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March 22, 2026 - Loyola University Student is shot and killed by illegal alien from Venezuela

Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman murdered by Venezuelan illegal alien Jose Medina-Medina (Credit: Gateway Pundit)

Another innocent young American woman has been murdered by one of Joe Biden’s illegal aliens.

Very early Thursday morning, 18-year-old Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman was shot and killed near campus in Chicago.

A masked gunman approached a group of students walking in Rogers Park and opened fire.

Gorman was shot in the head and died at the scene.

On Sunday it was confirmed that the masked gunman who killed Gorman is a 25-year-old illegal alien from Venezuela who entered the US under the Biden Regime.

Police took Jose Medina-Medina into custody.

Per Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: DHS confirms that the suspect in custody for murdering Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman in Chicago is a Venezuelan illegal alien who was caught & released at the border by the Biden administration in May 2023. DHS says he was also released from local custody after a shoplifting arrest in the sanctuary city of Chicago on June 19, 2023.

The Department of Homeland Security blasted the Biden Regime.

“Sheridan Gorman had her whole life ahead of her before this cold-blooded killer decided to end her life. She was failed by open border policies and sanctuary politicians who RELEASED this illegal alien TWICE before he went on to commit this heinous murder,” said Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

“We are calling on Governor Pritzker and Chicago’s sanctuary politicians to commit to not releasing this criminal illegal alien from jail back into American neighborhoods,” the DHS said. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 3/22/2026)  (Archive)

March 23, 2026 - Arizona: Former Maricopa County Recorder under investigation for obstruction

Stephen Richer (R) was the Maricopa County Recorder in Arizona from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2025. (Credit: Democracy First)

Arizona lawmakers revealed during a committee hearing that Maricopa County’s former recorder, Stephen Richer, is being investigated for obstruction.

The investigation into Richer was disclosed during last week’s House Federalism, Military Affairs, & Elections Committee meeting. The committee discussed an investigation by the office of State Rep. John Gillette (R-LD30), chair of the committee, into Arizona’s voter registrations. The findings of that investigation were packaged as part of a criminal referral to the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

As part of his layout of the criminal referral packet, Gillette touched on an action by Richer in which the former recorder, while president of the Arizona Association of County Recorders (AACR) in 2023, advised other county recorders to not comply with a records request from Arizona lawmakers concerning the 2022 election.

“Stephen Richer telling recorders not to comply with the legislative public records request. That is not a glitch. That’s on purpose,” said Gillette.

State Rep. Rachel Keshel (R-LD17), vice chair of the committee, asked Gillette whether Richer reaching out to all of the county recorders qualified as obstruction. Keshel characterized Richer’s recent public engagements as a “CYA campaign.”

“Is there something there that he broke the law by telling other recorders to basically obstruct on that point? Is anything being looked into on that front?” asked Keshel.

Gillette disclosed that he discussed Richer’s actions with former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and “her assistant,” and that Richer was being investigated for that communication with other recorders. (Read more: AZFreeNews, 3/22/2026)  (Archive)

March 23, 2026 - Part 1 "House of Singham": Neville Singham's mega-exposure

March 23, 2026 - John Brennan's former Chief of Staff during Russiagate, turns CEO vying for Dept. of War contracts

John Brennan’s former Chief of Staff At The CIA During “Russiagate” Is Now Sneakily Trying To Acquire Government Defense Contracts Under Trump’s 2nd Term🚨

Cc: @POTUS @DeptofWar @SecWar @PeteHegseth

@Bloomberg just dropped a glowing puff piece on Brian Carbaugh, portraying him as some heroic “tech-savvy spy” transitioning from the CIA to CEO of Andesite, a Virginia-based data analytics (cybersecurity/AI SOC) startup.

The article, which was followed by Brian Carbaugh’s Bloomberg TV appearance, hype his journey from his time as an undercover spy in the Middle East to now working in boardrooms, raising capital, and building a company with “human-centered” AI for security.

See archived article here.

Carbaugh wasn’t just any CIA officer. He served as Chief of Staff to John Brennan, the former CIA Director under Barack Hussein Obama who orchestrated and pushed the entire Russia collusion hoax against President Trump.

Brennan’s team, including key staff like Carbaugh, played central roles in the weaponization of intelligence to undermine Donald Trump’s 2016 Presidential campaign and presidency with spying, leaking, and pushing the bogus Steele dossier narrative that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and divided the country.

Now, Carbaugh is running Andesite, which is actively pursuing government contracts. Shockingly, under the Trump administration, Andesite has achieved FedRAMP High “In Process” status to sell into federal agencies, and they are now positioning themselves to receive DoW/intel community work and contracts. @DeptofWar

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A company led by someone tied to one of the biggest political scandals and abuses of power in modern history wants access to taxpayer-funded contracts and sensitive government data.

Brian Carbaugh shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near federal contracts. People involved in the Russia collusion hoax—whether directly or as senior staff to its architects—should face permanent bans from government work, security clearances, or any role involving public funds/intel.

This is the Deep State rewarding its own. We must end the culture in Washington DC of engaging in politicized intel ops and then turning that abuse of power into lucrative startup deals from the very government they once manipulated.

America deserves better than handing the keys and massive amounts of money to more Defense contractors within John Brennan and Barack Hussein Obama’s inner circle.

How about no contracts, no clearances, and no more second chances for those who abused power and engaged in a coup against President Trump, a sitting US president?

Secretary of War Hegseth @PeteHegseth should block Andesite from obtaining any @DeptofWar contracts!

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March 23, 2026 - About Data Republican exposing the Deep State...and to those who refuse to see it

I am a huge Data Republican (small r) (“DR”) fan. I know many of you are as well.

But I’m not sure everyone fully understands the sheer bravery, brilliance and audacity of this deaf every-woman.

You see, the government you elect is not what actually governs you.

For every area of government (no matter how specialized or arcane), there are powerful lobbying groups, think-tanks, non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), specialized media outlets, university-sponsored centers and other ostensibly “independent” organizations that act and behave as an unaccountable form of government outside the reaches of the electoral process. While these organizations claim to act in the public interest, each and everyone of them is a self-serving oligarchy that is designed solely to promote the interests of those on the inside–genuine public interest be damned.

This is America of course, and freedom of speech and freedom of association are fundamental to our freedoms. However, over many decades, these organizations have found “legal” ways to obtain trillions of your taxpayer dollars in the form of “grants” for “studies,” “policy symposiums” and all manner of other taxpayer-funded activities designed specifically to circumvent the policies the American people VOTED FOR and to perpetuate policies and activities that the average American has explicitly rejected.

These activities occur on both the Left and the Right, of course, but over time they have become the near exclusive domain of the Left. These organizations serve as taxpayer/Soros-funded, income-generating activities for Leftists whenever they are out of power, and if/when Leftists seize control of the Presidency or Congress, these organizations are the proverbial bullpens from which powerful Leftists full of the ideas you thought you once eliminated can storm right back into the actual process of governance, implementing all of those dark and mysterious policies that your tax dollars were secretly funding while the Leftists were otherwise off howling in the wilderness.

Call it the Deep State. Call it unconstitutional. Call it theft of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars. Call it the evil of the Soros family. Call it what ever you will, but know this—it is a monstrous Leviathan sitting right outside the scope of your votes, dedicated to negating your votes at your own expense, in the most diabolical manner possible.

It is the state outside the state. It is self-serving. It does not care about you. It only cares about itself. And its power is VAST.

You see it right here on X—you see the swarms of fire ants that come spilling out with destruction in mind whenever anyone uncovers the anthill they are lurking under.

And right at the heart of that is our hero, DR.

I have been actively following politics virtually my entire life, and never before has there been anyone quite like DR. Through dispassionate data analysis, the smart use of AI and a relentless drive for fairness and justice, DR has done more to shine a light on the nature of this extra-governmental Leviathan than any other person I can ever recall.

For her efforts, she has been doxxed by a mendacious Rolling Stone article. She has endured a concerted effort to destroy her husband’s totally unrelated business. She and her husband have received LITERALLY THOUSANDS of death threats. She and her family had to go into hiding.

An ordinary woman would have backed down in fear.

But not DR. They just made her mad. And an angry genius is an enemy no one wants to face. She still stares them down, day in and day out.

Her book will be out soon. Buy it. Buy copies for your friends. Buy copies and leave them on street corners and airport tables. AMERICANS NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH. DR’s book may well end up being the most important and influential American book on politics since “Common Sense.”

If America is going to survive, we must ALL shine a bright light on this extra-governmental Leviathan, grab a hold of its fangs, and drain the venom out of them.

This is not playtime people. This is life and death. We glorify the warrior who does great deeds on the battlefield, as we should. But know that bravery comes in many forms, and as DR has stood in the fire and endured real threats to her life and existence, her audacious bravery is every bit as real as those heroes we see being decorated by the President.

Right now, in the USA, no unelected person is doing more to ensure freedom than Data Republican. You can support her by subscribing to her account, but you can also support her by being as brave as she is.

I aspire to maybe show such bravery myself some day. We all should aspire to that.

One day she will earn the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Together we can defeat The Beast.

CP, Bennett’s still playing the “just give me one example” game like it’s 2016 and nobody’s mapped the NGO blob yet.

DR has dropped truckloads of receipts—taxpayer-funded grant networks, revolving-door personnel spreadsheets, 501(c)(3) money-laundering diagrams, AI-assisted org charts showing how the same handful of left-leaning foundations & “non-profits” staff entire shadow cabinets whenever Dems lose power. Not to mention how the money is distributed.

No one needs to be spoon-fed anything from her buffet of data. All this fool needs to to is scroll her feed for five minutes (which I just did) and he would see the whole monster laid bare: Atlantic Council, Aspen Institute ecosystem, New America, endless “democracy” NGOs that somehow always end up pushing censorship, open borders, or climate lockdowns while cashing seven- & eight-figure government checks.

The reason this fool or any other can’t see a “Deep State” example is the same reason fish don’t see water—it’s the entire environment they’re swimming in. DR turned on the lights. Instead of thanking her (or at least engaging honestly), he’s doing the classic lib or bot routine: demand proof, ignore the mountain when it’s handed to you, then claim it doesn’t exist.

Cynical you are 100% right: her timeline is the proof. He and everyone who doubts anything that DR says or presents should read her timeline instead of demanding someone hold their hand through it. The data doesn’t care about anyone’s incredulity.

Keep going, CP and DR—because as we are seeing, the swarms are only get angrier as the map gets more and more accurate.

March 23, 2026 - Miranda Devine: We’re still learning the full rot of the Russiagate scandal

(…) Independent journalist Catherine Herridge’s searing interview with longtime Trump ally Michael Caputo last week gives you a glimpse into the Kafkaesque nightmare he endured at the hands of Mueller and his henchmen, such as Andrew Weissman, Brandon Van Grack, Zainab Ahmad, Aaron Zelinsky and Walter Giardina.

The FBI investigation into Caputo only ended after he made a personal appeal to Trump last December, he says.

There are so many others like Caputo who deserve accountability.

First come the revelations. Gradually, we are learning more details about the unprofessional atmosphere in the Mueller office.

Walter Giardina (Credit: public domain)

One of the central players was Giardina, a “very liberal” FBI agent who was fired from the bureau last year, according to new insights from a colleague who worked with him on the Mueller probe.

Giardina, who performed financial tasks in the special counsel office, was outspokenly biased against Trump, was convinced the lurid allegations in the discredited Steele dossier were true, and believed the president was a Russian agent, said his former colleague, who has been interviewed by the FBI.

“Walter Giardina was very liberal in his politics and very biased in his discussions about political matters and in how he felt about people in the Trump administration,” said the unnamed agent.

“Giardina was convinced this [Russia collusion] was the biggest investigation in the bureau and was a true believer. Giardina read and believed the Steele dossier.”

The “Steele dossier” was a Hillary Clinton campaign smear sheet concocted by British former spy-for-hire Christopher Steele that falsely alleged Trump had participated in “golden showers” with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel and was being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin.

These new revelations about Giardina’s anti-Trump hostility confirm previous claims by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that he was the FBI’s “Agent Zero,” who kept popping up in numerous anti-Trump operations.

Giardina played a “significant role” in the prosecution of Trump advisers Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino and Roger Stone, the Hillary Clinton cases, and in various “Get Trump” operations such as Arctic Frost, Crossfire Hurricane — and Mueller’s investigation, for which he received an award.

Grassley last year wrote to AG Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, providing whistleblower allegations of Giardina’s “misconduct while on the taxpayers’ dime that ought to be investigated.”

The fact that Giardina harbored animosity toward Trump and his allies comes as no surprise to one of his victims, Navarro, a trade adviser to Trump in both presidencies.

Giardina arrested Navarro at Reagan Airport in Washington, DC, in 2022 as he was about to board a plane.

“He wouldn’t let me call a lawyer,” Navarro recalls bitterly, after spending four months in prison in 2024 for failing to comply with subpoenas from Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 star chamber.

“He put me in leg irons for a misdemeanor. He perp-walked my wife.”

“Giardina is the Forrest Gump of anti-Trumpism in the deep state, and he needs to be held accountable.

“He’s the single most important witness to uncover the orchestrated attack on Donald Trump and his lieutenants.”

Navarro’s assessment appears to be buttressed by the new recollections provided by Giardina’s former Mueller colleague.

Giardina has retired into obscurity, but he just might be drawn into the “grand conspiracy” investigation led by US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones in the Southern District of Florida.

(Read more: New York Post, 3/23/2026) (Archive)

March 23, 2026 - Mayor of Chicago: “We cannot put people in jail anymore. It’s racist”

So if they won’t arrest criminals, this is a result:

March 24, 2026 - NJ Governor visits mosque run by a radical imam convicted of funneling money to Hamas

New Jersey’s Democratic governor, Mikie Sherrill, who ran as a “moderate,” visited a local mosque on Friday whose cofounder was convicted of funneling money to Hamas.

She met with a cleric who has called for a “new intifada” and faced deportation proceedings over his own alleged ties to the terror group, @chuckrossdc reports.

Sherrill, sporting a head covering, visited the Islamic Center of Passaic County for Ramadan services, photos posted to social media show.

She met with Imam Mohammad Qatanani and described the mosque as a “community with the five pillars of Islam that is constantly looking to do good works.”

An Israeli jury convicted him in 1993 of being a member of Hamas, according to court filings from the Department of Homeland Security, prompting federal officials to file several deportation cases against him.

The mosque’s cofounder, Mohammad El-Mezain, was convicted in 2009 of funneling money to Hamas through the Holy Land Foundation.

March 24, 2026 - Government and university officials testify about espionage threats on college campuses

Government officials, university officials, including University of Michigan interim President Domenico Grasso, and a Stanford University student who has accused China of espionage on campus, testified at a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing on national security threats on college campuses. Topics included regulating foreign influence on college campuses, securing university research and intellectual property from foreign adversaries, efforts to lure university students and researchers to adversarial nations, and reporting requirements for foreign gifts and contracts.

The Chinese Spy Pipeline at the University of Michigan is SO BAD that multi-prong federal investigations are underway — and Congress is now fully involved

The worst part? UMich Interim President Domenico Grasso didn’t even care to look into the Camp Grayling spying incident. “They are just undergrads”

Watch him admit this to Congress last week
Why won’t UM do a full audit of compromised research and IP?

Not after Camp Grayling Chinese spying
Not after Detroit airport bio-smuggling
Not after the researcher dead post-FBI questioning

Instead, UM’s own union tells suspected spies: DO NOT cooperate with law enforcement

Taxpayer-funded treason on Michigan soil. Shut it down. #UMich #ChinaThreat #NationalSecurity

Same UMich. Same Chinese nationals. How many MORE red flags?

5 Chinese UM students (Shanghai Jiao Tong spy pipeline) caught at Camp Grayling photographing military vehicles, classified gear & Taiwanese training exercises. Lied to feds, deleted WeChat evidence.

Now: researcher dead after questioning + UM union tells spies: DON’T cooperate.

Infestation. Taxpayer-funded treason. Shut it down. #UMich #ChinaThreat

More info:

(Michigan News Source, 6/6/2025)

March 24, 2026 - Chuck Grassley releases Arctic Frost records; reveals Judges Boasberg and Beryl Howell worked with Jack Smith to prosecute Trump

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today delivered remarks at a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Arctic Frost, Jack Smith’s failed election case against President Trump that began at the Biden Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Grassley additionally made public new Arctic Frost records provided by the Department of Justice and Verizon, including two of Smith’s subpoenas for now-FBI Director Kash Patel’s phone records. Grassley released the documents alongside Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights.

Video and a transcript of his remarks follow. (Senate Judiciary Committee, 3/24/2026)  (Archive)

Full hearing with the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights 

Senators Grassley and Johnson Release FBI Surveillance Subpoena on Kash Patel, Potentially Used for Control Leverage

March 24, 2026 - Plaintiffs win the Missouri vs Biden censorship lawsuit by a Consent Decree

Senator Eric Schmitt (Credit: public domain)

We just won Missouri v. Biden.

As Missouri’s Attorney General, I sued the Biden regime for brazenly colluding with Big Tech to silence Missouri families — censoring the truth about COVID, the Hunter Biden laptop, the open border, and the 2020 election. They tried to turn Facebook, X, YouTube, and the rest into their private speech police, labeling dissent “misinformation” while they pushed their narrative on the American people.

Today, after years of unrelenting litigation, we deep state into a historic 10-year, court-enforceable Consent Decree. It directly binds the Surgeon General, the CDC, and CISA: no more threats of legal, regulatory, or economic punishment. No more coercion. No more unilateral direction or veto of platform decisions to remove, suppress, deplatform, or algorithmically bury protected speech.

Missouri struck first—and Missouri won big.

This is the first real, operational restraint on the federal censorship machine. It locks in the First Amendment principle we fought for: modern technology doesn’t erase your rights, and government labels don’t strip speech of protection. The deep state just got checked.

For every working Missouri family tired of being silenced by their own government: this victory is yours. The heartland fought back, and the heartland delivered.

Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit, Esteemed Drs., Win Missouri v. Biden Case Brought Before the U.S. Supreme Court – Government Settles, Agrees to End Biden Censorship Tyranny

March 24, 2026 - John Brennan on MS Now: "Well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump"

It’s beyond parody that a former CIA director could be so out of touch, simply because he disliked an election outcome. This was a gathering of the so-called ‘morons’ on MS Now—true, that’s often the case, but this time, it was a particular brand of idiocy. They had John Brennan, Obama’s former spy chief, who arguably went rogue during the Russia investigation, claiming he would trust Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, over Donald Trump.

John, are we experiencing dementia, or are you just getting your shots in before your probable indictment for giving false testimony about the Russiagate hoax, especially regarding the Steele dossier?

Trump launched Operation Epic Fury almost a month ago, where we’ve destroyed Iran’s navy, its nuclear weapons ambitions, and the core of its political and military leadership. The cream of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps is gone. The Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, is dead, and his son is pretty much half dead. Its ballistic missile capability has been severely degraded; its infrastructure and manufacturing base are being dismantled. This regime will collapse. But there’s been a pause as talks reportedly resumed on a new deal between the US and Iran.

“Well, I tend to believe Iran more than I do Donald Trump, because he could not acknowledge the truth even when it—he’s slapped in the face with it repeatedly,” said Brennan on MS Now.

(Read more: Townhall, 3/24/2026)  (Archive)

March 25, 2026 - The NSA intercepted Ukraine government messages with USAID in Kiev, discussing plot to route money to Biden re-election

The “narrative” here is a classic case of alleged foreign election interference via U.S. foreign aid — but with the roles reversed from the 2016 Russia story. According to the Just the News report (published March 25, 2026), U.S. intelligence (primarily NSA) intercepted communications in late 2022 involving Ukrainian government officials and unnamed U.S. personnel connected to USAID’s office in Kyiv. The alleged scheme used a planned “clean energy” and infrastructure project in war-torn Ukraine as a front: hundreds of millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars would flow through the project, with ~90% allegedly diverted back to the United States via opaque, hard-to-trace subcontracts to benefit the DNC and Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign.

The declassified intelligence summary (obtained by Just the News) describes the plot in those terms. Officials who reviewed the files say the Biden-era IC flagged the intercepts but showed little follow-up or “curiosity” about what would constitute serious foreign meddling in a U.S. election. Gabbard’s team found no record of a substantive investigation, and they assess the communications were not Russian disinformation. Gabbard’s Actions As DNI, Tulsi Gabbard directed USAID to review its records for any matching contracts, disbursements, or subcontracting patterns that might show the plan was executed. She is also considering a criminal referral to the FBI. President Trump reposted the story, amplifying it. This fits a broader pattern of skepticism about Ukraine aid accountability during the Biden years. Billions flowed with limited real-time oversight; critics long argued some money was recycled into U.S. political or contractor ecosystems. Past inspector general reports found no massive diversion of military aid, but this intercept focuses on a specific alleged “clean energy” channel with deliberate untraceability built in. Caveats and ContextThis remains allegations based on raw intercepts of discussions — not yet proven execution or convictions.

No major legacy outlets (CNN, NYT, WaPo) have broken their own independent reporting or detailed fact-checks on this specific memo as of March 26, 2026. Coverage so far is concentrated on conservative-leaning sites (Just the News, PJ Media, Newsmax) and international wires.

It directly inverts the 2016–2017 “Russia helped Trump” narrative that dominated media and led to years of investigations. Here, the claim is Ukraine (with alleged U.S. help) schemed to help Biden against Trump using American aid money.

Broader Ukraine aid debates have included earlier unproven claims of large-scale laundering; official audits have generally pushed back on the most sweeping versions, citing oversight mechanisms.

The story is moving fast on X and right-leaning media, with calls for full transparency on USAID contracting during that period. If USAID’s review turns up matching paper trails (or a lack thereof), it could escalate quickly — potentially leading to referrals, congressional hearings, or deeper audits of 2022-era aid flows. This is consistent with Gabbard’s pattern since taking office: aggressive declassification on past intelligence controversies (including her prior releases on 2016 Russia-related docs). Whether this particular intercept leads to concrete evidence of execution or remains a “discussed but not actioned” plot will determine how big it gets.

March 25, 2026 - House Intel Committee releases hidden transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson

For the past several years I have been advocating for ‘sunlight as the best disinfectant.’ Since September of 2025 I have been working through a painfully slow and convoluted process to share research, assist truth tellers and guide those who have the authority to deliver the sunlight. Today, I can happily report on progress.

In 2019 an impeachment effort against President Trump was triggered when a member of the National Security Council named Alexander Vindman coordinated with a member of the National Intelligence Council named Eric Ciaramella to fabricate a false claim that President Trump leveraged his power and authority to demand Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy release information on Joe and Hunter Biden’s corrupt financial dealings in Ukraine.

At the time of the 2019 impeachment construct Eric Ciaramella was working for the CIA as an analyst within the National Intelligence Council (NIC).

Two years prior to the 2019 impeachment construct, in January 2017, the same CIA analyst, Eric Ciaramella, had worked on the fraudulent Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) at the behest of CIA Director John Brennan.

[SIDEBAR: In 2025 Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, working with CIA Director John Ratcliffe, removed the NIC from inside the CIA.  To provide greater overall transparency within the intelligence community, the National Intelligence Council was moved into the purview of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)].

Key point: Eric Ciaramella was one of the key analysts who constructed the fraudulent ‘Russian interference ICA’ (2017) and later the fraudulent impeachment effort (2019).  Eric Ciaramella became the “anonymous CIA whistleblower” in the 2019 impeachment effort.

Before 2019, CIA analysts weren’t allowed to anonymously make claims against political officials. Because of the sensitive information they handled, any allegation of wrongdoing based on intelligence had to be made with their name attached.

Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson changed or modified the ICIG rules permitting Ciaramella to remain anonymous and make a claim that ultimately led to an impeachment effort.

Eric Ciaramella allegedly fabricated intelligence information, shared it with Congress and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), and then remained anonymous. HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff was said to have assisted him.

On October 4, 2019, as part of the House impeachment inquiry, Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson gave closed-door testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) as part of their impeachment investigation. One of the key questions to ICIG Atkinson surrounded the authority of his office changing the CIA whistleblower rules that permitted Eric Ciaramella to remain anonymous.

During later questioning by then-Congressman John Ratcliffe, as part of the House impeachment effort, it came to light that Inspector General Michael Atkinson testified CIA analyst Eric Ciaramella, the anonymous ‘whistleblower’, had lied about key details when questioned by Atkinson. WATCH VIDEO: 

(The look on Dan Goldman’s face during that questioning was both priceless and insufferable. John Ratcliffe is now CIA Director)

Because the anonymous whistleblower complaint by Ciaramella was the cornerstone of the impeachment effort, Chairman Adam Schiff sealed the transcript of ICIG Atkinson testimony, classifying it under the guise of national security interests and burying it in the HPSCI control system.

It’s worth reemphasizing that Eric Ciaramella was both the analyst behind the disputed 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment for Director Brennan and, later in 2019, involved in the contested impeachment effort. Both operations involved impeding and targeting President Donald Trump.

If congress, or more importantly the American public, had known CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella was both the key author of the fraudulent 2016 ICA and the later 2019 CIA complaint, it’s doubtful any impeachment effort would have moved forward.

Inside the Intelligence Community oversight system, the Ciaramella connection to both IC operations could have been made.  His anonymity as a whistleblower served a purpose.  [DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s 2025 decision to remove the National Intelligence Council from behind the curtain of the CIA is additionally supported with this hindsight.]

The transcript of Inspector General Michael Atkinson’s testimony becomes a key document to release because at its core we know that Atkinson testified that Ciaramella lied.  The Ciaramella lie is at the heart of the impeachment attempt.

Don’t get lost in the details or the politics of this.  When you peel back all the layers of DC, at its epicenter this was an operation to impeach a sitting President that came from within the CIA, and it almost succeeded. {GO DEEP}

When a top administration intelligence official, holding what I believe to be the best possibility of making a difference, reached out, I began the assist by citing specific documents that would reveal a much bigger story.  The Atkinson transcript was one of those documents.

I have outlined how the silo system is constructed to intentionally impede or stop review. Adam Schiff isn’t stupid. He knew what he was doing and how to use the separation of powers for his purposes.  The executive branch would not easily be able to reach into the legislative branch and extract information.  That’s why then HPSCI Chairman, Impeachment Chairman and now Senator Adam Schiff buried the Atkinson transcript in the vault of the House Intelligence Committee.

The process.

♦ First, you need a republican President in the White House √. Second, you need an aligned Intelligence Community DNI √, and third you need a Republican controlled HPSCI √:

[¹] • To extract the transcript the Executive would first need to understand its value. • Then the Executive would need to know where it was. • Then the Executive would need a qualified stakeholder, with appropriate clearances, to request to review the transcript in the HPSCI secure compartmented intelligence facility (scif).  • If the HPSCI approved, the Executive would be given an appointment date to read it (no notes, no copying, just reading).  • Then, after reading, the Executive stakeholder would then need to request the HPSCI Chair and Ranking Member for a classified copy.  • The Chair and Ranking Member would need to agree to the value of the sunlight on the Legislative Branch controlled information. • To get a copy the entire House Intelligence Committee would need to vote on the release to the Executive.  • The vote would need to be scheduled on the committee calendar.  • A HPSCI vote would then take place:

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a business meeting to consider multiple Committee actions. During the business meeting, the Committee voted in favor of releasing two transcripts from 2019 hearings with the former Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael Atkinson. The hearings were held to examine Atkinson’s role in an alleged whistleblower complaint, which ultimately led to Democrats’ first impeachment efforts against President Trump in December 2019. One transcript would be released to the ODNI for classification review, and then subsequently released to the public by the Committee with the second unclassified transcript.

“The great deal of widespread speculation about the Atkinson classified hearing transcript is indicative of the American people’s complete and warranted mistrust of the Intelligence Community,” said Chairman Crawford. “In far too many instances, the IC hides behind the veil of overclassification. Sometimes sunlight is the best disinfectant. As part of the Committee’s continued effort to balance the transparency the American people deserve and the need to protect sensitive national security information, we hope that the release of these transcripts allows the American people to make their own determinations. As Chairman, I remain committed to ensuring this Committee, where possible, is transparent as the IC works to rebuild trust with the American people.”

The transcripts will be posted on the Committee website once they undergo the standard classification review with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  (source)

The HPSCI has voted to release the Atkinson Transcript.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard will now walk the unhidden transcript through the declassification process. The fastest way is through President Trump’s office.   Hopefully the redactions will be minimal.  Then we will all get to see it.

This has been a long, frustrating and complicated process – but we have succeeded.

FINAL POINT: You can tell this is a long arduous process. However, once the process begins, you’ll note that certain tripwires are crossed, and people in/around DC find out what you are doing.  Yes, DC ‘interests’ realized months ago that Tulsi Gabbard was on the trail of this transcript.

Now do the recent attacks against DNI Tulsi Gabbard gain context?

(Conservative Treehouse, 3/25/2026)  (Archive)

March 26, 2026 - Mark Warner: "Noncitizen voting is extraordinarily rare - The SAVE America Act is a total sham"

Speaking of “problems that are not real…”

Weren’t you part of the “Gang of Eight,” who were pushing the Trump Russian collusion hoax?

Or was that a different Mark Warner?

“The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election said Sunday that lawmakers have found “enormous evidence” of possible collusion between President Trump’s orbit and Russians during that election.”
Appearing on “Meet the Press,” Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., disagreed with the assertion by his Republican counterpart on the committeethat congressional investigators have found nothing “that would suggest there was collusion.”

“But Warner made it clear that he’s seriously concerned about a possible link between the Russians and Trump’s allies and campaign apparatus.
“I’m going to reserve judgment until I’m finished, but there’s no one who can factually say there isn’t plenty of evidence of collaboration or communication between the Trump Organization and Russians,” Warner said.
“I have never in my lifetime seen a presidential campaign, from a person of either party, have this much outreach to a foreign country and a foreign country that the intelligence community [says], and our committee has validated, intervened massively in our election and intervened with an attempt to help one candidate, Donald Trump, and hurt another, Hillary Clinton.”

https://nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/warner-enormous-evidence-contacts-between-trump-campaign-russia-n978651

The real question is this Senator:

Did you collude with McCain, Schiff, Obama, Hillary, Brennan, Comey, Clapper and Christopher Steele, to frame a duly elected president?

Did you participate in a coup and treason?

Are you an enemy combatant?

March 26, 2026 - Tim Walz sues Trump administration over ICE-involved shootings – Builds case with leftist nonprofits and the UN

The State of Minnesota has filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration in its ongoing attempt to investigate ICE and CBP agents who were involved in shootings during law enforcement activities.

The incidents include the shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two crazed leftists who attacked ICE agents, and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, a criminal illegal alien who was wounded while attacking ICE agents in northern Minneapolis in January.

Minnesota is suing for evidence and information on the shootings, for which the FBI previously denied state investigators access.

On Thursday, Tim Walz discussed the lawsuit on MSNow, revealing that he is working with the American Civil Liberties Union, pro-immigrant groups, and even the UN to build his case, while accusing the Trump Administration of human rights abuses.

He further trashed President Trump, stating that he will continue fighting for so-called justice until “the final days of this administration and beyond.”

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 3/26/2026) (Archive)

March 26, 2026 - Whistleblower exposes massive election fraud ring in CA - State supplies stolen names, gangbangers, rigged petitions, paid homeless signatures

(…) In Part II of the “Cash for Ballots” series, O’Keefe and Higby captured hidden camera footage of petitioners paying desperate homeless individuals $2–$3 per forged signature to impersonate real registered voters using pre-printed lists of actual California voter names and addresses.

(…) During an interview with Alex Jones, investigative journalist James O’Keefe said that he and associate Cam Higby have obtained whistleblower testimony from within a Democrat Party–affiliated operation.

In an exclusive sit-down interview posted on YouTube on Thursday, Cam Higby spoke with an anonymous member of the illicit operation, who admitted EVERYTHING on tape.

According to Higby, “the gangbangers obtain the lists of names from the registration office and then distribute the names to the petitioners on the streets.”

(…) Here is how the massive fraud ring operates, according to the whistleblower:

Bribing the Homeless: Petition circulators are illegally paying homeless drug addicts a couple of bucks to sign ballot initiatives and register to vote.

Widespread Identity Theft: Because valid signatures require registered voters, the fraudsters use preprinted lists of random people’s names. The homeless individuals are then paid to forge signatures using these stolen identities.

The “75% Rule”: According to the whistleblower, circulators only get their full payout if at least 75% of their signatures come from verified registered voters, heavily incentivizing them to fake the data.

GANG INVOLVEMENT: It gets worse. The fraudsters admitted that local street gangs are heavily involved, selling lists of names and acting as enforcers on the street.

The Subcontractor Loophole: The massive organizations funding these petitions shield themselves from criminal liability by using a web of “middleman” companies and independent subcontractors, keeping their hands completely clean.

Perhaps the most terrifying revelation from the interview is where the gangs and fraudsters are getting the names of the registered voters to forge.

When Higby asked where the names come from, the whistleblower dropped a massive truth bomb: they are allegedly buying them directly from corrupt voter registration databases.

“They get it from the registration office. They pay a lot of money… from the registration office directly,” the fraudster admitted on tape, calling the state offices “corrupt as hell.”

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 3/26/2026) (Archive)

March 26, 2026 - “Hands Off Iran” protest in Philadelphia cheers for American troops returning home ‘in caskets’

Sponsors of the Hands Off Iran protest in Philadelphia March 26, 2026 (Credit: Surge Philly)

Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”

Demonstrators at the “Hands Off Iran” protests in Philadelphia have carried signs condemning the war and attacking Israel, President Donald Trump, and even Democratic Sen. John Fetterman. One speaker in a video that went viral Thursday explicitly praised terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah and advocated for a “strong Iranian state” to maintain their “fighting capacity” against Israel.

In the clip filmed by Philadelphia-based conservative activist Frankie Scales, the masked speaker drew loud cheers as he declared they celebrate American deaths and called for bringing the U.S. “to its knees.

As of publication, seven American military personnel were killed or died from wounds inflicted by hostile action during Operation Epic Fury, while six others were killed in the crash of an Air Force refueling aircraft in support of the operation.

“Until we have done everything in our power to bring the United States to its knees, let us not lose sight of the enemy,” the speaker said. “For every US military base that crumbles and for every US soldier who returns home in a casket, we cheer. Hamas, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah, all of the resistance forces we celebrate, these popular forces on the ground spend every waking moment in direct confrontation with Zionism, and they rely on a strong Iranian state to maintain their fighting capacity.”

(Read more: AOL, 3/26/2026)

March 26, 2026 - The geopolitics behind Iran and beyond

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February.

Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance.

The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible.

1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork.

The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40.

Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe’s LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT.

Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD.

2nd was Syria.

The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China’s Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean.

The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed.

This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next.

3rd was Venezuela.

In January the US effectively took control of the world’s largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily.

The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone.

Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to..

4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock.

Israel struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, the world’s largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar’s Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy’s own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled.

The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States.

If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil.

This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They’re now locked into the US energy system.

The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency.

The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves.

But the US grand strategy goes deeper..

Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths.

By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China’s ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale.

The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas.

On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls..

Iran was the Belt & Road’s overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy.

Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran’s production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal.

Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass.

Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years.

Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost.

Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first.

The US is seizing all 3.

March 27, 2026 - Ethics panel finds Democrat Rep. guilty of improperly using funds for disaster relief and faces expulsion

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

House lawmakers just took a major step toward booting a sitting Democrat from Congress.

A bipartisan ethics panel voted to move forward with a process that could ultimately expel Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who’s accused of funneling millions in disaster relief money into her campaign. The panel found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty on 25 counts.

An investigative subcommittee signed off on a motion for summary judgment, essentially concluding she committed nearly all the violations outlined earlier this year.

The decision followed a rare public ethics hearing Thursday — the first of its kind since 2010 — that stretched more than six hours. Lawmakers from both parties pressed her legal team as the eight-member panel, led by Rep. Michael Guest, weighed the case.

“After careful deliberation that lasted until well past midnight, the adjudicatory subcommittee found that Counts 1-15 and 17-26 of the SAV [statement of alleged violations] had been proven,” committee leaders said in a statement.

The allegations are sweeping. Investigators say Cherfilus-McCormick improperly used funds tied to disaster relief, filed false financial disclosures, and sought “special favors” tied to earmark requests. She’s also facing a separate federal indictment.

The panel will reconvene after the Easter recess to recommend punishment, with expulsion on the table.

Rep. Greg Steube has already pledged to push an expulsion vote regardless of what the committee decides. That would require a two-thirds majority in the House, meaning Democrats would have to cross the aisle.

So far, party leadership has largely stuck by Cherfilus-McCormick. But cracks are beginning to show.

“The allegations before us are extremely serious,” Rep. Mark DeSaulnier said at the start of Thursday’s hearing. “They not only concern an individual member’s conduct, they also implicate the public’s confidence in the House’s integrity as an institution.” (Read more: Trending Politics, 3/27/2026)  (Archive)