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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.
Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
STAFF
“This month has seen the quiet advance of the new reality of power, one framed around AI infrastructure and need. While we see parts of it emerging, and some of the new battles begin to emerge as well, the old battles are still raging, concealing what’s emerging beneath our very feet.” – MIA
INTRODUCTION
This is not a full analysis of world events, but rather an analysis of bellwether events, regions, trends, and countries that tell the overarching story of the world in March 2026.
Our analysis is from an Americanist perspective, nested within our Christian belief system.
This month, America saw congress continue to ignore public support for the SAVE Act, the start of a war with Iran, an economy sending mixed signals (with increasingly bad ones), and a surging Democrat Party.
American courts have been delivering major victories against progressive woke policies while also delivering major impediments to the Trump administration’s agenda (which you can read more about in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2).
Democrat-held states have only been doubling down on progressive woke policies, with California continuing to lead the way.
The Progressive-Muslim experiment in New York continues, with Mamdani seeking to aggressively establish Islam as the socially preferred religion of the city. While he builds power locally, he makes the Islamist invasion and takeover strategy more apparent as well, which could ultimately bring more resistance to Islamism than it will win converts.
The geopolitical landscape is murkier than it was last month, with the west increasingly wavering in its support from the U.S., while America gains new allies closer to home in Venezuela, and in the Middle East through the Iran War.
A. AMERICA
- 2026 ELECTION – The progressives appear poised for a strong midterm showing if trends continue to follow as they have. They lead the polls and now their funding is returning as well. They scored a stunning state election victory in President Trump’s own district, flipping a red seat to a blue one.
On the gerrymandering front, Virginia polls suggest the progressives might lose there, but Colorado, a progressive-controlled state, hopes to liquidate three GOP House seats in its gerrymandering efforts.
The progressives have been selling themselves as better economists, as defenders of abortion, and protectors against white supremacism. That combination has been working among Americans because the anti-American nature of the progressives is not plainly seen by these same Americans.
The lack of American political parties to offer Americans some of the cultural and economic choices the progressives offer, without also including their anti-American policies, is making it difficult for Americans to see the anti-Americanism inherent in the party’s values.
The cost of losing the Democrat party, for these people, is perceptively too high. Deep down, they hope the progressives aren’t who they imagine the white supremacists and their allies say they are, ethnic global nationalists every bit as authoritarian as the Nazis many of these Americans believe they are really fighting.
At this point, the GOP is far more of an impediment to forming effective resistance to the Democrat Party, the flagship of the progressives, than it is an impediment to the Democrat Party itself.
The failure by the GOP-controlled Senate to pass the SAVE Act, an act that would require Voter ID and cancel on-demand mail-in voting, backs up this assessment of the party. Americans can only hope SCOTUS strikes down on-demand mail-in voting so at least one major part of the progressives’ election fortification machine gets dismantled.
The fact that a Democrat beat a Republican in a seat that had been won by the now-retired incumbent by over 10 points should tell you Democrats can win elections without cheating, even after all this, because the GOP gives Americans no real choice. The Republicans just stay home. The Democrats can win just through this alone.
The GOP’s refusal to deliver decisive action against the Democrat party is the main factor keeping Republicans home, enabling Democrats to win EVEN in districts where election integrity is NOT a critical issue.
- TRUMP DEPORTATIONS – As the deportations continue, the DHS funding crisis becomes more profound. The Democrats continue to refuse to end the government shutdown. President Trump has responded by sending ICE agents to help deal with the one area where Americans are feeling the DHS shutdown the most, in our airports.
The move is proving, so far, to be positive for ICE agents, who are seen as heroes by most of the people at the airports they’re helping to get through security.
The recent announcement by Trump to declare an emergency that will allow DHS to pay TSA agents may or may not circumvent the shutdown, but legal challenges most likely have already been filed (or are about to be).
The deportations are not without real violations by ICE agents, as the DOJ even recently acknowledged. There are also constitutional issues emerging with how the FBI is buying our location data from 3rd parties in the name of finding illegal immigrants.
The most concerning development in the deportation process is the proliferation of detention centers, which are becoming a bipartisan source of resistance to the large-scale, rapid deportation strategy the administration appears to be deploying (or attempting to deploy).
Judicial roadblocks continue to be thrown at the operation, but victories have come as well. Read our report on Judgefare in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.
Progressive institutions like teachers’ unions have been aiding the ICE interference operations. This is a strategy to use a certain number of paid disruptors to help lead a larger group of volunteers to essentially do two things, help illegal aliens escape capture and force ICE agents to do something violent that will cause the whole country to turn on them.
They know in advance that the corporate media, what we call the progressive media, will give them the most favorable, even doctored (if needed), coverage to drive the “ICE are Nazis” narratives. They also have protection from progressive DAs and judges who will do what they can get away with to assure there are no serious repercussions for their “work.”
Stories of illegal immigrants harming or killing Americans, including children, continue to happen, while Democrats continue to soft-pedal the violence and stigmatize any public effort to point it out.
This strategy is alienating not just conservatives, but black Americans who are growing increasingly frustrated with illegal immigrants perceptively receiving more government benefits than they do.
- AGIT PROP – These are the Top 5 Headlines About or from the Progressive Media:
Trump Administration Accused of White Supremacy and DEI Rollbacks on PBS – newsbusters.org
FISA Fearmongering and Disinformation: Presidential Edition – Cato Institute
SAVE Act Creates Massive Unfunded Mandates On States – crooksandliars.com
B. WORLD
- IRAN – While the Democrats’ attempts to force an early end to the Iran War keep failing in the Senate, economic pressure from the war is only building. The U.S. and Israel have failed, so far, to secure the Strait of Hormuz. Their allies in the west do not appear eager to help, while the Mideast allies appear as if they are preparing for a significant, possibly boots-on-the-ground response.
The U.S. itself is considering the use of ground troops to secure Kharg Island, Iran’s oil refinery hub.
Iran’s top leaders continue to get killed, but the resolve of the regime appears not to have wavered, even as assassinations in the country are only increasing, including drone assassinations of street security forces.
The absence of the world’s most advance carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, must surely be taxing the American effort. The carrier remains docked out of theater, still getting repaired and recovering from its already historically long deployment.
The progressive media is aggressively pushing an anti-Israel narrative. It seems they recognize the fall of Iran as a critical empowering of American global power, an impediment to the broader progressive global vision.
They will do whatever they can get away with to turn the American people against the war, though that hasn’t significantly moved the needle, yet. The longer the war goes on, the more likely the progressive media will be successful in its efforts.
China and Russia are doing what they can to help Iran, but their options are limited. China appears busy creating an energy pipeline that makes the Strait of Hormuz a moot point; It already is for the U.S., a fact not lost on President Trump, who appears anxious to end this war, but not without a decisively crippled Iran.
- CHINA – Chairman Xi’s purging of subversives continues, as more top leaders are either disappeared or charged with corruption, or worse.
The longer Iran holds on, the more China is likely to attempt to support the regime. Losing Iran to American influence would set China back significantly in the Middle East, though continuing to support Iran in the face of growing hostility against it by the whole region might compound that loss should the regime fall.
From China’s Two Sessions came two new bills that accelerate China’s ethnic state nationalism, one that forces more Han cultural harmony and less ethnic diversity and one that creates even more surveillance and censorship powers for the state, moving China even closer to North Korea in terms of everyday thought control of its citizens.
- UKRAINE – The on-again, off-again peace talks between Russia and Ukraine appear to be mostly off at present. The two sides have been trading blows, targeting each other’s energy infrastructure using drone, and now robot, assaults to do so.
Tellingly, the EU has once again delayed its proposal to ban Russian oil.
The frontlines continue to show inconstancies, with Russian advances here and Ukrainian advances there. No one appears to be able to break through in any significant, sweeping campaign.
The war is becoming a training ground for drone warfare, and Ukraine’s and Russia’s growing expertise are being exploited in the Iran War, with the U.S. borrowing not only from Ukraine, but from its own opponent, Iran.
- ABORTION – There have been a number of victories for the pro-life movement this month. Planned Parenthood has to pay $500k for holding racist training sessions, California can no longer use tax dollars to pay for abortions, and a New Hampshire bill that would have made abortion a state constitutional right was defeated.
The abortionists scored a big win in the UK, with House of Lords passing a bill that legalizes abortion up to birth. In America, the College Fix pointed out that while every university in the state of Illinois MUST provide abortion care, NONE of them offer prenatal care for mothers intending to give birth to their child.
1.1 million unborn children were terminated through abortion in America last year, which is statistically nearly the same as last year’s. One abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell, died in prison, having been convicted of numerous murders of unborn children.
Operation Rescue Troy Newman released this statement on Gosnell’s passing: “Gosnell was famous for murdering hundreds of late-term babies who struggled for life after failed abortion attempts, though he was only convicted of three. Within his ‘House of Horrors’ abortion facility were found unspeakably filthy conditions that revealed a gross disregard for the lives of his patients.
Bodies of babies dating back 30 years were stored in freezers and stashed in trash bags throughout his clinic. Dismembered feet of large babies were displayed floating in specimen jars in a cupboard as if they were trophies. The world has been rid of a man that can only be described as a monster, and we are better off now that he is gone.”
- EUTHANASIA – Canada appears to be leading the world in euthanasia, with the country now allowing “same-day” suicides to its citizens, as well as forming a committee to consider allowing mentally ill patients, the poor, and children to consent to “medically assisted” suicide.
Nearly 100,000 Canadians have died by euthanasia since it was legalized. Scotland will not be the next euthanasia incubator, having defeated the latest efforts to legalize it.
- WOKENESS – The UN is still hoping to codify a racial cast system with its latest resolution calling the enslavement of Africans the “gravest crime against humanity.” Progressive institutions are still hoping for relief from progressive judges against orders to stop allowing men to play sports with women.
Progressive institutions are forming strategies to continue to practice unconstitutional standards like DEI by concealing them under new labels. Progressive media continue to push the white devil narrative, with PBS calling DEI rollbacks simply “White Supremacism.”
This disconnect from American values is all the more profound because progressives no longer recognize it as being anything but “American” (to view the country as fundamentally a white devil’s vehicle of power).
A California University, USC, delivered a prime example of that disconnect. The university cancelled a California gubernatorial debate because all the candidates were white.
Coloradans will now have an opportunity to vote on transgenders in sports and transitioning children thanks to two resolutions that got on the ballot. The push to transition children’s gender with surgery was one well-funded by major corporations.
Another BLM activist was recently convicted of fraud, throwing more dirt on the already dead movement.
China’s recent Ethnic Unity law makes it more apparent why the Democrat Party and its GOP rear guard protectors are such a natural frenemy fit with the CCP. The Bill unmasks China’s ethnic nationalism, a trait we believe the progressives now share with the Chinese.
D. MARKET
Between the Iran War and the Ai-disrupted shifting jobs market, President Trump’s pre-election strongpoint, the economy, is buckling under the pressure. An economy that, at the beginning of February appeared poised for takeoff, is now struggling under this one-two punch.
The U.S. is securing more options for rare earths resources, including striking a deal with Chile this month. It has also moved significantly towards energy sovereignty with the announcement of a new nuclear power plant and oil refinery this month.
While the short-term prognosis for the American economy is unstable, the country is positioning itself to have a future bounce-back that will come through smart early investing in energy sovereignty and AI infrastructure and resources, the emergence of new AI-related jobs for humans (many of which will be as much of a surprise to you as they will for us), and the hopeful early end of the Iran War.
The White House has JUST RELEASED its much anticipated “Artificial Intelligence Framework,” which is intended to form the foundation for future federal AI legislation and regulations. Expect an analysis of the framework in an upcoming issue of MIA. ‘
AI’s expansion into world militaries is only accelerating, with questions still looming regarding how much agency do you give to an AI-run machine that has the capacity to kill? It appears, for now, the “urgency” of the times is pushing militaries to move faster than prudence might otherwise suggest we would.
While AI remains very unpopular, humans are yet using it more and more. Its content, now referred to often as AI slop, is testing the bounds of Intellectual Property laws, both in terms of what it draws from to create its own content and whether its creations warrant copyright protections.
With OpenAI cancelling its billion dollar Disney deal, along with its video AI app Sora, and social media companies suffering major lawsuit losses connected to children’s safety, the legal landscape for the AI industry, and tech industry as a whole, looks increasingly expensive, which could have an overall slowdown effect on AI development as well as a scaling back of free social media services.
SYNTHESIS SUMMARY
This past month we have seen what we believe to be a transition for President Trump, from an extraordinary charismatic outsider shaking up the establishment, to a politician.
His invincibility is gone, but his formidability is not. He is no paper tiger, but he is not immune to effective counterattacks.
Yet we say this with one major caveat, should Iran crumble out of nowhere and Trump achieve the installment of a pro-American regime in a still-contiguous Iran, his invincibility might very well quickly return.
From an American perspective, this outcome would most likely produce an economic boom that could change the very political dynamic of the country, which seems to be mostly concerned about economics, not culture, nor the constitutional crisis.
But that outcome, we believe, is not likely, unless the U.S. unveils a new weapon that changes the very nature of war itself. There are no credible rumors such a weapon exists (thought there are SOME rumors).
Americans seem to believe we have won the culture war, and the Democrat Party wasn’t the primary driver of the ideology they imagine we have defeated. They are either turning back to the Democrats or opting out of voting altogether. Either way, the Democrats win, a party whose ideology is fundamentally opposed to Americanism.
We believe the absence of an effective opposition party to the progressives is protecting them from American accountability. So long as Republicans continue to block any effective action to blunt progressive power, they continue to be a de facto rear guard of the progressives.
Even as we finish this report, the GOP is continuing to impede resistance to the progressives, whom they still treat as if they are Americans when only progressives don’t know they’re not American anymore.
This month has seen the quiet advance of the new reality of power, one framed around AI infrastructure and need. While we see parts of it emerging, and some of the new battles begin to emerge as well, the old battles are still raging, concealing what’s emerging beneath our very feet.
Remember, next week is a scheduled off-week for us, but the following week, Friday, April 10, 2026, be sure to read our quarterly Situation Report, which will include our Predictive Analysis for the next three months.
On Monday, April 12, 2026, watch our show “From the Belltower,” where we will cover the Quarterly Report.
You can watch us at noon ET on our YouTube channel, @mindfulintelligencepodcast.
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.
Christian Photographer Wins $800K From Louisville After Fighting Same-Sex Wedding Mandate – legalinsurrection.com
Louisville taxpayers will fork over $800,000 to end a long-running federal lawsuit between a Christian photographer and the city.
Chelsey Nelson has been battling the city since 2019 over an ordinance that would require her to take photos and write about same-sex weddings, despite her Christian beliefs. She also could not explain her religious beliefs and objections to same-sex unions on her website.
The law in question “threaten[ed] Nelson with unspecified damages, compliance reports, and court orders” if she did not praise LGBT “wedding ceremonies” in the same way she does heterosexual weddings, according to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).
The Christian legal group announced on Tuesday that Nelson has won attorney fees in addition to the nominal damages a court had already awarded her. Federal courts have barred city officials from enforcing the law since 2020.