Originally published March 27, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor. Subscribe to get weekly issues.
A. SCOTUS TARIFF RULING
In our March 6, 2026, MIA Weekly, Paul Gordon Collier did a bellwether deepdive on the Supreme Court decision affecting Trump’s tariffs issued under the IEEA Act.
In that analysis, Collier concluded, “At the SCOTUS level, I expect this court to side with the resistance, and wherever sophistry can remotely be applied to justify the denial of Trump’s policies (to defeat Hitler, in their minds), they will do so. However, there are limitations, even for this rogue court. Some degree of a semblance of Americanism must still be maintained, at least for now.
“For that reason, I expect SCOTUS to not fully shut down Trump’s tariff powers, but from here until the first District Court injunction, he has a limited time to act decisively using tariffs to target our enemies for economic warfare.
“What many do not realize is this, American pax is over and everyone knows it. There is a new real scramble for power that will leave the losers in destitute circumstances. The race to build the one AI machine to rule them all is on, and Trump recognizes this; THAT is why he chose to use tariffs in this unprecedented, but legal (unprecedented doesn’t equal illegal, Mr. Roberts) way, for he understood the stakes are high.
The world is resetting its power structure, and competition is fierce to not become a subservient to the greater power, and it’s a competition America can lose, especially with Progmerica still fighting to take over from within, aided as they are by quislings in our courts.”
With a divided house, life is uncertain. Building reserves to get you through potential upheavals in supply are as essential as they’ve been since the first Covid lockdowns were ordered. That fragile state has only continued, and we act on the assumption it is only going to get worse before it gets better (and we DO believe it will get better).
We believe most of you (hopefully us too) will not be touched at a catastrophic level, where you might be without resources for a period of time (perhaps two months), but some of you (and us) MIGHT be. We are already preparing for the potential interruption that might happen, fully expecting the lights to come back on in the end.
To make it through the dark valley, consider:
Here is a list of vulnerable medicines. If your medicines are on the list, consider alternatives, or, where possible, stock up for two months in advance.
B. APOCALPYPSE IRAN: IRAN’S NEW ORDER AND THE PRICE THE WORLD IS ALREADY PAYING
In our March 13, 2026, issue, our military affairs correspondent, Michael Cessna, presented an analysis of the Iran War that focused on the looming secondary global threats emerging from this war. One of the most pressing challenges comes through the Strait of Hormuz. So long as Iran can continue to shut down, or even slow down, commercial trade through the strait, global economies and even food supplies face existential threats.
Cessna explained, “The financial consequences were immediate and severe. Kuwait announced oil production cuts, and Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels per day as onshore storage filled. Brent crude logged its largest weekly gain in the history of the futures contract, surging by 28%. By March 8, Brent had crossed $103 per barrel — the first time it had exceeded $100 in four years. U.S. retail gasoline prices jumped to a national average of $3.45 per gallon by March 9, up more than 51 cents in a single week.
“J.P. Morgan’s commodities research team warned that production cuts could exceed 4 million barrels per day by the end of the following week if the strait remained closed, and that prices could exceed $150 per barrel if Gulf infrastructure continued to be targeted — an outcome that Qatar’s Energy Minister described as capable of triggering “the collapse of world economies.”
While seeming hyperbolic on the surface, the IEA convened an emergency meeting of its 30+ member states, which collectively hold 1.2 billion barrels in strategic reserve, to discuss a coordinated release.”
The Best Emergency Food Supplies, With Insights From Disaster Relief Experts – Lee Cutlip
Local Harvest Food Coops (mostly Northeast U.S.)
Neighborhood Buying Club: How to Start and Run One Safely – JoinSpark
Feeding America – Find Free Groceries
C. TRANSITIONS: PT. 2 – FROM JUDGES TO KINGS, HOW ISRAEL BECAME A KINGDOM OF MEN
In our March 20, 2026, issue of MIA, Paul Gordon Collier analyzed Israel’s transition from a nation of Judges to a nation of Kings. What he noted was this:
“The Kingdom still ostensibly claimed God as King, but their King would, more often than not, gain more praise from the people than God would. While God ordained it and allowed it to happen, it was not his desire. He knew the hearts of men. He knew one day his own people would call for a King even after they had one supernaturally deliver them from slavery.
“‘I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.’- Hosea 13:11
“While they held on to the foundation of the Judges nation, what they built on top of it, kingship, would ultimately undermine the foundation that gave them legitimacy, which ultimately led to the death of the Kings nation and the eventual rise of the 2nd Temple province of many Empires (save for the era of the Maccabees).
“The differences between the two are, to me, radical enough to identify them as two civilizations (but one people). The second civilization sought to compromise with the civilizations around it. The kingdom sought the approval of neighboring Kings, not that of the King of Kings they once declared their sovereign.”
What the Kingdom drifted away from was a foundation in the Word of God. Our challenge this month to our readers is to read Psalm 119 every day for 30 days. In that reading, pray that the Holy Spirit moves in you to imprint the Hebrew alphabet in you.
Psalm 119 outlines the purpose of meditating on the Word daily, how to meditate on that Word, and what the fruit of meditating on the Word of God daily produces. Psalm 119 spells out why the Word of God should be the first and last plumbline of your actions, not the pleased voices of men, or the fear of their rejection.
For help in that meditation, here are three possibilities:
For those of you affiliated with a church community, seek guidance from your leaders about study guides for Psalm 119.
D. JUDGEFARE VERSUS AMERICA
In this week’s issue, our monthly review for March 2026, our bellwether deepdive for the month was about the growing threat of Judgefare in America. In that deepdive, our staff wrote, “Recent rulings by what we would classify as progressive activist judges have only widened the divide between the conservative executive and the progressive judiciary.
“We believe the judiciary is mostly controlled by progressives, directly through progressive activist judges and indirectly through bar associations, law schools, and other judicial enforcement institutions.
“Their values are unique to their people, and alien to Americans, for they rest on the assumption that the social usurps the individual and social status usurps American rule of law…
“We call this part of the progressive revolutionary war machine, Judgefare, the use of judges and the judiciary to stifle dissent and complete the transition from “Progmerica” to the Progressive U.S., now free to openly practice progressive values and bury Americanist values once and for all.”
To protect yourself from potential lawfare and Judgefare, consider first whether your actions present challenges to progressive power. Do you own a business that has a lot of social signal power? If so, you might be at risk of future targeting should you not comply to a future offer too good to be true (usually offered by a “special interest” group like GLAAD).
If the course of your life does not in some way either invite power for progressives or challenge it, you need not worry too much about the threat of Judgefare or lawfare in your life. If the course of your life falls into either of those two categories, then consider our recommendations.
What is Legal Insurance – and Do You Need It? – The Penny Hoarder
5 Best Legal Insurance Options in 2026 – Benzinga
These resources are geared towards both non-lawyers and lawyers, but even the resources for lawyers listed here can be very useful to anyone wanting to get a basic familiarity with U.S. constitutional law.
How to Learn law Without Going to Law School – Halt.org
Self-Study Map for Law (Complete Guide) – TME.NET
The Ultimate Guide to Free Law Study Materials for Students on a Budget – Lawyers Inventory
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has issued a ruling that prevents President Trump from ordering the Pentagon to sever ties with the AI company, Anthropic. The Trump administration has determined Anthropic’s governance standards are not aligned with America’s standards.
The Federal judge has essentially ruled she knows better than Trump if Anthropic is aligned or not aligned with American standards. She said in her ruling, “Defendants’ designation of Anthropic as a ‘supply chain risk’ is likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious.”
Judge Lin Blocks Pentagon AI Decision and Extends Lawfare Pattern – PJ Media
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin has stepped in again, blocking President Donald Trump from forcing the Pentagon and federal agencies to cut ties with Anthropic.
The ruling halts a supply chain designation tied to national security concerns over AI in military use. The designation also said mean things about Anthropic, hurting Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s feelings, so he took the Trump administration to court.
Federal agencies must now continue working with a company the executive branch flagged as a potential risk.
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from designating Anthropic a supply chain risk to national security and cutting off all work with the AI company.
Anthropic sued the Defense Department and other federal agencies this month after the Pentagon labeled it a “supply-chain risk to national security.” President Donald Trump said he would also ban the use of Anthropic’s products across other federal agencies.
“Defendants’ designation of Anthropic as a ‘supply chain risk’ is likely both contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious,” Judge Rita Lin, a U.S. district judge in California, wrote in her order Thursday night. “The Department of War provides no legitimate basis to infer from Anthropic’s forthright insistence on usage restrictions that it might become a saboteur.”
Lin paused her own order for a week to allow the administration time to appeal.
Meta and YouTube have each faced legal setbacks that could portend badly for the social media industry as a whole. The first saw Meta lose $381 million lawsuit over child exploitation and safety, the second saw YouTube and Google lose $3 million each for not preventing child addiction. Both cases are expected to set off copycat cases, including against other social media platforms.
Meta, YouTube face thousands of cases on whether they harmed children after bellwether cases go against them Fortune
from news.google.com
Two landmark jury verdicts against social media companies have arrived at the front of a wave of lawsuits alleging that the popular platforms endanger the mental health of children.
Financial penalties total $381 million in the two cases involving tech giant Meta in New Mexico and both Meta and YouTube in California. The verdicts highlight a growing shift in the public perception of social media companies and their responsibilities toward child safety.
But it may be too soon to tell whether litigation will change the way popular social media and messaging platforms function — or influence the complex algorithms that deliver content to billions of users worldwide.
