Month: March 2026

By Wayne Allyn Root

People think Nevada is a purple state. Thank God it’s not. We are making a red Republican comeback for the ages…

Thanks to California!

California is so extreme, radical, insane, dangerous, and out of control, the whole California is either moving to Nevada, or plotting their escape, or at least thinking about it.

Thanks to California, Nevada is changing back from purple and blue to Republican red. Because the people leaving California are Republican voters running for their lives. I know- because a lot of them are my friends and fans!

Just like Republicans running away from New York turned Florida deep Republican red, the same thing is happening in Nevada.

Here are the results. Trump just won Nevada in 2024- finally, on his third try. We also have a Republican law-and-order Governor- Joe Lombardo. And a Republican law-and-order Lt. Governor- Stavros Anthony. Both elected in the past four years.

Both are former top cops. Lombardo was Las Vegas Sheriff (our version of police chief). Stavros was a police captain.

I believe we are the first state in history to elect former cops as Governor and Lt. Governor of a state.

Our state Controller Andy Matthews is also a Republican. And our Sheriff Kevin McMahill is a law-and-order Republican too.

This is what saved Las Vegas from becoming the disaster that is Los Angeles.

My Los Angeles friends are scared to death to walk the streets, or drive their cars to dinner in LA. They hide their jewelry in safety deposit boxes. They drive old jalopy cars- so no one follows them home to rob, rape, or murder them. Such is life now in LA.

This is what happens when breaking into homes is no longer treated as a serious crime.

In Los Angeles, shopping centers are empty. No stores, No customers. No tourists. Famous shopping centers are ghost towns.

This is what happens when you only give a desk ticket to criminals who shoplift thousands of dollars from retail stores.

This is what happens when you proudly brag your city is a “Sanctuary City” for illegal aliens.

This is what happens when you allow the homeless to set up tents on city sidewalks and in front of store entrances.

Californians are running for their lives to Las Vegas.

While the famous 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica is a ghost town, our Downtown Summerlin shopping center is jammed every day. You can’t find a parking space.

One other thing that prevented Vegas from becoming LA- here everyone is armed, locked and loaded. It’s easy to get a CCW (Concealed Carry Permit). We all have guns in our cars. We all have guns in our homes. Lots of them. Many of my friends carry a gun wherever they go- shopping, casinos, restaurants.

It works. I can walk, or drive anywhere in Vegas, or my very safe neighborhood, Summerlin, without fear. I’m armed. No one is gonna touch me.

Guns are the great equalizer. A 65 year old, 5 foot, 90-pound woman is safe against a 275 pound violent thug- if she is packing a .357 magnum.

So, Vegas thrives, while LA dies.

But back to the story that proves liberal judges are insane and a danger to us all. Vegas Judge Eric Goodman just ordered the release of a career thug named Joshua Sanchez-Lopez.

Lopez is a repeat-repeat-repeat offender. He’s been arrested 35 times- including manslaughter and numerous drug charges. His latest alleged crime was grand larceny of a car. What a lovely fellow.

In Vegas, we don’t let career criminals out on the streets- like they do in LA and San Francisco. Our judges put them in prison- usually. That’s why Vegas is so much safer than California’s big cities.

But Vegas Judge Eric Goodman has clearly either lost his freaking mind, or fallen in love with Gavin Newsom.

Goodman ordered the release of violent, 35-time arrested thug Lopez. He ordered him out on bail with an ankle bracelet. The same monitoring device Lopez has laughed about on video in the past.

It turns out this thug has failed to appear in court, and violated electric monitoring rules multiple times. He’s the last guy any normal sane judge would order released onto our streets.

So, our Republican Sheriff McMahill has taken a stand.

Sheriff McMahill said, to paraphrase, “NO, not on my watch. This guy is dangerous. The citizens aren’t safe with him on the streets. I’m not complying with the judge’s order. He stays in prison.”

And the liberal, bleeding-heart judge Goodman in response, threatens to throw our hero Sheriff McMahill in prison for contempt of court.

This is Exhibit A for insane, mentally-deranged liberal judges.

They love 35-time arrested violent thugs, druggies, thieves and murderers. They fight for them. They’d do anything for them. They demand they be released onto our streets- where they could kill your mother, your wife, your daughter. But, these same liberal judges are eager to put hero police chiefs in prison.

Like I said- MENTALLY DERANGED.

The case is now headed to the Nevada Supreme Court- at the request of our Sheriff. He says it’s his duty to protect the citizens. This thug is a danger to our community, our citizens, our children. So, it’s his right to ignore the judge’s reckless ruling. And keep this menace to society locked up until his trial.

Bravo. Thank you, Sheriff.

Let’s hope this case proves, “What happens in Vegas, stays in a Vegas prison.”

I know it proves, “Vegas thrives, while LA dies.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Wayne Allyn Root is a CEO, businessman, best-selling author, and national conservative TV and radio host, who has interviewed President Trump 16 times. Watch Wayne’s TV show “America’s Top Ten Countdown” on Real America’s Voice TV Saturdays at Noon ET/9 AM PT, and his 2-hour daily video podcast “WAR Zone Live presented by The Gateway Pundit” daily from 6 PM to 8 PM ET at TheGatewayPundit.com. His website is ROOTforAmerica.com. Read Wayne’s latest fun book, “How Democrats Have Made America Great.” It’s 140 blank pages. The joke is on Democrats!

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War Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said that the US still “holds the cards” with the war in Iran after Israel struck Iran’s facility at the South Pars gas field, a natural gas field shared by Qatar and Iran, without US knowledge beforehand. 

As The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday, President Trump announced that Israel had “violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran,” and that the US “knew nothing about this particular attack.”

This prompted Iran to launch retaliatory attacks on Qatar’s liquid natural gas facility at Ras Laffan Industrial City.

As a result, oil prices topped $110 on Wednesday.

BREAKING: Trump Announces Israel “Violently Lashed Out” and Hit Gas Fields in Iran, Claims US “KNEW NOTHING” of Attack and “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL”

For the second time this month, Israel has seemingly acted on their own interests, which may conflict with the United States’ interests or objectives.

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, Israel attacked Iranian oil depots, leading to shock from American officials. “The president doesn’t like the attack. He wants to save the oil. He doesn’t want to burn it. And it reminds people of higher gas prices,” a Trump advisor told Axios earlier this month. War Secretary Pete Hegseth told The Gateway Pundit last week that Israel was pursuing “different objectives” in this attack. “We’re not getting pulled in any direction. We’re leading,” he added.

Likewise, Hegseth responded to the latest incident, stating, “We hold the cards. We have objectives. Those objectives are clear. We have allies pursuing objectives as well, and the truth speaks for itself,” describing Israel’s attacks as a “warning.”

“And POTUS has made it clear, very clear, Iran knows when you hit Kharg Island, and you hit military capabilities on Kharg Island, which is the only thing we hit, we can hold anything at issue, anything,” he continued.

WATCH:

Conradson: With this strike yesterday on the South Pars gas field, you know, if the US didn’t know about it or didn’t approve of it, it kind of seems like a trend of Israel apparently pursuing their own objectives over US objectives. I’m not sure if you agree with that, but the President has said he doesn’t want to hit Iran’s oil infrastructure right now. As you said, the US avoided this on Kharg Island. Oil is nearing $120. Why are we helping Israel prosecute this war if they’re going to pursue their own objectives?

Hegseth: We hold the cards. We have objectives. Those objectives are clear. We have allies pursuing objectives as well, and the truth speaks for itself. I mean, President Trump is very clear about that. Iran has weaponized energy for decades. Israel clearly sent a warning, and POTUS has made it clear, very clear, Iran knows when you hit Kharg Island and you hit military capabilities on Kharg Island, which is the only thing we hit, we can hold anything at issue, anything.

The United States military controls the fate of that country. Iran has the ability to make the right choices. It should not, going forward, target Arab allies, Arab countries trying to create pain, the pain that they created themselves.

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U.S. intelligence agencies warn that terrorism threats to the American homeland are evolving faster and growing more dangerous than at any time since 9/11, with ISIS affiliates and inspired lone actors exploiting online radicalization and border vulnerabilities to target patriots on U.S. soil.

ISIS Resurgence Threatens American Security

The U.S. intelligence community confirms ISIS maintains approximately 20 active branches worldwide despite the 2018 territorial defeat of its caliphate in Iraq and Syria. ISIS-K, the Afghanistan-based affiliate, poses the most significant external operations threat to the United States. The Defense Intelligence Agency reports ISIS affiliates are deliberately decentralizing their attack planning to replicate the devastating 2010s European strikes on American soil. This strategic shift exploits gaps in traditional counterterrorism methods that successfully degraded al-Qaeda’s core leadership but struggle against diffused, inspiration-driven threats.

Breaking News
Chilling unclassified threat report reveals the ‘most likely’ terror attack scenario on US soil

The US intelligence community believes that among the biggest threats to US national security are the rise of radicalized US-based lone wolf actors.

The 2026 Annual… pic.twitter.com/UDwmHC4NqN

— News News News (@NewsNew97351204) March 18, 2026

Border Failures Enable Terrorist Infiltration

Afghan nationals with questionable vetting have entered the United States, with catastrophic consequences emerging in late 2025. In November, an Afghan national ambushed National Guard members on U.S. soil, exposing critical failures in the screening process for evacuees following the Biden administration’s disastrous 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal. House Homeland Security Committee members, including Chairman Mark Green and Representatives Pfluger and Luttrell, highlighted these vulnerabilities during December 2025 hearings. The committee’s “Terror Threat Snapshot” assessment documented an ISIS-inspired Election Day plot and the arrest of a Gaza native in Louisiana with ties to the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre. These incidents validate conservative concerns about inadequate border security measures that endanger American families.

Online Radicalization Fuels Lone-Wolf Attacks

National Counterterrorism Center Director Kent testified that foreign terrorist organizations exploit internet platforms to radicalize individuals remotely, creating a “supercharged” threat environment. This digital radicalization bypasses traditional intelligence detection methods by inspiring lone actors who operate independently without direct organizational contact. Representative Pfluger emphasized how this evolution makes every American community vulnerable to sudden violence. The October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel established what intelligence officials call a “new terrorist playbook” for opportunistic strikes, triggering a documented surge in antisemitic violence domestically. Jewish communities across America face heightened risks as ISIS propaganda celebrates these attacks and encourages copycat operations targeting synagogues and Jewish gatherings.

Global ISIS Expansion Targets U.S. Interests

ISIS branches doubled their presence in Somalia between 2024 and 2025, while expanding operations throughout the Sahel region and West Africa. These affiliates threaten American energy infrastructure projects in Mozambique and destabilize regions where U.S. counterterrorism resources remain limited. ISIS-K executed mass casualty attacks in Russia and Iran during 2024, demonstrating sophisticated operational capabilities. The December 2025 killing of Iowa soldiers in Syria by ISIS-affiliated militants underscores the persistent danger to American military personnel deployed overseas. Intelligence assessments warn that ISIS intentionally targets high-profile Western locations to generate propaganda value, with the December 2025 Sydney Hanukkah attack killing 15 civilians serving as a grim example of this strategy’s effectiveness.

Iran Compounds Terror Threats

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force and Hezbollah proxies actively plot against U.S. officials in retaliation for the 2020 killing of General Qasem Soleimani. These state-sponsored threats compound the challenges posed by ISIS and other Sunni extremist groups. The convergence of Iranian proxy operations with decentralized ISIS plotting creates multiple threat vectors that strain U.S. counterterrorism resources. Congressional leaders push for enhanced assessment protocols, including the proposed Syria Terrorism Threat Assessment Act, to address intelligence gaps. The Trump administration faces pressure to strengthen vetting procedures while maintaining operational tempo against overseas terrorist sanctuaries that enable attack planning against the homeland.

Sources:

Survey 2023 Terrorism Threat Landscape – Washington Institute

House Homeland Unveils Updated Terror Threat Snapshot Assessment

Annual Threat Assessment 2025 – DNI

2025 DIA Statement for the Record

Annual Threat Assessment 2023 – DNI

Country Reports on Terrorism 2023 – State Department

War Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Dan Caine will hold a press conference today to discuss developments on Operation Epic Fury and the Iran war. 

20 days ago, US and Israeli forces executed strikes in Iran, which killed the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and dozens of top Iranian officials.

Bombing campaigns, targeting Iranian military infrastructure and weapons, have continued for nearly three weeks.

Today’s briefing follows US strikes on Iran’s “crown jewel” oil hub of Kharg Island last Friday.

President Trump described it as the “most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East,” which “totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.”

Today’s briefing also comes after President Trump announced late on Wednesday that Israel “violently lashed out” against Iranian and Qatari natural gas fields.

BREAKING: Trump Announces Israel “Violently Lashed Out” and Hit Gas Fields in Iran, Claims US “KNEW NOTHING” of Attack and “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL”

Trump on Wednesday threatened to escalate the war and “finish off” Iran amid its closure of oil shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Reports also suggest that Trump is weighing the deployment of ground troops to Iran, though this remains unconfirmed.

The press briefing is scheduled to begin at 8 am ET.

Watch live below:

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Space is the final frontier, and Aliens are the biggest mystery.

We have been reporting here on TGP about Donald J. Trump’s directive to his administration to release the classified UFO files to the public.

But now, in a development that has gone viral, the domain name ‘Aliens.gov’ has been included in the government’s official website registry.

The discreet development ignited speculation that Trump could be about to disclose US intelligence information on whether or not we’re alone in the universe.

BREAKING: The U.S. Government secretly registers the aliens​.gov domain name. pic.twitter.com/6xKgt0lrYC

— Polymarket (@Polymarket) March 18, 2026

The New York Post reported:

“The domain name discovery comes almost exactly a month after President Trump announced he was ordering administration officials to release government files related to UFOs and extraterrestrials.

Though the website is not yet live, the government has reserved the domain name for an as-yet-unknown purpose, registry records show.”

Trump announced that top administration officials were going to track and release government files ‘related to UFOs and extraterrestrials’.

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and… pic.twitter.com/3fKQ7wrSvi

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 20, 2026

“The federal government has never formally confirmed the existence of aliens, but a former deputy assistant secretary of defense intelligence under Presidents Clinton and Bush told The Post the US has a jaw-dropping trove of photo and video evidence.

However, Christopher Mellon, former deputy assistant secretary of defense intelligence during the Clinton and Bush administrations, told The Post last week that the federal government possesses a jaw-dropping trove of photos and videos — the release of which would elevate UFO discourse ‘to another level’.”

Incredible high-speed orb #UFO filmed in Yellowstone
Credit : Ben Alexander (youtube)#uap #UFOs #ovni #alien #ufoX #UFOSightings pic.twitter.com/jkjZSmF5ip

— JeninedUFO Research (@JeninedUFO) December 20, 2024

Read more:

JUST IN: President Trump to Direct Pentagon to Release Government Files Related to Aliens and UFOs

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Politics

Ted Cruz Is the Republican Kamala Harris

The Republican senator and former vice president have both made signaling to neocons a campaign strategy.

Many consider J.D. Vance the heir apparent to Donald Trump’s MAGA legacy and the man to beat in the 2028 Republican presidential primaries—a state of affairs the Republican foreign policy establishment has never liked.

Hawks have long worried that the vice president is too much of a foreign policy restrainer for their tastes (though Vance has often sounded more like neoconservatives in Trump’s second term).

Still, neocons were giddy last week when polling showed that Marco Rubio’s numbers had improved against Vance, with the secretary of state being hawks’ main man in the 2016 GOP primaries and a figure who could repurpose “MAGA” as the neoconservatism of old (though Trump seems to be doing this already, making Vance’s supposed 2028 inevitability less clear).

But there could be more than one neocon champion in 2028.

Ted Cruz has clearly been running for president, and the Republican senator from Texas is doing so by signaling to neoconservatives.

Axios reported in November that “Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is laying the groundwork for a 2028 presidential bid by leaning into his feud with Tucker Carlson — and staking out turf as a traditional, pro-interventionist Republican.”

True to hawk form, Cruz has regularly called outspoken antiwar conservative Carlson an antisemite and last week said he was “the single most dangerous demagogue in the country.” 

The report noted, “By poking at Carlson’s isolationist foreign policy views, accusing him of antisemitism and more, Cruz is putting himself on a collision course with Vice President Vance, a Carlson ally widely seen as the 2028 GOP frontrunner.”

If Vance was once positioned to be the thoroughbred MAGA torch-bearer of the promise of no regime-change wars and ending endless conflicts, Cruz wants everyone in his party to know he’s the opposite.

Cruz’s plan appears to to distinguish himself from Vance, or at least the Vance of the past.

Kamala Harris once did the same thing.

In her failed 2024 presidential campaign, Harris relished endorsements from America’s neocon royal family, Dick and Liz Cheney. The former vice president’s daughter and then-congresswoman even hit the road with Harris, a symbolism that appeared intentional and seemingly less to do with trying to pick up Never Trump Republican votes and more with winking at a hawkish Washington foreign policy establishment that detested Trump at the time (less so now).

The progressive magazine Mother Jones reported in September 2024 that “Harris’ Embrace of Dick Cheney Was Just One Way She Courted National Security Hawks.”

The reporter Dan Friedman wrote under that headline, “Harris’ embrace of a top architect of the disastrous militarism of George W. Bush’s administration was one of several signals she offered suggesting fans of the neoconservative foreign policy associated with the Cheneys should feel comfortable with her as president.”

“On Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other national security matters, Harris appeared to deliberately strike notes aimed at appealing to the interventionist consensus in Washington’s foreign policy establishment,” he observed.

Friedman continued, “Harris also mocked Trump for exchanging ‘love letters with Kim Jong Un.’ The details of Trump’s diplomatic efforts are very much open to debate. But in singling out negotiations with the Taliban and North Korea, Harris flirted with the argument that the US should avoid talking to bad actors at all.”

He added, “That kind of criticism that has more often come from the hawkish right, and evokes the attacks that Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney—both of whom Harris name-checked Tuesday—once hurled at Obama.”

In other words, if Trump was the supposed antiwar candidate once hated by the DC foreign policy establishment, Harris wanted that establishment to know that she was the opposite. She was their gal.

Today, election autopsy data suggests that the Harris campaign ignoring the genocide in Gaza contributed significantly to her loss. Progressive Democrats who did not want to vote for Trump also had little incentive to vote for the Democrat alternative.

As Friedman observed two months before the 2020 election, “On Gaza, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and other national security matters, Harris appeared to deliberately strike notes aimed at appealing to the interventionist consensus in Washington’s foreign policy establishment.”

“The result was Harris’ latest and perhaps clearest suggestion that she will not venture far to the left of President Joe Biden, or former President Barack Obama, on national security,” he wrote. “That may or may not be good politics, but it is a disappointment to the substantial number of Americans hoping that Harris would pursue a more restrained, anti-war foreign policy than Biden.”

Harris ran as a hawk to win, and that political strategy sank her.

While Cruz now banks on being Dick Cheney Jr. to get to the White House, in his 2016 presidential bid, he was trying to lean into elements of the sometimes restraint-minded Tea Party and Ron Paul movement ethos prevalent on the populist right before Trump’s “America First” subsumed it all.

Cruz was a featured speaker at Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty “LPAC” (like CPAC but the “Liberty Political Action Committee”) event in September 2014. In 2015, Cruz got in trouble for saying, “If you look at President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and for that matter some of the more aggressive Washington neocons, they have consistently misperceived the threat of radical Islamic terrorism and have advocated military adventurism that has had the effect of benefiting radical Islamic terrorists.”

Danielle Pletka and other neocons implied that Cruz was an antisemite at the time.

Today, Cruz says quite the opposite of what he did a decade ago—strongly advocating for military adventurism abroad over the threat of radical Islamic terrorism. Today, it is Cruz who tosses around accusations of anti-Semitism. He warned in late January, “There is a tangible, dangerous antisemitic contingent on the right that is gaining traction, gaining popularity, being listened to by young people, and gaining attention.” Has Cruz had a change of heart in the last decade? Or perhaps a mere and crude recalculation for his political future?

What’s the difference between Ted Cruz and Kamala Harris? One is a Republican and one is a Democrat.

What’s the difference in their presidential campaign strategies when it comes to foreign policy?

Not much.

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Takimag

Don’t Stop With Iran, Mr. President—You’re on a Roll!

On to the next one!

TakiMag

American democracy is the kind of system where you can vote and vote and vote, but no matter how many times you vote for less war and less immigration, the government is going to give you more war and more immigration. It’s always the Second World War, we’re always fighting Hitler, and we always have no choice because we’ve got to stop [Fill In Target Country Here] from acquiring nuclear weapons. Even if we’ve just totally obliterated their nuclear program.

Also, we’re never getting a wall. Coincidentally, the price tag for a mere two weeks of the Iran war is about what it would cost to build an impermeable, 2,000-mile wall across our entire southern border.

I give up. I’m out of options, but the least I can do is help Trump during his last few years in office. (His last year in office, if the midterms turn out the way they’re looking right now.)

Therefore, I have composed a few draft presidential speeches covering the next 18 months or so, on the assumption that Trump would be embarrassed to leave us with 20 unfinished wars. The speeches practically write themselves. In fact, when Trump is impeached it won’t matter because his foreign policy can be performed by the simplest of AI bots.

Here are the next few major speeches for Mr. “Make America Great Again!” President Trump.

Remarks from President Trump, December 2026

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Myanmar. Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Tatmadaw junta—a vicious group of very hard, terrible people. Big junta. Their menacing activities directly endanger the United States. They’ve done things that nobody has ever seen before, including imprisoning American citizens in horrible, horrible conditions. A total disaster.

For 38 years, the Myanmar regime has been at war with the West, waging a campaign of bloodshed and mass murder. Very, very bad mass murder. Killing more than 100,000 innocent people, displacing millions more, putting hundreds of thousands in internment camps. They have targeted the United States and innocent people in many, many countries, including Thailand, our closest ally in Southeast Asia. Very smart people, those Thai leaders.

We’re not helping Thailand; they’re helping us.

Separately, I have directed the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Iranians, including those who worked alongside us in Iran, as they safely resettle in the United States. Stephen Miller wanted none, but 150,000 is a lot less than the 190,000 Iraqi and Afghan refugees we took in after those stupid wars!

Under Biden, Homeland couldn’t even get critical aid to North Carolina after a very, very bad storm. Crooked Joe—totally corrupt. North Carolina loves me; it was one of the seven swing states I won. I won all seven of them. And I won the popular vote.

Remarks from President Trump, May 2027

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in Sudan, which is not even a country. A paramilitary force led by a guy known as Hemedti—he goes by one name, like “Prince,” a good friend of mine—has committed genocide, ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity. He’s a big, big threat to our country. Our objective is to defend the cAmerican people by eliminating imminent threats from Hemedti’s Rapid Support Fores (RSF)—a vicious group of very hard, terrible people who directly endanger the United States.

Sudan is one of the biggest, worst state sponsors of terrorism in the whole world, folks. Believe me. They’ve been on the State Department’s terrorism list since the mid-’90s—a long time, very bad. These evil, disgusting people gave safe harbor to Osama bin Laden—can you believe it?—and they fought against the U.S. in the Iraq war. It was a stupid war, but a tremendous success from a military standpoint.

If we could, play the tape —

[Video of the Twin Towers coming down, Osama bin Laden, angry Sudanese on the street in the 1990s, waving placards with bin Laden’s face and others scrolled with “DEATH TO AMERICA!”]

In the past few years alone, the RSF has killed 61,000 people in Khartoum State, 10,000 people in West Darfur, and 80 percent of Geneina’s residents have fled. These wicked people rape women and children—some as young as 1 year old. Can you believe it? One-year-olds. Twenty-five million innocent Sudanese are on the verge of starvation.

Sudanese Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING—TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS! HELP IS ON ITS WAY.

Separately, I have directed the Department of Security—it’s called the Department of Homeland Security, we have a very strong homeland, probably the strongest homeland of any homeland—to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Myanmarians, including those who worked alongside us in Myanmar, as they safely resettle in the United States.

Remarks from President Trump, November 2027

A short time ago, the United States military began major combat operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group committing atrocities in the DRC.

I brokered a very strong peace agreement between the DRC and Rwanda in June 2025. People said it couldn’t be done, but your favorite president, Donald J. Trump, did it. Only one of dozens and dozens of places where I’ve ended wars. But they don’t give me any credit for it. Horrible people.

The M23 rebels have violated the treaty time and again. These deranged scumbags continue to perpetrate civilian massacres, mass rape, and summary executions against the people of the DRC—our best ally in the region, if not the world. These evil people have used starvation, sexual violence and child soldiers as weapons of war. I will not allow these terrorists to keep holding the world hostage.

Congolese President Félix Tshilombo—and that’s how you pronounce it, if you can believe it—said he acted to remove “the existential threat posed by the terrorist regime in Rwanda,” and we are proud to join him in this vital mission—so vital, believe me! A nuclear-armed Rwanda poses an unacceptable security threat to America, the DRC and the world.

Let’s play the video.

[Video from 1993 of Rwandans with fists raised, chanting, “DEATH TO AMERICA!”]

Separately, I have directed the Department of Homeland Security to coordinate ongoing efforts across the federal government to support 150,000 vulnerable Sudanese, including those who worked alongside us in Sudan, as they safely resettle in the United States.

Some very disloyal people have criticized me, claiming I am waging the “endless wars” I campaigned against. These haters and losers won’t give me credit for successfully concluding the war in Iran. That’s okay. It’s ending any day now. Maybe today. Maybe tomorrow. I’ll let you know. 

Iran was a huge success. We left Iran with no navy, no air force, no army, no communications, no infrastructure, no hospitals, no roads, no drinkable water, no cultural artifacts. I own Iran. I look forward to accepting their unconditional surrender any day now. And probably the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Foreign Affairs

As Israel Ethnically Cleanses Southern Lebanon, Americans Suffer Blowback

U.S. critics of Mideast wars have warned they can lead to terror at home.

A would-be mass casualty attack last week at a Michigan synagogue was narrowly averted after an assailant, Ayman Ghazali, rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the building in what authorities are treating as a targeted act of terror. No worshippers were killed, and security personnel stopped the attacker before he could carry out what could have been a massacre. 

Within minutes of the attack—before the public knew anything meaningful about the suspect or his motive—pro-Israel voices predictably rushed to weaponize the incident against their preferred domestic political enemies, namely Tucker Carlson. Among the most shameless was Laura Loomer, who boasted that she had warned that Carlson’s supposed “hatred” would “lead to people shooting up Jews in synagogues.”

Yet it soon became clear that the people who bear the greatest responsibility for the synagogue attack are not Tucker Carlson or any other domestic critics of U.S. foreign policy, but Israel and its loyalists in the United States—figures like Laura Loomer—who relentlessly cheerlead the Greater Israel project. That project reportedly killed four members of the attacker Ayman Ghazaleh’s family in an IDF strike in Lebanon, likely with U.S.-made munitions, just one week before his own attack in Michigan.

As Ryan Grim of Drop Site News reported, Ghazali had on the night before posted photos of his family members, including two young children Ali and Fatima, who were all killed in a recent Israeli attack on the town of Mashgharah, Lebanon.

That doesn’t justify violence against innocent worshippers, obviously. But it’s dishonest to pretend that Israel’s killing of four of Ayman Ghazali’s family members last week, with U.S. support, had no influence on his decision to target a nearby institution associated, in his apparent reasoning, with the Jewish state.

Indeed, realists like John Mearsheimer have long predicted that the more civilians that the U.S.–Israeli “tag team” butchers abroad on behalf of the Greater Israel project, the more blowback Americans will suffer at home. A series of terror plots perpetrated against the United States—including 9/11, whose plotters were partially motivated by Israel’s civilian massacres during Operation Grapes of Wrath in Lebanon—have long proven Mearsheimer’s case.

That ought to concern Americans, who currently pay for Israel’s wars on seven different fronts: in Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Iraq, and in Lebanon, 

where in the past 2 weeks, the civilian body count from Israel’s occupation and bombing has rapidly piled up and more than 800,000 people have been internally displaced, according to recent estimates. Here in the United States, those Israeli actions place Americans at increased risk of reprisals like last week’s attack in Michigan.

The victims of the mass carnage that Israel inflicts on its neighbors are increasingly aware of who is footing the bill for their suffering. Images published by AP of an October 2024 Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the neighborhood of Ghobeiry, Beirut went viral and demonstrated that U.S.-supplied, 2,000-pound SPICE bombs were being used by Israel against civilians. 

Mohamad Kleit, a video journalist based in Beirut, tells The American Conservative that he witnessed similar Israeli attacks using U.S.-supplied munitions to target a residential building earlier this month. He says that since March 2, his entire family has been internally displaced. 

Asked who and what Israel is targeting in Lebanon, Kleit says that “what we’ve seen” in recent weeks “is a plan to create sectarian tension, by bombing hotels and residences in Christian areas. They are deliberately targeting places that are not Hezbollah in order to create sectarian tension.” Mohamad says that this strategy is “exactly like what they did in the ’80s,” as Israel began an occupation of southern Lebanon which lasted from 1982 until 2000. 

His testimony is corroborated by past reports, like those by Al Jazeera from 2024, which document an Israeli strategy to promote civil strife by selecting target locations to maximize sectarian tensions.

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sitta, a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon who is currently head of the pediatric referral center at the American University of Beirut, similarly characterized the ongoing U.S.-backed Israeli campaign in Lebanon, telling The American Conservative that “the Israelis are targeting areas where the internally displaced have been given refuge to try to turn people against them.”

“In the last two weeks since the war started,” Abu-Sitta explained, “there have been over a hundred children killed. At our center, we receive critically wounded children requiring complex surgeries. We’ve seen children with head injuries, eye injuries, fractures, ranging from 4 years old to 16.”

Given what Israel is now doing to Lebanon with American weapons, money, and diplomatic cover, it should surprise no one that the increasing number of victims and their loved ones may eventually seek reprisals against targets they associate, however unfairly, with the state responsible for their suffering. And such targets may come to include non-Jewish centers of American life, as the U.S. is blamed for supporting Israeli militarism in Lebanon and elsewhere.

While Laura Loomer and other Israel loyalists have sought to exploit the synagogue attack by blaming Tucker Carlson, the overwhelming evidence now points to the exact opposite conclusion: Had Washington listened to Tucker’s warnings against this latest regional war, instead of to the Israel-first chorus, four members of Ayman Ghazali’s family might still be alive—and the Michigan attack may never have happened.

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During a recent public appearance, New York’s Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul admitted that the state is in dire straits due to the fact that so many wealthy people have fled to other places. She is begging them to come back and help fund the state’s ‘generous’ welfare programs.

One of the main points of separating the country into states was to inspire competition. The idea was that states that delivered more for less would benefit from increased population and the tax dollars that went with it.

Hochul is admitting that New York is losing this race. Red states like Texas and Florida do not need to beg people to move there. People do it voluntarily because it’s a better deal for their hard work and tax dollars.

Politico reports:

A state budget fight over raising taxes on rich people and corporations is becoming a litmus test for how power is wielded in the Empire State’s capital — and pitting Gov. Kathy Hochul against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Democratic state lawmakers this week formally proposed tax hikes that Hochul does not want, but are central to the democratic socialist mayor’s costly agenda…

The governor on Wednesday told POLITICO she wants “a system in place where it’s not just taxing for the sake of taxing” and to avoid further erosion of New York’s wealthy tax base.

“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs that we have in our state,” she said.

Watch the video below:

Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for wealthy people who have left New York (to red states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social programs:

“I need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs we have in… pic.twitter.com/7quhsFyWyn

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) March 18, 2026

In other words, Kathy Hochul is already running out of other people’s money.

It’s the same thing we see happening to California. You can only tax people at an extremely high rate without delivering for so long. Eventually, people are going to pack up and move to a state that charges lower taxes and delivers more services and freedom.

Hochul’s biggest problem right now is NYC Mayor Mamdani. Just as she is begging people to return to the state, Mamdani is doing everything he can to raise taxes on people living in the city. That’s just going to drive more people away.

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