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Tuesday, November 3, 2026

You Might Not Believe What Mary Peltola Just Had the Nerve to Tweet — *AP Photo/Becky Bohrer*

The New York Times story about the ballot-stacking, "Decoy Dan" scandal in Alaska has really shaken up the Senate race in its final days.

The Times story nailed the Peltola campaign, in an alleged effort to get other people to run, including another candidate named Dan Sullivan, with the purpose of confusing Alaskan voters with the incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK).

Not only that, but the report claimed the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) was also involved in the project.

As we noted, Democrat candidate Mary Peltola claims she knew nothing, despite the report. Her first response was a bizarre attempt to deflect, even as she called the report a "distraction." No, the distraction was what your team was allegedly trying to create with its ballot-stacking agenda.

That was bad enough. But then she doubled down on the spin. It's hard to believe that she posted this with a straight face given how clueless it is.

I am the only candidate in this race with a plan to ban congressional stock trading, crack down on self-dealing, enact term limits, and fix the rigged system in DC that's shutting down Alaska.

First, let me note that what she's saying at the beginning of that sentence is false. Sullivan already voted in the Senate recently to advance the Stop Insider Trading Act. It was Democrats who killed the bill.

Then imagine the nerve of posting that she's the only candidate in the race with a plan to "fix the rigged system in D.C." after The New York Times report about what her campaign allegedly did to manipulate the race.

Sen. Sullivan had a great ad that nailed the scandal.

Now there are federal and state investigations underway looking into the scandal. As Fox's Bill Melugin is reporting, more than 30 subpoenas have already gone out in the federal investigation.

So Peltola can deflect and spin, but this could be big trouble for her and her team, and it's likely to hurt them in the election, as it should.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/10/30/mary-peltola-tweet-about-unrigging-system-n2208791?utm_source=rsmorningbriefingvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl

Why Do They Despise Musk?

Elon Musk’s shift to the right, support for Trump, and defense of free speech have turned a former liberal darling into a target of the Left’s growing hostility toward billionaires.

By Victor Davis Hanson

October 29, 2026

As the midterms approach, the Left has gone nearly berserk in its hatred of trillionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Yet its escalating venom would have been almost inconceivable before 2022, when Musk publicly declared that he would be voting Republican.

Before Musk’s recent political reversal (he voted for both Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020), he was beloved by the Left as the first successful upstart challenger to the century-long dominance of the Big Three fossil-fuel automakers. Liberals once loved his revolutionary, electrically powered Teslas and drove them proudly as a green virtue signal.

Not now. Far-left podcaster Jennifer Welch has run out of Nazi epithets for Musk. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—ironically, given her own limited talents—trashed Musk as “probably one of the most unintelligent billionaires I have ever met or seen or witnessed.”

Fellow multibillionaire Bill Gates smeared Musk for supposedly “killing the world’s poorest children” by promoting cuts to U.S. foreign aid programs.

Just this week, former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich even demanded that Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink be nationalized and run by the government—a move more associated with Cuba or the old Soviet Union than with the United States of America.

Such unhinged venom can contribute to violence. In early 2025, leftists launched more than 80 attacks against Tesla cars and dealerships—and sometimes even individual Tesla drivers. Similar cases of vandalism and arson have continued into 2026.

So why did the Left go from hailing Musk as the next Thomas Edison to treating him as public enemy No. 1 and targeting him with death threats?

The Left once loved all the tech and Wall Street billionaires who ensured that Democrats always had more money than Republicans.

Billionaire George Soros and his various foundations have channeled well over half a billion dollars to left-wing candidates and causes in just the last six years alone. Billionaires like Reid Hoffman, Tom Steyer, and the now-imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried gave hundreds of millions to the Democratic Party and its candidates.

But Elon Musk now embodies everything the enraged Left hates.

First and most obviously, Musk no longer endorses Democrats. Instead, in 2024 and 2026, he donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help Republican candidates.

Second, Musk gave lavishly to the hated 2024 Trump campaign, especially in critical swing states. Furious Democrats actually blame him for Trump’s victory.

Third, Musk paid billions of dollars to buy the liberal social media company Twitter. He eliminated censorship, renamed it X, and turned it into a free-speech platform that no longer catered to left-wing dogmas.

Fourth, Musk was instrumental in conducting the 2025 DOGE cuts that reduced the federal workforce by some 270,000 employees. DOGE also helped slash USAID programs that had often been involved in politicking abroad to support globalist and left-wing causes.

Fifth, the spurned Left has started hating billionaires as much as it once worshipped them. Its members now talk openly about confiscating wealth, nationalizing private corporations, taxing net worth and unrealized gains, and regulating and suing large companies to drive them out of business.

In 2020, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated some $420 million to help ensure greater Democratic turnout—and they were deified for helping to defeat Trump.

Now Zuckerberg has been talking about fleeing left-wing California if it passes a “billionaire tax” on net worth.

Billionaires like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and Palantir’s Alex Karp—along with other Silicon Valley magnates such as Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and David Sacks—have drifted rightward, fearing the new agenda of the Islamist-sympathizing socialist Democratic Party.

Sixth, and perhaps most important, Musk—one of the greatest entrepreneurs of the last hundred years—is not shy about his own talents and spectacular successes, ensuring even more left-wing envy and venom.

Musk not only brought stranded U.S. astronauts home but also helped revive the moribund NASA space program.

This year, his company will launch more satellites than all other countries and private corporations combined. Indeed, by June 2026, it had sent into space more satellites than humanity had launched in total since Sputnik. SpaceX’s behemoth Starship, the most powerful rocket in history, dwarfs its Chinese, European, and Russian rivals.

The upstart Tesla has the highest market capitalization ($1.5 trillion) of any car company in the world. Musk’s social media platform X may have nearly 600 million monthly active users.

His artificial intelligence company, SpaceX Super Intelligence, and its Grok model are among the world’s best-known.

Musk’s Neuralink may become the first company that allows the paralyzed and the blind to regain their lost abilities.

His Boring Company has created a subterranean transport service in Las Vegas and is building another in Nashville.

Musk is history’s first trillionaire. He is a mechanical and business genius, and he may well be one of the most brilliant technological entrepreneurs, not just of the last hundred years but of all time.

So is it any wonder that the new democratic socialist Left, with its insistence on equality of results, despises everything that Musk does and represents?

https://amgreatness.com/2026/10/29/why-do-they-despise-musk/?utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=rcp-today-2026-10-29&mc_cid=929d2ac971&mc_eid=698afad55f

‘Affordability’ Is A Trojan Horse For Democrats To Bring Back The Biden Years

By: Eddie Scarry

October 28, 2026

4 min read

No matter what Democrats are saying about ‘affordability,’ trust that their priorities are anything but lowering prices.

Eddie Scarry

@eScarry

That’s exactly what they’ll do the second they have the chance. Democrats in the most competitive races across the country have done exceedingly well at insisting to voters their focus is “affordability.” They talk about grocery and gas prices with autistic levels of concentration, and though they have no real proposals to reverse our seemingly endless cost nightmare, it’s working to their advantage because it’s President Trump’s decision to start a war in the Middle East that reignited the inflation surge that up until then had been quickly cooling.

Voters want prices lowered. Under Republican government, prices are going up. What’s worse, they didn’t need to. That’s the result of a choice made by the current administration. It’s only logical that voters would want to try something else in the next election. But no matter what Democrats are saying about “affordability,” trust that their priorities are anything but lowering prices.

Don’t take my word for it. The New York Times editorial this week urging everyone to vote Democrat explained what the party will do if and when it takes control of Congress. Hint: It’s not “immediately work to end the war and bring prices down.”

“Take a moment to imagine how Washington could change if Democrats win control of the House of Representatives,” the paper said. “Mr. Trump’s legislative ambitions will be largely ended; he will not be able to pass more tax cuts that worsen the national debt. Democrats can instead use must-pass spending bills to restore money that was improperly cut from Medicaid, schools, scientific research and disease prevention.”

By “restore money that was improperly cut,” the Times means that Democrats will refuse to pass budget bills that don’t include funding for all the multibillion-dollar scam projects that help fund their cause, like USAID and every anti-American NGO. When they say “scientific research and disease prevention,” that’s what they’re referring to.

The editorial went on to encourage Democrats in power to heavily rely on “hearings, subpoenas and more” to “hold the president and his appointees responsible.” And why stop at government officials? There’s plenty of harassment to go around for Trump supporters! “Even if Mr. Trump and his aides illegally defy subpoenas,” the Times said, “the House can summon corporate executives and others who have enabled him.”

In the event Democrats secure the Senate, too, the Times suggested they block future political appointees and, of course, Supreme Court nominees. The editorial said only judges who “uphold the law” should be confirmed, which of course means judges who will reliably side with Democrats in their blood-thirsty crusades to imprison their political opponents.

None of this will lower the cost of gas and groceries. To the contrary, resuming the flood of money to Democrat priorities — mass immigration and “green energy” — will only serve to keep them rising rapidly and permanently. And the rest of it is just to scratch their interminable itch to make life miserable for Trump associates and anyone who ever so much as had a thought of supporting him.

It would be, for all intents and purposes, a return to the Biden years. Higher prices, lower living standards, and more international conflict.

Things are the way they are right now because of a war. Prices will fall when it ends. A Democrat Congress will have no control over that. I’m not even convinced they want to. Democrats like squeezing the middle class. But if and when they do gain power, they will be able to make everything else so much worse for everyone.

https://thefederalist.com/2026/10/28/affordability-is-a-trojan-horse-for-democrats-to-bring-back-the-biden-years/

Monday, November 2, 2026

Let's Make This Election About What the Democrats Did to Trump

Justin Lane/Pool Photo via AP

I've already listed in past columns a number of accomplishments by President Donald Trump. Both he and the Democrats want to make this election about him.

Democrats, particularly, are desperately wanting this election to be about Donald Trump. Every ad, every cable segment, every fundraising email says the same thing: Trump, Trump, Trump. Hate, Hate, Hate.

Fine. Let’s take them up on their invitation, but with one crucial, tactical twist: Instead of allowing this election to become yet another referendum on Donald Trump, let’s make it a trial of how the Democrat establishment reacted to him.

When you step back and view the political landscape of the last decade objectively, a striking pattern emerges. What the Democrat Party and its institutional allies have framed as a selfless defense of constitutional norms looks, upon closer examination, far more like a systematic overreach of power. If you lay out the record end to end — from the weaponization of government agencies and unprecedented legal maneuvers to the collusion with tech platforms to suppress dissenting speech and the shifting of long-held democratic procedures whenever they proved politically inconvenient — it reads less like a high-minded defense of republican values and more like an institutional rap sheet.

It is time to hold that record up to the light, so grab ahold of something. I'm adding headings for each section because each of these points is worth separate discussion.

They spied on his campaign.

Start in 2016. The FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane and wiretapped Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The Justice Department’s own inspector general later found 17 significant errors and omissions in the surveillance applications. After the fact, the secret FISA court itself concluded that two of those applications were not valid. An FBI lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith, pleaded guilty to doctoring an email to keep the surveillance going.

Then special counsel John Durham reported that the FBI launched the whole thing on raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence. That’s the investigation that hung over Trump’s entire first term. Two years of “collusion” headlines, and Robert Mueller never charged a single American with conspiring with Russia. That’s what sabotage looks like when it wears a badge. And guess what? Now we see James Comey being dragged into court just yesterday over it.

They silenced him.

Two days after Jan. 6, Twitter permanently suspended the sitting president of the United States. Facebook followed. And later, Mark Zuckerberg admitted in a letter to Congress that the Biden administration pressured Meta to censor content and said he regretted going along with it. The only thing that saved the outfit called Twitter at the time was the ownership change.

When Trump went on trial in Manhattan, Judge Juan Merchan slapped him with a gag order, then held him in contempt and threatened him with jail for talking about witnesses who were trashing him on national television. The leading candidate for president, gagged mid-campaign. Nothing to see here, citizens. Go about your lives.

They raided his home.

On Aug. 8, 2022, FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago, the private residence of a former president, over a records dispute that previous administrations had handled with letters and negotiations. Two years later, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the resulting case after ruling that Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel was unconstitutional. Smith now faces a criminal referral on the matter.

They arrested him. Four times.

In 2023, prosecutors in New York, Florida, Washington, and Georgia brought four separate indictments totaling 91 felony counts. Trump surrendered and was booked four times, capped by a mug shot at the Fulton County jail that his campaign promptly turned into a T-shirt. Ninety-one counts, all landing right in the middle of a presidential campaign. Pure coincidence, surely.

They tried to take him off the ballot.

When the courts weren’t moving fast enough, Democrats tried to stop voters from choosing Trump at all. Colorado’s Supreme Court and Maine’s secretary of state tried to kick him off their ballots under the 14th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court reversed them unanimously, 9-0. Nine to nothing. Even the court’s liberals couldn’t stomach it.

They prosecuted his supporters.

The Justice Department charged roughly 1,500 people in connection with Jan. 6. Some assaulted police and earned their sentences. But hundreds more were nonviolent trespassers who got hunted down for years, held for years in pretrial detention, and paraded as “insurrectionists,” while the 2020 rioters who burned cities didn't face a fraction of that scrutiny. Trump pardoned them on his first day back in office.

And the rhetoric had consequences.

For over a decade, Democrat leaders called Trump a fascist, a Hitler, and an existential threat to democracy itself. Then people started trying to kill him.

On July 13, 2024, a gunman in Butler put a bullet through Trump’s ear and killed firefighter Corey Comperatore. Two months later, Ryan Routh lay in wait at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach with a rifle; a jury convicted him of attempted assassination. In April, prosecutors say Cole Allen charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and shot a Secret Service officer. And in August, police arrested an armed man near Trump’s golf club in California, allegedly scouting his security.

No one can draw a straight line from a cable-news panel to a trigger finger. But tell enough people, often enough, that a man is the next Hitler, and don’t act surprised when someone decides to play Valkyrie.

“Saving Democracy”

Now read the list again: spying on his campaign, silencing him online, gagging him in court, raiding his home, charging him 91 times, trying to strike him from the ballot, prosecuting his supporters, and painting a target on his back. And we’re supposed to accept that these people are the ones “saving democracy.”

I've already pointed out the Democrats are champing at the bit to get Trump with Congressional power, once again overriding the will of the people. And after all that, they want us to trust them?

Folks, Democracy is voters choosing. Every item on that list was an attempt to keep voters from choosing, or to punish them for the choice they made.

So yes, let’s make this election about Trump. Specifically, about what his opponents were willing to do to stop him. Then ask yourself what they’ll do with the House and Senate back in their hands.

https://pjmedia.com/eric-florack/2026/10/28/lats-make-this-election-about-what-the-democrats-did-n4958763?utm_source=pjmediavip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm

Angie Nixon Rapped About People Dying at FAMU Homecoming – Then VIOLENT Reality Showed Up

Angie Nixon Rapped About People Dying at FAMU Homecoming – Then VIOLENT Reality Showed Up

Sam J.Follow @PolitiBunny

Angie Nixon Rapped About People Dying at FAMU Homecoming – Then VIOLENT Reality Showed Up — *AP Photo/Mike Stewart*

I know we live in an era where every progressive politician is required to treat hip-hop lyrics about body counts like sacred scripture, but even by those standards, Florida Senate hopeful Angie Nixon just set a new personal best for catastrophic timing.

There she was, up on stage at FAMU homecoming, white suit and all, enthusiastically rapping along to a track that casually asked if anybody wanted to die and then doubled down on the idea. The crowd was into it. She was into it. It was pure vibes, pure culture, pure “this is what the kids are into, so I’m the cool candidate.”

Hours later, actual gunfire erupted near the stadium.

Twelve people were hit, six of them children, one just 11 years old.

A 15-year-old is now facing attempted murder charges.

And just like that, the same woman who was vibing to murder talk put out the obligatory statement about her heart being broken, the community being shattered, and how we all need to work together to stop the gun violence. The whiplash is almost impressive.

This is the same Angie Nixon who is a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, who has openly mused about locking up her Republican opponent, and who campaigns like the rules of basic adult judgment don’t apply to her. You don’t get to treat lyrics about people dying as a party favor and then act shocked when real bullets start flying in the same neighborhood a few hours later. The culture she was celebrating on that stage is the same culture that treats violence as background noise until the cameras show up and it’s time to perform grief.

Florida voters are getting a clear look at the candidate: one minute she’s the cool aunt at the homecoming afterparty, the next she’s the concerned lawmaker demanding we “do something” about the exact behavior she was just amplifying for applause.

The midterms are days away. Maybe the people of Florida will notice the difference between rapping about murder and actually dealing with it. Or maybe they’ll decide they want a senator who can tell the difference in the first place.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/10/29/angie-nixon-rapping-about-murder-n2433870?utm_source=twdailyamvip&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl