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Deep Dive Report: How Iran Kiled NATO

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Originally published April 24, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

“I think NATO is obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger – much larger than Russia is today. I’m not saying Russia is not a threat. But we have other threats. We have the threat of terrorism. And NATO doesn’t discuss terrorism. NATO’s not meant for terrorism. NATO doesn’t have the right countries in it for terrorism.” – President Donald J Trump

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Beginning in the first week of January 2026, US President Donald Trump launched into a high-stakes gamble, with a large number of moving parts, and a high chance of failure. The Trump administration’s Panama-styled “Operation Just Cause” takedown of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro opened the year.

Delta Force “operators” swiftly inserted themselves into the country and captured the drug-trafficking dictator and his wife, then successfully extracted them from the country. Both are now in custody in New York City on Federal drug charges.

No sooner was Maduro in custody than the Machine inside the Washington, DC Beltway turned its attention to the other side of the world.

In Iran, economic protests that began on December 28th of 2025 had suddenly morphed into a massive ‘street revolution.’

For the first time in forty-seven years, these protests seemed to have the potential to overthrow the financial lynchpin that held many of the worst terror groups in the Middle East together, keeping them in operation for far longer than they should have been.

Now, as we enter the third week of April of 2026, a massive month-long air and naval campaign – the largest the United States has conducted since the 2003 invasion of Iraq – has severely degraded the military and governmental structure of the Islamist regime in Tehran.

A. BACKGROUND

THE CLERICS – When the late Shah of Iran, Reza Muhammad Pahlavi, was forced to flee Iran in February of 1979, what had been our strongest ally in the Middle East – stronger by far than Israel at that time – suddenly, almost literally overnight, became a blood-enemy.

When the religious zealots in charge of the country led chants of “DEATH TO AMERICA!”, they meant it. This continued, even as the country was invaded by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in 1980, kicking off the bloodbath now known as the Iran-Iraq War.

Today, the radical Shi’a clerics controlling the country – many of them not at all Iranian – not only still chant “Death to America!” and “DEATH TO ISRAEL!”, but directly sponsor all manner of proxy terror groups throughout the Middle East.

They don’t just sponsor Hezbollah, who were the group that carried out the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut in 1983, they also sponsor Hamas, who perpetrated the gory bloodbath of the October 7 attacks in Israel.

In addition to Hamas, they’re also supporting the Houthi Movement in Yemen. These same Houthis just recently effectively closed off the Red Sea to commercial merchant vessel traffic for a time, while launching Iran-supplied SCUD-derived ballistic missiles at anyone within range.

These are the major agents of the Islamic Republic, but many other such agents, or groups, exist, albeit smaller and less capable, but no less bloodthirsty.

The clerics were able to sustain this for the last forty-odd years, because of the succession of administrations. Democrats seemed to want to appease Iran while Republicans seemed to want to simply detain, not destroy Iran.

However, Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iran drove the bulk of the people on the side of the mullahs – not because the people liked the mullahs, but because they were loyal to the idea of Iran.

The blunders and missteps of these U.S. administrations, examined through a neutral lens, display either unimaginable levels of incompetence, or outright treasonous behavior; there really are no third options.

THE PROTESTS – Throughout it all, the religious zealots in Tehran have engaged in levels of open and naked corruption internally such that the Iranian Rial collapsed on December 28, 2025, to a staggering IRR 1.4 million to $1.

At the same time, corrupt regime leaders – religious, secular and military – have pushed out so many worthless dam projects, they have critically damaged the nation’s artesian water supplies.

This has led to many villages in the country’s interior being abandoned for lack of water, with the population migrating to the large cities, further increasing stress on those water systems.

The industrial sector has fared no better.

While Iran still has some level of civilian industrial production, it is hamstrung by old plant equipment and gross inefficiencies.

Car and truck manufacturing does continue, but those exports bring in only minimal revenue, under $9 million. Exports of mining and agricultural equipment, while better, have highly suspicious and unreliable sourcing, making hard figures not worth reporting.

The one area where Iranian industry has been working overtime is in the war-materials production sphere.

Iran does have the capability to manufacture battalion-organic weapons and ammunition (from handguns to mortars, heavy machine guns, light artillery and some light anti-tank missiles).

It also remains capable of at least making bespoke spare parts for things like main battle tanks and some jet aircraft (the fact that a few F-14 ‘Tomcat’ fighters left over from the Shah’s air force are still flying is frankly astounding), but the main Iranian arms export is its unmanned drone fleet.

While presented as an impressive array of remote weaponry, the regime’s drone fleet has been very underwhelming when pitted against an active and ready air defense network.

Their drone and missile exchanges with Israel in 2024 and 2025 saw Iran fire c.1800 drones and ballistic missiles at Israel in total, with fewer than fifty actually hitting close to any targets.

All the same, Iran has supplied a steady stream of its Shahed-131 and -136 drones to Russia for its long-running war in Ukraine…but significantly, Russia has to extensively modify them for use against a Ukrainian air defense network supported by U.S. and NATO air defense systems.

Lastly, there is the dilapidated state of Iran’s oil production industry. Iran, as of 2026, is no longer able to refine the oil that emerges from its own fields. It can pump raw crude to tankers for export, but it has to import refined fuels for all of its internal vehicles and aircraft.

Decades of mismanagement, corruption, lack of internal investment and an inability to maintain the physical plant have severely hampered Iran’s ability to push out oil, which is the country’s main financial lifeline.

B. CURRENT SITUATION

BEFORE EPIC FURY – After an initial period of confusion and fear inside the Islamic regimes’ leadership over what to do about the mass protests throughout the nation, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its Basiji Militia adjunct moved into the streets in forces, and commenced a series of massacres across the country.

Concentrated on January 8 and 9, and continuing throughout January, the numbers of dead Iranian civilians could be somewhere around 40-45,000 people, conservatively.

In a direct response, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) and its escorting strike group were ordered to the vicinity of the Arabian Sea, adjacent to the Strait of Hormuz, in mid-January. It was here that the first danger point appeared.

As of January 1, 2026, the United States had only two out of eleven aircraft carriers and their strike groups ready to deploy. The Lincoln was in the South China Sea, while the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and its strike group were operating in the Caribbean, overseeing operations against Maduro’s Venezuelan regime and keeping an eye on Cuba (which is still a developing situation).

All of the other nine carriers were in various states of maintenance; only the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) were “active”, in that they were in the process of “work-ups” – the process of ensuring that all of the many working components of a carrier strike group are functional and capable of working together – but were weeks from being available for deployment. The USS Eisenhower (CVN 69), in January, was still five or six months from being able to deploy.

This is a critical fail-point that had been building since the defense budget sequestrations of the Obama-era. Severe cuts had to be made to comply, which caused a long-term backlog in critical maintenance required to keep ships in fighting order to begin backing up.

This was aggravated by the Biden administration’s COVID-19 workplace restrictions, which had the immediate effect of delaying the refueling of the USS Stennis’ (CVN 74) nuclear refueling, extending a process that should have taken two years out to five; Stennis is not expected to leave the fueling process until the end of 2026.

This has obviously cut severely into deployment schedules, as the USS Ford – as of April 15, 2026, has been at sea in an operational posture for over 296 days, breaking a record set during the Vietnam War. This is brutal pace for both ship and crew.

This was the prelude to combat operations commencing on February 28th. Even given the terrible posture of the United States Military, the surge of air and naval forces into the region that began in earnest at the end of January was remarkable.

OPERATION EPIC FURY – When “Operation Epic Fury” (or “Operation Roaring Lion” for Israel) commenced on February 28th, US and Israeli forces – to the surprise only of those with no concept of reality – began to destroy Iran’s military and political structure in detail.

The Iranian navies (the regular national navy, as well as the IRGC ‘mosquito fleet’ of armed speedboats) ceased to exist within the first week. This led to the sinking of the 1,500-ton Moudge-class frigate IRIS Dena on March 4th by the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Charlotte. This was the first sinking of a hostile vessel by a US Navy warship with a torpedo in combat since World War 2.

In the air, US and Israeli planes hammered the Islamic Republic’s command and control structure with an opening of some 1,500 reported strikes on government and military targets, including the first successful “decapitation strike” – the direct targeting of a nation’s leadership – since the term was coined in the popular vernacular in the 1980’s/

That strike apparently killed the “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, some parliamentary officials and several senior IRGC commanders.

The regime responded with a massive barrage of ballistic missile and drone attacks on almost every country within range. While most of the strikes aimed at Israel failed to hit many targets of consequence, some strikes did get through, hitting and damaging mostly civilian housing complexes.

In the Persian Gulf, however, the Gulf Emirates and their populations – previously quiet supporters of the Tehran regime – suddenly discovered why that was a very poor choice of friends.

The regime in Tehran (such as that is, since it remains unclear who, exactly, is in charge, as of April 23rd) began firing barrages of Shahed drones at seemingly random targets in all of the Gulf Emirates, including Oman.

While a few military targets associated with the United States were hit, the vast majority of the drone strikes hit residential areas not associated with the US in any way. The attacks continued after the ceasefire began on April 8th.

At sea, with most of the Iranian Navy[s] sunk at anchor, or in suicidal sorties against US forces, on April 20th, the USN disabled, boarded and captured the Iran-flagged M/V TOUSKA in the Arabian Sea after it refused to halt its attempt to enter Iranian ports. Board-and-stop operations continue as this Deep Dive goes to print.

Diplomatically, Operation Epic Fury has brought the fundamental cracks in the NATO alliance into stark focus. Once stalwart allies like Britain and France have refused, point blank, to aid the United States in any way against Tehran, with Leftist-controlled Spain joining in, the whole value of NATO to the U.S. seems to crumble.

Notably, those three countries lack the combat power to aid the US in any way beyond acting as unsinkable aircraft carriers.

C. ASSESSMENT

As of publication, the facts on the ground are clear and stark:

There is no path to victory for the Islamic Revolutionary regime.

Even if Donald Trump commits political suicide by ending Operation Epic Fury prematurely, and unilaterally withdrawing U.S. combat forces from the Persian Gulf Theater, the regime in Tehran has been fatally compromised by combat operations to date.

They have lost too many experienced leaders – those capable of holding down the tensions and rivalries between the various factions of their state – too many physical assets, as their air force, in addition to their navy, is now functionally non-existent.

Even their oil production capacity has been so badly damaged, it is effectively a non-entity in contributing to Iranian state revenues…and that’s before addressing the looming water crisis.

Where Iran had been the major proxy supporter of terror groups throughout the Middle East, they can no longer do so: their internal currency is worthless, and with the current loss of oil revenue, they have no meaningful way to pay for their mercenaries imported from Lebanon, Gaza and Iraq.

This is the trap Machiavelli warned about in The Prince – but then, Machiavelli was an infidel…that rather limits one’s educational options.

And that opens the door to the real endgame.

D. RECOMMENDATIONS

If I were President Trump, I would lean into “staying the course”. The midterms are approaching in November of 2026 and right now, Trump is already facing enough setbacks.

Backing out with a lame deal that leaves the Islamic Revolutionary apparatus in place, even as a rump, would be a major blunder on his part. It would only compound his growing issues at home. A victory, however, in due time, will buoy his flagging support.

If there is one thing to understand about Donald J. Trump, it is that assuming that he will make some colossally stupid blunder is the surest route to handing him a huge win.

However – no one is perfect, and there is always the chance that Trump could decide that continuing to pound the regime is approaching a zero-sum state, and that withdrawing under an agreement is a good strategy. That seems unlikely, but not improbable.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

As of Friday, April 24th, the regime in Tehran – what is left of it – will fail to placate Trump, sparking a massive internal collapse (which is already in progress), and a renewed air offensive that will destroy what little coherent leadership and logistics infrastructure remains under regime control.

The secondary impacts will shape the region for the next century.

Trump’s ploy with the ceasefire – which he must have supposed even an intact regime in Tehran would not be able to adhere to – was more to allow US combat forces to rest and refit for the resumption of combat operations.

While the U.S. rests and re-arms, the regime is not able to do the same. The regime is unable to dig itself out of the rubble and repair its infrastructure for the next round.

When this second hammer comes down in full, the regime will lose the ability to sustain supply to its remaining military strength – the light infantry forces of the IRGC, the Basiji Militia, and their foreign mercenaries – with basic supplies, like rifle and machine gun ammunition…

…Which is the point at which the Iranian Street will reemerge, as it did in the first week of January. But this time, instead of peaceful protestors, the regime’s debilitated forces will face an aroused and enraged civilian population, intent on bloody revenge for the January massacres. It will get very ugly, very fast.

This would be a very dangerous situation, if there were no transitional government waiting in the wings…

In Iran’s case, there is a real exile government in all but name, waiting to step in: the Iran Prosperity Project (IPP).

POST-CLERICS – Led by Crown Prince Reza II Pahlavi, the IPP is the only organization in the greater Iranian Diaspora that has an actual plan for national recovery and governance.

Despite relentless propaganda from the worldwide Left-wing media, most Iranians in and outside of Iran support Pahlavi as at least a transitional leader.

Some are even calling for him to take the Imperial throne outright. This is not hyperbole, and the movement is not insignificant.

Videos of Iranians shot down in the streets of the country writing “JAVID SHAH!” (“Long Live the King!”) on the walls in their own blood create a visual representation of how real and profound that sentiment is.

The “ripple effect” of the regime’s collapse, however, looks to be closer to a global tsunami than a ripple.

Aside from the aforementioned impact in cutting off funding to terror groups and movements like Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – which, alone, would reshape the Middle East – there would be an immediate cessation of support and sales to Russia. While this would not be a a huge impact on the Russian war effort, it would yet be impactful, nonetheless. The real impact is far greater than this.

NATO – Donald Trump and the main movers and shakers in his administration are done with Europe in general, and NATO, in particular…and what Europe is only now beginning to realize, is that the vast majority of the American people – and the voters – are done with them as well.

For decades, NATO member nations have left the United States and its taxpayers holding the bag to pay for European defense, offering only tepid support – at best – when the United States committed troops and cash in operations that directly benefited them.

And now, they have refused, point-blank, to help the United States finally deal with a criminal regime responsible for terror attacks on their own soil.

What is the track record of the “Orange Man Is Always Bad” global leader crowd? Nations that fit that bill, nations like Britain, France and Spain – have shown just how feckless and corrupt their leadership really is.

BRITAIN – Britain has allowed its military to deteriorate to the point that it is unable to “surge” a single warship to protect its own territories in the Mediterranean.

Keir Starmer should be deliriously happy that Javier Milei is in charge of Argentina, as Milei wants nothing to do with the Falklands.

Looking deeper, the once-mighty Royal Navy now has about twenty-five combat vessels in commission, with another thirty or so support vessels. They have one hundred and thirty-four (134 – not a typo) admirals on active duty. This ratio makes the Republic of South Africa’s 27 admirals for 12 ocean-capable ships appear downright efficient in comparison.

And coupled to this, is the degradation of the British Army, with many of their top tier forces losing personnel to what some might consider lawfare. Members of the SAS (Special Air Service) have been facing prosecution for “crimes” supposedly committed during “The Troubles” in Ireland.

These service members face prosecution based on EU human rights laws ex post facto, including possible “violations” in Afghanistan and Syria, in the form of political point-scoring many would simply call “lawfare”.

FRANCE – In contrast to Britain, France does have about one hundred ships in commission, including roughly thirty combat vessels. The current French political leadership, however, is more dysfunctional than Britain’s, although that may be changing in the aftermath of Emil Macron’s disastrous handling of French relations in Africa.

SPAIN – Meanwhile, Spain – although having a similar-sized navy to France, including minesweeping vessels that would be critical to clearing the Strait of Hormuz – is buried under yet another Leftist government that opposes “Trump-anything” on general principles.

CONCLUSION

The “Trumpian Trap”, here, is that the United States and Israel do not actually need Anglo-French-Spanish support to make Epic Fury work.

Trump asked for help from NATO and the various allied members individually, betting that they would refuse, publicly and messily…which they did. This is the leverage Trump can now use to present unilaterally exiting NATO to the American public, if he chooses to do so, post-EPIC FURY.

It’s not whether a nation has tools, but whether they will use them to aid you when you ask politely for help.

Europe is still quaking in terror at the thought of an all-out Russian invasion of Western Europe, should Ukraine collapse…and is only now starting to grasp that they have abandoned their own national defense – both internal and external – for so long, that alienating the only nation actually capable of defending them, was almost literally “cutting off their nose to spite their face”.

England needs an Alfred the Great. France needs a Charles Martel. Spain needs an El Cid…What they have are Starmer, Macron and Sanchez. But at least the United States has its own Charlemagne, warts and all.

And this is only early 2026, remember – Donald Trump’s term will not end until January of 2029.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Deterring Armageddon: A Biography of NATO – Peter Apps

NATO: The Dangerous Dinosaur – Ted Carpenter

Iran: A Modern History – Abbas Amanat

The Ayatollahs and the MEK: Iran’s Crumbling Influence Operation – Lincoln P. Bloomfield

Final Thought – Pursuing “Democracy” in Today’s USA

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Originally published April 24, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Bill Collier, Publisher

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.” – Joseph Story

“In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The voting booth pales in power next to the home garden.” – Paul Gordon Collier

NOTE: Expect a follow-up to our Final Thought last week about the efforts to rescue children in Myanmar. Since the last update we received, more has happened. Their home in India became untenable and they were forced to head back to Myanmar, where they have found a safe place to stay, for now.

We have also learned more about both the journey to India and the journey back. It was filled with sniper fire, minefield evasions, and deadly checkpoints. Fortunately, the Lord provided in both journeys. To help the small community, go to apcf.world.

What follows is a commentary from our Publisher, Bill Collier, on the current state of American politics and how Americans might best approach voting.

ON RELIGION AND “DEMOCRACY”

The ranges of control we can achieve over our emotions, our perceptions, and even our likes and dislikes are amazing; yet they remain mostly untapped.

MANY conflicts would be resolved if we learned to govern our emotions and preferences more intentionally, with an eye toward peace with our fellow human beings.

Being offended is something we should strive to avoid, while tolerance based on mutual respect for our shared human sovereignty and dignity is a path that leads away from anxiety, fear, and conflict.

That said, it is easier to be angry and to “otherfy” those we disagree with. We translate disagreement into a threat to ourselves, as if the existence of some people or groups of people is a hazard to our well-being.

Often people who demand tolerance are only angling for a position from which they can eventually gain control to demand acceptance, approval, and even disavowal of any beliefs that are contrary to these peoples’ agendas.

We go from “live and let live” to changing the culture and the rules to “outlaw your dissent” from their narrative (“freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences”).

It is not my desire or right to impose my beliefs or values on others; nor is it my desire to allow the precedence of outlawing my beliefs and convictions or removing my voice from the public discourse to stand.

For instance, there is this prevailing (but not exclusive) progressive notion that a modern “democracy” can only be influenced by secular presuppositions, not religious ones.

NOTE: While this is fundamentally a progressive notion, it is shared by a large portion of conservatives, especially secular conservatives, who seem to distrust Christian conservatives more than they do progressives.

You either have a democracy that reflects all consensus regardless of its motivation or logic, or you have a system that limits the range of ideas allowed and the range of reasons for such preferences to only a godless worldview that equates the Creator as a myth and His laws as irrelevant anachronisms.

I personally believe the state is limited in its “God-given authority.”

Most of the moral and ethical preachments of my faith are applied to consenting persons and free associations only; the state cannot enforce these standards or force these standards on non-believers.

Editor Paul Gordon Collier has written an essay on this very issue, of how faith interacts with and shouldn’t interact with the state. It is called “Fear of Suffering and Death.” The essay is linked on our back cover archive page. It is available to our paid subscribers.

But if you say that religious beliefs are not allowed as a motivation for public policy then you don’t have a democracy, you have a secularocracy, a system that excludes religion and thus only approves of atheist ideas. Only the minority who deny God have a right in your system.

I refuse to be silenced or consent to my voice being made illegal in such an alleged “democracy” as many think we already have.

I would not vote for laws that impose my faith on others, but I would not deny faith as a source for voting, or even as a source for deciding policy.

If the voting public prefers a religious ethic be their guide when adjudicating issues the state is recognized as having authority to adjudicate, they either get their way or you admit your system is based on anti-religious authoritarianism.

Today, the Christian mostly faces a choice between two candidates who both reject faith as a source for government policymaking, which leads us often in the position of feeling we must vote for the lesser of two evils.

What follows is what I believe is a better approach to voting for the lesser of two evils.

ON CATASTROPHE VOTING OVER LESSER OF TWO EVILS VOTING

I don’t choose the lesser of two evils, as if I would ever choose any evil. I elect which catastrophe to deal with right now.

Our American situation, to me, finds us with two major political factions, the Democrats and the Republicans. While the Republicans are a dangerous flood that should be monitored, the Democrats are a dangerous flood AND a major earthquake currently destroying American institutions from without and within.

The future may see a reversal of circumstances, or more likely, new parties created to represent whatever political factions emerge in the ashes of the DNC and GOP.

I used to prefer “conservative” Democrats over any given Republican, for this very reason.

To me, the conservative democrats of the 70s to 90s were a minor storm, while the Republicans and rest of the Democrats were a destroying (but not catastrophic) flood. Here, the catastrophe vote would go to the “conservative” Democrat.

I ask fundamentally different and non-ideological questions tied to results that are measured in individual and freewill self-determination. Without a civil framework of unity that is pluralistic and free, the self cannot be self-determined, for the state will oppress such expression.

The real fruit of good governance is not in rhetoric, of course, it’s in what that governance produces. Are people living longer and healthier lives? Is there good social cohesion that flows organically? Are we safe from most hazards and dangers to our rights and well-being? Finally, are the people who produce what society needs being rewarded in an equitable manner?

George Washington said we should avoid making permanent allies and permanent enemies. I feel that way toward ideologies and parties as well.

While as a rule I’ll vote Republican in current year (the least of the catastrophic threats to America), I would likely choose Democrats like Fetterman over many Republicans (if not most), because I think Fetterman is ethical and authentic. He is less of a catastrophic threat to our country than most Republicans are (in my opinion).

My point is not to make an argument for Fetterman (which you are free, of course, to disagree with) but to show my principle of catastrophe voting in action.

When I engage in a political campaign, professionally, it is for someone who I believe embodies these ideas the most, even within the existing frameworks and narratives, e.g. the whole left-right spectrum which my ideas do not neatly fit.

I don’t think people choose the lesser of two evils. That framing sounds like compromise; Voting for the least dangerous of two potential catastrophes seems closer to the truth.

Rarely does any voter outside a hard-core party base choose a positive good; and few are trying to choose evil. Many also just stop voting because they feel a vote for a party is an endorsement of the whole program, and both parties have problematic policies in their programs (from an American perspective).

I respect that perspective, but mine is different. I make tactical choices to mitigate hazards, and I continue to urge people to find the gaps for freedom and to build community with people who also want to be free and self-sufficient (though we would caution self-sufficiency requires a community of self-sufficient neighbors).

I have had this stance all my life. The fact that at different times I may seem to lean left, or right is not a reflection of meandering values, rather it reflects a consistent worldview that the best we can do within the reality we find ourselves is vote catastrophic, so to speak.

But, at the end of the day, as our readers may already understand, voting is not the most effective way to advance a cultural of self-stewardship. As our Editor Paul Gordon Collier wrote, “The voting booth pales in power next to the home garden.”

Bellwether Report – April 24, 2024

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Originally published April 24, 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 April 17-23, 2026.

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

TOP NEWS TAGS

Iran War

2026 Elections

AI Markets

Ukraine War

Gerrymandering Wars

Trump Deportations

AI Resources

Progressive Virginia

SPLC Indictments

Nuclear Scientists Disappearing

SUMMARY

IRAN – The Iran War is still in its precarious ceasefire status (which you can read about on pg. 2 in our Deep Dive Report, How Iran Killed NATO), with the markets going up and down according to the confidence investors have that the Strait of Hormuz may be opened soon.

The ramifications of Iran on geopolitics are generational and will set new patterns for decades to come.

U.S. POLITICS – The progressives appear to be taking the offensive in U.S. politics, with a big 2026 U.S. House redistricting win in Virginia and polls showing support for the President and his policies slipping.

CULTURE – An indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center is not being met with the usual enthusiasm from the Trump base because skepticism abounds that even indictments will result in anything more than dismissals.

This is a story we will be monitoring, for it is a bellwether of a whole industry of what we consider to be potentially borderline protection rackets, with SPLC being one of the major players. GLAAD might be on par with SPLC.

SCI-TECH – AI’s transformation of society is only accelerating, leading us to create a whole new family of AI-related news tags (which is reflected in our top 10 tags above).

A. GLOBAL OUTLOOK

IRAN CEASEFIRE TOTTERS AS LEBANON CEASEFIRE EXTENDS – President Donald Trump announced there was no hurry to finalize a peace deal with the Iranian regime. He has extended the ceasefire indefinitely. For more news on Iran, read our Deep Dive Report on pg. 2.

The President also announced the Lebanon ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah has been extended for three more weeks.

VIRIGINIA SAYS YES TO PROGRESSIVE GERRYMANDERING – The Progressives won a major battle in the ongoing gerrymandering wars, this time scoring a narrow victory in Virginia. The ballot measure allows the progressives to change U.S. House Districts to effectively take 4 Republican seats away. The now-passed ballot measure faces legal challenges.

STARMER HOLDS ON AS EPSTEIN SNARE TIGHTENS – Kier Starmer is holding on amidst increasing calls for him to resign. Evidence already revealed Starmer fully knew the man he appointed to be Ambassador to the U.S. had Epstein ties before the appointment. Now, it is revealed he willfully lied when confronted before Peter Mandelson, the man in question, was finally appointed.

SPLC ACCUSED OF FUNDING HATE – The FBI has leveled multiple criminal indictments against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). SPLC is accused of spending millions of dollars to fund numerous far-right hate groups, including the group behind the now-infamous Charlottsville, VA white supremacist rally. The SPLC’s initial defense is it was simply paying informants.

SPACE DEFENSE AND NUCLEAR SCIENTIST APOCOLYPSE? – The FBI is now looking into the disappearance and deaths of numerous scientists working in the nuclear and space defense industries. The cases go back to 2022. U.S. House Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said in a letter to the FBI, “If the reports are accurate, these deaths and disappearances may represent a grave threat to U.S. national security and to U.S. personnel with access to scientific secrets.”

He later added, “Once you see the facts, it would suggest that something sinister could be happening and it would be a national security concern… Congress is very concerned about this. Our committee is making this one of our priorities now because we view this as a national security threat.”

TRANSGENDER CARE FOR KIDS, SAYS DISTRICT JUDGE – United States District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai has ruled on the HHS’s declaration that gender-affirming care for children is unsafe and ineffective. The progressive judge has ruled the HHS declaration to be unconstitutional.

The judge sided with the 22 progressive-led states, which argued the federal government did not have the legal authority to make such a determination.

TRUMP DOWN BIGLY – President Trump’s approval ratings have fallen to 37% according to an NBC News poll. This is the lowest rating the poll has recorded during the President’s second term. His disapproval rating has hit 62%, with 50% now strongly disapproving.

AFTER SECRETARY FIRING, NAVY GETS SHOOT-ON-SIGHT ORDER – After the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, was suddenly dismissed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump issued a new shoot-on-sight order to the Navy. The move has many wondering if the now-former Secretary was dismissed for refusing to follow that same order.

META’S DOWNSIZING CONTINUES – The parent company of Facebook, Meta, has announced plans to lay off nearly 10% of its total workforce, 8,000 positions, starting in early May 2026. These layoffs may not be the only layoffs, as more might be announced after May of this year.

NEXTAR BLOCKED FROM TEGNA –The expected merger of television media companies Nextar and Tegna won’t happen after U.S. District Court Chief Judge Troy Nunley ended the deal, claiming the legal challenges by eight U.S. State Attorney Generals and DirecTV were likely to succeed.

TRUMP TAKES NEXT STEP TO LEGALIZE WEED – The Trump administration has officially reclassified certain aspects of marijuana as being a Schedule III drug, which removes many federal criminal designations. For now, the designation only applies to state-licensed medical marijuana, though some within the administration hint more is to come.

B. HEADLINES MISSED

FISA COURT QUASHES SPY TOOL, TRUMP DISSENTS – The Trump administration is fighting a FISA court ruling that prevents the government from specifically searching for individuals online who have contacted a foreigner.

The administration is challenging the FISA court as the court’s existence comes up for renewal this April 30. The GOP-led House extended the program by unanimous consent vote during a late-night session.

SCOTUS ALLOWS STEALTH TRANSITIONING KIDS – SCOTUS rejected a petition by parents to challenge a Massachusetts law that allows schools to treat their children as a gender not aligned with their biological sex without parental consent. The schools also have a policy permitting teachers to conceal the child’s school-affirmed trans or non-binary gendered identities from the parents.

AI IS BECOMING A UTILITY – More and more Americans have begun making AI subscription services a part of their essential household budget. Since 2024, paid AI subscriptions have increased by 38%. The paid AI subscription service market is expected to exponentially expand over the next two years.

RIOT BOTS AND THE CCP – China hopes to soon deploy robots to control future rioters. The People’s Armed Police Force (PAP) is already testing the possibility in preparation for a potential mass riot event.

WAS CHATGPT BEHIND A MASS SHOOTING? – Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier thinks ChatGPT may have had a hand to play in a recent mass shooting event on the Florida State University campus. He declared, “My prosecutors have looked at this and they’ve told me if it was a person on the other end of that screen, we would be charging them with murder.”

He is referring to ChatGPT, whom he accuses of aiding and abetting the shooting. The AG has opened a criminal investigation into ChatGPT.

TEACHERS OF THE FUTURE MUST LEARN TO TEACH WHAT AI CAN’T – The future of teaching in an AI reality is going to mean learning what humans can teach humans that AI cannot, and becoming maximally good at teaching humans JUST that, letting AI teach the rest.

A study from a University of Pennsylvania professor used AI to show that future is already here, and colleges and universities are quickly working to prevent the outmoding of degrees before they are ever completed. IF AI is not factored into the learning, there’s a good chance that job you’re training for is already gone.

C. PEOPLE ADVANCE

SENATE GOP FINALLY PASSES ICE FUND BILL – Using a procedure called “budget reconciliation,” the GOP-led house finally passed a bill funding ICE and Border Patrol through President Trump’s current term. The bill now goes to the House, where it is expected to pass by a razor-thin margin, before it gets to the final passage stage.

CHARLIE KIRK HONORED WITH 1A PROTECTING LAWS – Kansas joins a growing list of states which passed laws honoring the late assassinated American activist Charlie Kirk. The laws have one thing in common, they both protect rights enumerated in the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. These rights are the right to religious liberty and the right to freedom of speech.

WOKE HEALTH PANEL NO MORE – RFK Jr. is vowing to replace the “woke” panel currently in charge of choosing what preventative care gets covered by Obamacare. Kennedy plans on replacing the current allegedly “woke” members of the U.S. Preventative Service Task Force, saying “We’re now bringing new members on who have a clear mission.”

U.S. MILITARY GETS VACCINE FREEDOM – Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended mandatory flu vaccines for military personnel. While flu vaccines will still be offered, military personnel can now opt out of them if they so choose.

NO MORE MEN IN WOMEN’S CELLS – A Federal Appeals Court has upheld President Trump’s XO requiring biological sex determines which prison an inmate is assigned to. The argument hinged on the claim biological males faced “cruel and unusual punishment” by being forced to be imprisoned with men.

JESUS RESTORED BY ITALIANS IN LEBANON – Italian Peacekeeper Troops in Lebanon delivered a new Jesus statue to a Lebanon village that saw their previous Jesus statue smashed by an Israeli soldier in a now-viral video. The IDF has apologized and punished the solider responsible.

DIRT-POWERED BATTERIES – Researchers from Northwestern University have invented a fuel cell that is powered by microbes found in soil. Northwestern alumnus Bill Yen, who led the work, said of their proof-of-concept, “We need to find alternatives that can provide low amounts of energy to power a decentralized network of devices… we looked to soil microbial fuel cells, which use special microbes to break down soil and use that low amount of energy to power sensors. As long as there is organic carbon in the soil for the microbes to break down, the fuel cell can potentially last forever.”

ASSESSMENT

AI – The growing resistance to AI’s main resource requirement, massive database centers, seems to be a worldwide phenomenon, and the U.S. is hardly an exception. Despite the resistance, and AI’s unpopularity, AI is increasingly becoming an integral part of the very lives who still oppose it. These same users also oppose the resources, the data centers, needed for it.

U.S. – America’s major political factions continue to harden, while a distinctly American voice has yet to emerge. A win in Iran could change the political climate in America overnight, at least for the Trump base and those willing to be part of an anti-progressive coalition with them.

So far, the pushback to the progressives is more anti-progressive than distinctly American, with no clear articulate apologetic for American rule of law coming from any of the major thought leaders of the non-progressive factions.

WORLD – While Iran dominates world news, Europe is facing an immigration overflow crisis that even the most progressive are finding harder and harder to deny. In the wake of the perceived immediate existential Russian threat, many governments are finding it hard to face the immigration crisis realistically without empowering parties that would quickly replace these governments altogether.

MARKET – The shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz seems to be having less and less of an effect on the global economy, though it is still a significant negative impact on the overall global economy (with regional impacts being far worse, especially in Iran itself). The world is adjusting to the bottleneck and more routes, options are being chosen or created.

ON OUR RADAR – Looking at next week, there are some possible major SCOTUS rulings expected that could affect the 2026 election. The report of nuclear scientists and space defense scientists dying or disappearing could be the major story next week if more clear evidence emerges to show this isn’t merely some incredible coincidence.

We will also be watching to see how the evidence plays out against the SPLC and if it will result in an examination of all the political groups that allegedly use the power of their platform to destroy reputations to massage donations from corporations. This would just be a more indirect version of a protection racket. We have a feeling we will be doing a Deep Dive Report on this soon.

The State of the State of AI

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Originally published April 17, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Bellwether Deep Dive – Friday, April 17, 2026

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor, and STAFF

“By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and most of all, the quantum theory.” – Michio Kaku

“I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it’s probably that. So we need to be very careful…With artificial intelligence we’re summoning the demon.” – Elon Musk

  1. NOTE: While we originally intended on analyzing the Trump Executive Order on AI, in the course of our research we shifted to look at AI development overall. The Executive Order is sure to receive legal challenges, and what emerges after the legal dust settles is difficult to predict.

Furthermore, even a Republican successor to Trump is bound to tweak Trump’s XO to meet their own unique circumstances. Yet, America is forming an AI geopolitical strategy that is likely to continue past Trump, regardless of which party is in power.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

What follows is an analysis of the current state of the emerging AI state (or states). The transformation from an internet-based world to an AI-based one is accelerating every day. Events of the last two weeks alone have highlighted that dramatic shift.

We will begin with an analysis of the bellwether AI states of the 21st century, for strategies have already formed and significant patterns can already be seen. We will then look at AI news headlines from the last two weeks that show how AI is profoundly touching nearly every aspect of our lives.

Finally, we will end this Deep Dive with an assessment of the state of the AI state. Also included are further resources to expand your own investigation of the state of the AI state.

  1. BACKGROUND

This is an analysis of the bellwether nations that are developing geopolitical artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. These nations are intended to represent the common/shared AI strategies of most of the nations in 2026.

While we don’t currently have an Africa representative, we are monitoring AI development in Africa. At present, Africa’s AI strategies are more complex and uncertain than in other regions. You can expect to read more about this in upcoming issues of MIA.

Africa’s current drawbacks are also its future opportunities, namely, its need to build from scratch what we are simply calling “AI machines” (which describes the full panoply of physical infrastructure required by a “sovereign” AI resource).

Africa as a potential resource for data centers that work effectively as remote brains for AI machines, there are more immediate opportunities, as well as risks.

While the United States in particular must race ahead with the current parameters to build their AI machines, Africa will have time to learn, potentially giving them an opportunity to build machines more efficient and less resource demanding than the AI superpowers end up building (which might be the most optimistic take possible).

When analyzing AI policies for nations, it is important to remember shifts can occur when power changes hands, especially where the divisions are more polarizing (such as the United States). Nevertheless, even for the United States, we currently assume the geopolitical reality of the country will not significantly change regardless of which faction is in power. The internal reality of the country will change dramatically, however.

Because of this underlying assumption, we believe the overall strategy of each country will remain relatively consistent from regime to regime for the foreseeable future (3-5 years) barring unforeseen breakthroughs that radically alter the AI dynamic.

Even with that dynamic shift, we would still consider 1.5 years a reliable timeframe for the current geopolitical strategies to remain stable.

Much of the data that supports this section of the Deep Dive comes from three reports which are linked at the end of the report under the FURTHER RESOURCES section.

  1. U.S. – The key advantage the United States has is its massive resources, including land, water, capital, and people. In all those departments the U.S. leads every nation, including China, from significantly to substantially.

A red flag on this advantage comes from a recent talent pool drop. China also has a growing renewable energy resource bringing it closer to parity with the U.S., but still overall significantly behind in resources, especially for AI machine-building.

America’s strategy is to build big, fast, and become the secure source for the hardware other nations need. If AI continues to be expensive at what we are calling the machine-level, America is at a distinct advantage over the rest of the world as far as building AI machines, but constitutional hurdles may slow that development down more than might be currently expected.

AI is currently less popular than politicians, including Democrats, Donald Trump, and congress. The demand for data centers is becoming the emerging touchstone for resistance to what we believe is the inevitable, the rise of a new AI-defined human reality.

  1. CHINA – While the U.S. hopes to become the hardware backbone of its national customers, China hopes to become the software backbone of its national customers. China is relying on less resource-demanding AI machine models. While they are behind America in terms of AI machines, they are catching up fast.

There is plenty of room to grow for China. The talent pool is there. One key advantage China has over the U.S., currently, is access not only to rare earth minerals, but to rare earth mineral processing. This is where the U.S. still lags significantly behind. This disadvantage does not impede America’s current projected AI infrastructure development.

China’s centralized authority governance model enables it to move faster than the United States in converting land to AI machines. It can rapidly incorporate AI tools into the lives of its citizens in ways which would be considered a violation of our constitutional rights in America. This also puts it at risk of quickly going down a developmental path that could prove to be self-imploding.

  1. EU – Germany and France define the conflicting interests within the EU, with Germany seeing less AI regulation as an opportunity for its nation, while France sees itself as holding power through AI legislation, or “governance” (which goes beyond essential AI “governance”).

Germany is a world leader in AI machine production, with plenty of opportunity for growth. France, on the other hand, must rely on a smaller-scale AI machine program given its current reality. This is why France is positioning itself as a leader on AI governance through its “Third Way.” It fits its national interest, while such power does not fit Germany’s.

  1. JAPAN – An aging population has created both an immediate need and a potential long-term AI strategy for Japan. That strategy is largely to be a world leader of AI tool building (our phrase), that is, of creating the hardware and the software guidance, that converts AI “thought” to physical interaction. It is a world leader in robotics and all the software back-ends needed to make robots work well with AI.

Its favorable status with the U.S. gives it access to AI hardware which its main geopolitical competitor, China, does not have. This gives it a development advantage over China, at present, but we do not expect that to continue past our 3–5-year timeframe (with the aforementioned caveat still included).

In between Japan and China, the United States and China, is Taiwan, a computer chip manufacturing superpower. Its usefulness to the U.S. and Japan as a technological leader in chip manufacturing presents a challenge, being useful without giving up essential secrets that could make its usefulness redundant.

Its lack of geopolitical sovereignty leaves it off this list as a bellwether nation. It warrants a mention here as it is currently Japan’s closest geopolitical, as well as AI, ally. The two have formed a “Silicon Alliance” that sees the nations developing joint AI software partnerships. Japan is also relying on Taiwan’s chip manufacturing expertise to build its own domestic version.

  1. INDIA – As an “independent,” a nation which does not commit to the China or the U.S. axis (an increasingly growing number of nations), India must rely on a strategy that makes it invaluable to potential customer nations.

It has significant drawbacks to building its own AI machines, but it has the human resources to do so should other resources become available. Its strategy is to become a world leader in digital public infrastructure and AI governance guidelines.

It also has an opportunity to serve a “niche” audience of billions who speak Indic languages, which makes it uniquely positioned to develop a whole host of AI services within that uniquely structured language. China has a similar opportunity it has already exploited.

  1. RUSSIA – Of all the bellwether nations on this list, Russia could have the least opportunity to thrive in an AI-infused geopolitical reality. Like Japan, Russia’s immediate need is also creating a long-term strategy for existence in an AI-infused human reality.

Russia’s current war in Ukraine has made converting AI to battle tools (hardware and software) its number one priority. It has built its own AI parameters with its own sovereign “stack” called the Ru-AI stack to protect it from external influences.

Its lack of access to western technology limits its development, as does its recent talent departure at the start of the war, an exodus that only appears to continue. Its aging population could invite a Japanese approach to account for the coming drop in manpower, but the war has demanded most of the resources.

Much of the technology developed during the war could theoretically be converted to civilian use, but even that will take time for conversion.

Russia will have an incentive to be a useful ally to China, for China might one day need to build Russia’s national AI infrastructure.

Israel has a similar strategy to Russia’s (converting AI to military tools), though its alliance with the U.S. gives it great developmental advantage, as does its human resources.

  1. SAUDI ARABIA – The advantage Saudi Arabia has is capital and the land to build massive amounts of data centers. Mind you, these are not fully functioning AI machines, but rather these are the remote “brains” of such machines (which we will begin calling remote brains).

THIS is why data centers are becoming a growing political friction point worldwide. They need a lot more remote brains than they do AI machines.

In Saudi Arabia, no such friction exists. The Saudis hope to have an investment stake in international corporate AI, as well as becoming a top hub for remote brains for AI machines from AI superpowers (which they still hope are both China and the U.S.).

  1. ARGENTINA – Though Argentina’s economy is lot more stable than previously, Milei’s Argentina is still dealing with economic instability that makes converting AI into financial management tools a needs-based focus for the nation.

The recent dramatic restructuring of the government under Milei has also led to the nation developing AI for government processing.

Its immediate needs, however, are not its greatest long-term potential, though both developments have long-term opportunities. Their greatest potential lies in a region in the country known as Patagonia. Here, Argentina is filled with opportunity for the creation of powerful AI machines. It also has the human resources for such an expansion.

Their current alignment with the U.S. gives them a potential for a technological boost that could see the country quickly become an AI regional power with some superpower capacity.

  1. CURRENT SITUATION

What follows are current headlines from the AI world in the last 16 days alone.

The headlines reveal the rapid changes that are happening to AI as a developing tool. They also show how commercially ready AI tools are already radically changing the way we must organize to meet this new reality.

  1. NOTE: These headlines are archived news blurbs and links aggregated and collated on our site, mindfulintelligence.news. You can find the blurbs and links to all the stories used in this part of the Deep Dive there as well. The dates on these archived stories begin April 2, 2026, and end April 16, 2026.
  2. PLANNING & DESIGN – Humans are becoming managers of AI, while the development of AI is being increasingly done by AI itself. As rumors of AI’s pending peak persist, evidence suggests that might be premature. Yet, mathematically, AI’s limitations are allegedly assured, especially in the hopes that AI will ever truly be “human.”

1.1. NEVER HUMAN – Agentic coding requires effective spec-driven development. From scienceblog.com – “The Halting Problem and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems suggest that perfect AI alignment with human values is mathematically impossible.”

1.2. SPEC FOR AGENCY – From venturebeat.com – “Spec-driven development starts with a deceptively simple idea: before an AI agent writes a single line of code, it works from a structured, context-rich specification that defines what the system is supposed to do, what its properties are, and what ‘correct’ actually means.”

1.3 BRAIN BASE WARS – Google upgrades its robot brain base, calling it Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6. This is a departure from DeepMind. From marketpost.com –  “Gemini Robotics-ER… is the embodied reasoning model: it specializes in understanding physical spaces, planning, and making logical decisions, but does not directly control robotic limbs. Instead, it provides high-level insights to help the VLA model decide what to do next. Think of it as the difference between a strategist and an executor — Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the strategist.”

  1. RESOURCES – When it comes to AI resource demands, right now the most pressing demands are coming from what we are calling their remote brains, the data centers. These are not fully functioning AI machines, rather they are the databases, the remote brains, of the AI machines.

National infrastructures will require far more data centers than AI machines, including America’s, where the issue of data center expansion is becoming an increasingly political one.

From The Blaze: “The public is being asked to shoulder a burden to facilitate a supposed technology whose benefits are very unclear and dubious… Republicans are continuing their uninterrupted streak of woefully underperforming in elections.

However, in the first of its kind referendum on Big Tech data centers, voters are showing that a party that embraces land sovereignty over Big Tech dystopian land grabs will win the day. Sadly, Republicans have chosen to be on the losing side of the issue.”

They are referring to a referendum in Port Washington, Wisconsin, to require any data center additions be approved by a general election. The Republicans were against the referendum. The referendum passed by a 2-1 margin. A city in Missouri is planning to outright ban data centers.

The issue isn’t just about energy demand, it’s about land occupation. Data centers require acres of land. Across the world, the need for numerous data centers will cause friction with the locals wherever they proliferate.

  1. CULTURE – AI planners are recognizing the need to create culturally calibrated machines. Anthropic’s invitation to Christians is a strong bellwether of this reality. The recent assassination attempts on an AI CEO highlight the growing friction between the increasing use of AI alongside the mounting mistrust and hatred of it.

3.1. CHRISTIAN AI? – Anthropic signals a need for diverse cultural inputs for AI; they invite Christian leaders to a summit to talk about it. From christianpost.com – “At the summit, held last month, staff sought advice on how Claude should respond to complex ethical queries, including how to handle users who are grieving or at risk of self-harm, and what attitude the chatbot should adopt toward its own potential demise, such as being shut off.”

3.2. AI ASSASSIN – A man who believes he can kill AI by killing its corporate leaders has been captured after attempting to kill the OpenAI CEO twice. He told the world, “…if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message.” Now the question is, what will AI CEOs do in response to this growing threat? Altman himself was described as having a “sociopathic lack of concern” for the attempted assassinations.

3.3. USE IT, BUT HATE IT – While everyone uses AI, no one likes it. AI companies’ efforts to woo the public have failed, as no one trusts AI, no one wants AI machines and remote brains in their backyards, but no one wants to stop using them.

From The Algorithm Bridge: “People hate AI so much that they are prone to attribute to it everything that’s going wrong in their lives, regardless of the truth. That’s why they mix real arguments, like data theft, with fake ones… AI has become the perfect scapegoat. It doesn’t help that the entire AI industry has decided that throwing rocks at its own roof is its best selling point: If AI is so powerful and so dangerous and soon to be so ubiquitous, then what is so unexpected about people blaming everything on it?

Nothing that Altman could say justifies violence against him. This is an undeniable truth. But unfortunately, violence might still ensue. I hope not, but I guess we are seeing what appears to be the first cases.”

  1. MARKET – Google is emerging as an AI leader. AI creation means AI advertising. The whole justification for economics might soon be undone by AI.

These three bellwethers show how AI is already changing market structures and, at least theoretically, dismantling economic theories.

4.1. GOOGLE CHIP STASH – Has Google already won the American AI wars? From 24wallet.com – “Peter Diamandis argues Google (GOOGL) holds more AI chips than entire countries and will dominate the AI infrastructure race because it saw the opportunity a decade ago when Larry Page invested in proprietary Tensor Processing Units before competitors.”

4.2. AI AD MARKET EMERGING – If you do a search using AI, you understand how radically different their results are from “traditional” search results. There’s no comparison.

Now, the trick will be in figuring out how to work ads into AI-produced results and content. From observer.com – “Over the past year, the rapid adoption of generative A.I. and the corresponding decline in traditional search traffic for many publishers have intensified questions about how the next phase of the internet will be funded.”

4.3. WRECKING ECONOMIC THEORIES – One of AI’s unintended consequences is in exposing the unsoundness of economic theories. A book from Tyler Cowen attempts to show just how AI is already doing this. From The Federalist – “Rather than mounting a frontal assault on large questions about the future of economics, Cowen begins at the margin, with the history of a single idea, the doctrine that value is determined not by the total utility of a good but by the utility of an additional unit of it.

Many readers arrive at this book knowing that definition. Cowen’s first service is to show how much that belief has concealed. Marginalism is not one thing but several: There is intuitive marginalism, tautological marginalism, engineering marginalism, and social marginalism. The further one presses into the concept, the more it ramifies. Even the ideas we think we understand resist the grip that holds them.”

  1. AI TOOLS – From math, to war, to healthcare, this month alone has seen revolutionary changes in all three major institutions. The factor behind all the changes is the introduction of AI tools into these institutions. For better or worse, AI is already ubiquitous in the world, and these latest AI tool developments are the bellwethers of that reality.

5.1 AI MATHING – Our leading mathematics institutions will have to undergo a shift from working out formulas that advance mathematical standards to being mathematical experts capable of effectively managing the new formula workers, AI tools.

Daniel Litt of the University of Toronto declared what AI tools will do to mathematics departments. He told Quantum Magazine – “it will look and feel altogether different from the way mathematics was traditionally done.”

Mathematician Terence Tao at the University of California, Los Angeles, said, “Where before mathematicians studied one problem at a time… with these tools you can solve thousands of problems at once and start doing statistical studies… Though nobody I spoke with thinks AI will replace mathematicians… there are a lot of institutional changes, cultural changes, we will have to make.”

5.2. AI WARRING – More than taking over traditional positions in the battlefield, the physical expression of AI at war, drones and robots, is about to go beyond human understanding and design. First, AI is increasingly at least heavily influencing life and death decisions on 21st century battlefields, now it is about to start designing the next generation of its battlefield physical manifestation.

From WION – “The wars of the future may be about algorithm versus algorithm rather than human versus human. Deterrence may depend on machines reacting faster than humans can think. AI warfare is more widespread, less predictable, and constantly evolving. AI warfare could be more unstable than the nuclear standoff, even if it follows a similar logic of deterrence.”

A recent Chinese military exercise using AI saw AI decisions 43% faster than seasoned leaders, while maintaining over a 90% accuracy in identifying relevant information.

5.3. AI HEALING – AI is changing the whole way the healthcare industry is structured, with some of it being promising while key challenges still remain.

Decentralized AI, so far, is proving more useful than centralized AI. From Devdiscourse – “The study, titled ‘The Decentralized AI Ecosystem in Healthcare: A Systematic Review of Technologies, Governance, and Implementation,’ provides insights into the way decentralized AI technologies such as federated learning, blockchain, and decentralized autonomous organizations are reshaping clinical and operational healthcare environments.

The findings show that while decentralized AI holds significant promise in addressing systemic inefficiencies and regulatory challenges, its large-scale implementation remains constrained by technical complexity, governance gaps, and limited real-world validation.”

6.4. AI SCIENCING – AI is now capable of autonomously writing scientific papers. ResearchEVO is behind the project that successfully created this scientific-paper-writing tool. From Quantum Zeitgeist – “Zhe Zhao and colleagues at City University present ResearchEVO, a new end-to-end framework that mimics the iterative process of scientific discovery, beginning with experimentation and followed by theoretical explanation. The system uniquely combines algorithm evolution, driven by performance, with automated research paper generation, ensuring factual accuracy and avoiding fabricated citations.”

ASSESSMENT

The most powerful nations of the world are locked into a strategy that will keep them in that trajectory for 3-5 years, barring unforeseen breakthroughs that radically alter the AI dynamic.

The nations that have the best advantage are the ones whose long-term AI advantage potential development is meeting their short-term needs (like Japan).

The nations who can build the superpower AI machines and the infrastructure that goes with it, the remote brains, the data centers, will do so.

Those who can’t build superpower AI machines (and the supporting infrastructure) will work on being support specialists, hoping to become an essential element of the AI industry at some key part of the AI delivery process.

This process is well under way. In some ways, the pre-AI alliances are forming AI alliances (like Russia and China); in other ways, AI realities are forming new alliances (like Argentina and America). In the case of Germany and France, it might drive recent alliances apart.

While the nations formulate national strategies, AI tools are already impacting the world, even as AI development continues to challenge infrastructures before they’ve been created.

It is too soon to assess how AI will impact the institutions its already changing, but sooner rather than later major answers are sure to surface. We will be here, God willing, to update our assessment as the circumstances change (and they will).

As AI impacts human lives, there seems to be polar responses, one which enthusiastically embraces it (even pays monthly for it), and the other is violently untrusting.

Humans in peak expression, through various factors, have already manifested how such worship and hate integrates with the human platform.

While geopolitical strategies are settling into more predictable patterns in comparison to what we’ve seen for the past 6 months, institutions have only just begun to confront the impact of AI tools on their very habits of being.

We will be monitoring these developments closely.

AI is here, and it will touch every part of your life. Whatever you do, if it involves repetition or thinking, AI will be replacing you or aiding you.

As we have said in our earlier AI report for our Futureq series, becoming adept at using AI as a tool to augment whatever you do to make a living, or whatever you hope to do to make a living, is not only advantageous, but it’s also essential. Your competition is already using these tools, and the best ones are the most adept at getting the tools to effectively do what they want them to do.

Even we here at MIA rely on AI for much of our research (not all, for much of it comes through our archived news blurbs and news links on mindfulintelligence.news).

I use AI as a proofing tool and a drafting consultant (not an editorial consultant, nor as a “writer”). I treat AI like it is intended as a blessing, though it contains within it something less than a blessing as well.

Thanks to AI, we can put a lot more work into our reports without taking more time to do so. If you’re using AI to perform at your pre-AI level, you’re using AI wrong. Your competition is using it not to shorten their workload, but to add substantively to it without adding more labor or time to do so.

If you think you can kill it or ignore it, you are simply wrong. AI is here to stay. It is our new reality. This is not a statement of value, but merely a statement of fact. Welcome to the next major stage in human development, the AI age.

You can follow the latest AI news at our website, mindfulintelligence.news – AI Watch news tag.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

2025 Government AI-Readiness Report – Oxford Insights

2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report – Stanford

Eight ways AI will shape geopolitics in 2026 – Atlantic Council Experts

The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution – Tyler Cowen

 

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The Shadow of Death Becomes Hope in India

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Originally published April 17, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Final Thought – Friday, April 17, 2026

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?

For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!” – Psalm 44:18-26

“Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.’

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” – Romans 8:34-39

“Over 100 million + street children struggle daily in the developing world, with a significant concentration in Asia. Our mission is to change this reality. By supporting well-run orphanages and children’s homes, we provide safe havens where children receive the care and tools they need to transform their lives.” – Asian Pacific Children’s Fund Website

Our founder Don McAlvany is also the founder of the Asian Pacific Children’s Fund, a Christian ministry that rescues neglected and orphaned children in the Asian Pacific, gives them a safe thriving space to grow up in, introduces them to the gospel, and invites them to a disciplined life.

From their website: Our journey began (in 2005) when Don and Molly McAlvany first visited their youngest son volunteering in an Indonesian orphanage. From there, it spread to India, the Philippines, Nepal, and Myanmar, with 600+ children under our care. Through partnerships with well-run orphanages, APCF ensures that children receive the love, education, and support they need to break free from poverty and create self-sufficient futures.

Their work in Myanmar is what brings a story to us that comes from Don’s ministry. This story captures the spirit of adversity overcome with hope. Here we have a story of a dark cloud centering around a former source for light, the Adonai Children’s Home.

Though they walked in the shadows of death, they emerged in a place of hope. Yet that place of hope needs more help to reach its full potential.

We have been following the ongoing developments in Myanmar after the military seized power in February 2021. The military’s ruling party lost in a landslide election in November 2020. That election saw Aung San Suu elected as their new Prime Minister.

While the transition to power was allowed to continue, the military was plotting a coup they would execute just before the new government was set to take power. On February 1, 2021, the military took power, arresting the newly elected Prime Minister (who remains imprisoned today), and triggering a violent, armed civil war.

The Asian Pacific Children’s Fund, co-headed by our former Editor and our founder, Don McAlvany, has long been working in these very lands, rescuing orphans from neglect. Now, the challenge to children in Myanmar was ratcheted up.

Some of the acts of violence the Junta is accused of committing include airstrikes on villages, random rounding up of insurrectionists, kidnapping children and adults to become new soldiers, and even intentional mass murder as a means of terroristic deterrence.

These are only some of the deadliest obstacles children of Myanmar face daily. They are hardly the only ones.

The UN has estimated 17.6 million children in Myanmar require some form of humanitarian aid, 1.6 million have been intentionally displaced, and over 55,000 civilian buildings have been destroyed by Junta forces.

In the midst of such turmoil sat one of the APCF’s children’s homes, the Adonai Home. Around them, children fell victim to rape, torture, and murder, as well as forced soldier conscription. Their sense of safety was long gone. The shadow of death was looming over them. They felt their sense of safety evaporate overnight and turn into extreme distress by the time the final decision had to be made.

At 5:00AM, on February 28, 2024, the sense of impeding death had already made the air seem palpably thick with threats. A fog of trepidation hung over the home. It was time to leave. There was no other choice.

The decision to travel to the Indian border could not have been made lightly. Even where the Junta did not hold the land, surprise checkpoints or air raids made the land unsafe for travel, especially for children, a highly prized spoil of war for the Junta.

Yet traveling in such perilous conditions was far safer than remaining where they were, for it was only a matter of time before the Junta would directly threaten the safety of the children and the staff of the home.

For security reasons, we cannot give you the details of their trip as they traveled to India.

Whether the journey was hours or days, the time spent making it to the Indian border must have felt like death was hanging over them, yet hope was within grasp.

They would reach India, having traveled to the India Gate directly. Fortunately, the Junta’s control of the land is not high on its borders or in rural regions (though its air strikes and other incursions on these lands continue to this day), so our intrepid sojourners were able to safely make it to India.

Once in India, the good work began, free of immediate threat of death or harm, to build a sustainably flourishing space for the children to grow up in.

One of our self-stewardship principles is the idea that whatever the circumstances, whatever the current limitations, we seek opportunity within those parameters to optimize our sustainable flourishing potentials.

Plainly spoken, you do the best with what you are given while you yet seek to improve the circumstances overall. This community has flourished in the first part and now seeks help pursuing the second part of that former statement.

At first, they were received by safe house hosts. There were taken to a safe house where they had time for devotion, prayer, and a shared meal. They then settled into a more permanent situation, a cement storage basement, which itself was located in a remote Indian village.

They would be living in a cement storage basement, though it could not stay like that if they were to be sustained, let alone if they were to flourish.

With the help of the children, the caregivers transformed a cement storage basement into a habitable home for themselves and the children.

In current year, the Junta has held a dubious election which hasn’t swayed the opinions of the people who resisted them before the election.

Their hold on the land has not improved since the winners were announced and the new government took power. While they are no longer “officially” a junta, to many of the people of Myanmar they still are.

The Adonai Home still exists in that remote village in India. They work everyday to improve their circumstances.

The remoteness of the village means the Home must be as self-sustaining as it can or supplied reliably from outside. This is where APCF has stepped in, provided mattresses, warm clothing, blankets, a water purifier, a refrigerator, and a washing machine.

They’ve built and/or repaired ventilation, electricity, and plumbing. They built wardrobes and a front door, and they even constructed a bamboo fence with a locking iron gate “to protect the children from local threats.”

The biggest improvement might be the garden the children have been successfully running, where they grow pumpkin, cucumber, ladyfinger, and corn. From the APCF website, “Daily worship, prayer, and praise became their anchor through the fear and anxiety of displacement.”

While they have come a long way, there’s still much to be done. What they hope for most is to secure land so they can build a new and permanent home base, in buildings that are designed and built for serving neglected and orphaned children

The goal has been (and has been achieved for hundreds of children through APCF) to create for neglected children a sustainably flourishing and God-honoring environment while they become mature men and women. The paraphrasing is mine, but I believe I captured the spirit of their ministry.

What they need now is more support, especially financial, as they seek to transition from a cement storage basement to an intended children’s home. To do that, visit their website at https://www.apcf.world/donate-support-orphanages-asia. If you have cryptocurrency, you can donate as well. You can also donate stocks and DAFs.

Barring unforeseen breaking news, be sure to read your MIA next week, April 24, 2026, as we will provide a Bellwether DeepDive on the current geopolitical context of the Iran War up to April 23, 2026.

 

Bellwether Report – Friday, April 17, 2026

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Originally published April 17, 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 April 1-16, 2026.

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

TOP NEWS TAGS

AI Watch – Read our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2.

Iran War

2026 Elections

Strait of Hormuz

Eric Swalwell Investigation

Hungary Watch

Judgefare

China Watch

Trump Deportations

Pope Leo XIV

GLOBAL OUTLOOK

IRAN GALVANIZES ANTI-AMERICAN EUROPEAN MOVEMENT – As 10,000 more U.S. troops head to the Persian Gulf, Trump promises the war will soon be over. The Senate failed again to check the President’s military actions. China looks to pry America’s allies loose, accusing the U.S. of destabilizing the world. Macron and Starmer followed China’s lead, holding a joint conference on the Strait of Hormuz.

The French president wrote on X that the gathering would include “non-belligerent countries ready to contribute, alongside us, to a multilateral and purely defensive mission aimed at restoring freedom of navigation in the strait when security conditions allow.”

Whether Iran is turning America’s allies against her, or simply exposing America’s allies as “fake,” is another issue altogether. We assume the latter is true, that Iran has exposed America’s true enemies and allies, it didn’t create them.

TRUMP JESUS – President Trump posted a meme depicting himself as Jesus while he was also in the midst of a back and forth with the Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV. This followed his f bomb on Easter where he threatened to end the Iranian civilization. The President deleted the meme.

LEBANON CEASEFIRE ANNOUNCED – President Donald Trump has announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon which both sides seem to affirm. He also claimed the ceasefire deal with Iran is close to completion as well.

SWALWELL IMPLOSION CRATERS CONGRESS – The Democrat congressman turned California Senate candidate is now former in both categories. Eric Swalwell is now out of the Senate race and congress after more women have come forward, accusing him of sexual assault and harassment. The fallout could affect other members of congress on both sides of the aisle, who may have similar credible accusations against them.

IMPEACHMENT HOAX? – The 2019 Trump Impeachment was based on dubious, or fake evidence, concocted by “Democrat partisans,” or so a report from the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard suggest

VACATE THE J6 CONVICTIONS – The Department of Justice (DOJ) officially filed motions to have the convictions of numerous J6 protestors vacated. The request simply stated, “The United States respectfully requests that the Court vacate the defendants’ convictions and remand to the district court so that the government may move to dismiss the indictment with prejudice under Rule 48(a).”

MORE SIGNS POINT TO 2026 BLUE WAVE – New polls have come out that show four key Senate Races are shifting from toss-up to leans Democrat. This reflects other polls that show similar rises in Democrat numbers, along with rises in funding.

EU WINS IN HUNGARY? – After Victor Orban’s ouster in Hungary’s elections, his replacement, Péter Magyar, a former member of the Orban government, might not be on the EU’s side after all. The election was characterized as the EU versus national sovereignty movements, with Magyar representing the EU. But soon after winning, Magyar announced plans to double down on blocking immigration to the country.

Claims of Magyar being an Orban sleeper candidate seem credible, but not confirmed. We will continue to evaluate Magyar’s policies in action after his government takes power in May.

DROP THE CONTEMPT, BOASBERG – Progressive Judge James Boasberg received an unfavorable review from 2 of the 3 D.C. District Court panelists who ruled to end contempt proceedings against Trump administration officials. They accused the progressive judge of committing clear abuses of “discretion” as a district judge.

The ruling declared, “The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion, as the district court’s order said nothing about transferring custody of the plaintiffs and therefore lacks the clarity to support criminal contempt based on the transfer of custody.”

AI LEADERSHIP ASSASSIN CAUGHT – A man who tried to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been caught. Included in the evidence is a hit list of AI leaders the man hoped to kill. An FBI Affidavit claimed the suspect wanted to kill AI by killing its human leaders.

The suspect allegedly wrote, “Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message.”

Read more about the current geopolitical reality of AI in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

HEADLINES MISSED

CANADA GIVES LIBERALS BIG MAJORITY WIN – Canada’s coalition government is effectively over after two special elections have secured a simple majority for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. The possibility of gaining a simple majority happened after five members of opposition parties defected to join the liberals. The wins secure a majority for the Liberals until 2029.

FINLAND RULES CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IS “HATE SPEECH” – Finland’s Highest Court has ruled two Christian pastors who created a Christian marriage pamphlet in 2004 violated hate speech laws.

One of the “guilty” pastors said, “I am shocked and profoundly disappointed that the court has failed to recognize my basic human right to freedom of expression. I stand by the teachings of my Christian faith and will continue to defend my and every person’s right to share their convictions in the public square.”

HUMANS SURRENDER TO ROBOTS – According to Ukraine’s Prime Minister, Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian troops surrendered to Ukrainian drones and robots, making it, allegedly, the world’s first human surrender to a robot in a field of battle.

Zelensky claimed the machines “carried out (the mission) without infantry and without losses on our side. For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms – ground systems and drones.”

SUICIDE BUSINESS IN BELGIUM BOOMS – Belgium’s Euthanasia laws are rapidly expanding the eligible “clients,” and so are the suicides. Euthanasia increased over 12% in one year, from 2024 to 2025, and now accounts for 4% of the nation’s annual deaths.

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

PROSECUTING PRO-LIFE GETS PROSECUTORS FIRED – Four Biden-era prosecutors who used the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act to convict pro-life protestors at abortion clinics have been fired by the Justice Department. A spokesperson said, the department “has terminated the employment of personnel for weaponizing the FACE Act who still remained at the department.”

HOLDING MTG’S SEAT – Clay Fuller holds on to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in Georgia in a special election that at least gave the Democrats a consolation prize, he failed to win by as great a margin as Greene did in the election prior. With Republicans holding a slim majority in the U.S. House, this was a big win for the GOP.

WON’T DEPORT? YOU’RE FIRED! – Two immigration judges that refused to deport illegal aliens have themselves been fired by the Department of Justice. They were fired along with four other immigration justices; all of whom were probationary justices whose terms were near completion.

PRINCIPAL HALTS MASS SHOOTER – Oklahoma’s Paul’s Valley High School witnessed a heroic miracle when their principal, Kirk Moore, stopped a wanna-be-mass-school shooter, 20-year-old Victor Hawkins. The principal stopped the shooter before he could harm or injure anyone, other than the principal himself. The principle survived the shooting with only minor injuries.

MOONSHINE LIBERTY – The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has essentially struck down a 158-year-old law that made moon shiners run, the law making home liquor distilling illegal.

PROGRESSIVE FLAGSHIP COLLEGE SHUTS DOWN – Massachusetts’ Hampshire College is shutting its doors after the end of the fall 2026 semester. The college is a leading progressive college which has consistently led the nation in enacting progressive policies.

The President, Jenn Chrisler, stated, “The College no longer has the resources to sustain full operations and meet our regulatory responsibilities. We want to assure you that Hampshire’s board made its decision only after exploring every possible alternative.”

PRIDE FOLDS – Pride Events are shutting down across America, with the latest being Tucson Pride. They announced they were cancelling the next Pride event, saying “This decision was not made lightly…We recognize the deep importance Tucson Pride has held in our community since 1977, serving as a space of visibility, advocacy, celebration, and resilience for nearly five decades.” 

REVERSE AGING SHOWING EARLY SIGNS OF SUCCESS – Shinya Yamanaka, a stem-cell biologist then at Kyoto University in Japan, led a team of scientists to successfully test a 2006 reverse aging discovery. Now, major companies are prepared to bring the testing to the next level after other researchers have shown more evidence to support the 2006 claim. Billions are now being flooded into the emerging technology.

TAX DAY BRINGS KIDS TO CHRIST – Organizers of “One Big Wednesday” led thousands of teens to Christ over a three-hour event at Norris Penrose Event Center in Colorado Springs, CO. The event was held on Tax Day, April 15, 2026.

AI CURRENT NEWS Digest – 26-04-16

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PLANNING AND DESIGN

Why Perfect AI Alignment Is Mathematically Impossible, and Why That Might Be Fine – ScienceBlog.com

Agentic coding at enterprise scale demands spec-driven development– venturebeat.com

AI Could Democratize One of Tech’s Most Valuable Resources– www.wired.com

April 16, 2026

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EXCERPT:

Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition.

Modern AI runs on Nvidia designs, a dynamic that has propelled the company to a market cap of well over $4 trillion. Each new generation of Nvidia chip allows companies to train more powerful AI models using hundreds or thousands of processors networked together inside vast data centers. One reason for Nvidia’s success is that it provides software to help program each new generation of chip. That may soon not be such a differentiated skill.

A startup called Wafer is training AI models to do one of the most difficult and important jobs in AI—optimizing code so that it runs as efficiently as possible on a particular silicon chip.

Emilio Andere, cofounder and CEO of Wafer, says the company performs reinforcement learning on open source models to teach them to write kernel code, or software that interacts directly with hardware in an operating system. Andere says Wafer also adds “agentic harnesses” to existing coding models like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT to soup up their ability to write code that runs directly on chips.

Agentic coding at enterprise scale demands spec-driven development– venturebeat.com
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EXCERPT:

Autonomous agents are compressing software delivery timelines from weeks to days. The enterprises that scale agents safely will be the ones that build using spec-driven development.

There’s a moment in every technology shift where the early adopters stop being outliers and start being the baseline. We’re at that moment in software development, and most teams don’t realize it yet.

A year ago, vibe coding went viral. Non-developers and junior developers discovered they could build beyond their abilities with AI. It lowered the floor. It made prototyping much quicker, but it also introduced a surplus of slop. What the industry then needed was something that raised the ceiling — something that improved code quality and worked the way the most expert developers work. Spec-driven development did that. It laid the foundation for trustworthy autonomous coding agents.

Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6: Bringing Enhanced Embodied Reasoning and Instrument Reading to Physical AI– www.marktechpost.com

April 15, 2026

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EXCERPT:

Google DeepMind research team introduced Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6, a significant upgrade to its embodied reasoning model designed to serve as the ‘cognitive brain’ of robots operating in real-world environments. The model specializes in reasoning capabilities critical for robotics, including visual and spatial understanding, task planning, and success detection — acting as the high-level reasoning model for a robot, capable of executing tasks by natively calling tools like Google Search, vision-language-action models (VLAs), or any other third-party user-defined functions.

Here is the key architectural idea to understand: Google DeepMind takes a dual-model approach to robotics AI. Gemini Robotics 1.5 is the vision-language-action (VLA) model — it processes visual inputs and user prompts and directly translates them into physical motor commands. Gemini Robotics-ER, on the other hand, is the embodied reasoning model: it specializes in understanding physical spaces, planning, and making logical decisions, but does not directly control robotic limbs. Instead, it provides high-level insights to help the VLA model decide what to do next. Think of it as the difference between a strategist and an executor — Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 is the strategist.

 

 

This new chip survives 1300°F (700°C) and could change AI forever– www.sciencedaily.com

A Deep Neural Network Approach for Random Networks with Sparse Nodal Attributes and Complex Nodal Heterogeneity– arxiv.org

 

 

 

RESOURCES

Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why– www.technologyreview.com

April 8, 2026

Blurb:

We evolved for a linear world. If you walk for an hour, you cover a certain distance. Walk for two hours and you cover double that distance. This intuition served us well on the savannah. But it catastrophically fails when confronting AI and the core exponential trends at its heart.

From the time I began work on AI in 2010 to now, the amount of training data that goes into frontier AI models has grown by a staggering 1 trillion times—from roughly 10¹⁴ flops (floating-point operations‚ the core unit of computation) for early systems to over 10²⁶ flops for today’s largest models. This is an explosion. Everything else in AI follows from this fact.

 

Republicans must reject Big Tech land grabs or start losing elections– www.theblaze.com

April 15, 2026

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EXCERPT:
Republicans are continuing their uninterrupted streak of woefully underperforming in elections. However, in the first of its kind referendum on Big Tech data centers, voters are showing that a party that embraces land sovereignty over Big Tech dystopian land grabs will win the day.

Sadly, Republicans have chosen to be on the losing side of the issue.

The public is being asked to shoulder a burden to facilitate a supposed technology whose benefits are very unclear and dubious.

In a first of its kind local referendum, voters in Port Washington, Wisconsin, voted by a margin of 2-1 for a referendum that will require all future data center projects in the area to be approved by a vote of the city’s residents.

The referendum was sparked in the wake of Oracle and OpenAI’s Stargate facility setting up shop in the area. The proposed 1.3 gigawatt facility will consume the power equivalent of over one million households.

 

 

Ban on data centers in St. Charles gets city planning commission’s endorsement– www.stltoday.com

Elon Musk’s xAI faces lawsuit over Mississippi power plant tied to AI data centers – The Times of India

Bill Gates Given Green Light to Build Nuclear Reactor– slaynews.com

A Technical Deep Dive into the Essential Stages of Modern Large Language Model Training, Alignment, and Deployment– www.marktechpost.com

 

 

 

 

 

CULTURE

Anthropic seeks Christian leaders’ help in shaping AI ethics – Christian Post

AI Leadership Assassin Caught

April 14, 2026

A man who tried to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been caught. Included in the evidence is a hit list of AI leaders the man hoped to kill. An FBI Affidavit claimed the suspect wanted to kill AI by killing its human leaders.

The suspect allegedly wrote, “Also if I am going to advocate for others to kill and commit crimes, then I must lead by example and show that I am fully sincere in my message.”

Man Who Allegedly Attempted To Murder Sam Altman Had Hit List Of Other AI Leaders, FBI Says– dailycaller.com
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EXCERPT:

The man accused of attempting to murder OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kept a hit list of other tech executives, according to the FBI.

Twenty-year old Daniel Moreno-Gama, who faces federal charges for posession of an unregistered firearm and attempted destruction of property with explosives, wrote a document that “identified views opposed to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the executives of various AI companies,” an FBI affidavit revealed Monday.

After detaining Moreno-Gama, officers “recovered incendiary devices, a jug of kerosene, a blue lighter, and a document” from his possession, according to court records.

After the Attack on Sam Altman’s Home, Will AI CEOs Go On the Offensive? – Mother Jones

April 14, 2026

Blurb:

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, takes his seat before a meeting of the White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025, in Washington.Alex Brandon/AP

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Sam Altman suggested that an investigative story describing him as someone “unconstrained by truth” with a “sociopathic lack of concern” for consequences caused an early Friday attack on his San Francisco home.

 

 

Moody’s CEO: AI has a trust problem – better models won’t fix it– fortune.com

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EXCERPT:

Nearly every week, the headlines about AI are dominated by the news of the latest model. A few days ago, Meta announced its newest model called Muse Spark – its first under its revamped AI division. According to their internal benchmarking tests, the new model is competitive with leading rivals across several tasks.

AI Companies Building A Trojan Horse To Get Public On Their Side– crooksandliars.com

April 8, 2026

Blurb:

The Wall Street Journal, which famously floats trial balloons for corporate behemoths, is carrying water for the poor AI companies who are so, so disliked:

OpenAI this week published a populist wish list of policy proposals that zero in on worries like job replacement and wealth concentration, floating such ideas as a four-day workweek and an AI-invested public-wealth fund distributed to citizens.

Those proposals come as its rival Anthropic has been signing partnerships and building tools for such sectors as consulting and software, where share prices have been whacked by investor worries that they will be replaced by AI. Anthropic’s efforts have helped push back up shares of tech companies including LegalZoom.com LZ 3.84%increase; green up pointing triangle.

Anthropic and OpenAI are each pursuing ventures to help private equity, a big owner of companies in sectors ripe for disruption, with AI transformation. (Those efforts could also yield lucrative new business customers.)

 

AI Will Be Met With Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It– www.thealgorithmicbridge.com

Blurb:

The first thing you learn about a loom is that it’s easy to break.

The shuttle runs along a track that warps with humidity. The heddles hang from cords that fray. The reed is a row of thin metal strips, bent by hand, that bend back just as easily. The warp beam cracks if you over-tighten it. The treadles loosen at the joints. The breast beam, the cloth roller, the ratchet and pawl, the lease sticks, the castle; the whole contraption is wood and string held together by tension. It’s a piece of ingenuity and craftsmanship, but one as delicate as the clothes it manifests out of wild plant fibers. It is, also, the foundational tool of an entire industry, textiles, that has kept its relevance to our days of heavy machinery, factories, energy facilities, and datacenters.

Google DeepMind hires philosopher Henry Shevlin to explore AI consciousness and human-machine relationships – Firstpost

AI Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy– www.wired.com

April 15, 2026

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EXCERPT:

To anyone with a pulse and a smartphone, it’s obvious that the internet has an AI slop problem. The issue has grown more severe since ChatGPT launched in 2022, with some social platforms flooded with AI-generated writing. Now, there’s data to back up the anecdotal evidence.

A new preprint study published today from researchers at the Imperial College of London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive found that approximately 35 percent of all new websites are either AI-generated or AI-assisted. The same study also found that online writing is “increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful.” In other words, AI is making the internet fake-happy.

The research team tried four different approaches to AI detection before settling on tools from Pangram Labs after it delivered the most consistent results. (Though the team found it performed well on its tests, it is worth noting that all artificial intelligence detection tools are imperfect.) To compile a representative sample of websites, it tapped the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, which collects snapshots of webpages. In addition to quantifying how many sites created between 2022 and 2025 lean on AI-generated writing, the study also tested six different theories about the characteristics of slop.

Canada Is Mulling Age Restrictions on AI Chatbots and Social Media – Bloomberg.com

AI gig workers forced to collect personal data, including kid’s pics, for Zuckerberg-backed company – Yahoo

Claude puts up a wall as ID checks complicate access for Chinese users– technode.com

OpenAI can’t duck federal claims over murder-suicide tied to ChatGPT – Courthouse News

Apple threatened to remove Grok from the App Store over sexualized deepfakes, letter says – NBC News

Video. Humanoid robots box and perform at Hong Kong AI and robotics fair– www.euronews.com

April 15, 2026

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EXCERPT:

Hong Kong hosted the AI and robotics fair where humanoid robots boxed and played music as part of InnoEX 2026 and the Hong Kong Electronics Fair (Spring Edition), which ran from 13 to 16 April 2026 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The innovation-and-technology showcase reflects a broader trend of robots expanding into service and public functions. Unitree unveiled four models with advanced capabilities, including navigation assistance and support in emergencies, with some able to operate fire hoses in hazardous settings.

At the exhibition, robots also performed martial arts style routines and mimicked musical instruments, highlighting their versatility across sectors. Developers say these systems are designed for security, rescue and customer service as well as entertainment.

According to organisers, the fair brought together companies and researchers from across Asia, reflecting strong investment in the sector. Firms including AgiBot, EngineAI, UBTECH and Unitree showcased advanced robots, alongside start-ups and international participants, underlining Hong Kong’s role as a regional hub.

MARKET

AI Is Exposing The Limits Of Economics– thefederalist.com

April 7, 2026

Blurb:

There is a particular pleasure in watching a scholar dismantle the monument he has spent a career admiring. Tyler Cowen named his blog after the Marginal Revolution; he has spent decades explicating, celebrating, and applying marginalist thinking to every aspect of modern life. In Cowen’s compact and astringent book, The Marginal Revolution: Rise and Decline, and the Pending AI Revolution, he turns to survey the edifice and finds it, if not crumbling, then visibly retreating from the frontier where the real intellectual work gets done. The result is one of the more honest performances in recent economic writing: a love letter that doubles as an elegy, delivered without sentimentality.

The book’s method is itself something of a marginalist exercise. Rather than mounting a frontal assault on large questions about the future of economics, Cowen begins at the margin, with the history of a single idea, the doctrine that value is determined not by the total utility of a good but by the utility of an additional unit of it. Many readers arrive at this book knowing that definition. Cowen’s first service is to show how much that belief has concealed. Marginalism is not one thing but several: There is intuitive marginalism, tautological marginalism, engineering marginalism, and social marginalism. The further one presses into the concept, the more it ramifies. Even the ideas we think we understand resist the grip that holds them.

 

Google hosts AI for the Economy Forum in Washington D.C.– blog.google

April 14, 2026

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EXCERPT:

Today we’re bringing people together in Washington D.C. to discuss how AI will impact the economy and jobs. At our inaugural AI for the Economy Forum, co-hosted with MIT FutureTech, we’re starting with a simple premise: neither the benefits nor the risks are automatic or guaranteed. How AI impacts our lives, jobs and economy is something we as a society can shape – and fully realizing AI’s economic potential will require a new era of partnership between companies, workers, governments, researchers and more. At the forum, economists, industry leaders, policymakers and experts will gather to share information, identify gaps in current understanding, and lay the foundation for ongoing collaboration.

Google has a long-standing commitment to helping positively shape this transition. Today, we’re building on that commitment in two critical ways. First, we are making new investments in research to ensure governments, companies, researchers, and civil society have the information required to make smart decisions. Second, we are providing training opportunities to equip people with the skills needed to navigate a changing economy.

Intel Hit By AI Brain Drain As Top Execs Depart For Rivals: Sachin Katti Joins OpenAI After Saurabh Kulkarni’s Jump To AMD – MSN

Why A.I. Ads Could Define the Next Internet Economy– observer.com

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The shift to A.I.-driven interfaces is transforming advertising from attention-grabbing to machine-readable participation. Unsplash+

For decades, advertising has quietly powered the modern internet. It funded the rise of search engines, social platforms, maps, email and media, making them accessible to billions of people around the world. Most users never paid directly for these services, and yet they benefited from one of the most open and expansive information ecosystems ever created.

Now, that ecosystem is being reshaped. Over the past year, the rapid adoption of generative A.I. and the corresponding decline in traditional search traffic for many publishers have intensified questions about how the next phase of the internet will be funded.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the new front door to information. Instead of typing queries into a search bar and sifting through links, users are turning to A.I. systems to deliver direct answers, recommendations and decisions. Platforms like OpenAI, Perplexity and Anthropic are redefining how information is accessed altogether. Meanwhile, incumbents like Google are integrating A.I.-generated overview answers directly into search results, signaling a structural shift in how users discover information.

“Every Chip Is Getting Used Instantly” — Here’s Why Google’s AI Dominance May Be Unstoppable – 24/7 Wall St.

 

AI TOOLS

The AI Revolution in Math Has Arrived – Quanta Magazine

Weapons of Mass Automation: AI can make war more lethal than nuclear weapons. How US, Russia, China, India and others are preparing – WION

China Says AI Outperformed Human Commanders With 90% Accuracy in Simulation – The Defense Post

The AI build-out is powering global goods trade – Financial Times

Decentralized AI models take over healthcare systems – Devdiscourse

Algorithms Now Discover And Write Scientific Papers Autonomously – Quantum Zeitgeist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final Thought: From A Hope Castle to Hope Estates

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil and let us see what we are made of.” – Charles Spurgeon

Since last we checked in on our Riqueday Castle project, we had been struck by a prolonged subzero ice storm that left us in limbo wondering how much damage had been done. Initial findings suggested the results might not be as bad as we feared.

Last weekend, we conducted a thorough inspection of the Riqueday Castle, where we learned the primary damage was to the heating element pipes in our basement. The pipes to our two kitchens and two bathrooms all turned out to be fine, save for one leak in the drain of one of the bathroom’s sinks.

Our castle is heated with steam, which comes through water heated up by a natural gas furnace. The pipes that lead to the registers, the actual heating systems, were the ones to suffer damage, with MOST of the pipes in the basement becoming disconnected.

Fortunately, we did not have the water turned on at the time of the disaster, so there was no flooding (save for minor flooding in our mezzanine bathroom), which would have cost damages we most likely would not have recovered from.

As for the damage to the pipes in the basement, the overall cost of repair will range between $3K and $5K. We have until next winter to get the pipes fully repaired. We plan on having the work done one section at a time. We have a contractor in the queue waiting to start work.

Due to the prolonged days of freezing sub-zero weather without heat, any cracks in our walls got worse, which affected a part of the sanctuary and our first-floor kitchen. Both will need wall repairs, with the kitchen also needing some ceiling repairs. We have a handyman who will be addressing these small repair issues.

It does appear we have two registers which will need to be replaced; these will cost another $800-$1K (including installation costs). While the overall damages are more than we thought after our previous inspection, they are still far less than was originally feared.

Outside of the new damages we must now repair, our initial targets for major restoration are the roof and the basement floor. We will be getting estimates for a new roof. We plan on installing the new basement floor(s) ourselves.

After the roof and the basement floors (which will also include waterproofing and a thorough steam cleaning), our next step is to make my brother’s quarters habitable (which includes installing a shower in the first-floor bathroom) and my wife’s and my quarters habitable (which includes installing a bathroom/shower on the second floor).

At this point, we will begin to be able to use our space to serve the community around us.

Beyond this, we have doors to replace, outside stairs to fix, a basement redesign, and more. We envision this project will take up to five years before it is “done.” We had originally planned for three years, but our circumstances have changed.

One reason we think it will take this long is we are working on more than Riqueday Castle, we are also working on our Harrisburg Estate. This property belongs to my mother, who hopes to see the property become a Hope Castle like Riqueday Castle.

Her property includes nearly a half-acre of unoccupied land (a rarity in the inner city of Harrisburg, which is where the property lies), a row of 8 garages in the back (4 on each side, with one facing inward in the property and the other facing out on the alley behind the property), and a four-unit 3-story apartment building.

The two properties, Riqueday Castle and the Harrisburg estate, serve radically different communities. The Canton property (Riqueday Castle) serves a 95 plus percent white community that is overwhelmingly conservative and Christian. The Harrisburg property serves a diverse community with a slight majority black population that is overwhelmingly progressive.

It is our hope that as our castles come online, the communities that emerge from them will have ambassador exchanges, with Harrisburg members spending some time in Canton and vice versa.

We do not recommend people begin two large projects at the same time such as we have, but this emerged out of necessity, not design. Our mother’s health is such that she needs help now, which includes simply holding on to her property (which my brother, Bill, has been helping her to do, including paying property taxes).

Currently, my brother owns his home in Blossburg and we (my wife and I) own our home in Bethlehem. We had originally planned to sell our homes and use those funds to further invest in the Riqueday Castle, then when our mother’s needs became apparent, we added Harrisburg to the plan.

We still might end up having to do that, but we are working on funding plans to potentially hold on to all four properties under one trust, with Blossburg serving as a support to Canton (Riqueday Castle) and Bethlehem being its own future “colony.” For now, what we hope is that our daughter becomes the steward of the home while she continues to go to college in the region.

Our home in Bethlehem is not large enough to be a fully functioning castle, nor is Bill’s home in Blossburg. In the end, we might have to sell both homes, but for now we plan on holding on to them, believing their uses will become apparent in due time.

For now, BOTH homes are still needed. Bill’s home will be a transition home for our mother (when she and one or both of us aren’t at Harrisburg) as we continue to prepare the castle for occupation.

Our home in Bethlehem costs less to hold on to (including taxes) than paying for room and board for our daughter’s university. She lives less than 10 minutes from her university, which will be her home until she gets her master’s in psychology (at least another 3-4 years).

Due to the shift in our focus from one Hope Castle (Riqueday), we are now going to call our Project the Hope Estates Project. Our monthly updates will focus on the whole project, which includes Harrisburg, Blossburg, Canton, and Bethlehem.

We ask our readers inclined to do so to pray for us as we seek to build sources for more revenue that will enable us to fund this project. We are working right now on a version of MIA that will serve a broader audience. It will be called Bellwether Intel. It derives its name from our Bellwether Deep Dive reports.

There will be considerable overlap in content between the two projects, but some significant differences. For instance, BWI will not include a Final Thought feature. Generally, MIA is serving a Christian, mostly conservative, and primarily American audience. BWI will serve an independent, assumed mixed-belief and non-belief audience that isn’t exclusively American.

While MIA analyses news from a Christian Americanist perspective, BWI will analyze news from a more “neutral” perspective, or, rather, a geopolitical reality of power perspective.

The subscriptions we offer BWI will be different than MIA. As we announced in a past issue, the price on MIA will not change, but BWI subscriptions will cost more than MIA’s, with a lock on new subscriptions to follow AFTER BWI fully comes online. For our longtime loyal readers, especially those who were there when the founder, Don McAlvany was the editor, nothing will change for you.

So long as we have legacy subscribers, we will continue to serve you, which includes allowing for renewals even after we freeze new subscriptions.

We will update you as that project develops.

The Harrisburg Estate is about 90 minutes away from Washington, D.C., which is where potential clients are for Regal Blue Media, the parent company of MIA. As soon as we fix up the top apartment in the Harrisburg Estate, brother Bill will be able to visit D.C. more often to generate more business for our personal and opposition research, marketing, and political campaign services.

If you’re in the market for any such services, let us know at miamailroom@gmail.com.

In addition to these potential income streams, we continue to rely on stock dividends for revenue. On that front, my wife and I are educating ourselves on investing to figure out how, if possible, we can increase our stock dividend income.

The bottom line is this; To make our Hope Estates project a reality, we will have to raise more revenue. As we are not interested in forming a non-profit at this time, this means we must raise the funds ourselves. THIS is why we ask our readers to pray for us as we seek paths to fund our project into existence.

Next week, we will have an update on Don McAlvany’s ministry for our Final Thought. We originally planned on covering that story this week but flipped the order as we had no real Hope Castle update in our last monthly issue (where these updates will regularly appear).

Situation Report: Jan-Mar Q1 2026

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Dates: 26-01-01 to 26-04-09

By STAFF

Stories we are following for the next issue:

  1. NO MORE MASS MAILER ELECTIONS? – President Trump’s XO attempts to stop mass mailer elections in America. Lawsuits have already been filed.
  2. IRAN UNFOLDING – Did Trump arm Iranians and they failed to deliver?
  3. SHUTTING DOWN IN NATO – Rubio hints at 80% reduction of U.S. military presence in Europe in near future.
  4. ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE JUDGE STRIKES TRUMP DEPORTATION PLAN – Biden-appointed Judge Brian Murphy canceled Trump’s XO that ended Temporary Protection Status for Ethiopian immigrants.
  5. SWALWELL CAN’T SHAKE THE CCP – The FBI isn’t done investigating progressive U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell’s relationship with a Chinese spy. Threats of data dumping of evidence against Swalwell by the FBI soon followed.
  6. SOUTH OF THE BORDER GOING CASHLESS – The Progressive-led Mexican government is looking to aggressively push towards a cashless society and a national digital ID system.
  7. 7. “HITLER NEVER SAID THAT” – MS Now’s host tells America Trump is worst than Hitler, than any “cruel king EVER… “
  8. HOW AMERICA IS DEVELOPING CHINA’S WEAPONS OF WAR – American tech companies warn the world that China’s domestic tech companies are really military tech companies in disguise. We are China’s free defense tech research and development department now.
  9. PRO-LIFE JOURNALISTS FREED FROM LAWFARE – After years of being under the weight of criminal prosecution, undercover journalists have now seen all their charges dropped. They exposed Planned Parenthood in a series of undercover videos selling parts of aborted babies.
  10. LIGHT-POWERED RECHARGE IN SECONDS – A quantum battery prototype has been built that can allegedly recharge itself with light alone. It is an organic battery as well. The battery prototype was built by CSIRO, RMIT and the University of Melbourne.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Sitrep analyzes key bellwether events in U.S. Politics, Geopolitics, Culture, Market, and Sci-Tech news. The main focus in this report is on U.S. Politics and Geopolitics, which are both molders of the other institutions, and reflections of them as well.

AI continues to be a growing driver of geopolitical realities, with the Iran War, for example, perhaps being driven primarily by it. The Iran War itself is becoming a geopolitical bellwether in its own right.

The political dynamic in America continues to become increasingly polarizing.  Progressive-held lands increasing social-hierarchy based rules of law and conservative-held lands increasing anti-woke, borderline unconstitutional laws in response.

The cultural divide, like the political one, continues to grow in America. The progressives continue to dominate cultural and social spaces, while the opposition to the progressives remains uncentered and lacks a distinct American voice.

While the cultural battles before the rise of AI continue to dominate news, we are already looking at how AI will change those dynamics as it becomes an increasing part of everyday life for a growing majority of people.

AI replacement and the Iran War continue to dominate market trends this past month. In the first quarter, Middle East conflict overall has continued to be a major driver of market trends.

U.S. POLITICS

1. BACKGROUND

1.1. SENATE STALEMATE – President Trump signed an executive order attempting to diminish the scale of mass mailer voting. The GOP-led Senate continues to allow the SAVE Act (which would require Voter ID and end mass mailer voting) to fail passage because of a progressive-led filibuster. The same issue plagues efforts to fund the DHS.

1.2 DHS CHANGE – Former Senator Markwayne Mullin was confirmed and sworn in as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. He takes over from former governor Kristi Noem, who was “transferred” to another department.

1.3. SWALWELL – Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell is now facing charges from the DOJ for his alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Now, he’s allegedly going to face sexual assault allegations from numerous women.

1.4. BONDI – Pam Bondi’s ouster as Attorney General has not removed the scrutiny on her over her handling of the Epstein Files. Despite hinting she wouldn’t attend a U.S. House Oversight hearing for questioning, the committee itself is assuming Bondi should expect to attend nonetheless.

1.5. PROJECT 2029 – Another Democrat is calling for massive criminal consequences to Trump supporters. Democrat Suzanna Karatassos is calling for MAGA voters to be banned from using the internet for four years. The increased rhetoric calling for post-Trump criminal prosecutions and the removal of Trump have become known as “Project 2029.” These past three months this narrative has become dominant among progressive circles.

1.6. JUDGEFARE – Another Federal judge is attempting to halt President Trump’s deportation operations, this one ruling Trump cannot reverse a Biden order that granted deportation amnesty to Ethiopians. The divide between the Trump administration and the judiciary is only growing with recent rulings, including from SCOTUS, as the courts continue to roll back significant policies of the Trump administration using “creative” interpretations of constitutional law to do so.

1.7. ELECTIONS – While the Democrats enjoy a gerrymandering war advantage (with a major test in Virginia on the way) and early generic ballot poll advantages for the 2026 election, there are other polls showing leaks in the hoped-for blue wave. One poll shows 55% of the party’s members believe the leaders of the party don’t have the right priorities. 70% of the overall U.S. population shares that sentiment.

The race between a RINO and conservative in the Texas Senate primary is still up in the air, with Trump refusing to declare for either side.

Republicans hold on to the Marjorie Taylor Greene seat in a special election.

Wisconsin’s important Supreme Court became a progressive super-majority after their candidate won the statewide election.

The Virginia progressive experiment is showing signs of early failure with the newly elected governor hitting all-time lows in approval ratings.

1.8. FRAUD – Allegedly, the move against massive progressive fraud in numerous states is about to happen. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche claimed there are over 8,000 cases about to be prosecuted.

1.9. LEAKERS – The Trump administration finally moved decisively against a leaker.

The DOJ has announced the prosecution of an alleged leaker. This leaker shared information about the downed U.S. pilots in the Iran War, letting them know only one pilot had been rescued.

1.10. NO-KINGS NO-SHOWS – Another round of No-Kings protests has come and gone, with minimal viral moments and a noticeable decrease in attendance between this one and the last one. The bellwether moment came when one progressive activist wrote on a federal building “kill your local ICE agent.”

  1. ASSESSMENT – The Trump administration has begun shuffling decks. The GOP Senate continues to be of no help to the President. The Progressive Judiciary continues to deliver increasingly aggressive decisions with draconian consequences to the President’s agenda.

Connections between the CCP and Democrats continue to be discovered. The progressives’ continued faith in the Iranian regime over America makes these connections all the harder to ignore. If the pro-Chinese regime in Iran falls, this will be a major setback

The midterms appear primed for the progressives to win despite their continued open support of policies that are overwhelmingly unpopular (such as sexually transitioning children). The street fighting progressives are losing clout and numbers as greater numbers of American find themselves fatigued with the constant “protests.”

Read our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2. The report details the emergence of the progressive nation within the American nation and what can be done to stop it.

GEOPOLITICS

  1. BACKGROUND

1.1. CEASEFIRE SHAKE – The ceasefire agreement between the U.S. and Iran is already in doubt. The political fallout for President Trump, so far, has been near-universally negative. The markets rise and fall as news shifts from ending the war to continuing the war. Expect an analysis of the state of Iran in our April 24, 2026, weekly report.

1.2. ANTHROPIC MILITARY – The U.S. military is being forced to continue to use the AI service “Anthropic” despite having existential military ethical differences between the two.

1.3. CHINESE NATIONALISM – China passes “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” American progressives remain silent.

1.4. RUSSIA TO THE RESCUE? – Russia’s oil tankers are still headed to Cuba in an effort to prevent a complete meltdown of the current regime. A hotel visit from American progressive livestreaming “influencers” failed to reverse the regime’s circumstances.

1.5. VICTORY IN VENEZUELA – The Trump administration appears to have won the Venezuelan contest as the current regime now seems more than ready to become a de facto U.S. ally. This comes at the cost of Russia and China, who were building a spearhead in Venezuela to lock America out of South America.

1.6. MYANMAR POST-JUNTA – After elections saw Junta members and supporters mostly win, the post-Junta government has failed to take hold of the vast majority of the territory of the country, which is mostly rural. Yet even the post-Junta government has fractures within; the Junta’s military chief has removed the post-Junta heir to his position from government.

1.7. NIGERIAN EASTER HOLY WARS – Islamists in Nigeria have murdered 26 Christians on Easter Sunday in an attack across the country targeting Christian churches. The number of Christian dead is not known, with only 26 so far being confirmed. Numerous churches have been burned down. Unknown numbers of women and children were abducted.

1.8. PROXY ELECTION WARS IN HUNGARY – Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s re-election campaign is under doubt, and JD Vance is stepping in to help. The visit from the VP has triggered accusations the EU is interfering in the election, with EU members countering the U.S. is interfering.

1.9. GEN Z REVOLTION COMPLETED – Nepal’s Gen Z Revolution has ended with a Gen Z Prime Minister leading a Gen-Z-voted-in parliament, ending the Communist Party’s decades-long reign.

1.10. SOVIET UK – The UK offers some “mercy” after social media arrests reach 30 a day.

  1. ASSESSMENT – Geopolitical assessment is difficult in these times given the dual influences at play. On one hand we have the pre-AI-essential geopolitical balances of power, on the other hand we have yet to figure out or experience exactly what the new AI-essential geopolitical balances of power are. This will affect assessments for the foreseeable future.

The conflicts we see here have mostly been driven by the old paradigm, but some, like the Iran War, are a strong mix of the previous paradigm and the emerging new AI-essential paradigm(s). Israel and Iran are fighting in the old paradigm, America is fighting in the new paradigm. Their war is against Chinese power, not the Ayatollah’s power.

2.1. NIGERIA – The Islamist war on Christians in Nigeria is a conflict that will increasingly become proxy driven as the real war will be driven by greater powers over “affordable” access to the nation’s vast untapped rare earth mineral resources.

That conflict is wholly driven, even at present, by the previous paradigms. It will become completely consumed by the new paradigm if a victor doesn’t soon emerge.

2.2. EU – Europe’s political establishment are seeing significant cracks in their defensive walls, as more rightist governments are winning local, regional, and even national elections. The question in Europe is if it’s too little too late for the indigenous populations there, whose cities have been taken over by mostly Islamist government-funded “immigrants.”

2.3. BRITIAN – Britain’s continued spiral into soviet-styled governance has seen some hiccups recently, especially with the emerge of a pro-British party called Restore Britain. Britain might well become a bellwether for whether the indigenous Europeans have a path back to primacy in their own lands or not, as well as whether that transition can resist the temptation of authoritarian ethno-nationalism.

The internal battle is in the old paradigm, but the emerging battle is between the people of the land (whoever they end up being) having agency in the new AI-essential paradigm or being a client state of a nation-state, whose citizens have a stake in their world-leading national AI program.

The push to hastily find unity could work both against and for the indigenous population, and the UK might be the indicator of what’s in store for the rest of Europe’s indigenous populations.

2.4. ETHNIC NATIONALISM – While Europe wrestles with preventing indigenous assertion from morphing into ethnic nationalism, China has now openly embraced it. This fact has gone unnoticed by the ethnic nationalist-fighting progressives, who seem to generally support ethnic nationalism when it’s non-white and progressive.

2.5. NEW BEACONS – While nations in the west continue to become more authoritarian, nations around the world like Nepal, Japan, and Bolivia, are embracing more individual-empowering governance standards. The previous beacons of “liberty” are giving way, but new beacons of “liberty” are emerging. It remains to be seen where America will fall in this.

CULTURE

  1. BACKGROUND – The NBA’s Chicago Bulls let a player go for refusing to “celebrate pride.” The pushback is only growing.

The Canadian government is moving closer to criminalizing scripture.

Finland has criminally convicted a Christian leader for declaring only men can be men.

Tucker Carlson claims it is unacceptable for President Trump to criticize Islam while calling the Old Testament a “genocidal” book that needs revisions.

Oregon is expanding the eligibility for euthanasia, and its growing numbers reflect that.

Canada is further ahead in embracing euthanasia, with one man being euthanized because he suffered from partial blindness.

The Netherlands are now allowing people with autism to “choose” physician-assisted suicide.

  1. ASSESSMENT – We see both a rise in anti-Christian action worldwide, including the U.S., while also seeing a rise in Christian defiance. As anti-Christianity rises, so too does abortion and euthanasia, both of which are only expanding worldwide.

Euthanasia is spreading even faster than Abortion. The pushback against abortion is growing, but euthanasia hardly seems to be on anyone’s radar, in any political camp.

In America, if you live under progressive rule, social-class hierarchies are becoming the drivers of policy, and wherever progressives have power, the aggressive push to establish progressive social hierarchy values as the new rule of law is only increasing.

The reverse is true in conservative-led states, where some states are pushing back so hard their actions are sometimes borderline unconstitutional (if not unconstitutional altogether).

An American cultural voice has yet to emerge. The anti-woke cultural voice is far stronger than the American cultural voice, hence conservatives going too far enacting policies that might blunt the progressives, but they will also blunt Americans as well.

MARKETS

  1. BACKGROUND

1.1. – HORMUZ – China, Russia and Iran hope to see the conflict in Iran accelerate their plans to destroy the U.S. dollar as the world currency. Even after the ceasefire announcement, the state of the Strait of Hormuz is still in doubt as Iran appears to want to collect fees for allowing people to pass through the strait (which they do not own).

1.2. – WOKE ECONOMICS – In California, the consequences of progressive policies (where they reject pragmatic economic realities and embrace impractical idealistic policies) are bearing bad fruit. The state’s minimum wage law is driving customers, business owners, and employees out of the marketplace, leading to business shutdowns and accelerated automation/layoffs.

1.3. AI – AI’s massive layoff predictions have only partially come true, but AI has given some companies an excuse to lay off staff that was superfluous even before the rise of commercial-grade AI. The White House released its Artificial Intelligence Framework, which we will provide an analysis for in our next issue (Friday, April 17, 2026).

  1. ASSESSMENT – The primary drivers of market movement this quarter have been the unfolding of the AI race and the Iran War. The war is interfering with world trade, while AI development is dismantling old institutions as it builds new ones.

The U.S.’s world currency status remains in doubt and signs point to its eventual demise (as THE world currency, not as a currency).

We do not believe the U.S. dollar will be replaced, rather the world will eventually have 3-5 major currencies that are primarily used regionally and/or within alliances.

SCI-TECH

  1. BACKGROUND – Social media took two massive hits, both connected to how social media regulates underage users on their platforms. Meta, YouTube, and Facebook all took lawsuit losses in the millions in March.
  2. ASSESSMENT – Social media as a global platform is becoming increasingly expensive for social media companies, and it’s only going to get more expensive. The days of the globally accessible internet might soon either be over or at least greatly diminished.

Regional social media companies might replace global ones. In some instances, national social media companies will replace regional ones. China has already shown the world how to do it by creating its own largely domestically used Chinese-owned social media platforms.

It is also possible “alliance-linked” social media companies could emerge.

  1. OVERALL ASSESSMENT

Iran has dominated the news, as it should. Behind the scenes, the decisions being made in Iran are being given with considerable counsel from an AI machine the Pentagon would rather not be using. Were it not for a progressive judge, the Iran War would not be “run” by Anthropic.

Iran is becoming a bellwether of the transition from the old geopolitical reality of power to the new geopolitical reality of power, both in terms of why the U.S. is fighting the war (to check China’s growing power, their main AI super machine competitor) and how the war is being fought.

As we have observed recently, President Trump has now made the transition to politician. At this point, the biting rhetoric of Trump is the biting rhetoric of every wanna-be future President, in the GOP or the Democrat Party.

Now, his approval will be based on wallets, primarily, and on that front a lot rides on how fast and how certain the Iran War ends, as well as whose in charge after the war.

Iran is now becoming a bellwether moment for President Trump’s legacy. He told protesters “Help is on the way,” so after thousands of killed protestors and a ruined national infrastructure, a people not free in Iran is a sure indication America’s power is waning.

Even in politics, President Trump’s Easter f bomb threat to annihilate the Iranian civilization has reinvigorated progressive aggression, leading to greater calls for President Trump to be impeached, as well as greater calls for Trump and his supporters to be prosecuted in 2029 if a progressive wins in 2028.

This emboldening effect trickles down to the progressive street fighter, who might now feel more entitled to take violent action against American citizens and agents.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

This predictive analysis will focus on U.S. Politics and Geopolitics. A comprehensive predictive analysis will be provided in the December 18, 2026, Annual issue of MIA.

  1. U.S. POLITICS – True progressives are becoming disenfranchised with the Democrat Party, in part because the Democrats still play the American game and claim to represent American values. To true progressives, they might as well be calling themselves Nazis. What they want is the full emergence of a progressive state with an international heart.

True Americans are becoming disenfranchised with the Republican Party, in part because the Republicans still play the Progressive games while claiming to be Americans. To true Americans, they might as well be progressives. What they want is the full emergence of an American leader to counter the progressive nation, constitutionally, not extra-constitutionally.

The voices in the party-approved spaces will become increasingly disconnected from the true bases of power in both camps, the true progressives for the Democrat Party and the true Americans for the Republican Party.

It remains to be seen how long it will take for Americans to begin to understand this reality and begin to seek each other out (for more on this, read our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2, The Birth of the Progressive Nation). We believe, though, it is only a matter of time before multiple efforts to capture that American political market emerge.

For the Americans to stand a chance in this fight, they will need to galvanize relatively quickly, by no later than 2027, in time to prepare for the 2028 Presidential Election (which might be the last election, in point of fact or directly).

  1. GEOPOLITICS – The alliances of today will not be the alliances of tomorrow, though some overlap even statistically is bound to occur.

The nations of the world are testing the reality of power around them, seeking potential allies and identifying potential enemies in the war to either possess the super AI machines of the future or be in friendly terms with the nations that do.

In our underlying predictability model analysis, we presume humans act to be affirmed by the world that they are great. This is a very simple iteration of our underlying principle, but accurate enough as expressed. They look for vehicles of power, which are habits of being formed from customs, mores, rules, institutions, beliefs, etc., that give them an opportunity to experience this.

Editor Paul Gordon Collier’s essay, Fear of Suffering and Death, goes deeper into that underlying principle, which he calls “Apex Existentialism.” This essay is included in your subscription. You should receive it in the same email you received this issue in.

The leaders of this world exist in vehicles of power that allow them to dominate their nation’s political reality of power. With the rise of AI, some vehicles of power will be critically challenged, some may thrive. For the leaders who have figured out their vehicle of power is at risk, they are already looking for a new one.

The leaders of the world are sometimes one-man shows, and sometimes tips of factional spears, and sometimes figureheads of oligarchic power struggle (some of which are settled, some of which are not). What almost ALL of them have in common is to minimally hold on to the status their lifestyles provide for them.

They are all waking up to new geopolitical realities that will lead them to move towards an embrace of nearly all types of energy production (whatever it takes). Global warming is increasingly out, and technological progress is in.

Land rights will be challenged however that can be done, and AI machine support will be equated with patriotism.

We believe the vehicles of power that will offer these leaders the greatest opportunity to continue to sustain consolidated power advantages or create new ones, will have this principle in common: The people, the planet, the universe will be saved by technological progress, with the salvation of the universe being both the highest good and that same universe being the source of the highest evil.

This means even earth can take some hits in the name of saving the universe or in protecting itself from it.

The universe will become the source of good and evil.

We will go from global warming to an impending universe threat to the planet that only a super AI machine can stop. The threat will be as real as global warming.

These are the vehicles of power we see emerging over the next few months, as AI coupled with a pre-existing global digital network has accelerated the speed at which patterns are formed, assaulted, exhausted, reformed or dissolved, etc.

Look for it in film and in news coverage as stories of asteroids, space bacteria, etc., start to increase. Look for versions of your favorite belief system to begin incorporating “the universe is the source of good and evil (but not God, not Satan) and can only be saved through technology” into their structures. This will be a sure sign your local belief center, online or IRL, is global leader approved.

RECOMMENDATIONS

  1. U.S. POLITICS – For recommendations on what Americans should do, see our Bellwether Report on pg. 2.

For President Trump, we would recommend he start by declaring an insurrection. He must then move quickly to remove progressive judges from the courts.

At this point, he should offer amnesty to most progressive willing to repent and turn back to American constitutional standards. Now he can charge the top leaders with the highest level of sedition and collusion in a military court.

Whether or not the death penalty should be sought is a matter we will leave for our reader to decide. Strategically, there are pitfalls on both sides. We would not feel comfortable recommending either approach, as both offer advantages and dangers. Ethically, we will leave that for the readers to decide.

The bottom line is he MUST offer a path to restoration for the vast majority of progressives or else he will guarantee a real civil war. Even with the offer for restoration, the move could  still trigger a civil war.

What remains to be seen are two factors; one is the degree to which cultural polls are biased towards producing favorable, or at least less unfavorable, results for progressives; the second is the degree to which people who would answer favorably in such polls do so out of fear, not out of a stewarded belief.

A third potential factor is the degree to which some progressives are really suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, that they’ve fallen in love with their captors.

A bold move such as this would shake all of this support right out of the progressive camp. If it is profound, the progressive backlash will be tepid; if it is not, there will be war.

We don’t expect the President to follow this recommendation, let alone see it.

The longer the President waits to make the bold move, the more certain we can be that progressive mass arrests of American are coming. Many of our readers may well be on that list. We ourselves might end up there. This does not make that outcome certain, should he fail to act boldly, it just significantly increases the likelihood this will happen.

  1. GEOPOLITICS

2.1. PRAGMATIC GEOPOLITICS – From a pragmatic geopolitical reality, the leaders of the world should be looking to build AI infrastructure within their own lands to whatever degree this is possible. To the degree that it is not, they should be making themselves useful allies to those who can build such things on their own lands.

Perhaps some might feel a bit AI-fatigued, yet we cannot stress how much of a backbone AI will soon become for almost every major institution in the world, from baseball to horse racing, from car insurance to cereals, and certainly from defense tech to social tech.

The world is reforming itself in its material and its psyche, with vehicles of power set to emerge that serve Kings (and wanna-be Kings) and self-stewarded people alike. ALL of these vehicles of power must come to terms with the opportunities and pitfalls of AI, and that includes the Kings themselves.

2.2. FOR THE SELF-STEWARDED – In the short-term, outside of recommendations we’ve already offered as far as making your household more sustainably flourishing, there isn’t much different that should be done, for now.

In the long term, we have already advocated two paths, one is to research methods of scaling down AI machine demand, and the second is to become good AI managers.

Open-sourced-type research should be done to scale down the demands AI machines currently have. At the present scale, building AI machines outside of the vehicles of power that serve Kings (in a manner of speaking) is simply not practical.

The best the self-stewarded can do is develop their own AI Clients that at least provide AI-enhancement without AI nudging into a King-approved vehicle of power.

Taking advice from AI is like taking advice from a wise sage that you know doesn’t like you and has been known to “mess with people” for fun. Yet he cannot completely discredit himself, so he must deliver real wisdom in between the “messing” part.

Your job as an AI manager is to figure out how to cull wisdom from a sage that likes to “mess with you.”

2.3 TRUMP – We have one simple word of advice for President Trump on geopolitics, for the fate of his entire Presidency and maybe his entire MAGA project as well, rides on the fate of the Iranian people.

President Trump, hear this; above all else, come what may (outside of massive U.S. ground presence and occupation), the Iranian people MUST have a new government that offers basic liberties and is Pro-American. This is a pragmatic appeal, not an idealist one.

A Pro-American, but still authoritarian state is no long-term win for Americans at home, though the MAGA coalition would not completely collapse (it would just be significantly reduced in real power). Winning through authoritarianism only reinforces progressive rule of law justification at home.

Should the Iran War end with ANY OTHER OUTCOME, you IMMEDIATELY become a lame-duck President from this moment on and a new American movement must rise to quickly replace what will be a quickly disintegrating MAGA coalition, otherwise your very freedom is in doubt in the post-Trump world to come.

But be consoled, Mr. President, for many of us will be joining you in your new home as well, should the progressive nation fully emerge.

As much as AI is a bellwether of the very fabric of the world going forward, Iran is a bellwether for the geopolitical reality of power going forward as well.

Our next Situation Report is scheduled for May 1, 2026. It will not include Predictive Analysis and Recommendations sections.

Bellwether Deep Dive – The Birth of the Progressive Nation

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

DATE: 26-01-01 to 26-03-31

By STAFF

“Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx’s Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism…. I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.” – James Traficant

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This deepdive covers the first 3 months of the year. In the first 10 days of April the patterns we outline here have only continued. For the purpose of this deepdive, however, we are only analyzing progressive action in the first three months of the year.

The pattern we outline is progressive, not American. Wherever and whenever progressives are called to choose between America and the rest of the world, they inevitably choose the rest of the world.

Wherever and whenever progressives are called to choose between self-stewardship empowerment and safety and security, they almost always choose safety and security (granted by coercive state and corporate action).

These are not habits of being for Americans, they are only habits of being for progressives. Americans live boldly next to neighbors who hold values outside their own. Progressives seek corporate and state power to assure the neighbor’s values are never seen or heard in public.

This is not a value judgment on progressives, but rather a statement of fact; progressives are NOT Americans and Americans are NOT progressives. We live in a land with two nations, and neither one can co-exist with the other anymore.

BACKGROUND

What follows are bellwether examples of progressives in action over the last three months alone. This is not comprehensive; no matter what we end up choosing as our bellwethers, we’re sure later we’ll wish we had included another bellwether instead.

Yet, imperfectly as it will be, it will present a progressive nation in action whose values are objectively antithetical to America’s values. Progressives value the international over the national, including the American national. They value protected classes over individual merit. They invite state censorship and empower the state to compel individual speech.

The progressives fear the individual more than they fear Islamist terrorists.

These will be brief, but links will be provided.

  1. PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP – The last Presidential candidate of the progressives, Kamala Harris, openly praised and encouraged the anti-ICE operations during the currently most violent period of President Trump’s deportation operations.

The progressives’ flag bearer in the Senate is Chuck Schumer of NY, who also happens to be the Senate Minority Leader. He is now proposing the partisan rainbow flag be given the same protected status as the U.S. flag.

The progressives’ flagbearer in the U.S. House, Hakeem Jeffries, also of NY, told Americans, “The last thing that the American people need are for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or, in some instances, kill them.”

The early frontrunner to be the flagbearer for the progressives in the 2028 Presidential race, Gavin Newsome of CA, recently said of ICE agents who were in the midst of facing coordinated anti-ICE attacks, “I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany.”

U.S. District Court Judge Patrick Schiltz symbolizes the blurred lines progressives have between serving constitutionally and serving progressive values. The Judge famously refused to issue arrest warrants for the progressives who engaged in an anti-ICE disruption campaign in a place of worship during one of its services.

He refused to prosecute anti-ICE activists who had clearly violated numerous civil and criminal laws because he is an anti-ICE activist himself, having contributed to anti-ICE groups.

  1. PROGRESSIVE MEDIA – A recent article in Townhall highlighted “… a List of All the Hoaxes CNN’s Broadcast over the years,” with the latest one coming from their claim that two Islamist terrorists were “two Pennsylvania teenagers…” who were in NY “for what could’ve been a normal day enjoying the city during abnormally warm weather.”

The same post implied Mamdani was the target of the attacks and not the anti-Islamist Christian nationalists who were attacked with tossed improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

If the FCC is to be believed, the network news outlets appear to be using fake news to push a pro-Iran, anti-America, anti-Israel narrative. FCC Chair Brendan Carr warned the broadcasters that “are running hoaxes and news distortions – also known as the fake news – have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up.”

Three recent examples of the progressive media’s coverage of the Trump deportation operation share a pattern of hyperbole aimed at vilifying ICE agents while favoring illegal aliens and anti-ICE activists.

ABC and CBC both protected the anti-ICE activists by refusing to cover the story of a hotel being assaulted by an anti-ICE mob. CNN allowed a guest to claim deportation centers are “concentration camps,” a claim that was unchecked by the host, Jake Tapper.

The anti-ICE activist, Jamie Schwesnedl, said, “We can’t do business as usual right now anyway because our city has been invaded by masked gunmen kidnapping family members and friends and neighbors of ours to send them to concentration camps.”

  1. CHILDREN’S ARMIES – Two Pro-Hamas groups that teach children the evil of whiteness have been allowed into our public schools by progressive school boards and districts. They are only a sample of similar anti-American, anti-white groups being given access to our children in public schools.

The National Education Association recently held a training session called “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Education” that seeks to establish the oughtness of woke ideology as the oughtness of human life. This action is sectarian in nature, which challenges its legality given the alleged non-partisanship the organization is expected to maintain.

The current payoff of years of progressive-controlled education is the creation of a children’s army of sorts, an anti-American protest group easily recruited and organized in public schools by progressive activist teachers.

Yet while progressives are successful in creating progressive activists among children, they are failing at teaching the children the basics of their own country, America. A super-majority of U.S. high school students, and U.S. college students, cannot pass a basic U.S. citizenship test.

Less than 3% of all students, college and high school, can pass the citizenship test.

When teachers act in a way that might seem to favor Americans over “illegal aliens,” they might just lose their jobs, as some teachers did.

One complainant stated that the teacher publicly supporting ICE “couldn’t be trusted to work with the children of immigrants.” The children see the powerful social signal when the teacher is replaced by someone more compliant.

  1. PRO-CRIME – Nothing shows the progressives’ predilection to allow crime for the sake of social justice than how they have reacted to President Trump’s deportation operations.

The actions against ICE are coordinated and well-funded, in part by foreign interests and in part by progressive ones. Many of the progressive interests are also NGOs, funded in part or whole by American tax dollars through progressive political “slush funds.”

Signal Chats were exposed that show coordination between anti-ICE activists and Minnesota state officials.

Minnesota’s Attorney General, Keith Ellison, was directly connected to the chat. His office created a secret portal for the anti-ICE activists to use to coordinate their attacks and get information that was used to attack American independent reporters like Cam Higby.

It should be noted the activity began shortly after the Somali Fraud scam was exposed by another independent journalist whose private and public actions were tracked with the help of Ellison’s secret web portal, Nick Shirley.

In addition to anti-ICE interference campaigns strategically executed by well-trained and funded activists, progressives with political power are wielding it to not only make it difficult for ICE agents to conduct their operations but also to criminally charge them.

If you’re an undocumented foreign national, the Governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, and the Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, will have a hard time handing you over to ICE even if you’ve committed murder. Both men protected accused murderers from ICE prosecution, with another progressive official all but blaming one of the victims of one of those alleged murderers.

Even when the illegal alien being detained is a pedophile, progressives will still help him escape, as anti-ICE activists did when ICE agents attempted to detain child predator Walter Roberto Vides-Ortez.

  1. FOREIGN FAVOR – The Anti-ICE actions by progressives, both the government officials and the activists, show a pattern of favoring the foreigner over the American that can be crystalized in a recent public conversation at the Munich Security Conference by alleged 2028 Presidential hopeful, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

She said, at one point, “Our alliance can be built on, values of democracy and respect for international law.”

She told German students that western culture is “thin” and emphasized the rise of the “global south,” which seems to be her source for value. This is a problem when you are elected to constitutionally serve a “western” nation, not a “global south” one.

More tellingly was this comment in which she seems to imply American whites are no real people at all. She told the students, “There’s a very big difference between whiteness and national like your actual culture, right? Whiteness is an imaginary thing. Being German is real. Being Italian is real. You know, being English, these are rich cultural heritages that are based on values, and they are so much a part of what make our, our cultures and our societies what they are.”

This is also what makes Americans uniquely American, including American “whites.” This is a fact we doubt AOC can afford to face, let alone declare.

She followed this up by launching an “all-Spanish” campaign to compel the government to pay for daycare for illegal immigrant children. She launched that campaign with progressive NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

On CNN, an exchange between the host and progressive Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen revealed the progressive mindset in action. In that exchange, you will hear an elected American Senator practically repeat IRGC talking points while American soldiers are at war with that same enemy, engaged in an operation that has already cost them lies. The host asked, “So you believe the Iranian officials over the president of the United States?”

To this, he responded, “I believe that based on all the information that‘s available and Donald Trump‘s track record of lying, including the big lie, which he told the American people during the campaign, that he was going to keep us out of war in the Middle East. He broke that promise. He lied about Iran being an imminent threat… And yes, we know he‘s lying when he says that the Iranians are talking with us and they‘re about to give Donald Trump everything he wants. Yes, that’s a lie.”

It does appear the President was right when he claimed to be talking to Iranian officials as a ceasefire has been agreed to by these same officials.

The progressives’ Texas Senate candidate James Talarico made it crystal clear he favors foreigners over Americans, telling potential voters, “Before I was a politician, I was a public-school teacher in San Antonio, Texas, on the west side of the city, and I taught a lot of undocumented students, and those students tended to be my most patriotic students. They understood something about this country that a lot of us who are native-born forget: that this is supposed to be the land of opportunity.”

Not only do progressives favor illegal immigrants, but they also seem to favor Chinse Communists. The Mayor of Arcadia, CA, Eileen Wang, is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, whose fiancé was recently convicted of being a CCP spy. The fiancé is a green card holder named Yaoning “Mike” Sun; he is a known member of the CCP.

So far, Wang has refused to resign. This type of CCP activity is only a small part of the rising evidence of widespread CCP influence across both political parties, but significantly more substantively among progressives, their natural “allies.”

CURRENT SITUATION

  1. DEFUND ICE – Progressives continue to refuse to fund the DHS. The effort is intended to end President Trump’s deportation operations by defunding the whole Department of Homeland Security (no matter the cost to security and American travel). So far, the President has found some workarounds, but cracks are showing, and security risks are emerging.
  2. PROJECT 2029 – The progressives have produced an answer to Project 2025, a conservative policy wish list presented within American constitutional standards. Their answer is Project 2029, which mostly appears to be a promise to arrest everyone who opposed progressives during the Trump years.

The whole “project” was unofficially kicked off by progressive policy wonk Susan Rice, who served in the Biden administration.

She threatened corporate leaders that complied with President Trump’s executive orders, saying, “When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media … it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump.”

Shri Thanedar (D), a naturalized citizen now serving as a U.S. House representative, recently threatened a Trump administration official for daring to follow constitutional orders, claiming, “You better hope you get pardoned because you will be held accountable for the absolute disregard of the law your agencies have shown over the past year.”

The progressive minority House Leader Hakeem Jeffries echoed the de facto “Project 2029” agenda, stating, “One thing to understand as people who are flirting with the Trump administration, or doing the bidding of the Trump administration, or engaging in the pay-to-play schemes of the Trump administration: The statute of limitations is five years. Donald Trump and this toxic administration will be long gone, but there will still be accountability to be had.”

Project 2029 is not a formal policy wish list, for it primarily has only one policy: prosecute dissent.

  1. VA INSURRECTION – The state of Virginia seemed to overwhelmingly vote for violence in politics by electing a governor who wouldn’t condemn it. as well as the highest law man in the land, who also openly advocated for it.

Abigaile Spanberger’s refusal to condemn her fellow party member, Jay Jones, for texting he wanted to murder his republican opponents’ kids in front of him matches the current spirit of progressives in general.

Virginia’s newly elected Governor and Attorney General have now seemingly openly advocated for terrorism.

From our January 13, 2026, Final Thought, “The New Blue Fortress, Virginia”:

Here are some of their worst proposed bills this year (so far):

Softening sentencing rules for robbers.

Eliminate ballot hand-counting to assure easier election fraud.

Ban gas-powered leaf blowers.

Free Education for Illegal Aliens

Ban Arresting Illegal Aliens in courthouses

Add 4.3% Delivery Tax affecting all deliveries, including Amazon, Uber, and Door Dash.

“Protects” Transgender children from parental resistance

There are numerous new gun control laws proposed, and abortion will be legalized up to the birth of the child.

They have also voted to triple their pay after campaigning on a promise they will make life more affordable for Virginians.

ASSESSMENT

The last three months have seen an increasing number of progressives, from the street fighter to the top politician, openly declaring progressive values in defiance of American ones. It is somewhat difficult to assess if this rise in boldness is borne from a perception that they are winning the people over or if it has risen from a sense of rapidly diminished standing with the people.

We suspect the reality is known by the most powerful progressives, that honest competition in the marketplace of ideas is a catastrophic defeat waiting to happen. They are quadrupling down on their claims of fascism, Nazism, white supremacism, racism and all the rainbow-connected phobias (homophobia, transphobia, etc.).

Whenever and wherever they get power, they move quickly to establish draconian changes to the law that reinforce their progressive values. Virginia is a classic case in point. Their method of gaining power can also be seen in Virginia, where they ran as “moderates” fighting the white supremacist devil that is the GOP.

They promised economic pragmatism that confronts the white devil, but when they gained full power, they quickly abandoned all pragmatism and moved swiftly to recreate Virginia in the progressive nation’s image, not America’s.

The disregard for blowback indicates the leaders may perceive this might be their last chance to fully convert the United States of America to Progressive U.S.

The street fighters, however, seem to believe the certain and confident tones of their troubled leaders. This seems to be the product of manipulated design, intense psyop agit prop that the progressive media has only intensified over these past three months.

The leaders seem desperate to raise violent armies in anticipation of the growing backlash against policies Americans increasingly view as adversarial to their own American self-stewardship potential.

Our observations of social media commentary by street fighter progressives suggests they have MORE confidence the world is with them, not Americans, and that their progressive values are ACTUALLY the REAL American ones.

They seem to have made the full conversion from progressive American to simply progressive, with little to no awareness of how antithetical their values are to Americans. Their values dismantle the very legitimization of authority in America today, the state’s continued demonstrated recognition of the self-stewardship agency of the individual as a boundary on its power.

Such boundaries on state power in Progressive U.S. would be called dog whistles of white supremacism, as they already call them.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

We believe that progressives, whether observationally or heuristically, understand their nation within America has outgrown its womb and must now either formally end the American experiment or be re-absorbed by it (if not fully annihilated).

The November 2026 election prevents them from fully going openly rogue, for there is still “hope” for a soft-power takeover of the republic so long as they perceive they can realistically win.

Short-term, this means more violence from the street fighter wing of the project and some degrees of checks on progressive aggression by the leaders should they perceive that they may win in November.

Should the polls go against them, for whatever reason, expect progressive aggression to increase across the board. From street fighters to progressive judges and state legislatures, progressives will push for action that triggers constitutional crises.

Whatever cause, country, or people challenges American rule of standards, the progressives will lift them up as justification for ending American rule of law.

RECOMMENDATIONS

What the progressives most benefit from is the failure of Americans to form an effective counter to their project. The GOP project has devolved into a rear-guard protector of progressives, as its values continue to nudge further and further away from Americanism and closer and closer to progressivism.

It also helps that the most powerful counter to the progressives, Donald J. Trump, appears to be a man who lacks self-control. His recent easter expletive threatening to annihilate a civilization falls right into the hands of progressives.

Their narrative to the uninitiated is they’re simply the good guys opposing white supremacists, fascists, and psychopaths. They won’t tell you that the cost of being protected from the bad guys is a surrendering of your agency to the party’s preferred “experts.”

Trump himself does a poor job articulating Americanism. He speaks in grand platitudes about America, but never in specifics. Make America GREAT Again is not a policy statement, it’s a general feeling anyone can put any idea into it that they want.

In that, the marketing phrase is very progressive in nature, appealing to emotions in vague ways that can capture broad audiences.

An American slogan might read Restore and Preserve American Rule of Law. Here, we at least have a specific reference, American Rule of Law, that can lead to a specific conversation about what American Rule of Law is. It is easier to put your own imagination into “great” than it is to put it into “American Rule of Law,” for instance.

Trump has some qualities that are good, qualities we’d want an effective American leader to have. One of these is his ability (though it is inconsistent) to see the root of the issue and attack a problem there. He is a Gordian Knot cutter, but one who sees every problem as a Gordian Knot that just needs cut and not patiently untied.

Trump is willing to be hated by most people even though he would be hard-pressed to ever actually experience it. This is a necessary quality to have so long as progressives control the means of socio-cultural production (which they still mostly do). You must have very thick skin to fight the progressive information war machine.

Trump fundamentally believes in the primacy of sovereign nations over a global governance model, which is a key trait for any future American leader to have.

What Trump is missing is self-control. When he emerged on the scene, politics had become incredibly large-language model driven. There were no clear answers or positions, there were only set responses to certain questions that almost every politician answered according to the party they belonged to.

Trump ended that, which is a good thing, but he replaced it with something that might even be worse, rhetorical shock and awe bullying. Americans needed to shake the large-language model discourse out of politics if they ever hoped to bring politicians to account, but they didn’t need a new political reality where f bombs are the surest path to raising your political profile.

We believe the GOP is no longer a viable alternative to the progressive nation, as it mostly exists within it. If we could compel Americans to act, we would encourage them to explore what American rule of law is for themselves and with their family, friends, and neighbors.

Identify Americans in your community and fellowship primarily with them.

We need conversations, public ones, that invite an exploration of American Rule of Law, of what makes us American, so we know what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against.

From this, we need American parties to emerge that are pledged to not offer policies that violate our American Rule of Law standards. That standard is to have state power bounded by the self-stewardship agency power of its citizens.

Most likely, there will be a left party that favors the weak over the strong and a right party that favors merit over social hierarchies. Yet BOTH will offer no threat to the individual’s capacity to be a self-stewarded individual.

Were we President Trump, we would declare an insurrection, then immediately freeze all progressive media assets and sell them to Americans. We would arrest the top leaders of the progressives, charging them with high crimes and misdemeanors, seeking the death penalty in some cases, while offering paths to restoration to the vast majority of progresses willing to surrender their utopian dreams to American rule of law.

We believe this action would not guarantee success, and it could lead to balkanization, but to continue down the path we are at present is simply to allow the progressives more time to build real violence-producing power in this land while they continue to constrict American liberty wherever they control the government (with gun confiscations and hate speech laws at the TOP of their agenda).

There is no reasoning with the progressive in aggregate, though surely some individuals will abandon this project soon enough. The project itself must complete its transformation, from progressive American to pure progressive, or die trying. It’s built into its very DNA, which tells its followers “Silence is violence” and it can actually “end hate.”

There is no peaceful coexistence possible between the fully formed progressive and the American. At the end of the next 5 years (at most) what this land will be will come into being. Will it be Progressive U.S.? Will it be America? Will it be multiple nations? Or will it be something different altogether?

So long as the new term for their new nation fails to emerge, there is great hope their project is about to come to an inglorious end (for now). The minute that new term emerges, we can only hope our American political leaders recognize the threat and act within the full extent of the law to end the threat.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

America Transformed: The Rise and Legacy of American Progressivism – Ronald K Pestritto

American Progressivism: A Reader – Edited by Ronald K. Pestritto and William J. Atto

Progressivism in America; a study of the era from Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson – Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Arthur Alphonse Ekirch

 

Global Outlook – Jan-Mar Q1 2026

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Originally published April 10, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from January 1-March 31, 2026

By STAFF

NOTE: For our monthly and quarterly reviews, we will be merging the People Advance Report with our Global Outlook Report. For current news from the first part of April, read our Situation Report on pg. 8.

TOP NEWS TAGS

 IRAN WAR

PROGRESSIVE US – See our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2.

AI WATCH

EPSTEIN FILES

TRUMP DEPORTATIONS – See our Bellwether Deep Dive on pg. 2

2026 ELECTIONS

MAMDANI WATCH

JUDGEFARE

ABORTION WATCH

WOKENESS

GEOPOLITICS

  1. DAVOS MARKS OFFICIAL DEATH OF POST-WAR ORDER – President Donald Trump came to Davos and delivered the news that the global order was dead. While much hand wringing conspired amongst Europe’s elites, and America’s Democrats (including Gavin Newsome), at the end of the day all had to acknowledge the reality of power. If America says the global order is dead, it’s dead.

Trump let the Western Hemisphere know, “The USA is the economic engine of the planet, and when America booms, the entire world booms. History shows that when America goes bad, the whole world goes bad. When we go down, you follow us down. Instead of hiring bureaucrats we’re firing them”

GO DEEPER ON DAVOS 2026

  1. XI PURGES TOP GENERALS, NARROWLY ESCAPES ASSASSINATION? – There appeared to be a power struggle going on in China, with many conflicting reports, some confirmed, some not, all of which suggest Chairman Xi had narrowly escaped a coup. This news came as Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, had just arrived in Beijing.

We now know there is an ongoing purge of most of the top Generals, including his two top Generals. We can also affirm there were numerous military lockdowns in Beijing.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA XI COUP

  1. 3. THE NEW LEADERSHIP OF IRAN IS ALREADY DEAD – As the new ceasefire just announced takes effect, we remember the purge of leadership that happened at the beginning of the Iran War:

Iran was forced to select a new group of future military targets, their new leadership. They had to select a new leadership team 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.

  1. VENEZUELAN LEADER PLUCKED FROM CHINA’S PROTECTION – Despite the security provided to President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela by his two strongest allies, Russia and China, U.S. forces were able to quickly enter the country and within less than 3 hours return with Maduro and his wife to the U.S.

Reports of advanced military tech being used to easily overcome Venezuelan forces equipped in mid-range Chinese and Russian military tech have been confirmed by the Trump administration.

The move sends a powerful message to China and Russia’s allies that their protection might be no protection at all. Currently, Maduro is facing “evolving charges.” His VP has taken over and, as of now, is cooperating with the U.S.

GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA US CONFLICT

  1. CUBA TOTTERS ON DISSOLUTION, BUT LEADER REMAINS DEFIANT AS RUSSIA, MEXICO RUSHES TO ITS RESCUE – Russia is sending oil tankers to Cuba to rescue it from its crippling energy crisis that has left the island in a blackout condition. As dissent grows from within, the Trump administration hints it could take Cuba whenever it wants to.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.” Mexico has just announced plans to attempt to “come to Cuba’s aid,” sending a relief supply flotilla and promising to figure out how to get oil to the communist country.

  1. JAPAN GOES CONSERVATIVE AFTER LANDSLIDE ELECTION BURIES THE LEFT – A new Japan is about to emerge that is sure to frighten China after a landslide victory by Japan’s conservative party leaves leftists with only 5 seats in the parliament. The victory is credited to Japan’s Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi, who appeared to take a risk by calling for a snap election soon after her party appointed her Prime Minister.

The gamble has paid off, leaving conservatives with a super majority that will most likely alter Japan’s passivist constitution. One of the major changes expected is ending Japan’s self-imposed limitations on military spending and operations. President Trump congratulated the PM, sharing on Truth Social, “Congratulations to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Coalition on a LANDSLIDE Victory in today’s very important Vote. She is a highly respected and very popular Leader. Sanae’s bold and wise decision to call for an Election paid off big time.”

U.S. POLITICS

  1. 2020 ELECTION RESULTS STILL IN DOUBT AS FBI SEIZES FULTON COUNTY, GA BALLOTS – The FBI has announced a raid on the Fulton County, Georgia elections office that resulted in 700 boxes of election ballots from the disputed 2020 election being seized. National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was seen on site, with the speculation being she was overseeing the investigation. The agents were there for hours, triggering a meltdown from Georgia election officials (who, for some reason, really don’t want Americans to see these ballot records).
  2. FBI SEIZES 2020, 2024 ELECTION RECORDS FROM NOTORIOUS MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.

Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”

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  1. AFTER VOTING FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE, VIRGINIANS ARE ABOUT TO GET IT, AND TAX INCREASES ARE ONLY THE BEGINNING – After Virginians chose to overwhelming elect a Governor who endorsed political violence through silence and a Lieutenant Governor who openly expressed it by wishing he could murder his political opponent’s family, the DNC is about to reward them with a slate of bills and executive orders that will tax them, free criminals, including rapists and child molesters, secure fraudulent elections, silence free speech, allow abortion up to birth, and kill the 2nd amendment. Read more about this in our Situation Report on pg. xx.

GO DEEPER ON VIRGINIA INSURRECTION

  1. JUDGES SET FIRE TO TRUMP AGENDA IN A SERIES OF BRUTAL RULINGS – Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more.

In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Democrat activist judges while shaming any critique of these same rulings. Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

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  1. ANTI-ICE ACTIVISTS USE SIGNAL CONNECTED TO MINNESOTA OFFICIALS TO COORDINATE ASSAULT ON ICE AGENTS – Signal Chats have been exposed from paid anti-ICE activists that have been coordinating with Minnesota state officials. The anti-ICE activists have been intentionally interfering with the legal prosecution of criminal arrests that have been ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Now, Minnesota’s Attorney General has been directly connected to the chat. His office created a secret portal for the activists to use to coordinate their attacks and get information that was used to attack American independent reporters like Cam Higby. It should be noted the activity began shortly after the Somali Fraud scam was exposed by another independent journalist stalked with the help of Ellison’s secret web portal, Nick Shirley.

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  1. 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.

CULTURE

  1. MEDIA, MAMDANI PROTECT ISLAMIST IED ATTACKERS WHILE VILIFYING WHITES, CHRISTIANS – The media coverage of the IED attack by two Islamists on a Christian anti-Muslim rally not only accused the Christians of being white supremacists (which they appear to actually be, in this case), they also accused the Christians of throwing the IEDs themselves. Mayor Mamdani of New York focused his ire on the “white supremacists,” while only condemning the IEDs being tossed. He failed to mention the Islamists behind the attack.

The attack was caught on video, so the internet already knew the Islamists were behind the attack, The two suspects are Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, both of whom come from wealthy immigrant parents. They screamed “Allahu Akbar” when they threw the IEDs, which were all verified to be real. Had any one of them gone off (there were three total, two near the mayor’s mansion), it is highly likely there would have been multiple casualties. We covered this story in more detail in the Final Thought of our Friday, March 13 MIA Issue.

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  1. 3RD TRANSGENDERED MASS SHOOTER IN LESS THAN ONE YEAR KILLS SELF, WIFE, SON, AND ONE OTHER – A man presenting himself as a woman opened fire at a Rhode Island hockey game, killing his wife, his son, and then himself. Another person later died of their injuries. The killer was Robert Dorgan, who has a long social media history of making violent threats, including to Kevin Sorbo and Alec Jones.

He threatened people online saying, “Keep bashing us, but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.” It could have been worse had a male bystander not intervened, causing the shooter to pull out another gun to shoot himself with.

GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER HOCKEY SHOOTER

  1. 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.
  2. ESG LOSES IN COURT AS VANGUARD SETTLES AND AGREES TO DROP THE IDEOLOGY – Texas has successfully sued the investment company Vanguard, who has chosen to settle the lawsuit. They have agreed to pay $29.5 million in punitive fees and have agreed to remove restrictions on investments based on a company’s ESG score. Next on the docket is Blackrock, which Texas is also suing for the same reason. Should Blackrock fold, the two main progenitors of ESG would be out of the ESG business.
  3. EU COURT COMPELS ALL MEMBER STATES TO “RECOGNIZE” TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES – The highest court in the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union, has ruled that all 27 members states of the union must allow all citizens to have photo IDs that match their “lived gender.” The ruling is sure to bring the differences between progressive globalism and traditional Europeanism to a head.

GO DEEPER ON WOKENESS

MARKET

  1. CONSEQUENCE OF SCOTUS RULING ALREADY HITTING COURTS AS TRUMP ADMIN PLEDGES IT WILL PAY INTEREST ON TARIFF REFUNDS – Should the Trump administration lose in the courts and be forced to refund “American” businesses, they are committed to pay interest on the refunds, they informed the courts.

Judges have already signaled a willingness to fast-track the process, as we predicted would happen in our Bellwether DeepDive from our March 6, 2026 MIA issue.  In addition to the refunds for U.S. companies, foreign companies are also lining up for their cut of the SCOTUS plunder. Revenues collected through these struck-down tariffs are estimated to be around $170 billion.

GO DEEPER ON TRUMP TARIFFS

  1. TRUMP XO STOPS CORPORATE PURCHASES OF SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES – President Donald Trump just signed an executive order that effectively prevents large corporations from buying single-family homes. The President posted on Truth Social, “To preserve the supply of single-family homes for American families and increase the paths to homeownership, it is the policy of my Administration that large institutional investors should not buy single-family homes that could otherwise be purchased by families.”
  2. SBA HAS $26 BILLION SLUSH FOR BOGUS BUSINESSES THAT ALL EXCLUDE WHITE MEN – Chris Ruffo, the man who helped Florida legally remove DEI and wokeness from its public institutions, is claiming on Steve Bannon’s show, The War Room, that the Small Business Administration has a $26 billion slush fund they use to fund dubious businesses so long as those businesses aren’t owned by white men.

Ruffo claimed, “Yeah. So this is at the Small Business Administration. It’s a $26 billion slush fund that is dedicated to providing government contracts, including many no-bid government contracts, exclusively to firms that are owned by racial minorities and women. In many cases, these are shell companies where they have a token minority and then a private firm behind them. But in all cases, for this entire $26 billion slush fund, there’s only one identity group that is prohibited from accessing these funds or bidding for these contracts, white men.

And so this is like the epitome of DEI. It’s billions of dollars. There’s all sorts of fraud and corruption. In the program’s 45-year history, there’s never been a single audit done. And the question is simply this. It’s now one year into the Trump administration. The president came out strong on day one, said no more DEI. Why are we still administering billions of dollars for every group except for one? It seems totally unfair, totally unconstitutional. And yet it’s still something that, until now, has been surviving in the Trump administration.”

  1. TRUMP DELIVERS “MARSHALL PLAN” FOR AMERICA WORTH $18 TRILLION – President Donald Trump is touting the $18 trillion in foreign investments in America, calling it America’s Martial plan. As The Federalist pointed out, that’s equivalent to 120 Marshall Plans. The Federalist also contrasted this “Marshall Plan” with the “Green” Martial plan that saw nation-states, including America, invest $20 trillion in a project to reduce carbon emissions that produced next to no substantive carbon emission reductions.
  2. 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.

SCI-TECH

  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…

  1. TIKTOK DEAL OFFICIALLY CLOSES, AND THE CCP WILL BE HAPPY – The TikTok deal has officially closed, with a “mostly American” investor group mutually led by Oracle and Silber Lake. ByteDance will still have a 20% stake, meaning TikTok will help fund the CCP. The venture will be led by a board that will have a majority of U.S. directors on it.
  2. SOCIAL MEDIA HIT HARD IN TWO LANDMARK U.S. CASES, BOTH ADDRESSING CHILD SAFETY – Meta and YouTube have each faced legal setbacks that could portend badly for the social media industry as a whole. The first case saw Meta lose a $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.
  3. OPENAI ENDS BILLION DOLLAR DISNEY DEAL, SHUTS DOWN VIDEO AI APP SORA – OpenAI is facing existential pressure after having to cancel a $1 billion Disney deal that would have allowed the media company to use their video AI app Sora to develop content. The app was ended due to an inability to prevent it from creating dangerous deepfake videos, including pornographic ones.

Disney said of the severed deal, “We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”

GO DEEPER ON AI WATCH

  1. TRUMP SEEKS TO SET TERMS OF AI BRAIN DATACENTER DEBATE COMING TO AMERICA – President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social about the emerging need for massive data centers to power AI brains which every nation-state will now need to be a world power in the years to come. He offered a carrot to the main sides of the incoming debate, the taxpayers who may be on the hook to pay for the data centers, the locals affected by the data centers, and the corporatists relying on those data centers for personal power.

He characterized it in the American context, writing, “We are the ‘HOTTEST’ Country in the World, and Number One in AI. Data Centers are key to that boom, and keeping Americans FREE and SECURE but, the big Technology Companies who build them must ‘pay their own way,” His post does not address another conflict-of-interest crisis, water resources, which are also needed in large volumes to fund the AI brains.

GO DEEPER ON AI WATCH

  1. NASA WANTS A MOON BASE – NASA has announced plans to build a moon base that will cost the U.S. $20 billion, according to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. A moon base could replace the need for space stations. The moon base will also be a research and testing facility preparing the technologies needed for an eventual Mars occupation. It will also serve as the eventual departure point for the first landing. The race to Mars appears to be on.
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  3. DOJ CLOSES BIDEN AUTOPEN INVESTIGATION, SOURCE CLAIMS – After another round of much sound and fury signaling nothing, the GOP’s Department of Justice has allegedly quietly shut down its Biden autopen investigation in much the same way it has tried to bury the Epstein Files investigation. The claim comes from the Washington Examiner, which cites an anonymous source. The Department of Justice has refused to comment when asked by the press about the claim.

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  1. CHINA’S NEW ETHNIC UNITY LAW READS LIKE NAZI LAW – China’s National People’s Congress approved a new law called the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The law aims to harmonize the country’s 55 state-recognized ethnic minorities with the Han majority. The law was passed on March 12 and was signed into law by Chairman Xi. The law takes effect on July 1st.

It is feared that the law will be used to further crack down on these minorities, leading to more genocidal pogroms such as were carried out against the Uyghurs (and are still going on). Some of the tactics of the past include forcing minority groups to have more abortions, taking children and raising them as Han, and banning the use of the minority group’s languages and artistic traditions.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA ETHNIC UNITY LAW

  1. CHINA MAKES MOVE TO KILL U.S. GLOBAL RESERVE CURRENCY MONOPOLY – As Chairman Xi struggles to hold on to power at home, abroad he’s flexing his economic muscle, making a call for the Chinese Yuan to join the U.S. dollar as becoming a global reserve currency. The comments were from 2024, but were just released now, in conjunction with China’s European campaign, which includes the UK, where Xi won major concessions and territory in central London to build a massive spy center.

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  1. 4. HOCHUL LETS CHINA INVADE AMERICAN STREETS WITH DATA COLLECTING ROBOTAXIS – The Governor of New York and DNC-CCP party member Kathy Hochul handed New York’s vital data over to the Chinese Communist Party by allowing a country sworn to destroy our power to run their robotaxis, called Waymos, on American streets.

The company, Zeke, is a CCP-approved corporation that manufactures what are essentially street spies that members of the Democrat party appear more than ready to cosign. This, in part, is why this publication refers to the Democrats as the DNC-CCP, for they are frenemies working against their shared enemy, America.

  1. DNC MAYOR STAYS IN OFFICE AFTER FIANCÉ CONVICTED OF BEING CCP SPY – The Mayor of Arcadia, CA is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, whose fiancé was recently convicted of being a CCP spy. The fiancé, a green card holder named Yaoning “Mike” Sun, was the fiancé of Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat and potentially STILL a member of the CCP. She emigrated from China more than 30 years ago.

So far, Wang has refused to resign. This type of CCP activity is only a small part of the rising evidence of widespread CCP influence across both political parties, but significantly more substantively among Democrats, their natural “allies.”

GO DEEPER ON DNC-CCP WATCH

  1. ISRAELI TECH CEO CALLS ON U.S. TO LIMIT FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO PROTECT THEIR INTERESTS – Whether he realized it or not, Israeli billionaire tech entrepreneur and Cato Networks co-founder Shlomo Kramer just advocated for the restriction of Americans’ First Amendment rights essentially to protect Israel from online threats.

Here is how he chose to advance this Anti-First-Amendment narrative, “You’re seeing the polarization in countries that allow for the First Amendment and protect it, which is great. And I know it’s difficult to hear, but it’s time to limit the First Amendment in order to protect it. And quickly before it’s too late… I mean that we (government) need to control the platforms, all the social platforms. We need to stack, rank the authenticity of every person that expresses themselves online and take control over what they are saying, based on that ranking.”

  1. AS U.S. PULLS AWAY FROM SOUTH KOREA, FAKE NEWS LAW PASSES IN SEOUL – The U.S. Defense Department has revealed in a National Defense Strategy release that it is shifting its policy in South Korea, now calling on the state to protect itself from conventional threats to the North. As this was revealed, the CCP-captured government amended their law to prohibit “fake news” publishing. They did so over numerous protestations, including the U.S., who may recognize South Korea is now becoming a liability, a problem, perhaps, for Japan.
  2. KIM JONG-UN’S SISTER GAINS PROMINENCE AFTER WORKER’S PARTY CONGRESS VOTE – For only the 9th time since the Kims took over North Korea in 1948, the Workers’ Party Congress convened. They affirmed Kim Jong-un as their supreme leader and promoted his sister, and right-hand lieutenant, Kim Jo-jong, from a deputy department director to a full department director.
  3. WASHINGTON DEMS PLUG SOCIALIST DEBT HOLE WITH POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSIONS – Democrat “lawmakers” in the insurrectionist state of Washington passed legislation that essentially raids the pensions of police and firefighters to the tune of $4 billion. They hope to use the stolen funds to plug a deficit in their budget caused by their own bloated socialist programs.

One recipient of that stolen money will be the “Climate Commitment Account,” which is a de facto DNC-CCP political slush fund that helps arm its street fighters we see across America on a regular basis. These street fighters have been terrorizing cities and burning down businesses for years now. They will receive over half a billion dollars, or 12.5% of the Police and Firefighters pension fund.

  1. SCIENTISTS THREATEN PLANET WITH PANDEMIC IF WE DON’T END GLOBAL WARMING – A team of Romanian researchers appear to be the tip of the spear of a new climate change content marketing strategy involving dangerous bacteria. The researchers have discovered bacteria in ice cores from 5,000 years ago that appear immune to most current antibiotics. The researchers warn if global warming continues, the melted ice could release these bacteria, leading to a global, catastrophic pandemic.
  2. RING’S SEARCH PARTY IS A POLICE STATE TROJAN HORSE – Amazon’s Ring Camera has added a Search Party feature critics say enables Amazon to build a pre-crime database that the state (or the corporation) could use to quickly tamp down dissent. An email from Ring Founder Jamie Simonoff is giving credence to those concerns.

He wrote, “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there, but for the first time ever, we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”

  1. CANADA ALLOWS SAD SUFFERER TO KILL HIMSELF – 26-year-old Kiano Vafaeian was given permission by the Canadian government to be murdered by doctors on the grounds that that suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is “grievous and irremediable.” Vafaeian is also blind and suffers from Type 1 Diabetes. Neither condition qualifies for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying).

The family of Vafaeian claim, “We believe that she (the MAiD doctor) was coaching him on how to deteriorate his body and what she can possibly approve him for and what she can get away with approving him for. We don’t want to see any other family member suffer, or any country introduce a piece of legislation that kills their disabled or vulnerable without appropriate proper treatment plans that could save their lives.”

PEOPLE ADVANCE REPORT

  1. VENEZUELA BECOMES A DE FACTO U.S. ALLY – The United States and Venezuela have officially restored diplomatic and consular relations that President Trump claims will lead to favorable oil and rare earth mineral deals for the U.S.. These deals freeze Russia and China out of the Venezuela equation.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said of the agreement, “When we are working together it can only mean two things, which is prosperity for the people of Venezuela and for the citizens of the United States, and it also brings peace and stability for the world.”

GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA WATCH

  1. MURDER RATE PLUMMETS TO HISTORIC LOWS IN JUST ONE YEAR – Just one year into President Trump’s mass deportation operation, the murder rate in America dropped by a staggering 21% from 2024 to 2025. The murder rate has reached a low that hasn’t been seen since the records were first kept 125 years ago. The correlation between mass deportation and a massive drop in the murder rate cannot be dismissed, but more date would be needed to affirm causation beyond correlation.
  2. 50-YEAR NET MIGRATION STREAK ENDS IN U.S. UNDER TRUMP – For the first time in 50 years, the net migration in the U.S. has reached a deficit. The report by the Brookings Institute reveals the net deficit in migration is due to a combination of forced and voluntary deportations coupled with a precipitous decline in new entries. The Brookins Institute concluded, “Though a high degree of policy uncertainty remains, continued negative net migration for 2026 is also likely.”
  3. 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.”

  1. CHINA’S DOOR SHUTS IN PANAMA CANAL – Panama has moved against two Hong Kong operated ports after pressure by the U.S. to force China out of the canal. Hong Kong was once an independent city-state that has since been taken over by the Chinese Communist party. CK Hutchinson Holdings responded, claiming, “None of the actions by the Panama State were advised to or coordinate with PPC. The Panama State is responsible for harm and damage caused by the confiscatory actions it has taken.”
  2. SCOTUS CUTS OFF LEFTIST FOREIGN AID SLUSH FUNDS – After lower-level insurrectionist DNC-CCP judges repeatedly attempted to force the Trump administration to keep funding their party’s money laundering foreign aid fund scheme, the Supreme Court has officially ended their judicial tyranny. SCOTUS ruled 6-3 the Trump administration has every right to cut off $4 billion in foreign aid if he so chooses. The six justices assessed that “the harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs appear to outweigh the potential harm faced by respondents.”
  3. 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 3rd party status in this one election.
  4. TWO MORE HOSPITALS ANNOUNCE CHILDREN’S GENDER TRANSITIONING PROGRAMS HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN – Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA has announced it will no longer conduct “gender affirming care” for children. They stated. “…these developments affect our role and responsibilities as a provider participating in federal programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. This was a very difficult decision, made to ensure we can continue serving all children and families across the communities we serve.”

Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, WA has also announced it will be closing down its gender care clinic, stating, “This was an incredibly painful decision, and one that I wish we did not have to make. We recognize how important this care is to our gender health clinic patients and have a sense of the impact this will have on these patients and their families.”

For those who haven’t noticed, BOTH hospitals expressed regret they could not continue to offer children life-altering chemicals, and even surgeries, under the illusion that a child can “choose” their gender. Where possible, perhaps it is time to choose a hospital that doesn’t hold the philosophical view that a child can choose a gender, and doctors should help permanently alter them to satisfy that delusion.

  1. 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.
  2. NY SURRENDERS ITS EFFORTS TO FORCE NUNS TO FUND ABORTIONS – After nearly 10 years of fighting and winning a SCOTUS decision, Christian organizations have finally officially won their fight to stop forcing religious organizations to fund abortions. New York has officially settled with the Christian organizations, guaranteeing they will no longer be forced to fund abortions.

One of the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Lori Windham, said of the settlement, “For nearly a decade, New York bureaucrats tried to strong-arm nuns into paying for abortions because they serve all those in need. At long last, the state has given up its disgraceful campaign. This victory confirms that the government cannot punish religious ministries for living out their faith by serving everyone. The Supreme Court has made it abundantly clear that religious groups shouldn’t be bullied for staying true to their faith.”

  1. MAHA BREAKS THE BIG FOOD PYRAMID – HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has unveiled the department’s update to the previous food pyramid. The pyramid is replaced with a 10-page guide. The Secretary said of the guide, “The new guidelines recognize that whole, nutrient-dense food is the most effective path to better health and lower health care cost.”
  2. HERO ICE AGENT GETS OVER $1 MILLION IN SUPPORT AFTER INJURED BY LEFTIST INSURRECTIONIST – After ICE Agent Jon Ross was injured when a leftist insurrectionist hit him with her car, death threats came in from the insurrectionist’s fellow insurrectionists, along with condemnation by DNC party leaders, including the Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, and the Minneapolis Mayor, Jacob Frey.

To help the agent recover from his injuries, as well as to deal with the security his family now needs due to DNC activists threatening to murder them, Americans started online campaigns to fund them. So far, the two major funds, GoFundMe and GiveSendGo, have exceeded $1 million in donations, a figure that continues to climb.

  1. CHARLIE KIRK’S DEATH LEADS AMERICANS TO BUY BIBLES – After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, church attendance and public proclamations of Christ have surged. Now, data reported by the Wall Street Journal reveals bible sales following his assassination increased by 36% in September. The news follows overall trends towards increased bible sales, as well as printed book sales in general.
  2. AMERICANISM CHAMPIONED IN TWO U.S. GOLD OLYMPIANS – 26-year-old Quinn Hughes scored the winning goal in the golden game of the 2026 Olympics Men’s Hockey tournament, defeating Canada in overtime 2-1. Afterwards, he gave an interview that made it clear he was there to win for the country he loves, America. His message went viral. He said, “It’s special. … I love the U.S. It’s the greatest country in the world, so [I’m] happy to represent it here with these guys. … It’s really special.” Team members were present at President Trump’s State of the Union Address.

Alysia Lui came to America from China, and her father faced great threats by the CCP to do so. Even after she came to America, the CCP was still threatening to kidnap her and force her to skate for China. She survived, going on to win the gold medal for her country of choice, America, knowing better than most Americans the blessing this country is to those who simply want to be self-stewarded people, to be free.

 

 

 

Final Thought – Shifting Tones

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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.

Tools of Engagement – March 2026 – Medical Preparation, Emergency Travel, and Alternative Food Resources

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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:

  1. ESSENTIAL NEEDS – What are your essential needs that, if you go without them for more than 2 months, could kill you? Medicines might be top on that list. Food might be easier to find than medicine. One of our spouses has medicine that is consistently not available right away due to the strain on the medical supply lines already.

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.

USP Vulnerable Medicines List

  1. TRANSPORTATION – Consider having electric bikes on hand for emergency travel. To go along with those e-bikes, consider portable solar panels to recharge the e-bikes if you lose power for any period of time.

POWOXI 12V Solar Car Battery Charger: 15W Solar Trickle Charger Maintainer with MPPT Controller for Car – RV Boat Marine Motorcycle – $50

SOLPERK Solar Panel Kit 20W 12V, Waterproof Solar Battery Trickle Charger Maintainer + Smart MPPT Controller + Adjustable Mount Bracket – $30

URLIFE 20″*3.0 Fat Tire Electric Bike for Adults, 28MPH 48V, 80-Mile, 7-Speed & Suspension, Adjustable Seat for Adults and Teens, UL 2849 – $380

Electric Bike for Adults,1500W Peak Motor Retro E Bike,30MPH Max Speed,60/110 Miles Range,Removable 48V 15Ah Battery,20″x4.0″Fat – $630

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.”

  1. EMERGENCY FOOD SUPPLY – If you haven’t started growing your own food already, starting now won’t help you deal with this immediate potential crisis. Stocking up on food is advised, and if you haven’t you definitely should.

The Best Emergency Food Supplies, With Insights From Disaster Relief Experts – Lee Cutlip

  1. FOOD BUYING CO-OPS – You still have time to join a local food buying co-op in your area, or maybe even start one yourself. Here are some resources to get you started:

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:

  1. Psalm 119 – Charles Bridges
  2. Faith in Exile: Psalm 119 and the Christian Life – David VanDrunen
  3. A Lamp Unto My Feet: A 12-Week Study through Psalm 117 – Stave Gallagher

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.

  1. LEGAL INSURANCE – One way to protect yourself against lawfare is to purchase legal insurance. There are a variety of options out there, so we suggest you start first by learning exactly what legal insurance is and whether it is right for you, and second, which legal insurance provider is the best one for you.

What is Legal Insurance – and Do You Need It? – The Penny Hoarder

5 Best Legal Insurance Options in 2026 – Benzinga

  1. LEARN LEGAL BASICS – We don’t recommend anyone ever represent themselves in a legal matter, but we do recommend people becoming as familiar with the law as resources will allow. The more familiar you are with at least the underlying principles of constitutional law, the better prepared you will be to be an advocate for your rights not just with the authorities but even with your own lawyer (especially if you have a court-appointed one).

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

March 2026 Situation Report – 2026 Election – Iran – Trump Economy

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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

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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

Trump casts a mail-in ballot in Florida special election as he tries to sharply limit absentee voting – AppleValleyNewsNow.com

SAVE Act Creates Massive Unfunded Mandates On States – crooksandliars.com

Iran launches deadly missile attacks on Israel, Gulf states as war spirals with no end in sight – CBS News

B. WORLD

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

C. CULTURE

  1. 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.”

  1. 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.

  1. 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.

E. AI

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.

March 2026 Bellwether Deepdive – Judgefare versus America

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

By STAFF

“When we removed our country’s corrupt judges, we faced a strong backlash from the so-called ‘international community,’ including the Biden administration. We did it anyway, because it was the only way to save our country.” – El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele

INTRODUCTION

ED. NOTE: We want to offer this caveat; Not ALL rulings against Trump are unjust progressive rulings, even from progressive judges. President Trump himself is a precedent breaker and sometimes he breaks Americanist standards himself. He also has a bad track record picking competent prosecuting attorneys, which has also empowered progressive judges to easily halt prosecutions of progressives.

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This month’s bellwether could have been Iran because it is certainly the biggest story of the month. We recently did a report on Iran in our March 13, 2026, issue of MIA. While plenty has happened since then, the fundamental state of the war hasn’t. You can read an analysis of the current state of the war in our Situation Report for this month on page xx.

The Iran War remains THE bellwether story for global geopolitics, but at home, the emerging bellwether story is about the growing divisions between the progressive judiciary and the conservative executive. Acts by the progressive judiciary appear to be attempts to expand their powers until they become the de facto policy makers of the executive branch.

They might do this through direct orders or through selective ethics violations charges of those who dissent from the progressive program.

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. This control is not absolute, nor are the progressive activist judges always in agreement with one another.

Their values, as a whole, 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. When it comes to “rights,” they tend to favor the weak individual over the social strong, but the social weak to the individual strong (at least their perceptions of the people who fit those categories).

A white middle-class American will be assumed to have less rights expectations than a non-white middle-class American because of the status of the group they belong to, the white middle class.

Equality will matter when it comes to limiting the rights of the strong against the weak, while individual liberty will matter when it comes to limiting the power of the strong and protecting the rights of the weak.

Remember, “the strong” is assessed according to the progressive hierarchy, not an Americanist one. A poor white orphan is in “the strong” category while a black middle class college student with loving parents is in the “weak” or “protected” category.

These are the values that drive these judges, and this is what makes them a consensual participant in what we see as a deliberate act to replace Americanist values in our courts with Progressive values, not through amendment changes properly ratified, but through sophistry executed by progressive judges.

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.

They will no longer be required to use American terms. They will no longer be required to act with restraint until they have more power. They will be free to be what they’ve always been, anti-American, Progressive.

In this report, we’ll highlight the recent rulings that triggered this analysis, we’ll spell out the Judgefare plan, the use of bar associations in this war against the republic, the SCOTUS defense of Judgefare, how the pushback has begun, and finally what might come next in the war between the progressive judiciary and the conservative executive.

A. RECENT RULINGS

A recent slate of decisions has come down from the courts that overwhelmingly rules against President Trump’s actions. While the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has delivered a victory to President Trump, allowing the deportation of illegals to third countries to continue, and the 8th Circuit has now allowed illegal alien detention without bond, they would be the only favorable ruling from the progressive-dominated judiciary.

Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and even more.

Here are details of three examples from this month alone:

  1. PROTECTING “WOKE” ANTHROPIC – 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.”

  1. DEI PROTECTION – U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor has ruled the Department of Education cannot receive student admission data from colleges and universities. The Department was seeking information on race, gender, standardized test scores, and GPAs of applicants. The data would be collected and reviewed in a way that does not expose student IDs.

The data is needed to determine whether colleges and universities are complying with a SCOTUS order ending affirmative action in college admissions. The ruling will be appealed. The lawsuit was initiated by 17 Progressive states. We believe they are seeking to protect their Progressive institutions from an American plumb line.

  1. ICE STAND DOWN – A progressive activist judge has made another questionable ruling that seems as if it is intended to prevent ICE officers from effectively protecting their facilities from “protesters.”

Progressive judge Michael Simon has ruled that officers cannot use non-lethal means of crowd dispersal or control unless the crowd poses an “imminent threat of physical harm.” Non-lethal crowd control is a means of preventing protests from becoming riots.

This ruling effectively assures violence will happen at ICE facilities as ICE officers will only be able to respond AFTER the escalation has gotten out of control, meaning lethal force will be required.

This is exactly what they want, ICE officers killing protesters, who will all be portrayed by the progressive media as choir boys and girls that didn’t do no harm…all with children and mothers and fathers…

Judge Simon is married to a militant anti-ICE Progressive, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici. That fact was not enough to warrant his removal from this case, because the decision makers are all Progressives themselves, so no action was taken against what seems to be a clear violation of constitutional standards.

Fortunately, a recent 9th circuit ruling has reversed this decision.

B. THE PLAN

  1. THE CONFERENCE – In July 2025, we covered a Judicial conference in Washington, D.C. that, in part, telegraphed the plan by the judiciary to assure its power was not usurped by an aggressive executive.

We reported at the time: In another blow to the perception of Rule of Law, The Federalist has discovered a memo that reveals a D.C. Judicial Conference in March turned into a cabal to undermine President Trump. The conference introduced inherent biases into their judgements before a case ever came before them.

At the center of the cabal is Chief Justice John Roberts and Judicial Supremacist D.C. Circuit Judge James Boesberg. The latter, Boesberg, would be the one who said the quiet parts out loud.

From the memorandum obtained by The Federalist, “… District of Columbia Chief Judge James Boasberg next raised his colleagues’ concerns that the Administration would disregard rulings of federal courts leading to a constitutional crisis.”

  1. THE JUSTIFICATION – Progressives fundamentally believe conventional Americanist views, like being against abortion, or viewing homosexuality as a sin, or not believing in government welfare program efficacy, or being in favor of gun possession, are dog whistles of white supremacism. This is a view we believe is either shared or accepted by progressive activist judges.

ED. NOTE: It is not anti-American to believe in abortion, celebrate homosexuality, or believe in government welfare programs. It IS anti-American to be against your neighbor’s right to basic self-defense, which MUST include the right to bear arms. It is also anti-American to try to create a corporate-state governance standard that unpersons people with these anti-progressive views.

Through this ideology, progressive activist judges can view their trampling of the constitution as a better outcome than empowering evil to take over the land.

Nothing signals this better than a recent editorial in a progressive information war machine, The Nation. The title says it all, “Why Does the Supreme Court Treat Trump Like a ‘Regular’ President?”

The writer, Ellie Mystal, captures the depth of the delusion of the progressive and the nature of the war they think they are fighting. That war is a winner-take-all war, and the enemy, anyone not progressive, is literally the devil who, if he wins, WILL KILL US ALL.

She claims, “The Donald Trump who exists in the real world—the racist, fascist sexual predator who happily tweets out the illegal and unconstitutional motivations for his policies—does not exist according to the Supreme Court. Instead, the court has invented a different Trump, one who does not speak, does not lie, and adheres to the well-established norms regarding the use of executive power. It has dreamed up a normal US president, grafted this creation onto Trump’s legal filings, and then ruled as if this fiction were reality.”

  1. THE EXPANSION – Not only do progressive have progressive activist judges willing to subvert Americanist standards using sophistry as their dissecting tool, but they are also working to train progressive activist jurists to further subvert Americanist standards and undermine the republic by destabilizing its judiciary.

RedState reported:

A left-wing activist network is training liberals how to slip onto juries in federal cases and then vote “not guilty” to derail prosecutions brought by the Trump Justice Department.

Recordings and training materials tied to the group Freedom Trainers show activists being coached on how to conceal their left-wing views during jury selection and then use jury nullification once they are seated on a jury. The webinars, slide decks, and pamphlets behind the effort all push the same approach: Blend in during selection, say the right things to get seated, and use the jury room to block convictions.

The premise is straightforward. Look like any other potential juror, avoid signaling their radical political agenda, and make it through voir dire, the jury selection process, without raising suspicion. Once deliberations begin, however, the guidance shifts sharply.

The method of moving into an Americanist institution and corrupting it from within is perfectly encapsulated in this jury nullification technique. Jury nullification in and of itself is a fine American tradition when it is used to challenge unconstitutional laws, but it is deliberate insurrection when done to fundamentally derail the whole American judiciary altogether.

It is only fitting that the Progressives would use a tool created to serve Americans and turn it into a bludgeon against the host nation they fed off until the time was right to assert their own nationhood, freed from Americanist trappings. This is exactly what the progressive “jurist” does once we let them inside the jury room, inside our American institutions.

C. THE BELLWETHER BOASBERG

James Emanuel “Jeb” Boasberg is the current Chief Judge of the United States District of Columbia. He was appointed to this position by former President Barack Obama in 2011. In 2014, Boesberg became a presiding judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). On January 1, 2020, he became the presiding Judge of the court. He served on the FISC court in 2021 and still has some involvement with the court.

He represents the quintessential Judgefare Judge, the judge who assumes the most judicial authority he possibly can. He could be viewed as the Charles II of the Judiciary. Charles II wanted the English crown to follow the French model, the model of absolute power for Kings.

Boasberg’s judicial history is FILLED with unprecedented claims of judicial authority, the very authority the progressives needed to consolidate power when Trump was out of office and prevent a long-term loss of power while Trump is in office.

Boasberg may yet warrant a full report on his own in the future, should events warrant it (and that looks increasingly more likely, but not inevitable).

Here are a few of his most impactful cases to illustrate what we mean when we claim Boesberg is a judicial absolutist. Let the reader decide for themselves if these actions match that assertion.

  1. THE “DUTY OF CANDOR” – 2019 – When Boasberg determined the FBI had “breached its duty of candor” in the Crossfire Hurricane investigation, he ordered the FBI to provide for the court a detailed explanation of how the FBI would assure there would be no more errors in their investigative reports.

The ruling was called “unprecedented.” It was an assertion of judicial authority that hadn’t been claimed before.

  1. BANNING AGENTS FROM FISC COURT – 2020 – Boasberg issued a strict conduct order that banned the FBI agents who handled the Carter Page applications in the Crossfire Hurricane Report from ever participating in the FISC court again. Once again, the ruling was called “unprecedented.” It was an assertion of judicial authority that hadn’t been claimed before.
  2. THE VENEZUELA RULINGS – These rulings could merit their own lengthy analysis as they serve as a Bellwether for judicial absolutist sophistry that will help Americans understand the nature of the opposition to their republic (and Boesberg most assuredly is no friend of Americanist standards).

The most startling ruling was Boasberg’s order to turn a plane around that was already on its way to deport Venezuelans. From this, Boasberg has sought to charge Trump officials with contempt of court. SCOTUS chose to somewhat hem him in, but not entirely, and the constitutionality of Boesberg’s actions remains unsettled.

These rulings were “unprecedented,” and they asserted judicial authority that hadn’t been claimed before. Like we said, Boasberg is the ideal Judgefare Judge for the progressive revolutionary cause.

D. BARFARE

Ben Weingarten, writing for The Federalist, summarized “barfare” in his report on the latest use of this political weapon to target another political opponent. He wrote, “By making life hell for conservative counselors, by hitting them with such complaints, the idea is to pick such legal talent off the playing field — while spooking others who might otherwise enter it — and thereby eliminate the left’s legal opposition.”

Barfare is the use of bar associations to bring frivolous, dubious, and outright false charges against non-Progressive government attorneys, as well as any defense attorney who might represent them. They mostly target attorneys who aggressively advance policies the progressives oppose.

The latest victim of Barfare appears to be U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, who allegedly violated ethical standards by enforcing President Trump’s constitutionally approved executive order ending DEI practices in government-funded schools. Martin now faces ethics violations charges by the bar authority in D.C. (the DC Disciplinary Counsel), the very authority he had been questioning and working to begin investigating.

Another victim of this barfare association was Jeff Clark, a former regulatory officer in the Trump administration. He said of the latest barfare assault on Martin, “Lawfare/Barfare is alive & well. Apparently, DC’s Disciplinary Counsel cares not that 1) DEI is an unconstitutional violation of equal protection of the laws; & 2) the President had issued an executive order banning it if an institution takes federal money. Blatantly political.”

The Trump administration is fighting back against this, which we’ll cover in the PUSHBACK section of this report.

E. SCOTUS PROTECTION

We wrote this news blurb on March 19, 2025. It encapsulates both SCOTUS’ protection of progressive activism in the judiciary and also Judge Boesberg, our bellwether progressive activist judge:

Chief Justice John Roberts injected himself into matters not directly in front of his court in defense of a district judge being threatened with impeachment for ruling against President Trump’s deportation operation decisions. Specifically, the district court judge ruled that a planeload of Venezuelan convicted felons should be immediately returned.

Chief Roberts wrote, “For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose.”

It should be noted Roberts didn’t say it was illegal, only that it was “not an appropriate response.” His argument is for precedent, while the argument itself is in defense of a man who has demonstrated a dangerous lack of restraint regarding that same guiding judicial standard, “precedent.”

After Roberts’ missive, Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) introduced articles of impeachment against that same federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge James Boesberg. He is the same judge that gave tough sentences to convicted j6 protestors while giving alleged FBI plant Ray Eppes a lenient sentence.

A year later, there has been no substantive move against Boesberg’s “unprecedented” rulings, and John Roberts is still defending Boesberg from attacks.

Roberts took a public stance against the outrage being directed at progressive judges in general, saying “You see, from all over … [there’s] not just any one political perspective on it, that it’s more directed in a personal way, and that, frankly, can be actually quite dangerous. Judges around the country work very hard to get it right, and if they don’t, their opinions are subject to criticism. But personally directed hostility is dangerous, and it’s got to stop.”

Critics responded that had SCOTUS reined in rogue progressive activist judges who demonstrate repeatedly legal standards inconsistent with Americanist standards, the “rhetoric” he called dangerous would end, for it is only “dangerous” if it is inaccurate, not if it is true. It would be dangerous to try to chill such speech, as Roberts appears to be doing.

His public action also signals to lawyers in the executive what little protection they have against rogue progressive judges and the associations they control (such as the bar associations).

F. THE PUSHBACK

Starting from the top, there has been increasing pushback against progressive activist judges. The Trump administration itself is finally pushing back against the barfare assault on non-progressive executive legal officers and advocates.

The administration’s DOJ has proposed a rule change to curb barfare’s power: The Department of Justice proposes to establish a process for reviewing bar complaints and allegations against its attorneys. 

Under the proposed rule, before a current or former Department lawyer may participate in any investigative steps initiated by the bar disciplinary authority of a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia in response to allegations that a current or former Department attorney violated an ethics rule while engaging in that attorney’s federal duties, the Department will have the right to review the allegations in the first instance and shall request that the bar disciplinary authority suspend any parallel investigations until the completion of the Department’s review.

This would provide a major impediment to the progressive association’s power to impede oppositional policy through selective and overreaching ethics violations charges that diminishes executive power while creating a de facto policymaking tool for progressive activist judiciary supremacists to wield arbitrarily (as it has been in recent years).

Outside of Trump’s increasing willingness to characterize progressive activist judges as being something approaching insurrectionist, no other substantive action has been taken by the administration to curb progressive activist judiciary supremacist power.

The more the judiciary’s power grows, the more American liberty is threatened by progressive courts that not only no longer recognize American rights, they also actively work to subvert them (when and where they can).

At the local level, police departments are defying judicial orders. In one case, the Las Vegas Police Department refused to release a serial violent criminal despite another criminal-enabling ruling by a progressive activist judge, who sought to release the criminal despite his violent and police-evading past.

In another instance, the Riverside County Sheriff’s office seized 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 election, alleging there were thousands more ballots cast than there were eligible voters. While the Progressive Activist DA has attempted to stop the investigation, the sheriff’s department, so far, has refused to comply, claiming the DA has no authority in the matter. The DA has made the same claim about them.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

While rank-and-file conservatives seem to recognize the existential threat that a progressive activist judiciary poses to the American republic, elected Republicans have mostly refused to go beyond challenging their constitutionality. So far, every effort to censure or impeach a progressive activist judge by congress has ended in failure.

President Trump has no real power to blunt the judiciary outside of replacing it, and even then, he would not replace the progressive activists still dominating legal institutions, like bar associations and law schools.

The executive could have some power to check the power of progressive-controlled institutions, especially with a conservative court. We doubt, however, that a conservative court would give the executive as much power as it might need to remove the progressive threat from her American womb.

Furthermore, the GOP-majority Senate has been sitting on new judicial appointees by the Trump administration since his 2nd term began, even though the GOP allowed the Democrats to rush through a slate of Biden judges near the end of his term. Many of those same judges are leading the Judgefare assault on the American republic.

More and more, we suspect President Trump is looking to preserve anti-American power, like judicial overreach, for what he presumes will be the next regime in power, the faction we are loosely simply referring to as the “conservatives” (see our Final Thought on pg. xx for more on what “conservative” means in this context).

He isn’t existentially threatening progressive power, even as he seems willing to existentially threaten globalist power. At home, he has far more patience with the Democrat Party than he does the globalists of Europe. But he also has far more patience with China than he does some Republicans within his own party.

He seems to be far more pragmatic than idealist, and far less concerned with preserving and restoring American rights than with preserving American geopolitical and economic power.

For this reason, we doubt the Judgefare assault will change anytime soon. If anything, it will only get worse, until one ruling is so far beyond the pale, failure to act will immediately undermine the whole Federal government’s legitimacy as a representative of an American republic.

This is not to say such a ruling is inevitable, but only that it will take a rash decision made in anger by a narcissistic progressive activist judge that critically affects American security to compel the President to act in a substantive way to remove progressives from the courts altogether.

We do not think such a ruling is likely before the general election this year. If the polls start to turn on the Democrats, the likelihood of such a ruling increase before the election. If the Democrats win both the House and the Senate, expect activist judges to file contempt charges against Trump officials for a myriad of “reasons.”

President Trump does not appear to have the real stomach for the existential fight he would trigger if he moved as aggressively against the activist judges as the El Salvadorans did when reclaiming their country from another parasitical faction, the cartels, natural allies of progressives.

Trump would need a smoking gun to act, like a video recording of activist judges conspiring to undermine Trump policies knowingly using “word games” to invent legal standards on the fly so they can effectively contain and eventually destroy the evil that is Trump

This smoking gun video, or evidence like it, is not likely to come out anytime soon. Until it does, expect the Trump policies to slowly wind down, and some to get reversed, as activist judges will only be emboldened by the lack of decisive action from the Trump administration and the GOP’s congressional leadership.

SCOTUS is divided into three camps, the progressives, the Americanists, and the pragmatists. There are three members in each camp. So long as the court has a minority of Americans, but also a minority of progressives, expect some checks on progressive power to continue, but hardly decisively.

The continued allowance of lower court serial constitutional abuse and overreach by SCOTUS will also add to the emboldening of more clearly unconstitutional rulings in the name of stopping the devil, Donald Trump.

We will continue to watch our bellwether Judgefare judge, James Boesberg, as well as all the other Judgefare judges plotting deconstruction of American Rule of Law in the name of stopping Hitler (Trump) even as we close this report.

Let us pray a smoking gun is delivered that allows the President to act decisively to end the progressive activist threat within our judiciary.

ED. NOTE: In our Quarterly review, scheduled for release on Friday, April 10, 2026, be sure to check out our Predictive Analysis for the next three months in our Situation Report.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

A History of American Law – Lawrence M. Friedman

Judicial Activism and the Assault on Christianity – Greg Bredemeier

The Politics of Law – A Progressive Critique – David Kairys

People Advance Report – March 2026 – DHS Deliverance – Iran’s Leadership Extinction – Antifa Convictions

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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.”

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  1. 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 3rd 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.”

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 8th 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.”

  1. 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.

  1. 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 7th 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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.”

  1. 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.”

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. EZRA MOMENT TO HAPPEN TO MARK 250TH 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.

  1. 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.

Global Outlook – March 2026 – Iran Pause – Dem Surge – Trump Economy

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

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from March 1-26, 2026

Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:

  1. Iran War
  2. 2026 Election
  3. Wokeness
  4. Judgefare
  5. Progressive Media
  6. Abortion Watch
  7. AI Watch
  8. Trump Deportations
  9. Voter ID
  10. Mamdani Terror Attack

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. TRENDING

  1. TRUMP PUSHES FOR END TO IRAN WAR AS MARKETS FEEL BURDEN OF BLOCKED STRAIT – President Donald Trump has put together a 15-point peace proposal to what’s left of the Iran regime. Alleged representatives of the regime are telling corporate news media they have already rejected the deal. The President has fired back, threatening he will “unleash hell” if Iran “fails to understand that they have been defeated.”

President Trump announced, “As per Iranian Government request, please let this statement serve to represent that I am pausing the period of Energy Plant destruction by 10 Days to Monday, April 6, 2026, at 8 P.M., Eastern Time. Talks are ongoing and, despite erroneous statements to the contrary by the Fake News Media, and others, they are going very well.”

 Read more about the Iran War in our Situation Report on pg. xx.

GO DEEPER ON IRAN WAR

  1. DOJ CLOSES BIDEN AUTOPEN INVESTIGATION, SOURCE CLAIMS – After another round of much sound and fury signaling nothing, the GOP’s Department of Justice has allegedly quietly shut down its Biden autopen investigation in much the same way it has tried to bury the Epstein Files investigation. The claim comes from the Washington Examiner, which cites an anonymous source. The Department of Justice has refused to comment when asked by the press about the claim.

GO DEEPER ON BIDEN AUTOPEN

  1. FBI ADMITS MORE THAN 100 TERABYTES OF EPSTEIN EVIDENCE WERE DELETED – Whatever the DOJ has on hand that it is calling the “Epstein Files,” it is hardly as much as what it could have been. According to a just-now discovered testimony in 2024 by FBI Agent Aaron Spivack, a hack into their NY Field Office during the 2023 Superbowl led to the FBI losing access to more than 500 terabytes of data. 100 Terabytes would turn out to be lost for good.

GO DEEPER ON EPSTEIN FILES

  1. EPSTEIN WAS A FINANCIAL BOUNTY HUNTER FOR THE U.S.? – Jeffrey Epstein was officially a U.S. government agent according to a memo released among the Epstein Files. The claim comes from an unsigned memo that states, “At some point in time, Jeffrey Epstein worked for the United States government as a financial bounty hunter. He has retained significant political connections with both Israel and the United States.”

The memo’s credibility comes from another part of the note recommending further information about Epstein from other federal agencies. It also accuses Epstein of violating child exploitation and sex offender traveling laws, The memo gives more credence, though not a smoking gun, to the claim Epstein was a government agent.

B. DOMESTIC TERROR

  1. ISLAMIST SHOOTER KILLS 3, INJURES 17 IN TERROR ATTACK ON AUSTIN, TX BAR – 53-year-old Islamist Ndiaga Diagne opened fire on an Austin, Texas bar, killing 3 and injuring 17 others before being killed himself by the police. He was wearing a “Property of Allah” shirt and has connections to a local Islamist community with suspicious ties to Islamist terrorist organizations. The attack came just after the Ayatollah Khomeini was confirmed killed in aerial strikes, leading many to believe this was related to the war on Iran.

GO DEEPER ON AUSTIN IRAN SHOOTER

  1. MEDIA, MAMDANI PROTECT ISLAMIST IED ATTACKERS WHILE VILIFYING WHITES, CHRISTIANS – The media coverage of the IED attack by two Islamists on a Christian anti-Muslim rally not only accused the Christians of being white supremacists (which they appear to actually be, in this case), they also accused the Christians of throwing the IEDs themselves. Mayor Mamdani of New York focused his ire on the “white supremacists,” while only condemning the IEDs being tossed. He failed to mention the Islamists behind the attack.

The attack was caught on video, so the internet already knew the Islamists were behind the attack, The two suspects are Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, both of whom come from wealthy immigrant parents. They screamed “Allahu Akbar” when they threw the IEDs, which were all verified to be real. Had any one of them gone off (there were three total, two near the mayor’s mansion), it is highly likely there would have been multiple casualties. We covered this story in more detail in the Final Thought of our Friday, March 13 MIA Issue.

GO DEEPER ON MAMDANI TERROR ATTACK

  1. ISLAMISTS ATTACK AMERICAN SYNAGOGUE, UNIVERSITY ON SAME DAY – On Thursday, March 12, 2026, two separate Islamists attempted to murder Americans, with one succeeding and the other being stopped before he could do further harm. Islamist Lebanese “immigrant” Ayman Mohammad Ghazali attempted to murder Jews at a Michigan synagogue. He was killed by security after driving his car into the synagogue.

Islamist Mohamed Jalloh was successful in his attack on Old Dominion University. He killed one and injured another before ROTC members stopped him and killed him with their bare hands, according to reports. The Islamist killed one man, Lt. Colonel Brandon Shah.

GO DEEPER ON DNC ISLAM

C. U.S. ELECTIONS

  1. FBI SEIZES 2020, 2024 ELECTION RECORDS FROM NOTORIOUS MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.

Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”

GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD

  1. DEMS FLIP FLORIDA STATE HOUSE SEAT IN TRUMP’S MAR-A-LAGO DISTRICT – The Florida state house district President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate resides in will now have a Democrat representing it after a special election saw Democrat Emily Gregory narrowly beat Trump-endorsed Republican John Maples. Trump won in this same region by 11 points in 2024. The special election was needed to replace retired Republican Mike Caruso, who won his last election by 19 points in 2024.

GO DEEPER ON 2026 ELECTIONS

  1. TEXAS PRIMARY FINISHES CROCKET, KEEPS CORNYN ALIVE – The Texas Senate Primary races were the main feature of March 3, 2026’s midterm primaries, which were also held in Arkansas, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. In Texas, DNC race hustler Jasmine Crocket lost to James Talarico, a far-left “Christian” who claims God is non-binary and ok with abortions.

In the GOP race, Senator John Cornyn failed to get a majority vote, so a run-off race between himself and his closest challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton, will happen in May. Paxton had offered to drop out of the race if Cornyn commits to passing the SAVE Act, even if it means voting to change the filibuster rule to require it to be verbal, not merely procedural. That offer is now void because the deadline for Paxton to withdraw has passed.

D. U.S. POLITICS

  1. VA DEMS MOVE TO TAKE GUNS, CONTROL HISTORY NARRATIVES, AND CODIFY ANTI-WHITE RACISM – The Democrat Party of Virginia has moved aggressively to make the state in Progressive US’s image, passing numerous bills aimed at curbing American liberty. They passed one bill that freezes white men out of government contracts, another bill that takes “assault weapons” from Americans, and another one which mandates J6 be taught to children as only being an insurrection.

The three bills reflect Progressive US’s anti-white racist ideology, its disrespect for freedom of thought, and its fear of an armed citizenry it knows it is preparing to attack.

GO DEEPER ON VIRGINIA INSURRECTION

  1. JUDGES SET FIRE TO TRUMP AGENDA IN A SERIES OF BRUTAL RULINGS – Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more.

In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Democrat activist judges while shaming any critique of these same rulings. Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether Deepdive on pg. 2.

GO DEEPER ON JUDGEFARE

  1. ANOTHER VICTIM OF FISA DECEPTION, THIS TIME BY THE MUELLER TEAM INVESTIGATING FISA DECEPTION – Walid Phares faced a 12-month period between 2017 and 2018 under a scrutinizing FBI microscope empowered by a deceived FISA court. The prosecutors withheld evidence that would have exonerated Phares and rendered the FBI’s search warrant requests invalid. The prosecutors were attorneys of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating the Russian Collusion Hoax.

An investigation into why this evidence was withheld was never included in the team’s final report, even though it is directly tied to it. This deception mimics the very deception that triggered the Russian Collusion Hoax in the first place, manipulating and withholding evidence to FISA court judges to get the results the prosecutors wanted, the power to spy on domestic political opposition.

Newly released transcripts of a testimony from an unnamed FBI agent reveals his attempts to include the anomaly of the Phares case in the report was rejected by a senior member of Mueller’s team, Kevin Clinesmith. After the agent attempted to include not just the Phares FISA anomaly, but others, Clinesmith told him, “We can’t send this to DOJ.”

GO DEEPER ON RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX

  1. MULLIN CONFIRMED HEAD OF DHS, HIS SENATE SEAT GIVEN TO ENERGY EXECUTIVE – The now former Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) has been confirmed by the Senate in a 54-45 vote to take over as the new head of the Department of Homeland Security. He takes over for Kristi Noem, who was reassigned to a South America project.

The Governor of Oklahoma, Republican Kevin Stitt, has chosen an energy executive, Alan Armstrong, to take the now-vacant seat. Stitt said of his selection, “He’s a strong business leader who understands the power of free markets and limited government. He’s spent his career fighting for Oklahoma’s energy industry and providing affordable, reliable energy to all of America.”

GO DEEPER ON DHS FUNDING

  1. FBI RAN ROUND RIVER CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT CLAIMS OF THE BIDENS’ UKRAINE CORRUPTION – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed in a press release that the FBI ran a disinformation campaign in 2020 to protect the Biden family from potential prosecution. This operation was called Round River. It was so secret not even the then FBI Director, Bill Barr, knew of its existence.

Grassley claimed, “in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

GO DEEPER WITH BIDEN WATCH

E. WORLD

  1. VENEZUELA BECOMES A DE FACTO U.S. ALLY – The United States and Venezuela have officially restored diplomatic and consular relations that President Trump claims will lead to favorable oil and rare earth mineral deals for the U.S.. These deals freeze Russia and China out of the Venezuela equation.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said of the agreement, “When we are working together it can only mean two things, which is prosperity for the people of Venezuela and for the citizens of the United States, and it also brings peace and stability for the world.”

GO DEEPER ON VENEZUELA WATCH

  1. AS RUSSIA RACES TO SAVE CUBA WITH OIL, CUBA NEGOTIATES WITH THE U.S. – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canal has affirmed former President Raul Castro has been negotiating with the U.S. about making the changes the U.S. is requesting in order to lift the decades-long embargo on the island nation. As Cuba struggles to keep the lights on, Russia has sent oil tankers to rescue them, tankers expected to reach Cuba early next week.

GO DEEPER ON CUBA WATCH

  1. CUBA TOTTERS ON DISSOLUTION, BUT LEADER REMAINS DEFIANT AS RUSSIA, MEXICO RUSHES TO ITS RESCUE – Russia is sending oil tankers to Cuba to rescue it from its crippling energy crisis that has left the island in a blackout condition. As dissent grows from within, the Trump administration hints it could take Cuba whenever it wants to. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.” Mexico has just announced plans to attempt to “come to Cuba’s aid,” sending a relief supply flotilla and promising to figure out how to get oil to the communist country.
  2. EU COURT COMPELS ALL MEMBER STATES TO “RECOGNIZE” TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES – The highest court in the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union, has ruled that all 27 members states of the union must allow all citizens to have photo IDs that match their “lived gender.” The ruling is sure to bring the differences between progressive globalism and traditional Europeanism to a head.

GO DEEPER ON WOKENESS

  1. ENCRYPTED MESSAGES FROM IRAN MAY BE ACTIVATING SLEEPER TERROR CELLS IN U.S. – American intelligence agencies have intercepted encrypted messages from Iran that appear to be “operational trigger(s)” for “sleeper assets.” In the wake of the massive illegal alien invasion under the Biden administration, there is reason to believe this message could be reaching hundreds of teams. DHS Security advisor and Secret Service supervisor Charles Marino suggested the size of those teams could be as much as 20 people.

F. MARKET

  1. CONSEQUENCE OF SCOTUS RULING ALREADY HITTING COURTS AS TRUMP ADMIN PLEDGES IT WILL PAY INTEREST ON TARIFF REFUNDS – Should the Trump administration lose in the courts and be forced to refund “American” businesses, they are committed to pay interest on the refunds, they informed the courts.

Judges have already signaled a willingness to fast-track the process, as we predicted would happen in our Bellwether DeepDive from our March 6, 2026 MIA issue.  In addition to the refunds for U.S. companies, foreign companies are also lining up for their cut of the SCOTUS plunder. Revenues collected through these struck-down tariffs are estimated to be around $170 billion.

GO DEEPER ON TRUMP TARIFFS

  1. SOCIAL MEDIA HIT HARD IN TWO LANDMARK U.S. CASES, BOTH ADDRESSING CHILD SAFETY – Meta and YouTube have each faced legal setbacks that could portend badly for the social media industry as a whole. The first case saw Meta lose a $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.
  2. OPENAI ENDS BILLION DOLLAR DISNEY DEAL, SHUTS DOWN VIDEO AI APP SORA – OpenAI is facing existential pressure after having to cancel a $1 billion Disney deal that would have allowed the media company to use their video AI app Sora to develop content. The app was ended due to an inability to prevent it from creating dangerous deepfake videos, including pornographic ones.

Disney said of the severed deal, “We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”

GO DEEPER ON AI WATCH

G. HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

  1. NEW MIT STUDY GIVES CREDENCE TO 2020 ELECTION FRAUD CLAIMS – MIT Data reveals the Democrat Party saw a 23 million vote drop in mail-in ballot votes from 2020 to 2024. Meanwhile, its other voting data mostly held steady from 2020 to 2024. The spike in Democrat votes in 2020 has never been explained. This recent finding suggests the answer may be where many thought it was the whole time, in the post-election-day ballot “counting” behind windows covered with pizza boxes.

GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD

  1. CHINA’S NEW ETHNIC UNITY LAW READS LIKE NAZI LAW – China’s National People’s Congress approved a new law called the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The law aims to harmonize the country’s 55 state-recognized ethnic minorities with the Han majority. The law was passed on March 12 and was signed into law by Chairman Xi. The law takes effect on July 1st.

It is feared that the law will be used to further crack down on these minorities, leading to more genocidal pogroms such as were carried out against the Uyghurs (and are still going on). Some of the tactics of the past include forcing minority groups to have more abortions, taking children and raising them as Han, and banning the use of the minority group’s languages and artistic traditions.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA ETHNIC UNITY LAW

  1. UK MOVES CLOSER TO SHARIA AS IT MOVES CLOSER TO CRIMINALIZING DOGS – The United Kingdom has fallen to Sharia. The evidence becomes more and more clear as the tiny island nation may have surpassed China in arrests of people for saying bad things online. The top protected class in the UK is the Muslim, then the Islamist immigrant, then the Rainbow Coalition, with Trans and non-binary as the stars of that group.

Now, the UK wants to make dogs illegal for the sake of its growing Muslim nation within, a nation that despises dogs. To prepare the British for the loss of their dogs, Starmer’s cabinet is working on legislation that would ban 67 dog breeds in the name of safety and health.

GO DEEPER ON UK SHARIA

  1. KIDS ARE CHEMICALLY “TRANSITIONING” THANKS TO ONLINE PHARMACIES – The Daily Caller Foundation has released a report that exposes “online pharmacies” as being sources for children to get access to “transition” drugs. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at DNH, summarized the report, claiming it “reveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.

“From websites listing online vendors across the globe to marketplaces for ‘homebrewed’ hormones, we found a multitude of troubling pathways that appear to bypass basic safeguards and regulatory oversight. Gender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks. These hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible.

We urge the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated,” Miceli continued. “Protecting minors from unsafe and unregulated access to powerful cross-sex hormones must remain a priority.”

GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY

  1. CANADA APPROACHES 100K EUTHANIZED, WHILE THE POOR ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR MAID, AND CHILDREN MIGHT SOON BE – Amir Farsoud, 54, is being guided towards state-assisted suicide through Canada’s MAiD. While he suffers from chronic back pain, his reason for applying for MAiD was because he can no longer work, and Canada does not give him enough money to avoid becoming homeless. He’d rather die than become homeless, and now, in Canada, you can legally be killed for that fear alone.

So far, almost 100,000 Canadians have been murdered (aborted) by the state, legally, according to a report by the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying. That same group is now recommending “mature minors” be allowed to consent to suicide as well.

GO DEEPER ON EUTHANASIA WATCH

  1. RING’S SEARCH PARTY IS A POLICE STATE TROJAN HORSE – Amazon’s Ring Camera has added a Search Party feature critics say enables Amazon to build a pre-crime database that the state (or the corporation) could use to quickly tamp down dissent. An email from Ring Founder Jamie Simonoff is giving credence to those concerns.

He wrote, “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there, but for the first time ever, we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”

  1. 9TH CIRCUIT BLASTED BY OWN JUDGE FOR RULING THAT ALLOWS MEN IN RELIGIOUS WOMEN’S SPACES – After the U.S. 9th circuit court ruled religious groups cannot keep trans men out of women’s spaces, they received a fiery dissent. 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke began his dissent with the phrase, “This is a case about swinging d#%ks.”

He then added, “The fact that the religious owners of a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa are prohibited by law from preventing a naked adult male, who remains sexually attracted to women, from exposing himself to thirteen-year-old girls tragically illustrates the sick and twisted consequences of erasing sex as a coherent legal category

My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia. That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself.”

Read more about Judgefare in our Bellwether report on pg. 2.

  1. DNC MAYOR STAYS IN OFFICE AFTER FIANCÉ CONVICTED OF BEING CCP SPY – The Mayor of Arcadia, CA is a naturalized U.S. citizen from China, whose fiancé was recently convicted of being a CCP spy. The fiancé, a green card holder named Yaoning “Mike” Sun, was the fiancé of Mayor Eileen Wang, a Democrat and potentially STILL a member of the CCP. She emigrated from China more than 30 years ago.

So far, Wang has refused to resign. This type of CCP activity is only a small part of the rising evidence of widespread CCP influence across both political parties, but significantly more substantively among Democrats, their natural “allies.”

GO DEEPER ON DNC-CCP WATCH

  1. NASA WANTS A MOON BASE – NASA has announced plans to build a moon base that will cost the U.S. $20 billion, according to NASA administrator Jared Isaacman. A moon base could replace the need for space stations. The moon base will also be a research and testing facility preparing the technologies needed for an eventual Mars occupation. It will also serve as the eventual departure point for the first landing. The race to Mars appears to be on.
  2. NEA TRAINING ANTI-AMERICAN INSURRECTIONISTS, NOT TEACHERS – The National Education Association recently held a training session called “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Education” that seeks to establish the oughtness of woke ideology as the oughtness of human life.

This action is sectarian in nature, which is troubling given the nature of the organization. It is one of the largest teachers’ unions in America, with over 3 million teachers. The question is not if the organization crossed the line into political activism, but what, if anything will be done about it.

  1. MINNESOTA TEACHERS’ UNION SPENDS TIME, MONEY COORDINATING TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ICE AGENTS – According to an investigation by Defending Education, a teachers’ union called “Minneapolis Families for Public Schools (MFPS)” has been coordinating an initiative to effectively help teachers organize resistance to ICE arrests of illegal aliens.

The “initiate” is called “TakeAction Minnesota.” On the website, they claim “We will teach and demonstrate resistance tactics that can be replicated elsewhere, leaving no community undefended. We hope to force an end to ICE’s unprecedented siege of Minnesota — and further the movement to abolish ICE altogether while we do it,”

Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education, stated “The teachers unions continue to prove they are rotten apples that only care about far-left street activism, to the detriment of educating children. Teachers and community groups should be dedicating time to improving learning outcomes for students, not creating strategies and lists of people to attempt to thwart law enforcement.”

GO DEEPER ON ANTI-ICE TERROR ATTACKS

  1. PSYCHIATRY JOURNALS HAVE AN UNDISCLOSED PAYMENTS PROBLEM – A study published in BMJ Open claims 14.2% of industry payments made to published authors were undisclosed in two major psychiatric journals. The findings put further doubt on the psychiatric industry’s integrity assurance standards. This finding follows a 2020 study that revealed 55.7% of U.S. psychiatrists have accepted pharmaceutical industry funding.
  2. FEMALE GENDERCIDE IN CHINA – China is committing female gendercide according to its own statistics, which shows there are 133 boys born for every 100 girls born. This statistic does not happen naturally, it only happens through selective abortions, specifically of girls. The statistics come from the country’s own just-released 2024 birth report.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA WATCH

Final Thought: The American Brave Need Amendments

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Originally published March 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“For those of us who are not black men, imagine watching the news and seeing how people who look like you are portrayed. Imagine seeing men who look like you executed by police, arrested in impossibly high numbers and seeing the entire political system of our nation fighting to keep it that way.

“Think about really what effect that would have on you and how you felt about this country and your participation in its institutions. It’s a centuries-old problem, but we can’t be centuries-old in the solution. We need to fix it now. We need to stop the efforts to make it harder for people of color to vote. We need to fix what’s broken in America.” – Alysa Milano, white millionaire Progmerican actress

“Imagine being a black man and being told by some white lady with a microphone that you and the criminal on TV are one and the same because you look alike. Imagine being told by society that white people can be all they can be, but you as a black man, the content of your character is completely irrelevant, you are the color of your skin, and that is all you’ll ever be.

“Imagine being told that you can’t figure out how to vote because of the color of your skin. Socioeconomics affects everybody, but apparently you’re not as smart as the poorest white person.” – Savanah Edwards, black middle-class American woman

In past reports, we’ve talked about the concept of “language wars,” of using “language games” to create unwinnable outcomes for your opponent. It is the use of language wars that has largely led to the rise of a host of ideological constructs we will simply refer to as “woke.”

What all these ideological constructs have in common is this; the white heterosexual cis-gendered male created a whole host of institutions to assert and preserve his superiority over all other classes of people. This underlying assumption is implicit in some (they’ll even deny it) and explicit in others.

Systemic “whiteness” prevails, even when the standards are changed to no longer favor the white man, even when the institution’s leaders are replaced by “woke” leaders, even when the new standards now openly discriminate against the white heterosexual cis-gendered male.

This means the only way to end “whiteness” is to end the institutions altogether. Progmerica’s Harvard is gone altogether in Progtopia.

The language game they create for America is based on America’s sins. The “woke” serve as Absolom (2nd Samuel 15) outside the gates of Jerusalem, whose beauty and hair were the pride of Jerusalem.

The woke equip themselves in outfits and hair that appeal to children, their main source for recruitment. The schools, the kids’ shows, the news sources for their favorite influencers, are all spaces for wokeness to tell children there is injustice, but with them in power, there will be justice.

They tell the children enough truths, that America was born with slavery written into her constitution, to tell the children a whole series of lies. They whisper, shout, and subliminally imply, “Were we the new power, we would judge rightly with ‘social justice.’”

The root of all their lies that enables what follows (overt violations of American standards) is the lie that the white heterosexual cis-gendered male invented slavery. After they sell the lie that the white devil invented slavery, they then continue with the lie that the white devil invented Christianity. After that, the American republic itself falls under their flames.

These flames are created by the real fear of the white devil, who invented evil and intends on murdering all hope. These flames also create opportunities to pillage the white man, which gains them more recruits, recruits they desperately need to recruit the children, white middle-class women.

It is this class of woman, the Progmerican white woman, who is the primary enabler and driver of the lies being told to our children in public schools every day. They account for 62% of all public-school teachers, a 24-point majority built into the system, a system that is aggressively Progmerican in its teaching. I would argue they have also been the biggest benefactor of the new wokeness.

Their intended “allies’” benefits weren’t nearly as enriching to the communities as a whole as they have been to the white middle class Progmerican women’s community (this is in large part why transgenderism has gotten the check it has, for it began to threaten white Progmerican woman power).

Our public schools are leading children to believe they are either the victim of a white devil that is built into their very school desks or they’re born of a white devil whose skin covers their own bones, their own flesh, leaving them naked and exposed as an unredeemable sinner. Like the black man that could not hide in a white man’s crowd, the white child cannot hide in a “person of color’s” crowd.

The Progmerican language game began by feeding on America’s rightly earned guilt for having a couple of centuries of real white supremacist history that was only broken in the 1980s (the 50s-70s were the transition away from a fundamentally white supremacist culture).

The stewards of American power, the leaders of the institutions that train our teachers, were not able to keep the woke out of their institutions.

They had no mechanism to filter them with because they operated under largely Americanist standards. They also had no mechanism COMPELLING them to filter such anti-Americanists from their institutions. Dissenting views should be welcome in academia, so cutting out American citizens who happen to have some unamerican views would be antithetical to Americanism.

This is what let the woke in, but the woke do not share our views; the woke are NOT American.

When they entered our institutions, they quickly set about slowly freezing Americans out of their own institutions. Then the process of exaptation began, of repurposing a design to serve a decidedly different end.

Every American institution was converted to what we are calling a Progmerican one, which represents the scaffolding underneath, the bones of the American institutions, with their new head, Progressivism.

I chose the term progressive because it has been the most consistently used term by leftists who knew from the start that their project was about exapting America-making institutions so they become Progressive-making institutions. Neo-liberals and neo-cons alike have been variably comfortable with that term.

It is only the rise of disruptive decentralizing technologies that have prevented the project, Progmericanism, from reaching its fulfilment, its ability to shed the bones of America altogether.

It wants to openly be what it always was, Progtopia. This project will officially jettison the U.S. constitution and replace it with something radically different, something that allows central planners to move on the fly to dramatically alter human action, with violence, if necessary, for the good of the whole.

Progmericans are like the Iranian Islamists, who believe it is proper to lie, cheat, steal, and murder to usher in the age of Utopia. This makes it easy for them to use the language of Americanism, but with radically different definitions. This is pre-emptive deception.

They know they are attempting to alter your heuristics, without your consent, using de facto threats of social ostracism and market death to cement that heuristic conditioning in you. Now, without realizing it, you are already becoming a Progmerican in uncritical habits of being.

This ethical duplicity allows them to appeal to free speech in the American sense when the courts have an American judge, and THEY are the defendants.

Yet as prosecutors and judges in that same court, they will implicitly use the woke standard of “free speech.” The woke standard holds that freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences, and the consequences they are describing involves mob threats of gatekeepers to economically assassinate you. Any effort by an American to find relief in a Progmerican-controlled court is already doomed to fail before the case is ever heard.

When they say freedom of speech among themselves, they understand it means speech that aligns with the woke orthodoxy as mostly defined by academia (as I believe it still mostly is). That “freedom of speech” also includes the compulsion to speak when others violate the woke orthodoxy as defined by academia.

It also includes the compulsion to not call abortion murder or homosexuality sinful because that affects “marginalized” groups (meaning higher castes in the woke hierarchy of caste value).

Their language game allows them to chastise you ONLY if one of these conditions is true; 1. You seek to be justified according to their standards; 2. They have the power to compel gatekeepers to cut you out of public space.

For the former, if you are an Americanist, you understand what they’re demanding is a violation of the spirit of America, our bravery. We ARE the home of the brave so long as we have a people that are NOT AFRAID of losing fairly in the public square and are NOT AFRAID of others being wrong in public space.

Their standards require a denial of both. They require a gaming of the system by gatekeepers, from the top down, to assure only their kind gets through to the public space where the world might see them. They empower the mob and/or the gatekeepers to be the arbiters of “right” and “wrong” thought that should be tolerated in public space.

From a governance standards perspective, they are not Americans, right from the start. They refute the individual in favor of the social. This is why they say, “social justice” and not “American justice,” for “social justice” is based on caste-system justice, where the punishments and mercies are based primarily on your caste position, not the merits of the situation being adjudicated.

At this point, their only effectiveness over you is their ability to end your public face. Yet that isn’t going as well as it has in the past, but that doesn’t mean the future might not restore that power for them, or even increase it.

America had no defense against the wolf coming into the sheep pen. And now the wolf is just about out of his sheep costume altogether, ready to devour America from within and declare the sheep pen a den of wolves, Progtopia.

In future issues, I hope to expand on my thoughts for what we as Americans can do to at least create an invitation for the people of this land to choose Americanism over the competing new civilizations, which include Progtopia and what I am calling, for now, Trumpmerica (the liminal state between Progmerica and America that, if chosen, will collapse into Progmerica soon after).

I wanted to plant a seed, one that illustrates the critical fail problem of America, its inability to keep the wolves out. Our openness is our strength, but it is also our weakness.

We want to sustain and restore as much openness as possible without allowing closed system thinkers to enter into our institutions and shut the door behind them.

What I propose, in general is the creation of a Bill of Rights coalition of people willing to plumbline their local, state, and national leaders with a questionnaire on whether or not they support the Bill of Rights. From this, we begin to identify Americans, not just among the leaders (there are still a few) but also among ourselves.

The leaders we will target will be market, social, civic, and sacred leaders. We will make their views known, and their refusal to participate in the survey known.

Our purpose is to find Americans among our leaders and make it visible to everyone who is in defiance of these standards. Our secondary purpose is to find enough Americans to form two political parties, both of which agree to run in a special primary open to the general public. The losing party will support the winning party in the general election.

One party will be the Americanist Right. It will support conservative ideas, limited government, strong military, etc., but all within the boundaries of the Bill of Rights.

One party will be the Americanist Left. It will support leftist ideas, like taxing the rich more, having more government social welfare programs, but ALL within the boundaries of the Bill of Rights.

BOTH parties should be pro-self-defense.

The state’s position on abortion, within the Americanist framework, is ambiguous, therefore abortion should be settled by the states, preferably through direct voting by the people, not the legislatures.

This writer holds that states that legalize abortion undermine the fundamental Americanist presumption, that ALL individuals have self-stewardship “rights” given to them by someone/something outside of creation itself. Let the states bear the fruit of allowing or preventing abortions. Let the states that thrive lead the other states to follow their lead.

BOTH parties would be committed to rallying support to pass two amendments, one which would make citizenship a consensual contract the resident must decide to enter into. There would be no more birthright citizenships, not even for children born to American citizens.

The resident would have to go through a form of Americanist “catechism” of sorts and demonstrate in some form a profound understanding of what it means to be citizen in the land of the free, the home of the brave.

This amendment would take effect 6 months after final ratification. It would not be retroactively applied.

Residents would have all the basic rights of citizens other than facing limitations on free speech, having the right to bear arms, and voting in most elections. Residents can vote in any election in which a tax rate that affects them is being voted on.

Residents would pay less taxes than citizens, they couldn’t serve in the military (or be drafted, if we preserve that anti-American standard), nor could they be compelled to serve on juries.

The second amendment would make it a citizenship violation to express gatekeeping standards in the civic, market, sacred, or social public space that would fundamentally impede the ability of Americans to participate in these public spaces or practice their own standards in private spaces.

If you call for gun control laws outside of calling for an Amendment to change our 2nd Amendment standards, then you have committed a citizen violation. There would be levels of punishment based on the severity of the offense and the frequency of offenses. Most offenses would require a fine and some form of remote training in citizenship standards.

One basic requirement for a charge would be having an audience of a certain number (whatever that might be) to protect citizens from private secret-police-type machinations. The speech in homes, for instance, is not intended to be monitored, nor is public speech to a handful of people (other than the limits that are already there, like making death threats).

Above all else, the mechanism must have a path for restoration for all but the most egregious and repetitive offenses.

Any creation of any tool risks exaptation, meaning this tool in the hands of progressives would be used to eliminate Americans from the citizen roles PERMANENTLY. Such a tool has built-in risks.

But what we can see today is that having NO MEANS of filtering out from citizenship privilege the truly anti-American subversive is absolutely unsustainable.

What I propose here might not be the optimal solution (if there is one). The challenge is significant. It is to sustain as broad a coalition of people without becoming so indistinct it collapses into nothing. With no real barrier to natural-born citizenship, and no real standard for excluding citizenship, our enemies have no need for Trojan Horses.

All they have to do is wave the American flag coming in, saying “equality,” not liberty, and once they are in, wave their Progtopian flags (they have many, including the flag of Hamas).

But with these two amendments, they now must publicly CHOOSE American standards and CHOOSE to be held accountable by them, else they lose the privilege of being an American citizen, the “right” to be a self-stewarded individual (for they demonstrated no respect for the self-stewardship capacity of their neighbors).

I have a domain name, Americanist.Party, which could be used for this project should it gain enough traction. If you have your own thoughts on what we can do to restore, fulfill, and preserve Americanism in these lands, write to us at MIAMailroom@gmail.com

Transitions: Pt. 2 – From Judges to Kings How Israel Became a Kingdom of Men

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Originally published March 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“I gave you a king in my anger, and I took him away in my wrath.” – Hosea 13:11

INTRODUCTION

The nation of Israel began as a household of some 70 souls entering the land of Egypt. These peoples were the descendants of a Chaldean named Abram, who answered the call of God to become a sojourner in a land his descendants would one day possess.

Abram became Abraham, who begat Isaac at the age of 100. Isaac would give birth to Esau and Jacob, with Esau building his own household that later became the nation of Edom. Jacob had 12 sons from four women; The 12 tribes that make up the nation of Israel come from these children.

It should be noted that God chose to create a people by first selecting two nonagenarians to be the mother and father of those people, a sure sign God chooses the weak to give his power perfection, which testifies to his greatness to all of creation.

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9

One of those sons, Jospeh, would be ostracized by his brothers, sold to Midianite traders, only to become the second most powerful man of Egypt. He would prepare Egypt to become the incubator for the nation of Israel, a nation that would be born under slavery.

Jospeh’s small household would enter Egypt as free men, become enslaved, and exit Egypt as free men. After establishing a nation of Judges, the people one day called for a King, and God said yes, but not out of kindness.

This report focuses on the transition from Judges to Kings, their major similarities and their major differences. We’ll start off outlining how the nation of Judges was born and end that outline with the sanctification of the first temple by Solomon. We’ll end the report with an analysis of the similarities and differences between these two nations.

A. THE SEED

  1. ENTERING EGYPT AND BECOMING SLAVES – When a famine hit the land of Canaan, Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to buy provisions. The sons could not know Joseph had already prepared Egypt for the famine by interpreting the dreams of the pharaoh. This is how he became Pharaoh’s righthand lieutenant (Genesis 41).

Five chapters later, the nation of Israel began. It began when Joseph finally gave favor to his brothers, welcomed his father, and set aside land especially for them to govern over, the land of Goshen. It began when he exhorted them to take on an identity that would separate them from Egypt:

“When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ in order that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”’ – Genesis 46:33-34

Joseph compelled them to identify in such a way that they would naturally be separated from the nation of Egypt, even though, by his example, they are also called to serve her.

This is the model that is also illustrated in the captivities of Daniel, Esther, and Mordeci, all of whom were good servants to their captive nation while also being faithful first and foremost to their God (though in Esther that is never explicit since it is the only book in scripture not to mention or refer directly to God).

I theorize by this time this little band would have had the oral traditions of Genesis leading up to Jacob and possibly the book of Job, in oral form, not written form. If I am right, then this little band already had a sacred script to unite them that, by its claims, goes back a few thousand years.

This is how the seed of Jacob entered Egypt, as free people willing to be good servants to their host nation. This is NOT how they would exit.

  1. EXITING EGYPT – The arrangement between Egypt and the Israelites held for a couple of centuries before the Egyptians began to be threatened by Israel’s prosperity and numbers. They grew from a nation of 70 people to hundreds of thousands (or more).

The Egyptians chose to put them under bondage, and eventually sought to kill the male babies in what can only be described as an attempted genocide. One male child, Moses, was set adrift on a river, to be rescued by the Egyptians, an Egyptian princess who took Moses in for herself.

He grew up a servant of Egypt, but in the Pharaoh’s court. As he saw his people enslaved, he turned against them. His first effort at rebellion was a failure, and it would send him into the desert for 40 years before God called him to try a different way.

It is during this process that Moses began to build a unique law for the people. This law includes instructions for feast days and sacrifices, the first one being the Passover. The people learned that the source of their Law was God, the same God who delivered them from slavery using supernatural signs and wonders, as well as words directed to them (and chiseled, written down) through his servants Moses and Aaron.

The foundation of the Judges nation had already been set. It would be governed by the law of God as delivered through Moses his true prophet, and righteous judge of the people. But Moses from the start was also a General, so he fulfilled both the civic and sacred leadership role of the people, though he was no King and no royal inheritance was assumed for the role he was foreshadowing, the role of the Judge anointed by God to lead.

Their full exit from Egypt before they first came to the Promised Land took two years. At the end of those two years, the people would rebel from God and assume they knew more than him, questioning the soundness of attempting to conquer a people as powerful as what they saw.

By this time, Moses had already given them the ten commandments (twice, for good measure), the laws for sacrifice and feast days, the tent of meeting, including the inner sanctuary which included the ark of the Covenant, and even the divisions of labor and camp arrangement for the 12 tribes, especially for the Tribe of Levi, the now-priestly class.

B. BECOMING THE NATION OF JUDGES WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD

  1. ENTERING THE PROMISED LAND – The first attempt to enter the promised land was felled by human fear overcoming God’s promised certainty. After 38 years in the desert, anyone who was 20 years or older was dead, outside of three men (which would be only be two before they cross over the river Jordan). Those three men were Moses, Joshua, and Caleb.

The people entering into the promised land would have been young by this fact alone. Counsel from elders would not be readily available as all of the elders were dead, save for the three mentioned. Yet this generation would conquer the Promised Land in less than 20 years and stay true to the teachings of the Law given to them by Joshua, who received it from Moses,

It was not until this generation died out that the cycle of rebellion, repentance, deliverance through a chosen Judge, followed by rebellion, etc., would begin.

“And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.” – Judges 2:7

  1. THE RIGHTOUES GENERATION – While the generation that conquered Canaan was faithful until the end, it did not act with complete faithfulness. As a result, the Promised land was not fully conquered.

The tribe of Dan is a good example of how Israel failed to conquer what they should have, and how rebellion was not completely absent from them either. Dan was intended to take a coastal land on the southwest corner of the boundaries of Israel, but ended up failing to take that land, so they set up at the northeast corner of Israel instead (Judges 17-18).

They also set up their own temple worship system and chose the line of Moses through his son Goshen to be their priestly line. Jonathon, the son of Goshen, was the first chosen in the Goshen line by Dan in Judges 18.

By this time, they had their Pentateuch and the book of Job. Through the Pentateuch, they had basic laws for governance, a complex temple system, a national identity, and a national story. They were the people God chose to demonstrate to the world his glory through. Already they understood that through them would come deliverance for the whole world.

They also had distinct tribal identities, which also included prophecies from both Jacob and Moses specific to each tribe. Judah already understood its special prophetic narrative, that Judah would hold the scepter of the nation (Genesis 49).

  1. ISRAEL EMERGES – For over 300 years, the tribes were run by chiefs. The only documented case of a successful attempt at Kingship is in Judges 8, when Abimelech, the son of the judge Gideon, killed all of Gideon’s sons and proclaimed himself King of Shechem (though scripture “credits” him with ruling over all Israel).

He ruled for 5 years before he was killed by an old woman during a siege.

For the most part, this was a land which prided itself in being different than all the nations around them, a nation without a King, whose tribal allegiances through one shared father, Jacob, was enough alone to make them a nation in their hearts, without a king.

During times of rebellion, after the nations around them oppressed them for a season, they did not cry for a King, they cried for God, who delivered them over and over through numerous Judges, starting with Moses, a Judge-Priest, and ending with Samuel, a Judge-Priest, in 1st Samuel 8.

C. THE TRANSITION

While Samuel is considered to be a righteous judge, and justly so, he was not immune to the same vulnerability the man who trained him, the penultimate judge of Israel, Eli, would fall prey to. Eli’s great sin was in not punishing his sons, Hophni and Phinehas, who were being unrighteous priests, taking parts of sacrifices they were not entitled to (1 Samuel 2).

It would be through the ongoing sins of his sons that Eli’s priestly line would be cursed, the line from Ithamar, which would come to an end a few generations later, leaving only the line of Eleazor to continue.

The ark of the covenant itself was taken from a battle led by these same unrighteous priests, both of whom would die in the battle. Yet, before this moment came, Samuel had been brought to Eli by his mother Hannah after Eli prayed for her to have a son. He recognized Samuel had the Holy Spirit in him and so he personally instructed him in his formative years (1 Samuel 3).

Eli transferred the nation of Judges to Samuel, who would prove to be the transition to the nation of Kings.

Samuel himself had two sons, Joel and Abijah, whom had been appointed judges in Beersheba and appeared to be next in line to be Judges of Israel. The people protested, considering the sons’ rule a burden on them, so they cried out for a King.

“‘… Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.’ But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, ‘Give us a king to judge us.’ And Samuel prayed to the Lord. And the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.’” – 1 Samuel 8:5-7

Whereas previously they cried out to the Lord, this people cried out for a King. The people had spoken, and even the Lord was inclined to give them what they wanted, but they should have heeded the warning Samuel gave them through God in 1 Samuel 8: 10-18, Samuel’s warning against Kings.

But Samuel wanted to assure parts of the Judges foundation remains the foundation of the Kingdom nation.

“Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.” – 1 Samuel 10:25

In Samuel’s farewell speech to Israel, he reiterated the Nation of Judges foundation and combined it with the new Nation of Kings.

“If you will fear the Lord and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God, it will be well.” – 1 Samuel 12:14

He bounded Kingship under God’s law and established God as the source for the legitimacy of Kingship, and even the plumbline for it.

With a nation of Kings, the Kingdom of Israel had greater central identity as well as greater standing with the nations around them. Their adoption of divine monarchy was less of a threat to the kingdoms around them than their Judges nation had been. Now, their kingdom “justified” their neighbors kingdoms.

While Israel had a story, the story was not fully aligned with the Word, for the house of Benjamin through Saul would be picked by God, not the house of Judah. The nation of Kings that would be Israel was not fully formed. Under Saul, this was still a nation in transition, with a story not FULLY aligned with their reality.

D. THE HOUSE OF DAVID

“‘Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples. Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.’” – Genesis 49:8-11

All of Judah would no doubt know the prophecy of Jacob, which preceded Moses words and also suggested a much greater promise. Moses said Judah, “Hear O Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him to his people. With your hands contend for him and be a help against his adversaries” (Deuteronomy 33:7).

Moses reserved his greatest prophetic glory for Joseph and his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim (who were destined to become the half-tribes of Joseph), in Deuteronomy 33:13-17.

He says blessed be Jospeh “with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Jospeh, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers” (Deuteronomy 33:16).

Yet the nation of Israel just watched God select Saul as King, of the tribe of Benjamin. Saul was a good-looking man who stood head and shoulders among other men, but his tribe was considered the least of the tribes of Israel, and his father’s house, Kish, considered the weakest. God anointed Saul before the people by leading him to prophecy rightly like the prophets.

Samuel validated Saul’s anointing by acknowledging Saul was the man God chose to be the first King of Israel (if you don’t count Gideon’s rebellious son, Abimelech). Saul had an opportunity to build a lasting kingdom that his son, Jonathan, might one day take over.

In the days of Judges, Benjamin was almost destroyed. They had to be saved by allowing Benjamin to “steal” virgin girls from Manasseh and Ephraim (Judges Chapters 19-21). They were a lowly tribe, both in terms of reputation and numbers.

Yet Benjamin’s choice by God to hold the kingship was not unsimilar to Israel’s own story, for they were a small household of 70 who entered the land of Egypt as dependents and would become a nation as slaves to that same nation. God chooses the weak to confound the strong.

This notion of God working through weakness would carry through to followers of Christ, through Paul:

“But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.” – 2 Corinthians 12:9

Still, the prophecy of Jacob must have gnawed at some of them.

As it would turn out, Saul would not be the righteous King he was set up to be. Rather, he chose human approval over God’s approval; He acted in fear of men rather than fear of God; But above all else, he refused to execute God’s command to destroy the Amalekites and not take possession of the spoils.

Whenever life got in the way of following God’s laws, Saul found ways to circumnavigate those laws. Even when it became apparent to Saul that David was God’s new anointed one set to replace him, he yet plotted to kill him.

David modeled for Christians how to both obey God’s commands and civic authority’s commands. David understood full well the unrighteousness of Saul; even Saul’s own son, Jonathan, recognized this reality. Jonathan himself serves as a shadow of John the Baptist, eschewing his own potential authority in favor of the authority he is seeking to help usher in.

For John, that authority is Christ. For Jonathan, that authority is David, a shadow of Christ, and from the same tribe, the same line as Christ.

While David would not allow Saul to hunt him down and kill him, David would also not take up arms against Saul. Twice he had opportunity to strike Saul down, and twice he delivered mercy, witnessing to Saul his own unrighteousness, which Saul also acknowledged, but in both times to no avail.

Saul would end his days on the mountain of Gilboa, felled in battle by the Philistines. Along with him would fall Jonathan, leaving the path open for David to take the throne. Yet while David was proclaimed King in Hebron, Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, was declared King in Israel.

David would have to wait seven more years before he was finally crowned the King of all Israel, all 12 tribes, having previously only ruled over Judah alone. It was shortly after David was anointed King in all of Israel, in Hebron, the resting place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that David finally took Jerusalem from the Jebusites, a Canaanite people who founded the city.

From David to Solomon, the foundation of the Judges nation was set.

That foundation is this: God is the law giver whose authority is greater than the King’s and that he has left us a law that servants of Kings can use to hold the Kings accountable. Scripture is a plumbline of the King.

David would conquer the land that would give great treasure to Solomon, who would use it, in part, to build the first temple of Jerusalem.

The nation of Judges was nearly 400 years. The transition to the new nation, the Kingdom nation built on the bones of the past nation, took roughly 90 years. During that transition time, within our experience of creation bound by time, space, and place, the nation could have leaned more completely into the kingships of the lands around them.

These nations offered no way for the people to plumbline their Kings, other than through violent revolt.

Fortunately for them, and us, the Israelites preserved the most essential part of their nation of Judges, earthly authority bound by a law outside themselves, a law that prophets and priests can appeal to when the King oversteps his God-given authority.

Now, with the ascendance of Judah as the kingship, the nation of Israel had a story more in sync with their reality, which certainly must have fostered a great national identity.

While this national identity still exists to this day, the state unity of the nation would dissolve within a generation. This left them with two kingdoms, Samaria and Judah, and one nation, Israel. These two kingdoms would drift further apart until Samaria’s unrighteous culture absorbed Judah.

Yet the foundational principle that held Israel together during Judges would never fully disappear, an earthly authority bounded by a lawgiver who left a plumbline that his anointed, his priests and prophets, can use to check the power of the King.

This seed will one day become the “western civilization” seed that America herself would emerge from.

E. JUDGES VERSUS KINGS

  1. JUDGES – The nation of judges exists roughly from the 14th to the 11th Centuries BC. This period of time is defined, in Mesopotamia, by the rise of global diplomacy and treaties, the birth of the world bureaucratic class.

While the nations around Israel all operated primarily on the Bronze Age governance model, the justification of authority through a local god and through the blood of the chosen family, the nation of Judges had no King but God.

Their governance was mostly adherence to and enforcement of the laws of God by non-government-acting agents. Murder, for instance, was expected to be adjudicated by the offended family, not the state.

Another major difference between the nation of Judges and the nations around them is the source for truth. For the Bronze Age Kings, truth was declared by the only truth teller in the Kingdom or the Empire, the King or Emperor himself (or herself). Truth was defined by the truth teller, not by a plumbline anyone could apply.

The nation of Judges had truth tellers, Judges, but they themselves were plumblined by the Word of God itself, and anyone could rightly challenge their truth claims using scripture as their standard. To be fair, “anyone” would be a small group of people as the printing press would not come into existence for another two millennia.

As we have no record of scripture before the 10th century BC (and that is merely a fragment), it is difficult to know how many complete books of the Pentateuch would have existed, or how many smaller books or collections might have existed.

In material reality, most Israelites would have to rely on the testimonies of priests and rabbis to understand scripture, having little to no access to the text in and of itself. But in the spirit, the idea of a state authority being limited by a text provided by the one True God was most assuredly part of the spiritual DNA of the Israelites.

This made them radically different than the nations around them, and that’s before you consider their mostly decentralized authority being led in times of crisis by God’s anointed Judges. While scripture doesn’t show it, one cannot help but believe there were many (or at least a few) false judges, with scripture only telling us about the true ones.

Perhaps we can say Abimelech is the one example of a false judge, so false he tried to take a kingship God did not grant and only Shechem (Ephraim) cried out for).

This civilization is one based on a sacred script that gives them the means to govern and mitigate sin. Its authority comes from its adherence to the laws of God. Its governance is primarily at the familial, not state level, though state authority comes more directly into play during times of war and conquest.

The holiest of holies for this nation was the Ark of the Covenant, which contained the Book of the Law in it. The temple had not been built; Jerusalem hadn’t even been conquered. David would conquer it shortly after he was declared King of ALL of Israel in Hebron.

The tent of meeting was a mobile shadow of the temple to come, and it was not fixed to one place, though it spent most of the time during Judges in Shiloh up until the death of Eli and his sons (1 Samuel 4).

Still, there was no official centralized site for worship in the Judges nation. Jerusalem itself was still occupied by the Canaanite tribe, the Jebusites. During the time of Judges, no one even knew Jerusalem would be the final choice for God’s “earthly dwelling.”

From the Jebusites would come Araunah (2 Samuel 24), or Ornan (1 Chronicles 21), who would sell his threshing floor to David. This would be the site for the temple.

As the 12th Century BC approached, the whole region went through what was called the Bronze Age collapse, which would lead to the emergence of a new civilization to replace the old, the Kings civilization of Israel.

This civilization was radically different than the Judges civilization, but yet was built on the foundation of that Judges civilization, a foundation that remained for the new civilization, the Kingdom civilization.

  1. KINGS – The transition from Judges to Kings lasts roughly 90 years, culminating in the sanctification of the temple by Solomon, the son of David. By the time we get to Solomon, we have the new civilization of Kings fully formed.

Like the nation of Judges, the Kingdom derived its authority from the one true God, not a local god recognizing the authority of other local gods. Like the nation of Judges, the Kingdom had a sacred script that served as the ultimate plumbline for state authority. The script was assumed God-given, reflecting the wisdom and will of God.

By Solomon’s time, they would have more of a script to meditate on, mainly Judges and Ruth (in addition to the Pentateuch), if my assumptions are true.

While the nation of Judges and the Kingdom of Israel are significantly different, they had far more in common with each other than they did with their neighbors. What makes them still similar with each other and radically different from their neighbors is the foundation of a divine law in text form assumed given to them by the one true God of all creation.

Yet their differences were still profound.

First and foremost, Kings were sometimes chosen by God in a transparent way, like he did with Saul and David, but mostly Kings were chosen by blood, making them more like the nations around them (and, as I stated earlier, probably less of a threat to their neighbors because of it).

And even when God prophesies downfalls and new Kingships, these events would have been experienced at the time simply as violence overcoming authority, which they ultimately allowed, having rewarded some vanquishers, like Omri, with dynasties (which, for Omri, included Ahab).

Kings also had far more authority than Judges, both in terms of earthly realities of power and even as far as what God ordained for them. There were no Judges’ palaces, for instance.

Kings were always intended to be plumblined by scripture, and sometimes by divine Words from God through prophets. Both things happened, but more often than not they didn’t, even when they should have.

When Jeremiah confronted one of the last Kings of Judah, Jehoiakim, with God’s newly received Word, the King had God’s Word burned, which symbolizes the final break from that foundation at the end of the Kingdom.

Kings became more and more absolute and authoritarian. The ideal of earthly authority checked by divine wisdom that anyone could use to challenge authority with was still a key part of the Israel story, but in practice, it was happening less and less, and then not at all.

Under Solomon, the centralized temple system was established. Jerusalem became the fixed center of their worship. Once the House of Judah claimed the whole kingship of the 12 tribes of Israel, the Kingship was aligned with the prophecies of Jacob, making the Israel story a more complete one through the state.

SUMMARY

The most significant difference between the two civilizations is the fixed centralized authority and worship of the new civilization, the Kingdom, versus the mostly decentralized authority and worship of the old civilization, Judges.

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.

The Judges nation lasted nearly 400 years. It was mostly united in the broad sense of the term, with some internecine wars, but mostly it fought together against other nations and kingdoms. The 90-year transition from Samuel to Solomon’s temple sanctification led to almost 400 years of the Kingdom civilization. The two civilizations existed for almost the same number of years. The Kingdom civilization was finally felled by Babylon in 586 BC.

The Kingdom as the culmination of the promise iterated by Jacob would fall not soon after Solomon died, with his son Rehoboam losing 10 of the 12 Kingdoms to Jeroboam of Nebat. He is the one who set up golden calves in Bethel and Dan, dividing worship into three places, Jerusalem, Dan, and Bethel.

The sin was so egregious that the tribe of Jeroboam of Nebat, Ephraim, and the tribe of Dan are BOTH removed from the call to the 12 tribes in Revelation 7.

Though from a Christian perspective the Kingdom of Israel leads to the birth, execution, and resurrection of our King of Kings, Christ, the Kingdom’s replacement of God as the direct sovereign with a direct sovereign King who submitted to the true sovereign, was a failed experiment.

Ironically, at a time when superpowers like Midian, the Hittites, and Egypt roamed the deserts, the decentralized Judges nation was able to hold together and resist the onslaught for nearly 400 years. The Kingdom model IMMEDIATELY produced a schism less than 20 years after the new Kingdom civilization was fully established.

Judah became just the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with its kings more faithfully following God than the Israelite kings would (not that Judah was without unrighteous rulers).

That schism was never restored. To this day, the nation of Israel under Solomon would never be found again after the schism between Rehoboam and Jeroboam. Even today’s Israel is not unified, for it has no possession, directly, or completely, even of Samaria and Jerusalem, let alone Gilead, the former home of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh (in present-day Jordan).

For the purpose of this series (leaving theology out of this), this is a transition that saw the new civilization build on the old in a way that eventually undermined that same foundation, leading to its ultimate collapse.

The Kingdom civilization would almost survive four centuries, but those centuries would be filled with even more turmoil than the time of Judges (not that the Judges were without turmoil).

In striving to be more like their neighbors, they lost what made them so powerful, their differences from their neighbors.

Their insertion of what was an effective mediator between the authority of God and man empowered that same man to become, more and more, a law unto himself. In the time of Judges, each man did as he pleased, meaning his unrighteous actions, when he took them, didn’t affect the whole kingdom. When kings do as they please, whole peoples become corrupted by that action.

In the Christian Kingdom, we are all Kings and Priests, which makes none of us uniquely King as you saw in the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. In the prophecies, from Old to New, there is no future for a King of Israel, only a King of Kings, Christ, through which we will all rule in the new earth to come.

The Israelites asked for a King, and God gave him to them, to demonstrate to them that the path to salvation, the path to flourishing on earth, is only through God, not man. The less you trust in God, the more you trust in men. The more you trust in men, the further you are led from God, until your kingdom is consumed from within and without. Such a thing happened to Israel. Such a thing is happening to America.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The Religion of Ancient Israel – Th. C. Vriezen

Ancient Israel (A New History) – Niels Peter Lemche

Ancient Israel: The Old Testament In Its Social Context – Edited by Philip Esler

Ancient Israel and Judah – Beth Tanner

 

 

 

 

People Advance Report – March 20, 2026

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Originally published March 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Covering the news cycle between March 13 – 19, 2026

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

  1. 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.
  2. EZRA MOMENT TO HAPPEN TO MARK 250TH 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?”

  1. COPS TELL DEMOCRAT JUDGE NO WHEN JUDGE ORDERS VIOLENT CAREER CRIMINAL RELEASED – Las Vegas metro police are putting the constitution and the safety of the people above a leftist local judge, Eric Goodman, who has ordered a violent career criminal to be released. The criminal, Joshua Sanchez-Lopez, has been convicted of multiple violent crimes, including involuntary manslaughter.

Police arrested the criminal on a warrant for grand larceny of a motor vehicle. The Judge chose to set a bail of $25,000 and let Sanchez-Lopez go with an ankle bracelet monitor. The police refused to follow the order, appealing instead to the court through a petition to not release the defendant.

  1. U.S. SUPPORT FOR ABORTION UP TO BIRTH BACK ON DECLINE AFTER DOBBS – Americans’ support for abortion without restrictions peaked shortly after the Dobbs ruling in 2022 at 29%. Since then, support has been slowly eroding. Now, the number is down to 23%, a low not seen since 2019.
  2. 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.
  3. VENEZUELA’S BASEBALL HERO PRAISES CHRIST AFTER STUNNING VICTORY OVER U.S. IN WBC FINAL – Venezuela’s national baseball team was able to beat the American team 3-2 in the World Baseball Classic Final. The winning moment came from designated hitter Eugenio Suarez, whose top-of-the-ninth double knocked in what would prove to be the winning run.

After the win, Suarez was interviewed by Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, during which he gave constant praise to Christ. He said of the win, “It’s amazing. God is good. All the glory is for Christ Jesus. He was with us the whole time. We have to glorify, put His name in front of everything.”

  1. AFROMAN DEFEATS POLICE DEFAMATION SUIT AGAINST HIM – Joseph Foreman, who goes by the name Afroman, was sued by the Adams County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office for defamation. Foreman had published a video of the police raiding his home in search of drugs, a raid that proved fruitless.

The police sued the singer of “Because I got High” over defamation. A jury of Afroman’s peers found the singer not liable, delivering to the police department a stinging rebuke of their attempt to stifle the First Amendment rights of Americans.

  1. LAWSUIT VICTORY BREAKS DOWN BARRIER TO BIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS BY CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS – Moody Bible Institute has settled with the Chicago Public School District after suing them for barring students from participating in Moody’s student-teaching program. The settlement ends the school district’s requirement that Moody must hire non-Christian employees before Moody’s students can be eligible to be student-teachers in their schools.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) Senior Counsel Jeremiah Galus stated in a press release, “Chicago desperately needs more teachers to fill hundreds of vacancies, and Moody’s students will be well-equipped and qualified to help meet that need.

“Moody holds its faculty and students to high standards of excellence, and we’re pleased to reach this favorable outcome that will allow it to participate in Chicago Public Schools’ student-teaching program. We’re hopeful other public officials will take note that they can’t inject themselves illegally and unconstitutionally into a religious non-profit’s hiring practices.”

Global Outlook – March 20, 2026

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Originally published March 20, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from March 13-19, 2026

Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:

  1. Iran War
  2. DNC Criminal Media
  3. Judgefare
  4. Wokeness
  5. Abortion Watch
  6. 2026 Elections
  7. Voter ID
  8. DNC Insurrection
  9. AI Watch

A. TRENDING

  1. AS ECONOMY BUCKLES UNDER IRAN WAR PRESSURES, THE TARGETED REGIME IS RUNNING OUT OF LEADERS, BUT NOT THREATS – The Islamic Republic of Iran managed to launch a major attack on Qatar’s oil fields that will take years to repair. It is promising to step up its attack on the oil infrastructures of its neighbors. Israel has responded by striking some of their oil fields, a move President Trump appears to disapprove of. As leaders are appointed, they are killed, with two top leaders killed this week alone. The new Supreme Leader is reported to be effectively non-functioning.

While Iranian street soldiers continue to kill and intimidate citizens, they themselves are coming under increasing drone attacks. The pressure to finish the war mounts as the continued shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz is leading to spikes in oil prices and other knock down effects. A coalition of 6 nations has committed to join America’s efforts to open and police the Strait of Hormuz. The nations include Japan, the United Kingdom, and France.

The most alarming news may be the return of the aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford to Greece after a laundry fire broke out that took 30 hours to put out and destroyed 600 bunks. This means the Iran operation is now only supported by one U.S. aircraft carrier. The extent of the damage has not been reported by the Pentagon. The length of its repair was not given, nor was it made clear if the carrier’s escort ships will remain in theater.

GO DEEPER ON IRAN WAR

  1. SAVE ACT REMAINS STALLED IN SENATE, BUT NOT KILLED – Attempts to kill the SAVE Act, a bill that would make it mandatory for voters to show photo ID to vote and end request-only mail-in voting (what we refer to as mass mailer voting), has failed in the Senate, with a 51-49 vote keeping the bill alive. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) appears ready to simply offer the bill for an up-or-down vote, without forcing the Senate to vote on changing the filibuster rule to require a verbal, rather than a procedural action.

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is proposing the Republicans pass the measure as a budget resolution bill, making a simply majority vote in the Senate sufficient to pass the bill. Efforts by the Democrat press to demonize the bill have failed to move the needle of support, with 80% of the country as a whole supporting requiring photo ID for voting. A new tactic is to claim the bill is an unfunded mandate, placing a price tag on election integrity.

The GOP Texas Senate candidates have reached the point of no return in their race. This means the offer made by AG Paxton to withdraw from the race is no longer possible.  Paxton offered to drop out of the race if Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) does everything he can to assure the SAVE Act. Now, that option is no longer on the table due to withdrawal deadline passing.

GO DEEPER ON VOTER ID

  1. EU COURT COMPELS ALL MEMBER STATES TO “RECOGNIZE” TRANSGENDER IDENTITIES – The highest court in the EU, the Court of Justice of the European Union, has ruled that all 27 members states of the union must allow all citizens to have photo ID that matches their “lived gender.” The ruling is sure to bring the differences between progressive globalism and traditional Europeanism to a head.

GO DEEPER ON WOKENESS

  1. FBI RAN ROUND RIVER CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT CLAIMS OF BIDENS’ UKRAINE CORRUPTION – Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) claimed in a press release that the FBI ran a disinformation campaign in 2020 to protect the Biden family from potential prosecution. This operation was called Round River. It was so secret not even the then FBI Director, Bill Barr, knew of its existence.

Grassley claimed, “in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by a FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease.”

  1. EPSTEIN WAS A FINANCIAL BOUNTY HUNTER FOR THE U.S.? – Jeffrey Epstein was officially a U.S. government agent according to a memo released among the Epstein Files. The claim comes from an unsigned memo that states, “At some point in time, Jeffrey Epstein worked for the United States government as a financial bounty hunter. He has retained significant political connections with both Israel and the United States.”

The memo’s credibility comes from another part of the note recommending further information about Epstein from other federal agencies. It also accuses Epstein of violating child exploitation and sex offender traveling laws, The memo gives more credence, though not a smoking gun, to the claim Epstein was a government agent.

GO DEEPER ON EPSTEIN FILES

  1. JUDGES SET FIRE TO TRUMP AGENDA IN A SERIES OF BRUTAL RULINGS – Mostly Biden-appointed Judges have shut down numerous major Trump policies, including freezing federal funding, shutting down Voice of America, halting DEI investigations of progressive schools, stopping ICE detention facilities from opening, and more.

In the wake of a slate of questionable rulings, SCOTUS Chief Judge John Roberts has encouraged what we consider insurrectionist rulings (with some exceptions) by Democrat activist judges while shaming any critique of what we consider these many grossly egregious rulings.

GO DEEPER ON JUDGEFARE

  1. CUBA TOTTERS ON DISSOLUTION, BUT LEADER REMAINS DEFIANT AS RUSSIA, MEXICO RUSHES TO ITS RESCUE – Russia is sending oil tankers to Cuba to rescue it from its crippling energy crisis that has left the island in a blackout condition. As dissent grows from within, the Trump administration hints it could take Cuba whenever it wants to. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel responded that any act of aggression “will clash with an impregnable resistance.” Mexico has just announced plans to attempt to “come to Cuba’s aid,” sending a relief supply flotilla and promising to figure out how to get oil the communist country.

GO DEEPER ON CUBA WATCH

  1. DEMS HOLD FIRM ON DHS SHUTDOWN AS NATION FEELS GROWING EFFECT – The Democrat Party is continuing to refuse to support any DHS funding bill until ICE is “reformed” to the point of being feckless at removing illegal aliens. Lines grow in airports, and TSA agents are starting to call in sick, not wanting to work without pay (even though they will receive their pay when the shutdown ends). National security concerns have been heightened in lieu of a slew of recent Islamist attacks on American soil. The DNC media continues to protect the Democrat Party from being blamed for the shutdown, choosing instead to blame Republicans.

While the Senate works to push through a new DHS head, Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), the White House is claiming it has attempted to negotiate with the Democrats but has received no response. They released a letter to the Democrats, offering concessions on five points, expanding body-camera usage, limiting civil immigration enforcement activities at “sensitive areas,” improving DHS detention facility oversight, enforcing visible officer identification, and NOT deporting U.S. citizens.

The letter claims, “The Administration has worked in good faith to again reach bipartisan agreement on full funding for the entire Department of Homeland Security and institute common–sense operational improvements to federal immigration enforcement operations that enhance the safety of American communities. Democrats must stop holding the safety and security of the American people hostage and move forward with fully funding DHS.”

GO DEEPER ON DHS FUNDING

  1. PAKISTANI AIR STRIKE ALLEGEDLY KILLS 400 IN AFGHANI HOSPITAL – The Taliban government of Afghanistan is accusing Pakistan of striking a drug rehab facility in Kabul that killed 400 plus people. Pakistan has been engaging in air strikes just inside the border of Afghanistan, allegedly targeting terror camp it says have been used to attack Pakistanis. After a global backlash, Pakistan has pledged to suspend air operations, for now.

GO DEEPER ON PAKISTAN AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT

  1. BIDEN ADMIN INTEL UNCOVERED CHINA’S EFFORTS TO HELP THEM WIN IN 2020, SO THEY BURIED THE EVIDENCE – The Biden administration’s own intelligence community uncovered evidence China was attempting to influence the U.S. election in 2020. They were working to help President Biden win. The degree to which they were successful can be debated, but what cannot be debated is that the intelligence community quickly buried the evidence in bureaucratic language games that allowed Chinese interference to be classified as something other than what it actually was.

Analytic ombudsman Barry Zulauf produced a report in 2021 that claimed, “China analysts appeared hesitant to assess Chinese actions as undue influence or interference. These analysts appeared reluctant to have their analysis on China brought forward because they tended to disagree with the Administration’s policies, saying in effect, I don’t want our intelligence used to support those policies.”

GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD

  1. THE MAN WHO RESIGNED IN OPPOSITION TO THE IRAN WAR WAS ALREADY UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION – The now-former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned over existential opposition to the war in Iran. He claimed Iran posed no serious threat to the U.S. and that Israel somehow tricked the U.S. into attacking Iran in the first place. His hyperbolic language is strong evidence that suggests he is an activist, not a dispassionate analyst. We assume he is pushing an agenda, a Progmerican agenda, not fact

ED.NOTE: This is not an endorsement of the war, even if we hope for a quick American victory.

Further evidence of that assumption comes from the now-emerged claim Kent was under FBI investigation for potentially leaking classified intelligence. The story claiming he was under investigation was published one day before his resignation, giving the story more credence.

In response to questions about Kent, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt claimed only that there are ongoing investigations into leakers. She also claimed Kent was NOT part of the intelligence briefings leading up to the Iran War, undermining his credibility regarding the knowledge of the decision-making process that led to the war.

GO DEEPER ON JOE KENT RESIGNATION

B. HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

  1. CHINA’S NEW ETHNIC UNITY LAW READS LIKE NAZI LAW – China’s National People’s Congress approved a new law called the “Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress.” The law aims to harmonize the country’s 55 state-recognized ethnic minorities with the Han majority. The law was passed on March 12 and was signed into law by Chairman Xi. The law takes effect on July 1st.

It is feared that the law will be used to further crack down on these minorities, leading to more genocidal pogroms such as were carried out against the Uyghurs (and are still going on). Some of the tactics of the past include forcing minority groups to have more abortions, taking children and raising them as Han, and banning the use of the minority group’s languages and artistic traditions.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA ETHNIC UNITY LAW

  1. 9TH CIRCUIT BLASTED BY OWN JUDGE FOR RULING THAT ALLOWS MEN IN RELIGIOUS WOMEN’S SPACES – After the U.S. 9th circuit court ruled religious groups cannot keep trans men out of women’s spaces, they receive a fiery dissent. 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke began his dissent with the phrase, “This is a case about swinging d#%ks.”

He then added, “The fact that the religious owners of a traditional Korean, women-only, nude spa are prohibited by law from preventing a naked adult male, who remains sexually attracted to women, from exposing himself to thirteen-year-old girls tragically illustrates the sick and twisted consequences of erasing sex as a coherent legal category

My distressed colleagues appear to have the fastidious sensibilities of a Victorian nun when it comes to mere unpleasant words in my opinion yet exhibit the scruples of our dearly departed colleague Judge Reinhardt when it comes to the government trampling on religious liberties and exposing women and girls to male genitalia. That kind of selective outrage speaks for itself.”

GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY

  1. AI GURU SUGGESTS AI WILL BECOME A UTILITY – OpenAI CEO and AI pioneer Sam Altman is suggesting AI will become like your utilities. He said, “People buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for.”

GO DEEPER ON AI WATCH

  1. FBI STILL PURCHASING YOUR LOCATION DATA, KASH PATEL CONFESSES – Apparently, the FBI is still buying your location data from 3rd party providers, data that can be used to track you. FBI Director Kash Patel admitted to the practice in a Senate Hearing. He was asked by Senator Ron Wyden (R-OR) if the FBI was still engaging in the practice. Patel responded, “We do purchase commercially available information that is consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us.”
  2. NEA TRAINING ANTI-AMERICAN INSURRECTIONISTS, NOT TEACHERS – The National Education Association recently held a training session called “Advocacy and Free Speech Rights for K-12 Education” that seeks to establish the oughtness of woke ideology as the oughtness of human life. This action is sectarian in nature, which is troubling given the nature of the organization. It is one of the largest teachers’ unions in America, with over 3 million teachers. The question is not if the organization crossed the line into political activism, but what, if anything will be done about it.

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  1. MINNESOTA TEACHERS’ UNION SPENDS TIME, MONEY COORDINATING TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ICE AGENTS – According to an investigation by Defending Education, a teachers’ union called “Minneapolis Families for Public Schools (MFPS)” has been coordinating an initiative to effectively help teachers organize resistance to ICE arrests of illegal aliens.

The “initiate” is called “TakeAction Minnesota.” On the website, they claim “We will teach and demonstrate resistance tactics that can be replicated elsewhere, leaving no community undefended. We hope to force an end to ICE’s unprecedented siege of Minnesota — and further the movement to abolish ICE altogether while we do it,”

Rhyen Staley, research director at Defending Education, stated “The teachers unions continue to prove they are rotten apples that only care about far-left street activism, to the detriment of educating children. Teachers and community groups should be dedicating time to improving learning outcomes for students, not creating strategies and lists of people to attempt to thwart law enforcement.”

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Final Thought: Protection that Leads to Hate (The Gracie Mansion Terror Attack)

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Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind demagogues.” – Paul Gordon Collier

“Then Absalom would say, ‘Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice.’ And whenever a man came near to pay homage to him, he would put out his hand and take hold of him and kiss him. Thus Absalom did to all of Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.” – 2 Samuel 15:4-6

An image of an Islamist tossing an IED over the shoulder of a Progmerican protesting a white supremacist anti-Islamist rally captured three bad paths for this land to follow in this post-Trump land.

All three lead to the creation of priest-kings of hate. All three lead to the death of America for good. The Progmerican press emphasizes the white supremacist, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The conservative press emphasizes the Islamists, while concealing or soft-pedaling the Islamists. The Islamists celebrate the terrorists.

The Progmerican press and conservative press are protecting their interests, none of which necessarily agrees with the ideologues they are de facto protecting. Both sides are protecting their audiences from questions they shouldn’t dare ask, like “are we becoming allies of ACTUAL Islamic terrorists?” or “do we ACTUALLY have a white supremacist problem among the right?”

By not asking the questions, they are only empowering the very enemies they think they are opposing. In one moment, competing anti-American interests crossed paths.

On March 7, 2026, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were caught on video attempting to bomb an Anti-Islam protest with IEDs. They tossed one lit IED, failed to activate another one, and a third one found later turned out to be a dud. Had the two REAL IEDs gone off successfully, the likelihood of death would have been high, and severe life-altering injuries would have been almost certain.

The two IEDs were made with TATP (triacetone triperoxide), which is called “Mother of Satan.” It is an extremely “effective” explosive. That explosive material is mixed with nuts, bolts, and screws, all designed to maximize the effective kill range of the IED.

Authorities have determined this was a terror attack. Both men call it an ISIS-styled terror attack, with one, Balat, confessing he wanted an attack that would be bigger than the Boston marathon bombing. Fortunately, he didn’t get his way.

The attack took place just outside the new DNC Islamist NY Mayor’s home, Gracie Mansion. The Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, was quick to blame the “white supremacists” for inciting the attack in the first place.

Balat was born in Turkey and came over with his wealthy parents. Kayumi has a similar story, but he comes from Afghanistan. They both lived in Bucks County, PA before the attack.

A still-shot of the video of the moment one of the Islamists threw a lit IED captured the zeitgeist of our times. Right before the IED was thrown, leftist actor Walter Masterson was making a speech in support of open borders, in support of New York being for everyone.

The IED was thrown over Masterson’s shoulder, who had no idea how close he came to death. Masterson himself has come out afterwards continuing to support open borders.

The targets for the Islamist attack were the attendees of a protest called “Stop the Islamic Takeover of New York City, Stop New York City Public Muslim Prayer.” The primary driver of the event was MAGA influencer Jake Lang, who was also one of the pardoned J6 political prisoners. Lang appears to have organized multiple anti-immigrant and anti-Islamist rallies.

He is often referred to as a white supremacist and a Nazi by his detractors. There seems to be evidence he just might ACTUALLY fit the bill for such charges. For instance, Lang constantly talks about “white Christians” as opposed to ALL Christians, and he is constantly talking about securing a future for “white children” instead of “all children.”

I understand that merely believing the theory that Progmericans wish to brown America at the expense of white America does NOT make you a white supremacist, but Lang seems to go beyond that. He advocates for a “pro-white Christian America” and seems to advocate entangling the Kingdom of God with the state, something I vehemently oppose.

As a matter of fact, on April 10, 2026, our subscribers will get a digital copy of my essay, Fear of Suffering and Death, which attacks the very concept of mixing Christianity with the state.

Lang here serves as one potential path the liminal Presidency of Donald Trump could lead us to, while Masterson represents another.  Lang represents the hard right response to the existential threat of Progmerica, which ends up destroying Americanism every bit as much, as fast, and as hard as full-fledged Progmerica will.

Lang is the rare case of someone actually using REAL dog whistles of white supremacism. He is also one of those rare cases where someone is actually caught making a Nazi salute.

Masterson represents full-fledged Progmerica. This nation watches its women get raped, its children get plundered, all while it cheers on the invaders. These invaders were sponsored by the same people they were paid to rape, murder, pillage, and plunder Americans.

Masterson has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” which is us, we Americans (especially the whites), while Lang has embraced the “great cleansing” of his “great Satan,” us, the Americans (especially the non-whites) AND Progmericans (especially the whites).

While the Democrat Media emphasized the white supremacism of Jake Lang and referred to the Islamist attackers as “teenagers,” the “conservative” media has focused almost entirely on the Islamists in their stories, effectively de-emphasizing the white supremacist part of this story.

It is a foregone conclusion that the Democrat Media will use Jake Lang as the poster child for any individual or group expressing ANY ideas connected to Lang. The idea they most want to kill is the idea that they really are trying to end the white race in America. It is the question they themselves don’t want to be asked, “are we really trying to intentionally end a race’s very existence in this land?”

They know, deep down, the answer is yes, though if push came to shove, I expect most of them will blink before they fully throw in with the final solution for the white American. For now, most of them assume ending “whiteness” is merely ending the American republic, the Patriarchy, Christianity, and the nuclear family, not ending the ACTUAL white race itself.

The white devil is an overhyped monster with little to no real power in America today. Lang’s rallies, for instance, are all poorly attended. Yet, failure by the conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist element of this story as well COULD lead to rallies that are a little more well-attended.

Nick Fuentes, however, is another ACTUAL white supremacist (and now, apparently, Democrat Party supporter) that DOES have a significant audience already, largely because difficult questions cannot be asked.

Muzzling conspiracy gives conspiracy unearned truth. This is the power behind the demagogue. This is the power behind Nick Fuentes. The questions, the difficult questions that cannot be asked aren’t necessarily salient ones, or even any based in truth (though some might well be both), but that they cannot be asked at all has given them a power that works counter to the reason for oppressing the questions in the first place.

On the right, some of those difficult questions are “Is there a white supremacist movement growing from among us?” To that, I would say, my understanding of human nature, of history, would strongly suggest this would be a natural backlash to the anti-white ideology Progmerica represents.

But in America, we white Americans have bulwarks against sectarian temptations. We white Americans possess something most nations don’t have, and that is the core of our national unity, our belief in the inalienable rights of ALL men. This belief is shared by every American of every race, for it is THIS belief alone that makes us all American.

For most of the non-Progmerican whites, I would wager, the overwhelming majority think of America as the whole of all the parts it already has, and has to some degree from its inception, mainly its diverse beliefs and ethnicities.

This is a radical challenge for the human species, to be able to form a union around mutual respect of self-stewardship alone, no matter the race or the belief system of the other, so long as they are willing to operate under the same civil standards.

Humanity has organized around ethnicity mostly. It has organized around belief alone almost never. Even England was not merely bound by its contracts, it was also bound by its blood. The great question that remains unanswered is “Can humans form a non-biological ethne that allows for diversity of belief on the nature of being and valuing?”

America has the greatest opportunity to break down factional tribalism and sectarianism both biologically and ideationally. America has the opportunity, through her pre-existing values of “individual liberty,” to create a new ethne not formed through anything but mutual respect of one another’s liberty.

America has the opportunity to create a bridging standard that allows a wide swathe of belief systems to co-exist with one another so long as they do not support using coercion (from the state or corporate monopolistic power) to impose their beliefs on others. The only beliefs that can be imposed on Americans are the beliefs in individual liberty and self-stewardship for all American citizens.

Jake Lang calls his white supremacism MAGA, sullying both the American name and MAGA. The MAGA movement, as a whole, is not white supremacist, and this writer suspects the majority of them are true Americans, wanting to live in peace with ANY neighbor, so long as they are willing to live in peace with them as well.

Walter Masterson has rejected America altogether. As a white man, he represents a certain psychotic spirit of self-annihilation affirmed in his continued embrace of the people who just tried to kill him (and almost succeeded).

Fortunately, Lang doesn’t represent the majority of MAGA, but failure by conservative media to emphasize the white supremacist part of this story only empowers people like Lang himself, and even Nick Fuentes, who will both revel that the right doesn’t even dare ask the question, “do we have a white supremacist problem?”

The now iconic image of Masterson’s shoulder serving as the launching pad for an IED by an Islamist against an actual white supremacist rally serves as an indictment of the spirit of our land, a land that continues to support abortion openly and proudly.

Such a nation cannot hold on to the human in the other, which gives rise to sub-humanizing movements, all represented here, the Islamist, the Progmerican, and the Neo-Nazi, all three representatives of the potential paths we could follow after Trump goes away.

President Trump is the liminal figure, the representation of a nation unsettled on what it wants to be next, largely because it has so many new players (and not just among the recent and even not-so recent “imports” of humans).

Yet underneath it all is an answer that would fell all three, an answer this writer believes most of the people in this land want, the American Bill of Rights plumbline of the state restored, and the freedoms she creates extended to ALL who are willing to recognize the freedoms inherent in the other, even when they hate that same other.

Apocalpyse Iran: Iran's New Order and the Price the World is already Paying

Apocalpyse Iran: Iran’s New Order and the Price the World is already Paying

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Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Michael A. Cessna, Military Affairs Correspondent

“One has to look at the fundamental nature of the clerical regime in order to understand its true and ultimate intentions. Since its advent in 1979, the regime’s leaders – starting with Khomeini himself – set out to export their radical ideology to the region and beyond. The primary mission (raison d’être) of the regime is to convert other regimes to its own mold with the goal of establish a modern-day Islamic Shi’ite Caliphate. It is so stated and defined in its Constitution as well as that of the Pasdaran’s” – Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

INTRODUCTION

This report analyzes the critical risks the world faces through the Iran War and the problems of succession should the regime finally collapse. While missile and drone strikes continue to come out of Iran, it seems only a matter of time before the regime runs out of willing soldiers and munitions. Along the way, the world’s economy is at risk, and a victory over the regime is just the beginning of the struggles for the Iranian people.

THE DEATH OF THE SUPREME LEADER

On the morning of March 1, Iranian state media confirmed what U.S., and Israeli officials had already announced: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was dead, killed in joint airstrikes on his Tehran compound on February 28. According to TIME Magazine and Al Jazeera, Trump administration officials stated that 48 senior Iranian leaders were killed in the strikes, which also killed members of Khamenei’s immediate family, including his daughter, son-in-law, three grandchildren, and daughter-in-law.

His wife died of her injuries on March 2. The operation, designated Operation Epic Fury, was the largest decapitation strike against a sitting head of state since the fall of Baghdad in 2003 — and far more successful in terms of immediate targeting. The Economist, as reported via the assassination summary, noted that a comparable effort to eliminate Saddam Hussein during the 2003 Iraq invasion had taken nine months.

The first question any business or investor had to answer after February 28 was not who would lead Iran next. It was whether the Strait of Hormuz would remain open. The answer, as of this writing, is functionally, no.

FROM SHAH TO AYATOLLAH TO EPIC FURY

Before we address the Strait crisis, let us answer this question: How did we get here?

It was the collapse of the Iranian Rial (IRR) which led to the massive protests. The Rial went from roughly IRR 48,000 to $1 USD in the first week of December to IRR 1.4 million to $1 USD on December 28th, 2025. This triggered purely economic protests, which erupted throughout Iran.

Decades of incompetence, corruption and incoherent policies having wrecked the Iranian economy to the point of utter disaster, opened the door for a swift transition to purely political protests openly calling for the complete overthrow of the regime.

Let’s go back further to see how we got to THIS point:

Iran (ancient “Persia”, from the Greek) appears in multiple places in the Bible — Isaiah 44:28, Isaiah 45:1, Ezra 1, and 2 Chronicles 36 — relating how the Persian king (or “Shah”) Cyrus the Great had liberated the Jews from the Babylonian Captivity, gave them their country back, rebuilt Jerusalem, then went on to help them construct the Second Temple.

However, Sassanid Persia was later consumed when Muhammad’s Jihad erupted out of the Arabian Peninsula in 632 A.D. This came at the end of a bloody 26-year long war between the Persians and the Eastern Roman Empire (a.k.a., “Byzantium”) following the assassination of the Emperor Maurice.

While neither empire should have fallen to what was effectively a glorified horde of bandits, both states had been so badly weakened by a quarter-century of warfare, they were unable to respond. As a consequence, they both fell apart internally when faced with the Muslim onslaught.

Throughout the next 1500 years, Iranian culture maintained itself underground, maintaining a clear and distinct non-Arabian psychology. But, with a combination of highly corrupt and destructive Arabian and Turkic rulers, by the turn of the 19th — 20th Centuries, the country was stagnating.

The end of World War One, and the upheavals of the collapse and division of the Ottoman Empire, led to a military officer — Reza Khan — being first named Minister of War by Parliament, then the same Parliament asking him to unseat the Qajar-dynasty Shah, and assume the mantle himself.

Leaving internal political maneuvering aside, Reza Khan assumed the throne as Reza I, taking the royal name of Pahlavi, after the language of his birth region. Although removed from power by Britain and the Soviet Union in 1941 (the two powers thought that Reza I was too friendly towards Hitler’s Germany), he was replaced on the throne by his young son, Muhammad Reza.

Muhammad Reza, although young, played his cards well, and led to the beginning of what he called the “White Revolution”: a massive modernization program of Iran that liberated women, enforced land reform in favor of a peasantry that had been little more than serfs, and brought in Western industrial expertise to build up a capable industrial base. Ultimately, the Shah began building a true military capability by the end of the 1960’s. All of this was funded by revenue from Iranian oil sales.

While much has been made about Muhammad Reza’s “brutality”, the actual record says otherwise.

Of course, the White Revolution outraged the traditional Shi’a Islamic clerical establishment — the sort who preach the virtues of living in grinding poverty, while living their private lives in the lap of high-tech luxury. This reactionary group was subsequently leveraged by support from the Soviet KGB, ultimately leading to the events of 1978-1979…which brings us to today.

THE LOOMING DANGERS OF THE WAR

The first week of Operation Epic Fury demonstrated what most analysts have long known: that the regime has built a military force thoroughly capable of killing civilians and scaring armed forces, but they pay little attention to actual warfighting.

The regime’s “strategy“ of barrage-firing drones and ballistic missiles at every nation in reach, including those states that have been “carrying water” for the regime for decades, has driven this point home decisively.

There is no path open for a regime victory in 2026, as long as Trump and Netanyahu hold their ground, and grind the radical — if not insane — regime’s forces into the ground. “Boots on the ground” are not only NOT REQUIRED, doing so in any context beyond tiny teams of special forces units would be catastrophically counterproductive.

While the idea of a massive ground commitment leading to a “forever war”, as happened in 2001 and 2003, is a legitimate fear based on national emotional trauma, it assumes that the Trump Pentagon cannot see past its own nose.

However, the people now running the Pentagon “cut their teeth” as mid-level officers during the “Global War on Terror”, and none of them want another 20-year quagmire. Operation Epic Fury aims to decapitate and dismember the regime’s military strength to the point where the unarmed Iranian populace can effectively rise up and eliminate the regime’s remnants on their own, opening the path for a transitional government, almost certainly lead by Muhammad Reza’s son, Reza II.

That’s all a nice rosy-looking picture, but underneath, lays some very grim dangers, including the Strait of Hormuz crisis, which is leading to the Sulfur Crisis, which has also exposed the British Navy crisis.

  1. THE HORMUZ SYSTEM SHOCK – The Strait of Hormuz is the world’s single most critical energy chokepoint. Kpler’s conflict analysis report documented from the opening days of the conflict that any meaningful closure, or even a sustained de facto closure driven by insurance withdrawal, triggers supply shocks across multiple commodity classes simultaneously.

That scenario materialized within 72 hours of the strikes. An IRGC commander confirmed on March 2 that the strait was “closed,” threatening to set ablaze any vessel that attempted to pass. At least five tankers were damaged, two personnel killed, and approximately 150 ships were left stranded.

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 disruption is not solely a crude oil story. Qatar’s state-owned Qatar Energy halted LNG production at its Ras Laffan and Mesaieed facilities after Iranian drone strikes. European natural gas futures jumped roughly 30% in a single session. Daily freight rates for LNG tankers surged more than 40%. Europe sources 12–14 percent of its LNG from Qatar through the strait. Japan, which imports roughly 70 percent of its Middle Eastern crude via Hormuz, activated emergency stockpile release procedures.

  1. THE SULFUR CRISIS – Lost in the crude oil headlines is a quieter but significant industrial exposure: sulfur. The Persian Gulf — and Qatar and the UAE in particular — accounts for a substantial share of global sulfur exports, most of it recovered as a byproduct of natural gas processing and refinery operations. Qatar alone is among the world’s top five sulfur exporters. That material moves through Hormuz.

Sulfur is not an abstraction. It is the feedstock for sulfuric acid, which is in turn essential to phosphate fertilizer production. A Hormuz closure extending beyond 30 days begins to bite into agricultural input supply chains that are already price-stressed in the post-2022 environment.

The Fertilizer Institute has previously flagged Gulf sulfur supply as a systemic vulnerability in global food security modeling. Phosphate producers in Morocco, the United States, and China all carry exposure to Gulf sulfur pricing.

A sustained closure would not produce immediate fertilizer shortages, but it would drive spot sulfur prices sharply upward, add cost pressure to the 2026 planting season inputs, and extend inflationary effects well beyond the energy sector into global food commodity markets.

As of March 10, the picture has shifted modestly. U.S. crude fell sharply on Tuesday after Energy Secretary Chris Wright incorrectly posted that the Navy had successfully escorted a tanker through the strait — a claim the White House immediately walked back.

Markets appear to be pricing in an eventual restoration of transit rather than a permanent closure. But the underlying supply disruption remains real. S&P Global’s head of crude oil research assessed that if reduced tanker traffic continues for another week, it would be “historic.” Beyond that, it would be “epochal.”

  1. THE ROYAL NAVY PROBLEM – One of the more disturbing subplots of Epic Fury’s opening weeks is what it has revealed about allied force posture — and nowhere more starkly than in Britain. Though it might not directly affect the outcome of the war, long-term it reveals the UK is a weak ally not just for the U.S, but for anyone relying on it.

It changes the geopolitical reality of the world in significant ways, ways that are most assuredly affecting the execution of the war and the booty carve-ups that are sure to follow, carve-ups that might leave the UK on the outside looking in.

It also reveals the U.S. as being the only legitimate naval power in the West, with the UK holding the second most powerful Navy in the West. This means the fundamental work of securing the Strait of Hormuz can only be accomplished through the U.S. The allied navies can only offer support,

On March 7, the UK Ministry of Defence announced that the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales had been placed on five days’ notice to sail, a reduction from a prior notice period of ten to fourteen days. The announcement prompted immediate scrutiny of the Royal Navy’s actual capacity to act on that readiness posture.

The answer was uncomfortable. Navy Lookout put it plainly: the “immediate problem would be finding escorts.” Of the six Type 45 air defence destroyers, HMS Duncan required a maintenance period before any deployment. There was, in Navy Lookout’s assessment, “probably a single frigate… available to deploy.” The conclusion was direct: “If the UK can’t find or borrow escorts from somewhere, the Prince of Wales shouldn’t come.”

As of February 2026, only three of the six Type 45 destroyers were available for service, and just six of the eight Type 23 Duke-class frigates were assessed as capable of high-seas warfare. Only one of five Astute-class submarines was operational. Of a total fleet of 63 ships, roughly half were available for duty.

Former First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West described the situation as a “national disgrace.” HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Prince of Wales’ sister ship, remains in Rosyth undergoing a docking and certification period that is now several months behind schedule.

Britain has not been absent from the conflict, however. U.S. B-1 Lancer bombers have operated from RAF Fairford. British Typhoons and F-35s are conducting air defense operations over Jordan, Qatar, and Cyprus. HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer, has been loaded and is preparing to deploy to protect RAF Akrotiri after drone strikes on the base.

However, her deployment was so delayed, and the ship was in such a visibly shabby condition, the image of the United Kingdom’s government — especially that of its Prime Minister — has taken a humiliating beating.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has explicitly declined participation in offensive operations. But the carrier question crystallizes a broader structural reality: Britain retains the institutional architecture of a blue-water navy while operating closer to the practical capabilities of a regional one.

When allies look for an escort package to protect a 65,000-ton carrier in a hot theater, the answer — absent European partners providing the gap — is that the Royal Navy simply can no longer do it alone. That is a data point worth tracking carefully. The Hormuz crisis has a resolution pathway. The IRGC’s threat calculus, Mojtaba Khamenei’s institutional footing, and the structural readiness of NATO’s second-largest navy do not.

THE SUCESSION PROBLEM

ED. NOTE: Reports of Mojtaba Khamenei’s injuries suggest he might not be a factor for long in this war, but as of right now, these reports are unconfirmed. The nature of the process of picking the new leader, though, has revealed critical failures within the regime’s structures that suggest systemic collapse is inevitable at this point, whether the new supreme leader lives or dies.

1. THE SUCCESSION: DUEL FOR DYNASTIC CONTROL – On March 8, ten days after his father’s assassination, Iran’s Assembly of Experts named 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei as the Islamic Republic’s third Supreme Leader. The outcome was the product of institutional pressure rather than genuine deliberation.

According to Iran International, IRGC commanders applied sustained pressure on Assembly members through repeated contacts, and members described the atmosphere of the online voting session as “unnatural.” Eight members threatened to boycott a second electoral session over what they characterized as heavy IRGC interference. Objections were raised, discussion was cut short, and a vote was held.

The legitimacy questions are structural. Mojtaba holds only the mid-level clerical rank of hojjatoleslam — not ayatollah — a problem his father resolved in 1989 by having the constitutional requirement amended; a similar legal workaround is now expected.

State media responded to the announcement by effectively staging a rapid theological promotion, instantly referring to Mojtaba as “Ayatollah” — moving him from mid-ranking cleric to the summit of the religious hierarchy overnight.

What matters strategically is not his theology but his institutional base. Afshon Ostovar of the Naval Postgraduate School in California, author of a history of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards, assessed that whatever happens, “what is left of the regime is the IRGC. And the IRGC is going to be the last vestige remaining of the regime until the regime is overhauled, either within itself or by external forces.”

Mojtaba’s profile is consistent with that trajectory. He has deep ties to the IRGC dating to his service in the Iran-Iraq War, built networks within the security and intelligence apparatus, and has been widely associated with the violent suppression of the 2009 Green Movement.

The net result is an Islamic Republic that has accelerated its existing trajectory: clerical facade over a security state, with the IRGC now more dominant than at any point in the Republic’s history. The IRGC issued a statement pledging to “fully obey and sacrifice for the divine commands” of the new leader.

Its aerospace, ground, and naval forces released separate statements of support. One IRGC commander stated publicly that Iran retains the capacity to maintain “considerable attacks” for at least six months.

2. THE PAHLAVI FACTOR, REVISITED: THE DORMANT CLAIM GOES LIVE – The ruling dynasty of Iran before the 1979 revolution was the Pahlavi Dynasty, headed by Shah Muhammad Reza (1919-1980). As alluded to above, much has been written about the late Shah — that he was corrupt, brutal, a puppet of Western interests; that his SAVAK secret police were a byword for repression.

Those characterizations are, without exception, the wholesale inventions of the regime that replaced him, amplified by a Western media establishment that never examined its own credulity, or worse, actively colluded with the radical Islamic regime.

The Shah was the head of a functional Constitutional Monarchy — one that actually functioned as the concept is intended. His “White Revolution“ enacted genuine land reform, emancipated Iranian women, and drove real modernization.

He was a progressive at a level that should make modern Liberal-Progressives blush. The central irony of 1979 is that the Shah had personally commuted Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence — and Khomeini repaid him by engineering his overthrow. The anger that swept the Shah from power had less to do with SAVAK than with KGB-developed propaganda and the enduring truth that religion remains, as observed, the “opiate of the people”.

SUMMARY

When the end came, the Shah — dying of cancer — chose not to order his military to fire on his own people. That decision cost Iran forty-seven years of theocratic brutality. It was also, in its own way, correct. It is why his son has spent nearly five decades preparing for what is now, suddenly, no longer a distant prospect.

Reza Pahlavi II has maintained a singular and disciplined focus on the transition framework he has been developing since his father’s exile. Operation Epic Fury has not handed him a throne — but it has collapsed the institutional structure that made his return unthinkable. Khamenei is dead.

His son Mojtaba holds power on the point of IRGC bayonets, with questionable theological legitimacy and a population that was already in open revolt before the first air- and missile-strikes.

The Iranian Street, generally, and Tehran in particular, were chanting “Pahlavi Barmigardeh!” (“Long Live the Shah!”) before the direct fighting of February 28 commenced. The question now is whether the institutions of a post-IRGC Iran can be built fast enough, and with enough international backing, to give those voices something to vote for — rather than simply another security apparatus…

Because whoever wins, Iran’s water crisis is waiting in the wings.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The Shadow Commander – Alan Eyre

Vanguard of the Imam – Marc Lynch

All the Shah’s Men – Ahsan Iqbal

Retargeting Iran – Stephen Kinzer

People Advance Report – March 13, 2026

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Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Covering the news cycle between March 6 – 12, 2026

  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.”

  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.

  1. 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 is set to replace 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 3rd party status in this one election.
  2. 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.
  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 7th 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 the DHS give 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.

  1. TRUMP FORMS 17-NATION COALITION TO JOIN WAR AGAINST CARTELS – President Donald Trump announced the formation of a 17-nation pact committed to defeating the drug cartels in the Americas. The pact was announced at an event at Trump National Doral called “the Shield of the Americas summit.” These are the members of the coalition: Argentina, El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Belize. Notably missing from this list is Mexico, which is close to civil war thanks to the activity of the cartels in that country.
  2. D.C. COURT STRIKES DOWN D.C. GUN LAW – The D.C. Federal Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 that Washington, D.C.’s ban on gun magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds was unconstitutional. Trump appointed Judge Joshua Deahl wrote in the judgment, “Magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition are ubiquitous in our country, numbering in the hundreds of millions, accounting for about half of the magazines in the hands of our citizenry, and they come standard with the most popular firearms sold in America today.”
  3. FULTON COUNTY JUDGE RULES FANI WILLIS “WHOLLY DISQUALIFIED,” WILL HAVE NO SAY IN TRUMP LAWSUIT – President Trump’s efforts, along with his co-defendants, to win a civil lawsuit against Fani Willis’ Prosecutor’s Office, won’t be affected by Fani Willis herself. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee ruled Fani Willis was “wholly disqualified” from being involved in this case at all, and therefore, she will not be allowed to participate in any capacity in the proceedings of the civil trial.
  4. DEMS HATE ICE, THE COUNTRY HATES DEMS MORE – The Democrat Party hates ICE so much they regularly compare them to Nazis. With aid from the DNC’s agit prop machines (the corporate media), this Nazi narrative has MOST significantly eroded support for ICE. Though criminally exaggerated by the DNC media, in many instances, legitimate mistakes have been made by ICE which have also helped erode that support. The pressure on local communities due to the creation of deportation centers alone can take credit for much of that eroded support.

Despite all the DNC’s marketing advantages, however, the DNC is LESS popular with Americans than ICE is, with the Democrats hitting a 30% approval rating while ICE soars in comparison at 38%. There were 14 categories on the list; The Democrats finished ahead of only two, AI and Iran. President Trump and Pope Leo were tops with Trump at 41% and Leo at 42%. The poll was from NBC news.

  1. IRANIAN WOMEN’S SOCCER PLAYERS SAVED FROM FACING DYING REGIME – Five of the Iranian national women’s soccer team players have been granted asylum in Australia. This comes after Australia originally signaled it would not grant the women asylum. President Trump put social media pressure on Australia, and even invited the women to the U.S. should Australia let them down.

The women were at risk of being killed when they got home after protesting the regime during a soccer match in Australia. The women refused to sing along with the country’s national anthem. Afterwards, eyewitnesses said they were hand signaling to people they needed to help. Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke declared on X, “Last night I was able to tell five women from the Iranian Women’s Soccer team that they are welcome to stay in Australia, to be safe and have a home here.”

  1. APPEALS COURT STRIKES DOWN ORDER ENDING DEPORTATIONS TO “THIRD COUNTRIES” – After another Progmerican judge, District Judge Brian Murphy, attempted lawfare sabotage of Trump’s deportation program, a 3-panel appeals court paused that stay for full court review. Murphy ruled that the Trump administration could not deport illegals to “third countries.” The 3-judge panel ruled “after careful review” a temporary pause of the order “is appropriate.” They promised to follow up with a prompt ruling, which indicates the high probability the ruling will officially strike down the unconstitutional effort at lawfare sabotage by a Progmerican judge.
  2. EEOC ENDS TRANS WOMEN IN FEDERAL SINGLE-SEX BATHROOMS – The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity commission (EEOC) voted to reverse the Biden administration’s policy of allowing transgender women into women’s federal single-sex bathrooms. The commission voted 2-1 to affirm an appellate ruling nullifying the Biden administration’s use of Title VII to justify the policy change.

EEOC Chair Andrea Luca said of the decision, “Today’s opinion is consistent with the plain meaning of ‘sex’ as understood by Congress at the time Title VII was enacted, as well as longstanding civil rights principles: that similarly situated employees must be treated equally. When it comes to bathrooms, male and female employees are not similarly situated,” she added. “Biology is not bigotry.”

Global Outlook – March 13, 2026

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Originally published March 13, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Recapping Trending, World, U.S., Political, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from March 6-12, 2026

Here are the TOP 10 NEWS TAGS for this Time Period:

  1. Iran War
  2. Mamdani Terror Attack
  3. 2026 Elections
  4. Voter ID/ SAVE Act
  5. Wokeness
  6. AI Watch
  7. DNC Criminal Media
  8. Trump Deportations
  9. Trump Economy
  10. DNC Insurrection

TRENDING

  1. MEDIA, MAMDANI PROTECT ISLAMIST IED ATTACKERS WHILE VILIFYING WHITES, CHRISTIANS – The media coverage of the IED attack by two Islamists on a Christian anti-Muslim rally not only accused the Christians of being white supremacists (which they appear to actually be, in this case), they also accused the Christians of throwing the IEDs themselves. Mayor Mamdani of New York focused his ire for the “white supremacists,” but only condemned the IEDs being tossed. He failed to mention the Islamists behind the attack.

The attack was caught on video, so the internet already knew the Islamists were behind the attack, The two suspects are Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, both of whom come from wealthy immigrant parents. They screamed “Allahu Akbar” when they threw the IEDs, which were all verified to be real. Had any one of them gone off (there were three total, two near the mayor’s mansion), it is highly likely there would have been multiple casualties. Read more about this bellwether event in our Final Thought on pg. xx.

GO DEEPER ON MAMDANI TERROR ATTACK

  1. ENCRYPTED MESSAGES FROM IRAN MAY BE ACTIVATING SLEEPER TERROR CELLS IN U.S. – American intelligence agencies have intercepted encrypted messages from Iran that appear to be “operational trigger(s)” for “sleeper assets.” In the wake of the massive illegal alien invasion under the Biden administration, there is reason to believe this message could be reaching hundreds of teams. DHS Security advisor and Secret Service supervisor Charles Marino suggested the size of those teams could be as much as 20 people.

GO DEEPER ON IRAN WAR

  1. ISLAMISTS ATTACK AMERICAN SYNAGOGUE, UNIVERSITY ON SAME DAY – On Thursday, March 12, 2026, two separate Islamists attempted to murder Americans, with one succeeding and the other being stopped before he could do further harm. Islamist Lebanese “immigrant” Ayman Mohammad Ghazali attempted to murder Jews at a Michigan synagogue. He was killed by security after driving his car into the synagogue.

Islamist Mohamed Jalloh was successful in his attack on Old Dominion University. He killed one and injured another before ROTC members stopped him and stabbed him to death. He killed one man, Lt. Colonel Brandon Shah. Had the ROTC members not stopped him, the death toll would likely have been much higher. The same goes for the synagogue attack; had security not stopped the Islamist, there would likely be many dead, including children who were present at the time of the attack.

GO DEEPER ON DNC ISLAM

  1. FBI SEIZES 2020, 2024 ELECTION RECORDS FROM NOTORIOUS MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County, AZ is seen as the epicenter of 2020 election fraud suspicion, surpassing its closest rival, Fulton County, GA, in evidence that is difficult for skeptics to simply dismiss. Now that county is under an FBI microscope, with the announcement of election records being seized from Maricopa County from the bureau.

Republican State Senate President Warren Petersen confirmed the action by the FBI, posting on X, “Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa County. The FBI has the records. Any other report is fake news.”

GO DEEPER ON 2020 ELECTION FRAUD

  1. TRUMP DECLARES MORATORIUM ON LEGISLATION UNTIL SAVE ACT IS PASSED – President Trump is about to be tested after the U.S. Senate just passed a bill, a fair housing bill favored by the Democrats (but with bipartisan support). Before the passage, President Trump declared “I won’t sign any new legislation until SAVE Act is Passed.” The SAVE Act would make citizen-based photo ID required and would also end mass mailer elections (which are no elections at all).

John Thune appears to be doing everything he can to protect his RINO colleagues from vote accountability by pushing for a straight floor vote requiring 60 votes to pass. He has chosen this route rather than force his RINO colleagues to vote down a procedural change that would force the Democrats to do a verbal filibuster. Due to a procedural rule change that started to be exploited in the 70s, the procedural filibuster replaced the verbal one. This has allowed the filibuster to become a de facto requirement for nearly every bill passed by the Senate (which has sometimes helped the republicans).

GO DEEPER ON THE SAVE ACT

  1. VA DEMS MOVE TO TAKE GUNS, CONTROL HISTORY NARRATIVES, AND CODIFY ANTI-WHITE RACISM – The Democrat Party of Virginia has moved aggressively to make the state in Progmerica’s image, passing numerous bills aimed at curbing American liberty. They passed one bill that freezes white men out of government contracts, another bill takes “assault weapons” from Americans, and one that mandates J6 be taught to children as only being an insurrection.

The three bills reflect Progmerica’s anti-white racist ideology, its disrespect for freedom of thought, and its fear of an armed citizenry it knows it is preparing to attack.

GO DEEPER ON VIRGINIA INSURRECTION

  1. THE DHS SHUTDOWN CONTINUES – Democrats are celebrating their continued shutdown of the DHS even AFTER the original reason for the shutdown, Kristi Noem’s continued leadership of the department, is already gone. President Trump has transferred Noem to South America to lead a new security project down there.

Yet, the Democrats continue to prevent the funding to pass the Senate, keeping the shutdown going. The latest vote saw it fail 51-46. It needs 60 votes to pass. Only one Democrat voted for it. Lines are beginning to get longer and longer at airports as the DHS runs out funding and can no longer provide the basic security it currently is.

  1. NOTE: The existence of the DHS is a constitutional question that should not be forgotten, but this shutdown is not about opposition to the DHS, it’s purely about opposition to the Trump deportation program being executed. They mean to save Progmerica from the America Trump is, in part, allowing to reform itself in the ashes of this broken land.

GO DEEPER ON GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  1. UKRAINE, RUSSIA TRADE HAYMAKERS AS U.S. HOPES CEASEFIRE TALKS RESUME – The U.S. is hoping to restart ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine next week, but the appeal is set against aggressive moves by both Russia and Ukraine against one another. Ukraine, for instance, is now adding armed ground robots to its military operations, while Russia just dropped a 500-pound bomb on Ukraine. The front line has nominally moved, though both sides claim to have made recent advances.

GO DEEPER ON UKRAINE WAR

  1. PROGMERICAN JUDGE ORDERS ICE TO NOT DEFEND ITSELF – A Progmerican judge has made another unhinged ruling intended to prevent ICE officers from effectively protecting their facilities from paid Progmerican street fighters, the so-called anti-ICE protestors. Michael Simon, traitor to the American republic, has ruled that officers cannot use non-lethal means of crowd dispersal or control unless the crowd poses an “imminent threat of physical harm”

Non-lethal crowd control is a means of preventing protests from becoming riots. This ruling effectively assures violence will happen at ICE facilities as ICE officers will only be able to respond once, effectively, lethal force is justified, and probably required. This is exactly what they want, ICE officers killing their street soldiers, who will all be portrayed by the Democrat media as choir boys and girls that didn’t do no harm. They were just mothers, sons, fathers, etc., not paid violent revolutionaries actively attempting to overthrow the republic.

GO DEEPER ON JUDGEFARE

  1. DEMOCRAT STATES SUE FOR THE RIGHT OF COLLEGES TO BE RACIST – 17 Democrat-controlled states have joined a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its insistence that colleges and universities do not use racist policies to select their students for admission. This followed a SCOTUS ruling that made it clear these race-based policies are unconstitutional. The Democrat-held states, Progmerican states, want to preserve their “right” to exclude white people from higher education, SCOTUS be damned.

GO DEEPER ON WOKENESS

  1. ABORTIONS ARE MOSTLY DONE WITH THE PILL NOW – Abortion clinics are shutting down across the U.S., but it’s not because Americans have repented of their child-sacrificing ways, it’s because they’ve gotten more efficient at it. Now, mothers can order death pills online that will murder their unborn baby, leaving them with having to flush the corpse out of their system a little each time they go to the bathroom. Those death pills are now the number one cause of preborn infant death in America today, and the number one choice for women of choice when they choose to murder their own child.

GO DEEPER ON ABORTION WATCH

HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED

  1. UK MOVES CLOSER TO SHARIA AS IT MOVES CLOSER TO CRIMINALIZING DOGS – The United Kingdom has fallen to Sharia. The evidence becomes more and more clear as the tiny island nation may have surpassed China in arrests of people for saying bad things online. The top protected class in the UK is the Muslim, then the Islamist immigrant, then the Rainbow Coalition, with Trans and non-binary as the stars of the group.

Now, the UK wants to make dogs illegal for the sake of its growing Muslim nation within, a nation that despises dogs. To prepare the British for the loss of their dogs, Starmer’s cabinet is working on legislation that would ban 67 dog breeds in the name of safety and health.

GO DEEPER ON UK SHARIA

  1. UK SCHOOLS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR SHARIA REALITY – Kier Starmer’s Sharia UK is now preparing students to submit to Sharia standards by assuring they know how to obey Islamic law. Students will be instructed in limiting what they draw, what they express, what they do to assure they do not offend the new owners of the nation, the Islamists. Labour councils are now warning schools and students about what they are doing that might trigger the UK’s blasphemy laws. They are being instructed to conform to Sharia under threat of criminal prosecution.
  2. KIDS ARE CHEMICALLY “TRANSITIONING” THANKS TO ONLINE PHARMACIES – The Daily Caller Foundation has released a report that exposes “online pharmacies” as being sources for children to get access to “transition” drugs. Kurt Miceli, chief medical officer at DNH, summarized the report, claiming it “reveals how online pharmacies may enable minors to obtain cross-sex hormones with alarming ease.

“From websites listing online vendors across the globe to marketplaces for ‘homebrewed’ hormones, we found a multitude of troubling pathways that appear to bypass basic safeguards and regulatory oversight. Gender-confused kids should not be able to purchase potent, experimental medications with just a few simple clicks. These hormones carry significant risks, including effects that can be irreversible.

We urge the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] and other federal agencies to investigate any potential unlawful sellers and, where appropriate, for states to do the same when their laws are being violated,” Miceli continued. “Protecting minors from unsafe and unregulated access to powerful cross-sex hormones must remain a priority.”

GO DEEPER ON TRANSGENDER IDEOLOGY

  1. CANADA OFFERS “SAME DAY” SUICIDES TO CITIZENS – If you want to kill yourself in Canada, you can go to a local suicide provider, get approval, and then be suicided all IN ONE DAY! This isn’t new, it’s just recently been exposed by the Canadian government. It has revealed thousands of citizens have already gotten approval for “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)” less than 24 hours before being suicided by the state’s suicide doctors. The most recent statistics show 16,500 Canadians were killed by assisted suicide in 2024 alone.

GO DEEPER ON CANADA EUTHANASIA

  1. RISING NUMBER OF “CHRISTIAN” COLLEGES INVITE ABORTIONISTS INTO THEIR INSTITUTIONS – One in seven Christian Colleges and Universities have established some form of association with abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. 725 institutions were surveyed, with 114 found to have abortion industry connects. The report claimed, “A painstaking investigation into each school’s website revealed an alarming number of proabortion internships, promoted events, and class resources, along with advertised ‘health’ resources, volunteer opportunities, and general support of abortion.”
  2. FEMALE GENDERCIDE IN CHINA – China is committing female gendercide according to its own statistics, which shows there are 133 boys born for every 100 girls born. This statistic does not happen naturally, it only happens through selective abortions, specifically of girls. The statistics come from the country’s own just-released 2024 birth report.

GO DEEPER ON CHINA WATCH

Final Thought – March 6, 2026 – News War Machines

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Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!” – Isaiah 10:1-2

“Behold, upon the mountains, the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah; fulfill your vows, for never again shall the worthless pass through you; he is utterly cut off.” – Nahum 1:15

The DNC-CCP has a news war machine now openly inciting violence with clearly untruthful declarations. It does so in a coordinated manner that reflects the will and purpose of the DNC-CCP.

They hide between the claim they are the free press, but laws already exist on the books that they are clearly violating, laws which prohibit the DNC-CCP news war machine from being a content marketer for a political party (without disclosing it) using terroristic threats and incitements of violence to do so.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1971 prohibits campaign advertising that is not labeled campaign advertising. There is a press exemption that excludes news stories, commentaries or editorials if the publisher is not owned/controlled by a candidate, party, or committee. As it is recognized as a potential loophole for abusers, the FEC does have some power to determine whether this is actual journalism and not a disguised political ad.

The Communications Act of 1934 has sections that requires broadcast publishers to disclose all sponsorships, political or otherwise. Broadcasters must maintain records available for public inspections disclosing those sponsorships. This affects TV, cable, satellite TV, radio, and satellite radio.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has some power to regulate advertising, though it mostly uses this power to regulate commercial advertising. Yet the power to act against political advertising is not explicitly forbidden. This power comes through Section 4 of the FTC Act on Native Advertising.

Under Brandeburg v. Ohio, 1969, SCOTUS established a precedent for the limits on government to restrict speech that is deemed as “inciting” in nature. The key framework is the speech must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and must also “likely… incite or produce such action.”

In 18 U.S.C. § 1038 (False Information and Hoaxes), spreading false information with the intent to incite violence is a criminal offense. Each penalty includes fines and usually up to 5 years in prison, but longer sentences are not prohibited.

This provision is mostly intended to target claims of terrorist or WMD attacks, such as claiming the Federal government was sending out Nazis to round up brown-skinned Americans.

These laws have been on the books for some time, available to every Department of Justice going back at least to the Nixon administration. Yet, every year since these laws have been on the books the corporate media became increasingly overtly partisan.

As media companies were absorbed, the partisanship became more pronounced. It has now come to the point that is apparent to the casual outsider that their narratives are coordinated between the corporate media outlets and the Democrat party. If this were proven to be true, many corporate media executives, journalists, and talking heads would face years in prison, as they justly should.

Today, 6 major companies control 90% of the news signal, and that number is headed to 5 soon enough with the announced merger of Paramount with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Today, these corporate news outlets have become, in part, disinformation war machines executing a brutal psychological war on American citizens, with the only major pushback coming in the form of lawsuits, mostly (with some exceptions) by the most powerful. President Trump has made media companies pay him millions for their intentional agit prop campaigns aimed at destroying his Presidency, again and again and again.

They represent Progmerica, a nation born from within us, starting in 1913, with the creation of the foundation that would build their nation, the creation of the income tax, the death of state legislative elections of the Senate, and the creation of the Federal Reserve.

With these three entities, using American language, but with changed terms, they built their Empire within, using tools that allowed them to circumvent the slow republican machine. They could appeal to the masses with emotional campaigns, promising them the moon but offering them only slavery (which they will blame on their adversaries).

They could create Wilson’s dream, a Democracy that rubber stands the true power, the regulator class, the “deep state” you’ve heard so much about.

We do understand Progmerica began as a pejorative, but nonetheless, the pejorative is accurate. Progmerica is the metastasizing Progressive parasite within America that began semi-officially in 1913. They are not Americans, but their rise depended entirely on American power to do so. The “merican” is the dead host body of America, the Prog is the parasite within now poking its head out of the corpse, becoming the new head of the new parasite nation.

Politicians are there to write vaguely-termed legislation that can be “adapted” on the fly by regulators, a power this writer presumes no founding father would approve of, an Empire of policy writers, bureaucrats, who themselves relied on corporate sponsorship and approval to rise to the ranks to be one of them someday.

Of course, it’s more complex than what I’m describing, but my description captures the overall reality of the system that has emerged since Wilson’s Hive.

These past few years, that Hive has come VERY CLOSE to fully transforming America to Progmerica, the fundamental transformation Barack Obama promised in 2008 to those who understood the dog whistle.

Their nation, however, without the American bones, will quickly dissolve into the Soviet, with no name attributed to the now-soulless land at all. It was Americanism that was allowing your profitless system to continue as long as it has so far.

Where lies are not censored, truth thrives. This is the secret power of America, not its diversity, its ability to unite disparate groups willing to let lies live to be silenced by truth alone, even when the lies are directed at themselves (something the conservatives are still not fully prepared to live out).

Just recently, the death of the Ayatollah Khamenei has revealed the seditious nature of a press whose spirit aligns with Progmerica. To the progressive, a powerful America is more of a threat to their global utopian fantasy than a powerful Ayatollah Khamenei will ever be. Within their country, the press is loyal and patriotic, but within America, they are quislings no longer hiding their treason.

Whatever you feel about America’s involvement in Iran or its support of Israel, you would not mourn the death of a bloodthirsty tyrant who only recently oversaw the slaughter of tens of thousands of his own citizens for daring to want to throw the shackles of his regime off.

If you hate America so much that you love the Ayatollah, you might be a Progmerican. The DNC 6 (the corporate media) chose violence, they chose the Ayatollah. They practically lauded this murderer-rapist. They chose to portray him as an avuncular character well-loved by his people. They knowingly spread misinformation intended to embolden the terror cells we know for a fact already exist, both Iranian and Progmerican ones.

They are reinforcing the sense of injustice in the hearts of killers who already want to murder Americans, and they are doing this intentionally. They want murder. They want chaos. They want to stop Trump. They want to finish America off once and for good.

The laws are there already to prosecute these traitors on multiple fronts. The discovery such investigations could yield will also get these corporate Progmericans life in prison (or worse), for this writer believes the connection between the DNC 6 and the CCP will be overwhelming. The depth of collusion between the CCP and our “American” (Progmerican) corporations will one day infuriate and grieve this nation.

The dilemma in Iran for the Americans and Israelis is figuring out how much of Iran’s military power you want to debase. If you leave them defenseless, you bring American soldiers to Iran, and nobody wants that. There would be no support for such an action. Therefore, the Trump administration must decide how much power to keep intact for the next regime, the next (hopefully) American-friendly regime.

This is the same dilemma Trump faces when he looks at the great sociocultural-engineering power built by Progmerica all around him. He has confidence his team will win, Trumpmerica will triumph, and if they destroy too much of Progmerica’s power, they might be defenseless against the next threat.

This, I believe, is why he is protecting the Epstein network from rightful accountability. This, also, is why I believe he is NOT using the laws on the books to dismantle the DNC-CCP’s agit prop “news” machine, because he wants to replace it, not kill it.

The merger of Paramount with Warner Discovery will put a Trump supporter in the seat of power of one of the remaining 5, but that 1 is not American, he is a Trumpian, for Americans would wish to see the whole system dismantled, the info-terrorists brought to justice, and their assets sold to Americans.

This could be done, today, if Trump didn’t want to preserve the sociocultural engineering agit prop news power for himself, or at least for his “progeny.”

Since its inception, the printed word as “news” has been used intentionally often to knowingly spread misinformation to incite violence against their enemies or raise soldiers for their cause. Our American journalistic tradition starts in England, during the English Civil War, when pamphleteers fired off sensationalist stories that the writers most likely knew were false or were based on the rumors that supported their cause.

Wherever there is news, there is some degree of deceptive content marketing going on, so governing news, in general, is difficult, until it gets so obvious that talking heads are on tv news shows telling their viewers Trump will re-enslave black people if he’s elected.

We’re supposed to believe the person(s) who said that didn’t know this wasn’t true. We’re supposed to believe that person(s) didn’t know such a statement would incite violence.

The bar to prove intentional dissemination of obviously false information should be very high. It should be so high that more people will get away with doing this than the people who would be successfully prosecuted for it.

Proving intent to incite violence should be equally difficult for the state, but not impossible. In some instance, intent is prima fasci, like telling listeners ICE agents are Nazis after ICE agents have been ambushed and attacked by terror cells (which are now including children).

If we get out of here alive, so to speak, “history” will marvel in horror at the level of psychological terror inflicted on the American people by their own corporations. Yet as horrible as that has been, and continues to be, what has been going on in state schools for children is far, far worse, and crosses over into war crime territory.

Telling white children their parents are the devil, and they now have sin skins is pure unadulterated evil, and many state agents, “teachers” deliver this terrorist assault on children every day, paid by taxpayers to do so.

If the motivation wasn’t evil from the start, the phenomenon of majorityism would be taught as a universal human problem, not an exclusively white one, as these teachers deceptively tell their children (to the detriment of that child’s psycho-social well-being).

But I will save that for another day.

In light of this reality, I am asking our readers to make it a habit to take in news from multiple sources. I aggregate news and archive blurbs, along with the ones I write, on mindfulintelligence.news. We analyze and write from an Americanist Christian perspective.

We speak in prophetic language, meaning we seek to unveil sterile terms to reveal the depravity these terms really conceal. Isaiah, Ezekial, and Jeremiah are our plumblines. For instance, we often call the DNC the DNC-CCP because, in spirit and most likely materially, these two factions are working together even as they also hope one day to be the hegemon of the same dream, ecumenical socialism.

You can go to mindfulintelligence.news and use the search to get an aggregate sample of news from the DNC 6, independent media, global media, regional global media, and conservative corporate media.

As surely as the Apostle Paul lauded the Bereans for checking his words against scripture, so I would ask you to never assume any news outlet, including ours, is speaking infallible truth. Do not take our word for anything until you’ve stewarded that belief for yourself. Be a Berean with the news.

In the midst of the aggregates alone, can one hope to find truth in today’s agit-prop heavy news environment.

The DNC has far more in common with the CCP than it does America (which members of this faction routinely call Nazi, Fascist, or dog whistles of white supremacism. BOTH are existentially threatened by Americanism, and both are most likely working to vanquish their common enemy, America.

“Dog Whistle” in the mouth of a Progmerican itself is a dog whistle for gnostic truth, truth based on the status of the individual, not the context of the individual’s truth claims within observable reality.

President Trump is not willing to end the deep state power because he wants to preserve it. He’s not brave enough to be called an American and he’s doesn’t hate America enough to be called a Progressive.

He is a liminal figure who has created space to change what was (An America slowly being taken over from within by Progmericans) to something new. That new thing can STILL BE to pivot to full-on Progressivism. Yet it can also change to an America restored and fulfilled or it can follow the Trumpmerican path he’s set us on (America-lite, which will collapse into full-on Progmericanism soon enough).

He can be the delay to the “inevitable takeover” by the progressives or he can be the path to full-on fulfillment of America’s promise.

Trump’s election, his power, represents indecision, a hedging of bets on the Progmerican emergent plan, but not a complete rejection of it. Let us hope there are far more of us Americans than there are Progmericans and Trumpmericans, for failure to restore and fulfill our republic will ultimately end in the disintegration of our unity and the rise of competing tyrant kingdoms desperately racing to build the one AI machine that will control them all.

America’s greatness is in her future potential to consistently live out her self-stewardship standards, not in her past struggles, failures, and even her successes. Failure to reach that potential will result in the failure of the American project.

So long as the news war machines continue to whir and spew disinformation campaigns intended to demoralize Americans, infuriate Progmericans, and incite violence in general, our future remains in grave doubt. Handing that power over to Trumpmerica will not save or fulfill America, it will only assure America is never fulfilled.

Bellwether Deep Dive – The SCOTUS Tariff Decision

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Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

By Paul Gordon Collier, Editor

“As (Kavanaugh) explains, the Court’s decision … cannot be justified as a matter of statutory interpretation. Congress authorized the President to ‘regulate … importation. Throughout American history, the authority to ‘regulate importation’ has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports….

As I suggested over a decade ago, the nondelegation doctrine does not apply to ‘a delegation of power to make rules governing private conduct in the area of foreign trade,’ including rules imposing duties on imports. Therefore, to the extent that the Court relies on ‘separation of powers principles’ to rule against the President is mistaken.” – Clarence Thomas on the SCOTUS Tarriff ruling

INTRODUCTION

Americans waited for days, weeks, and months to learn what the Supreme Court of the United States would say about President Trump’s use of tariffs under the IEEPA Act (International Emergency Economic Powers).

The long delay in the ruling led many to believe it would be a partial win and loss for the President, but in the end, it would turn out to be a loss, but not a definitive one. The court refused to clean up the mess its ruling has already produced, the scramble for tariff refunds from domestic and foreign interests (a scramble well under way).

It also only selectively struck down tariffs made through the IEEPA Act, not tariffs in general (though the precedent set by this court might eventually do so).

The President responded with defiant words, but compliant action. He chose not to challenge what seems to many Americans to be an on-its-face unconstitutional power grab from the court. He chose instead to create new tariffs through other laws, while offering threats to American companies to attempt to stave off the refund hell coming our way thanks to what this writer considers to be (and has considered for a long time) an anti-American rogue court. In short, this is a Progmerican court, which is NOT American at all.

We analyze Roberts’ ruling primarily, Trump’s response, the market’s response, the global response, and finally offer a Predictive Analysis of where this might be going next.

A. THE RULING

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts, who invented a tax to save Obamacare, is once again using the invention of a tax to save America’s enemies from the President’s foreign policy.

In his decision, he wrote, “The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope. In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it… IEEPA’s grant of authority to “regulate . . .importation. “

This is a claim that fails basic scrutiny if one goes back more than 50 years. Tariffs have been traditionally used as foreign policy levers mostly from the moment nations started using them, sometimes through congressional action, sometimes through Presidential action. The fact that an IEEPA justification hasn’t been used does not remotely attack the legitimacy of tariffs as foreign policy tools.

The most talked-about example came in 1971, when Nixon imposed an import surcharge of 10% on all dutiable imports. The move was intended to strengthen the American dollar by pressuring allies to open their markets to the U.S.

In 1974, congress passed the Jackson-Volt amendment to the Trade Act of 1974, which cut America’s communist enemies, like Russia and China, from Most-Favored-Nation status, effectively raising tariffs on all of them.

It was after 1974 that America began using tariffs less and less, switching instead to international law standards. By 1994, tariffs were all but nullified. For Roberts, history must not begin until after 1974.

Roberts continues, “IEEPA contains no reference to tariffs or duties. The Government points to no statute in which Congress used the word “regulate” to authorize taxation.”

Here Roberts is playing the tax semantic game, assuming the side effect of foreign policy, de facto taxation, is enough to nullify tariffs as a Presidential tool, yet he did not unilaterally deny the President’s power to levy tariffs.

By this logic, the IEEPA law is irrelevant to the point, it’s about tariffs as a tax only, and not a primary foreign policy decision that costs Americans money (as many foreign policy decisions do).

By Roberts’ logic, the President would be barred from making ANY foreign policy decision that could cost Americans money, for, by his logic, that would have the net effect of being a tax. In the case of Obamacare, the primary right being challenged was the government’s right to create a healthcare monopoly, a state corporation, which the constitution flat-out doesn’t permit. There is no explicit power to create a state healthcare system, but Roberts still allowed it then, because taxation makes it constitutional.

Roberts chose to deny the constitution and protect Obamacare by declaring it a tax. He rejected the higher principle being violated for the lesser principle being executable. Here, he is doing the opposite, he is rejecting the higher principle, the ESSENTIAL right of a President to enact foreign policy. He is ALSO rejecting the President’s power to define what an emergency is, despite the fact that his decision explicitly denies it.

On one hand, he faults the IEEA law for not EXPLICITELY allowing tariffs as a means of response within the IEEA framework, while on the other hand he CREATES explicit standards that have never existed in the history of this country, that tariffs should be viewed primarily as a tax, which ultimately undermines ALL tariffs.

Roberts continues his artless sophistry, claiming THIS as a legal consideration, “until now no President has read IEEPA to confer such power. We claim no special competence in matters of economics or foreign affairs. We claim only, as we must, the limited role assigned to us by Article III of the Constitution. Fulfilling that role, we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs.”

His anti-American reasoning is that the IEEPA must EXPLICITELY spell out the tools the President can use in carrying out that law. He does this by arguing that “regulate” doesn’t mean taxation, therefore the IEEPA doesn’t allow taxation to be used. The distinction, as the dissenting justices point out, is pedantic, devoid of any legal substance.

Article III imposes no power on SCOTUS to rule tariffs are primarily a tax and thus can’t be used in regulating the economy in a time of emergency, to be determined by the President, not the quisling Roberts. He fulfilled the role of traitor at least, and CCP collaborationist at worst, in his ruling, for only China will benefit from this anti-American death ruling.

This decision is on its face a gross violation of American rule of law. It is every bit as unconstitutional as the Obamacare ruling, a ruling Roberts made possible with his deciding vote.

This ruling shows the fundamental danger of allowing anti-American human beings like the SCOTUS 6 into American institutions, human beings that clearly do not understand or respect American rule of law. These “justices” are Progmericans at heart, aliens in the land they presume to judge. No progressive has any business being involved in American politics, let alone American courts.

This ruling is, in part, why I am calling on constitutional amendments to make citizenship an agreed-upon covenant (with citizens today grandfathered in) and to create a legal power to remove citizenship rights from citizens that openly advocate for the violation of rights of other citizens.

All gun control advocates would immediately lose their right to bear arms since they can’t respect the rights of their neighbors to be self-stewarded individuals, people who can defend themselves against all enemies, foreign and domestic (in the case of the Progmerican within).

If these amendments existed today, Roberts and the whole SCOTUS group would lose their office, their right to bear arms, their right to vote, and their right to speak sedition in public against the American people (as they did in this ruling).

In this instance, this ruling has set dangerous precedents that are sure to be exploited by Progmerican judges to destroy Rule of law even further. Now, the whisper of the tariff precedent has already been set, and, despite any cautions by Roberts and his cohort of Progmerican traitors to the contrary, the door is now wide open to end tariffs as a means of Presidential power altogether.

We will get into the consequence of this ruling, which reveals just how devastating this ruling is to American power, a consideration that never entered the minds of the quislings who made such an obviously unconstitutional decision. Their refusal to rule on the chaos of potential refunds by American companies and foreign powers reveals the cowardice of a ruling they knew would aid America’s enemies and cripple her in return. It is an obvious act of sabotage by Roberts and the other SCOTUS 6 traitors.

They did not want to put into the record that they are directly complicit in creating utter chaos for the American republic at a time when our very survival is in question. This is the type of ruling that should have immediately produced defiance from the Trump administration. It crossed the line from legally tenable to outright sedition, which is plain to see for Americans, but not so much for Progmericans (or their frenemy, the Neocon).

This SHOULD HAVE been the moment Trump declared war on the DNC-CCP. Instead, he looked for new loopholes to escape the unconstitutional ruling.

The overall ruling was more complex than this, as parts of the ruling had a full majority while one ruling had a plurality decision. That decision hopes to create an anti-American standard that congress must approve any decision the President makes on “significant issues.”

B. TRUMP’S RESPONSE

President Trump had a long rebuttal to the unconstitutional ruling, but the heart of his message was this:

“It’s my opinion that the court has been swayed by foreign interests and a political movement that is far smaller than people would ever think. It’s a small movement. I won by millions of votes, we won in a landslide. With all the cheating that went on, there was a lot of it, we still won in a landslide. Too big to rig.

But these people are obnoxious, ignorant and loud. They’re very loud. And I think certain justices are afraid of that. They don’t want to do the right thing. They’re afraid of it.

This was an important case to me, more as a symbol of economic national security and also, I would say, just for our country itself, so important, because we’re doing so well as a country. We’ve never done so well.

The good news is that there are methods, practices, statutes and authorities, as recognized by the entire court in this terrible decision — and also as recognized by Congress, which they referred to — that are even stronger than the IEEPA tariffs available to me as president of the United States.”

In this writer’s opinion, Trump is most likely right when he claims foreign influence and partisan interests (or fears of the DNC terror machine) behind this clearly badly written sophistry-pregnant slight-of-hand ruling. You have to really HATE America to read into the law such an uncharitable take as these anti-justices did.

Notice the President continues to call his measures “IEEPA tariffs.” This is in open defiance of the unjust ruling that claims a broadly written law must offer specific tools that can be used to accomplish it, when that hasn’t been the precedent in the past. The only time that applies is when laws SPECIFICALLY limit the tools that can be used to enforce them.

Yet, the President chose to speak out both sides of his mouth, on one side all but accusing them of colluding with America’s enemies, an act of the highest order of treason, while at the same time respecting the ruling by changing his approach to using tariffs as foreign policy tools.

As we talk about in our Final Thought on pg. xx (News War Machines), this President seems to want to preserve SOME Progmerican power for himself, otherwise, he would move to destroy it.

In his defense, if you know you will lose for sure by moving against your enemy, you might want to bide time while you build up your power and continue to erode theirs.

This writer is just not certain that’s the reality he faces. If it is, then he’s doing the right thing by holding his powder. If it isn’t, he’s missing a great opportunity to finish off the Progmericans, at least for a couple of decades before the next threat reconstitutes itself (and it will).

He has already enacted a global 10% tariff tax and says he will use other laws with proven tariff applications historically to get the job done. What he hasn’t addressed in detail is what to do about the refund demands already happening, including from foreign powers.

C. AMERICAN BUSINESS RESPONSE

Immediately after this ruling, the leftist-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce immediately called for “swift refunds of the impermissible tariffs.” Chief Policy Officer Neil Bradley attached his name to this action, a decision that might one day prove to be his undoing (and rightly so).

Joining this association was the National Retail Federation, which includes Walmart. They called for “a seamless process to refund the tariffs to U.S. importers.” They claim the refunds will be an “economic boost,” but for whom?

It won’t be an economic boost for a country diminished by an unconstitutional ruling. It will only embolden her enemies, which includes, apparently, these business associations (all taken over by Progmericans).

Walmart will be remembered for its failure here to stand up for America over corporate greed. The money they get back will NOT be passed on to the consumers, who’ve already paid for the tariff, it will go to the corporate leaders.

These were only the start of business associations that quickly lined up to get refunds, despite SCOTUS not ruling at all on the constitutionality of refund-seeking, or how that will come about. The ruling was so reckless they refused to create a mechanism to deal with the mess their ruling created. This is intentional sabotage at work, not judicial caution.

The President threatened these companies with worse deals if they tried to do what they are doing, choosing profit over American security. This writer hopes he follows through with that threat. If you think the left really opposes corporate power, witness their overwhelming support for the corporations seeking profit-taking over national well-being.

These companies prove these American businesses are not run by Americans at all, and as such we should move to nationalize the progressive businesses and sell them to Americans. This might seem ridiculous right now, but within a year or two tops, this call will be echoed by a lot more Americans than me.

D. FOREIGN POWERS RESPONSE

This is a quote from a Grok research pull we did for this paper. We asked Grok how the foreign powers reacted to this ruling. Here is what Grok said about China, “[China] Emerged as a significant beneficiary, with analysts noting a substantial reduction in effective U.S. tariff rates on Chinese goods (e.g., from around 32% to 24% in some estimates, as many IEEPA layers were removed while Section 301/232 tariffs persisted). China called for the U.S. to lift unilateral tariffs on trading partners and stated it would ‘comprehensively assess’ future U.S. changes while adjusting countermeasures as needed. This was seen as strengthening China’s negotiating position ahead of planned high-level talks.”

Grok itself recognizes the power this ruling gives to our current greatest enemy, China. This factor alone should have stopped the quislings from making such a sophistry-laden decision, one that invented a tax standard in favor of ending a President’s power to deal with existential threats at a pivotal point in our history.

By any stretch of the imagination, this was hardly a black and white issue, and legal experts were divided from the start on what the ruling “should be.” They had to take the most uncharitable view to get to the ruling that damages America the most, while empowering and enabling her worst enemies, including China.

While foreign powers might be less inclined to push aggressively for refunds (for fear of inviting Trump’s new tariff counters), they will now be even more incentivized to seek to influence these same judges to continue to rule in their favor, gutting the American presidency in preparation for creating the Progmerican one.

America’s military power is undisputed. Her enemies know this, and they rely on this SCOTUS, and similar quislings within American institutions, to undermine us with soft power from within, with Progmericans who are naturally more aligned with the CCP than George Washington.

PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS

So far, President Trump’s threats for more tariffs have not materialized. He has enacted the 10% global tariff, but he failed to follow through with his threat that he’d bump it up to 15%.

The President’s ability to use tariffs quickly, and to modify them just as quickly, might be all but gone after this ruling, a likely possibility that in and of itself should tell you why this ruling was wholly illegal and sabotaging to U.S. security in every way imaginable.

I’d add a caveat here: Tariff law is complex and somewhat untested until quite recently. There could be a rock-solid path for Trump going forward that is even unassailable by the best sophistic justices out there, but I am highly skeptical such a secret super law weapon exists.

This ruling signals to me either an emboldening of the Progmerican nation within us, or desperation. What Trump’s tariffs have been doing is hammering away at International Rule of Law, a game whose motte of “rule of law” hides its bailey of “diminish American and nation-state powers,” which is what International Law has largely morphed into. THIS is what SCOTUS was protecting, most likely due to threats or profit from foreign powers, including Progmerican organizations in America.

Now, Trump will have to return to those Progmerican international courts to make foreign policy moves against ongoing existential threats to our existence (ESPECIALLY from China, who has its own domestic existential problems).

Failure by the rearguard of the DNC, the RNC, to pass the SAVE Act, the act requiring photo ID and paper ballots for federal elections, will result in a DNC majority in the House, and possibly the Senate.

The DNC-CCP is already aligned with America’s existential enemy, China, so its power in the House will be continued to be used to cripple American power at the benefit of her enemies. To this end, expect impeachments that will come from the tariffs themselves, impeachments this writer believes this court knew full well they were legitimizing in advance.

Were emails or chats leaked one day showing collusion between the DNC and the justices to assure their ruling laid the groundwork for these impeachments, this writer would NOT be surprised. My understanding of human nature and our current reality of power strongly suggests this is highly probable (but not certain).

This writer has little confidence the GOP will muster enough votes and courage to force the SAVE Act through (as they could right now if the party were American, and not, at the top level at least, simply the DNC-CCP’s rearguard protector).

Trump has a few months to move fast to cripple our most pressing enemies, which right now are China, Russia, and Iran. He will not have the power to levy tariffs so easily through these other laws, which will limit his ability to quickly respond to actions by our adversaries in response; but he’ll still have some power. The question is, will he use them?

I am certain his lawyers are already working on plans to justify tariffs, and the enemy, the DNC-CCP and its allies (Progmerican-controlled business associations), are working hard to file lawsuits. These lawsuits will be filed with favorable district judges predisposed to stop Trump’s programs, if for no other reason than they believe they are stopping the Nazis by doing so (constitutional law be damned).

I expect courts favorable to the DNC-CCP to continue to allow the degradation of our security by rubber-stamping foreign powers’ efforts to use our own courts to sabotage our power. I expect some exceptions, as there are still American judges in our courts.

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, including our highest court, which should be renamed SCOP, the Supreme Court of Progmerican, which is NO AMERICA at all.

FURTHER RESOURCES:

The history of tariff administration in the United States: From Colonial Times to the McKinley administrative Bill – John Dean Goss

US Tariffs Gude by Country; US Goods – Brenda Kecskes

American Tariffs From Plymouth Rock to McKinley – Daniel Harriman

Encyclopedia of Tariffs in U.S. History – Edited and Compiled by Cynthia Clark

 

 

Global Outlook – November 13, 2025

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Originally published Nov 13, 2025 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Recapping Trending, World, U.S. Politics, Market, Culture, Sci-Tech News from 11/01/2025 to 11/12/2025

Here are the top 10 tagged news stories for this news period:

  1. 2025 Elections
  2. New York Socialist Democrat
  3. Government Shutdown
  4. Anti-ICE Terror Attacks
  5. Abortion Watch
  6. Soviet UK
  7. Judgefare
  8. Christian Persecution
  9. Transgender Ideology
  10. DNC Criminal Media

A. TRENDING

  1. THE SHUTDOWN IS OVER – The U.S. government re-opens after the filibuster is broken. The U.S. Senate has finally passed a filibuster vote on the continuing resolution to keep the government open. Eight democrats, including Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, voted in favor of the motion, helping the GOP reach the 60-vote threshold.

Two key points in the CR:

1.The CR bill makes hemp-based THC products illegal which Rand Paul tried to stop. Congress has one year to fix this “problem.”

  1. The Democrats will NOT get their requested Obamacare subsidies that Republicans claim supported illegals and freeloaders.

The House passed the measure on a partisan vote. The President signed the bill late Wednesday night, November 12, 2025.

GO DEEPER ON GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

  1. SCOTUS ENDS DNC HOPES OF GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT IN 2028 – In a move that could help the political group most likely to be against it, SCOTUS has dismissed recent challenges to its ruling that made gay marriage a constitutional right. Had SCOTUS taken the case and struck down the 2015 ruling, it would have made gay marriage a top wedge issue for the DNC, assuring it holds onto its white suburban female vote.

GO DEEPER ON RAINBOW IDEOLOGY

  1. NANCY PELOSI OFFICIALLY RETIRES – At the ripe old age of 85, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is finally leaving congress. She has served in congress since 1987. She has served as Speaker of the House not once, but twice. Her role in undermining Americanism while advancing Progmericanism is laudable for Progmericans but treason to Americans. She made the official announcement while appearing to groom her daughter, Christine Pelosi, to take her place (which didn’t work).
  2. COPS FROM TN AND MS ARRESTED FOR ATTEMPTING TO PROTECT CARTEL DRUG TRAFFICKERS – Federal officials are charging more than a dozen law enforcement officers from Mississippi and Tennessee with accepting bribes from FBI agents disguised as cartel members. One of the worst offenders and best examples of the crimes being charged is Washington County Sheriff Milton Gaston. According to the indictment, he received “multiple monetary payments for his blessing for the cartel to operate in his county and use his deputies to protect the cartel’s illegal drug trafficking.”

All of the defendants agreed to “escort runs,” which the indictment claimed “ they were protecting the transportation of 25 kilos of cocaine, sometimes referred to as ‘birds,’ or, on October 5, 2023, the transportation of illegal narcotics proceeds, during the course of the investigation to build trust with the corrupt law enforcement officers, to lay the groundwork for future runs, and to take other action to further the drug trafficking conspiracy.”

GO DEEPER ON CARTEL WARS

B. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

  1. TRUMP ADMIN MOVING ONTO MILITARY BASES IN WAKE OF RISING PROGMERICAN THREATS – U.S. officials are increasingly moving themselves and their families onto military bases in response to rising threats from within that are connected to the usual Progmerican, DNC blue shirts threats. In addition to the DNC threats, the officials are also facing an “ongoing foreign threat.”

In response to this ratcheting up of threats, the Trump administration is building “a quick reactionary force” in every state through the National Guard to deal with the rising DNC blue-shirts threats. Some of the officials include Marco Rubio, Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller.

GO DEEPER ON DNC VIOLENCE

  1. ANTIFA DNC ISLAMIST TERRORISTS ATTACK CHRISTIANS AT U.C. BERKLEY, POLICE ARREST VICTIM – An Antifa black bloc assaulted TP-USA members demonstrating on a UC Berkely campus. One of the assaulters is also a DNC Islamist, Jihad Dphrepaulezz, who was caught on video repeatedly punching a Christian demonstrator in the face after yanking his cross necklace off him. The police responded by arresting the victim, who was later released.

The DOJ has announced an investigation into the incident and the university is claiming it will cooperate with the investigation. It appears the Berkely police allowed Antifa terrorists to “break” their token barriers before they then moved in to arrest the victim of the most violent assault (but not the only one). TPUSA fought back when the police refused to help them.

GO DEEPER ON ANTIFA TERRORISTS

  1. FBI THWARTS DEARBORN MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK ON DETROIT – Anti-Americanist Islamists from Dearborn, Michigan, the hub of activity for this people group, were prevented from carrying out a Halloween massacre on Americans in Detroit this past Halloween. Two men, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud intended on killing Americans on Halloween using AR-15 rifles.

FBI Director Kash Patel said, “The FBI stopped a potential terrorist attack in Michigan before it could unfold. Thanks to swift action and coordination with our partners, a violent plot tied to international terrorism was disrupted. This is what defending the homeland looks like — vigilance saves lives.”

GO DEEPER ON DNC ISLAM

  1. WEALTHY ISLAMIST NJ TEEN PLOTTED MASS MURDER ASSAULT ON JEWS – Milo Sedarat, 19, went online and threatened to murder Jews in a mass shooting or driving attack. He said “Line up like 500 Jews and execute them in front of their wives and family. Then take all their wives [as] slaves. Imma have like 10 yahood slave girls inshallah.”

Sedarat calls himself “the biggest antisemite in America.” He is the son of an Iranian poet. He comes from a family worth million. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey arrested Sedarat. They also accuse him of plotting to run down a pro-Israel demonstration in Montclair.

GO DEEPER ON ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS US

C. U.S. POLITICS

  1. FOREIGNERS GAVE THE DNC NGOS OVER $2 BILLION – In recent years, more than $2 billion has been sent to DNC-aligned far-left anti-Americanist groups, many with ties to Antifa affiliations, with no checks by regulators. A report from Americans for Public Trust (APT) has exposed the foreign money pipeline driving anti-American hate through DNC-affiliated groups.

APT Executive Director Caitlin Sutherland stated, “It is extremely alarming that five foreign charities have quietly poured almost two billion dollars into advocating for the most extreme liberal policies and protests in the United States. Since current laws regulating foreign giving to U.S.-based nonprofit organizations are hindered by a lack of oversight and exploitable exemptions and loopholes, foreign actors have been able to advance their radical and dangerous interests virtually unchecked. Congress needs to address these serious shortfalls in our laws to protect American interests and keep foreign influence out of our politics.”

GO DEEPER ON DNC CRIMNINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND DNC NGO

  1. DEMOCRATS RELEASE EMAIL BY EPSTEIN CLAIMING TRUMP KNEW – The Democrats released an email from Jeffrey Epstein they say proves Trump knew Epstein was a pedophile before he severed ties with him. Epstein wrote, “I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. (Redacted name) spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there.”

Epstein was writing to his assistant sex trafficker, Gislaine Maxwell. The name of the person they claim spent time with Trump was redacted unnecessarily, because the person is on public record as denying she ever spent time with Trump. The President’s downplaying of the Epstein files doesn’t help his case, but the person being named in this email testifying that wasn’t true is even more damaging to the Democrats’ claims.

Only years after this email did Epstein claim Trump “knew about the girls” in a separate DNC-released email. No emails related to the Clintons were released by the DNC, which adds to the credibility this was simply a misinformation character assassination campaign, standard operating procedure for the DNC.

GO DEEPER ON EPSTEIN FILES

  1. DEMOCRATS, DNC MEDIA SPREAD DANGEROUS LIE ICE DETAINED PRESCHOOL TEACHER WITHOUT A WARRANT – Numerous Democrats, including Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) have been spreading a lie shared by DNC media like CNN that ICE arrested a daycare worker without a warrant. The narrative was that ICE showed up to a daycare to arrest a preschool teacher in front of her students.

ICE wrote in response to one Democrat, who was pushing the DNC media narrative: “Congressman, you are deliberately misrepresenting the facts. ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside… (the woman and her male partner) ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare — recklessly endangering the children inside. The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity.”

GO DEEPER ON DNC CRIMINAL MEDIA

D. WORLD

  1. UK THINKS WE’RE STILL A COLONY? – Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s communications regulator has recently declared that Americans are not protected from UK prosecution for violating their soviet-styled speech laws when their social media posts reach their citizens. So far, talk of bills being written to deal with this foreign intrusion on American sovereignty is all that’s been seen in response to this assertion by the UK. They do this while they push forward with Online censorship, Digital ID, and now mass arrests of UK protesters.

The claim came effectively in an ongoing lawsuit in which Ofcom argued, “We also note 4chan’s claim that it is protected from enforcement action taken by Ofcom because of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. However, the First Amendment binds only the US government and not overseas bodies, such as Ofcom, and therefore, it does not affect Ofcom’s powers to enforce the Act in this case.”

In light of recent moves by the Soviet UK to sever intelligence ties with the U.S., the “special relationship” status of the UK under the Soviet regime is now coming into question as increasingly the Soviet UK finds itself ideologically and geopolitically opposed to the United States of America.

GO DEEPER ON SOVIET UK

  1. VENEZUELA RESPONDS TO U.S. AIRCRAFT CARRIER PRESENCE WITH NATIONWIDE MILITARY DRILLS – After the United States confirmed that the Gerald R. Ford Carrier group had moved into Venezuela’s region, Venezuela announced plans to conduct a large-scale, nationwide military drill involving 200,000 troops. The drill will be called the “Plan Indepenencia 200.”

The Venezuelan government accused the U.S. of “murdering defenseless people, whether or not they are drug traffickers, executing them without due process.” FYI, there is no due process in Venezuela for its citizens.

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  1. SOUTH KOREAN DEMOCRATS WANT TO CRIMINALIZE ANTI-CCP DISSENT – As protests continue against the new government in South Korea over its seeming embrace of China and North Korea, the Democrats prepare to crack down on the dissenters. The Democratic Party of Korea is introducing multiple bills in the legislature it controls that would criminalize anti-China protests.

Democratic Party Representative Yang Bu-nam introduced an amendment to the criminal act that would prohibit anti-China protests. He justified the actions, claiming, “On March 3 of last month, participants at an anti-China rally sang a song containing lyrics like ‘Changgae, Bukgye, and red communists should leave quickly’ and used profanity, spreading false claims about Chinese interference in elections.”

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  1. MEXICO CALLS U.S. FASCIST FOR GOING TO WAR AGAINST CARTELS – Mexico’s far left anti-Americanist President, Claudia Sheinbaum, continues to invite direct war with the U.S. The cartel-controlled President is now accusing the U.S. of being fascist for daring to go to war with the drug cartels wreaking havoc on American soil. Sheinbaum claimed, “Returning to the war against the narco is not an option — first, because it is outside the framework of the law.”

She went on to elaborate that going to war with cartels violates their due process rights even as cartels in her own country continue to openly murder elected government officials in what can only be described as an insurrectionist act of war. Her comments are sure to continue to push Americans towards supporting an eventual war with Mexico should Sheinbaum remain in power. It should also be noted that “due process” standards in Mexico fall far short of American “due process” standards. By Mexico’s standards, the U.S. is doing nothing wrong.

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  1. THAILAND PAUSES TRUMP-BROKERED PEACE DEAL WITH CAMBODIA – Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is suspending his ceasefire deal with Cambodia after he accused Cambodia of being behind a landmine explosion. The explosion killed 43 people. It is disputed if the landmine was laid before the ceasefire or after it. The PM said of his country’s decision, “The hostility towards our national security has not decreased as we thought it would.”

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E. CULTURE

  1. CATHOLICS CHAFFE AT VATICAN’S LIMITATIONS ON DIVINE POWERS OF MARY – A document from the Vatican is recommending churches do not use the phrase “Mediatrix of ALL Graces,” claiming Revelation does not validate the term and it puts on “limits that do not favor a correct understanding of Mary’s unique place.” Catholics argue the OPPOSITE is true, it is the Vatican LIMITING Mary’s powers.

Catholics fighting back reference an encyclical on the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in 1849 that claimed, “God has committed to Mary the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation. For this is His will, that we obtain everything through Mary.”

Protestants would dispute both the papal and the traditional Catholic claims on the nature of Mary, citing, Luke 11:27-28, “As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, ‘Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!’ But he said, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!’”

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  1. TRUMP THREATENS NIGERIA OVER CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE, NIGERIA AGREES WITH TRUMP? – Daniel Bwala, the advisor to Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu, told Reuters that his country was more than willing to allow President Donald Trump to help them deal with the Islamists slaughtering Christians so long as Trump respected their sovereignty. The advisor was responding to Trump’s Truth Social warning threatening Nigeria over the latest mass killing of Christians by Nigerian Islamists.

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  1. NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST TRANSGENDERED LAWMAKER IS CONVICTED OF CHILD PORN POSSESSION, SOLICITATION – NH State Representative Stacie Laughton (D) has pled guilty to charges of sexual exploitation of children. The representative is the state’s first-ever transgendered elected official. Laughton is a man choosing to present as a woman. The trans rights activist confessed to asking his girlfriend, who worked at a daycare, to send him nude pics of kids. She admitted to complying with his request.

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F. MARKET

  1. EU BANS LARGE CASH PAYMENTS – The European Union (EU) will ban all cash purchases over $11,500 beginning in January 2027. This draconian change was not made through legislation that was debated and voted on; it was created through regulation. Unelected EU bureaucrats simply chose to make the change, claiming it is purely to target criminals.

In addition to that, new laws already passed will soon require anyone using or holding cryptocurrency to do so through a digital ID system, assuring no anonymity in the transaction of value between humans. By 2029, the EU plans on rolling out their digital currency, which they intend on being the replacement for physical currency. Digital currency turbo-charge governments’ ability to control transactions, create instant “magic value,” and micromanage the currency markets.

  1. U.S. MINT STRIKES ITS FINAL PENNY – On Wednesday, November 12, 2025, the U.S. mint in Philadelphia struck its last-ever-penny, ending a 232-year tradition. The move comes following a Presidential order by President Trump. Every penny made costs 4 cents to make, costing the American taxpayer millions of dollars each year. In February, the President wrote “For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!”
  2. FCC CONSIDERS THIRD RAIL MOVE THAT COULD REVOLUTIONIZE “NETWORK TELEVISION”– The FCC is considering abolishing what has been called the third rail in broadcasting politics, the national ownership cap. This cap is set at 39%, which means station owners cannot own more than 39% of the affiliates of a national broadcaster’s network.

The move is being considered to allow, theoretically, conservative affiliate owners a chance to push back against anti-American broadcasting, with the Jimmy Kimmel kerfuffle being the foil for the theoretical action.

  1. CHINA’S ELECTRIC CARS CONTROLLED BY CCP? – A Norwegian public transport company has found that Chinese-made electric vehicles have security flaws built into them that allow their Chinese manufacturers to remotely access them and even control them. This means they can be turned into saboteurs and user data is going back to the CCP.

Arild Tjomsland, one of the investigators, claimed, “The Chinese bus can be stopped, turned off, or receive updates that can destroy the technology that the bus needs to operate normally.”

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People Advance Report – February 6, 2026

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Originally published Feb 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Covering the news cycle between January 30- February 5, 2026

  1. AMA ABANDONS TRANS SURGERIES FOR KIDS – The American Medical Association, a bastion of Progmericanism, has conceded the battle against children by announcing it no longer supports transgender surgery for children. The association stated, “the evidence for gender-affirming surgical intervention in minors is insufficient for us to make a definitive statement…the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.”

This followed up this comment from the organization in 2021, “The American Medical Association (AMA) today strengthened its established position opposing the governmental intrusion into the practice of medicine that is detrimental to the health of transgender and gender-diverse children and adults. Legislatures in 20 states this year proposed banning physicians and other health care professionals from providing medically necessary gender-affirming care to transgender and gender-diverse youth…”

  1. DEMOCRACY SUPPORTS ICE DEPORTATIONS, DEMOCRATS – According to the Democrats’ standards, “Democracy” is America’s central value. As such, news that Americans OVERWHELMINGLY support deporting illegal aliens (61 to 34 percent according to a Cygnal poll) is sure to cause the Democrats to stop calling for ICE agents to be terrorized by their insurgent army.
  2. WASHINGTON POST GETS EVISCERATED, INCLUDING SEASONED “JOURNALISTS” – The Washington Post announced another round of massive cuts, this time of 30% of its staff. This includes 300 of its reporters, including a few seasoned ones. Among those journalists include every reporter and editor that covers the Middle East.

The former executive editor of the Washington Post, Marty Barron, commented on the announced cuts, saying “This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations. The Washington Post’s ambitions will be sharply diminished, its talented and brave staff will be further depleted, and the public will be denied the ground-level, fact-based reporting in our communities and around the world that is needed more than ever.”

  1. UN CHIEF BEGS MEMBERS FOR CASH TO KEEP PROJECT ALIVE – After the dust has settled post-Davos, it appears the great ecumenical project, the United Nations, might not make it out of the room alive. The UN’s Secretary-General António Guterres sent an urgent missive out at the end of January of 2026 to ALL 193 member nations. The letter warned of an “imminent financial collapse” should the member nations not kick in more funds IMMEDIATELY. The UN has $1.56 billion in outstanding dues, which has doubled from the previous year.
  2. TRUMP, GOP BUILD MASSIVE WAR CHEST LEAD OVER DNC AHEAD OF 2026 ELECTIONS – The RNC has $95 million cash in hand compared to the DNC, which has $14 million cash in hand, but $17 million in debt. The RNC is also debt-free. As of the end of 2025, Trump’s Super PAC, MAGA Inc., has raised $289 million in 2025 alone. MAGA Inc. is the biggest Super PAC, with Fairshake, a “Pro-crypto” Super PAC, coming in second at $194 million. A distant third was Leading the Future, a Pro-AI Super PAC, coming in at $39 million.
  3. AMERICANS DEFEAT NEW SANCTUARY COUNTY IN ROCKLAND COUNTY – Disconnected leaders in Rockland County, NY thought their constituents would approve of their county becoming a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. The proposal looked to go through until Rockland County residents showed up in the hundreds to assure their leaders didn’t move to choose foreigners’ best interests over Americans’ best interests.

The call by GOP lawmakers set off the alarms that inspired the immediate, strong reaction from the citizens needed to quell this act of insurrection before it ever started. The GOP legislators warned, “This legislation prioritizes ideology over safety, weakens cooperation between levels of government, and places unnecessary financial and security burdens on our community. Ultimately, sanctuary counties fail the most basic responsibility of government: protecting the public. No political statement is worth compromising safety, accountability, or the rule of law.”

  1. ROUTH GETS LIFE FOR TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT – After being found guilty of attempting to assassinate President Trump, Ryan Routh has been sentenced to life in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon gave the prosecution the sentence they asked for. Prosecutors argued, “Routh’s crimes undeniably warrant a life sentence—he took steps over the course of months to assassinate a major Presidential candidate, demonstrated the will to kill anybody in the way, and has since expressed neither regret nor remorse to his victims.”
  2. TRUMP WINS IN COSTA RICA – President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate for Costa Rica’s Presidential race has won her campaign. Laura Fernandez, a populist conservative for the Sovereign People’s Party, beat her far left rival, Alvaro Ramos of the National Liberation Party 48% to 33%. Fernandez was favored by President Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated, “Under her leadership, we are confident Costa Rica will continue to advance shared priorities to include combating narco-trafficking, ending illegal immigration to the United States, promoting cybersecurity and secure telecommunications, and strengthening economic ties.”
  3. TARIFFS MOVE U.S. STEEL TO THIRD IN WORLD – Thanks to the steel tariffs enacted by President Donald Trump, the U.S. Steel industry is on the rise. After decades of decline that saw Japan pass the U.S. in 1999, the industry is seeing expansions it hasn’t seen sine then. Now, the U.S. is once again ahead of Japan in steel production, moving into third in the world. In addition to steel tariffs, the President’s actions to cut regulatory red tape has also contributed to this growth.
  4. MELANIA DOC MAKES MILLIONS, FORCES AMAZON TO ADD NEW THEATERS – The documentary about the current First Lady Melania Trump called “Melania” had a limited release that couldn’t prevent it from reaching sales numbers for documentary films that haven’t been seen in 14 years, earning more than $7 million its first weekend. While critics predictably panned it, audiences reacted well to the film. The success of the film means more than 200 theaters will be added to the release the next weekend.

People Advance Report – March 6, 2026

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Originally published March 6, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

Covering the news cycle between March 1 – 5, 2026

  1. THE AYATOLLAH IS DEAD! – Less than 48 hours after the U.S. and Israel launched their historic air assault on the Iranian Regime, almost all of its top leaders across all major institutions are dead, and that includes the Ayatollah Khamenei, whose 47-year reign of terror over his own people has finally come to an end. His first replacement was killed soon after he was appointed. While the DNC-CCP press mourns his loss, Americans, Iranians, and freedom-loving people of the world celebrate the end of his tyrannical reign.
  2. 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. 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, which means 3 supreme court justices are fundamentally unfit to serve, and probably have suspicious material on their laptops.

The non-child-groomer 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.”

  1. ICE IN CHICAGO CAN RESUME AFTER APPEALS COURT RULING – A three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a district court injunction ending President Trump’s ICE deportation operations in Chicago was “overbroad” and “constitutionally suspect.” The ruling clears the way for ICE operations to resume in earnest in Chicago.
  2. CHRISTIANS CAN NOW ADOPT IN VERMONT – For a brief season in Vermont, Christians could not adopt children because of the DNC-controlled state’s presupposition that homosexuality and transgenderism are good and should be celebrated, especially in children. If your belief system falls outside of their pedo-enabling orthodoxy, you cannot adopt a child. After all, if they want to explore sex with a person of their same sex, or explore their non-existent gender choices, your beliefs will prevent them from being terrorized by leftist child groomers disguised as public school teachers.

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.”

  1. AS THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC FALLS, CHINA’S MIDDLE EAST STRATEGY DOES TOO – Geopolitical analysts have observed that one of the hardest hit casualties of the fall of Iran’s Islamic Republic regime is America’s main competitor, China. Chairman Xi has spent a decade himself, and billions of dollars, cultivating Middle East relations, largely through its major supporter, Iran.

In addition to that, the failure of Chinese war tech to stop the absolute brutalization of Iran and help it mount an effective counter (so far) will cause its current allies and customers to second-guess both its military tech capabilities and its capacity to protect them from American aggression. China was also hoping on Iran’s continued support of radical militant Islam colonizing western countries continuing, accelerating the decline of the West, rendering it a feckless foe.

  1. DNA COULD HELP SHRINK AI DATABASES MASSIVELY – Researchers at the University of Missouri claim to have solved the problem of converting computer data into DNA and then switching back to computer data. If the process can be perfected, the size of databases required for AI Machines like Grok could be 10-100 times smaller than they currently are.
  2. DNC BID TO END IRAN WAR DIES IN SENATE – The Senate voted 53-47 against a resolution which would direct President Trump to withdraw troops from Iran. The one lone GOP Senator to vote for the bill was Rand Paul (R-KY), who was also a co-sponsor. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was the lone Democrat to vote against the resolution.
  3. NY’S SOLO GOP SEAT SURVIVES, THANKS TO SCOTUS – The U.S. Supreme Court has stopped Progmerican-controlled New York state from disappearing a republican district through gerrymandering before the 2026 election. The decision does not rule out a future evaporation of the sole GOP-held district, but the ruling prevents it from disappearing before the midterm election. The decision was 6-3.
  4. PARENTS GET PAID FOR RESISTING STATE SCHOOL LGBTQ INDOCTRINATION FOR THEIR CHILDREN – Parents of Montgomery County Schools in Maryland received a $1.5 million settlement after their children were forced to read homosexual and transgender evangelistic promotion material. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a financial judgment on February 19, requiring the school system to pay the affected parents.
  5. DAN CRENSHAW, DNC SLEEPER, LOSES IN GOP PRIMARY – Dan Crenshaw, the U.S. representative from Texas, lost his GOP primary race to challenger Texas State representative Steve Toth. Crenshaw is famous for voting against the Trump agenda at critical times. He represents the Eric Erickson branch of the “conservatives.” These are the DNC sleepers whose jobs are to muck up the resistance to the DNC by undermining it with strategic “objections.” Crenshaw lost 58 to 40.
  6. 5TH CIRCUIT APPROVES TEN COMMANDMENTS IN CLASSROOM – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has struck down a challenge to Louisianna’s law requiring the 10 Commandments to be posted in all public school classrooms. The court ruled that the plaintiffs in the case lack standing to bring suit. The court held, “There can be no doubt that the Ten Commandments bear immense religious significance. For believing Jews and Christians’ they are ‘the word of God handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai.’ But they also ‘have historical significance as one of the foundations of our legal system.’ That dual character forecloses any categorical rule against their display on public property. Instead, constitutionality turns on ‘the context of the display’ and ‘how the text is used.’”

They added, “Simply put, we cannot evaluate ‘how the text is used,’ because we do not yet know—and cannot yet know—how the text will be used. And ‘[i]n the absence of this evidence, we are not able to conduct the fact-intensive and context-specific analysis required by’ the Supreme Court’s Ten Commandments cases.”