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An Ohio voting-rights group is insisting it did nothing to justify the “swarms” of FBI agents who fanned out across the state on June 12, searching offices and visiting the homes of employees and volunteers with the Ohio Organizing Collaborative.

Meanwhile, the FBI hasn’t given any public hint of its reasons for the action or shown that they were justified.

“We’ve done nothing wrong,” Rev. Michael Harrison Sr., chairman of the collaborative’s board, said in an interview on MS Now. “In the midst of having done nothing wrong, there’s nothing to find, and there are no charges to be filed.”

The collaborative says it has registered more than 600,000 Ohioans to vote. It focuses particularly on traditionally disempowered groups. Its leader said the FBI effort didn’t come as a complete surprise.

“Whenever you’re doing the right thing, there will always be pushback,” he said during the MS Now interview. “Whenever you’re providing opportunity for the marginalized or left out, there will always be some level of pushback.”

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Palantir, the data analytics company whose software powers the Trump administration’s deportation operations, has hired a former Democratic senator and a team of Democratic lobbyists with close ties to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, adding to a growing roster of Democrat-connected operatives the company has brought on in recent months.

The company registered Avoq LLC as a lobbying firm effective May 1, according to a disclosure signed on June 15. The four-person team representing Palantir is led by firm partner Steve Elmendorf, one of the top fundraisers for congressional Democrats, who has raised hundreds of thousands of bundled campaign dollars for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, including hosting DCCC fundraisers featuring Jeffries as a speaker. Elmendorf co-founded Avoq and previously served as chief of staff to former Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.

Joining Elmendorf is Cedric Grant, who served as Jeffries’ first chief of staff in the House, before joining Avoq, where he specializes in outreach to House Democratic Leadership and the Congressional Black Caucus, according to his firm bio. Like Elmendorf, Grant is also a campaign contribution bundler and fundraiser host for the DCCC. Also working for Palantir on the Avoq team are Keith Castaldo, a former general counsel to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Joseph Orlando, a former staffer for Democratic Reps. Frank Pallone and Jan Schakowsky, and another bundler for the House Democrats’ campaign group.

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Melat Kiros, a socialist congressional candidate challenging incumbent Democrat Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, believes there is a need for a “Trans Bill of Rights,” considering it “horrific” to protect children from gender mutilation surgery.

Kiros announced that her campaign page was being updated to include a “Trans Bill of Rights,” during an appearance on the Call Me Limbo podcast.

“Like, we’re actually updating the website right now. I wrote all of our policy page a year ago now, but we’re updating it this week, and some of the things that we’re adding in there is also a Trans Bill of Rights,” she said, calling for greater “force” in pushing the transgender agenda.

“You know, I think we have to be so forceful and clear and aggressive in our protection and our advocacy for the trans community, especially for trans kids,” she continued, asserting that there are ballot measures in Colorado coming up that she considers to be “just horrific” and “absolutely destructive for young trans kids.”

The special MP Makerfield election has delivered a decisive win for Labour’s Andy Burnham. This means Burnham can now challenge Labour’s current leader, and Britian’s Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, for both mantles. Restore Britian failed to beat expectations, finishing at just under the predicted 7%. The three right-leaning parties, Reform, Restore, and Conservatives, combined failed to match Burnham’s total of 55%.

UK’s Starmer faces leadership challenge as rival Burnham becomes MP www.cnbc.com
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Andy Burnham has won a special election to the British parliament, clearing a path for him to challenge Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the party leadership.

Burnham, Labour’s former Greater Manchester mayor, defeated the Reform U.K. party by more than 9,000 votes, taking nearly 55% of the vote, in the election in Makerfield, in north-west England.

Burnham could now trigger a leadership challenge to Starmer as soon as next week, once he is formally sworn in as a Member of Parliament.

A prominent figure on the party’s left often dubbed Labour’s “King in the North,” Burnham said in his victory speech that Makerfield was “not a stepping stone” but a “touchstone,” promising to put neglected communities at the center of his politics.

In his victory acceptance speech, Burnham appeared to lay the groundwork for a leadership bid.

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“It’s about God’s [promise] that he makes to us,” Giants starter Landen Roupp said.

Major League Baseball has drawn a line in the sand: rainbow logos are fine, Bible verses are not. Three San Francisco Giants pitchers have reportedly been warned by the MLB after appearing during Friday night’s Pride Night game with Scripture references written on their caps, prompting a fresh round of questions about whether baseball’s diversity mantra extends to Christians who dissent from the league’s liberal social messaging.

Giants starter Landen Roupp appeared with “Genesis 9:12-16” written on his cap, the biblical passage describing God’s covenant symbolized by the rainbow. The inscription partially overlapped the Pride-themed rainbow “SF” logo featured on the special-edition cap. Relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker also displayed Bible verses, while pitcher Sam Hentges opted to wear the club’s standard black cap rather than the Pride Night version.

MLB was not amused. “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney told The Athletic. Roupp, however, made clear he wasn’t backing away from the message.

“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us,” Roupp told reporters. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet him America to come to a final peace agreement. Zelensky said, “Yesterday (Sunday), we discussed with President Trump that such a meeting could be organised in the US, in a format where Putin would find it much harder to refuse. We will see what comes of it. If Russia refuses this chance as well, additional pressure will be needed.”

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President Donald Trump has officially signed a deal with Iran that is effectively a 60-day ceasefire intended to lead to a final peace deal. Details of the plan have not been clearly given, but already Trump faces skepticism from both progressives and conservatives at home.

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Originally published June 12, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By STAFF

This report covers political, world, cultural, market, and sci-tech news from June 6 – June 12, 2026.

This report contains the Global Outlook, Headlines Missed, and People Advance Reports.

TOP NEWS TAGS

  1. 2026 Elections
  2. Iran War
  3. Karmelo Anthony
  4. Election Fraud
  5. AI Data Centers
  6. Trump Deportations
  7. Belfast Riots
  8. Trump Economy
  9. Ukraine War
  10. Mamdani Watch

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

NOTE: For news of the California elections, read our Deep Dive on pg. 2, The Process is the Cheat.

  1. PULTE KILLS FISAThe nomination of Bill Pulte by President Trump to replace Tulsi Gabbard as the next Director of National Intelligence has led Democrats to allow the FISA court renewal to lapse. The court allows the collection of data from U.S. citizens without requiring standard warrants. The provision dies today, and the Republicans, with Democrat help, failed to pass the renewal last night, leaving town today for a recess. The Democrats are nervous Pulte, a strong partisan Trump supporter, will use FISA to do to them what they did to Trump using those same courts.
  1. GASFLATION KILLS FED CUT HOPEInflation hit a 3-year high primarily due to rising gas prices. The war in Iran shutting down the Strait of Hormuz is the biggest factor in that price increase. The Federal Reserve has already revealed there will be no rate cuts at least until 2027.
  2. WE ARE STILL IN PEACE TREATY LIMBO IN IRANPresident Trump has promised another peace deal is close to completion with Iran. He assures us the deal offers no nuclear armed options for Iran, who, so far, has not officially agreed to the deal. The President claims a deal should be done by the end of the weekend.

This week saw massive military exchanges between the U.S. and Iran, as well as between Israel and Iran. The President had promised to invade Kharg Island in response to Iran shooting down a U.S. helicopter, but changed his mind at the last second, claiming a deal had been made.

  1. TRUMP GETS ICE FUNDEDPresident Trump’s ongoing deportation campaign will continue after he signed the “Secure America Act.” The act funds both ICE and CPB through 2029, taking funding out of the hands of the courts and the Democrats altogether.

President Trump said, “We’ll give the heroes of ICE and Border Patrol…  the support and resources they need to defend our borders, protect our homeland and to keep America safe… [The Democrats] want to drag us straight back to chaos and crime.”

  1. BIDEN JUDGE CALLS TRUMP VISA FEE A TAXA Biden-appointed Federal Judge in Massachusetts has struck down President Trump’s $100K H-1B Visa, calling it a tax. The Trump administration will be immediately appealing the decision to the U.S. First Circuit Court.
  2. BELFAST BEHEADING ATTEMPT TRIGGERS NATIVE UPRISINGIf Northern Ireland is a bellwether of what’s to come in broader Britian, the ordered protests in front of police stations are about to be replaced with organized targeted assaults on migrant strongholds.

After as Sudanese migrant was caught attempting to behead a disabled Irishman on a street in Belfast, the youth of the city have taken to burning down the migrants’ apartment complexes as well as targeting any other administrative structures of migrant power. Calls by the progressives of the UK for calm, so far, are being met with derision.

  1. CALIFORNIA GETS A GOP CHOICE FOR GOVERNORAfter the mail-in-vote save eliminated a Republican in the LA Mayor’s race, Republican Steve Hilton looked to be heading for a similar fate. Perhaps the growing suspicion of the legitimacy of that election led California to quickly certify the Republican as the second candidate in the run-off election for Governor.
  2. NAZI-CLAD PROGRESSIVE TAKES DEMOCRATS’ MAINEGraham Platner, a Democratic Party contender for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat, has officially won his party’s nomination to run against incumbent Senator Susan Collins (R-ME).

Platner overcame a Nazi tattoo and leaked text messages from women he was accused of being sexually inappropriate with. Progressive activists who were the catalyst for his campaign’s success are allegedly regretting their failed vetting process.

  1. PROGRESSIVES ANGRY BLACK MAN CONVICTED OF MURDERING WHITE MANKarmelo Anthony has been convicted of first-degree murder for the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf. Both were young men in high school at the time of the murder. Anthony’s conviction has triggered calls from progressives and black activists that the jury was racist, the parents of the dead boy are racist, and Karmelo should be free to spend his hundreds of thousands of GoFundMe dollars.

Now, white people are being attacked by black people for being suspicious of being on the Anthony jury. The jury itself was of mixed race, though progressive state content marketing media and progressive leadership continues to spread the lie the jury was all-white.

  1. ABSENTEE GOP REPS KEEP GIVING DEMS HOUSE MAJORITY – The GOP’s majority in the House is only 5 votes, 217 to 212. Thanks to a significant handful of GOP representatives taking days off, the House has had a Democratic majority on numerous occasions. So far, the Democrats haven’t exploited this, but it is now on their radar, as politicsususa, a progressive content marketer, has noticed as well.

HEADLINES MISSED

  1. DEMOCRATS DON’T EVEN WANT TO LIVE HEREAn Elon University/YouGov America 250 National Survey showed 55% of Democrats would rather live in another country. 38% of Independents also chose to live in another country, while only 10% of Republicans chose another country.
  2. FCC WANTS YOUR SMARTPHONE ID IN ITS DATABASEIn the name of combatting burner phones, the Federal Communications Division (FCC) is pushing telecoms to hand over all customer IDs. The move challenges the implicit right to privacy from government intrusion found in the Fourth Amendment.
  3. EUROPEANS CONCLUDE THE U.S. IS NOT THEIR FRIENDA new poll from the European Council on Foreign Relations found that only 1 in 10 Europeans consider the U.S. an ally, while only 50% viewed the U.S. as a “necessary partner.” 25% of those polled consider the U.S. an adversary.
  4. KENYANS KILLED PROTESTING U.S. EBOLA QUARANTINE CENTERSThe U.S.’s plans to build Ebola quarantine centers in Kenya is meeting with protests from Kenyans. The centers are intended to treat American citizens in Africa exposed to the Ebola virus. Protests at one center led to three protestors being killed.
  5. KASHMIR PROTESTORS KILLED BY SECURITY FORCESPakistan’s security forces opened fire on protestors in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The protesters represented the Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC), who had been outlawed by the Pakistani government. The government accused the organization of intentionally causing upheaval.
  6. SOCIAL SCIENCE STUDIES SUFFER VERIFIABILITY CRISIS A new study conducted by researchers in multiple universities has revealed that 50% of social science research findings are not replicable, meaning their data cannot be viewed as being reliable. While the findings reveal a crisis, the industry has been gradually decreasing its replicability problem.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. BLUE STATES FACE USPS MAIL-IN-BALLOT ULTIMATUMThe U.S. Postal Service has announced it will not be delivering mail-in ballots for states that refuse to share their voter rolls with the Federal government. The DOJ wants to assure the names in the voting rolls match U.S. citizenship records. So far, only the Democratic Party controlled states have refused to share their information with the DOJ.
  2. OIL TANKERS SNEAK THROUGH STRAIT OF HORMUZ The U.S. has announced it has secretly navigated more than 100 million barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump announced, “… More than 200 Commercial Ships have safely traveled through the Strait. This wildly successful effort is because the UNITED STATES of AMERICA CONTROLS the Strait of Hormuz — NOT Iran. Their military is defeated, and their economy is lost. It’s over for Iran! 
  3. GOP FLORIDA MAP HOLDSThe Florida Supreme Court has ruled no challenges to the new GOP voting district map will be considered before the 2026 election. Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded, “The Florida Supreme Court has REJECTED the challenge to the state’s redistricting plan and new map. This assures that the recently enacted map will be in place for the 2026 election.”
  4. TRANSGENDER SUPPORT PLUMMETSA recent Gallup poll shows support for people “changing one’s gender” has dropped from 46% in 2021 to 38% in 2026. 60% of Democrats still support the idea while only 5% of Republicans do.
  5. AUSTRALIA’S ONE NATION TAKES THE LEADAustralia’s version of Britain’s Restore UK, One Nation, has taken the lead in a recent national poll, surging ahead of the party in power, Labor, 31% to 30%. This is the first major poll showing One Nation taking an overall lead.
  6. 360 MORE FREED FROM BOKO HARAMThe Nigerian military ran a successful rescue operation in the nation’s Borno state. They rescued 360 people who had been abducted from the Islamist terror group, Boko Haram.

 

The UFC Event staged on the White House Lawn was allegedly almost marred by bombing drones and snipers. According to the FBI, 23 anti-capitalist and anti-Israel activists were plotting to murder Americans on the White House lawn.

They planned on using bombs dropped by drones to direct the audience towards a sniper’s kill zone. The mother of one of the suspected ring leaders is alleged to have provided the warning that helped the FBI uncover the plot.

FBI Foils Chilling Terror Plot Targeting White House UFC Event – RedState redstate.com
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As we reported, the UFC Freedom 250 at the White House was a great event, with a lot of patriotism and some great fights. 

But it turns out that there was a terrorist plot in the works to attack it that the FBI reportedly broke up, according to Fox News Digital. It sounds like they were trying to wreak a lot of chaos and death.

Five people were in custody as of Monday, and investigators identified 23 people as part of a potential network of plotters. The alleged plan involved using explosive-laden drones to hit buildings near the event, force a mass evacuation and steer crowds toward a pre-staged sniper team, officials said.

A “second wave” was then allegedly planned to storm the White House gate, according to officials.

Restore Britian’s Rupert Lowe delivered the Rape Gang Inquiry report he promised. The report claims 250,000 mostly white British girls were systematically raped, tortured, and trafficked by mostly Pakistani gangs (95%). These “gangs” involved whole families. Lowe summarized the report, claiming, “The mass rape of vulnerable working class white girls by gangs of primarily Pakistani Muslim men is pure unfettered evil.”

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President Donald Trump has declared he will not sign any legislation renewing the Federal Surveillance Authority (FISA) Act unless it is attached to the SAVE Act. He wrote, “I’m against FISA if it doesn’t come with The Save America Act (Full version!) firmly attached to it.”

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Progressive California Governor Gavin Newsom called news of a DOJ investigation targeting him a political persecution, not a legitimate prosecution. The investigation, however, began under the Biden DOJ, not Trump’s DOJ, and is only now coming to light.

The DOJ is investigating numerous alleged acts of fraud and graft committed by the Governor. Newsom claimed, “Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list. He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime – they are simply trying to find one. He isn’t coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President.…”

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Ohio Organizing Collaborative (OOC) received a visit from the FBI on June 11, 2026. The organization received nearly $2 million in funding from the Soros Family. The FBI visit was accompanied by search warrants. The DOJ announced the raid is related to an election fraud investigation. The organization is suspected of being a major facilitator of progressive efforts to rig elections in their favor. No follow-up charges were announced, though the investigation continues.

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15 members of Direct Action Minnesota, or DAMN, have been arrested and charged with several Federal felonies, including conspiracy to impede or injure a federal officer. Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen announced the arrest of the 15 Antifa members.

The group states it is “a decentralized coalition of working-class people engaged in various forms of community defense against the current Federal Occupation happening within the wider metro area, and against state and a far-right violence more broadly.” The group has developed coordinated tactics and supplied their members with shields and other gear to equip them for street warfare.

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Emails obtained by America First Legal reveal a host of officials, from FBI officials to sheriffs across the country, told the Biden administration they have no need to investigate parents protesting “woke” school boards. Despite these warnings, the Biden administration went ahead with a systematic effort to investigate parents for committing potential crimes by voicing their dissent against progressive policies.

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Toronto police have linked multiple shootings, including one at the U.S. Consulate in March, to complex gun-for-hire networks

TORONTO — Police in Canada said Tuesday they have linked multiple shootings, including at the U.S. Consulate in Toronto in March, to “multilayered” gun-for-hire networks that have also targeted synagogues in the city.

Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw told a news conference that young adults are being recruited through encrypted messages and paid by the networks to carry out the shootings and have to film them to get paid. Some of the firearms used in the attacks have since been seized by investigators.

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Well, isn’t this a turn of events?

For years, the left has been pushing a false narrative that President Trump was best buds with Jeffrey Epstein.

But, the New York Times just published a new report that completely flips that script on its head!

Apparently, the disgraced billionaire pedophile busied himself in his final days trying to take down President Trump.

Contrary to the story that Democrats want you to believe, Epstein hated Trump and was angry with for turning him into the cops.

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Ukraine hit a major Moscow oil refinery for a second time in a week and disrupted commercial flights at the city’s airports in one of its biggest drone attacks since Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, Russian officials said Thursday.

The attack came hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had held “an important coordination call” with the presidents of the United States and France, and had won key pledges of further support from the G7 summit this week.

Zelenskyy was expected in Brussels later Thursday for talks with NATO and European Union leaders, including discussions about the possible building of a continental system to protect against ballistic missiles. Russia has relentlessly struck Ukraine with those types of missiles, which air defenses struggle to counter.

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The US-Iran framework deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bring the two adversaries back to the negotiating table over Tehran’s nuclear programme was signed on Wednesday amid differing reports and growing confusion over its contents.

Despite an earlier announcement that the agreement would be signed at a ceremony in Switzerland on Friday, US President Donald Trump signed a physical copy of the deal while dining with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palace of Versailles.

In Tehran, President Masoud Pezeshkian also signed the document on Wednesday, according to the state-run IRNA news agency, which posted an image of him holding up the deal with his signature next to Trump’s.

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. military was in a position to restart operations against Iran “if we need to,” shortly after President Donald Trump signed the memorandum of understanding in Versailles, France.

Speaking to reporters on the tarmac before departing from Brussels, Belgium, Hegseth indicated that, though the MOU sought to end the war with Iran, the U.S. was also prepared to launch renewed strikes if Tehran was not seen as having fulfilled its commitments under the deal.

“We will be prepared to recommence if, underneath the timeline of these talks, Iran does not do what it says it’s going to do, which is give up nuclear weapons, give up nuclear ambitions, give away their nuclear material, close nuclear facilities. Then the War Department is here and prepared to restart if we need to. We prefer not to, but we are prepared,” he said.

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Congress often appears to function via the mantra of “one step forward, four steps back.” Even when policymakers take action — as in recent steps to fight fraud in government programs — they continue to ignore bigger issues with entitlement spending.

The annual release of the Medicare trustees’ report illustrates the problem. This year’s report showed that, by the end of last year at least, the administration’s anti-fraud efforts had not delayed the program’s (technical) insolvency date. Meanwhile, another year passed without lawmakers acting to fix a program that has been functionally insolvent for years.