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04 Nov 2026

Republicans Kicked In The Butt

As of Midnight Wednesday morning,  the Democrats appeared certain to regain control of the U.S. House. They will perhaps command as many as 250 seats, leaving the Republicans with 185 seats. The leftists also took the Senate, flipping seats in at least seven states — Iowa, Kansas, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and Texas. There, the margin was running 53 Democrats to 40 Republicans, with 7 seats yet to be called.

What cost the Republicans so many seats? Affordability issues mattered as well as blowback from the Iranian War. President Donald Trump barnstormed the states pressing for Republican support, but he could not stem the tide. Unease over AI contributed to the malaise.

The only remaining question: Was this a true election result or did the Democrats cheat? Did the Democrats introduce phony mail-in ballots or allow illegals — even dead voters — to cast ballots? Those are questions we could and should ask, but probably will not get an honest answer anytime soon.

Meanwhile, in the gubernatorial races, the Democrats flipped four states so far — Georgia — where Keisha Lance Bottoms won, as well as Iowa, Ohio and Texas.. Republicans clung to narrow leads in South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Vermont, New Hampshire and Nebraska.

In the Senate, the Michigan race remains too close to call. Republicans did not flip any Senate races, although they threatened to do so in Minnesota. The blowback from Ilhan Omar’s shenanigans and Gov. Tim Walz’s welfare fraud issues obviously cost Democrats in the frozen North,

In addition to Republicans, pollsters also took it on the chin, as so many of their forecasts appeared to be flawed or phony. One likely reason: The New York Times, for instance, saw Democratic voters being 30 percent more likely to answer poll questions than Republicans. Here’s more from Next News Network.

 

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30 Oct 2026

The First Domino Has Fallen

There are at least eight, maybe as many as 10, U.S. Senate races that will be decided by less than five points. That includes races in Texas, Michigan, Maine, most likely North Carolina, Georgia, New Hampshire,  Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas and Iowa as well. But it now appears one of the razor-tight races in the 2026 midterm elections has already been lost by the Democrats — the race in Alaska, where the Democratic candidate Mary Peltola is trying to upset incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.

Members of Peltola’s staff pulled a fast one, a bit of chicanery aimed at confusing voters and siphoning Sullivan’s votes away through trickery. These Democratic staffers convinced another man named Dan Sullivan to get on the ballot to draw away votes intended for the incumbent. This imposter might have been handsomely paid, meaning he could be headed for jail.

One big problem for Peltola? The New York Times ran a major expose, calling attention to the crass attempt to cheat. CNN piled on as well. Normally these mainstream media outlets let this kind of Democratic monkey business go without any reporting whatsoever. But the administration of President Donald Trump has been lambasting these outlets as “fake news,” so they are under considerable pressure to be more even-handed in their reporting. This is doubly so in this case, as U.S. Attorney Todd Blanche has made clear he is investigating and it likely to hand down election fraud charges in this case of the twin Sullivans.

What will be the result? Whether she faces a heinous fraud charge or not, Peltola, who previously served as a U.S. House member from Alaska, is likely headed toward defeat. And the fallout from this scandal will extend beyond Alaska.

In all of the close Senate races mentioned above, RINO Republicans and true independents now got fresh notice: The Democrats are blatant and corrupt fraudsters who cheat every opportunity they get. This glaring example will cost that party across the entire nation. With a lot of close races looming, let’s hope that several more dominos fall! Here’s more from Steve Turley.

 

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18 Oct 2026

Talarico Now Trailing In Texas

Ken Paxton has now taken the lead in Texas as a new Quantum poll shows state voters reacting to James Talarico’s two-week disappearance from the campaign.

Talarico says he was dealing with a bout of the flu, leaving him bed-ridden in Austin. But multiple reports suggested he had suffered some sort of mental breakdown and had gone for treatment at an therapy clinic in Mason, Ohio.

No matter what’s motivating the change, there is definitely movement toward Paxton along with Texans taking a more critical view of Talarico. Here’s more from The Liberal Hivemind.

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12 Oct 2026

Talarico At The Funny Farm

James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Texas, has suffered a mental breakdown and been submitted for treatment at an asylum in Ohio.

He was reportedly holed up at the Lindner Center of Hope, an inpatient mental health treatment facility in Mason, Ohio — a suburb of Cincinnati. Here’s more from The Salty Cracker.

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03 Oct 2026

Dems Feeling Fugly Now

Pollsters in early September were forecasting a blue tsunami. Now, the tides have turned. Not only is talk fading of a blue tsanami, but pollsters are beginning to hedge their bets. Most are now predicting more Republican wins or warning of “Republican steals.”

Will the GOP manage to hold both the House and Senate? Maybe, maybe not. Our odds appear best in the Senate, while if we take the House, the margins could be extremely thin. In other words, this election is shaping up as a real nailbiter.

With any luck, the Democrats will get their clocked cleaned. It’s a party that needs to flounder until it can muster the courage to expel its most radical and hardcore leftists, the socialist rabble. The Democrats will only turn more moderate if they first get kicked in the teeth hard. Here’s more from Steve Turley.

 

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30 Sep 2026

Steel Is National Security

President Donald Trump has announced a new $15 billion steel plant being built in Iowa. The Mesabi Metallic plant in Lee County, a rural area in southeastern Iowa, will be the largest steel plant in the United States. The plant is scheduled to open in 2030 and use ore mined in Minnesota, and ferried down the Mississippi River to Iowa.

This follows announcement of expansion of the existing  Cleveland-Cliffs steel plant in Middletown, Ohio. Steel production is extremely vital to national security.  The United States had allowed its steel plants to go belly up with production moving mostly to Communist China. But now there is a renewed interest in strategic minerals as well as steel.

The Covid evil has been exposed again. In hearings Monday hosted by U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin,  senators learned of how hospitals failed to administer proper care during the pandemic. Johnson claimed leaders used the pandemic to “gain undue power and control over our response to COVID.” He apologized to those who lost someone to “cruel” hospital policies. Here’s more from And We Know.

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02 Sep 2026

Driving Schools Shut Down

The U.S. Transportation Department has joined the fight against illegal aliens by shutting down 110 schools offering commercial driving licenses. Sean Duffy, the Transportation Secretary, says the schools were offering the CDLs to illegals, including those who had failed English-language proficiency tests.

“From states failing to follow the law to shady training schools and illicit companies, together we will tackle every link in the chain,” Duffy said. This follows Operation Highway Shield, which involved targeting unqualified drivers on big rigs in four states — Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Iowa. The operation led to the arrest of 51 illegal aliens, as well as recovery of nearly one million dollars worth of stolen cargo.

Also in this edition: Border Security, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent demonstrates the power of financial enforcement and energy chokepoints remain under threat, notably the Strait of Hormuz, but others as well. Pray. Here’s more from And We Know.

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23 Aug 2026

Bessent’s Finances: No More Bull

As headlines warn of a $40 trillion U.S. debt and a “bond market explosion,” Barbara Boyd argues a manufactured financial panic is being used to attack President Donald Trump ahead of the midterms. She spotlights Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “discreet” plan—echoed by Vice President JD Vance—to get economic growth to outpace debt by directing credit into productive investment rather than speculation or consumer handouts.

Boyd frames the approach as an updated Alexander Hamilton model: Sovereign credit for infrastructure, technology, and industry to expand real output and contain inflation, while curbing Wall Street and Fed-driven speculation. She cites Bessent’s focus on domestic production and supply chains and highlights executive-order priorities including advanced manufacturing, nuclear and fusion power, a Moon colony by 2028, and breakthrough science.

The episode also features Vance’s critique of free-trade policies, “deaths of despair,” and a $1B Cleveland-Cliffs investment in Middletown, Ohio. Here’s more from a new episode of Promethean Updates.

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24 Jul 2026

Cyclospora: How It Spreads?

Is the explosive diarrhea bacteria spreading through our water supplies? Why are so many of the reported illnesses been in states around Lake Erie?

How do you protect yourself from the spreading disease? How can you cleanse infected produce, whether lettuce or melons?

Here are some safety tips and tricks, as well as what to watch out for. Neal K. Shah,  CEO of Careyaya, offers a clear explanation.

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01 Jul 2026

Deportations Loom For Haitians

Here’s a look at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to remove temporary protected status for some 250,000 Haitians, sending them back home. There’s a lot of gnashing of the teeth going on among Democrats who brought these people here en masse and deposited them wholesale in select communities. The focus here is on Springfield, Ohio, where Haitians now make up 20 percent of the population.

The hard reality? The Haitians still haven’t assimilated into that community. More than 60 percent of the Haitians are on welfare, receiving  SNAP benefits and other government handouts. They have received those handouts for more than 15 years. So while they arrived in a flurry, there’s nothing at all temporary about their status now.   Those that wanted to stay could have found jobs, and secured permanent status as citizens.

Those that remained on temporary status will go home, with one last handout of about $2,000 to help them adjust. Seems pretty fair, or at least a modest way to resolve a longstanding predicament.

Mostly, Democrats are whining — the Haitians help to buoy their voting bloc. But CNN and MSNOW also hauled out relic Republicans like John Kasich and Ohio Gov. Mike Dewine to complain. Dewine never worried about the Springfield residents who lived in town before boatloads of immigrants arrived. He and Kasich are a couple of dirt bags, plain and simple. Here’s more from Mark Dice,

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