President Donald Trump pulled Vice President JD Vance from negotiating with Iran, asking him to focus on blue-state corruption instead.
Trump declared, “We don’t need a deal with Iran,” in a post on Truth Social, ordering Vance to “focus his complete and total attention” on mismanaged Democratic cities and states. Up until Trump’s announcement, Vance had served as a lead negotiator between the United States and Iran alongside Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.
“I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.,” Trump wrote. “The Blue States, such as Minnesota, California, Illinois, and many more, are all poorly run, corrupt disasters. Billions of Dollars is being stolen each and every month.”
“Our Budget could be quickly BALANCED with the correction of this large scale criminal activity,” Trump added. “CORRUPTION is in the Democrat Leadership’s blood!”
Trump dismissed the idea of reaching a deal with Iran in the future, saying “those days have long since passed.”
“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Vance has already been leading the administration’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which was established in March. The task force’s role is to investigate and identify fraud across the country.
The task force has already identified hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fraud across numerous states, including California, Minnesota, New York, and Maine.
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Tuesday’s midterm results set off a wave of Monday morning quarterbacking from pundits and Republican politicians, many of whom are already looking past the remainder of President Trump’s historic term to position themselves for the 2028 nomination. There is no sugarcoating the results: Republicans lost convincingly. But beyond the doomsday messaging and the less-recognized causes of defeat, the reality that the results will have little impact on Trump’s effectiveness has been largely missed.
First, although much was rightly made about the historic trends regarding an incumbent president’s party in previous midterm elections, that narrative has since been wrongly discarded. Instead, more controversial narratives — such as who in the president’s Cabinet is suddenly in the hot seat — have been overemphasized to generate more clicks and views.
Second, though President Trump stood by Vice President J.D. Vance’s assessment that the war, and subsequent increased fuel prices, played a key role, he also noted Republicans would have won if he had been on the ballot, and his presidential victories prove this. Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024 ushered in majorities in both chambers, and likely would have in 2020 if a fair and accurate result had occurred. In contrast, Republicans “underperformed” in 2018, 2022, and now 2026 despite Trump’s ever-increasing popularity, irrefutably proven by consistent increases in vote totals across his three presidential elections.
The less recognized reason this trend recurs is that the “Republican” Party is actually two ideologies — Republican and MAGA — operating under one name. Republicans are said to “underperform,” a term defined as “to perform less well than expected.” Given the nation’s evident love for MAGA but lack of an appetite for do-nothing Republicanism, their repeated uninspiring showings are not an underperformance, but rather one that is to be somewhat expected.
Therefore, if it was primarily about gas prices, as the vice president and others assume, Republicans would have won far more seats in 2022, when prices were at record highs going into Election Day. That election also followed the Afghanistan withdrawal, a wide open border, and more. But that was not the case, because not all Republicans are MAGA.
Lastly, perhaps the most important issue — yet one that has received virtually no mention — is the lack of security in our election processes, making some results less than completely trustworthy. Aside from Trump in 2020 and 2024, and Ted Cruz in 2024 thanks to Trump’s coattails, James Talarico received more votes than any other candidate in Texas history.
Trump’s and Cruz’s totals can be plausibly explained: an extremely popular president in high-turnout elections carrying a down-ballot candidate with him. The same cannot be said for Talarico’s. This was a midterm, when turnout is generally 30 percent lower than in presidential elections, in a state that has not voted for a Democrat in a statewide election in more than thirty years. Talarico also ran on a platform antithetical to traditional Texas values on God, oil, LGBT issues, and more. Yet the reported totals indicate he received more support than Texas native President George W. Bush during his election victories, and even presidential candidates from his own party, such as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, in the last two general elections. It is suspect, to say the least.
Taken together, it’s hard to treat the results as a rejection of Trump’s agenda.
Since Tuesday evening, “right-wing” media have demoralized many about Trump’s final two years, but very little will change in practice within the Executive Branch. Republican majorities were undoubtedly preferable, but Trump was never depending on Congress to make the second half of his term successful. Due to the ideological split within the party he revived from the ashes in 2016, Trump has seldom been able to rely on congressional Republicans to advance the agenda voters elected him to enact, leading him to rely heavily on executive orders.
For example, Trump needed Congress to pass two key pieces of legislation. The OBBB — which made his first-term tax cuts permanent while removing taxes on tips, Social Security, and overtime — was signed into law after unnecessary infighting on July 4, 2025. Yet by the time the Iran incursion began in March, Republicans had allowed roughly seven months to pass without enacting the SAA, which would have required proof of citizenship to register to vote, required photo ID to vote, and greatly curtailed mass mail-in voting, measures that virtually every demographic supports.
Since they refused to pass Trump’s lone key remaining piece of legislation, it is possible that Trump, identifying their ineffectiveness at best or deliberate negligence at worst, asked himself the same question much of MAGA did: How important is it to preserve a majority if it refuses to wield the power it currently possesses? He may ultimately have determined that sacrificing a largely useless majority was a comfortable price to pay for preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Ironically, their inaction made Republican retention of Congress even less likely for two reasons: Voter fraud — which exclusively benefits Democrats — was allowed to persist, while that same inaction simultaneously angered voters and made congressional Republicans even more unpopular.
Almost unbelievably, Trump has already delivered on an astounding amount of campaign promises, not even halfway through this historic term. He ended the border invasion and launched the largest deportation effort in American history. He deployed the National Guard to major cities as the nation experienced an 18-percent reduction in murders, bringing the murder rate to its lowest level in recorded history. He also reworked countless trade deals that will make America more prosperous long into the future, even well beyond the conclusion of his term.
This is in addition to perhaps less important, but ultimately noteworthy in terms of restoring the spirit of American exceptionalism, beautification projects that have, in some instances, cleaned or added to landmarks in our nation’s capital, or, in one instance, resulted in the creation of a new one. All of this was done with the stroke of a pen while Congress spent much of the year on recess.
Without the expectation among voters that he work with Congress, or a potential re-election to concern himself with, Trump can set his sights fully on more executive orders to deliver on his remaining priorities. These include bringing a complete end to the war in Iran, which will be the catalyst for bringing down gas prices and inflation — something he already proved himself capable of addressing by the one-year mark of this term after inheriting an affordability crisis from Biden. Other priorities include further mass deportations and the continuation of negative net migration, which occurred for the first time in fifty years, as well as continued renegotiation of unfair trade agreements.
Once more, all can be accomplished exclusively through the Executive Branch, and all will go a long way toward cementing his place as one of the greatest presidents in U.S. history.
Donald Trump is an innovator. This was on display during his first term, when Democrats refused to provide his requested funding to continue the border wall, prompting him to declare a national emergency at the southern border. This allowed him to use funds already approved by Congress for the military, since border protection was considered a military-related necessity. If his remaining initiatives face similar roadblocks, we can expect more innovative thinking to deliver for the American people.
There was only little celebration when Republicans won back the House in 2022, because Joe Biden was still the “president.” Conversely, since President Trump is in office, there should be little pessimism now. It is true that he will be a term-limited president presiding over his final two years without majorities. But the term “lame duck” is synonymous with ineffectiveness, fecklessness, and defeatism — all qualities antithetical to the man Trump has long proven himself to be, whose defining quality may just be that of a fighter.
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Between an expected bitter government funding battle coming up in December 2026, and some Winter surprises predicted by the Farmer's Almanac for 2026-27, as well as the state of unrest we see with political protests from the violent left, it amazes me to see the statistics on the state of, or lack of, to put it more accurately, preparedness across American households.
According to the Farmer's Almanac, this Winter will have some issues from one end of the country to the other, as show in the key points below.
• El Niño is expected to remain an important influence through the heart of the season, favoring wetter-than-normal conditions across much of the southern United States.
An active storm track may extend from Southern California and the Desert Southwest through Texas, the Gulf Coast, and the Southeast. These areas should watch for frequent storm systems, muddy fields, and occasional surges of cold air.
• Fast-moving clippers, sudden cold snaps, and brief snowy periods are likely, although milder breaks may frequently interrupt the wintry weather. Farther north, the Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes could experience sudden snow squalls, blustery winds, and bursts of bitter cold.
The middle of the country may also see frequent swings between thawing and freezing, creating rapidly changing road and field conditions.
• The Northeast may face one of the season’s most complicated winter patterns.
Coastal communities could receive more rain or mixed precipitation, while inland areas may be hit by several rounds of heavy, wet snow—particularly during January and February.
Small shifts in storm tracks and temperatures could make the difference between rain, sleet, freezing rain, and accumulating snow. Residents should be prepared for forecasts to change quickly as storms approach.
A zone by zone extended forecast for each region and individual states can be found at this link.
As we have witnessed over the past decade, liberal/Democrat protests have quite often turned violent and ugly, and a recent protest at Elon Musk's home had Fox News noting that "The demonstration reflected growing coordination among leftist networks worldwide, from Paris to Portland, Ore., supplying organizers, transportation, coalition partners, event platforms, messaging and other logistical support for actions presented as "grassroots." As Democratic politicians threaten investigations into Trump's corporate backers, including Musk, the street protests help create the appearance of bottom-up support."
This weekend's organizers helped lead the "Tesla Takedown" protests that sometimes turned ugly last year. According to a Fox News Digital investigation, 258 organizations with combined annual revenues of an estimated $2.6 billion were behind those protests.
Recent reports show that these are the same groups fueling the very violent protests that we have been reading about and seeing via video in France, so media claims that these protests are "mostly peaceful," is nothing more than the MSM covering up for violent leftists and lying about who is behind them.
As can be seen at the Global Incident Tracker, which tracks the last 24 hours of incidents, there are protests, demonstrations and "rallies," being held from one end of the nation to the other, daily. As we have all seen, many of them turn violent once liberal groups become involved, whether Antifa, or Democratic Socialists of America, or any of the hundreds in between.
Breitbart recently reported "Sales of prepping staples like tinned meat and water has soared in Britain since the government told the public they have to be ready for an unspecified coming crisis," yet in the U.S., many continue to be woefully unprepared for any type of emergency or disaster, whether natural or man-made.
ANP recently suggested we get back into the survival mindset, listing and linking to emergency survival foods, water, and first aid kits, but there is far more involved in getting prepared as much as possible before any type of crisis hits than just food and water.
I recently ran across a report from Survival Lab that highlighted how unprepared most Americans are for even a severe weather event that could leave them in the dark for days or even weeks.
Some key points:
• Only 22% of U.S. households own a portable generator, and there is three times higher generator ownership in rural areas vs. urban areas.
• Only 5.6% of U.S. households have a permanently installed standby generator.
• Roughly 55% of U.S. households do NOT own any form of backup power, portable or standby.
No surprise that people in rural areas are far better prepared for severe weather, or any type of disaster than those in urban areas, but is also indicative of where unrest is most likely to occur should a wide-spread electricity outage, or cyber attack, or any other type event that would cause a power outage, were to hit unexpectedly.
Whether you live in a rural area or a big city, a simple thing like a back up power source should top the list of must-haves.
Since any type of longer-than-normal power outage will almost certainly affect ones ability to get gas, today we'll be suggesting mostly solar generators, given they generally do not require gas, unless they have both gas and solar functionality.
GENERATORS - BEST BY PRICE AND REVIEWS...
After researching different brands, as well as the customer reviews, as well as price comparisons, here are some of the best found, from smaller ones for apartments or small homes, RV's or trailers, to ones that can sustain larger homes with more appliances, which of course are more expensive, but worth the money after just the first power outage, whether it lasts hours or days.
Whether it is a weather related event such as the Snowmageddon events in 2010, 2015 and others, a natural disaster, a terrorist attack, physical or cyber, or just a regular power outage lasting longer than your perishables will, being prepared guarantees you will be better off than anyone that is not prepared.
Below the video, is a list of links to food, water and first aid kits from the previous survival piece , for those that want to refresh their stocks and either didn't see it or haven't ordered yet.
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House Republicans elected Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan Tuesday to become the party’s next leader after Speaker Mike Johnson chose not to run for minority leader in the next Congress.
Jordan ran against House Majority Leader Steve Scalise to become the next minority leaderin the 120th Congress. Both Jordan and Scalise campaigned on fighting Democrats who are expected to launch investigations into President Donald Trump rather than focusing on tackling the cost of living, high gas prices and government corruption.
“We can expect Democrat legislation to wreak havoc on every sector of our economy and transform time-tested American institutions,” Jordan said in a Nov. 4 “Dear Colleague” letter. “Meanwhile, Democrats have already signaled their true intentions. Each Democrat-led committee will turn its full attention to investigating every facet of the Administration and private entities across the country.”
“House Democrats are about to unleash the most radical ‘oversight’ agenda we have seen in years. Yes, they will seek to impeach President Trump, but their focus will extend far beyond the Oval Office. They have made clear they will undertake a comprehensive approach that will target President Trump’s family, key cabinet officials, and any ally who has supported our America First agenda, including outside conservative partners and industry leaders,” Scalise continued. “Make no mistake: they will weaponize every single gavel.”
Voters handed Democrats major wins during the midterm elections as they soured on Trump’s handling of the cost of living and the Iran war. Twenty-seven percent of young people believe they are in a worse financial situation than their parents, particularly while the typical median age for a first-time home buyer in the U.S. is 40 years old, according to the Harvard Youth Poll from Oct. 22.
The average price of gas was $3.97 per gallon as of Tuesday, while Diesel prices were $6.15 per gallon, according to AAA. The average price was $3.07 per gallon in the previous year.
Members of the House Freedom Caucusand hardline Republicans backed Jordan, who co-founded the caucus alongside eight other Republicans. The caucus is made up of conservative lawmakers focused on advancing limited government, fiscal conservatism and populist policies.
Freedom Caucus members protested against House leadership’s votes during Johnson’s time as speaker. Members of the Freedom Caucus, including Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy, voted against a rule in September to protest the passage of the continuing resolution (CR) particularly because it delayed a ban on hemp THC products.
Scalise is viewed as the more establishment candidate by comparison. He was elected as majority whip in 2014 and served as House minority whip from 2019 to 2022. He became House majority leader in 2023.
House GOP candidate forum: Jim Jordan says conference members need to “give space and grace” for their colleagues to vote their districts, multiple sources tell me
Jordan became chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in January 2023.
Scalise and Jordan ran for speaker after the House ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in October 2023, although neither received the votes to assume the role. Scalise defeated Jordan by a vote of 113 to 99 on Oct. 11, 2023.
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