Month: October 2026

President Donald Trump just put a seven-figure price tag on exposing the election fraud that Democrats and their media allies insist “doesn’t exist.”

In a Monday Truth Social post, Trump declared: “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!

He doubled down moments later while speaking to reporters before boarding Air Force One for a midterm rally in Corinth, Mississippi.

“I’m also going to be issuing a $1 million bonus or reward, or whatever you want to call it, for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody,” Trump said. “We give you, that person, a million dollars.”

.@POTUS: “I’m also going to be issuing a million dollar bonus or reward or whatever you want to call it for anybody that reports voter fraud, leading to the arrest and conviction of somebody.” https://t.co/LZyED3wnyS

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) October 26, 2026

The announcement lands just over a week before the November 3 midterms, with control of both chambers of Congress on the line. It follows Trump’s long-running push for election integrity measures after the well-documented irregularities of 2020 and subsequent cycles.

This is exactly the kind of incentive The Gateway Pundit has highlighted. In a recent article, Wayne Allyn Root argued that a massive whistleblower reward fund for voter fraud would make the “rats” desert the Democrat ship, writing that criminals are greedy and have no loyalty. Root has pushed versions of this idea since 2020.

Trump’s $1 million offer for tips that produce convictions is a direct, high-stakes version of that approach.

The move builds on aggressive Trump administration actions already underway. Last week, Trump and Vice President JD Vance unveiled a $25 million Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program (WHIP) for tips on government fraud involving taxpayer money.

The Justice Department has charged noncitizens and others with illegal voting and registration in multiple states. DHS has identified large numbers of noncitizens on voter rolls in places like California (reports of nearly 191,000), New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. Federal observers are being deployed for the midterms under the Voting Rights Act.

Democrats and the legacy media immediately framed the reward as “federal overreach” and an attempt to “sow distrust.” They continue to claim noncitizen voting and systematic fraud are vanishingly rare “conspiracy theories,” even as the administration surfaces case after case of illegal registration and voting.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) blasted fake news 60 Minutes for lying about an illegal alien who was deported by ICE and propping him and his family up as victims of a wrongful deportation. 

60 Minutes featured the story of Moussa Diawara, a Malian national, and his wife and children, aged 16 and 12.

The glaring problem with their report is that despite having a female wife and children, he claimed that he was gay and fleeing persecution to get into the United States.

But the report portrayed him as a family man, featuring his wife and children giving emotional interviews and telling Moussa Diawara how much they miss him over a video call.

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DHS General Counsel James Percival previously responded to the report, slamming 60 Minutes and CBS for

“I pulled his file. His claimed reason for fearing Mali was that he is ‘gay,’ just in case you’re wondering how bad the immigration fraud problem is,” he said.

Then on Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement gave an epic response from the agency’s official social media page, calling CBS’s reporting “Fake & Gay!”

“Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali,” they wrote.

Embedded in the post is a report from Fox’s Brooke Taylor showing Moussa Diawara’s original asylum application, where he claimed to be struggling with homosexuality and confusion over his gender.

Diawara wrote,

My asylum application is based upon ground of well founded past persecution and an undisputable fear of life threatening to my person if I were to return to my country Mali. In fact I had experienced extreme punishment and persecution based on the ground of my sexual orientation; however I belong to a deep seated traditional country, from a devoted Muslim family, entrenched in the strictest form of moral and traditional codes and virtues based solely on the Islamic theories and age of old African customs and culture.

As I can recall I have felt very differently from the children of my age around my home and neighborhood. Although I was born as a boy, but things appeared differently for me as I was already having female behaviors and feelings. When I became teenager these feelings had grown up even stronger which meant that I was more comfortable being intimate with boys rather than with girls. I also recognize my predicament, I have to suppress them hiding it in the closet so to speak, because I dreaded day and night that my parents, my schoolmates and people in my neighborhood would find out who I really was. I did my best on controlling my behaviors as a normal boy as possible while struggling deeply to openly express my true feelings as a gay person. I tried to participate in numerous extra curricular activities of young boys of my age, but I was feeling uneasy, fearful that my hidden secret would be discovered. I had nobody whom I could confide sometimes I felt alone in the world. My family never suspected anything different about me from my friends, for day in to day out the untenable situation I found myself in my country brought me misery and anger.

Since I came to the USA I had the possibilities to express my feelings to men without any embarrassment no reserve. Indeed, my tribal group and community as a whole had reported my sexual orientation to my family back home because such behavior is unwelcome in my society. My life is hence worth threatened if I have to go back to my country because I could be executed either by the Islamic group or the community. Actually I am banished from attending any Malian activity of any type because I am homosexual and also I don’t feel anything wrong to hang out with my boy friend therefore they don’t even want see me, sometimes, am threatened to not attend any community meeting or reunion.

Additionally, my situation worsened when I changed my religion to become Christian recently eight months ago. I received a call from my family saying that I have been banished and to not consider myself part of the family anymore. I was threatened to be killed if I put feet in Mali. But still I still feel comfortable on what I am today, am free to choose how I am running my life while I am in the USA. I do attend church and practicing frequently and members of my community are cursing me up to now about it in here. And sometimes I even receive anonymous calls to disturb my life with threats and insults.

Fake & Gay!

Moussa Diawara, the Malian national featured in this shockingly poorly researched @60Minutes report, now faces allegations of immigration FRAUD after his asylum application surfaced, revealing that he claimed to be a HOMOSEXUAL man who feared persecution in Mali.

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— U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) October 26, 2026

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President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice announced Monday that 48 foreign nationals have been charged with election-related offenses across five states, including allegations of illegal voting in federal elections, fraudulent voter registration, and falsely claiming American citizenship.

The sweeping announcement, issued October 26, involves defendants in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, New York, and Nevada.

According to the official DOJ announcement, 47 of the defendants are lawful permanent residents, commonly known as green card holders, while one is a Cuban national accused of residing in the United States illegally.

California recorded the largest share of defendants, with 28 individuals facing charges across four federal judicial districts.

The Justice Department described allegations involving noncitizens who registered to vote, participated in federal elections, and, in certain cases, later denied their voting histories or citizenship claims during naturalization proceedings.

Among those identified by federal prosecutors:

• Omar Alexander Muñoz, 72, a Belizean national, allegedly registered to vote in September 2019 while falsely claiming U.S. citizenship. Prosecutors say he subsequently voted in elections in 2020, 2022, and 2024 before making false statements in his naturalization application.

• Butleng Taing, 43, a Cambodian national, allegedly registered in 2021, voted in the 2022 and 2024 elections, and later provided false information on his citizenship application.

• Maricela Nazarín González, 43, a Mexican national, allegedly registered in 2020 while claiming American citizenship and voted in several elections, including one in 2025.

• Giezell Viduya Adawag, 41, a Philippine national, allegedly registered on Election Day in November 2024, falsely certified that she was a U.S. citizen, and cast a ballot that same day.

The allegations include some registrations dating back more than two decades, although registration alone does not establish that a person subsequently voted.

California prosecutors have charged defendants with offenses ranging from illegal voting to false statements concerning citizenship and naturalization.

The Justice Department also announced cases involving nine defendants in Pennsylvania, six in Florida, four in New York, and one in Nevada.

In Pennsylvania, federal prosecutors charged Alfredo Santiesteban, 73, a Cuban national described as an illegal alien, with voting unlawfully in the November 2024 general election.

Another Pennsylvania defendant, Polish national Artur Kopacz, 50, allegedly voted in both the 2022 and 2024 general elections despite being a lawful permanent resident rather than a U.S. citizen.

In Florida, Jamie Orlando Sosa Sardina, 60, a Cuban national and green card holder, was indicted on charges involving an alleged false claim of citizenship and illegal voting in the 2022 and 2024 federal general elections.

Meanwhile, in Nevada, prosecutors charged Jullie Ann Sumalinog Moore, 44, a Philippine national and lawful permanent resident, with voting unlawfully in a federal election.

The latest announcement follows several federal investigations and prosecutions previously covered by The Gateway Pundit.

On October 19, The Gateway Pundit’s Cristina Laila reported that the DOJ charged 28 noncitizens in California under an enforcement initiative known as Operation Protect the Vote.

Federal authorities announced that 11 defendants had been arrested and that all 28 were lawful permanent residents.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter argued that the charges exposed weaknesses in California’s voter verification practices. Federal officials said the defendants appeared on a larger list of more than 20,000 suspected noncitizen registrants, although the citizenship and voting eligibility of everyone on that list had not been independently established.

The October 26 announcement includes those 28 California defendants and should not be interpreted as 48 additional prosecutions beyond that earlier operation.

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A box of blank Maine absentee ballot return envelopes, part of a shipment of sensitive election materials that never arrived at the state’s Bureau of Corporations, Elections, and Commissions, was delivered to a residential house in Cambridge, Maryland.

That house is the listed headquarters address for the Center for Civic Design, a left-wing election-design nonprofit with documented funding ties to George Soros-backed grantmakers and the Arabella Advisors network, as well as direct connections to Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows.

State investigative records obtained by The Maine Wire and detailed in reporting by Steve Robinson show detectives recovered 498 of the 500 missing envelopes from the group. The investigation was closed without determining how or why the package was redirected. UPS told authorities a subpoena would be required for additional tracking and surveillance records.

The Attorney General’s office concluded there was not enough information to issue one. The case was marked closed pending further information, with officials concluding the reason for the redirection “remains speculative.” Bellows never publicly announced the end of the probe.

On September 10, 2025, Adam Graphic Corp. of North Attleboro, Massachusetts, shipped 62 boxes, each containing 500 blank absentee voter ballot return envelopes, to Maine election officials in Augusta.

By the next day, the elections office had received 61 of the boxes; one was missing. Around September 13, the box arrived at the Center for Civic Design’s Cambridge address, marked return-to-sender from a UPS facility in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

According to The Maine Wire, a CCD employee later reported receiving roughly 100 envelopes and securing the package. Detectives counted 498.

The state’s printer said CCD was not a customer and had not been the intended recipient. Officials later confirmed the recovered box matched the missing shipment.

This is the same period in which a Newburgh, Maine, resident discovered 250 authentic absentee ballots packed into an Amazon delivery box at her home, an incident first exposed by The Robinson Report.

This box of Maine absentee ballot return envelopes was shipped to a residential house in Maryland.

The house happens to be the listed HQ for a Soros-funded electioneering non-profit.

Maine’s AG closed the investigation with no answers as to how it happened… https://t.co/UXFVlk2JFD

— The Maine Wire (@TheMaineWire) October 26, 2026

Bellows initially vowed to pursue the “bad actors” responsible for what was described as one of the worst election security breaches in decades. Neither case produced a public accounting that identified how the materials left the controlled chain of custody.

The Center for Civic Design is a Maryland-based 501(c)(3) that works on ballot design and election administration processes. Tax filings show New Venture Fund grants of $138,000 to the group in 2020, 2021, and 2022. Additional support has come from the Democracy Fund and the MacArthur Foundation.

New Venture Fund sits within the Arabella Advisors network, which has long received substantial funding from Soros foundations. CCD’s executive leadership has included individuals with prior roles at Arabella.

The group has longstanding operational ties to Maine’s election apparatus: Bellows, while a state lawmaker, co-sponsored automatic voter registration legislation that CCD helped develop, and the nonprofit later tested Maine’s materials.

Bellows and her office stonewalled for months on naming the recipient. In a January hearing before the Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee, Bellows and Deputy Secretary Julie Flynn could not recall the organization’s name.

A Freedom of Access Act request filed in February was not answered for 228 days; the name was disclosed only in late September 2026, weeks before the current election. Ranking Republican lawmakers said they were ignored when they sought the information directly.

Bellows has blamed UPS for delivery failures and announced a switch to another carrier, but the investigative records show the state did not pursue the subpoena route that UPS said was required for deeper records.

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President Trump’s Rally in Mississippi Is Huge – 20,000 Watching Outside Who Couldn’t Get In

Monday night’s event in Mississippi was packed.  The crowd before the event was massive.

MASSIVE CROWD TURNS OUT FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IN MISSISSIPPI

A sea of people stretches across the venue as Mississippians pack in for President Trump.

From one end to the other, the crowd is absolutely enormous. https://t.co/zFzyUo55yM

— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 26, 2026

Before the event, a vendor shared that he loves President Trump – he’s making lots of money selling goods at Trump rallies.

“LOOK WHAT TRUMP DID FOR US!”—RALLY VENDOR FLASHES A WAD OF CASH ON CAMERA!

This Trump superfan travels the country selling merchandise at rallies—and says business is BOOMING!

He pulls out a stack of cash, claiming vendors can make $10,000–$15,000 at Trump events!

“We don’t like him. WE LOVE HIM! We can’t get enough of him!”

@BenBergquam

— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 26, 2026

President Trump told the crowd inside at Monday night’s rally in Mississippi that 20,000 were watching outside who couldn’t get in.

God bless President Trump
His voice is shot. But he doesn’t stop.

We’ve never had a president so devoted to this country.
VOTE REPUBLICAN

— Joe Dan Gorman (@JoeDanMedia) October 26, 2026

During the rally, country music singer Darryl Worley sang his moving song “Have You Forgotten.”

POWERFUL MOMENT IN CORINTH AS DARRYL WORLEY PERFORMS “HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?”

@darrylworley performs “Have You Forgotten?” in Corinth — and when the song ends, the crowd rises to its feet.

A standing ovation for one of the most emotional moments of the night. https://t.co/ym3gL8eN6v

— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) October 26, 2026

President Trump reiterated his work in making the White House the best it’s been since it was built.

President Trump just DROPPED this truth nuke: “Tell Obama the following — the White House is a symbol of America! [It was] dirty, filthy DIRTY and BROKEN! The windows [were] CRACKED!”

“I’d literally do it when I walk home from the oval — I’d look up I’d say, boy that wall is really bad. Let’s go. We got to fix it fellas!”

Hussein really acting like he knows more about building than the builder-in-chief?

Obama literally built a trash can as his library!

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 27, 2026

 

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Elon Musk responded late Monday night to the latest Democrat threat against him, telling Senator Alex Padilla to make sure his own house is in order before going after him. 

“Investigate your wiener,” Musk wrote, trolling the California Democrat.

The Democrats have made it clear they intend to go after Elon Musk if they take the House or Senate this November.

Most recently, Musk is being accused of war crimes after he shut down Ukraine’s Starlink access after it was used by Zelensky to bomb Russia. “Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be,” Musk said in a recent statement, acknowledging that he cut Ukraine off and slamming Ukrainian President Zelensky as an “evil warmonger.”

So now, Democrats are targeting Musk and his companies, hatching plans to depose him over SpaceX, Tesla, and his work at the Department of Government Efficiency, Politico reports.

During a live show in Atlanta, Georgia, last week, the crew at leftwing publication The Bulwark discussed the Democrats’ plans to persecute Musk.

“This has a body count like a f*cking war criminal. We start with the US Congress, and it ends at The Hague for Elon Musk,” Jonathan Last said. “You’ve got $1 trillion, asshole? Great, you start spending it on lawyers.”

“There has been a series of meetings among House Democrats. Do you know what they’re doing? Yes. They’re carving up jurisdictions for who is going to subpoena him to testify before which of them for what,” he added. “Elon, you motherf*cker, you better pack a lunch because your ass is gonna be living in the Capitol starting January of 2027.”

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Musk previously responded with an ominous warning on X, writing, “If they want to live by the sword, that is how they will die too,” The Gateway Pundit reported.

More recently, Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich called for Congressional Democrats to “Defund Musk” by stealing his businesses and nationalizing them.

Musk responded to his Communist demands, writing on X, “Stealing companies is a serious crime. Prison for Reich.”

Democrats Are Using the Soviet Playbook – Publicly Call for Nationalizing Private Businesses to Punish Elon Musk for Supporting Trump – Musk Responds with Fire

Now, Senator Alex Padilla is chest-thumping on X, and Elon Musk just humiliated him.

Padilla wrote on Monday, “INVESTIGATE ELON MUSK.”

Elon’s response: “Investigate your wiener.”

@SenAlexPadilla Investigate your wiener

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2026

Musk further trolled Padilla, writing in response to Katie Miller, the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, when she exposed Padilla for an illegal scheme to interfere with the 2020 election.

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee previously launched an investigation into then-California Secretary of State Alex Padilla for awarding a $35 million contract for efforts to increase voter turnout to a pro-Biden consulting firm that had close ties to the Biden presidential campaign. California State Controller Betty Yee rejected the contract and multi-million-dollar payment, but the firm, SKD Knickerbocker, still proceeded, leaving California with a massive debt to the Democrat firm.

“Awarding taxpayer money to a partisan firm with the potential to influence an election after the contractor has publicly advertised its work on behalf of a political candidate in that same election is a conflict of interest,” the committee argued. “This contract will undoubtedly provide a partisan firm the opportunity to use taxpayer money to influence the federal election.  Additionally, there are serious questions about how the contract was awarded, whether the firm will have access to sensitive voter information, and if any of the firm’s employees affiliated with ‘Team Biden’ will be involved with the project.”

“Sounds like Alex P knows a thing or two about being investigated,” Musk said.

Emily Miller wrote:

As California’s top election official during the 2020 presidential election, Alex Padilla handed a $35M voter-contact contract to Joe Biden’s campaign firm.

The state controller even refused to pay because she said his office didn’t have the authority to spend the money.

Alex illegally used federal election grant money for get-out-the-vote work.

Sounds like Alex P knows a thing or two about being investigated

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2026

 

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There really is NO difference.

Brazilian communists steal elections and jail the opposition leaders. On Monday, less than 24 hours after communist Lula da Silva stole the presidential election, his Supreme Court henchman, Justice Alexandre de Moraes, ordered the Federal Police to confiscate opposition party leader Flávio Bolsonaro’s passport to hand it over.

That’s step one.

Step two is to jail Flavio like they did his father after the stole the last election!

BREAKING: Brazilian Justice Alexandre Moraes Orders Flavio Bolsonaro to Surrender His Passport! – The Commies Are Going to Jail Him Like They Did His Father!

And, with less than a week before midterm elections, Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, likely the most unimpressive Democrat leader since Kamala Harris, announced that Democrats will take out Secretary of War Pete Hegseth first.

Then the impeachments will continue… Trump, Vance, etc.!

That is all they have to offer. The Democrats are no better than their brethren communists in Brazil.

And, they’re just as ruthless.

They have no ideas on how to help the country – only strong-arm tactics to punish, humiliate, and destroy ANYONE who stands in their way for complete control over the American populace.

That is not just a line to fire up the Trump base – It’s truth.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Monday told Morning Joe that Democrats will impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth first.

He doesn’t know how or why, but he’s going after Hegseth.

NBC Hack Ali Vitali: When I was listening to you speak at the rally even just now, you said we’re going to run Pete Hegseth out of town. What does that mean, like, in practice?

Hakeem Jeffries: It means that we’re going to hold him accountable in the same way that we held Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem accountable, because those two were also…

NBC Hack Ali Vitali: They were kind of pushed to the side by the president.

Hakeem Jeffries: And Pete Hegseth needs to be pushed aside by the president, or we’re going to have to deal with that situation if he is not.

NBC Hack Ali Vitali: Because there’s an impeachment resolution that’s going to come up, like, in the immediate days after you guys get back from the elections. How are you thinking about that?

Hakeem Jeffries: Well, we haven’t had an opportunity actually to talk about it because it was short-circuited when Speaker Johnson and House Republicans literally ran out of town so that they didn’t have to take up that resolution that was brought by a Republican member from Kentucky.

NBC hack Ali Vitali: But are you inclined to support it?

Hakeem Jeffries: What I’m inclined to do is to act consistently with what I’ve said relative to Pete Hegseth. From the very beginning. I called for Pete Hegseth to be fired by Donald Trump in the spring of 2025. He is deeply unqualified.

Here is the video.

Hakeem Jeffries says that as soon as he’s able, the House will move to impeach Secretary Hegseth. He doesn’t seem to be able to explain why, or on what grounds, but it’s clear this is the plan.

The Third Worlding of the House will be complete if the Democrats take the majority. https://t.co/nC4KsU2D69

— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) October 26, 2026

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Every great technology arrives with a promise and a question. The printing press, the railroad, and the internet all changed the world, but the real question was always who would control them.

Artificial intelligence raises the stakes. Will it empower the individual, or replace, subjugate, or even destroy us? The question of who holds the reins is urgent.

Two groups are lining up to take control: Washington and the handful of giant corporations that dominate the field. They are partners, not rivals. When the biggest companies ask Congress to regulate them, it is not because they love oversight. They want rules that keep competitors out.

That is not free enterprise, which is always worth defending. It is corporatism, the cozy partnership that gave us bank bailouts and a Federal Reserve that serves elites, not the people.

And when the biggest players win public land, power, and tax favors, it is dishonest to tell a working family that asking for a return on its taxes is socialism. Who pays for the grid capacity a data center needs? If an employer wants more H-1B workers while promising an AI productivity revolution, what is it doing to train and pay Americans? If public resources help build the machine, the public should not be left with only the bill.

We already know what government does with powerful tools. The Patriot Act was sold as a way to catch terrorists and delivered warrantless surveillance of millions of innocent Americans. Imagine those agencies with machines that can sort every email, purchase, and phone call in seconds.

So what is the answer?

First, machines have no conscience. Every physician learns that the frontal lobe lets a person see the bigger picture, weigh consequences, restrain impulses, feel empathy, and know right from wrong. AI has no frontal lobe. It generates answers from patterns but cannot bear the human consequences of those answers. Responsibility must always rest with an accountable, identifiable person standing between the machine and any decision that touches someone’s life, liberty, or property.

Second, keep AI as decentralized as possible. America was founded on the truth that concentrated power is dangerous power. That means open tools, real competition, and families, small businesses, churches, and local communities running their own systems instead of surrendering them to distant giants. Free people should choose their own tools, just as they should choose their own money.

Third, government has a role, but a very limited one: protect life, liberty, and property, punish fraud, and hold people liable when they use these tools to harm others. Above all, it must restrain its own use of AI, starting with no warrantless surveillance. A government big enough to control AI is big enough to control you.

Structure alone will not save us. The most important safeguard is moral. John Adams warned that our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. The same is true of every powerful tool. In honest hands, AI serves honesty. In immoral hands, it multiplies deceit on a scale we have never seen.

When Pope Leo XIV presented his AI encyclical in May 2026, an Anthropic co-founder was among the speakers, and the pope spoke of people who have no voice when decisions are made. That is the test for the whole tech billionaire class: can it hear a parent worried about work, or a family opening its electric bill?

Laws cannot make people moral. That work belongs to parents, teachers, pastors, and neighbors. One of us spent decades as a physician, sworn to do no harm, delivering thousands of babies. Every one was a reminder that each life is precious and each person has rights no government granted. AI’s builders and users need that same sense of responsibility.

If we want AI used ethically, we must teach ethics: not a government curriculum, but old and simple principles. Do not lie. Do not steal. Do not use force against peaceful people. Respect others’ property and privacy. Teach those principles at the kitchen table, in churches and schools, especially to the young people who will build these machines.

The human connection is the point. AI should help people find work worth doing, give them more time for family, and bring neighbors together. A machine can help us reach the people we love; it cannot substitute for loving them. Those financing this revolution should not be the only ones setting its terms.

Ideas are more powerful than armies. Thousands of young people have embraced liberty; they can just as surely embrace the idea that AI must serve free people, not rule them.

The future of artificial intelligence cannot be left to a federal agency or a corporate boardroom. It depends on whether we, as individuals, families and communities, take responsibility for it. Freedom has always demanded that. It still does.

Ron Paul is a physician, 12-term congressman, former presidential candidate, and host of The Liberty Report.

Eric Beach is founder and CEO of Lineage HoldCo, the company behind Bishop AI, and a former co-chair of Great America PAC.

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While President Trump is being criticized for requiring certain able-bodied food stamp recipients to work, volunteer, or participate in qualifying education or training to continue receiving benefits, liberals and socialists across the country are calling on the government to “tax the rich,” a demand echoed by politicians such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

In Congress, Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ro Khanna have introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which would impose a 5 percent annual tax on the net worth of the country’s roughly 938 billionaires. The United States currently has no federal net-worth tax; the proposal would tax accumulated wealth rather than income.

When Elon Musk was named Time’s Person of the Year in 2021, Senator Elizabeth Warren said he should “actually pay taxes and stop freeloading off everyone else.” That same year, Musk said he would pay more than $11 billion in taxes, reportedly the largest individual tax bill in U.S. history.

The top 1 percent of earners already pay 38.4 percent of all federal income taxes, while the bottom fifth of households has an effective federal income tax rate of negative 11 percent. Yet the Sanders–Khanna bill would send $3,000 to every member of households earning $150,000 or less, including the bottom 20 percent already living off government handouts.

The federal government collected a record $5.4 trillion across all federal tax categories, not just income taxes, in fiscal year 2026, which ended September 30, according to the Treasury Department’s final statement. Spending reached $7.4 trillion, leaving a deficit of about $2 trillion.

Federal revenue comes primarily from individual income taxes, payroll taxes, and corporate income taxes, with smaller amounts from tariffs and other sources, according to the CBO.

The wealthy’s contribution extends beyond federal income taxes. The top fifth of households paid 70 percent of the major federal taxes analyzed by CBO, and the top 1 percent alone paid 26 percent, according to its most recent distribution data. The lowest-income 20 percent of households paid close to nothing in net federal taxes, received the largest share of welfare spending, and did almost no work.

Higher earners pay the overwhelming majority of federal income tax dollars. The top 10 percent of filers paid 70.5 percent of the total in 2023, while the bottom half paid just 3.3 percent, according to an NTU analysis of IRS data.

Payroll taxes also generate more dollars from higher wages, because the same 7.65 percent rate applies to every dollar up to the Social Security wage cap, and the Medicare portion has no cap. Wealthier households are more likely to own businesses and pay employer payroll taxes for multiple employees. The Federal Reserve’s consumer finance survey found that nearly half of families in the top 10 percent by income owned a privately held business, compared with 14 percent in the bottom half.

A business with 10 employees earning $50,000 each pays $38,250 annually in employer payroll taxes, in addition to the amounts withheld from employees’ wages. By contrast, households in the bottom fifth of the income distribution generally are not employers creating jobs and paying payroll taxes for a workforce.

Corporate income taxes also fall mainly on the wealthy through their ownership of businesses and investments. The top 1 percent by wealth held 50.2 percent of all corporate equities in the third quarter of 2025.

Wealthier households also bear more tariff costs in dollars. The Yale Budget Lab estimated that tariffs cost the highest-income tenth of households about $2,175 annually, compared with $517 for the lowest-income tenth, more than four times as much.

The estate tax applies only to very large estates. Beginning in 2026, the federal estate tax exemption rose to $15 million per person, adjusted for inflation. Estate tax returns filed in 2024 reported more than $23.3 billion in net estate tax, according to the IRS.

On the spending side, the main means-tested welfare programs cost about $1.06 trillion in fiscal year 2026, roughly one-seventh of all federal spending. These include Medicaid, food assistance, Supplemental Security Income, refundable earned income tax credits, and housing assistance.

The benefits flow overwhelmingly to lower-income households. In 2014, the bottom 40 percent received about three-quarters of all means-tested benefits, while the top 1 percent received just 0.2 percent, according to CBO data.

In 2023, the bottom fifth received an average of about $19,800 per household in means-tested benefits while paying about $140 in net federal taxes, according to the CBO report. The second fifth received about $9,900 in benefits and paid about $6,000 in federal taxes. The middle fifth and every group above it paid more in federal taxes than they received in means-tested benefits. Households in the top fifth paid an average of about $106,000 in federal taxes.

Employment also differed sharply. Bureau of Labor Statistics survey data for 2022 show an average of 0.4 earners per household in the bottom fifth, compared with 2.1 in the top fifth. Annual wages averaged just $4,149 per household in the bottom fifth.

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RINO Senator and sore loser, John Cornyn, (R-TX) told reporters on Capitol Hill that he “doesn’t know,” if President Trump is spending money and resources wisely for the 2026 midterm elections.

This comes as hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on the 2026 Texas Senate race, which has seen record spending.

Cornyn ran for reelection and was forced out of the race when he lost his primary runoff back in May to outstanding Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Since his loss, Cornyn still refuses to endorse Paxton. Cornyn also refuses to fundraise for him.

What a shameful, little man.

The Gateway Pundit caught up to the Senator as he was talking about how the money and resources can be spent to the “greatest effect.”

Senator @JohnCornyn on the the massive spending in the Texas Senate Race.

@gatewaypundit @KenPaxtonTX @jamestalarico https://t.co/kciL1wU0WO

— Myles Morell (@MorellMedia) October 25, 2026

Senator Cornyn: “It’s not my decision. I don’t know. I think the various groups that are spending money around the country are gonna have to make some decisions as we get closer where that money can be spent to the greatest effect,” Cornyn told TGP.

“I don’t know how long that stream of spending will continue there or in some other places.”

Cornyn then expressed that he is open to money being taken out of the Texas Senate race and be used on other races:

Senator Cornyn: “I think it’s reasonable to say that unless the numbers start changing in Texas, maybe that money would be redirected. Again that’s not my decision.”

So is Cornyn OK with Republicans losing this Senate seat, because he’s not the candidate?

John Cornyn had been a juggernaut in Texas politics for decades, but the once influential figure in Texas GOP Party politics lost his primary runoff to Paxton by 27 points.

Trump endorsed Paxton right before the runoff. GOP primary voters then voiced their desire for change and frustration with the GOP establishment.

Cornyn is one of two senators who lost their reelection so far in the 2026 midterms, the other being Senator Bill Cassidy, R-LA. What if he had won? Would he have behaved differently?

The divide between the old guard of the GOP and President Trump’s Make America Great Again faction has been growing for the past decade, with the old guard’s influence waning on the right.

Trump’s primary endorsement record this cycle has solidified his grip on the GOP. Former giants like John Cornyn have finally fallen as the party takes a brand-new direction for the future.

** You can donate to Ken Paxton this last week before the election here!

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