"Kill them. Murder them. Let the streets soak in their red capitalist blood.” —Hasan Piker
You can’t overstate the power of ideas, especially bad ideas, and super-especially bad ideas that are really just manifestations of emotional states such as envy, vengefulness, enmity, sloth, and greed. Did somebody say communism? A lot of people are saying it lately. This garbage barge of management nostrums for the ills of advanced industrial society has steamed back into New York Harbor and is busy now dispatching its agents across the land.
It’s yet another youth movement in an America which cultivates them at regular intervals associated with Fourth Turnings. I happened to be in college during the last one, the hippie rebellion of the late 1960s. It was mostly adolescent sexual energy tinged with resentment over the military draft and the war that went with it, plus a lot of marketing opportunities for music and clothing.
The US economy back then was still a roaring industrial engine. The comforts of that bygone time are legendary. You could easily support a family on an assembly-line job. College was cheap as hell — my State U charged about $500-a-year for tuition and room-and-board. (Imagine that!) You could hide-out from the draft there, too. The new birth-control pill turned campus life into a non-stop orgy with classes for R & R. Is it any wonder that the hippies morphed so easily into hedge funders?
This time around it’s pretty ugly for the youth demographic. College for them turned out to be a life-altering swindle, burdening the young with unpayable loans that can’t even be escaped via bankruptcy. Even the sex angle was ruined by vindictive feminism and the trans fad. Work is scarce and it’s nearly impossible to make a living at it, that is, pay for food and a roof over your head (and, ugh, those loan repayments!). Plus, work is mostly found only in meaningless service to despotic corporations. The most enterprising might land a job in an NGO, but the work there is “activism,” which is pretend work, productive of nothing but the acting-out of grievances.
These grievances, it has been noted by many high-toned observers like VDH, are real enough to provoke a desperate reach for remedies, and communism is a ready-made portfolio for all that. In the 1960s, we still had the reverberations of the civil rights crusade setting a basic moral tone for hippiedom. But fifty years later, that has all mutated into a race-and-gender hustle that adds so much piquancy to the recycled communist agenda. (Note that a hustle is a low-grade racket, and a racket is an effort to get something for nothing.) So, today’s communist program is not just a war against the injustices of capital, but a jihad against the Western Civ horse that capital rode in on, and most particularly the white horseman up in the saddle.
Hasan Piker, the present guru and demigod of the movement, put it pretty plainly in a Twitch-stream a few years back when he was rising to stardom on Uncle Cenk Uygur’s Young Turk Network. “We want more immigrants to come into your countries and then they’re gonna fuck your sisters and then your daughters — we’re here to destroy the White race, bitch.” Piker is also a leading amplifier of Jew-hatred and other calumnies such as the USA “deserved” the 9/11 attacks. Apropos of our action in Iran, Piker quipped, American soldiers should be shot at like cattle (link).
Piker is rumored to have earned over $6-million on Twitch. He’s quite tall (6’4”) ripped, and a snappy dresser, often sporting old-fashioned sport-jackets with a necktie (dress for success?) and is probably catnip to the cat ladies of Gen Z, who comprise the bulk of the activist corps of the rising Gen Z Democratic Socialists — as the communists have styled themselves to avoid stimulating any action around the Communist Control Act of 1954 (50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844), which categorizes the Communist Party per se as “an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States.”
Altogether, Hasan Piker and the Democratic Socialists pose quite a vexing problem for the pathetic, old, square, bloviating chuds in the Democratic Party of the Chuck Schumer / Cory Booker ilk. Other bloggers (e.g., Jeff Childers at Coffee & Covid) have observed that Democratic Socialism is the monster that the Dems have been working on sedulously for more than a decade in their Frankenstein lab of Gramscian cultural overthrow. The monster has escaped and is now out on the highways and in the hedges terrorizing the public.
You are surely aware that the entire regular agenda of the Democratic Party has for some time been patently insane. They are still wasting the nation’s patience with debates over the self-evident idiocy of men in women’s sports, resistance to the deportation of illegal immigrants, and their obviously evil opposition to voter ID. Communism is just the icing on that fruitcake. The recent primary election victories of such prodigies as Abdul El-Sayed, Melat Kiros, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, along with the ongoing capers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani pretending to govern New York City, must be giving the old guard the vapors.
And yet, the most pathetic actual commie among them, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the Jewish, Israel-hating alte kocker, abides and even thrives in his new role as Godfather to this hatch of larval communist youth. This is Bernie’s revenge on the party that robbed him of two presidential nominations. He’s doing what all good Jacobins do — what they live for! He has sentenced his old comrades of the DNC to death. He’s stuffing his old enemies into the tumbrel and carting them off to the public square for execution. They can see it coming and it’s giving them the heebie-jeebies. And finally, of course, the Mamdanis and El-Sayeds and their spawn will come for Bernie, too, leaving only AOC in the ensanguinated ruins to become America’s Eva Perón. Wait for that!
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Some politically charged words become part of our common vocabulary almost overnight. “Globalism” is a timely example. Ten or fifteen years ago, calling someone a “globalist” didn’t have much effect. Today, it is well understood as a pejorative that highlights someone’s allegiance to international institutions over those created within a nation state.
Although the term has been used in various academic circles for more than a century, it didn’t become part of our common political parlance until anti-Establishment conservatives in the United States and Europe found it a useful taxonomic description of their ideological opponents. In hindsight, it is surprising how long the word “globalism” remained dormant and hidden away in the context of political speech and debate.
During the Cold War, however, the world was divided between the Soviet Union and the United States, between communism and freedom, between closed economies and open markets. To the extent that nationalism and globalism were distinguished from each other, academics and political leaders did so under the umbrella of the Cold War contest between East and West to gobble up as many nation states as possible. Both sides embraced a “domino theory” of geopolitics in which partisans fought for global domination, one nation at a time.
There was, however, an intentional, albeit rarely described, linguistic shift from the 1950s forward. In newspapers and scholarly essays of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, “nationalism” and “patriotism” were largely used interchangeably. Following WWII, “nationalism” increasingly acquired a negative connotation until eventually becoming a proxy word for “fascism” or “Nazism.” In our current age, prominent political and academic leaders speak of “nationalism” as if it were a virulent form of racism, imperialism, and authoritarianism rolled into one malevolent philosophy. In contrast, until rather recently, “patriotism” retained a positive meaning, even though its Greek roots describe a person’s connection to “fellow countrymen” and the “fatherland.” If only one of these two words — “nationalism” or “patriotism” — were to survive WWII unchanged, a reasonable person might have wagered that “nationalism” seemed more innocuous and less “problematic” for contemporary sensibilities and therefore more likely to endure with its politically neutral meaning intact. “Patriotism,” on the other hand, with its emotional appeal to the “fatherland,” might have appeared more objectionable. Instead, “nationalism” was eventually demonized for its semantic connection to the “national socialism” of the Nazi Party, while “patriotism” was embraced as an essential quality for Western citizens fighting the Soviet Union’s communist expansion during the Cold War. This was not a historical accident.
After WWII, there was a concerted effort among political and intellectual leaders in the West to use the destruction from two catastrophic global wars as a profound moral argument for charting a new course for humanity. Framing the carnage of those wars as the natural result of unbridled “nationalism,” architects of the post-war world put their faith in international institutions. The United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the European Union all emerged immediately after WWII but so did a thousand new international bodies constructed to do everything from standardizing industrial production in factories around the world to regulating the movement of people and goods across borders. “Internationalism” was sold as an antidote to war and therefore became almost synonymous with “peace.” The dichotomy between “nationalism” and “internationalism” was much easier to advance publicly than a contrast between patriotic love of country and an unpatriotic hatred for one’s countrymen. The United Nations decided that patriots could be internationalists. Nobody asked out loud whether internationalists could be patriots.
This paradigm has remained attractive for its simplicity but never made much sense.
For starters, German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese imperialism (in which an absolute monarch was worshipped as a deity) were not inherently dangerous because their proponents organized power through national governments. They were dangerous because they were totalitarian in nature and compelled citizens to sacrifice themselves completely in the interest of the State. Had the Germans, Italians, and Japanese strongly believed in limiting government power and maximizing personal freedom, respect for individual rights would have kept expansive authoritarianism in check.
It is illogical to assume that international forms of government are somehow more humanitarian or philanthropic than national forms, just as it is illogical to assume that national forms of government are more just and capable of representing citizens than local municipal governments. One might ask what the difference is between the Green Party in Germany demanding total civilian obedience to “global warming” mandates and a group of international ambassadors demanding the same thing through the Paris Climate Accords. Are the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change somehow less totalitarian because international bureaucrats are regulating the behavior of both Germans and non-Germans alike?
Would we not describe the great empires of the past as “globalist” or “international” in nature? Did Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, or Cecil Rhodes not swallow up entire nations when they expanded the territorial dominions of their respective empires? How does one distinguish those global empires from modern equivalents such as the European Union or the United Nations? Surely the average European, Asian, or African finds it just as difficult to object to an edict coming from the E.U. or U.N. as it would have been for Europeans, Asians, or Africans of the past to resist imperial edicts from faraway capitals. Had Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, or Queen Victoria described their empires as “united nations,” would their conquests have been considered more just and peaceful?
In other words, have we not simply rebranded imperialism as “internationalism” and pretended that the rhetorical distinction represents “progress”?
This brings us to the current day, when we are finally having a meaningful debate regarding the merits of “nationalism” versus “globalism.” As has become all too evident in recent years, globalists really do wish to dispense with the nation state. But they are not content with merely replacing national governments with international institutions. Decades of open borders policies in North America and Europe reveal globalism’s true goal: to eradicate the vestiges of culture and history that bind a nation’s people together. In the United States, it is quite common to see immigrants flying their “home” flags in sports stadiums, while mainstream news pundits describe the American flag as a form of “white supremacy.” Across the United Kingdom, government officials are cracking down on citizens who wave British flags. On both sides of the Atlantic, globalists berate citizens for not embracing “multiculturalism.” We have finally reached a point when “patriotism” is demonized just as much as “nationalism.”
Without nations or patriots, where does that leave us? It leaves us with continental landmasses filled with strangers. Instead of people bound by common history, culture, religion, values, language, and family, North America and Europe are being transformed into spaces defined by absolutely nothing. America’s new immigrants want to do away with the political ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Europe’s new immigrants insist on replacing all the Christian churches with mosques. Both continents are heading for a future when tribes of distinct peoples will fight for political power within turbulent territories that remain nations in name only. Does anyone really believe that they will put aside their disagreements and obey the international proclamations of the United Nations or the European Union?
Eighty years of “internationalism” have destroyed the most natural political order that has ever existed: the nation state. Now entire continents are filled with immigrants whose incompatible cultures ensure future conflict. And instead of recognizing how destructive their policies have been across the West, globalists have the audacity to ridicule nationalists as threats to peace. The most important lesson from WWII was not that nations are bad but that totalitarian government is evil. Globalists sacrificed the former and embraced the latter. Westerners will now have to defeat globalism, too.
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On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed the EO Ending Birth Tourism spelling out the purpose, authority, definition, scope, and exemptions contained within this EO:
Section 1 - Purpose - Citizenship embodies a sacred bond between the people and its nation and carries profound rights, privileges, and responsibilities. It is not a commodity to be acquired through calculated exploitation and evasion of Immigration Laws. Birth Tourism operators use deceptive advertisements and inducements to entire foreign national to travel to the US for the sole purpose of giving birth on US soil.
The immigration laws of the United States establish discrete categories of temporary nonimmigrant visas to allow foreign visitors into the United States for study, exchange, temporary employment, tourism, and other transitory activities that are now exploited by birth tourism operators. Participants in birth tourism schemes abuse these categories to establish a permanent foothold in the United States by securing the advantage of citizenship for their children and then potentially for themselves.
Birth tourism undermines the integrity of US Immigration Law by enabling foreign nationals to exploit temporary admission to gain permanent immigration-related benefits. The US has a vested interest in ensuring each visa category is used for its intended purposes. Those seeking temporary admission to the US must adhere to US Immigration Law.
It is the policy of the US to promote the integrity of its immigration system, ensure nonimmigrant visa classifications are used for their intended purpose, and prevent exploitation of the US immigration system through exploitation of the system.
Section 2 - Authorities - Presidential authority under 3 USC 301 and Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 USC 1185(a) section 215(a) is delegated to the Secretary of State or Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this EO.
Section 3 - Definition - Birth Tourism is defined as (a) the entry of any foreign national into the US via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on American soil; or (b) any effort by any foreign national to facilitate the entry of any foreign national into the US via a nonimmigrant visa for the purpose of giving birth on US soil.
Section 4 - Scope and Implementation - The Secretary of State or Secretary of Homeland Security shall update rules, policies, operational guidance or other operational materials to comply with this EO. All other relevant departments and agencies will provide requested records to the two Secretaries.
Section 5 - Exemptions - The Secretary of State or Secretary of Homeland Security may exempt a foreign national from this EO when it is in the best interest of the US as determined by either Secretary.
🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL, STEPHEN MILLER JUST CONFIRMED IT:
"That practice of birth tourism is — as of the signing of this executive order — hereby BANNED!" 🔥
"To have a child, make that child an automatic citizen, leave our country...it gives them access, under this broken system, to… pic.twitter.com/UBbZeEvOIj
Of course, there are already calls for lawfare against this EO!
🚨 WOW! The Fake News claimed President Trump's executive order against birthright citizenship tourism is illegal and Stephen Miller IMMEDIATELY began citing the specific US federal statute that gives 47 that power
Section 1 - Purpose - On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Barbara, 609 U.S. ___, 146 S. Ct. 2438, 2449 (2026), that the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution extends the privilege of citizenship to children born to parents in the United States “for whom no extraterritorial fiction applie[s].” This order identifies, non-exhaustively, and prescribes action concerning certain categories of children of aliens who do not fall within the rule of birthright citizenship as announced by the Supreme Court.
Section 2 - Policy - No US executive department or agency shall issue documents recognizing US Citizenship or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments, persons when neither parent of the person is a US citizen AND any of the following apply:
Either parent is an alien enemy, including members of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially Designated Global Terrorist
Either parent of that person is a foreign government employee to include ambassadors; persons employed by a foreign embassy or consulate who are nationals of that foreign country;
Persons employed by a foreign government in an official capacity; persons employed by an international organization that possesses international-organization immunity;
Either parent is engaged in a commercial transaction to purchase or access birthright citizenship or engaged in fraudulent activity to obtain citizenship:
when the parent engages in a commercial transaction to ensure that the person's mother is present in the US or a territory of the US to give birth or
the parents engage in a commercial transaction with a surrogate present in the US or a territory of the US to give birth or
the person is born in a territory or territorial waters of the US where citizenship is not conferred by Federal statute.
Section 3 - Enforcement - The Secretary of State, US AG, Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commissioner of Social Security are directed to take all appropriate actions to ensure the regulations and policies of their respective departments and agencies are consistent with this order. They will also ensure all their employees act in concordance with this EO.
The accompanying Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Ends Birth Tourism and Protects the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship explains that this EO safeguards American citizenship and ends birth tourism especially after SCOTUS screwed the US Citizens by allowing anyone born in our country to be a citizen even when the parents are citizens of foreign countries. This EO is intended to protect the value of American Citizenship as a priceless and profound gift. America is unique in the world, there is no other place like it. Finally, this EO is yet another in a long line of EOs signed by President Trump that puts Citizens first and works to restore our immigration system.
.@POTUS: "We had a very unfortunate decision in the Supreme Court concerning birthright [citizenship]... so we're making adjustments."
President Trump is signing two Executive Orders to protect the meaning and value of American citizenship after Trump v. Barbara:
On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed the Proclamation Adjusting Imports of Polysilicon and its Derivatives into the United States which starts by declaring polysilicon as a base material for America's semiconductor and solar-power supply chains. The Secretary of Commerce has provide a report of findings on the effects of importing polysilicon and derivative products in which the Secretary advised that these imports threaten to impair US national security. In order to ramp up production of semiconductors a steady supply of polysilicon is necessary. Because the US outsourced this necessary supply, those foreign governments had increased their production (over 270%) creating a global oversupply and eroding US capacity for production falling from 50% of the global supply in 2005 to less than 2% by 2024 for polysilicon and 37% in 1990 to 10% in 2024 for semiconductor wafer fabrication necessary for solar programs. The Secretary recommended a range of actions from the establishment of a minimum import price (MIP) to a 15% I rate of duty to incentive programs for US companies to produce polysilicon and derivatives. After evaluation, President Trump concurs with the Secretary's assessment and makes the following directives:
Based on this report and these assessments, President Trump proclaims:
Implement MIP of $21 per kilogram for polysilicon; $100 per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers; $0.22 per watt for solar cells; and $0.28 per watt for solar modules while authorizing the Secretary to adjust the MIP as market conditions require.
MIP shall be effective on or after 12:01am ET on December 4, 2026. US Customs and border Protection (CBP) shall permit importers to present documentation MIP at US ports of entry. Undocumented imports shall be subjected to a tariff equal to the MIP. For documentation that is less than the MIP, a tariff shall be applied equal to the difference between the amount entered on the entry documentation and the MIP.
CBP shall monitor and enforce accuracy of importer documentation. If falsehoods are present in the documentation, the importer may be permanently banned from importing polysilicon and its derivatives into the US. CBP may impose penalties consistent with applicable law.
Imports of polysilicon ingots and derivatives shall be subject to an additional 15% ad valorem rate of duty after 12:01am on December 4, 2026.
The duties imposed shall continue unless expressly reduced, modified, or terminated and apply in addition to all other duties, taxes, fees, extractions, and charges applicable to polysilicon and its derivatives. Products of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, or a member nation of the EU subject to these tariffs shall have a HTSUS rate equal to 15%. For products of the UK, the rate shall be 10%.
The Secretary, in consultation with senior executive branch officials, is authorized to approve onshoring plans as described herein. Onshoring plans approved by the Secretary, shall not incur 232 duties. The Secretary is authorized to take all actions deemed appropriate to implement and effectuate this program including issuing regulations, rules, guidance, and procedures. The Secretary is tasked to monitor and enforce all onshoring plans.
All products, except those admitted under domestic status as described in 19 CFR 164.43 will shift to 19 CFR 146.41 after 12:01am on December 4, 2026.
Modifications to HTSUS deemed necessary by the Secretary (in consultation with Secretary of Homeland Security, Trade Representative, Chairman of the US International Trade Commission, or other senior executive branch officials) necessary to implement this proclamation shall be made through notice in the FR.
The Secretary is authorized (in consultation with Trade Representative and Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing) to determine whether a trading partner has established an equivalent MIP and adjust the MIP and tariffs for that trading partner.
The Secretary shall monitor imports to determine if any trading company is stockpiling polysilicon or its derivatives before the effective date of this proclamation. If a trading company is doing this, the Secretary shall join with the CBP to restrict imports by that company and its affiliates. The Secretary shall inform the President of further need to alter this proclamation.
Both the Secretary and the Secretary of Homeland Security are directed and authorized to take all actions necessary to implement this proclamation.
CBP is authorized to take appropriate measures, consistent with applicable law, to administer the tariffs and MIPs imposed by this proclamation.
On August 6, 2026, the White House published the release Fraud.gov: Track the Trump Administration’s Relentless War on Fraud against people who are scamming and looting American Taxpayers. The new website, The Fraud Ledger, will make the findings of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud (discussed in my March 17, 2026 ANP Article) visible to anyone who takes the time to look. So far, the Task Force has uncovered almost $230B, stopped $56B of payments, and enforced $55B in indictments, settlements, and civil penalties. These legal actions have received hundreds of indictments and convictions. The release then lists, by date starting February 25, 2026 and going through August 4, 2026, that details individual situations and their current status. The release concludes:
The Trump Administration will not rest until every scheme is exposed, every recoverable dollar is returned to the American people, and public trust is restored. Under President Trump and Vice President Vance, the era of unchecked fraud is over.
🚨 NEW: THE FRAUD LEDGER IS LIVE
$229+ BILLION uncovered - and counting. The first transparent public record tracking fraud, waste, and corruption exposed by the Trump Admin’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud since January 2025.
On August 7, 2026, the White House published the Fact Sheet President Donald J. Trump Announces Billions in New Deals and Investments to Power American Mining to bolster American mining with $2B in critical mining and mining-related projects and over $100M in mining school investments and $81M in grants for South Dakota School of Mines, Colorado School of Mines, and John's Hopkins RTX Partnership. In doing so, President Trump is recognizing the fact that more than 1/2 of the current mining workforce is planning to retire over the next 3 years but mining schools only graduate about 170 engineers each year. President Trump continues prioritizing domestic critical materials and the supply chains that get them where they need to go to be used in various manufacturing processes. President Trump has focused on restoring the American mining industry which, in turn, strengthens our economic security.
NEW: President Donald Trump announces $100 million in funding for U.S. mining schools to train the next generation of American miners.
"Accredited mining programs in the United States now graduate less than 170 mining engineers each year, while China graduates more than 3,000.… pic.twitter.com/3JftuWOqqy
On August 6, 2026, the White House published the release Private Sector Answers President Trump’s Call to Lower Prices for American Families after years of being battered by inflation. President Trump's leadership and call for others to follow has resulted in lower prices by major named players in various goods and services needed by American consumers.
On August 6, 2026, President Trump hosted the US Winter Olympics and Paralympics athletes in the White House. The athletes could not keep the grins off their faces as they listened to President Trump laud their skills, determination, fortitude, and personal & team achievements. After he announced each win, he specifically sought out the Olympian who achieved the medal. The 2034 Winter Olympics will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah and the 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles, California. As a special surprise, the US Olympic Flag Bearers presented President Trump with a jacket and a pair of sneakers. President Trump said they would take a picture with everyone then make their way to the Oval Office after which each athlete would receive a special Silver Coin minted especially for Team USA.
Last night at the White House, @POTUS honored @TeamUSA's 2026 Olympians with exclusive American Eagle Silver Coins featuring the Team USA privy mark. A fitting tribute to their excellence and to the unmatched craftsmanship of the @USMint.
On August 6, 2026, President Trump signed the Proclamation National Purple Heart Day, 2026 (last discussed in my August 7, 2025 ANP Article) in honor of those who were wounded or killed during combat in defense of our Nation. General George Washington bestowed the first Purple Heart in 1782. It is our nation's oldest military award. We honor the sacrifice of our warriors in presenting this award. President Trump writes:
As we continue to celebrate 250 years since the founding of our great country, we recognize that the Independence we cherish today was secured by the blood, sweat, and tears of the men and women who answered the call to defend it. Today, and every day, we salute our American warriors who bear the Purple Heart and whose courage carried forward the enduring blessings of freedom. We recognize the families who share in their sacrifices. Above all, we pledge to never forget their service and to forever honor their indelible legacy.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim August 7, 2026, as National Purple Heart Day. I call on all Americans to observe this day by honoring the courage and sacrifice of our Purple Heart recipients and expressing gratitude to our veterans.
President Donald J. Trump delivers a message on National Purple Heart Day. 💜
"We express our tremendous gratitude to every American warrior & veteran who has received the Purple Heart… We say God bless them, God bless our military, & God bless the United States of America." pic.twitter.com/vdiVpjX5Zp
On August 7, 2026, the White House published the President Action Nominations Sent to the Senate nominating the following 21 individuals:
Leslie Becera, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation.
Justin Bytheway, of Utah, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of Tonga.
Marc Dillard, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Madagascar, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Union of the Comoros.
Michael Doyle, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for a term expiring April 27, 2031.
William Flens, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Chad.
Natasha Franceschi, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Nicaragua.
Steven Gillen, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kyrgyz Republic.
Charles Goodman III, of Florida, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Togolese Republic.
Keith Heffern, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Gabonese Republic.
Dennis Kirk, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of the Interior.
Mary Lazare, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Aging, Department of Health and Human Services.
Jessica Long, of Virginia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
Peter Lord, of Florida, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Benin.
John McIntyre, of Texas, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Malawi.
Julia Nesheiwat, of Florida, to be Ambassador-at-Large for the Arctic. (New Position)
Nutan Patel, of California, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Cabo Verde.
Michael Rigas, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for the remainder of the term expiring January 20, 2027.
Michael Rigas, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States for a term expiring January 20, 2031. (Reappointment)
Danielle Thumann Severs, of North Carolina, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission for a term of five years from July 1, 2024.
Robert Stebbins, of New York, to be Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
Loren E. Sweatt, of Virginia, to be a Member of the National Mediation Board for a term expiring July 1, 2029. (Reappointment)
158 Presidential Orders, Memoranda, Determinations, Permits, and Notices
On August 6, 2026, the FR published the EO 14417 Establishing the President's Military Spouse Commission which was signed August 3, 2026 (discussed in my August 4, 2026 ANP Article)
Jennifer Hegseth, Chairwoman of the first-ever Military Spouse Commission: “Thank you, Mr. President, for putting military families first.
To all the military spouses and families, I want you to know you have an incredible group of women working on this.” ❤️🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/KuvPMDHGHF
All the talk about 'we won't go on our scheduled break until the SAVE America Act passes' was simply talk. A few Senators got soundbites out of it; but, in practice, they all held on to their assigned roles in thwarting the 80/20 will of We The People.
Elections are in November and I will NOT vote for an incumbent who did NOT vote to pass the SAVE America Act.
🚨 NOW: The Senate has scheduled nearly a DOZEN PRO FORMA sessions during summer recess through the middle of September, no SAVE America Act passed
They will be held roughly every 3 days.
Now, if the SAVE America Act is passed after, it can NOT take effect for the 2026… pic.twitter.com/YWHN1GNxVg
The HOUSE will reconvene August 10, 2026 at 11am. Since the Senate passed a piece of legislation that needs to return to the House before going to the President, I wonder if they will have enough time to pass it or if they'll wait another 3 days to hold another pro forma session.
The SENATE convened on August 6, 2026 at 10am and adjourned at 9:43pm. They held NO votes.
The SENATE convened on August 7, 2026 at 10am and adjourned at 4:56am on August 8, 2026. They held 9 votes.
Vote 231 - On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed - S5271 - A bill to amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require voters to provide photo identification - Rejected - 52-46 with 2 members not voting: McConnell (R-KY) Welch (D-VT)
Vote 230 - On the Nomination - PN1078 - Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General received June 8, 2026 - Confirmed 50-49 with one member not voting: McConnell (R-KY)
Vote 229 - On the Cloture Motion - PN1078 - Todd Blanche to be Attorney General June 8, 2026 - Agreed to 50-49 with one member not voting: McConnell (R-KY)
Vote 228 - On Passage of the Bill - HR6500, as amended - An act making continuing appropriations and extensions for fiscal year 2027, and for other purposes. - Passed 90-6 with 1 member voting present: Graham (R-SC) and 3 members not voting: Lankford (R-OK); McConnell (R-KY); and Tillis (R-NC)
Vote 227 - On the Motion to Table - SA6747 (Budd) - To strike section 2019 to SA6732 to HR6500- Agreed to - 61-32 with 7 members not voting: Boozman (R-AR); Cotton (R-AR); Cramer (R-ND); King (I-ME); Lankford (R-OK); McConnell (R-KY); and Tillis (R-NC)
Vote 226 - On the Cloture Motion - SA6732 - In the nature of a substitute to HR6500 (Collins) - Agreed to - 91-6 with 1 member voting present: Graham (R-SC) and 2 members not voting: Lummis (R-WY) and McConnell (R-KY)
Vote 225 - En Bloc nominations provided for under the provisions of SJR817 (74 nominees identified in my August 2, 2026 ANP Article) - Confirmed - 51-47 with 2 members not voting: Lummis (R-WY) and McConnell (R-KY)
Vote 224 - On Passage - HR5334, as amended - An act to impose sanctions and other measures with respect to the Russian Federation, as championed by the late Senator Lindsey O. Graham, and for other purposes - Passed - 86-11 with 3 members not voting: Blackburn (R-TN); Lummis (R-WY); and McConnell (R-KY)
Vote 223 - On the Amendment SA6715 (Paul) to SA6711 to HR5334 - To strike the provision relating to duties on countries that purchase Russian-origin crude oil or natural gas or facilitate sanctions evasion - Rejected - 32-64 with 3 members not voting: Blackburn (R-TN); Kelly (D-AZ); Lummis (R-WY); and McConnell (R-KY)
So, the last thing the SENATE did before they ended their almost 19 hour marathon session is vote to close the motion and take the vote to amend the 2002 Help America Vote Act to add Voter ID requirements. It failed along party lines. They did not even bother to address the already completed bills that contained more than just voter ID that are sitting on Senator Thune's desk:
S1383 Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 “Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act” or the “SAVE America Act”.
More Kabuki Theatre! Force the Senate to stay in session for 19 hours, then as the very last vote before adjourning, vote on the Voter ID Amendment to the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (who came up with that one) instead of ANY of the existing Acts. It is almost like they are daring We The People to "do something about it". Some of them are up for re-election in November.
If they aren't voting for the 80/20 Voter ID issue,
A California judge, Jennifer K Rockwell, upheld the Attorney General's ballot title for Proposition 39, the state's voter ID initiative, keeping language that says the measure "prohibits citizens from voting unless they present government-issued identification." The court said "voting" means more than simply submitting a ballot. Because Proposition 39 requires voters to present ID for a ballot to count, the Attorney General could accurately describe the measure as prohibiting voting without government-issued identification.
A federal three-judge court, Grant, Ruiz, & Becerra, has upheld several Florida legislative districts that were challenged as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders, finding that lawmakers did not make race the predominant factor when drawing the districts. . . . the Legislature largely followed municipal boundaries, geography, and other neutral redistricting criteria, so strict scrutiny need not be applied.
A federal judge, Emily C Marks, denied the Southern Poverty Law Center's bid to dismiss its criminal indictment on claims of vindictive prosecution, allowing the case to move forward. The court also refused to let the SPLC obtain discovery into the Justice Department's prosecutorial motives. She concluded that the SPLC failed to produce objective evidence that the prosecutors who brought the case acted with unconstitutional animus. Without that showing, the court held, it was entitled to neither discovery into DOJ's motives nor dismissal of the indictment.
On August 7, 2026, the White House published the release ICYMI: Statement from President Donald J. Trump containing President Trump's response to this ruling noting that 2 of the 3 judges were appointed by Obama and the 3rd appointed by Biden. Two of these 3 voted against the military center being built under and over the new White House Ballroom. He does praise Judge Neomi Rao's stance that this ruling was a blatant abuse of discretion wherein the district court elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government's security interests. Judge Rao goes on to point out that this ruling forces the White House, which is the President's home and office an unsecure open construction site. Judge Rao called this judicial overreach and said that construction should be allowed to continue. President Trump vows to fight this travesty of 'justice'. President Trump has decided to appeal to SCOTUS as well as focusing on the fact that both above and below the new Ballroom will be military assets and the district courts do not have the authority to stop the military protection of the White House.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just went berserk on the leftist judges who struck down his White House ballroom, calling the ruling “a NATIONAL SECURITY THREAT at the HIGHEST LEVEL”
“Two Judges, one appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, the other by Sleepy Joe Biden, said in a ruling… pic.twitter.com/Cn3wYyHwyI
America First Legal has filed with SCOTUS to evaluate the 2020 Census claiming that the Census favored blue states and unfairly withheld electoral votes from GOP states. In addition, America First Legal is calling for SCOTUS to hold the Census Bureau to the Constitutional standard of an actual enumeration. I think they should put the citizenship question back on the census as well. Only US Citizens should be counted for Congressional allocation.
🚨 UPDATE: America First Legal has just filed with the US SUPREME COURT to fix the botched 2020 Census, which favored blue states and unfairly withheld Electoral Votes from GOP states
SCOTUS should do the right thing and ORDER it be fixed 🇺🇸
SCOTUS Judge Samuel Alito has announced he will NOT be retiring. Both he and Justice Clarence Thomas continue to serve our country as they make rulings based on our founding documents, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
🚨 NOW: Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito announces he's NOT RETIRING, and will stay on for another term — WSJ
INCREDIBLE NEWS!
This patriot is on a GENERATIONAL run with Clarence Thomas making the right rulings for the Constitution and our civilization 🇺🇸
Trump Administration Adviser Stephen Miller is fed up with the lower courts usurping the authority of the Executive Branch and he is calling upon SCOTUS to address what is happening in these rogue courts.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. Stephen Miller just UNLEASHED on the judicial coup, saying the Supreme Court must step in IMMEDIATELY
"There's a CRISIS in the courts, and the Supreme Court better get WISE to it, because they are ALLOWING these rogue district courts and these rogue circuit… pic.twitter.com/q0xzlevnbD
Note - Sensitive PRC Reporting from 2018-2020 DECLASS_REDACTED - in this document, the CIA summarizes a 'sensitive' report as follows: According to the CIA, the PRC policy leveraged domestic and foreign actors opposed to President Trump to reduce his efficacy and force him to resign or prevent his re-election in 2020 (which is what happened). The PRC actually began their work influencing our elections in 2018 based on what they could steal from our election systems about the 2016 election. The PRC exerted influence over individuals who had the ear of senior US officials. These individuals were invited to China for speaking engagements for which they were paid a significant amount of money and the engagements included first class travel and accommodations. They targeted think tank officials, academics, and former US government employees with a goal of having these people speak on behalf of China to the US President and other politicians. By 2019 the PRC had determined that they should focus on swing states in their goal of subverting the will of We The People. While the CIA does not explain the 'how' the PRC managed to undermine confidence in President Trump, we can see from the results that they were successful in 2020.
PDB 25JUN2020_DECLASS_REDACTED - the majority of this document is redacted; however, this document reports that the PRC attempted to blackmail US administration officials the PRC deemed to be anti-China in an attempt to force them to act at the behest of the PRC.
PRC (People's Republic of China) - there are 5 documents in this grouping:
Analysis on US Voter Registration Information - clean - declass marked_Redacted - this document found that voter documents from the 2018 election cycle was used for mining PII (personally identifying information) of registered voters in order to identify US citizens for conducting opinion analysis.
PRC Collection of US VoterMilitaryData - clean - declass marked_Redacted - this document found that the PRC had PII of US Citizens contained in the US Consumer database, US Voter Registration database, Georgia & Iowa State Voter Registration databases, and registered US Military Personnel Information database. [And they want us to go totally digital when they can't even keep hackers out of the US Military Personnel Information database?]
Target 2024 Election 2023 - clean - declass marked_Redacted - this is another of those almost totally redacted documents indicating that US Intelligence Operatives thought the PRC was preparing to target the 2024 US elections especially concerning swing states.
U.S. Presidential Election-Related Intelligence in 2020 - clean - declass marked_Redacted - this document details the type of information against which US Intelligence Operatives were implementing countermeasures to safeguard the 2020 election. The Operatives indicated that social media was used to obtain mail-in voting processing maps and procedures, policy change maps, policies altered by the COVID-19 debacle, and a process timetable between election results and inauguration.
US Voter Data 7 States 2023 - clean - declass marked_Redacted - this document indicates that 2020 voter data was purchased from cities in Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina as late as 2023. [So the irregularities extended into the 2024 election cycle?]
Summary -
clean - declass marked PART 1 - this document covers the topics the PRC would use to exploit We The People using the economic recession:
encouraging violent demonstrations and looting giving the appearance of social unrest
calling into question President Trump's ability to govern [I remember a lot of this was being foisted upon our unsuspecting populace by the propaganda media]
undermining the legitimacy and public support of President Trump [and it's still happening, propaganda media is 90% or more negative when reporting on anything concerning President Trump including accusing him of cheating in his recent golf win!] and
using COVID-19 to undermine public support and question President Trump's fitness
The PRC also used social media like TikTok, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media platforms as well as a variety of overt and covert influencers and media contributors [I'm sure you can name many that were most likely part of this effort!]
The PRC also targeted senior US government officials with social media in an attempt to smear their work.
clean - declass marked PART 2 - this document goes into a little more detail as to the topics the PRC exploited ahead of the 2020 elections:
Racial tensions: implying White people hate Black people; inciting demonstrations and marches [we were calling them mostly peaceful protests]; instigate conflict between police and activists; and insinuate resentment of law enforcement against people of color.
Foment tensions within the US military;
Inflame political party disagreements;
Spur conflicts between Congress and President Trump [and it looks like they're still doing this!];
Goad people on women's rights;
Stir up conflict about the South China Sea policies (Taiwan);
Rabble-rouse for alleged US war aspirations [still happening]; and
Create international propaganda.
clean - declass marked PART 3 - this document covers the PRC's interests in pushing the elimination of the 2nd Amendment (gun proliferation) and immigration policies:
Inciting migrant community against the US government;
Instigating demonstrations for human rights and promoting the idea of violations of the human rights of migrants [so this is where the no human is illegal comes from?];
Inflaming animosity between anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant factions; and
Causing anti-immigration demonstrations.
Frankly, I see much of this propaganda continuing as we move into the 2026 elections; however, I do note that it is slightly reduced most likely due to funding issues (thank you DOGE!), change of ownership of X (formerly twitter), and similar factors.
Tasking_3_AlbanyBriefingHandout_297E_HQ_A4095996_NotSerialized-JET-R RELEASE MARKED - this document contains a variety of charts, graph, decision trees, policy guides, and flowcharts used to both collect the data and then evaluate the vast amount of data collected.
US Voter Registration for 6 States - clean - declass marked_Redacted - on January 14, 2022, the voter registration information from US commercial websites were hacked to download information concerning voters in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. One record from Ohio failed to download. It appears that voter registration information from at least 2013 through 2021 is publicly available for download and it is known that one PRC hacker downloaded everything available. The PII included names, party affiliations, email address, physical address, and phone numbers.
WHTF Government Transparency - States Statement FINAL - This is the first disclosure of declassified intelligence reports by the Government Transparency Task Force. At least 18 states had their voter registration databases infiltrated by the PRC. More than 200 million voter records were compromised. The following states have been identified as having election infrastructure vulnerabilities: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Rhode Island. There may be others; but these are the only ones named in this first disclosure.
A new release on election integrity shows Arizona’s largest county had a major election data breach just DAYS before the 2020 presidential election. A self-described hacker bypassed security and stole 633,000 voter registration files - but the Biden DOJ declined to charge him. pic.twitter.com/Z5PdT6yxqa
Virginia says it will not remove noncitizens on their voter rolls less than 90 days out from the next election.
🚨 HOLY SMOKES. It's been exposed that the state of Virginia — after finding thousands of noncitizens on the voter rolls — will NOT remove ANY more noncitizens from the rolls less than 90 days out from the federal elections
Chef and restaurateur, Andrew Gruel, is featured in the premiere episode of The Real Food Show (discussed in my August 4, 2026 ANP Article). He joins The Secretary Kennedy Podcast to discuss why real food can be more affordable, more nutritious, and easier to prepare than many people realize.
It's not about buying a new knife set and it's not about having all the top notch materials and equipment, it's about just understanding intellectually how food works.
Chef Gruel started in the restaurant business by chance, returned to post-secondary education to focus on the food industry, and finally opened his own business called Slap Fish with the motto fish so fresh it will slap you. The business went from 1 location to 45 or so locations that he sold in 2022. During the pandemic, Chef Cruel was outspoken about what he thought about all that and the State of California took issue with his words, so they slapped him with a labor investigation covering 23 different LLCs that contained his name. After spending over $125,000 on defending himself, the state abruptly dropped the lawsuit (which happened the same day the governor's recall was approved).
Now Chef Gruel and his wife have a youtube channel and began his own podcast called American Gravy where he teachers how to make your own Doritos. Their videos are geared for the whole family because it's never too early to teach children how to cook. Chef Gruel sees food as the great unifier and every family has stories that revolve around food.
Chef Gruel brought up the fact that he had to cut seed oils out of his diet because they were creating health issues. Through changing his diet, he discovered that making the food yourself is ultimately both cheaper for your wallet and healthier for your body.
Chef Gruel suggests buying the cheapest cuts of meat because they still include the fat, such as flat iron cuts from the shoulder, skirt steak, flank steak, hanger steak, oxtail, these are all meats that you braise for long periods of time so that the fat breaks down (like in a crockpot). Also, while some things are more expensive, they typically last longer because you need to use less of them to get the same result. The expense is in the effort you need to put in to do it yourself.
When buying unknown cuts of seafood, make sure you check the label. The US requires much more stringent labeling on seafood packaged in the US. For cooking fats, save the bacon grease and fats from the meats that are released as they are cooked. These will taste better and last longer than store-bought fats made from seed oils. You can also make your own condiments. For example, mayo can be made from a bit of avocado oil, a dash of Dijon mustard, 2 eggs, and some lemon juice. Blend with an immersion blender for about 15 seconds and you've got mayo. You can do the same with salad dressings.
Please feel free to post your own recipes in the ANP Diner:
Those are some of the exact words used by Google’s censors, aka 'Orwellian content police,' in describing many of our controversial stories. Stories later proven to be truthful and light years ahead of the mainstream media. But because we reported those 'inconvenient truths' they're trying to bankrupt ANP.
