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Ex-USAID Officials and Military Brass Discuss Extra-Constitutional Plans for America
A collection of non-governmental organizations staffed by former members of the military, federal government, and intelligence community is reportedly working to undermine the Constitution following the midterm elections. The alleged network of former military officers, intelligence officials, and ex-USAID personnel is coordinating to advise state governments on scenarios involving military intervention during the 2026 midterm elections, according to investigative researcher Jennica Pounds, better known online as DataRepublican. The groups, including Renew to Thrive and National Security Leaders For America (NSL4A), have backed anti-Trump protests, discussed when the federal government could be declared illegitimate, and entertained “extra-constitutional” measures. Danielle Reiff, a former USAID democracy officer, has reportedly been operating through various grassroots organizations working to undermine the Trump administration since USAID’s closure in July 2025. “Take it from those of us who worked in authoritarian countries: We’ve become one … they were so quick to disband USAID, the group that supposedly instigates color revolutions,” one former employee reportedly declared. “But they’ve done a very foolish thing. You just released a bunch of well-trained individuals into your population.” “I’m seeing a crisis of legitimacy with the November midterm election … what we really need to do is transform our system,” Reiff stated in a recording of a March 25, 2026, meeting.
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House Democrats Preemptively Pay Marc Elias Over $12.7 Million for Recount Legal Services
Reports indicate that the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), the official campaign arm of House Democrats, has already paid Democrat mega-lawyer Marc Elias more than $12.7 million as it braces for an extended legal brawl to reverse Republicans’ election-night victories. FEC data revealed at least 218 reported payments from the DCCC to Elias during the 2025-26 campaign cycle, specifically earmarked for “recount” legal services. As of Sunday, the total was $12,758,770.21. However, the data did not include any payments made in the most recent quarter, with the last-quarter filing cutoff appearing to be Aug. 28. On Aug. 28 alone, the DCCC reported 12 separate payments to Elias totaling $381,630.73. Elias is perhaps most widely known for being the intermediary between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the opposition-research firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned the fabrication of the notorious Steele Dossier. President Trump referred to Elias during the 2018 post-election battles as Democrats’ “best election-stealing lawyer.”
Anti-ICE Group Claims FBI Knocked After Leaked Talks of Killing Conservatives
A Utah anti-deportation group reportedly endorsing violence against conservatives said Saturday that the FBI came looking for its members. People of Provo Against ICE told the leftist outlet Fight Back! News that agents knocked on multiple doors to track down three advocates for undisclosed reasons on Friday. The organization made headlines days earlier over leaked audio, first reported by The Cougar Chronicle, in which members said they need to kill society’s wealthy “one percent,” President Donald Trump, other right-wing politicians, and their children. A recent photo in their Discord group chat also showed participants praising artwork with the words “shoot Trump” on it. “You just can’t get away from capitalism,” a person reportedly said in the group’s leaked audio discussions, to which another replied, “No, unless we kill everybody.” Participants listed the various political enemies they deemed deserving of death versus “reeducation.” A member allegedly added that “you also have to kill their children.” “If you’re talking about politicians or billionaires? No. Those f***ers gotta go,” a People for Provo Against ICE leader reportedly said. “Period and point blank.” “The FBI’s investigations into People of Provo Against ICE are meant to intimidate activists,” Fight Back! News wrote. “Protesting is not a crime, and PoPAI will not stop fighting back against ICE.”
Democrats Spend $36 Million on Epstein-Related Ads in Midterm Elections
Democrats have leaned into outrage surrounding Jeffrey Epstein to whip up voter sentiment, spending over $36 million on Epstein-related ads in the 2026 midterm elections, according to an AdImpact analysis. Epstein has become a central theme as part of the midterm cycle, with candidates often trading accusations over who was somehow connected to the late sex offender. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) Senate Majority PAC alone said it spent over $20 million on Epstein ads in Senate races in Maine, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas, Georgia, and Alaska. CBS News tallied over 500 ads featuring Epstein or pedophiles run this cycle, most of them from Democrats. The ads typically focus on donors who were connected to Epstein, incumbents’ votes to not release the Epstein files, or occasionally references to the candidates in the files themselves. Some Republicans have decided to go on the attack, making their own attack ads about Democrats and sex offenders. These are often candidate-specific, such as an ad targeting Kansas Senate candidate Adam Hamilton, who was accused of mishandling sexual abuse allegations against a church camp volunteer. The ad was filmed in the style of the hit NBC show “To Catch a Predator.” Democrats and some far-right figures have coined the term “Epstein class” as a byword for a shadowy elite that indulges in pedophilia.
Editor’s Note: Because for desperate politicians and political parties, it’s all about the perceived sex scandal when there is no platform to run on.
More Than 27 Million Americans Have Voted Early in Midterms
More than 27 million Americans have already cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm Election Day, according to new data posted by the University of Florida’s Election Lab. As of Oct. 25, the figures show that 27.7 million have voted early across the United States in 47 states. Only New York, New Hampshire, and Alabama have not reported data. Of that figure, 13.5 million in-person early votes have been cast, and more than 14.2 million mail-in ballots have been returned. So far, 59.4 million people have requested mail-in ballots. In places where party affiliation is reported, 6.17 million early voters were registered as Democratic, 4.19 million as Republican, and 3.2 million had no party affiliation or a minor-party affiliation. A slim majority, or 50.8 percent, of those who voted early or returned a mail-in ballot were aged 65 or older. Around 53.9 percent of early voters are women, and 44.4 percent are men. More than half of the people who have already cast ballots are white, at 59.6 percent. Early voters included President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, who both cast their ballots in Palm Beach County, Florida, on Oct. 24. After he voted, the president was asked whether he voted for Republicans and said, “Very much so.”
DOJ Reports Violent Crime Dropped 25 Percent in 2025
A preliminary survey released on Oct. 26 showed that levels of violent crime across the United States dropped around 25 percent in 2025 from the previous year. The report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey program within the Department of Justice shows that non-fatal violent crime, excluding simple assault, dropped across the United States by 25 percent from 2024 to 2025. The crime rate was 9.9 per 1,000 people aged 12 and older in 2024 and fell to 7.4 per 1,000 people in 2025. Aggravated assaults dropped 31 percent, from 4.5 to 3.1 per 1,000 people, in the same period. Trespassing and burglary fell 25 percent, car theft fell 30 percent, and other types of household theft fell 19 percent from 2024 to 2025. “This report is proof that President Trump’s ‘Make America Safe Again’ agenda is working,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said in a statement on Monday. “Under President Trump and Attorney General Blanche, the safety of law-abiding Americans will always come first.” Monday’s report further estimated that there were 7.5 million “violent victimizations” in 2025, down from 8.2 million in 2024.
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Judge Rules DOJ Unlawfully Fired Maurene Comey
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, an Obama appointee, ruled that the Department of Justice illegally fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Furman concluded her removal was not authorized by any statute and violated the Civil Service Reform Act. He wrote that the Attorney General may remove an AUSA only in a particular manner and for certain reasons, and that Comey’s removal indisputably violated the CSRA. Defendants argued Article II bars Congress from regulating AUSA removals, but Furman said that flies in the face of nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent. Comey worked on high-profile cases including Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell. The DOJ fired her in July 2025. She sued in September 2025, claiming the firing came a day after she was asked to lead a major public corruption case and three months after an “Outstanding” review, and that it was solely or substantially because of her father or her perceived political affiliation.
Robert Reich Demands Democrats Defund Musk and Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink
Democrat commentator and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich demanded that the US government should “defund” Elon Musk and called for Democrats to go after him and commandeer his companies if they take the majority in Congress in the midterms. He made the comments during his podcast “The Coffee Klatch,” while speaking to left-wing commentator Heather Lofthouse. He said that Democrats in Congress should work to “defund” Elon Musk and “lay the groundwork for nationalizing” Musk’s companies SpaceX and Starlink. “It should be a public corporation. We should not ever have that kind of power in one person’s hands, one private person’s hands,” he said. “I mean, Musk is trying to buy the senator from Texas. Why should we allow this, seriously?” Reich said, “This is Exhibit A in terms of the billionaire takeover of America; this is the oligarchic problem. Musk represents the power of oligarchy in America over democracy.” In response to the comments from Reich, Musk replied on X, “Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich.”
Irish Government-Funded Ad Lectures Grandparents on Hugging Without Consent
Ireland faces the consequences of unchecked migration, with reports of at least 322 plantations across the country and the International Protection Accommodation Service reporting roughly 33,250 people in its system at the end of 2025, a 450 percent increase since 2021. Protests have erupted over plans to house male migrants in small towns, and incidents include a Sudanese charged over a knife attack in north Belfast and the 2023 stabbing of five people, including children, in Dublin by an Algerian migrant. Yet a government-funded video from the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre’s We-Consent campaign lectures grandparents. The narrator notes, “Not everyone wants a hug,” as two grandparents lean in to love on their granddaughter, “Even from the people who love them.” “Awkward? Maybe. Important? Absolutely.” “We-consent is here to help.” Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan said the video “does not represent the views of the Government. It was both inappropriate and demeaning to grandparents and has been removed by DRCC following my official’s engagement with them.”
Scottish Museum Removes Egyptian Mummies Over Lack of Consent
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, removed Egyptian mummies from public display. The remains of the priest Egyptian Nekht, in his painted coffin, a mummified male head, a mummified right hand from the Valley of the Kings, and a mummified right foot have all been removed. A sign now states the human remains were removed “as a mark of respect,” citing a draft human remains policy that requires “documented and informed consent” from the deceased individual or their descendants. Finding relatives of Nekht, thought to have lived sometime between c. 1985 and 1797 BC, would be close to impossible. The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow has draped the mummified body of Lady Shep-En-Hor, on display for over 200 years, so visitors can no longer see the remains, while the ornate sarcophagus remains on view. The museum said she “deserved privacy in death.” Scottish Tory MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife Murdo Fraser said, “This is woke madness at its most ridiculous.” Reform MSP Thomas Kerr noted, “3,000 years of history maneuvered by a Glasgow Museums diversity officer.”
Somaliland Accuses Ilhan Omar of Leaking Classified Congressional Info to Somalia
Ali Hassan Mohamed, former Somaliland minister of information, originally posted in 2024 that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) leaked information from a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting to Somali leaders during a December 2022 visit to Garowe. He said she urged them to take proactive actions against Somaliland, and the Las-anod conflict broke out a month later. The @RepOfSomaliland account, which Somaliland’s Foreign Ministry says is not an official government channel, repeated the accusation again, saying she pressed Somali leaders to act against Somaliland before U.S. relations strengthened. Hundreds were killed and thousands displaced in the February 2023 conflict. The post described her as operating as a foreign agent. Omar has faced separate scrutiny over immigration fraud allegations, including claims involving her father’s naturalization records.
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Brazil’s Leftist President Declared Winner Over Bolsonaro After Suspicious Election Ruling
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva edged Flávio Bolsonaro 51.8% to 48.2% in Sunday’s presidential runoff to claim a fourth term. Bolsonaro refused to concede and vowed legal action to overturn the results. Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanin, Lula’s former lawyer whom Lula appointed in 2023, ordered a two-hour nationwide voting extension three minutes after polls closed. Both campaigns had sought more time, though Lula’s requested it in every state. Election workers were caught unaware as some stations had already closed. Bolsonaro said the ruling changed the rules “in the middle of the game” and created unequal treatment. Lula gained 10.4 million votes between rounds to Bolsonaro’s 3.7 million. Voters gave Bolsonaro’s party its largest congressional bench in decades.
Rioters Storm Colosseum in Rome, Clash With Police Across Italy
Protesters clashed with police across Italy on Saturday and briefly stormed the Colosseum in Rome. Giorgia Meloni’s government said expanded police powers prevented widespread disorder through preventative detention. Police largely stopped ultra-left anarchist groups from demonstrating, though about 2,500 left-wing students protested in Rome. Around 500 protesters breached the Colosseum. Police used water cannons near Via Vittorio Emanuele Orlando. About 10,000 protested in Milan, where police arrested Youssef Siher, a 30-year-old of Moroccan heritage accused of organizing the October 17th Movement. Violence broke out in Florence and Bologna with fires and barricades. Meloni said, “The right to demonstrate must always be guaranteed, as must the right of citizens to live in their cities in safety.”
Final Israeli Polls Point to Stalemate Ahead of Tuesday’s Election
Final polls ahead of Israel’s election show neither Benjamin Netanyahu’s bloc nor the opposition led by Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar reaching the 61 seats needed for a Knesset majority. Channel 13 projected the change bloc at 54 seats and Netanyahu’s parties at 50. Yashar led with 22 seats, Likud with 19. An Israel Democracy Institute poll found 35% of Jewish Israelis preferred another election over a unity government with rotation (28%) or a minority government (23%). Nearly half of Arab respondents (46%) preferred a repeat election. Small parties including Ofer Winter’s fell below the 3.25% threshold in multiple surveys. The average gap between blocs stood at about 4.5 seats.
Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado Makes Surprise Return Home After Nearly a Year Abroad
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado returned home Sunday after nearly a year abroad, announcing “I’m here. With you all.” Her arrival comes nearly 10 months after U.S. forces captured Nicolás Maduro in January. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez, a Maduro ally backed by the Trump administration, remains in power with no presidential election scheduled. President Trump said he was unaware of her return but called her “a very nice woman” who “gave me her Nobel Prize” and hoped she was safe. Fellow opposition leader Edmundo González confirmed her arrival and said he would join her “very soon.” Machado, awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, left Venezuela in December after months in hiding. Her return could complicate opposition ties with the interim government and Washington.
Exit Polls Point to Nov. 1 Runoff in Bulgaria’s Presidential Race
Exit polls put Bulgaria’s incumbent presidential ticket below the threshold for a first-round win, pointing toward a Nov. 1 runoff. Myara put the ticket led by President Iliana Yotova at 35.6% and former caretaker Prime Minister Andrey Gyurov’s at 32.5%. Alpha Research estimated Yotova at 35.3% and Gyurov at 32.4%. Market Links gave them 32.2% and 31.6%. Turnout stood at 16.04% by 10 a.m. ET Sunday, 8.08 points below the same point in 2021. Article 93 of the Constitution requires more than half of valid votes and more than half of eligible voters for a first-round win. Yotova called for “peace through negotiations, rather than force.” Gyurov said Bulgaria should have “a voice of its own in Europe.”
