Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.” – Samuel Adams
Our Hope Castle Project, which now includes Riqueday Castle and our Harrisburg project, is about to go into overdrive as the winter comes to a close. In Harrisburg, Bill has made advances towards readying his apartment space so he can stay there more often to get more work done.
In Canton, we have been monitoring the thawing out of our pipes after the ice disaster and have found no major problems (so far). We will be doing a complete test of the system next week.
We will have a more thorough update in the May 1, 2026, issue, which will be the April 2026 Monthly review.
We want to remind our readers that there will be no issue next week. This is a scheduled off-week (to see our 2026 publishing schedule, go to the back page of this issue) which coincides with Passion Week for my household. This year, my wife and I will be doing a daily bible study plan together covering the last 12 chapters of the gospel of John (two chapters a day).
We will be returning on April 10, for our first ever Quarterly Review. In this issue, we will offer our Predictive Analysis for the next three months. We will also have news on the ministry of our founder, Don McAlvany, which recently went through a great trial that ended in triumph.
The title of this final thought, Shifting Tones, is our next topic. We will end with an update about our website, mindfulintelligence.news.
For the past couple of years, we have endeavored to express our news analysis in the language of the prophetic, seeking to call what we see by what we consider to be the most viscerally accurate descriptions we possibly could. While that prophetic voice is not going away completely, we believe we have entered a new season, one that compels us to shift our tone.
The purpose of our prophetic tone is two-fold, to jar the “sinner” into a candid awareness of the nature of the “sins” they are committing and to bring to raw awareness what we believe to be the current spiritual state of our land to those who continue to deny it. The latter audience would be horrified if they believed the depraved nature of the crisis we face was true.
We believe we have now entered a new season, one in which, for the most part, the “sinner” is aware of their “sins” and has only doubled down on them. We also believe that those who continue to deny the depth and depravity of the crisis we face have a vested interest in the power created by that same depravity. They are mostly locked in to the faction they have chosen, come what may.
While some people will yet repent and turn away from the patterns of death, and some will newly become aware of the depth and depravity of the crisis we currently face, we believe the major factions are mostly set, at least for the next 3-5 years. This assumes there is no unforeseen ecumenical catastrophe or technological breakthrough that radically alters the realities of power.
The time for geographic consolidation is coming (blue and red state migrations). It has already begun. It will only be accelerated.
The major factions in this country are roughly three, with the third not yet self-identified, and certainly not organized at any level.
The first faction will be referred to from here on out simply as the Progressives or the Democrat Party. The second group will be referred to as the Conservatives. The Republican Party represents a mix of these two major factions, and perhaps a handful of people from the third major faction.
While I have chosen to use the term “conservative” to describe the second faction, I do not want to suggest that this an actual conservative faction. Rather, it is a term the majority of the people within this faction call themselves. Yet within that group are American leftists (not Progressive leftists), pragmatists, and simple Americanists (who usually refer to themselves as constitutionalists and are largely registered independent).
This faction is the Not-Progressive faction, the faction that recognizes the anti-Americanism of the Progressives without necessarily understanding Americanism beyond freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and having the most powerful military in the world.
A large portion of this faction are potential Americanists, even if they’re not fully aware of it yet, but not all of them are. Some of them are as anti-American as the Progressives. Generally, the further “right” you go, the less American you get (at least within this faction).
A lot of standard terms that we have been using you will either no longer see or rarely see. Here is one example that demonstrates how we applied our prophetic tone principle and how we are changing it:
We have referred to the Democrats, or Progressives, as the DNC-CCP, which we will rarely do in the future. This decision is NOT because we believe that term is inaccurate, but because at this point it should be redundant to anyone paying attention for the last two years. It is also not fair to the Republicans, who seem to have their own CCP connection issues.
Donald Trump himself, at least publicly, portrays China sometimes as a great adversary and sometimes as a fair competitor. He has freely and openly complimented Chairman Xi, for instance. His unwillingness to end Chinese student visas in the tens of thousands annually reinforces our suspicion that Trump sees China as a “useful” polar power in a future world.
China’s influence in America might only be rivaled by Israel at this point. That influence crosses party lines, in both cases.
In the case of Israel, it should be noted that we are not dealing with an adversary who wants our very form of governance annihilated, they mostly want our military might and funding of their military might. We have also benefited from military technologies our tax dollars helped them develop.
China sees America as the last impediment to the establishment of a social-first worldwide governance standard, ending every human’s hope of escaping to an individual-first governance standard since there would be no such governance left standing. Yet China has more favor with U.S. politicians than tax paying Americans do.
This example is one of many terminology changes we will be making as we shift away from a primarily prophetic tone to a preparatory tone. At this point, we assume our readers, and future readers, already understand the depth of the crisis we face. They don’t need to be reminded of the depth of that depravity anymore.
In addition to recognizing that the “teams” are mostly set for the next few years to come, we also recognize the ratcheting up of violent rhetoric on all sides, and do not wish to unnecessarily fuel those flames.
From a Christian perspective, the only authority that can use violence to challenge civic authority (the state) is civic authority, not rogue actors, self-declared “militias” or violent mobs. If civic authority fails to challenge unjust civic authority, we should consider this God’s choice. We should consider an unjust civic authority a righteous punishment on the land.
His works will not be counted as righteous, as surely as the work of the Assyrians and the Babylonians were not considered righteous in their favor. But the punishment they inflicted on Judah and Samaria was a righteous judgment on an unrighteous land.
We are not pacifists. Christ did tell us to buy a sword, and two swords were enough, In that spirit, we advocate people fighting civic authority that is seeking to come to kill them. We simply DO NOT advocate for violence as a means of replacing their authority.
David evaded Saul’s attempts to kill him, taking a whole retinue with him to do so. Whenever he had a chance to strike Saul, he refused. He would not use violence as a means of usurping civic authority outside of civic authority itself (which he lacked at the time).
We hope to grow our audience over the coming months, and we want to cultivate a new audience that has the spirit of the one we already have, a spirit of doing the hard work it takes to be self-stewards while under assault from factions that seek to aggressively kill that spirit in this land once and for all.
That audience already understands the nature of the enemies we face, enemies we are yet called to love, enemies we are called to invite to repentance and restoration (not perpetual condemnation). They no longer need any more shock and awe reminders of the depth and depravity of the crisis we face, nor will any but a very few of the progressives be the least bit moved or shocked into repentance by hearing the nature of their depravities plainly spoken.
The third major faction in this country is one I believe most of our readers belong to, and one I self-identify with, the Americanists. We are those not afraid to let our neighbors be wrong in public. We are those brave enough to allow our competition to beat us fairly and squarely.
Among the conservatives (the Not-Progressives) there are plenty of Americanists, and even among the progressives there are still a few Americanists not yet convinced the progressives ARE what we tell them they are.
I believe most Americanists are out of the party game altogether. They are mostly independents or people not even registered to vote. I am one of these people. I let my registration lapse and refused to renew it as I began to believe there were no “American” choices being offered. My non-registration is an act of protest against a voting system I have no faith in anymore.
This is the audience we are seeking to grow so we can expand our publication’s support. This is the audience we think primarily represents the audiences we mostly already serve, Christian Americanists, Americanist “Independents,” and Christian conservatives.
Our analysis of the news will continue to come from the same perspective, Christian Americanist, and it will continue to have a prophetic perspective as well. The language, however, will mostly change to accommodate the new season we believe we have entered for the next handful of years (barring an unforeseen dramatic anomaly).
As a final note, I want to encourage our readers to visit our aggregation research site, mindfulintelligence.news. We have regular updates on the site, which include the blurbs you eventually see in our weekly publications, and some that don’t get selected as well.
We also archive our past reports and articles on the site.
This is the hub we will be using to build our audience through. This audience is grandfathered into the subscription package it has. The new audience will have different package deals offered. For instance, they will pay $22.95 a month to receive a monthly, quarterly, and yearly publication. They will not receive the weeklies or our four special reports like our legacy subscribers (you) do.
For now, people can still sign up for the $22.95 a month plan and receive the full slate of content you receive now, but that window will be closing soon. We will let you know a month before it closes.
If you want to gift a subscription for someone, now is the time to do it.
We will see you again on April 10 for our Quarterly Report. Until then, have a wonderful and fulfilling Passion Week and Easter Holiday.
