis in Maine.”

>>> DOCUMENTARY SHOWS HOW MASS MUSLIM MIGRATION TAKES ADVANTAGE OF AMERICA

According to Cortes, the changes in Lewiston could become a significant campaign issue as voters weigh the future direction of the state.

“Lewiston, Maine, was traditionally a mill town settled mainly by French Catholics,” he said. “They completely changed the character of the town.”

Cortes argued that concerns about immigration, assimilation, and government spending could ultimately help Collins prevail.

“I think it’s going to be one of the reasons that Susan Collins is going to ultimately prevail,” he said. “I think the citizens of Maine who take a look at Lewiston are going to say, ‘Yeah, this isn’t a good idea for us.’”

Why Conservatives Should Vote Early

Beyond individual races, Cortes urged conservatives to embrace early voting, arguing that Republicans can no longer afford to wait until Election Day.

“The only way to do that is to win and to win under the current rules,” Cortes said. “And the best way to win under the current rules is to vote early.”

While many conservatives remain skeptical of early voting, Cortes said banking votes before Election Day creates strategic advantages for campaigns.

“The earlier you vote, the less money that organizations like mine and affiliate organizations spend chasing your vote,” he explained.

Democrats have gained an advantage by turning out supporters well before Election Day, he said, allowing campaigns to focus resources on persuading and mobilizing additional voters.

Using a football analogy, Cortes compared Republicans’ traditional strategy to intentionally spotting their opponents a significant lead.

“It doesn’t make sense for us to every time say we’re going to go into the fourth quarter and we’re going to just surrender a 20-point lead because we know we can score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter,” he said.

“If your state offers early in-person voting, take advantage of it,” Cortes added. “That’s what I do, it’s what Ned Ryan does, and that is the best way for us to be competitive in elections.”

AUTHOR

Robert B. Bluey

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of the Daily Signal. Follow on X RobertBluey.

RELATED ARTICLES:

Republicans Must Either Vote in Droves or Kiss the Trump-GOP Agenda Goodbye

Election Watchdog Says System Allowed 600 Duplicate Absentee Ballots in Michigan

Squad 2.0

Hasan Piker Says Talarico Must Answer to the Left If Elected

RELATED VIDEO: The Real Reason Some States Still Count Votes for Weeks

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Signal column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

“As a Jew, I Do Not Cry for Europe: Watching the Twilight of the Continental Hypocrisy”

By Amil Imani

“I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us; do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.” ― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Please read “I Do Not Cry for Europe” It is truly OUTSTANDING!


“As a Jew, I Do Not Cry for Europe: Watching the Twilight of the Continental Hypocrisy”

Harry Liberman

For centuries, Europe’s favorite and most enduring cultural tradition hasn’t been the opera, the architecture, or the haute cuisine. It has been the art of the scapegoat. And for two millennia, the script never changed: when the plague struck, when the economy collapsed, or when an empire began to rot from within, the solution was always to blame the Jews.

But history, it turns out, possesses a pitch-black sense of irony.

Today, as the continent slides into its twilight, those who were systematically hunted, expelled, and betrayed are sitting back, opening a bag of kosher popcorn, and watching the final act of the European drama unfold. I do not cry for a continent that engineered its own moral and demographic collapse.

It is a spectacle two thousand years in the making.

Let the historical record be completely unvarnished: Jews are not native to Europe.

The presence of the Jewish people on that continent did not begin with a peaceful migration; it began in chains. Following the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and the brutal suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt, hundreds of thousands of Jews were torn from their indigenous homeland in Judea and dragged across the Mediterranean as slaves to build the foundations of the Roman Empire.

Once there, the West promptly appropriated Jewish theology.

Europe built an entire civilization around a Jewish teacher named Jesus—a man who lived and died without ever hearing the word “Christian”—and then spent the next two millennia persecuting his kin for the crime of existing. The continent happily accepted the foundational texts of the Hebrew Bible, only to write a “New Testament” that essentially argued God had made a mistake the first time around, requiring imperial intervention—like Rome’s Emperor Constantine suddenly morphing into a saint—to correct the divine record.

Yet, even as captive Jews  turned citizen, a staggering chronological lineage of Jewish brilliance consistently built the framework of European excellence—gifts that Europe simultaneously exploited and despised:

Maimonides (Rambam) (1138–1204): The preeminent philosopher and physician who revolutionized medieval medical science and Aristotelian philosophy.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): The quintessential Renaissance master whose maternal ancestry links the peak of European artistic genius directly to a Jewish line. This was brought to light by archival discoveries in Florence by historian Carlo Vecce, who unearthed a 1452 act of liberation notarized by Leonardo’s father for an enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina.

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677): The radical philosopher whose foundational treatises on ethics and political thought single-handedly birthed the secular European Enlightenment.

Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786): The cultural pioneer who synthesized Jewish tradition with modern German philosophy, reshaping European literary criticism.

Karl Marx (1818–1883):The idiot self  hating Jew ,embraced  by anti Semites  whose seminal texts permanently rewrote the rules of global sociology, labor, and capital and brought empires into decline  !He is the  European  version of  Dathan, who is played by the legendary actor Edward  G Robinson in Cecile  B De Milles  Ten  Commandments : Much like Dathan using his status to manipulate or betray his community from within, Marx  subverted the biblical concepts of individual agency, law, and faith that sustained his ancestors. Tyrannies  who adopted Marxism :  how  did that   work  out  for  China , Soviets , Cuba , Europe,  Venezuela ,etc and currently the rage among the progressive left via millionaire leaders like  Bernie  Sanders whose anti  capitalist pro Marxist  speeches went from Millionaires to Billionaires . If ever  he becomes a Billionaire the  language  will  become Trillionaires … if only Bernie   grew a beard …  ancestry.com  they might  be related.

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939): The pioneer of psychoanalysis who unlocked the unconscious mind and established the framework of modern clinical psychology.

Albert Einstein (1879–1955): The theoretical physicist who formulated the theory of relativity, forever changing human understanding of time, space, and gravity. [1]

In World War I, Jewish soldiers fought loyally for the Kaiser, proudly wearing the Iron Cross on their chests. The reward?

A few decades later, the civilized world gathered at the Evian Conference of July 1938, where 32 nations stood up one by one to offer theatrical “sympathy” for Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror—while simultaneously locking their doors. Delegate after delegate gave bureaucratic excuses for why their nations’ strict immigration quotas could not be altered. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, while acting sympathetic in public, maintained a tight lid on immigration, ensuring America’s doors remained closed.

The inaction of Western powers at Evian directly emboldened Hitler.

The Nazi regime openly mocked the democratic world, noting with great pleasure that foreign nations criticized Germany’s treatment of Jews but refused to open their own borders when given the opportunity. As a result, the British White Paper trapped desperate refugees, and the continent looked the other way while six million were funneled into industrial slaughterhouses. The Allied liberation of 1945 wasn’t a grand moral rescue; it was merely an afterthought, arriving just in time to catalog the ashes of a genocide that global indifference—and the intentional silence of institutions like the New York Times and the Roosevelt administration—had enabled.

Even today, Europe clings to its looted Jewish history.

Austria proudly filled its museums for decades with stolen masterpieces like Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I—the “Woman in Gold”—refusing for generations to return what was plundered from Jewish hands. Meanwhile, Poland has managed a macabre monetization of the Holocaust. The ashes of a once-thriving population of 3.5 million Polish Jews are no longer there, yet the state-sanctioned dark tourism industry surrounding the death camps continues to heavily sustain the local economy.

All of this occurs while modern Eastern European authorities consistently block the restoration of, or compensation for, the massive amounts of private Jewish property seized during the tragedy. Poland remains the only major country in the former Soviet bloc that has never implemented a comprehensive private property restitution law for assets seized by the Nazis and subsequently nationalized under communism. Instead, they codified this refusal by enacting an administrative law setting a strict 30-year statute of limitations on legal challenges, effectively shutting down thousands of valid inheritance claims from Holocaust survivors and their heirs.

But Europe’s loss became the foundation of modern superpower dominance.

When the tides of hatred drove Jewish minds across the Atlantic, America won the day. It was Jewish intellectual power, patents, and unmatched resilience that transformed the United States—fueling the nuclear arms race that won the Cold War, building the cinematic empire of Hollywood, shaping the neon architecture of Las Vegas, and securing Western dominance.

Yet today, Washington treats the independent Jewish state like a dog on a leash, patting itself on the back for providing $3.8 billion in conditional military aid, while actively restricting Israel’s ability to decisively win its conflicts. This dynamic traces right back to 1948, when the State Department instituted a strict, comprehensive arms embargo on the region, preventing the nascent Jewish state from legally purchasing weapons to defend itself from annihilation. [1]

The internal politics behind this embargo were dripping with cold-blooded realpolitik.

While President Harry S. Truman harbored personal and political sympathies for a Jewish homeland, his administration was fiercely divided. The Department of State, led by Secretary George C. Marshall, alongside the Department of War, fiercely opposed any intervention that favored the Jews. Paralyzed by fears of losing access to Arab oil fields and terrified that a conflict would allow the Soviet Union to plant its flag in the Middle East, Truman’s advisors pushed a strict, unyielding embargo. Officially, it was framed as an even-handed neutrality act. In practice, it was a death sentence designed to cripple only the Jews, as the State Department even went so far as to block domestic shipments of steel plating intended to protect civilian trucks from ambush.

When the West completely abandoned Israel to a potential slaughter, it was an unexpected player that shattered the embargo: Czechoslovakia. Authorized behind the scenes by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin—who mistakenly hoped a socialist Israel would undermine British imperial dominance—Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk stepped into the strategic vacuum to sign a massive, secretive weapons contract.

Through an illegal smuggling network code named Operation Balak, Prague funnelled a desperate lifeline of armaments to the Jewish forces. The Czechs delivered over 34,500 P-18 Mauser rifles, 5,500 MG 34 machine guns, and over 50 million rounds of ammunition. Most critically, they supplied Israel’s very first fighter aircraft—25 Avia S-199s (salvaged German Messerschmitts) and 61 Spitfires—while providing secret military bases to train 81 Israeli pilots and ground crews. It was these smuggled Czech weapons that transformed a fragmented underground militia into a real army, arriving just in time to stop the advancing Arab armies on the coastal plains. [1]

The political betrayals peaked with the sabotage of the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan (Resolution 181). While the international community voted to establish independent Jewish and Arab states, Great Britain engaged in deliberate, malicious non-compliance. The British completely blocked the UN Palestine Commission from entering the territory to oversee a peaceful transfer of authority, actively ensuring administrative chaos.

As Mandatory forces withdrew, British double standards were on full display. While the Americans denied the Jews a single bullet, the British Empire actively funded, maintained, and armed the Transjordanian Arab Legion to the tune of £2 million a year. This professional fighting force was explicitly led by seconded British military officers under the direct command of General John Bagot Glubb (Glubb Pasha). [1]

In May 1948, this heavily armed, British-led force invaded the newly declared state. The Legion targeted Jerusalem, cutting off the main highway from Tel Aviv, enforcing a brutal blockade, and systematically starving 100,000 Jewish residents. The Arab Legion fortified the strategically superior police fortress and monastery at Latrun, completely shutting down access to the holy city. In a desperate bid to break the siege, rudimentary and outgunned Israeli forces launched five separate, bloody assaults on the al-Latrun salient. Waves of newly arrived, untrained Holocaust refugees were thrown into the inferno of the Latrun battles, suffering devastating casualties under heavy Jordanian artillery.

Though Israel eventually bypassed the bottleneck via the makeshift “Burma Road” to keep Jerusalem alive, Glubb Pasha’s forces successfully ethnically cleansed every single Jew from the Old City of Jerusalem and the ancient cradle of Judea and Samaria. Their historical ties were severed, Jewish properties were seized, and the region was illegally rebranded with a geographic fiction: “The West Bank”. When Jordan codified a “no-Jews” policy into its charter, only two nations on earth officially recognized the land grab: Great Britain and the newly minted state of Pakistan. This was par for the course for a British regime that later armed the Nigerian military to starve and slaughter two million Biafrans, mostly children, all to secure the oil flow.

The absolute pinnacle of this historic revisionism, however, belongs to the architects of global Anglo-colonialism.

In a coordinated diplomatic maneuver, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia officially recognized a Palestinian state. The stomach-turning irony requires immediate psychological and historical therapy. They are rushing to institutionalize the very label invented by second-century European Roman occupiers—Syria Palaestina—explicitly coined by Emperor Hadrian following the bloody suppression of the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE to punitively wipe the indigenous Jewish name of Judea from the map. [1]

Even before this formal recognition, the Trudeau government in Ottawa scrambled to resume millions in taxpayer funding to UNRWA, completely glossing over damning intelligence that employees of the agency directly participated in the October 7 massacre.

This entire performance is a masterclass in modern virtue signaling.

These Commonwealth nations choreograph these moral lectures while standing squarely on the stolen graves of the indigenous populations they systematically dispossessed, relocated, and erased to build their own vast settler empires. To witness the occupying governments of Ottawa and Canberra—built on the absolute destruction of First Nations and Aboriginal sovereignty—preach human rights and map-making to the actual indigenous survivors of Judea, right after the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, is nothing short of sick.

The grotesque circus reaches its peak across the Atlantic, landing directly on the flagpoles of Toronto City Hall.

Under the watch of Mayor Olivia Chow, Toronto approved the raising of the Palestinian flag—enabling the symbolic erasure of Judea from the comfort of a stolen municipality. The local theater is profoundly unhinged: a municipal leader representing a settler entity with barely 150 years of fabricated history has the audacity to scold a people with over 4,000 years of documented, unbroken lineage anchored in the Torah, the Bible, and the Koran. [1]

The hypocrisy folds in on itself entirely when one realizes this symbolic act of erasure is staged on the stolen lands of colonial Kanata—a country that literally appropriated its very name from the rightful indigenous owners who, like the Jews of Judea, were named directly after the land that bore them. For a shallow settler administration to lecture the original indigenous inhabitants of the Middle East is a supreme insult.

It ignores the reality that Jewish civilization stands on its own distinct historical foundation—an ancient taproot from which both Christianity and Islam branched, and without which neither theological architecture can even stand.

But empires, like all expansionist illusions, have an expiration date.

Rome fell. The Ottomans vanished. And Great Britain, once an empire upon which the sun never set, is now a fractured island watching its own cultural and political foundations dissolve. The colloquial moniker “Londonistan” isn’t just a political talking point; it is a mirror reflecting a continent that has fundamentally rewritten its own demographics through centuries of colonial hubris.

The structural metrics of European decline are now laid bare in undisputed, bleak mathematical reality. According to official data from Eurostat, the entire European Union population is projected to enter a terminal, irreversible downsize. The continent’s total fertility rate has cratered to a disastrous 1.38 births per woman—miles below the 2.1 replacement threshold.

Over the next few decades, the EU workforce is projected to shrink by millions of workers annually, while the over-80 demographic is set to nearly triple. Without [an ironic twist of  fate  and an existential threat to Europe ]”external migration”, from former  Colonies- Algeria  etc, nations like  the  UK,  France, etc  are mathematically projected to lose between a third and a half of their total populations by the end of the century.

The resulting domestic fractures are tearing the old consensus apart.

Major European capitals are rapidly losing their historical and secular identities, replaced by deep, unraveling civil polarization over border control, soaring demographic dependency ratios, and collapsing social welfare safety nets. Having spent generations meddling across the globe for oil and territory, European capitals are entirely paralyzed by the internal demographic inertia they themselves set in motion. The chickens have finally come home to roost.

Great cinematic minds like Cecil B. DeMille understood this eternal truth.

He didn’t build his Hollywood legacy on European myths; he built his greatest epics around the ancient narrative of Jewish endurance, culminating in The Ten Commandments. DeMille recognized that Jewish identity is defined not by a narrative of passive victimization, but by divine agency, law, and an unyielding pride that has outlasted every tyrant for 3,000 years.

Following the horrors of October 7, the old continent once again leaned into its historical muscle memory, seemingly expecting the Jewish state to fracture, apologize, and fade away under the weight of global condemnation. Instead, the paradigm has flipped.

Today, Europe looks into the mirror and sees a fractured future of cultural erasure and imperial decline.

Meanwhile, Israel—rooted in the very soil of Judea and Samaria from which it was driven—stands resilient, armed by its own agency, and defended by its own hands. For those who survived the crusades, the inquisitions, the white papers, and the betrayals, the view from the theater seats is remarkably clear.

You cannot boycott the history that sustains who you are—and right now, Europe is finally paying the price of admission.

Have a nice day.

©2026 . All rights reserved.

RELATED ARTICLES:

France: A Sick Country on a Sick Continent

Dear colonial Vatican, please return the vessels taken from our temple.

Proud Nazi Hasan Piker Says He’ll Be In Charge If “Inshallah, James Talarico Wins,” “He’s Got To Play Ball”

By The Geller Report

Seriously, Texas?

The left’s most popular streamer says out loud who would really be in charge if James Talarico wins the Texas Senate seat.

WATCH: Hasan Piker: “We are the force that allowed James Talarico to win this seat of power.”

“Hopefully, inshallah, after James Talarico wins,” Hasan Piker tells a crowd in this undated clip, and then goes on to heap scorn on Texas as a “no-shari’a state.” Piker then goes on to assure the crowd that Talarico will take marching orders from the Marxists and antisemitic activists if he knows what’s good for him: Hasan Piker says he’ll make sure James Talarico follows his far-Left agenda if he becomes a Senator: “After James Talarico wins…we have to remind him that…we are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power, and if he wants to maintain it he’s got to play ball.”… The Left has mainstreamed a deranged Jew-hatred that has become their own main motivating principle. They do not want to win an election; they want to win a revolution that will destroy constitutional order in Texas and America. Piker is among the vanguard of commissars that will enforce compliance, and Talarico is the stooge that will do what he’s told by the revolutionaries. (Hot Air.) Yesterday Talarico told a supporter that he’s just as radical on gender issues today as before, and today his socialist minders assure us that he will play ball with them.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLES:

Hasan Piker Says Talarico Must Answer to the Left If Elected

Democrat Spokesman Hasan Piker Says America Is Worse Than Al-Qaeda, “We Have Caused Tremendous Terror All Around The World”

Proud Nazi Hasan Piker Is Now the Face of the Democratic Party

Hasan Piker Threatens: ‘THE KNIVES WILL BE OUT’

Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyghur Banned From Entering the UK

Muslim Monster: Young Turks’ Hasan Piker Says ‘America Deserved 9/11’, Mocks Veteran’s War Injury: ‘Brave [Muslim] Soldier F***ed His Eye Hole’

Vile Hasan “America Deserved 9/11″ Piker Assures Voters: El-Sayed Still Hates Israel

Jihadi Abdul El Sayed’s Main Campaign Surrogate Piker: “F*CK the Constitution. I Wipe my Ass with the Constitution. MOTHERF*CK the Constitution and MOTHERF*CK this country.”

POSTS ON X:

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

‘I Have His Ashes’ Virginia Woman Claims Dem Governor Restored Voting Rights To Dead Felon

By The Daily Caller

Democratic Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger may have restored voting rights to a felon who has been dead for ten years.

Virginia resident Peggie Young claimed the governor’s office had sent her a letter restoring voting rights to a felon named Peter Alan Breton. In the Facebook post, Young described Breton as her “dear BFF,” who passed away in 2016.

“I don’t know what to say about this,” Young wrote in the post. “I received it yesterday, September 29, 2026. My dear BFF, Pete Breton, passed away in 2016. I have his ashes.”

“Is this perhaps how voter fraud begins? I’m so confused.”

The letter itself seemingly addressed Breton as the intended recipient, notifying him that Spanberger restored felons’ right to vote, ability to hold public office, to serve on a jury, and to be a notary. Notably, Spanberger restored virtually all rights to felons except for the “ability to ship, transport, possess or receive firearms.”

The Daily Caller reached out to Young and Spanberger for comment.

Spanberger announced in July that her office had restored voting rights to 66,085 Virginians “who were formerly incarcerated” since she took office in January.

“Virginia is one of three states with a constitution that permanently disenfranchises citizens with past felony convictions — leaving restoration of rights entirely to the Governor’s discretion,” the press release reads. “The civil rights restored by Governor Spanberger include the right to vote, serve on a jury, run for public office, and become a notary public.”

Virginians will also be able to vote in favor of or against a constitutional amendment that would allow convicted felons to automatically regain their ability to vote after they are released.

AUTHOR

Rebeka Zeljko

National Correspondent

RELATED ARTICLES:

INGERSOLL: Spanberger Spins A Siren Song As She Melts America From The Inside Out

Abigail Spanberger Preaches ‘Affordability’ In Trump State Of Union Response, Despite Presiding Over High Tax Regime

How To Crack Down On Corrupt Politicians? Make Them Pay. Literally

RELATED VIDEO: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from “DEATH TO AMERICA” to “VOTE DEMOCRAT”

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Caller column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

PARTY OF TREASON: Iranian Terror Regime Tells Americans to Vote Democrat in November

By The Geller Report

It’s no surprise that they’d find President Trump to be a threat, but this is astonishing.

It is a devastating indictment of how far the Democratic Party has fallen and how frighteningly dangerous that decline has become: America’s enemies need Democratic victories to advance their evil ambitions.

WATCH: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from “DEATH TO AMERICA” to “VOTE DEMOCRAT”

The regime that has conducted war against the United States for nearly a half-century while calling it the “Great Satan” has a public service announcement for American voters. The IRGC has put aside their ambitions of a world without the U.S. and Israel for just a moment for a heartfelt message on how voters can improve our country to Iran’s liking. And to no one’s surprise, they want — they need — the Democrats to win in the midterms.

New York Post:  Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps put out a 25-page letter addressed to Americans urging them to oppose President Donald Trump during the upcoming midterm elections. The IRGC, which as repeatedly tried to sway the November 3rd, 2026 elections, urged voters to reject the Trump (and Israel) in the voting booth.

Imagine if Hitler and the Nazis stumped for a candidate during the war. Same thing.

Iran tells Americans to vote for Democrats in upcoming election.

By: PJ Media, October 1, 2026:

In a 26-page sternly worded letter, the IRGC asked Americans to vote against President Donald Trump and Republicans because, well, it turns out that he’s just too mean to the former largest state sponsor of terror (Turkey has taken its place).

The “Open Letter to the Honorable People of the United States of America” released Tuesday urged Americans to vote for the Democrats and to give up fighting the Iranian mullahs because, among other things, we’re winning. Indeed, Iran has had “remarkable strategic wins,” the English version of the letter declares. There’s no telling what possible Persian or Arabic versions actually say.

“Although American politicians often win your votes through deception and false promises, as Trump did, you can change the makeup of the government,” the letter stated. “Remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America’s current state.”

As George Washington School of Law scholar and Fox News analyst Jonathan Turley noted, “It’s not a good sign when the IRGC shifts from “Death to America” to “Vote Democratic.”

The letter purports to set the record straight on the big questions about Iran and underlying premises for the war.

“Why do Iranians chant, ‘Death to America’? Are they hostile to the American people? The U.S. government claims that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) is a terrorist organization. Is this true?” the letter asked. The propaganda piece hilariously answered, “it should be fairly obvious that the phrase ‘Death to America,’ which Iranians have been chanting since the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, does not in any way express any ill will toward the American people.”

“The letter accused Trump of concealing the peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program, which Israel in particular sees as an existential threat, and the effectiveness of Tehran’s blockade of Gulf oil,” news outlet Alarabiya reported. “IRGC spokesperson Hossein Mohebbi,” the Baghdad Bob of Iran, said, ‘the American people are not knowledgeable about many developments. We believe if they knew more, they would think differently and take other decisions.’”

“The enemy [U.S.] knows that Iran is not after nuclear weapons,” Mohebbi said.

“Remove from power the evil, deceitful, and violent politicians who are responsible for America’s current state,” the Indian-based Deccan Herald reported. “Make sure your politicians understand that the world has changed.”

Never mind that its missiles, most nuke plants, army, navy, air assets, a swath of drone factories, and many IRGC leaders repose under rubble or at the bottom of the Strait of Hormuz. They’re not entirely vanquished, but after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and War Secretary Pete Hegseth get done with them, the IRGC strongmen will probably wish they’d skedaddled to a Russian dacha while the getting was good.

Sadly for the terrorists, the oil is flowing at almost pre-war levels through the Strait, and Saudi Arabia has resumed Red Sea oil shipments after Houthi (Iranian proxy) attacks.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLES:

Texas Democrat Confuses The Communist Manifesto For Mein Kampf In Embarrassing Fundraising Pitch

El-Sayed Backs First Christian Nation, Condemns US Aid To Azerbaijan

Saudis Transfer Thwarted Hijacker Pilot To UAE Custody As Motive Remains Officially Undetermined

How Much Do You Know about Sharia Law?

RELATED VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson: Islamist Immigrants Who Deplore America

POST ON X:

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Trump Says Midnight Hammer Strikes Hit ‘Drug Factories Slash Nuclear Facilities’ In Iran

By The Daily Caller

President Donald Trump says Operation Midnight Hammer strikes on Iran hit “drug factories slash nuclear facilities” in Iran.

Trump, who was at a midterm campaign rally on Thursday night in Durant, Oklahoma, was discussing the military operation, which comprised the United States’ initial strikes on Iran in June 2025.

Trump on Iran: “They were nuclear and drug. They were doing drugs but they were doing the nuclear. But these drug factories slash nuclear factories were hit so hard.” pic.twitter.com/ie318z7KgV

— FactPost (@factpostnews) October 2, 2026

Trump described the operation, saying the aircraft spent “37 hours” refueling before arriving over Iran at around 1 a.m. with “no moon” and “dark as can be.”

“These unbelievable machines led by the most incredible pilots in the world unloaded every single bomb, went right down air chutes into this, drug factories, really, that’s what they were doing,” Trump said.

“They were nuclear and drugs. They were doing drugs, but they were doing nuclear,” he continued. “But these drug factories/nuclear facilities were hit so hard.”

Trump’s comments describing the facilities as “drug factories” in addition to nuclear facilities appear to be the first time the president has suggested they were involved in activities beyond uranium enrichment, including drug production.

The precision strikes targeted three key Iranian nuclear facilities — Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan — using B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and submarine-launched Tomahawk missiles, according to the Department of War report.

Trump added that the facilities were located inside “granite mountains,” saying the bombs “went right down the chutes.”

“I don’t think they will be building too many air chutes from now on,” Trump said. “I can tell you.”

🚨 Trump announced on Truth Social that Europe has agreed to release a “massive” amount of their stocked diesel and will begin immediately. https://t.co/x9qfwGbUkJ pic.twitter.com/sJDahw1NAm

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 2, 2026

Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth described the operation as a success in a press conference following the attack.

In his opening remarks, he stated, “As the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs will demonstrate, it was an incredible and overwhelming success. The order we received from our commander in chief was focused. It was powerful, and it was clear. We devastated the Iranian nuclear program.”

Following the Midnight Hammer strikes, the U.S. launched Operation Epic Fury on Feb. 28, 2026, jointly with Israeli strikes, according to the Department of War website.

Central Command (CENTCOM) and the Pentagon also noted that U.S. and partner forces targeted Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command-and-control sites, air defenses, missile and drone launch sites and airfields in the opening wave. The operation lasted till a April 7 ceasefire deal.

The Daily Caller reached out to the White House for comment on the president’s remarks but did not receive a response in time for publication.

AUTHOR

Ashley Brasfield

Senior Politics Reporter

RELATED ARTICLES:

Remembering The 13 Lives Lost In Operation Epic Fury

Iran’s IRGC Addresses The American People In Unprecedented Open Letter

Lara Trump Warns Father-In-Law’s War ‘Could Cost Him These Midterms’

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Caller column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

New Report: Democrat Socialists (DSA) Policies Would Cost Americans Trillions

By The White House

Today, President Donald J. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers released a report revealing the severe economic cost – $49 TRILLION, over $350,000 per household – for American taxpayers over the next ten years if the Democratic Socialists of America’s top policies were adopted.

The report titled, “The Real Cost of Socialism in America,” details the scathing reality of their destructive policies:

  • Reopening our borders to millions of criminal illegal immigrants
  • Handing out amnesty to all illegal aliens in the U.S.
  • Abolishing the police, including ICE
  • Eliminating prisons, which will unleash criminals into American communities
  • Forcing government-run healthcare for everyone
  • Canceling all student debt for all borrowers

Make no mistake, these are the Democrats’ policies. They want to destroy our great, hard-fought nation, and plummet our economy and the very fabric of our nation into the ground.

What do those policies really look like? 

  • Everyday costs for Americans skyrocketing with double-digit inflation, soaring up to 160% over ten years;
  • Double-digit interest rates on loans and mortgages for American families at levels not seen in decades, kicking homeownership and the American Dream out of reach
  • Huge tax hikes, cutting hardworking Americans’ paychecks by almost 30% less
  • Millions of Americans’ jobs will be lost, high unemployment, and less pay for the same work

But under President Trump’s leadership, the United States of America will never be a Communist nation.

In 20 months, President Trump has set the United States back on track and ignited a nationwide renaissance after years of failed Democrat leadership sent our country spiraling into decline. President Trump put money back in your pockets and made our communities safer. America is Back!         

  • President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts put money back in Americans’ pockets and saved millions of working Americans over $82 billion with policies such as No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security, and permanently doubled the enhanced Child Tax Credit.
  • Inflation is coming down, especially on staple items such as beef, eggs, prescription drugs, motor vehicle insurance, and electricity, after the Democrats’ soaring inflation strangled families’ wallets.
  • President Trump is making the economy work for hardworking Americans again. America’s industries and manufacturing are surging, adding tens of thousands of American manufacturing jobs and increasing manufacturing wages by more than $3,000 from President Trump’s fair trade and pro-growth policies.
  • President Trump added over one million jobs to the American economy in under two years.
  • America is Energy Dominant again, with oil and gas production records last year, and more abundant and affordable energy on the way to American families.
  • President Trump’s Ratepayer Protection Pledge ensures hardworking Americans and small businesses aren’t footing the bill for America’s industrial-technological boom, and that their prices come down instead.
  • President Trump put Americans first and ended the Democrat open border crisis, securing the border and deporting over three million illegal immigrants.
  • President Trump made communities safe again with a never-before-seen drop in violent crime, and he is ensuring criminals are put in jail after the Democrats’ war against law enforcement.
  • The Trump Administration is bringing housing industry costs down, home prices are falling across the country, and the supply of homes for sale is at a 10-year high.

Only under President Trump is this reversal possible, and there’s much more to come.

Related

©2026 . All rights reserved.

RELATED VIDEO: Victor Davis Hanson: Islamist Immigrants Who Deplore America

Soros Years-Long Relationship With Abdul El-Sayed Predates Soros $57,800 A Ticket Sayed Fundraiser

By The Geller Report

The Soros axis of evil has long tentacles that stretches back decades.

Jeffrey Soros, the nephew of billionaire Democratic mega-donor George Soros, described what he said were years-long ties between his family and Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed during a fundraiser this week, according to footage obtained by Fox News Digital.

Key Details of the Connection

  • Tuition Support: Jeffrey Soros stated that his family paid for El-Sayed’s tuition via the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.
  • The Fellowship: El-Sayed won the immigrant-focused grant program in 2012 after an interview with Jeffrey Soros.
  • Financial Backing: The Soros-funded Democracy PAC has contributed heavily to aligned super PACs supporting Democratic candidates like El-Sayed.

Tickets reached $57,800 through El-Sayed’s victory fund, highlighting Jeffrey Soros’s long acquaintance with El-Sayed from a 2012 fellowship interview. Rogers called it proof of Soros backing for policies like defunding police and other progressive priorities, clashing with El-Sayed’s push to get money out of politics and focus on affordability. El-Sayed fired back by criticizing Rogers’ votes against cheaper Canadian drugs and pharma donations, as both campaigns highlight rival fundraisers and records in a tight race where El-Sayed holds a slight poll lead.

Not all billionaires are reviled equally it seems.

WATCH: Democrat Socialist Abdul El Sayed CAMPAIGNING IN CALIFORNIA at the Soros family home

Daugherty: Undercover footage has been released by Mike Rogers showing MI Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed CAMPAIGNING IN CALIFORNIA at the Soros family home

THERE IT IS.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLES:

PARTY OF TREASON: Iranian Terror Regime Tells Americans to Vote Democrat in November

TEXAS TERROR: Texas Capitol Attack Plot Foiled, Terrorist Vowed to “Shoot It Up,” Raged Against AIPAC, Said “These People Have to Be Exterminated”

ABSOLUTE CHAOS IN FRANCE: Muslims and Leftists Wreak Havoc, Declare War Against the French State, Muslim Mayor Joins In

Telegraph UK: ‘Hijacking “Part of 9/11-Style Plot”

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Trump’s Accomplishments: Here’s COMPREHENSIVE LIST the Media Buries While Cowardly Republicans Run From His Record

By The Geller Report

Do the job the media refuses to do: Get this list out there. Share it on social media, email it to friends and family, bring it up at the water cooler—use every part of your sphere of influence. Don’t assume people know what Trump has accomplished. Put the facts in their hands. Fashion yourself a Paul Revere – an army of Davids.

Reality versus propaganda—that is what’s at stake in the upcoming election. Actual news is ignored, inconvenient facts are buried, and the legacy media pounds out the same politically useful narratives until repetition passes for truth. Voters are being asked to judge a reality the press refuses to report honestly.

And what do too many Republican candidates do? They retreat. Frightened by left-wing polling they should be scrutinizing, they distance themselves from Trump—the very man who brought voters into their party and gave them a fighting chance. They mistake surrender for strategy and timidity for sophistication. You cannot win an argument you are afraid to make.

Meanwhile, Democrats close ranks, even around pro- terror, Soros candidates whose apologetics should make them politically untouchable. Their candidates can embrace extremism and still count on the party to defend them. Republicans have no such resolve for the president their own voters elected.

If the GOP loses, its leadership will have to answer for failing the people who put it in power. Voters did their part. They showed up, endured the smears, donated, organized, and delivered a mandate. They expected Republicans to use the authority they were given—to fight, deliver, and defend the agenda they campaigned on.

Instead, the Senate under John Thune has been a disaster of squandered opportunity. A majority is supposed to produce results. What good is winning power if your leaders remain afraid to exercise it? What good is a mandate if it disappears into procedural excuses and endless accommodation?

Republican voters did not work this hard to elect spectators. They did not give the party a majority so its candidates could run away from Trump while its Senate leadership frittered away the opportunity to govern.

We did our part. They owe us results. If they squander this election through cowardice and division, they should spare us the lectures about what the voters should have done differently. The voters delivered. The failure will belong to leaders whose retreats aided the very opposition they were elected to defeat.

Save America Yourself! Senate Adjourns Without Election Integrity Vote, Reurns *After* Midterms

Here’s a partial list of what Trump accomplished:

  • Record household income: Median household income reached $87,500 in 2025, an all-time high.
  • Record-low poverty: Poverty rates fell to an all-time low.
  • Strong employment: Low layoffs and firings, with historically low unemployment claims.
  • Manufacturing and construction growth: Both sectors are reported to be surging.
  • Record oil production: Domestic oil output reached an all-time high.
  • Growing retirement savings: Average 401(k) balances rose $25,000, benefiting plans held by more than 100 million Americans.
  • Higher income after inflation: Real median household income increased $6,600 during Trump’s first term and another $2,000 during his second term so far.
  • Tax-cut savings: The authors estimate Trump’s tax cuts add at least $2,000 annually to middle-class disposable income.
  • Nearly $10,000 in added purchasing power: The authors estimate the combined income gains and tax savings across Trump’s time in office total just under $10,000 for a median-income family
  • USAID and the “Institute for Peace” closed
  • Negative net migration for the first time in 50 years
  • Treasury Will Auto-Enroll 60 Million Children in Trump Accounts
  • The U.S. military withdraws from Iraq over 2 decades after its invasion.
  • 2.6 million+ illegal aliens removed (including 650,000 arrests and 400,000 convicted criminals) + 2 million self-deportations induced by ending incentives
  • Fentanyl trafficking crushed 56%+; overdose deaths down 21% monthly since inauguration
  • Laken Riley Act signed and aggressively enforced
  • Catch-and-release ended (99.9% drop); zero releases into the U.S. for eight straight months
  • Record-low border encounters; Darién Gap migration cut 99%
  • Largest one-year homicide drop in U.S. history; violent crime (rapes, robberies, assaults) down significantly
  • Targeted crime operations in major blue cities delivering record-low murders in several metros
  • Law enforcement officer deaths down 25%
  • Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other cartels dismantled; international drug cartels designated as foreign terrorist organizations
  • Antifa designated a domestic terrorist organization
  • Gas under $3/gallon in 43 states; record U.S. energy production and exports at all-time highs
  • 654,000+ new private-sector jobs (all net gains to native-born Americans); 671,000+ jobs added since January 2025
  • 4.3% GDP growth in Q3 2025; largest blue-collar wage growth in 60 years; real earnings up ~$1,100 annually
  • Inflation tamed to ~2.4% core CPI (down ~70% from Biden peak)
  • One Big Beautiful Bill passed (July 2025) — making 2017 tax cuts permanent, No Tax on Tips, Trump Accounts for newborns, senior deductions
  • $5T+ in deregulation savings + $215 billion in government efficiency cuts ($1,335 per taxpayer)
  • $10T+ in reshored/domestic investments secured
  • Trade deficit at lowest level since 2009; $300 billion+ in tariff revenues collected; predatory global tariffs shifted in the US’s favor for the first time in modern history
  • Stock market record highs
  • Gaza ceasefire + hostage release secured; 12-Day War (Israel-Iran) ended; multiple additional peace deals/accords (Armenia-Azerbaijan, India-Pakistan, DRC-Rwanda, Cambodia-Thailand, Kosovo-Serbia, Egypt-Ethiopia)
  • Iran’s nuclear capability destroyed + maximum pressure campaign (450+ sanctions designations)
  • NATO allies leaping toward 5% GDP defense spending
  • OPEC dismantling
  • 85+ detained Americans released; Abraham Accords expanded
  • Strikes on Houthis, Iranian assets, and narcoterrorist vessels; Nicolás Maduro captured
  • South America shifts rightwards; Europe shifts rightwards
  • Record military recruitment goals met; largest military investment in decades with AI integration; F-47 sixth-generation fighter unveiled
  • VA backlog reduced 60%; 3 million disability claims processed; 51,936 homeless veterans housed; benefits restored for vaccine-mandate discharges
  • Transgender enlistment barred; DEI eliminated across military and federal agencies
  • Over 269 executive orders signed in the term (230 in first year alone — highest first-year total since FDR); 81 memoranda + 158 proclamations
  • DOGE-driven bureaucracy cuts; IRS IT budget savings of $2B; wasteful contracts eliminated; federal retirement system automated and brought out of a literal coal mine
  • DEI discrimination banned in federal contracting and agencies; race-based hiring ended
  • DEI outlawed for college admissions; colleges’ patent revenue shared with taxpayers who funded it
  • Federal ‘boards’ and ‘commissions’ fired and replaced with conservatives
  • Washington, DC beautified; reflecting pool refinished
  • Gender ideology extremism curbed in schools, medicine, and government (minors protected from chemical/surgical procedures); girls’ sports protected from creeps
  • MAHA reforms launched: Presidential Commission established; Most Favored Nation drug pricing with 16+ major pharma companies; 8 artificial food dyes phased out (40%+ industry compliance); Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act; marijuana reclassified to Schedule III; childhood vaccine schedule revised from 72 to 11 consensus shots; expanded IVF access; $50M autism initiative; new whole-foods dietary guidelines
  • Massive firings at CDC, FDA, NIH of sold-out scientists; Ralph Baric and EcoHealth debarred; even some arrests
  • Withdrew from WHO
  • Crypto regulatory framework via GENIUS Act; Strategic Bitcoin Reserve created; Operation Choke Point 2.0 ended
  • Sanctuary city funding cuts implemented
  • Election integrity and citizenship verification measures expanded nationwide; USPS program pending; SAVE Act drafted and run at Congress several times now
  • Energy dominance unleashed: National Energy Emergency declared; 6,000+ drilling permits approved (55% increase); 13.1 million acres opened for coal leasing; record LNG exports (>100 million tons); nuclear projects advancing toward online status; major energy export deals ($100B South Korea, $200B Japan); Paris Agreement withdrawal
  • US becomes a net oil exporter for the first time in history
  • Trump Accounts launched for newborns with federal seed funding + corporate matching
  • Farmer aid secured; skilled trades and domestic manufacturing (semiconductors, autos, heavy equipment) expanded
  • Over 100,000 fraudulent visas revoked; 275,000 illegal aliens removed from Social Security rolls; benefits terminated for 1.4 million illegal aliens; H1-B crackdowns and $100,000 application fees
  • 62,000+ missing migrant children rescued; Alien Enemies Act invoked against gangs
  • Vice-president-led welfare fraud task force recovering billions and making mass arrests
  • $2B sent to rebuild Western North Carolina
  • Massive AI, space, and nuclear investment projects
  • John Bolton convicted. James Comey arrested. John Brennan under investigation (probably facing a grand jury).
  • RussiaGate grand jury set up and running in Florida
  • DOJ/ODNI seized Fulton County 2020 ballots. Trump is still working on Plans B, C, D, etc., with a ‘new’ integrity announcement scheduled as soon as tomorrow night.

Trump and Republicans can win the ‘affordability’ battle — here’s how

By: NY Post, October 1, 2026:

What a paradox: Almost all US economic indicators are strong today, and America’s economy is the envy of the world — yet consumers, stressed by gas prices at almost $4.50 a gallon, are in a bad mood.

That’s why Republicans need to go bold and sell the good news about President Donald Trump’s economy to voters.

After all, median household incomes jumped to an all-time-high of $87,500 in 2025, while poverty rates fell to an all-time low.

The latest jobs numbers show very low numbers of firings and layoffs, and record low sign-ups for unemployment benefits, as manufacturing and construction surge.

The Energy Department just announced that domestic oil production is at all-time record levels, thanks to Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” policies.

Meanwhile the 401(k) plans held by more than 100 million Americans, a useful gauge of household wealth, are up an average of $25,000 — after losing $24,000, in real terms, under former President Joe Biden.

But elections are about tomorrow, not yesterday — so celebrating these gains, strong as they are, isn’t enough to convince voters to stay the course.

And while the $5,000 government “dividend” payment that Trump floated in September may be a political non-starter, there’s a better way.

Republicans should pledge a sustainable “financial dividend” by continuing to slash taxes for middle-class families — expanding the work they started in their One Big Beautiful Bill a year ago.

That means making the bill’s individual tax cuts (tax-free tips, overtime and Social Security payments) permanent, along with 100% permanent depreciation for machinery, equipment, plants and data centers — pro-growth incentives that will expand the jobs boom.

They should also eliminate the unfair capital-gains inflation tax on stocks and homes, which would free up supply and make buying a new home less expensive.

This tax-slashing agenda will offer a sharp and much-needed contrast in the midterm elections, as Democrats keep pushing to raise tax rates.

They’re stumping all over the country promoting the Bernie Sanders line, replete with big-government, free-lunch socialist solutions.

If the GOP argues instead for free-enterprise prosperity, it’ll make a clear case for voters to choose the alternative that’s demonstrably best for family finances.

That’s because Trump’s agenda already has delivered high financial returns for families.

Trump’s affordability track record is outstanding.

In his first term, real median household income rose by $6,600 — and only the COVID lockdowns of 2020 kept that from becoming a nearly $8,000 median “dividend” per family.

Compare that to Biden, who oversaw a paltry $500 gain in median family income during his four years in the White House.

So far, through the first year and a half of Trump’s second term, real median income is up an additional $2,000 — that’s above inflation.

These are also pretax numbers: Including the value of the Trump tax cuts adds at least $2,000 more to middle-class annual disposable incomes.

Add it all together and we estimate — based on Census numbers and the value of the Democrat-opposed Trump tax cuts — that the median-income family has gained just under $10,000 in purchasing power in Trump’s first five-plus years in office.

That’s almost 20 times more than Biden delivered in four years.

In fact, most of the affordability crisis that’s driving voter anxiety was created during Biden’s presidency: About 80% in the rise in prices happened from 2021 to 2024, when inflation rose by more than any presidency since Jimmy Carter’s.

GOP candidates should be shouting these numbers from the rooftops — because the media sure won’t.

Republicans, don’t run away from the Trump economic miracle: Celebrate the fact that America is leading the world, thanks to our strategy of successful tax cuts, deregulation and energy dominance.

That’s a strong closing argument in these last few weeks of election season.

Bove list partially assembled by Jeff Childers in his list with this commentary (read it all) 

I told you it was a long list. (And I probably even forgot some stuff.)

Whenever someone posts “we should stay home on voting day because Republicans refused/failed to whatever”— that’s just self-destructive clickbait. As I said, we’ve seen this kind of narrative before. The formula is always the same— cherry-pick whatever issue is in the headlines this week that MAGA is unhappy about and promote that issue above every single good thing that has already been delivered— and delivered over just the first 18 months.

At best, it’s childish petulance of the worst sort; an all-or-nothing, perfectionist obsession that can never, ever be satisfied. At worst, it’s an organized demoralization campaign.

As evidence, the first person I quoted above claimed to have switched parties just last year, when he swore undying loyalty to MAGA after President Trump saved Western North Carolina. His ‘undying loyalty’ was, apparently, conditional and short-lived.

Confusing low-information voters by deliberately ignoring all the Administration’s successes is our political enemies’ job. Don’t do their job.

Maybe it’s just me, but I think any honest conservative with valid complaints would start by acknowledging that “the GOP has delivered a miraculous turnaround, saved the country, and nothing else even comes close,” and then say, “but I’d like them to … (pass the SAVE Act or require paper ballots or deport even more people).” Then, they’d suggest something constructive, like primarying someone or calling Senators’ offices.

But suggesting withholding our vote in the midterms it not constructive. It’s destructive. It sounds like exactly the kind of advice a DSA activist would offer us. Elect a few more socialists! That will teach them!

Look, I’m not accusing all these ‘conservative influencers’ of getting paid to publish the same psyop language as if it were from a template, even though, apparently, there is a lot of that kind of thing happening these days. I’m just saying. Be smart.

I bet you never thought mild-mannered House Speaker Mike Johnson had it in him. Yesterday, at a Republican Leadership press conference, the Speaker delivered a passionate, historically literate, and persuasive argument against the Democrats and their far-left allies, i.e., the Democratic Socialists of America.

image 6.png

CLIP: House Speaker Mike Johnson explains why the new Democrat party is an existential threat (8:27).

“Our rights come from our Creator, God; they do not come from the government,” Johnson explained, warming up. “The communist believes the opposite. They believe that government of the state is god, and that the state gives you all your rights. And you know what? The state can also take those rights away. And that’s exactly what happens. It’s inevitable in communism.”

All our beloved, muscular, anti-communist Cold Warriors from the last millennium have either retired or died off. The battle-worn GOP relaxed its battle against communism after the fall of the Soviet Union, giving the communists a 30-year ceasefire and time to rebuild and flourish.

But now —finally!— the cease-fire has ended, and we are manning battle stations again. I should have put that on the list.

“These crazy little mini-Mamdanis who are popping up all around the country—” Johnson continued, “they are a danger to you and your family. This is not a game. If they promise you free stuff, there is far more beneath those promises than some of these people understand themselves.”

“There have been a small number of times in the history of America where the actual experiment in self-governance was on the ballot,” the Speaker reminded. “The American people have to decide in November, in a midterm election for Congress and Senate. The barbarians are inside the gate.”

Watch the whole thing. We have only now begun to fight. They haven’t seen anything yet.

RELATED: Yesterday, the Hill reported the encouraging news, “House GOP breaks weeks-long standoff between Republican leaders and hardliners” The gist was that Speaker Johnson added the SAVE America Act as a rider to the latest National Defense Authorization Act, and Republicans squeaked it through on party lines, 215-211.

image 8.png

They legislatively MIRVed it (a MIRV is a type of missile carrying “multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles.”) True, it will still face all the usual hurdles in the Senate, where even the DST bill’s fate is uncertain. The Senate can still amend the NDAA and remove the Save Act.

But the point is— they aren’t giving up. This game is about shots on goal. You miss every single shot you don’t take.

Yesterday, Fox News reported the single largest month-to-month drop in inflation since the pandemic. “Sure, energy prices have come down, but everything else is down, too,” National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said. The Wall Street Journal reported, “ Cooling Inflation, Surging Bank Earnings Power Stocks.”

image 9.png

CLIP: Trump v. Experts = TAW again (1:12).

“This gives the Fed a little bit of room to breathe,” said Ross Mayfield, an investment strategist at Baird. “It’s definitely good news.”

Cooling inflation was the opposite of what 67 experts surveyed by Bloomberg unanimously predicted would happen. “It wasn’t just about energy,” Director Hassett explained, “it’s about all the other things that President Trump is doing to cut costs.”

If the drop represents a trend, not just a blip, then the economy could start moving quickly in a really strong direction. Experts say that will never happen. The Administration’s economic team says that is exactly what is happening. Whom to believe?

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

EDITORS NOTE: This Geller Report is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

2030 Census Shake-Up: Which States Win and Lose Under Trump’s Plan?

By The Daily Signal

The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the 2030 U.S. census, to cease counting illegal immigrants, could boost congressional seats and electoral votes for battleground states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin at the expense of large states such as California and Texas, research suggests.

A 2024 study projected immigration trends under the Biden administration for the 2030 census, said Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies. Those projections would be altered by President Donald Trump’s existing crackdown on illegal immigration and could be reversed entirely under the census proposal.

“This census proposal could flip the dynamic,” Camarota told the Daily Signal. “Midwestern states would not lose as much, nor would Texas or California, which have large immigrant populations, both legal and illegal, gain as much.”

The current census model apportions congressional districts to states based on total population rather than total citizens. But the administration published a regulation in the Federal Register last month, now open for public comment, that would no longer count illegal aliens or legal residents with a status lower than a green card. The new rule would also eliminate questions on the form about race and sexual preference.

The study shows that under the existing model of counting illegal immigrants, the 2030 census would result in California, Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Florida gaining congressional seats and electoral votes. Meanwhile, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, with a lower illegal immigrant population, would lose a seat in Congress. That would be reversed under the Trump plan, Camarota said.

There are about 24 million noncitizens in the country, of whom 13 million are illegal aliens and 3.6 million are temporary workers or another legal status that falls short of being a legal permanent resident. So the new rule could mean counting about 16 million fewer people, Camarota said.

Only citizens can legally vote in any congressional district, which are divided based on total population. Camarota notes it’s easier to win a congressional seat with a smaller voting pool than in a district with a larger one.

“It seems on its face, this would undermine the intent of one-man, one-vote,” Camarota said.

The report points to the 33rd Congressional District of Texas that has one-third noncitizens and 262,000 fewer voting-age citizens than the 21st District, where 6% are not citizens. California’s 40th Congressional District is one-third noncitizen, or about 233,000 fewer voting-age citizens than the state’s 4th District, where just 4% are noncitizens. New York’s 14th District is almost one-third noncitizens, with 172,000 fewer voting-age citizens than the state’s 27th District, where 1% are noncitizens.

“Illegal immigrants should not be counted in the census at all. It’s about congressional apportionment, and Congress is here to serve the citizens,” Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow for national security policy at The Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Signal.

Gonzalez contends that striking the racial and sexual preference boxes from the census could strike a potential “fatal blow” to the Left’s balkanization of the country.

“The census has been the Left’s building block for identity politics,” he said.

Notably, Gonzalez added, a future Democrat president possibly taking office in 2029 likely couldn’t reverse it in time for the 2030 census.

“There may not be enough time for a future administration to add this back. They would have 11 months. They might have to wait to 2040 to reverse this,” Gonzalez said.

Not all Democrats have been subtle about a potential advantage from counting illegal immigrants. At an October 2021 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said, “I need more people in my district just for redistricting purposes, and those members could clearly fit here.”

The Center for Immigration Studies’ 2024 study extrapolated from 2020 census data and compared the immigrant count to what the count would have been without immigrants.

As a result of the immigrant population in the 2020 census, California and New York benefited the most, respectively, with eight and three extra House seats, according to the Center for Immigration Studies report. Florida has two additional seats, while Illinois, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Texas have one additional seat because of immigrants.

Immigration caused other states to lose a House member, which included battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. The rest were red states of Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia. Ohio had two fewer seats than it otherwise would have.

When looking only at the illegal immigrant count, it would distribute another seven seats in 2030. Without factoring in a proposed new census model or the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants, the Center for Immigration Studies study shows that Texas and California would each have two additional seats in 2030 from illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Florida would each have one additional seat.

The losers would be the states of Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, which would have one fewer seat due to illegal immigrants being included in the 2030 census.

Counting legal and illegal immigrants, the numbers are even larger.

California would have nine more House seats in 2030 than it would have had without immigrants. Immigrants in 2030 would cause New Jersey and Florida to have three more seats under the previous trends. Massachusetts, New York, and Texas would get two more seats than they otherwise would have had without counting immigrants. Georgia would get one extra House seat.

Under the previous 2030 projection that did not factor in a new census proposal, a new census policy, or a crackdown on illegal immigration, Wisconsin and Ohio would have two fewer seats. States that would lose one seat are Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

AUTHOR

Fred Lucas

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Signal column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Last Chance to Register to Vote

By Jerry Newcombe, D. Min.

Soon, the opportunity to register to vote will come to an end. For anyone who is not registered to vote, please do so now. It’s easy and quick.

In America, if we don’t like the government we have, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

If the common sense side of things loses in the Midterms 2026, this nation will get bogged down in attempts to impeach (again) the president. What does this mean for…

  • the economy and affordability,
  • on safe and secure elections,
  • the borders,
  • the unborn,
  • religious liberty,
  • on keeping boys out of women’s sports?
  • the threat of radical Islam?

The founders intended impeachment as a means to drive corrupt politicians out of office. It was never a means to be used against political opponents.

In Article 2, Section 4, the U.S. Constitution states: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

America is not a banana republic. And it should never be turned into one.

During the Constitutional Convention debate, James Madison, a key architect of the American Constitution, took notes during the deliberations. He declared that he “thought it indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community against the incapacity, negligence or perfidy [treason] of the chief Magistrate. The limitation of the period of his service, was not a sufficient security. He might lose his capacity after his appointment. He might pervert his administration into a scheme of peculation [embezzlement] or oppression. He might betray his trust to foreign powers.”

Yet the left has already warned us that if they prevail in the midterms, we can expect more impeachment efforts against the president and his cabinet.

Meanwhile, are Christians and conservatives planning to sit this election out? I hope not.

Princeton-trained Debbie Wuthnow, the director of ivoterguide.com, a division of the American Family Association, writes: “Dr. George Barna and the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University revealed, while 85 percent of likely voters will pull the lever at the top of the ticket, only 55 percent say they will ‘definitely vote’ for offices further down the ballot.”

What kind of offices could be neglected by voters? Wuthnow counts the ways: “District attorneys. Mayors. Judges. County Commissioners. City Council. School board. When we relinquish our votes as Christians, these critical offices are being left to chance or influenced by activist groups. In the process, we inadvertently silence the Christian voice in politics and surrender our values to the unbelieving political culture. If godly people don’t vote, they leave the ungodly to choose for them.”

Yipes. Wuthnow’s group works to provide information on these various candidates.

We hear so often that “this is the most important election in our lifetime” that it has become a cliché. But there is a lot at stake in Midterms 2026.

Here’s the real question: Whose vision do you want to prevail in America? That of Donald J. Trump, despite his prideful boasting, or that of Hasan Piker, the Islamist, socialist influencer, who says America deserved 9/11 and that he wants to see the spilling of capitalist blood on the streets of America?

The First Amendment states in part that we the people have the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But why resort to such a measure, when we can simply vote?

Sometimes, it’s hard to get Christians to go out and vote. Why? Somehow, they associate politics with being a dirty business. But John Calvin Coolidge warned us: “If good men don’t hold office, bad men will.”

Dr. D. James Kennedy was a mentor to me. I had the privilege to write almost twenty books with him. He once observed this about Christians and politics, including voting: “I remember 20 years ago, a Christian said to me, ‘You don’t really believe that Christians should get active in politics, do you?’ And I said, with tongue in cheek, ‘Why, of course not, we ought to leave it to the atheists, otherwise, we wouldn’t have anything to complain about. And we’d really rather complain than do something, wouldn’t we?’”

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said recently that what is on the ballot this time around is not just representatives of our two political parties, but “this is a contrast between two completely different worldviews for America, who we are, and what we’re going to be. And that’s what’s on the ballot.”

What’s at stake this time around? As I see it…Freedom and flourishing versus socialism and suffering. There’s a great quote, widely attributed to William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. Whatever its true origin, it stands on its own: “Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

©2026 All rights reserved.

MIDTERM STATE UPDATE: 1 Local Issue Is Shaking Up Races in Key Battleground States

By The Daily Signal

Midterm Report: Inside the Key Races in Texas, Ohio, and Virginia

Virginia is one of the first states to open its polls, and I cast my ballot the day early voting began.

There’s a lot at stake this election year in the commonwealth, particularly Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage. But Virginia is hardly alone among the states that will shape the direction of the country.

That’s why I invited three members of the Daily Signal’s State News Network to join me on the latest episode of “Midterm Report” to talk about the election news they’re tracking in the states they cover.

I spoke with Joe Thomas in Virginia, Rebecca Downs in Ohio, and Emily Medeiros in Texas. Our state team is now active in five states, covering both the policy debates in state capitals and the candidates who will determine control of Congress next year.

What struck me most was how often the three of them came back to the same point: The issues animating voters this year are intensely local and quite personal, and the candidates who tap into them will have the advantage. From data centers to immigration to the cost of living, those concerns vary from state to state.

“All politics are local,” Thomas said. “These are all local issues that these national candidates have to tap into because that’s where the motivation is going to be.”

Virginia’s Ballot Measures: Read the Fine Print

On his morning radio show and in his Daily Signal coverage, Thomas has been tracking the constitutional amendments on Virginia’s ballot, which have drawn opposition from the commonwealth’s two Catholic bishops and more than 200 pastors. They’ve voiced concern about the implications for expanding abortion throughout pregnancy and redefining marriage.

Thomas warned voters to pay close attention to the wording of the ballot questions. The Democrat-controlled General Assembly wrote the language, and Republicans, lacking a majority in either chamber, had no say.

>>> MORE THAN 200 VIRGINIA PASTORS SIGN LETTER OPPOSING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

“It is incredibly deceptive,” Thomas told me.

He noted that abortion and same-sex marriage are already legal in Virginia. So why are Democrats putting the amendments on the ballot? Thomas said they are designed to punish people who object or fail to comply, such as a doctor who won’t perform a late-term abortion.

He also sees a strategic purpose to boost Democrats. The amendments, Thomas said, are intended to make conservatives uncomfortable enough to stay home rather than vote no.

>>> A RARE MOVE BY A VIRGINIA BISHOP AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY

“It’s very important to look into the nerdy details of these ballot referendums because there’s so much more going on here than meets the eye,” he said.

The money gap is significant. Thomas noted that $2.8 million has flowed to the pro-abortion side of just one amendment, compared with $444,000 for the “vote no” campaign.

Ohio: Two Toss-Ups in a Red State

Downs is following two marquee races in Ohio, and she considers both toss-ups.

In the Senate special election, Sen. Jon Husted, who was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to fill the seat vacated by Vice President JD Vance, faces former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Brown lost to Sen. Bernie Moreno by about 3.6 points in 2024, a year President Donald Trump carried Ohio by roughly 11 points. In a midterm election year with a Republican in the White House, Brown has a chance to return to Washington.

The governor’s race pits former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy against Democrat Amy Acton, the former state health director who led Ohio’s COVID-19 response. Downs said that record has hurt Acton.

Downs said the issue generating the most attention is data centers. Brown has hammered Husted over his ties to the industry, with ads effective enough to prompt a warning memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee in August. Husted’s position is that decisions should be made locally. He’s also sponsoring legislation requiring data centers to pay their own way rather than pass costs to ratepayers.

>>> HOW WILL DATA CENTERS AFFECT OHIO’S ELECTIONS?

Downs is also tracking legislation from Husted and Moreno that would withhold federal funding from states that issue driver’s licenses to people who can’t prove legal status—a response to fatal crashes on Ohio roads.

In the weeks ahead, Downs will cover the contest between Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur and Republican Derek Merrin in Ohio’s 9th District, a recent federal appeals court ruling that lets Ohio require proof of citizenship from people registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and Ohio Issue 3 that would enshrine voter ID in the state constitution.

Texas: Talarico Under Scrutiny

Medeiros is closely tracking the Senate race between Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democrat state Rep. James Talarico, which she described as neck and neck.

Most recent polling has Talarico up slightly, although Medeiros is skeptical of those numbers. She said polls tend to underrepresent rural conservatives and reminded me that many predicted Beto O’Rourke would beat Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.

Talarico has faced persistent questions about his religious beliefs, and last week brought a new one: undercover video released by Blaze Media of a pastor Talarico has called a mentor. Medeiros said the controversies could ultimately help Paxton.

>>> HIDDEN CAMERA CAPTURES PASTOR ADMIRED BY TALARICO CRITICIZING EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS

She also questioned the Democrats’ claim that Texas isn’t a red state but a “non-voting” one. “It is very much still a red state,” she said. “I just think the Democrats are being extremely loud right now.”

Medeiros sees three issues motivating conservatives in Texas: H-1B visas, data centers, and the Islamification of parts of the state. She cited the roughly 50 mosques built in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the past two years, and she’s covered a recall effort in McKinney that grew out of residents’ opposition to a mosque near a high school. Organizers say they’ve gathered about 6,500 signatures, exceeding the roughly 5,800 required. On data centers, she said water use is the top concern for rural Texans, particularly in Corpus Christi, which is nearing a water emergency.

She’ll also be watching South Texas congressional races reshaped by redistricting, including Rep. Henry Cuellar’s reelection bid.

The Daily Signal publishes a weekly state newsletter for each of our five states. Subscribe now to follow the work of our State News Network reporters.

AUTHOR

Robert B. Bluey

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of the Daily Signal. Follow on X RobertBluey.

RELATED ARTICLE: It’s Been One Week …

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Signal column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

MIDTERM STARTE UPDATE: 1 Local Issue Is Shaking Up Races in Key Battleground States

By The Daily Signal

Midterm Report: Inside the Key Races in Texas, Ohio, and Virginia

Virginia is one of the first states to open its polls, and I cast my ballot the day early voting began.

There’s a lot at stake this election year in the commonwealth, particularly Virginia’s proposed constitutional amendments on abortion and marriage. But Virginia is hardly alone among the states that will shape the direction of the country.

That’s why I invited three members of the Daily Signal’s State News Network to join me on the latest episode of “Midterm Report” to talk about the election news they’re tracking in the states they cover.

I spoke with Joe Thomas in Virginia, Rebecca Downs in Ohio, and Emily Medeiros in Texas. Our state team is now active in five states, covering both the policy debates in state capitals and the candidates who will determine control of Congress next year.

What struck me most was how often the three of them came back to the same point: The issues animating voters this year are intensely local and quite personal, and the candidates who tap into them will have the advantage. From data centers to immigration to the cost of living, those concerns vary from state to state.

“All politics are local,” Thomas said. “These are all local issues that these national candidates have to tap into because that’s where the motivation is going to be.”

Virginia’s Ballot Measures: Read the Fine Print

On his morning radio show and in his Daily Signal coverage, Thomas has been tracking the constitutional amendments on Virginia’s ballot, which have drawn opposition from the commonwealth’s two Catholic bishops and more than 200 pastors. They’ve voiced concern about the implications for expanding abortion throughout pregnancy and redefining marriage.

Thomas warned voters to pay close attention to the wording of the ballot questions. The Democrat-controlled General Assembly wrote the language, and Republicans, lacking a majority in either chamber, had no say.

>>> MORE THAN 200 VIRGINIA PASTORS SIGN LETTER OPPOSING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

“It is incredibly deceptive,” Thomas told me.

He noted that abortion and same-sex marriage are already legal in Virginia. So why are Democrats putting the amendments on the ballot? Thomas said they are designed to punish people who object or fail to comply, such as a doctor who won’t perform a late-term abortion.

He also sees a strategic purpose to boost Democrats. The amendments, Thomas said, are intended to make conservatives uncomfortable enough to stay home rather than vote no.

>>> A RARE MOVE BY A VIRGINIA BISHOP AHEAD OF ELECTION DAY

“It’s very important to look into the nerdy details of these ballot referendums because there’s so much more going on here than meets the eye,” he said.

The money gap is significant. Thomas noted that $2.8 million has flowed to the pro-abortion side of just one amendment, compared with $444,000 for the “vote no” campaign.

Ohio: Two Toss-Ups in a Red State

Downs is following two marquee races in Ohio, and she considers both toss-ups.

In the Senate special election, Sen. Jon Husted, who was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine to fill the seat vacated by Vice President JD Vance, faces former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown.

Brown lost to Sen. Bernie Moreno by about 3.6 points in 2024, a year President Donald Trump carried Ohio by roughly 11 points. In a midterm election year with a Republican in the White House, Brown has a chance to return to Washington.

The governor’s race pits former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy against Democrat Amy Acton, the former state health director who led Ohio’s COVID-19 response. Downs said that record has hurt Acton.

Downs said the issue generating the most attention is data centers. Brown has hammered Husted over his ties to the industry, with ads effective enough to prompt a warning memo from the National Republican Senatorial Committee in August. Husted’s position is that decisions should be made locally. He’s also sponsoring legislation requiring data centers to pay their own way rather than pass costs to ratepayers.

>>> HOW WILL DATA CENTERS AFFECT OHIO’S ELECTIONS?

Downs is also tracking legislation from Husted and Moreno that would withhold federal funding from states that issue driver’s licenses to people who can’t prove legal status—a response to fatal crashes on Ohio roads.

In the weeks ahead, Downs will cover the contest between Democrat Rep. Marcy Kaptur and Republican Derek Merrin in Ohio’s 9th District, a recent federal appeals court ruling that lets Ohio require proof of citizenship from people registering to vote at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and Ohio Issue 3 that would enshrine voter ID in the state constitution.

Texas: Talarico Under Scrutiny

Medeiros is closely tracking the Senate race between Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democrat state Rep. James Talarico, which she described as neck and neck.

Most recent polling has Talarico up slightly, although Medeiros is skeptical of those numbers. She said polls tend to underrepresent rural conservatives and reminded me that many predicted Beto O’Rourke would beat Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.

Talarico has faced persistent questions about his religious beliefs, and last week brought a new one: undercover video released by Blaze Media of a pastor Talarico has called a mentor. Medeiros said the controversies could ultimately help Paxton.

>>> HIDDEN CAMERA CAPTURES PASTOR ADMIRED BY TALARICO CRITICIZING EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS

She also questioned the Democrats’ claim that Texas isn’t a red state but a “non-voting” one. “It is very much still a red state,” she said. “I just think the Democrats are being extremely loud right now.”

Medeiros sees three issues motivating conservatives in Texas: H-1B visas, data centers, and the Islamification of parts of the state. She cited the roughly 50 mosques built in the Dallas-Fort Worth area over the past two years, and she’s covered a recall effort in McKinney that grew out of residents’ opposition to a mosque near a high school. Organizers say they’ve gathered about 6,500 signatures, exceeding the roughly 5,800 required. On data centers, she said water use is the top concern for rural Texans, particularly in Corpus Christi, which is nearing a water emergency.

She’ll also be watching South Texas congressional races reshaped by redistricting, including Rep. Henry Cuellar’s reelection bid.

The Daily Signal publishes a weekly state newsletter for each of our five states. Subscribe now to follow the work of our State News Network reporters.

AUTHOR

Robert B. Bluey

Rob Bluey is president and executive editor of the Daily Signal. Follow on X RobertBluey.

RELATED ARTICLE: It’s Been One Week …

EDITORS NOTE: This Daily Signal column is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Legal Immigration from Majority-Muslim Nations Was Cut 96% Since 2024

By The Geller Report

New figures show that Trump has cut legal immigration from majority-Muslim nations by 96% since taking office in January 2024. This is what should have happened after 9/11.

America’s domestic enemies will club us like baby seals with this (islamofauxbia!) but it is impossible to know how many lives have been saved, how many terror attacks, rapes, fraud crimes and Gd knows what were prevented.

We cannot lose the House or Senate.

AUTHOR

Pamela Geller

RELATED ARTICLES:

Trump’s Iran Strategy Is Working