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October 27, 2026 - FBI raids Beverly Hills mansion as part of Eric Swalwell investigation

Federal authorities raided a California mansion related to an investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., on Tuesday morning, Fox News has learned. (Credit: Fox News Digital)

BEVERLY HILLS – Federal authorities raided a California mansion belonging to billionaire Stephen Cloobeck on Tuesday morning, Fox News has learned.

The FBI targeted Cloobeck’s Beverly Hills mansion in connection with an investigation into disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif. Swalwell resigned from Congress and withdrew from the California gubernatorial race earlier this year after facing multiple accusations of sexual misconduct.

Law enforcement executed the raid at roughly 6 a.m. local time with at least two dozen agents participating. Authorities searched the massive property for several hours but offered no details about what they found.

Several people were taken out of the house in handcuffs, but they were all released soon after. Cloobeck was not at the residence at the time of the raid.

The raid was linked to a sex worker reportedly connected to the investigation.

Cloobeck is a longtime supporter of Swalwell’s political campaigns.

(Read more: Fox News, 10/27/2026)  (Archive)

October 28, 2026 - Hillary Clinton pushes for investigations into everyone connected to Trump…“His administration, his supporters and allies”

 

Twice-failed presidential hopeful confidently demanded investigations into everyone connected to President Trump, including his supporters.

Clinton made the remarks during an appearance on Kara Swisher’s “On with Kara Swisher” podcast on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s episode centered around the midterm elections: The Midterm Prep Episode: Tightest Races, Those Ohio Midterm Ads, and Remembering Pizzagate

Hillary Clinton, still bitter from her crushing 2016 loss to President Trump, trashed Trump and called for investigations into every single person connected to him.

“And [Trump] is soon going to have a Democratic trying to reign him in and hold him accountable and investigate him, his administration, his family, his supporters and allies.”

“He has literally held Republicans hostage for a decade, and that only works for so long. One day the hostages look around and say there are more of us than there is of him,” Hillary said.

“We need to take him on, and I think we could see that happen, so buckle up. The election is just the beginning,” she said.

(Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 10/28/2026) (Archive)

October 28, 2026 - Texas judge spews racial comments to lawyer and sparks an investigation

Judge Ada Brown of the Northern District of Texas testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 30, 2019. (Credit: Senate Judiciary Committee)

A lawyer’s misconduct complaint against US District Judge Ada Brown stemmed from a hearing during which she repeatedly directed racial insults at him, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg Law.

Attorney Ezra Young, who has represented a Black woman professor suing over a tenure denial, filed a complaint against Brown following the April 2026 hearing in Dallas, he confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg Law. Young’s complaint and the judge’s formal response were among the documents that Brown circulated in an Oct. 17 email to lawyers, judges, and members of the media.

Throughout the hearing, the judge, a Black woman with Native American ancestry, accused Young of mistreating Black attorneys, took “judicial notice” of her own background in making findings against Young, and repeatedly referred to Young, who is Latino, as being White. Brown called the hearing months after she revoked Young’s ability to practice in her courtroom to weigh whether the lawyer should face sanctions.

“I think what’s happening here, quite candidly, is you are very intimidated for some reason, Mr. Young, with Black excellence, in light of your White mediocrity. Yeah. Right?,” Brown said, according to the transcript. “You should write that down. I mean, you — I’m — you look like a White man, right?”

“I’m not White, Your Honor,” Young replied, adding that he’s Latino.

“Well, you are White-presenting; is that fair to say?” Brown said, according to the transcript. Young said that he’s “fair-skinned,” and Brown said that Young had “White privilege” when he argued his client didn’t receive key evidence in the case.

“You’re the White savior, come to save all the stupid Black lawyers in Texas who need your help, from New York,” Brown later said, according to the transcript.

During the hearing, Brown also implied that Young fabricated a quote in the case and indicated she’d gone through Young’s public social media profiles before suggesting that the attorney may be tracking her on social media.

Young said he was “disgusted and mortified” by the suggestion of him having an anti-Black animus, and told Brown that he was concerned about her conduct during the hearing, according to the transcript.

Soon after, Young filed a formal complaint against Brown, saying he believed the judge may be suffering from a mental health condition. The complaint helped launch a judicial investigation that resulted in her temporarily losing her docket earlier this month.

A special judicial committee has ordered Brown to undergo a psychiatric examination as part of that investigation.

Brown, a Donald Trump appointee who joined the court in 2019, didn’t return requests for comment. (Read more: Bloomberg Law, 10/28/2026)  (Archive)

October 28, 2026 - NYT reports Alaskan Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola is behind searching and recruiting a fake candidate with same name as her opponent

BREAKING: NYT reports that operatives with Democratic Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign were behind the effort to find & recruit a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent GOP Senator Dan S. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters and peel votes from him.

Specifically, NYT says they have reviewed text messages and documents that reveal in summer 2025, a Peltola staffer received instructions from campaign staffers to find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as possible.

The staffer complied, going through voter records, and compiled a list. The operation “involved secret trips to far-flung Alaskan communities and the appearance of a mysterious Midwestern operative, who traversed the state using a fake name and made his pitch to would-be candidates over beers at brew pubs.”

Per NYT:

“The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.”

From the NYT article:

Last week, as The Times prepared to publish this article, Ms. Rios, who had been planning to file a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Peltola campaign, contacted The Times and said she wanted to take back her previous statements.

“As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,” Ms. Rios wrote. “I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity.”

It is rare for a source to seek to retract comments made in previous interviews, and The Times’s standards do not obligate reporters to comply with such requests. The Times had never agreed that those previous interviews could not be published, and informed Ms. Rios last week that they would be a part of this story.

In addition, Ms. Rios’s interviews were consistent with The Times’s other reporting. She has not filed a lawsuit against the campaign.

October 28, 2026 - Kash Patel: Over 1,000 predators targeting our children arrested

This FBI is crushing 764 – a violent network that targets children online, affiliated with Nihilistic Violent Extremism.

The results:

🚨 All 56 FBI field offices mobilized
🚨 500+ subjects under investigation
🚨 Nearly 500% INCREASE in 764-related arrests in 2025
🚨 Two key leaders behind bars
🚨 One prolific member sentenced to 77 YEARS in federal prison — a historic sentence.

And across our broader fight to protect America’s children, 6,000+ child predators and human traffickers arrested — UP 13%.

Our children deserve protection. Their victims deserve justice. This FBI is delivering BOTH.

Report tips: http://tips.fbi.gov

-DKP🇺🇸

BRAND NEW FBI numbers comparing 21 months of the Trump administration vs. the last 21 months of the Biden administration.

Bottom line: this is the largest reduction in violent crime in United States history.

30% decrease in the nationwide murder rate, 114% increase in violent crime arrests, 32% increase in deadly fentanyl seized, and much more.

When President Trump first took office, we faced one of the highest threat environments in American history. This FBI delivered.

This is what happens with a President who backs the blue, an Attorney General who relentlessly prosecutes criminals, and good cops all over the country getting the job done.

October 29, 2026 - Justice Department unveils indictments in nationwide ‘ghost student’ fraud scam linked to Kenyan network

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division (Fraud Division), along with the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Eastern District of Virginia, Nebraska, and New Jersey announced indictments resulting from Operation Ghostbusters. Operation Ghostbusters is a nationwide investigation into a large‑scale student‑loan fraud scheme in which criminal actors created fraudulent Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) accounts using stolen U.S. citizen identities to enroll “ghost students” in educational institutions. After loan and grant disbursements, the refunds were diverted to bank accounts controlled by foreign actors and facilitated by U.S.-based money mules, including Kenyan nationals.

“Today, we are announcing the first results of Operation Ghostbusters — a nationwide effort to stop a major fraud scheme targeting federal student aid, low-income Americans, and the American taxpayer,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division. “The Department is charging five defendants and announcing the seizure of more than $750,000 in cryptocurrency tied to this scheme through a network associated with Kenyan nationals. This is the first international seizure of its kind in Kenya. If you steal American identities, if you steal taxpayer dollars, if you exploit programs meant to help students build a future — we will find you. Whether you are in Nebraska, New Jersey, Virginia, or Nairobi, we will pursue you.”

“Under President Trump and Secretary McMahon’s leadership, the Department of Education has saved taxpayers more than $2 billion in attempted student aid theft — ensuring students receive the critical funding they need, not fraudsters,” said Under Secretary Nicholas Kent for the Department of Education. “Every dollar that falls into the hands of a fraudster is a dollar that will not go to a student in need. Today’s action sends a strong message to fraudsters both at home and abroad: the Trump Administration is watching and will hold you accountable and protect American taxpayers.”

“The perpetrators masterminded a deliberate plot to defraud the U.S. government of millions of dollars through the exploitation of financial aid programs designed to help hardworking American students. These criminals used stolen personal data belonging to U.S. citizens to fuel their criminal enterprise,” said Assistant Director Heith Janke, of the FBI’s Criminal Division. “To date, the FBI has identified more than $32 million in losses, with millions more suspected, in similar ghost student schemes. This stops now. The FBI, working hand-in-hand with our partners at the Department of Education and Department of Justice will follow all evidence, track every dollar, and pursue each criminal who seeks to exploit our nation’s systems.”

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia is proud to be a leading part of law enforcement’s use of innovative techniques to fight fraud: using data to expose crime hiding in plain sight, starting with criminals who stole federal student aid using the stolen identities of ‘ghost students,’” said First Assistant U.S. Attorney Theophani K. Stamos for the Eastern District of Virginia. “Together with the Department of Education’s Office of Inspector General, the FBI Richmond cyber squad has already uncovered hundreds of participants and hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen funds, sending approximately 50 referrals to 26 FBI field offices across the country, and we are just getting started. Working with partners around the world, we are sending a clear message: student aid belongs to real students, the data always leaves a trail, and we will follow it wherever it leads.”

Notable cases

District of New Jersey (Criminal Complaint) — 26-16210 (JRA) — $1.5 million intended loss
Beginning in or about March 2021 and continuing through at least January 2026, Mabed Patricia Utate-Alberto, also known as, “Mabed Alberto Utate,” Patricia Arisleydi Perez, and George Arturo Alfau Mendez, also known as, “George Alfau” conspired with persons located in Kenya to defraud the Department of Education to obtain more than $1 million in FSA funds. Utate, Perez, and Mendez were witting money mules located in the U.S. that used U.S. bank accounts to receive FSA program funds obtained through false and fraudulent FAFSA applications using stolen American identities. After Utate, Perez, and Mendez received the money, they transferred — after taking their cut — the funds overseas to co-conspirators in Kenya associated with a purported Kenyan safari company.

All three defendants have been arrested pursuant to a criminal complaint. Two co-conspirators are located in Kenya and are associated with a safari company. The government will seek to charge these co-conspirators as this case continues.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Francesca Liquori for the District of New Jersey.

Eastern District of Virginia (Under seal) – $1.4 million intended loss
On Oct. 21, a federal Grand Jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a multi-count indictment charging a Kenyan national with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and student aid fraud. According to the indictment, the defendant conspired with fraudsters in Kenya to obtain and use the stolen identities of U.S. citizens to submit false and fraudulent FAFSA applications to steal over $1.4 million in student aid. The defendant acted as a U.S. based money mule for the transnational fraud conspiracy. The defendant used multiple bank accounts across several financial institutions to receive over 700 fraudulently obtained federal student aid refund deposits, totaling approximately $1,439,548. The defendant then engaged in thousands of wire transfer and money service business transactions that resulted in at least $1.3 million being transferred to accounts in the United States and Kenya.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney/Distinguished Senior Counsel Brian Hood for the Eastern District of Virginia.

District of Nebraska (Indictment) — 4:26CR3089 — $20,000 intended loss
On Oct. 19, a federal Grand Jury in Nebraska returned a ten-count indictment against Francis Mogambi, a Kenyan citizen, charging him with five counts of Theft of Government Money and five counts of Aggravated Identity Theft. Mogambi faces 10 years in mandatory minimums based on his use of stolen U.S. citizen identities during and relation to his crimes. Mogambi was promptly arrested, and thereafter detained pending trial by the court based on his risk of non-appearance and the threat he posed to the public.

According to the indictment, between Nov. 2025 and May 2026, Mogambi fraudulently obtained federal student financial aid using stolen identities. Mogambi worked with associates in Kenya to steal identities of United States citizens, use those identities to fraudulently enroll American victims in educational institutions, and redirect federal financial aid checks to himself, keeping 30% of the fraud proceeds and sending the rest to his conspirators in Kenya. Court documents also reflect that Mogambi attempted to recruit an individual into his scheme and openly shared the details of this brazen conspiracy to steal money from the American people, sharing that he received $2,000 a week and that he needed a business so that he could cash larger checks and not pay taxes.

Mogambi arrived in the United States on May 15, 2024. He won the “Diversity Visa” lottery and was issued a DV1 visa. He was issued a Permanent Resident Card shortly after.

This case is prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney/District Fraud Counsel Daniel Packard for the District of Nebraska.

In September, representatives from the Fraud Division and its agency partners visited Kenya to promote extradition, prosecution, and the return of assets stolen from United States taxpayers. Through critical assistance and intelligence from Kenyan law enforcement partners, investigators were able to seize over $750,000 from a cryptocurrency account belonging to a Kenyan national connected to this fraud scheme. This is the first international seizure of its kind in the Fraud Division’s history. In Sept./Oct. of 2026, investigators identified 830,840 potentially fraudulent FSAIDs relating to nearly $130 million and recommended that the Department of Education disable those IDs.

Operation Ghostbusters is an unprecedented effort by the Fraud Division at the Department of Justice in connection with U.S. Attorney and agency partners across the country to respond to this urgent and ongoing fraud committed against the American people.

Beginning in or about 2021, community colleges and universities across the United States identified fraudulent FAFSA applications that resulted in the disbursement of Federal Student Aid (FSA) program refunds to bank and other financial accounts opened in the names of individuals other than the students who had actually applied for the FSA program funds in the first instance.

Conspirators use stolen identity information from Americans to submit fraudulent FAFSA applications for “ghost students” in order to fraudulently obtain federal program funds. The “ghost students” never actually attend the college classes for which those funds were awarded. Instead, using super intelligence, fraudsters place “ghost” or fake students in classrooms to keep federal student loan funds flowing. Fraudsters even use super intelligence to complete required coursework at schools to maintain the “ghost student” scam.

These fraudsters are exploiting Americans who have never been to college before, preventing the Department of Education from cross-checking applicants. Many known victims have reported attaining only high school diplomas — and are shocked by their faked attendance at an institution hundreds of miles away.

Investigators believe that this fraud has been ongoing since at least 2021. Estimates put the scale of the fraud well over $200 million. The investigation was opened by the FBI Richmond Field Office following a USDOE‑OIG referral. There are now more than 40 open cases across 26 FBI field offices and more than 20 U.S. Attorneys’ Offices. Through its District Fraud Counsel network of Assistant United States Attorneys, the Division was uniquely positioned to scale this investigation, resulting in targets sent to U.S. Attorney’s Offices coast-to-coast.

Operation Ghostbusters continues to partner with Kenyan law enforcement counterparts to recover American tax dollars pilfered by overseas actors and bring fraudsters hiding abroad to justice.

Law Enforcement Partners Participation:

Operation Ghostbusters is assisted by the Department of Justice, the National Fraud Enforcement Division, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Education-OIG, the Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, the Money Laundering, Narcotics and Forfeiture Section, the Civil Division’s Office of Foreign Litigation, the Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance, and Training, the DOJ Civil Division, the State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Education Office of Inspector General, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Education, the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, and Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Asset Recovery Agency, and Office of Director of Public Prosecutions.

The Justice Department is providing cybercrime and intellectual property technical assistance to foreign law enforcement, prosecutorial, and judicial partners in other countries through the ICHIP program, including in this matter the ICHIP attorney advisor in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the global ICHIP for Dark Web and Cryptocurrency. The Criminal Division’s ICHIP program is jointly administered by the Criminal Division’s Office of Overseas Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, through partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (State / INL). Significant assistance is also being provided through the U.S. Department of Justice Resident Legal Advisor in Nairobi, Kenya, a position that is also funded by State / INL.

On April 7, the Department of Justice announced the creation of the Fraud Division. The Fraud Division is laser-focused on investigating and prosecuting those who commit fraud against the American people. The Department’s work to combat fraud supports President Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, a whole-of-government effort chaired by Vice President J.D. Vance to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse within Federal benefit programs.

An indictment, information, or complaint is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

Alert: If you believe you are a victim of this fraud, please report your matter to the Department of Education Hotline Complaint Form: oig.ed.gov/oig-hotline/complaint-form. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent letters to many identified victims. If you have received this letter, please follow the instructions in the letter. If you have questions or concerns, please contact your local FBI Field Office.

(DOJ.gov, 10/29/2026)  (Archive)

October 29, 2026 - Michigan court orders SoS Jocelyn Benson to inform all election officials to preserve Nov. 3 poll books

BREAKING: A MICHIGAN COURT JUST ORDERED BENSON TO TELL EVERY CLERK IN THE STATE TO KEEP THE NOVEMBER 3 POLL BOOKS.

The Court’s words to Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State: “Defendants are directed to instruct all local election officials to retain the EPBs from the November 3 General Election.”

And Benson’s deletion rule? “Defendants are precluded from enforcing Rule 168.48 pending the resolution of this matter.”

Benson’s rule: DELETE the poll book files 7 days after the election is certified.
Federal law: KEEP election records 22 months.

One township clerk asked which law to follow. Nobody answered. So Michelle McQueer sued.

In August, the Court protected her file, the ONLY one known to still exist, and barred enforcing the rule against her.

Today it extended that protection to EVERY clerk in Michigan, on an additional request from the RNC and Michigan Republican Party, who joined her case this month. Glad to have them in the fight.

Along the way, @TheJusticeDept and the @CivilRights division told the Court the Secretary “remains ultimately responsible” for preserving poll book data. And Benson’s own data manager swore the list each precinct downloaded for Election Day “need not be uploaded.”

Reconstruction is not preservation.

This isn’t the final ruling. But no November poll book gets deleted while the judge decides. That’s all one clerk asked for.

ONE CLERK. ONE QUESTION. EVERY NOVEMBER POLL BOOK SAVED.

The Order: http://tinyurl.com/PollbookStatewideTRO

McQueer v Benson, Court of Claims No. 26-000172-MZ

Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸

(…)

PICK A CRIME: That’s the choice Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson handed my client, a township clerk.

A new state rule Benson made orders my client to DELETE the electronic poll book records of the August 4 primary within 7 days of certification. What’s the problem? Federal law orders her to KEEP those same records for 22 months, into 2028.

Delete them? Face up to 1 year of imprisonment under federal law. Refuse? Up to 90 days imprisonment under Michigan law. Every path carries a penalty aimed at my client personally. For trying to follow the law.

My client wrote Jocelyn Benson and the Director of Elections on July 6 and asked one question: how do I obey both? Thirty-seven days. NO ANSWER.

So we asked a judge, while the records still exist. No more waiting around. Declare which law controls. Preserve the voting records.

And the part that should get your attention: the same rule governs the NOVEMBER election.

Read all 156 pages, complaint and exhibits, yourself: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcase

The one-page fact sheet: http://tinyurl.com/pollbookcasefactsheet

Let’s make Michigan safe, normal, and responsible again! 🇺🇸

October 29, 2026 - Hegseth fires General accused of leaking classified Iran, Ukraine war information

Getting fired from the Pentagon is bad enough. Getting fired by Pete Hegseth after reportedly failing THREE polygraph tests during an investigation into classified leaks? Well, that’s a whole different level of career trouble.

And no, this story doesn’t involve some random pencil-pusher… we’re talking about Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia, one of the military’s top strategists, who was serving as the head of strategy, plans, and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That’s a really important job, especially when the US is dealing with wars involving Iran and Ukraine.

Now, after failing three lie detectors, Sylvia has been canned, and there are serious allegations that he shared classified information with reporters, so now his case has been handed over to the DOJ. This guy could be in a huge mess of trouble.

This is an epic fall from grace for a three-star general who many say turned out to be a traitor.

But there’s another name connected to this story, and once we get to THAT part, you’ll understand why this Pentagon shakeup has become a huge, crazy plot twist.

The allegations involve classified information connected to both the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war. Very serious stuff.

There’s also an interesting nugget about his position. Sylvia’s the second general to be pushed out of the Joint Chiefs’ strategy and planning post under Hegseth. The last guy who got the boot was Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee last October.

CBS News:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired the Pentagon’s top military planner, a Pentagon official told CBS News late Wednesday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters, said Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia was accused of misconduct for leaking classified information related to the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war.

Sylvia failed three polygraph tests about sharing classified information with the press, the official said, adding that the case has been referred to the Department of Justice.

Sylvia is the latest in a series of generals to be ousted, and his firing comes as President Trump is weighing renewed strikes on Iran in the eight-month-long war.

Sylvia was removed as head of strategy, plans and policy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is the second general to be removed from the post, known in military circles as the “J5,” under Hegseth. His predecessor, Lt. Gen. Joseph McGee, was forced to retire last October.

If someone holding one of the Pentagon’s most sensitive military planning positions was passing classified info to journalists, we need to know how badly he screwed over the country.

And speaking of the journalists, there’s another part to this whole mess that you should know about.

Apparently, the Pentagon’s rules about journalists needing “escorts” inside the building might’ve been part of this story. According to the buzz circulating about Sylvia’s firing, he supposedly found a rather convenient workaround for that little problem.

Eric Daughtery:

🚨 BREAKING OVERNIGHT: SecWar Pete Hegseth has FIRED Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia after he reportedly FAILED three polygraphs about leaking classified information to the press

GOOD RIDDANCE TO ALL LEAKERS! 👋🏻

He’s now under investigation over LEAKS about the Iran war, the Russia-Ukraine war and more, and the case has been referred to the DOJ

Sylvia purportedly got around the Pentagon’s escort rules for reporters by meeting journalists outside the building

Hegseth made the right move for our country!

Yep, sneaking around and meeting reporters outside the Pentagon would certainly be a dark and sinister way to avoid having an escort around. (Read more: Revolver News, 10/29/2026) (Archive)

🚨 HOLY CRAP! The Pentagon’s Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia — who was just fired by SecWar Pete Hegseth — has ADMITTED to leaking classified Iran and Ukraine intelligence to *two reporters* at two different outlets, according to an internal investigation report obtained by Axios

October 29, 2026 - Undercover video: Elissa Slotkins lays out 'every committee's' lawfare plans if Dems win majority

Michigan senator gushes to a total stranger about “every committee” in on the act.

Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin will apparently talk to anyone about the Democrats’ lawfare plans if they capture the majority in the House or Senate next week; all you have to do is ask.

Slotkin, while campaigning Thursday for congressional candidate Sean McCann, dished on what she has up her sleeve, according to an undercover video obtained exclusively by Townhall.

“I’m worried that we’re going to be too nice,” the person said to Slotkin in the video, triggering a smirk from the senator.

“What are we going to do to hold the Trump regime and its collaborators responsible? I’m talking prosecutions,” the person continued.

“I’m with you,” Slotkin responded. “So basically, assuming we win both houses, even if we just win one, we’ll come up– we have a list of, like, the ‘signature cases.’ So the things where it’s, like, so egregious, such a violation of law, such a corruption case, like– and we will have, in every committee, there will be the ‘signature cases’ that we– where we hold people accountable.”

Slotkin continued, “I just went to Hungary. I went over to Budapest in Hungary because they just got rid of their authoritarian leader after 16 years.” The Michigan senator said she was there seeking advice for how to go after the Trump administration.

“And I’m like, how did you handle 16 years of corruption? We don’t have that much, but we have so much,” she said. “And they did this ‘signature cases’ (strategy),” Slotkin said.

“>She went on to say “they’re the ones that people identify with,” specifically naming the ballroom project in the East Wing of the White House, the reflecting pool renovation on the Mall, “or $200 million in, you know, from the Defense Department.”

Slotkin then predicted — or warned — “So that’s what you’ll see basically in January.”

(Editor’s Note: The video was taken Thursday, October 29, 2026. A camera error is responsible for the incorrect timestamp.)

The Michigan senator is very possibly going to attempt to parlay that into a presidential campaign. Slotkin got elected by campaigning as a moderate, consensus builder. She featured Presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush — for whom she worked — in campaign ads.

(Read more: Townhall, 10/30/2026) (Archive)

October 30, 2026 - RFK Jr. defends remarks about Islam and Arabs in lengthy social media post

Excerpt:

(…) All 22 Arab nations in the Mideast and North Africa are autocratic dictatorships. Almost all are apartheid states that legally restrict the rights of minorities. Gays in many of the nations are put to death. Under sharia law, women have little more rights than cattle. They live stunted lives behind veiled faces, enduring systematic servitude, legalized domestic violence, child marriage, chattel slavery, and public stoning for adultery, which is legal for their husbands. In September 2021, the Taliban made it illegal for girls to attend school after age 12. The Taliban’s Vice and Virtue law forbids women from speaking aloud in public.

If you want to understand the Muslim Brotherhood’s vision for society, look no further than Gaza. Hamas, which rules Gaza, is the Palestine branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Palestinians have received over 4X per capita in international aid than Europeans received under the Marshall Plan. (See Clawson 2002.) Europe used its money to rebuild 17 nations. Palestinians couldn’t build themselves even one. Under Hamas’s iron fist, Gaza squandered its share on bombs, weapons, extravagant salaries for its billionaire kingpins, and a billion-dollar bunker and tunnel system built for its warriors—but off-limits to its citizens. Gaza remains a stunted and stagnant, impoverished society under tyrannical oppression, with no free speech or other basic freedoms. Hamas governs through force, including brutal crackdowns on discourse, public executions of dissenters and collaborators, tight controls on humanitarian aid distribution, and onerous taxes on almost every activity. No elections have occurred since Hamas took over in 2007. Instead of building a nation, Hamas has transformed Gaza into a death cult wallowing in victimhood, nursing aggrievements, addicted to violence, resentments, and yearning for a seventh-century miasma. Hamas nurses Palestinian infants from birth on genocidal hatred of ALL Jews—not just Zionists—and indoctrinates children in the savagery and unspeakable barbarism that the world witnessed on October 7. Hamas shows its contempt for the Palestinian people by deploying them as child soldiers and civilian shields, and placing rocket launchers and ammo dumps in schools and hospitals. Hamas’s greatest strengths are its propaganda operation and its willingness to impose unlimited pain on its own population to achieve its ideological goals.

Islamist governments like Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah distract their populations from their misery by blaming the myriad social ills and the predictable government failures on scapegoats: Jews, Zionists, and America. They’ll have us believe that all their derelictions are the result of the evil Zionists, the “Little Satan” Israel, and the “Great Satan,” the U.S. And just as victimhood is paralyzing to personal growth, it deprives Islamist nations of national success by robbing its practitioners of agency. Islamism’s cult of victimhood and its coterminous abolition of self-criticism have stagnated global Islam and locked it in hatred, violence, brooding resentment, and isolationism. Referring to the Arab world, Fouad Ajami described this as “a political tradition of belligerent self-pity.”

Contrast Gaza’s failures with the successes of its closest neighbor, Israel, a tiny sliver of swamp and desert 1/600th the size of its Arab neighbors, that blossomed into an agricultural juggernaut and a global economic and technological superpower. Jews took one of the few places in the Mideast with no oil, gas, or other resources, and despite being surrounded by enemies, they nevertheless turned the barren landscape into a vibrant, pluralistic democracy where Jews and Arabs vote as they please; worship according to their convictions; serve beside each other in the judiciary, the army, and political leadership; and enjoy equal rights. Women and gays in Israel have all the rights of men, and Israel’s biggest annual celebration is the Pride parade in Tel Aviv. As the only democracy in the Mideast, Israel is a robust and heroic outpost for freedom and Western values.

And Israel is merely a nugget among the bounties bestowed by Jews on Western civilization. There is no ethnic or religious group that has contributed more than Jews to the welfare of humanity or to the advancement of liberal democracy. Jewish traditions of ethics and thinking have shaped Western civilization and global progress through foundational moral concepts, including our monotheistic Christian belief system with its roots in Judaism, milestone scientific breakthroughs, medical innovation, and innumerable cultural achievements in art, literature, education, health, and entertainment. Relative to their proportion of the population, the astonishing contributions by Jews have been breathtaking. An abbreviated list would include medical advances like the polio vaccine (Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin), chemotherapy and immunology (Paul Ehrlich), streptomycin and the age of antibiotics (Selman Waksman), penicillin (Ernest Chain), pacemakers (Paul Zoll), and blood typing (Karl Landsteiner).

October 30, 2026 - Natalie Winters: I obtained internal election strategy memos from a network connected to Norm Eisen—revealing its partners’ backchannel with election officials

EXCLUSIVE: I obtained internal election strategy memos from a network connected to Norm Eisen—revealing its partners’ backchannel with election officials and the anti-Trump talking points circulated to allies.

The documents spell out which officials to amplify, which election claims to avoid repeating, and how to frame Trump as preparing to reject the midterms.

Their distribution instruction:

“It may not be shared outside of the ESRN and is not intended to be shared publicly or with the press.”

Here’s what I found. 🧵

(…)

The network is the Election Safeguards Response Network—ESRN.

People’s Action identifies Norm Eisen, Obama’s former ethics official, as its executive director.

In an April 20 internal memo, ESRN describes national and state partners preparing for disputes involving ballots and election materials.

It reports that partners are:

“maintaining open lines of communication with election officials.”

The next section lays out how allies should shape the public response.

I found explicit instructions to amplify Michigan’s statewide election officials—alongside messaging guidance, a social media toolkit and prepared scripts.

The heading: “What You Can Say.”

One script calls DOJ’s demand for election records:

“the latest attempt in a long line of desperate actions to interfere in Michigan’s elections.”

Another begins:

“Michigan’s local communities run our elections. Not the federal government.”

The internal document connects access to officials with a coordinated campaign to carry their statements into public debate.

(…)

A second internal memo tells recipients responding to Trump:

“RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO ADDRESS EACH OF HIS CLAIMS OR TO SIMPLY LIST FACTS.”

The explanation:

“And when we fight feelings with facts, we lose.”

Instead, it instructs allies to describe his statements as:

“manufacturing a pretext to reject the 2026 results before votes are even cast.”

That framing was written into a July 16 strategy memo expressly marked against public and press distribution.

The internal guidance singles out non-citizen voting:

“DO NOT REPEAT CLAIMS ABOUT NON-CITIZEN VOTING, EVEN TO DISPUTE THEM.”

It says repeating those claims gives them credibility and free airtime.

The prescribed attack:

“EMPHASIZE THAT THE SPEECH WAS DESPERATE AND RIDICULOUS.”

Recipients are also told to use language Americans can understand “and repeat.”

The memo specifies both the subject allies should avoid amplifying and the message they should circulate instead.
(…)
I also obtained the ready-made “TALKING POINTS”:

“If he can’t accept that he lost in 2020, imagine what he’ll do to try to cling to power in 2026.”

Another reads:

“They’re not actually trying to prove anything about the last elections; they’re trying to fool us into doubting the next one. We’re not falling for it.”
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1/ ESRN ties straight back to Norm Eisen, and to Marc Elias’s law firm.

People’s Action names Eisen as ESRN executive director.

ESRN partners on https://esrn.net:
• All Voting is Local
• Bridging Divides Initiative
• Campaign Legal Center
• Common Cause
• Protect

1/ ESRN ties straight back to Norm Eisen, and to Marc Elias’s law firm.

People’s Action names Eisen as ESRN executive director.

ESRN partners on http://esrn.net:
• All Voting is Local
• Bridging Divides Initiative
• Campaign Legal Center
• Common Cause
• Protect Democracy
• Democracy Defenders Fund (co-founded by Eisen)
• Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

North Fund (Arabella-managed) gave Common Cause $625K (2021 to 2023) and paid Elias Law Group $4.1M (2022), $3.3M (2023), and $4.57M (2024) for legal services.

2/ It goes further. Per @DataRepublican’s Democracy Files Part 9 video:

• Eisen’s State Democracy Defenders hosted ESRN
• Its 990 lists an “ESRN DIRECTOR” (FY Jul 2024 to Jun 2025)
• State Democracy Defenders Action paid Elias Law Group $151,764 (2023) and $592,365 (FY2025)

The “election safeguards” network and two top Dem lawyers share leadership and money 🤔

October 30, 2026 - The pro-EU globalists in Poland attempt a coup, Polish President Karol Nawrocki tells the tyrants to shove it and stops the attempt

Poland… the New World Order is trying to stack the deck before the U.S. elections… this has greater implications than the sovereignty of Poland…

Polish citizens are taking to the streets… protesters are gathering outside Warsaw’s Constitutional Tribunal, waving Polish and Solidarity flags, joined by opposition leaders condemning what they call a Tusk government judicial coup…

Police have secured the Tribunal grounds… its president and vice-president face suspensions… President Karol Nawrocki, Trump’s ally, has turned his plane around and is returning to Warsaw…

Watch the timing… November 3 brings the U.S. midterm elections… that same day, Nawrocki has scheduled a national security meeting concerning a permanent American military base in Poland…

Zoom out… the Ukraine war is approaching another round of peace negotiations… a settlement could transform Poland’s wartime supply corridor into the western gateway of a permanent European land bridge… military infrastructure, energy, trade, and reconstruction extending eastward…

Poland sits at the chokepoint… the deeper struggle concerns who controls the institutions governing that corridor as the postwar European architecture takes shape…

Brussels has spent years contesting Poland’s judicial structure, and now Tusk’s government is confronting a president aligned with Trump…

Through the New World Order lens, this looks like an attempt to consolidate institutional leverage before the American elections and the next phase of Ukraine negotiations…

The timing deserves scrutiny, particularly as Poland’s constitutional conflict reaches the streets… and now Polish citizens are pushing back…

The confrontation is exposing a deeper European divide over national sovereignty, constitutional authority, and the future balance of power…

Control the judiciary… influence the government… shape the postwar settlement… the geopolitical stakes extend far beyond a courthouse in Warsaw…

Watch Poland…

CHAOS IN POLAND: Court chief cuts through gate chains as president rushes back to Warsaw!

In extraordinary scenes outside Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal, its disputed chief, Bogdan Święczkowski, attempted to enter the building with opposition lawmakers. A locksmith cut through the gate’s metal fastening, but police still blocked access to the building.

Meanwhile, President Karol Nawrocki has landed in Warsaw after turning his plane around mid-flight to Senegal as the constitutional crisis escalates.

Opposition leaders accuse PM Donald Tusk’s government of attempting a “coup.” The government says it is restoring the rule of law.

Poland’s two political camps are now openly clashing over control of one of the country’s highest courts.

JUST IN: Polish President Karol Nawrocki just went INSIDE the country’s highest constitutional court and told the pro-EU tyrants to SHOVE IT, they are NOT the legitimate judges and their takeover is DONE

“You are not judges of the Constitutional Tribunal!”

🔥🔥🔥

This is the elected President of Poland personally standing up to an attempted takeover of the country’s top constitutional court.

INCREDIBLE!!

Donald Tusk’s camp tried to declare the Tribunal’s leadership “suspended” and sent police to the building. Nawrocki flew home and walked right inside, and he is not backing down.

Go get ’em, Mr. President! 🇵🇱🇺🇸 https://x.com/chrzanikx/status/2116327493254950938/video/1

Tusk is breaking Poland’s Constitution

Tusk defended Friday’s move on X, saying that after years of PiS lawlessness, restoring the rule of law requires decisive action. “There is no other way,” he wrote. In August he had promised to restaff the court, admitting his methods might not be to everyone’s liking. (Yahoo News/AP, Washington Times/AP)

That defense collapses the moment you open Poland’s Constitution. Tusk is not restoring the rule of law. He is breaking it, on four counts.

  • The Tribunal’s leadership is the President’s to appoint. Article 194 gives the President of the Republic the power to appoint the Tribunal’s president and vice president. It gives no single judge the power to depose them, least of all a judge the head of state never swore in. (Constitution, Chapter VIII)
  • The oath is the law. Statute requires new Tribunal judges to swear their oath before the President, and parliament cannot rewrite that by staging its own ceremony. Even Poland’s human rights commissioner, Marcin Wiącek, no PiS loyalist, has said the law requires the president to swear in Tribunal judges. (Notes from Poland)
  • The Tribunal’s rulings are binding. Article 190 makes its judgments final and universally binding, and requires them to be published immediately. Tusk’s government has refused to publish them since 2024, including the ruling that the president is under no obligation to swear in parliament’s picks. (Notes from Poland, Parapolitika)
  • The government must act within the law. Article 7 binds every public authority to act on the basis of and within the limits of the law. A government that disagrees with a court can legislate or wait for terms to expire. It cannot send riot police to install its own leadership.

Tusk’s camp leans heavily on an opinion from the Venice Commission, an advisory body in Strasbourg that says the president’s role in the oath should be ceremonial. (Euronews) Its opinions bind no one in Poland; the Polish Constitution does. By that text, what happened on Friday night was not a restoration of the rule of law. It was a government seizing a court it could not lawfully control, and Donald Tusk owns every step of it: the judges his majority installed without the president’s oath, the police his justice minister summoned, and the takeover he defended within hours.

Nawrocki’s emergency talks with party leaders began Saturday afternoon, and the first through the door came from Tusk’s own coalition: Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Szymon Hołownia, who said the court needed fixing but force was the wrong way to do it. (TVN24, Goniec)

The talks were still underway at the time of publication. For now, Poland has two rival groups each claiming to be its highest court, police holding the building, and a year until the parliamentary elections that will decide who keeps it. (Read more: The Gateway Pundit, 10/31/2026)

October 31, 2026 - Alarming update on coup effort from Polish media

The background for Americans to best understand this story is HERE.

In the update to the attempted judicial coup d’etat carried out by globalist Prime Minister Donald Tusk last night, Polish media are now reporting the plane carrying Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki was denied landing permission as the President was urgently returning to deal with the leftist government effort.

The media are reporting that military pilots of the airplane carrying President Nawrocki refused to follow the orders from the air traffic controllers and landed the President back in Warsaw. {Source Here}

If these reports are accurate, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has no plausible deniability to distance himself from the grossly unconstitutional effort.  Calls are now being made to cancel the Parliamentary assembly and hold new elections to re-stabilize the government.

Marcin Przydacz – “Poland is facing a serious constitutional crisis following events at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw on Friday, 30 October, and during the following night.

For those unfamiliar with the Polish legal system, the Constitutional Tribunal is an independent constitutional body responsible for reviewing the constitutionality of legislation, but it also has other very important competences concerning the constitutional status of the President of the Republic and the President of the National Bank of Poland. Its independence and the legal status of its judges are protected by the Polish Constitution.

Donald Tusk

Since this spring, Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government has been taking steps aimed at gaining control over the Tribunal, most recently by attempting to install a former minister from his own cabinet as a new “judge” of the Tribunal. The government presents these actions as an effort to restore the rule of law. However, the methods employed raise fundamental questions about respect for the Constitution itself.

On Friday, 30 October, approximately 3,000 police officers were reportedly deployed in connection with the situation at the Constitutional Tribunal, following a notification from Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, who claimed the authority to assume the Tribunal’s leadership. Claiming that the President and Vice-President of the Tribunal were absent, she issued decisions announcing their suspension from official duties. The legal basis for these decisions is strongly disputed, including by the First President of Poland’s Supreme Court.

Zbigniew Kapiński, First President of Poland’s Supreme Court, issued an official statement strongly opposing the actions taken at the Constitutional Tribunal. His objections concerned both the involvement of the police and the legal basis for “suspending” the Tribunal’s leadership. He referred specifically to Articles 7, 10 and 173 of the Polish Constitution, which establish the principles of legality, separation of powers and judicial independence.

He also challenged the application of Article 130 of the Law on the Organisation of Ordinary Courts, arguing that it did not authorise a person without the relevant statutory powers to suspend the Constitutional Tribunal’s President and Vice-President. Kapiński warned that police powers must not be used to restrict the functioning of constitutional institutions or enforce political decisions concerning their leadership.

Professor Jacek Chlebny, President of Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court, issued a separate official statement addressing the events of 30 October. He described the police presence around the Tribunal and the obstruction of its President and Vice-President as unprecedented. He raised fundamental concerns about compliance with the principles of the rule of law and stated that constitutional boundaries had been crossed.

Prof. Chlebny also emphasised that restoring public confidence in the Constitutional Tribunal requires a political compromise, but that any action must remain within the existing legal framework and respect the Tribunal’s constitutional independence.

Serious legal objections have therefore been raised independently by the First President of the Supreme Court and the President of the Supreme Administrative Court. Their official statements provide a documented basis for examining the events and the constitutional questions they raise. This is not merely a political dispute between the government and the President of the Republic.

When police forces were deployed at the Tribunal, President Karol Nawrocki was travelling to Senegal. Immediately upon being informed of the situation, he interrupted his flight and returned to Poland. After arriving in Warsaw, he held consultations with the First President of the Supreme Court, Zbigniew Kapiński, and the Constitutional Tribunal’s President, Bogdan Święczkowski.

Anna Korwin-Piotrowska

During the night, President Nawrocki travelled to the Constitutional Tribunal together with the First President of the Supreme Court. Despite the police presence and attempts by Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and other individuals at the entrance to physically prevent the President from entering the building, he entered the Tribunal and challenged the authority of those claiming to have assumed its leadership.

The confrontation at the entrance was physical, with individuals blocking the President’s passage. The Presidential Chancellery rejects allegations that the President was the aggressor.

President Nawrocki subsequently stated that the constitutional order of the Republic of Poland had been violated and that a constitutional state institution had been taken over by force.

He called for the withdrawal of police forces from the Tribunal’s premises and the restoration of the legal order. He also enabled the Tribunal’s lawfully serving Vice-President, Judge Bartłomiej Sochański, to enter the building and convened urgent consultations with representatives of parliamentary parties to stabilise the political situation and restore constitutional order.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk, meanwhile, defended the government’s decisive action as necessary to “restore the rule of law”. The President’s position is that restoring the rule of law cannot justify disregarding constitutional safeguards, bypassing statutory procedures or using police forces in a dispute over the leadership of an independent constitutional institution.

The European Commission, which was highly active in commenting on disputes concerning judicial independence under previous Polish governments, has so far not issued a comparable public assessment of these events. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has likewise remained silent.

The question is whether the same standards of constitutional legality, separation of powers and judicial independence will be applied to the current Polish government as were demanded of its predecessors.

The rule of law cannot depend on which political party is in power. Nor can the independence of constitutional institutions be protected by disregarding the constitutional rules that guarantee it.” {source}

(Conservative Treehouse, 10/31/2026) (Archive)

October 31, 2026 - Abdul El Sayed courted voters at mosques where speakers dubbed US 'House of Satan,' called for 'final annihilation of Jews,' said America is not a Christian country

El Sayed courted voters inside at least five Islamic centers that have a history of ultraviolent rhetoric.
(Credit: YouTube / Islamic Center of Detroit)

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed courted voters inside at least five Islamic centers that have a history of ultraviolent rhetoric that include branding the United States “the House of Satan” and calling for “the final annihilation of Jews,” The Post has learned.

El-Sayed visited the Islamic Center of Detroit in March 2026 to shore up support, addressing the packed room of men during a Ramadan prayer gathering and soliciting signatures to qualify for the Michigan Democratic primary.

“I have to get on the ballot to be able to get your vote, inshallah. So, my team is here in the back … we need your signature to get on the ballot,” El-Sayed told the congregation, after he was welcomed to the pulpit by a mosque leader who introduced him as “our beloved brother Dr. Abdulrahman.”

“Please don’t leave here without doing that,” he urged, according to a video on the center’s YouTube channel reviewed by The Post.

During the same service, a leader read a closing prayer in Arabic, which called for Allah to take the “worst revenge” upon Zionists.

“The Zionists have spread corruption in the land. Your forbearance has deceived them, so show them your power … They killed our brothers and sisters, so take the worst revenge upon them,” the leader sang, according to the footage.

(…) Last year, an Islamic scholar told the congregation that as Muslims they were “living here in America, in the house of Satan,” before making a wild claim that the US Constitution was based on Islam.

“I’m expecting some rough time during the next four years, so it is important for us to be able and ready to say no, this is not a Christian country, this was not built by the Judeo-Christian tradition,” proclaimed Dr. Zulfiqar Shah in January 2025 in a taped service.

(…) It’s not the only tax-exempt Islamic center where he campaigned that has a history of hateful speech.

El Sayed also spoke at the Islamic Organization of North America in Warren, which has hosted speakers who have called for “the final annihilation of Jews.”

The Senate hopeful visited in September, when his campaign operated a booth soliciting donations and volunteers, while circulating campaign flyers.

“They will be exterminated. … And actually, this greater Israel would become their greater graveyard. And it has been established to drag all the Israelis from all the corners of the world to their graveyard. And here they will perish,” said a speaker in 2013.

(Read more: New York Post, 10/31/2026)  (Archive)