01b People Advance

Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Covering the news cycle between March 1 – 26, 2026

For regular news updates throughout the week, go to mindfulintelligence.news, our news research hub, curated news aggregate center, and MIA report archive site.

A. TOP STORIES

1. TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLAN TO END DHS PAY FREEZE WITH EMERGENCY DECLARATION – In a move that is sure to be immediately challenged in a progressive court, President Trump has announced a plan to end the DHS pay freeze without using congress. He declared, “They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again….

Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do! Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports.”

2. THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF IRAN IS ALREADY DEAD – By the time you see this, Iran may very well have selected a new group of future military targets, their new leadership. They had to select a new leadership not because the Khomeini leadership was killed, but because their replacements were. The leadership meeting to select the replacements of the Khomeini leadership happened in Tehran, where the entire leadership gathered was killed, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
3. ANTIFA TERRORISTS FIRST TO BE CONVICTED OF TERRORISM – Nine Antifa members will go down in U.S. history as the first Antifa members convicted of terrorism. Finding DAs willing to charge them of terrorism has been difficult, but these terrorists chose Texas as their target for attack. U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Lancy Larson was more than willing to charge them with terrorism. They were found guilty of terrorism by a federal jury in Fort Worth, Texas.

The nine antifa members were convicted of organizing an ambush-style attack on an ICE facility in Alvarado, Texas. The nine convicted terrorists are Cameron Arnold, Zachary Evetts, Benjamin Song, Savanna Batten, Bradford Morris, Maricela Rueda, Elizabeth Soto, Ines Soto, and Daniel Rolando Sanchez-Estrada.

4. NEPALESE ELECT FORMER RAPPER TO BE THEIR NEXT PM – The Gen Z revolution of Nepal has now culminated with a sweeping victory for a new party led by former rapper Balendra Shah. His party has now replaced the ruling party of the past few decades, the Communist Party of Nepal. Shah’s party has won super majorities in both the direct-vote seats of the parliament as well as the proportional representation seats. The Communist Party has fallen from majority party status to fringe 3^rd party status in this one election.

B. U.S. POLITICS

1. U.S. GOVERNMENT MAKES DEAL TO NEVER PUSH SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORSHIP AGAIN – The U.S. government has made a deal with state governments to no longer pressure social media companies to censor Americans. Senator Eric Schmitt, who as Missouri’s Attorney General, sued the Biden administration. He alleged the administration was strong-arming social media companies to remove posts and users that didn’t conform to the progressive agenda.

Schmitt declared, “Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech…

This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.”

2. VA STATE SPECIAL ELECTION DELIVERS CRUSHING BLOW TO DNC – The GOP candidate for a special election for the House of Delegates District 98 seat beat the DNC challenger by 25 points. Republican Andrew Rice defeated Democrat Cheryl Smith 62.5% to 37.5%. While the district is already Republican, the depth of the victory by a non-incumbent over a Democrat challenger serves as a warning to the Virginia Democrats in power that support for their radical agenda is not as deep and profound as they imagine.
3. ICE GETS SCOTUS PROTECTION FROM PROGRESSIVE THREAT – After numerous progressive leaders from Susan Rice to Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker have been making veiled threats to ICE agents, SCOTUS has pre-emptively intervened. The Progressives have been calling for ICE agents to face criminal prosecution for following President Trump’s SCOTUS-approved orders. Now, SCOTUS has ruled 6-3 to overthrow a lower court ruling that would have given the Progressives the power to carry through with their threats.
4. TRUMP GIVEN GREEN LIGHT TO DETAIN ILLEGALS WITHOUT BOND – The Trump administration received another rare win in a week of judicial defeats, this time from a panel of the 8^th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The panel ruled 2-1 to reverse a lower court order that would have essentially forced the DHS to have a catch and release policy for illegal immigrants. The ruling now generally allows illegals to be detained without bond until their removal case is resolved by the court. Read more about the progressive judiciary versus the conservative executive in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

C. LAWFARE

1. TRUMP’S 2020 ELECTORS FULLY FREE FROM PROSECUTION AFTER MICHIGAN DA SURRENDERS – Michigan DA Dana Nessel has decided she will not pursue charges against 16 Trump electors from the 2020 election who attempted to claim they should be recognized as the real delegates because the election was stolen. The Trump electors were charged with election fraud, a charge that doesn’t stick, as a district court judge ruled, saying they were being charged for freedom of speech, not for committing fraud.

Now, after looking for ways to defy the district judge’s ruling, the DA has given up the fight. She claimed, “My office did not reach this decision lightly, though after a thorough assessment of the resources and time required to pursue justice in these cases, the pace and difficulty with which various courts have dealt with criminal violations of election law, and our likelihood of success given stringent appellate review standards, I have decided not to pursue an appeal.”

2. MICHAEL FLYN WINS $1.2 MILLION REDEMPTION – Former National Security Advisor Michael Flyn won a $1.2 million settlement from the Department of Justice after the DOJ’s unconstitutional prosecution of him. Flyn was the initial tip of the spear of the Russian collusion hoax.

Under extreme DOJ pressure, including against Flyn’s family members, he pleaded guilty to charges he was in the process of seeking to throw out before President Trump pardoned him in November 2020. This came after the DOJ itself reversed course on the Flyn case, admitting it had no proper basis to interview Flyn in the first places. It also admitted his statements were not material to a valid investigation, let alone valid charges.

3. PROGMERICAN JUDGE GETS APPEALS COURT REBUKE AFTER ATTEMPT TO BECOME CHICAGO’S SELF-APPOINTED IMMIGRATION CZAR – An Obama-appointed Judge, Sara Ellis, got a verbal beatdown from the 7^th Circuit Court of Appeals, accusing her of “effectively establish[ing]” herself “as the supervisor of all Executive Branch activity in the city of Chicago.” The court shut down her effective effort to control the Federal Immigration policies for the city of Chicago and its surrounding communities.

Parts of her initial order included a requirement that the DHS gives her a daily brief of all their activities in the city, to assure compliance, They also include preventing federal agents from “using hands-on physical force such as pulling or shoving to the ground, tackling, or body slamming’ anyone who is not causing an immediate threat of physical harm to other…” It also ordered that anyone calling themselves a journalist should be allowed to stay in an area, even if a dispersal order is lawfully given.

D. CULTURE

1. LOUISVILLE TO PAY NEARLY $1 MILLION TO CHRISTIAN BAKER – An attempt by the city of Louisville, KY to force Christians to bake gay wedding cakes has cost the city $800K. That is the amount the city was ordered to pay out to Chelsey Nelson, who sued the city after it tried to threaten Nelson with unspecified damages if she did not make a gay marriage affirming cake.
2. COLORADANS GET OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON TRANSGENDERS IN SPORTS AND PREVENTING CHILD “TRANSITIONS” – In Colorado, two ballot initiatives have been approved that both deal with transgenderism. One measure would prevent physicians from performing surgeries on children to change the appearance of their gender. A second measure would prevent boys presenting as girls from participating in female sports.

The Colorado Times Recorder demonstrates Progressive media agit prop with its headline “How Christian-Right Activists Got Anti-Trans Initiatives on Colorado’s Ballot.” The headline vilifies opposition with a negative term (one this same media helped vilify), “Christian right” and stigmatizes opposition to transitioning children and allowing boys presenting as girls to play sports with girls.

3. THE LEFT’S HOLD ON BOY SCOUTS IS BROKEN – Scouting America has now committed to end its DEI programs, recognize the biological binary sex reality of humans, and separate the boys from the girls. The move came after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth informed the organization that failure to uncouple anti-American leftism from their standards would result in the Department of War ending its relationship with them.
4. SCOTUS STOPS CALIFORNIA FROM SECRETLY TRANSGENDERING YOUR KIDS – The Supreme Court struck down a California policy that essentially allowed schools to secretly transition your children to a different “gender” without your consent. The ruling was 6-3.

The majority justices determined, “We conclude that the parents who seek religious exemptions are likely to succeed on the merits of their Free Exercise Clause claim. The parents who assert a free exercise claim have sincere religious beliefs about sex and gender, and they feel a religious obligation to raise their children in accordance with those beliefs. The right protected by these precedents includes the right not to be shut out of participation in decisions regarding their children’s mental health.”

5. CHRISTIANS CAN NOW ADOPT IN VERMONT – For a brief season in Vermont, Christians could not adopt children because of the progressive-controlled state’s presupposition that homosexuality and transgenderism are good and should be celebrated, especially in children.

Now, Vermont has been reeled in after a settlement between the state’s child grooming and terrorizing agency, the Department of Children and Families, and Christian couples who sued for the right to adopt children without bending the knee to the left’s child grooming ideology.

Now, the DCF’s new guidelines protect Christians from leftist terrorism. It reads “[a]pplicants’ sincerely held personal, cultural, religious, moral, or philosophical beliefs shall not be considered in the licensing process.”

6. INDIANA LAW PREVENTS CHRISTIANS FROM BEING BANNED FROM ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE – Republican Indiana Governor Mike Braun has officially signed into law a bill that will protect people of Faith from being excluded from adoption and foster care. The bill is primarily aimed at democrat-controlled local governments that are attempting to freeze Christians out of the adoption/foster care process because of their opposition to indulging children’s sexuality or gender fantasies.
7. SCOTLAND BEATS BACK EUTHANASIA – Scotland’s version of legalized euthanasia has failed to pass their legislature after a 2-year push for its passage. The bill failed 69 to 57. The bill’s passage failure tables the issue legislatively for a decade or more. The move is supported by the public, with a poll showing 7 in 10 fear it could be used to pressure people to commit suicide when they otherwise wouldn’t have.
8. EZRA MOMENT TO HAPPEN TO MARK 250^TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICA – Over 480 national leaders from a wide spectrum of industries, including politics, entertainment, and ministry, will be gathering to read scripture from Genesis to Revelation. The commemoration hearkens back to Ezra reading scripture to the people after returning from the exile and preparing to rebuild the temple and the city of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 8:2-3).

The event will take place in Washington, D.C. along the National Mall. It will happen from April 18-26. Creator and organizer Bunni Pounds said of the event, “It hit me in that moment, looking at Ezra at the Museum of the Bible, that we really need an Ezra moment in our nation. We need Americans to realize who we are, just like Ezra stood up with a scroll and he read the Books of Moses to the Israelites. We have, in a lot of ways, forgotten who we are as Christians and as Americans, because the foundation of Scripture is absent from our life.

And so I thought, man, it would be awesome if we had national leaders from all spheres of influence, all demographics and denominations, if they would stand up humbly in front of the American people and tell us that this is where they get their life and their peace and their wisdom is in Scripture every day as individuals. And then what if we read the Bible all the way through as Americans for the 250th birthday?”

E. MARKET

1. OIL REFINERY AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANT APPROVED IN SAME WEEK – President Trump is overseeing the return of American energy sovereignty through the construction of new oil refineries and nuclear power plants. The Biden administration had begun the process of reactivating nuclear energy by completing the construction of a nuclear power plant in George in 2024. It was the first nuclear reactor to be built in America in over 30 years.

Now, President Trump has overseen the approval of an oil refinery in Brownsville, Texas, and the construction of a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor in Wyoming. The oil refinery is the first approved building of a new refinery in America in over 50 years. This same week, the nuclear power plant received its approval to build the nuclear reactor. With the need for energy for AI machines, nuclear power is sure to move to the fore of future energy planning, especially micro-reactors for individual AI machines.

2. DOGE CUTS $2 BILLION IN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS – The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has helped federal agencies modify or cancel $2 billion worth of government contracts in the last 4 weeks alone, producing an overall savings of $757 million for the American taxpayer. DOGE’s similar efforts in the four weeks prior affected 273 government contracts, which led to a total savings of $1.4 billion. This means DOGE is reporting a savings of over $2 billion in the last two months of work alone.