Tools of Engagement – May 2026

Originally published May 29, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

1. KILLING RACE POLITICS (THE RISE OF THE MAP MAKERS)

In Our May 8, 2026, Issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier did a Deepdive on the Bellwether of the week, the fallout from the SCOTUS gerrymandering ruling. In the recommendations section of the report, Collier concluded:

The second front is far more difficult, and one we’ve been calling on for a while now, the creation of American political parties that reflect the “natural” political divide of an American people.

We say this because neither major party represents American individual liberty. The Democrats are progressives, a nation born from within America, but ultimately in disagreement with her.

The Republicans are Conservative US, not America. They’re much closer to Americanism than the progressives, but they’re not quite there. They sacrifice liberty for the sake of American “Greatness,” for instance.

We argue the conservatives are mostly within a social justice mindset, it’s just that their social classes are defined by being born and raised “American.”

The paths those thoughts lead to sometimes create real white devils, but mostly they create “progressives” as afraid of seeing their ideas be rejected consensually by the public as progressives are.

These US Conservatives are multi-ethnic and are mostly more Americanist in their race politics views than not, though a significant minority are race necessitarians, and a much smaller minority are race essentialists. From that group, there be real white devils for the progressives to find and amplify.

Among these groups are yet Americans within, people who just can’t yet see how anti-American their own parties are.

Outside of these groups, most Americans don’t know who their fellow Americans are. They might assume there are too few left, or they may have given up altogether.

We believe the number of Americans in this country is 60% or more, that when people confront the reality of power difference between no American constitutional protections under progressive standards of governance and American rule of law, they will run back to American rule of law. Let us hope they don’t realize this before running back is no longer an option.

So far, we have yet to see any serious new American political party grass-roots efforts emerging. We have the domain Americanist.Party, as one suggested placeholder for such a movement.

We believe it must come from one central party that recognizes its goal is to vanquish the Democrats and Republicans, then become 2-3 parties that reflect the natural divisions of a people willing to see their ideas die in the hearts of their neighbors consensually…

Here are resources to help you discover how to start a political party yourself:

1. How to Create a Political Party – Wikihow
2. Registering as a political party – Federal Elections Commission
3. The Ultimate Guide to Registering a Political Party: Step-by-Step Procedure Explained – Lawhubb
4. THE DRAGON IN AMERICA’S PLAYGROUND – CHINA’S COUNTER-U.S. FOREIGN POLICY WAR

In our May 15, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier did a Deep Dive on China’s foreign policies in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. In that report he concluded, “China has been aggressively attempting to drive the U.S. out of regions it once dominated. The regions we are analyzing are Africa, Western Europe (the EU nations primarily), and the Americas. For each region, China has a different foreign policy approach, but it has a few tools it uses repeatedly.

“The primary tool is entanglement, a strategy that is also used to procure resources at discount prices. This involves building infrastructure that is sustained by Chinese workers, or Chinese-paid workers, offering loan packages that create mounting perpetual debt, and integrating their economy into yours through trade.

“The variation of its application comes through how China leverages that power to affect policy. In the case of Africa, there is little demand on policy, beyond Taiwan, but in the Americas, China wants a little more than mere profit.”

To untangle from an entangling system, you have to reduce your dependence on it. One way people are reducing their dependence on a global currency system, an entangling system, is by creating alternative value exchange potentials.

Here are a few ways to create alternative value exchange potentials, starting with one to help you reduce your economic requirements altogether:

1. The Financial Peace Planner : A Step-By-Step Guide to Restoring Your Family’s Financial Health – Dave Ramsey
2. Build Your Own Blockchain: A Practical Guide to Distributed Ledger Technology – Daniel Hellwig, Goran Karlic, Arnd Huchzermeler
3. Alternative Currency Movements as a Challenge to Globalisation?: A Case Study of Manchester’s Local Currency Networks – Peter North
4. 12 Best Bartering Apps for Android & iOS – freeappsforme.com
5. MIDTERM IS COMING – A REPORT ON THE 2026 ELECTIONS

We reported on the 2026 elections as they stand right now in this issue’s Deep Dive report on pg. 2.  As May was dominated by news about the midterms, this was an easy choice to make.

The research we do on our reports in general consist of a number of tools, including AI and RSS aggregation. For this election, we have found seven tools that help us keep track quickly of what’s going on in the House races, the Senate races, and an update on the gerrymandering wars.

We recommend you use these tools to keep a birds-eye view of the developments:

1. Cook Political Report House Ratings
2. Inside Elections House Ratings
3. 270toWin 2026 House Forecasts
4. Ballotpedia 2026 House Elections
5. National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) – For Gerrymandering Wars updates
6. Ballotpedia’s Redistricting Index – For Gerrymandering Wars updates.