Originally published May 1, 2026 for our monthly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
RISE OF THE PROGRESSIVE NATION
In our March 27, 2026, MIA Quarterly, Paul Gordon Collier did a bellwether deepdive on the rise of the progressive nation from within the American nation.
In that analysis, Collier concluded, “We believe the GOP is no longer a viable alternative to the progressive nation, as it mostly exists within it. If we could compel Americans to act, we would encourage them to explore what American rule of law is for themselves and with their family, friends, and neighbors.
Identify Americans in your community and fellowship primarily with them.
We need conversations, public ones, that invite an exploration of American Rule of Law, of what makes us American, so we know what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.
From this, we need American parties to emerge that are pledged to not offer policies that violate our American Rule of Law standards. That standard is to have state power bounded by the self-stewardship agency power of its citizens.
Most likely, there will be a left party that favors the weak over the strong and a right party that favors merit over social hierarchies. Yet BOTH will offer no threat to the individual’s capacity to be a self-stewarded individual.”
One step that could be taken is organizing meetups, physical and virtual meetups, with people in your community (real or virtual) to have conversations, presentations on American rule of law and how Americans might organize OUTSIDE of the GOP and DNC institutions altogether.
If you feel so inclined and equipped, here are some resources to help you learn how to create such events, virtually and in real life.
- How to Host Community Events – VIPTOGO
- How to Create an Event on Facebook: Public or Private – Wikkihow.com
- How to Organize a Convention: Step-By-Step Checklist Guide – Crowdultra.com
- The Essential Conference Planning Checklist – Eventbrite
- THE STATE OF THE AI STATE
In the April 17, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier and Staff did a Deep Dive Report on the current state of rising AI States. In the Deep Dive, they wrote, “AI is here, and it will touch every part of your life. Whatever you do, if it involves repetition or thinking, AI will be replacing you or aiding you.
As we have said in our earlier AI report for our Futureq series, becoming adept at using AI as a tool to augment whatever you do to make a living, or whatever you hope to do to make a living, is not only advantageous, but it’s also essential. Your competition is already using these tools, and the best ones are the most adept at getting the tools to effectively do what they want them to do.”
While we will be working to keep you up to date on the emerging AI state, we always recommend you rely on multiple sources to steward your understanding of the world (more on this later).
Here are some top AI News websites, all of which have some degree of capture by corporate and/or state authority, but all of which are still useful for learning what’s really going on in AI development.
We ourselves monitor these sites.
We will start our list with our own website:
- Mindful Intelligence – AI Watch News Tag
- MIT Technology Review – AI Topic
- The Rundown AI – Main Site
- Wired – Artificial Intelligence Tag
- Venture Beat – AI Category
- Stanford HAI – News
HOW IRAN KILLED NATO
In our April 24, 2026, issue of MIA, our Military Affairs Correspondent, Michael Cessna, wrote a Deep Dive on the current state of the Iran War. In that Deep Dive, Cessna noted: “Even if Donald Trump commits political suicide by ending Operation Epic Fury prematurely, and unilaterally withdrawing U.S. combat forces from the Persian Gulf Theater, the regime in Tehran has been fatally compromised by combat operations to date.
“They have lost too many experienced leaders – those capable of holding down the tensions and rivalries between the various factions of their state – too many physical assets, as their air force, in addition to their navy, is now functionally non-existent.
“Even their oil production capacity has been so badly damaged, it is effectively a non-entity in contributing to Iranian state revenues…and that’s before addressing the looming water crisis.
Where Iran had been the major proxy supporter of terror groups throughout the Middle East, they can no longer do so: their internal currency is worthless, and with the current loss of oil revenue, they have no meaningful way to pay for their mercenaries imported from Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq.”
After all the Iranian people withstood, after the military has been essentially wiped out, the regime is still standing because they still have small-arms power while their citizens remain unarmed.
Learning how to make your own guns, for personal use, and following all local, state, and federal laws, could be a great way for you to enjoy the still-existent right to bear arms most Americans continue to enjoy, a right that the Iranian people sure wish they had.
If they had arms in the first place there would be no need for U.S. and Israeli air strikes to topple the regime. If they had arms in the first place, most of the draconian laws would not been proposed, let alone been enforced.
Learning how to make guns in an emergency, to get to other guns, within the boundaries of all local, state, and federal laws, might be a more practical, and easier-to-learn skill you will hopefully never has to use. It is also a great way to introduce yourself to full home gunsmithing.
- RESOURCES FOR MAKING GUNS:
- How to (Legally) Make Your Own Off-the-Books Handgun – Reason TV
- Privately Made Firearms – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (for legal guidance)
- 5 How-Tos for At-Home Gun Builds – American Rifleman
- Build Your Own Gun Project – Brazos Custom
- RESOURCES FOR MAKING EMERGENCY GUNS:
- Slam Fire Shotgun DIY: Building Joe Biden’s Blaster – Recoil
- Project “Slam Fire” (Survival Shotgun) – Icarryone
- 5 Minute Craft: Slam Fire 12 ga. – Burritoswithfritos
- TRUMP’S DINNER THEATER
This month’s Deep Dive Report is on progressive violence as seen through the bellwether event, the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting.
Our staff noted, “The President has chosen to call for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel over his “expecting widow” comments, while Trump’s FCC now moves to challenge ABC affiliate broadcast licenses. The move is clumsy and the justification for it is not clear, especially when it doesn’t target the whole broadcast industry.
IF ABC has violated broadcasting licensing standards, so has the rest of the industry.
In U.S. law, the standard is not what we know but what we can prove. We know Kimmel’s statement was intentionally broad enough that you can assume he’s inciting violence against the President but proving that in a court of law would be, well, extremely challenging.
The FCC move in and of itself would be great if it had already happened, and if it happened for every major broadcast corporation AFTER a study ACTUALLY showed violations of broadcast licensing had been occurring systematically for decades.
We think a serious study would most likely reveal this decades-long systemic pattern of violations to be true, but it would also expose both the GOP and DNC’s involvement in perpetuating this unofficial alliance between the government and corporate media, or rather, between political parties and corporate media.
This soft power appears to be a tool the President doesn’t want to completely forfeit, even if it means not vanquishing one of the two hearts of progressive power, the progressive corporate media control of socio-cultural production, signaling, and gatekeeping.
What this means is the average news reader will continue to find it difficult to understand the reality of power with a news industry filled with battling narrative war machines, the political party press.
Our site, mindfulintelligence.news, is not a comprehensive news aggregate site, but rather it is a bellwether aggregate and news analysis site. We have an American bias in our aggregation selection process, but that American bias compels us to give you samples of both major factions, the conservatives and republicans, in our aggregation.
It goes without saying we recommend our own site to get a sense of competing narratives that allow you to discern for yourself for your own self-stewarded understanding of the reality of power.
Here are a few pure news aggregators that focus on capturing more of the totality of major news coverage on a given day:
